Author Archives: Chris Clark

About Chris Clark

I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in July 2005, and I am currently continuing to work on the novel I began in the program. In my spare time, I post random bits of nonsense at ThatLittleBastad.com

Nine Inch Nails, “Dead Souls”

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The Crow Soundtrack
someone take these dreams away
that point me to another day
a duel of personalities
that stretch all true reality

 

 

 

 

In the early to mid 1990s, there was a period where the soundtrack album was an excellent way to discover new music. Film directors like Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, and Cameron Crowe were using so much popular music to score their films that there was hardly any traditional score at all. And because of that, the albums that came out to accompany the films were often little slices of musical heaven. The soundtracks to Tarantino’s films in particular, with dialogue from the movies spliced between songs, are albums I remember quite fondly.
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Bryan Adams, “Heaven (Unplugged)”

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bryanadams-unplugged.jpgOh – once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you’re feeling down

 

 

 

 

“Heaven” is a song that’s found success both as a power ballad ”” the original version, released as a single in 1985, was Bryan Adams’s first number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ”” and as an upbeat dance number ”” DJ Sammy’s cover version reached number one on the U.K. Singles Chart in 2002. But the version I’m most fond of is to be found on Adams’s 1997 Unplugged disc. And there are a couple of reasons for this, one purely musical, and the other purely sentimental.
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