"The Perfect Drug" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
While famous rockers may pilfer much of the spotlight on the soundtrack to director David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY, the album's true stars are the score composers who gave birth to the noir-ish sense of symphonic dread that emanates from its every pore. Longtime Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti's pieces veer from smoky free-jazz roars to amorphous quasi-dubs. Barry Adamson contributes a series of Tom Waits-like moments that can best be described as haunted marching-band music. And soundtrack producer Trent Reznor...well, you know his sense of the world well enough to see that he's a perfect musical fit for Lynch's darkly-psychotic-in-the-corners worldview.
Within such a thematically unified context, the contributions of the famous rockers (Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Reznor's Nine Inch Nails, others) could have either added a voice to the darkness, or ruined the mood altogether. Thankfully, under Reznor's strong-arm guidance, the stars (particularly the drum-machine-driven Pumpkins and drum-and-bass-driven Bowie) go right for the dark side.
Personnel: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar); Samuel Richards (guitar); Bob Sheppard (saxophone); Ronald Brown, Henry Kranen (baritone saxophone); Norris Webb (organ); Robert Mueller, Angelo Badalamenti (keyboards); Andrew Barrett (synthesizer); Chris Vrenna (drums, programming); Danny Lohner, Ralph Penland, Graham Hawthorne (drums); David Lynch (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Neil Perry; Alan Moulder; Sean Beavan; Trent Reznor; Billy Corgan.
Illustrator: Kim Wexman.
Photographer: Suzanne Tenner.
Arranger: Trent Reznor.Entertainment Weekly (3/7/97, p.67) - "...Industrial pretty boy/soundtrack architect Trent Reznor skillfully balances fresh salvos by Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and the Smashing Pumpkins with...noir soundscapes....Even the most discerning listener won't be bored." - Rating: A
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Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)
Great soundtrack There's industrial metal and then jazz and then something resembling "classical". Nine Inch Nails has imparted quite a weird song, and that's probably the stand-out track on the whole disc. However, the other tracks are great, too. Most people will probably buy this for the NIN track, but the rest is just as enjoyable. Submitted by Swims-the-Swells (d1g1t@l_h3ll) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
great soundtrack Well this soundtrack has several artists that are great like smashing pumpkins, trent reznor from nine inch nails (NIN), and of course some Rammstein. Submitted by viperlightning (Schererville, IN) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
KALOSHIN'S 2 CENTS I'M A HUGE FAN OF ANGELO BADALAMENTI, AND HE DOESN'T DISAPPOINT. THOUGH IT WOULD BE HARD TO
TOP THE TWIN PEAKS SOUNDTRACKS (MOVIE AND TELEVISION) I THINK IT'S STILL COOL. TRENT'S JUST
THE BEST, AND I HOPE HE DOES MORE SNDTRKS.
IT'S NOT BROKEN MATERIAL, BUT ONCE AGAIN IT GETS
PLAY ON MY SYSTEM, WITH NO REGRETS. Submitted by a reviewer (DAYTONA BEACH, FL) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Great soundtrack
great soundtrack
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