Favorite Soundtrack Albums #1 - The Crow

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It's time to put yet another music series (this is my 71st) to bed, as we have reached #1 in my Favorite Soundtrack Albums countdown: The Crow. How popular was 1994's soundtrack for the movie The Crow? It reached #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and has been certified triple platinum. The album itself is made up of a nice mix of covers, rerecordings, and original songs. While Nine Inch Nails' cover of Joy Division's "Dead Souls" is probably the most famous cover from the soundtrack, Pantera and the Rollins Band also contributed covers (by Poison Idea and Suicide, respectively.) Rage Against the Machine and Medicine both redid their own material for the film (as did Stone Temple Pilots, who remade a demo called "Only Dying," which was replaced by "Big Empty" after star Brandon Lee died on the set.) Written specifically for the film, The Cure's "Burn" is possibly the most well known of the lot (despite it's popularity, the band has never played the song live,) but there are some other gems on here as well, including tunes from the Jesus and Mary Chain, Machines of Loving Grace, Violent Femmes, Jane Siberry, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, who appear in the movie (they are the band playing downstairs in the club during the big gun battle.) It's the perfect dark soundtrack for what was a very dark movie. (Info verified by Wikipedia)