Track Listing

1. Opening Titles
2. Sax And Violins - Talking Heads
3. Summer Kisses Winter Tears
4. Move With Me
5. Adversary
6. What's Good - Reed, Lou
7. Last Night Sleep
8. Fretless - REM
9. Days
10. Claire's Theme
11. Till The End Of The World
12. It Takes Time
13. Death's Door
14. Love Theme
15. Calling All Angels - Siberry, Jane
16. Humans From Earth
17. Sleeping In The Devil's Bed
18. Until The End Of The World - U2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56256 in Music
• Released on: 1991-12-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 158 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1991 companion to German director Wim Wenders's film sets a high water mark for the intelligent use of cutting-edge popular (and we are using that term in its broadest sense) music on film, deservedly cracking onto critical lists for the best releases of that year, period. The contemplative thriller's setting at the end of the millennium is answered by a remarkable repertory of artists including Talking Heads, Neneh Cherry, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, REM, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Patti Smith, Jane Siberry with k.d. lang, T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Lanois and U2, a de facto dream team. Nearly all these performances were unheard at the time of release, and beyond the evident marquee lustre there is an underlying cohesion to the sense of yearning that prevails. Both Cave and U2 build powerful songs around the title theme, Elvis offers a brilliant Ray Davies cover, and the Siberry/lang classic, "Calling All Angels", summarises the spiritual underpinnings of this thoroughly modern, ultimately timeless classic in film music. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews

Great soundtrack to a great (& ponderous) film
'Until the End of the World' is a great film by Wim Wenders- can someone release the rumoured Five-hour cut on DVD? This is the excellent soundtrack released in 1991. Pity it doesn't include any of the ethnic numbers or those by Peter Gabriel and Robbie Robertson.

It opens with an instrumental by Graeme Revell- who also contributes 'Claire's Theme', 'Love Theme' and the 'Finale'. More Badalementi than Nyman...Next is a reformed Talking Heads, writing as every other artist, as if it were 1999 (Prince's subconscious influence?). 'Sax & Violins' could have been on the wonderful 'Naked' album- somewhere between 'The Facts of Life' and 'Mommy Daddy You & I'...Next is a sublime cover of 'Summer Kisses, Winter Tears' (famously used in an advert for a forgotten product)- produced by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch. If you liked 'Twin Peaks' or 'Floating in the Night', this Julee Cruise song is for you...Next is the forgettable 'Move With Me (dub)' from her poor follow-up to her debut...Crime & The City Solution, who appeared in Berlin in 'Wings of Desire' contribute one of the highlights of the album. 'The Adversary'- used in the China/blindness sequence- is a dramatic song co-written with Mick Harvey (PJ Harvey/Bad Seeds/great Serge Gainsbourg covers/the soundtracks to 'Chopper', 'Ghosts...of the Civil Dead' and 'To Have and To Hold') and Einsturzende Neaubauten's Alexander Hacke. If you like Lenny Cohen or John Cale...Lou Reed offers a slightly alternate version of 'What's Good' from 'Magic & Loss'- one of the standout songs from that album...Can reform for 'Last Night Sleep'- which is a lot less rhythmic and more vocal than their work on albums like 'Ege Bamyasi' & 'Tago Mago'...REM contributed 'Fretless', the bridge between 'Out of Time' & 'Automatic for the People'- it features The B52's Kate Pierson (as did 'Shiny Happy People'). It is very downbeat and somewhere between The Smiths and 'Automatic's 'Drive'...Elvis Costello cheers proceedings up with a not bad take on The Kinks 'Days'- though the Kirsty MacColl cover was better!...Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds continue their Wenders collaborations with '(I'll Love You)Till The End of the World'- the best thing Cave recorded between 'The Good Son' and 'The Boatman's Call'. Its spoken element remind you of 'The Carny'- featured in 'Wings of Desire'. It is also a great story in itself...Patti and the late Fred Smith contribute 'It Takes Time'- which is closer to her 'Dream of Life' album than 'Horses'. Very 'chill out'!!...Depeche Mode, well Alan wilder and Steve Lyon with Martin Gore singing, contribute 'Death's Door'. This was the first fruits of their 'Songs of Faith & Devotion' period- and continues the blues elements developed on 'Personal Jesus' and 'Sweetest Perfection'. Imagine Martin Gore's lush 'Counterfeit' e.p. with Ry Cooder interludes. Wonderful...Another highlight is the Jane Siberry/KD Lang duet, 'Calling All Angels'- which was given a wonderful cover by Sarah Polley in Atom Egoyan's 'The Sweet Hereafter'. T-Bone Burnett contributes 'Humans from Earth', while Daniel Lanois offers 'Sleeping in the Devil's Bed'. These sound like the works of Dylan producers! Finally (well before the 'Finale') we get U2's 'Until the End of the World'. This is from their great period- from 'Achtung Baby!' to 'Passengers'. The song is a sonic maelstrom in the mode of MBV or NIN, with a song as good as 'A Sort of Homecoming' or 'Bullet the Blue Sky'. Great!

This is an excellent soundtrack album- one of the best of the Nineties and is great value at this budget price.

TOP SOUNDTRACK OF ALL TIME
I recall the movie only vaguely, but this CD has been a favourite for years. Very cohesive as a soundtrack, it offers some really outstanding tracks. My favourites include The Adversary (Crime & TCS), Days (Elvis C), I'll Love You ... (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Until The End ... (U2), Sleeping In The Devil's Bed (Daniel Lanois), and the shimmering jewel that is Calling All Angels, by Jane Siberry and k.d. lang. These tracks alone earn the album 5 stars, while the rest isn't bad either.