the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

uh oh, 3 sided vinyl edition
https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-2019/ost-the-crow/

Brought to my attention today:

THE COWBOY WAY OST (1994)

Bon Jovi Good Guys Don't Always Wear White
–Travis Tritt The Cowboy Way
–Gibson/Miller Band Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
–Cracker Blue Danube Blues
–The Allman Brothers Band No One To Run With
–Jeff Beck & Paul Rodgers On Broadway
–James House Days Gone By
–Blind Melon Candy Says
–Emmylou Harris Too Far Gone
–George Thorogood Sonny Rides Again
–En Vogue Free Your Mind

Yes, that's Blind Melon covering the VU.

I'm reading along this listing thinking "Fuckin' whatever" and then I see the last entry and I'm all "What."

11. Spastica performed by Elastica - 2:30

you're concerned bcz it's ten seconds shorter than the original release, and are worried that witches stole them?

It all comes around. From a letter sent into Defector (not from a Defector writer directly):

I was driving today and "Lovefool" by The Cardigans came on the radio. I'm sure it was released on a Cardigans album, but I remember it from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and it hit me that those kinds of soundtracks don't really seem to exist anymore. The 90s and early 00s were chocked full of amazing soundtrack albums, often better than the movie itself. The gold standard was probably The Crow, and you expected it from movies like Airheads and Empire Records, but even City of Angels had a pretty solid soundtrack.

it definitely was something that could only exist pre-streaming, because this was your only way to hear these (often but not always) exclusive songs.

City of Angels had some great tunes. the White Zombie cover of "I'm Your Boogie Man", Filter's "Jurassitol" (one of the last decent songs they did), Linda Perry and Grace Slick duet (soz DJP, I know Perry kinda sounds constipated but she's pretty good on this one), Toadies "Paper Dress" (which for a while, the riff was played during MTV news breaks), etc etc

i enjoyed this fun fact from a recent "Number Ones" column about Nelly Furtado:

Furtado signed to DreamWorks in 1999, and her first solo song "Party's Just Begun (Again)" came out on the soundtrack of the Claire Danes Thai-prison drama Brokedown Palace.

All I know about "The Crow" OST is that it's got this truly strange Jane Siberry track, a beautifully written and arranged song, would be among my favourites of hers except for the fact that she sings, throughout, a consistent 10 cents flat

The uncanniness of her flatness on the song has always frustrated and amazed me, as if the production was built up around the vocals by a tone-deaf producer, or Jane was singing with poorly placed headphones or something, it's really truly strange

Also it always irritated me that the song is titled "It Can't Rain All The Time" but the lyric is "it won't rain all the time"

Crow: City of Angels also had PJ Harvey's "Naked Cousin"!

Oh yeah!

Isn’t that a reference to something in the movie? I haven’t seen it since it came out in the theater, but that song has something to do with the Crow. Besides just being on the soundtrack.

I'm with fgti in that Jane's song should land big but is just off a bit.

Wow -- I just wrote about my favorite soundtracks today, most of which were released in the '90s. I'd say Until the End of the World kicked off the trend of "alternative" act + stars.

Claire Danes Thai-prison drama Brokedown Palace.

not enough pretty young people having their lives ruined by drugs movies anymore

That's what Euphoria's for.

Not really a soundtrack but also 90s as heck:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files

Well some of it was soundtrack:

Several of the songs on the album were used in episodes of the series. Soul Coughing's "Unmarked Helicopters" appeared in the fourth season episode "Max",[5] while Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" was heard during the second season episode "Ascension",[6] and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Frenzy" appeared in the second-season episode "Humbug".[7]

classic hidden track too

There’s filmmakers whose soundtracks of pre-existing songs are popular beyond the 90’s: Sofia Coppola, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright…

Also pretty much everyone heard the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack…

There’s still has to be some recent hits that came from original soundtracks… like idk Sunflower by Post Malone which was massive. Blanking out right now but I’m sure there’s several more.

Most influential soundtracks nowadays seem to come from series though…

I was thinking recently how weird it seems (now) that huge-at-the-time bands like U2 and Smashing Pumpkins released new songs on, like, Batman soundtracks… which were
sometimes singles, had videos, and everything.

Synergy!

my favorite pumpkins and u2 tracks are from batman movie

I know, I know, but like, that's kind of fun to save a banger for whatever movie soundtrack right? also talk show host is my fav radiohead please forgive me

As great as the soundtrack to Until the End of the World is, it still isn't as good as the movie is and I will not hear otherwise

Bands/Artists usually were compensated handsomely for those big movie songs. IIRC, Metallica got a cool million for their Mission: Impossible II song in 2000, and Limp Bizkit got $500K for theirs.

They also could function as bones thrown to fans during lengthy waits between albums. Stuff like No Doubt's "New" from Go, RATM's "No Shelter" from Godzilla, and Guns'n'Roses actually did it twice, covering "Sympathy For The Devil" for Interview With The Vampire and debuting the post-Slash lineup with "Oh My God" from End of Days.

my favorite pumpkins and u2 tracks are from batman movie

Even as a non–U2 fan, I was pretty taken with the Batman song (I didn’t need to buy the soundtrack, though! I could hear it every day on the radio that summer).

^^My first CD was a single of that track included with a special edition of the comic adaptation of Batman Forever.

I do wonder if we couldn't spin a thread about why this isn't a thing anymore, or maybe it is?

the last two Guardians of the Galaxy trailers made do with dramatic half-time renditions of Spacehog and Rainbow songs but I gather retro hits are kind of important to the narrative with that franchise, can't come up with a modern corollary beyond the Bond films

Lol I was about to note that Pharrell’s “Happy” was from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, only to be perplexed to realise it is 10 years old.

I do wonder if we couldn't spin a thread about why this isn't a thing anymore, or maybe it is?

physical music sales got murdered

lol yeah exactly.

when everybody in the world can add the 'exclusive new song' by popular group to their Spotify playlist, since it's the only thing they care about on the soundtrack, nobody will buy it.

what were soundtracks you all bought for one or two songs?

pretty sure Wayne's World was one that my bro and I only got for Bohemian Rhapsody.

which is dumb cos of course we could have just gotten a Night at the Opera but we didn't know much about Queen yet

XPs...and before that, illega/legal downloading made them obsolete. Soundtracks were perhaps the the biggest racket the music business had going in the CD era.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Albums/zgbs/digital-music-album

In the top 50 I see two movie soundtracks and at least 7 video game, broadway and tv series soundtracks.

^^One of those is a Disney soundtrack (an exception to the rule), and the other is a non-Disney children's musical (Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile).

Broadway Cast recordings are a different beast. People buy these before going to see a musical on Broadway to get familiar with the material, or sometimes after as a souvenir. Liner notes often have pics from the show so theatre geeks like to own them

It's interesting how so many of these soundtracks caught A-list bands in the wake of a huge success, in front of a setback. U2 had done Achtung/ZooTv/Zooropa and then put out "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" which will always be my favourite U2 song and one of my favourite songs of the 90s; nothing on Pop would match it. Pumpkins had done Mellon Collie and then put out "The End..." (and also "Eye" from Lost Highway), both great songs, and... well, I ended up loving Adore, but it took me a while bc "Ava Adore" was a poor leadoff single. Same with NIN and "The Perfect Drug" which I loved loved loved and I honestly have listened to The Fragile only twice and both times I feel embarrassed

It is nuts to me that bands would get that kinda cash for compilation submissions but I guess it makes sense. I was so die-hard in my Tori fandom that I bought Higher Learning and Great Expectations OSTs and would've bought the Toys OST if it ever turned up

As far as actual song-soundtracks go, there have been a few legit hits lately: "Encanto," "A Star is Born." But soundtracks that are just collections of rando acts/songs ... hmmm ...

"The Perfect Drug" is another good example of a song I liked by a band I don't particularly care for.

Black Panther was a legit huge soundtrack album.

I'm still not sure I've ever even seen Judgement Night but that soundtrack was formative

IMO money should have been taken away from Metallica for "I Disappear"

also jail time

xpost very creative concept too. wish more soundtracks did the whole genre pairing exercise.

i heard from other parents that Sing/Sing 2 were hot soundtracks and watched the movies, which actually would have been good except for the music choices. just basic unimaginative picks.

in Sing 2, Bono voicing an ex-rock star lion in seclusion whose big hit was I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For is just almost too surreal to be bad.

i was going to mention the City of Industry soundtrack, which is pretty solid albeit not alt-rock.

Massive Attack – Three
Lush – Last Night (Darkest Hour Mix)
Tricky – Overcome
Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust (UK Album Version)
Death In Vegas – Rocco (Sing For A Drink Mix)
Palm Skin Productions – Walking Through Water
Lionrock – Call A Cab
Butter 08 – Degobrah (Jupiter Mix)
Photek – The Hidden Camera (Static Mix)
Red – Mr. Jones

They're hot soundtracks for kids... my daughter would refuse to hear the original versions of the songs, she only wanted the Sing versions (I think she's over that now!)

The first Sing made my son really get into Elton John's original "I'm Still Standing".