Patricia Arquette stars in this good vs. evil religious mystery thriller while Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Mike Garson score the movie's incidental music to create a perpetual sense of unease. The soundtrack begins... more » with several conventional pop songs. Remy Zero's "Gramarye" is a track from their album that features a complex mix of ambient sea sounds and thick piano notes. Everyone's favorite merry pranksters Chumbawamba add a Stigmatic mix of "Mary Mary" that's as kinetic and close to the dance floor as politicos get. David Bowie charges up for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell," a robotic piece of machine rock. Sinead O'Connor rides the world beat groove with Afro Celt Sound System for "Release." Natalie Imbruglia delivers the Billy Corgan and Mike Garson signature track "Identify." The second half is instrumental music that succeeds as ambient tone poems, often featuring several tracks and rhythms rolled into one. --Rob O'Connor« less
Patricia Arquette stars in this good vs. evil religious mystery thriller while Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Mike Garson score the movie's incidental music to create a perpetual sense of unease. The soundtrack begins with several conventional pop songs. Remy Zero's "Gramarye" is a track from their album that features a complex mix of ambient sea sounds and thick piano notes. Everyone's favorite merry pranksters Chumbawamba add a Stigmatic mix of "Mary Mary" that's as kinetic and close to the dance floor as politicos get. David Bowie charges up for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell," a robotic piece of machine rock. Sinead O'Connor rides the world beat groove with Afro Celt Sound System for "Release." Natalie Imbruglia delivers the Billy Corgan and Mike Garson signature track "Identify." The second half is instrumental music that succeeds as ambient tone poems, often featuring several tracks and rhythms rolled into one. --Rob O'Connor
Joseph M. (RoboticJoe) from TOLEDO, OH Reviewed on 4/16/2010...
Soundtrack is unbelievable If you like Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins than I highly recommend it and It's his producing and composing. Not his constipated whiney I got to take a dump voice is nowhere on it thank god. I like his producing but not his vox he should just stick to producing!
CD Reviews
Great Songs Great Score
Ben hayden | 12/11/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When i first decided to buy this soundtrack i didn't remember much from the movie Songs i mean even the score. So i bought it one saturday night and i thought great i probably won't like this cd at all. But it turns out that i love this cd. I must have listened to it at least 5 all the way through. The song collection is awesome it starts out with Mary Mary sung by Chumbawamba which is a very catchy song. the best song on here is Release sung by Sinead O'Connor and the Afro Celt Sound machine which has a celtic theme to it but has a faster pace to it. The it is Billy Corgan's And Mike garson's signature track Identify sung by Natalie Imbruglia. Now to the score which is composed by Billy Corgan himself. The score has alot of different themes to reflect Patricia Arquette's condition for th more tender moments he uses piano very effectively combined with a small orchestra. It uses more electronics and Synth music but it never gets over bearing it is a pleasure to listen to and i hope that more people buy it."
An excellent soundtrack for an beautiful movie
Petar Vodogaz | Sydney, NSW Australia | 02/15/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Stigmata was one great movie, it was casted well, directed stunningly and dealed with a deep subject with due credit. It is one of the best movies I have seen related to the subject of the church and good vs evil. Whilst browsing my favourite DVD/CD shop I came across the movie sountrack and decided to opt to buy it and am glad I did.
Contrary to several people's complaints that the music from the movie was not on the sountrack, that is not correct, watching the movie before listening to the soundtrack, I did pick up 95% of the songs and the music sounds. What is most exciting about this album is that it incorporates music songs as well as music sounds that were played throughout the movie. Nearly all the tracks were supreme and yet at the end I did want to play it again. The Reflect pieces throughout the music tracks were mixed to create a mood of reflection within the innerself.
Well done to the movie and the soundtrack. What a masterful masterpiece."
Spooky spiritual music
Luis Ribeiro | 02/07/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this soundtrack as a gift for my sister, who is a great Smashing Pumpkins fan. Before i gave it to her, i had to listen to it, and i was amazed. At that time i hadn't watched the movie yet, but the soundtrack fascinated me by it's deep spirituality. It changes from spooky, erratic mayhem to calm and comforting balsam for your soul. I definetely recomend it."
"A mysterious work of Art..with a consistency to it !
Arish | PhOenix , aZ | 02/20/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I am a huge fan of trip hop music and I honestly have to say I was very pleased to hear a soundtrack that touch on it. I haven't heard a consistant works like this since 1996's "Lost Highway's" soundtrack. This CD has a lot of Jem's on it "Identify" is a beautiful Haunting discovery! I was highly upset when I got Natalie Imbruglia's "White Lilies Island" and found nothing that resembled this artistry! Bjork delivered a version of "All is full of Love" that was enchanting compared to the original. It has become a cult favorite in my collection it is so beautifully well done! Remi Zero's song is really artistic and has a creepy funky vibe to it. I even feel the opening track is a nice song to be kind of a hard rock vibe! This cd starts off with the evil rock sounds and dips into the creepy "Trip Hop" stuff into the instrumental(creepy sound effect) score material. Great transition in my opinion, but the only song that disrupts the total vibe of the project is "David Bowie's it is really retro and entirely to fast! I guess they contributed that in the "Lost Highway" tradition. But his song on "LOst Highway" was much more fitting and creative than this. This is a beautiful work, it has a lot of diversity to offer without sounding like everything was tacked together like most soundtracks.I would have to say this soundtrack opened my eye's to the remix of "All is full of LOve !" And it showed me Natalie, at her best, so I thank this selection for those masterpieces!In my opinion those two songs, are masterworks in the trip hop archieves! The other song's are good, not a waste of money or time at all but I had heard some of them already. The score material is basically Trip Hop instumentals in my opinion, very erie and creepy sound scapes! This soundtrack does create a certain mysterious vibe that will have you relaxing and turning on the Black Light! It may be a while before we see another soundtrack collection that captures the essience of european music and horror! I hate these horror movies that come out and have cheesy rock sountracks. In my opinion it takes alot of mystery and horror from the films, cheapens the movie makes them abit cheesy!I hear that "Donnie Darko" Has a nice haunting score too it ! At least I liked what I heard in the film.........A"