Until the End of the World (soundtrack)


Until the End of the World: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1991 on Warner Bros. Records.
With one exception, the songs were created specifically for the film and debuted in it, although some appeared on subsequent albums or greatest hits albums by the participating artists. U2's "Until the End of the World", had been previously released on that band's 1991 album Achtung Baby, albeit in a different version. In commissioning the songs, Wenders asked the musicians to anticipate the kind of music they would be making a decade later, when the film was set.

Track listing

  1. Graeme Revell: "Opening Titles" – 1:59
  2. Talking Heads: "Sax and Violins" – 5:18
  3. Julee Cruise: "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" – 2:37
  4. Neneh Cherry: "Move With Me " – 2:58
  5. Crime and the City Solution: "The Adversary" – 5:32
  6. Lou Reed: "What's Good" – 5:07
  7. Can: "Last Night Sleep" – 3:35
  8. R.E.M.: "Fretless" – 4:49
  9. Elvis Costello: "Days" – 4:49
  10. Graeme Revell: "Claire's Theme" – 0:51
  11. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: " Till the End of the World" – 4:38
  12. Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith: "It Takes Time" – 5:00
  13. Depeche Mode: "Death's Door" – 3:53
  14. Graeme Revell: "Love Theme" – 0:45
  15. Jane Siberry and k.d. lang: "Calling All Angels" – 5:11
  16. T-Bone Burnett: "Humans from Earth" – 3:07
  17. Daniel Lanois: "Sleeping in the Devil's Bed" – 3:50
  18. U2: "Until the End of the World" – 4:33
  19. Graeme Revell: "Finale" – 0:58

    Additional music

Other music, used in the film, did not appear on the soundtrack album:
The Aka Pygmy and Indigenous Australian music used in the film are from field recordings from two collections: Centrafrique: Anthologie de la musique des Pygmées Aka, 1978, and Les Aborigènes: Chants et danses de l'Australie du nord, 1979, respectively.

Release history