Released August 23, 1994 Label Nothing/Interscope Producer Trent Reznor Genre Soundtrack | Length 75:22 Release date 23 August 1994 Movie Natural Born Killers | |
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Nominations Brit Award for Best Soundtrack/Cast Recording Similar Lost Highway, Further Down the Spiral, Things Falling Apart, And All That Could Have Been, With Teeth | ||
Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film is the soundtrack to the film Natural Born Killers, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Reznor reportedly produced the soundtrack using a portable Pro Tools in his hotel room while on tour. On his approach to compiling the soundtrack, Reznor told MTV:
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I suggested to Oliver [Stone] to try to turn the soundtrack into a collage-of-sound, kind of the way the movie used music: make edits, add dialog, and make it something interesting, rather than a bunch of previously released music.
Some songs were written especially for the film or soundtrack, such as "Burn" by Nine Inch Nails.
Track listing
- Leonard Cohen – "Waiting for the Miracle" (Edit)
- L7 – "Shitlist"
- Dan Zanes – "Moon over Greene County" (Edit)
- Patti Smith – "Rock N Roll Nigger" (Flood Remix)
- Cowboy Junkies – "Sweet Jane" (Edit)
- Bob Dylan – "You Belong to Me"
- Duane Eddy – "The Trembler" (Edit)
- Nine Inch Nails – "Burn"
- "Route 666"
- "Totally Hot"
- Patsy Cline – "Back in Baby's Arms"
- Peter Gabriel And Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – "Taboo" (Edit)
- "Sex Is Violent"
- A.O.S. – "History (Repeats Itself)" (Edit)
- Nine Inch Nails – "Something I Can Never Have" (Edited And Extended)
- Russel Means – "I Will Take You Home"
- The Hollywood Persuaders – "Drums a Go-Go" (Edit)
- "Hungry Ants"
- Dr. Dre – "The Day the Niggaz Took Over"
- Juliette Lewis – "Born Bad"
- Sergio Cervetti – "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (Edit)
- Lard – "Forkboy"
- "Batonga In Batongaville"
- Nine Inch Nails – "A Warm Place" (Edit)
- "Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar"
- Leonard Cohen – "The Future" (Edit)
- Tha Dogg Pound – "What Would U Do?"
The film also contains "Bombtrack" and "Take the Power Back" by Rage Against the Machine, "Cyclops" by Marilyn Manson, "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen, "In Doubt" and "The Rhythm of the Heat" by Peter Gabriel, "If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man" by Cowboy Junkies, "The Way I Walk" cover by Robert Gordon, and "Ghost Town" by The Specials, but these tracks are not included on the soundtrack album. Also includes samples of "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las, and Steven "Jesse" Bernstein's "No No Man-Part 1".
Tracks 9, 10, 13, 18, 21, 23 and 25 are assembled from various recordings and dialogue from the film.
The bathroom scene of this film contains a non-credited selection from the Melvins' Houdini; more specifically the surrealist percussion track titled "Spread Eagle Beagle". Various colloquial rumors surround the genesis of this track, including one that it was done by Kurt Cobain.
In the scene which depicts Mickey and Mallory's first meeting as a sitcom parody entitled "I Love Mallory", the following pieces of music are also heard: "Happy-Go-Lively" by Laurie Johnson, "Happy Families" by Sam Fonteyn, "Pizzicato Playtime" by Sam Fonteyn, and "Domestic Fun" by Ernest Tomlinson.
Reception
"Bernard Herrmann's phenomenally eerie Vertigo score, Vangelis's groundbreaking synth-based ambience for Blade Runner, Nino Rota's timeless Godfather suite – any self-appointed buff of the soundtrack genre might blanch at the notion of making shelf-room alongside these classics for a furious miscellaneous music compilation…" wrote Andrew Collins in Q, "but, hey, as Mickey says, 'This is the 1990s,' and, if you were a soundtrack album, you'd be Natural Born Killers."
Songs
1Waiting for the MiracleLeonard Cohen3:43
2ShitlistL72:49
3Moon Over Greene CountyDan Zanes2:19