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| The Crow: Original Motion Picture Score | 
 enlarge | Artist: Graeme Revell
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 36277
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 5499
UPC: 030206549928
EAN: 0030206549928
ASIN: B0000014UL
Release Date: June 14, 1994
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| Customer Reviews:
 Moody Music June 21, 2002
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Graeme Revell demonstrates his skill at setting mood with creative and unusual sound blends on this CD. The Crow was a dark movie, yet the music combines sublime sweatness with dark foreboding. Some of the cuts would be pleasant to fall asleep to. Others could wake one screaming in the middle of the night. I've enjoyed using this as background music for writing software. The tracks are varied enough so that it doesn't become boring, yet ambient enough to disappear into the background while leaving my mind free to concentrate on implementing algorithms correctly. I'm not quite brave enough to listen to this while driving SoCal freeways, though ... it jerks from the serene willingness to sit at peace in a perpetual traffic jam to instant road rage. Although Revell is talented, The Crow's score does not match up to the work of Hans Zimmer. Zimmer's work on The Lion King and The Power of One absolutely define 5-Star film scores (Moulin Rouge goes to at least a 6- or 7-star score), so this only gets a four. (If you'd like to discuss this CD or review in more depth, please click on the "about me" link above and drop me an email. Thanks!)
 Wonderful, yet derivative. December 26, 2001
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have to admit that this score is absolutely brilliant, and it fit the mood of the movie perfectly. However, and this is a big however, it is entirely too derivative of the score that Peter Gabriel created for the film "The Last Temptation of Christ". Most of this score seemed to be an 'industrialized' version of the same sound that Peter Gabriel had already created, with a few tracks (especially the first) bearing too much similarity to be accidental.
Eatting crow's hearts instead of sheep's brains November 4, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For those of you who did not know, the composer Graeme Revell was once the frontman of the early psychotik industrial/noise band SPK (who had a large influence on Skinny Puppy). I'd tell you about them but I don't have the time. If you want to learn about them get Re/Search publication's 'The Industrial Culture Handbook'.
ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE SCORES October 13, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
What an amazing accomplishment, Graeme Revell is to be applauded. This music goes beyond words. It goes straight to the heart. Music should do that. Music is a universal language that is capable of expressing emotions so deep and complex that there are no words to fully express. Rare is music that lives up to this feat. The Crow score does so brilliantly. I never tire of it. And I never will. Buy this, dim the lights, lie down and listen. Truly listen. Close your eyes and feel the power of heart and soul inside. It is in you and waiting to come out. Soar, my friends. Soaring Heart
No words can describe... September 8, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was blown away by the music. When you're watching a movie, often the score is buried and this one is worth being resurrected. What makes it more powerful is knowing what the music represents; when you know it's about a never dying love, you can hear it, when you know about Brandon Lee's tragic death, the music reminds us of his last days standing. Various sounds and verses are attached to a scene or a character, and them music takes you with them to relive the sad and terrifying journey of The Crow.
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