''Psycho: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture'' is the soundtrack album to the 1998 remake of ''Psycho''. The record was released on December 1, 1998 by

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Background

The album includes three adaptations of

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's score to the original by Danny Elfman. Elfman's adaptation was later released on a separate album. The only released recordings of the original score are new performances by other orchestras, although the 1975 recording was conducted by the composer, Bernard Herrmann. The rest of the album is made up of songs by rock, metal,

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, and drum and bass artists. Many of the songs were recorded for the album. Five songs sample the actual film: "Once Is Not Enough" repeats a number of Norman Bates and Marion Crane's lines from the 1998 version, and "Honeymoon Suite", "Madhouse", "All of My Life", and "In the End" all sample Bernard Herrmann's score to the original film. Two songs are

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s: "Psycho", written by

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and here performed by

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, was previously recorded by Elvis Costello and

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, and "Psycho Killer", performed here by James Hall, was originally performed by

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. Only two of the songs were already released by their respective artists at the time of the album's release: Rob Zombie's "Living Dead Girl" on his album ''

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'', and

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' "Psycho Future" on their album '' Freak*on*ica'' (both also Geffen releases). "Screaming" was later released by Pet Shop Boys as a B-side to their 1999 single "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore", and "Fly" was later included on

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before the band broke up.

Track listing

# "Prelude" (Bernard Herrmann) – Danny Elfman # " Living Dead Girl" (Rob Zombie,

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) – Rob Zombie # "Once Is Not Enough" (Howie B.) – Howie B. # "Psycho" (

) –

# "Screaming" (

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, Tom Stephan) – Pet Shop Boys # "Psycho Future" (GVSB) –

# "Honeymoon Suite" (Rob Garza, Eric Hilton) –

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# " The Murder" (Herrmann) – Danny Elfman # "Madhouse" (Martin Virgo) –

# "

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" ( David Byrne,

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) – James Hall # "All of My Life" (Steve Earle) – Steve Earle # "Fly" ( Andy Barlow, Louise Rhodes) –

# "In the End" (Justin Robertson, Roger Lyons) –

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# "The Finale" (Herrmann) – Danny Elfman

References

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