Crash - Original Soundtrack

Crash - Original Soundtrack Artist: (Soundtrack)
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743214019825
EAN: 0743214019825
ASIN: B000025QYR


Release Date: 2001-05-29

Crash - Original Soundtrack


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Tracks:

  1. Crash
  2. Cineterra
  3. Mechanism of Occupant Ejection
  4. Mirror Image
  5. Where's the Car?
  6. Sexual Logic
  7. Road Research Laboratory
  8. Mansfield Crash
  9. Chromium Bower
  10. Benevolent Psychopathology
  11. Two Semi-Metallic Human Beings
  12. Triton
  13. Accident... Accident...
  14. Crushed Convertible
  15. Prophecy Is Dirty and Ragged

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Amazon.com

Howard Shore's music for <I>Crash</I> is among those truly rare times when a film composer and his subject matter achieve optimum intercourse. Every electrified guitar wail and steely screech, every wistful woodwind and haunting harp, and each melancholic violin conspire to provide a soundtrack perfectly suited for, yet independent from, its movie. Shore no doubt adds a darkly romantic logic to David Cronenberg's screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard's literary meditation on the eroticism of car crashes. Instead of being obvious or trendy (e.g., songs by the Crash Test Dummies), he opts for a singular combination of electronic overlapping and echo delays that are both metallic and oddly melodic. Highly Recommended. <I>--Joseph Lanza</I>

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars When lane markers blur and the wheel is more real than you.......2005-02-17

Imagine a stoned, scared steel drum band rescored for strings. That's the essence of this film score. It's broken into surprisingly short sections on the CD and I've never decided if this works to or against the material. On the one hand it doesn't have the chance to buildbuildBUILD but on the other it dodges the pretentious song-cycle and the sharp disjunctions in volume level reset the listener. Reboot the ear, if you will.

Other reviewers here talk about speed. That's misleading. It's not I can't go fifty-five. It's the quickening of an obsession, the surprised inability to break away--to ever leave. Trembling letters stories high and decades long lining and bridging the highway, or urban corridors of hookers' legs. This is the music of obsession and as such is the perfect match to Ballard's novel and a fair one to the film.

"Chromium Bower" is one scary car wash. Reminds me of Mr. Bungle's "The Bends".

5 out of 5 stars One of Shore's best scores.......2004-09-10

I've purchased this cd a couple of times now for various reasons, one of which is because it's a score I could not live without. Simply put, this is one of the best film scores ever recorded, and certainly one of Shore's best.
The music is moody, elegant, enigmatic, and darkly sensual. It was one of those rare moments where film and score achieve synthesis, and the result is incredible. BUT, as a score alone (sans film), it's still great (not good but Great) music. If you've read this far, just get the cd already!

5 out of 5 stars good soundtrack for the book.......2004-07-21

I thought the movie was good but not great.to get the whole idea behind "crash" read the book by jg ballard(some very trippy elements were left out in the film.)as far as the score itself-it's truly innovative and strikingly original in every way!check this out,for instance;in the liner notes of the cd booklet howard explains how he created the lush atmosphere of the score by playing instrumentals he recorded of guitar and harp backwards and pretty much mingling and re-aranging these recordings to create an awesome feel.if you like david cronenberg,david lynch,or any others like them you will like this cd.pure atmosphere

5 out of 5 stars Dark, Unique and Focused.......2003-07-21

This is an amazingly haunting soundtrack, very dark and very focussed upon creating the mood for the movie. The overlay of steel stringed instruments brilliantly reflects both the car crashes within the movie and the seemingly cold and inhuman obsession of the main characters. The movie is extremely psychological and this soundtrack adds an enormous amount to the atmosphere. There are no warm and fuzzy bits here and no loss of focus. This is like an album of mood music for industrial nightmares. Overall quite brilliant, but only when you are in the right frame of mind.

4 out of 5 stars

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