| "#1 Crush" | ||||
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| Single by Garbage | ||||
| from the album William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture | ||||
| Released | March 14, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1994–1995 | |||
| Studio | Smart Studios (Madison, Wisconsin) | |||
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| Length | 4:50 | |||
| Label | Mushroom | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Garbage | |||
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"#1 Crush" is a song by the American rock band Garbage, released internationally as a b-side to their debut single "Vow" (1995), and in the United Kingdom on the b-side to second single "Subhuman" (1995).
In 1996, Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries remixed "#1 Crush" for the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's modernised Romeo + Juliet film adaptation. In addition to downplaying the guitars and reworking the percussion and synth elements of the song, Hooper added a distorted vocal sample from Madonna's 1995 single "Bedtime Story".[3] The remix of "#1 Crush" was released in March 1997 and went to number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for four weeks, and is Garbage's sole number-one entry on any US singles chart, making it one of their biggest U.S. hits. "#1 Crush" was the first of two hit singles from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack.
- ^ Rolling Stone Staff (September 24, 2024). "The 101 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
Garbage's sultry, trip-hop-inflected "#1 Crush" set the perfect tone of star-crossed love...
- ^ Brian Galindo, Alex Naidus & Ryan Creed (November 5, 2023). "37 Alt Rock Songs You Haven't Thought About Since The Late '90s". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
- ^ Sandiford-Waller, Theda (1996-12-07). "Hot 100 Singles Spotlight; Wherefore Art Thou". Billboard. p. 91.