Crash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

crash: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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Howard Shore's music for Crash 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. This is ideal music for a cocktail party where the guests drink and then attempt to drive home. --Joseph Lanza

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Crash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
Crash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • When lane markers blur and the wheel is more real than you
  • One of Shore's best scores
  • good soundtrack for the book
  • Dark, Unique and Focused
  • WHERE ARE MY KEYS?
 Crash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Howard Shore
Manufacturer: Milan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000015M1
Release Date: 1997-01-14

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. A Benevolent Psychopathology
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  15. Prophecy Is Dirty And Ragged

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Howard Shore's music for Crash 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. --Joseph Lanza

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 WHERE ARE MY KEYS?.......2001-08-17

IF YOU LIKED THE FILM, YOU'LL LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK (ST). HOWARD SHORE HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF CONSTRUCTING A WONDERFUL ST THAT SUITS THE MOOD AND TONE OF THE MOVIE BY DOING 2 THINGS. THE FIRST IS THAT HE DIDN'T SLAP A BUNCH OF CURRENT (OR RETRO) SINGLES TOGETHER AND CALL IT A ST (UNLIKE MANY OF TODAY'S FILM STs). THE SECOND THING HE DID WAS COMPOSE A SCORE THAT ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE HE WATCHED THE MOVIE BEFORE HE BEGAN WRITING FOR IT (AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T FIND THESE DAYS). WHILE NOT THE MOST UPBEAT OF MUSIC, SHORE's WORK DOES HANG TOGETHER THEMATICALLY. ANYONE UP FOR A DRIVE?
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    Manufacturer: World Domination
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000005LAK
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