Editing Blood Simple (section)

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name       = Original Motion Picture Soundtracks: Raising Arizona and Blood Simple
| type       = soundtrack
| artist     = [[Carter Burwell]]
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| released   = 1987
| recorded   =
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| genre      = [[Film score]]
| length     = 39:26
| label      = [[Varèse Sarabande]]
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| chronology = [[Coen Brothers]] film soundtracks
| prev_title =
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| next_title = [[Raising Arizona#Soundtrack|Raising Arizona]]
| next_year  = 1987
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{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r127956}}</ref>
}}

[[Carter Burwell]] wrote the film's [[Film score|score]], the first of his collaborations with the Coen brothers. ''Blood Simple'' was also the first feature-film score for Burwell, and after his work on this film, he became a much-in-demand composer in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]].<ref name="Bur16">Greiving, Tom (2016). [https://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465725552/love-the-music-of-coen-brothers-films-you-can-thank-carter-burwell  ''Love The Music of Coen Brothers Films?  You Can Thank Carter Burwell".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070751/https://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465725552/love-the-music-of-coen-brothers-films-you-can-thank-carter-burwell |date=2018-01-24 }}  Music News, [[National Public Radio]] (NPR), February 7, 2016.  Retrieved May 15, 2017.</ref> As of 2024, he had scored sixteen of the Coen brothers' films.<ref name="Bur16"/>

The score for ''Blood Simple'' is a mix of solo piano and electronic ambient sounds. One track, "Monkey Chant", is based on [[kecak]], the "''[[Ramayana]]'' Monkey Chant" of [[Bali]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/17411910902778478|title = The Abduction of the Signifying Monkey Chant: Schizophonic Transmogrifications of Balinese ''Kecakin'' Fellini's ''Satyriconand'' the Coen Brothers'Blood Simple| journal=Ethnomusicology Forum| volume=18| pages=83–106|year = 2009|last1 = Bakan|first1 = Michael B.|s2cid = 54703956}}</ref>

In 1987, seven selections from Burwell's ''Blood Simple'' score were released on a 17-track album that also features selections from the soundtrack of the Coens' next film, ''[[Raising Arizona#Soundtrack|Raising Arizona]]'' (1987).

''Blood Simple'' selections on the 1987 album:
# "Crash and Burn" (2:40)
# "Blood Simple" (3:33)
# "Chain Gang" (4:47)
# "The March" (3:34)
# "Monkey Chant" (1:04)
# "The Shooting" (2:52)
# "Blood Simpler" (1:22)

Other songs from the film that are not on the album:<ref name=afi />
* "It's the Same Old Song", written by [[Holland, Dozier and Holland|Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland]], performed by the Four Tops (used three different times, two inside the bar and one for the end credits)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://uproxx.com/movies/coen-brother-musical-moments/ |title=The Coen Brothers: 8 Unforgettable Music Moments - UPROXX |date=5 February 2016 |access-date=2022-10-09 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009175747/https://uproxx.com/movies/coen-brother-musical-moments/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-best-musical-moments-coen-brothers-bob-dylan-jefferson-airplane/ |title=The 10 best musical moments from Coen brothers films{{!}}Far Out Magazine |date=11 November 2021 |access-date=2022-10-09 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009175324/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-best-musical-moments-coen-brothers-bob-dylan-jefferson-airplane/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "[[Louie Louie]]", written by [[Richard Berry (musician)|Richard Berry]], performed by [[Toots & the Maytals]]
* "[[The Lady in Red (Allie Wrubel song)|The Lady in Red]]", written by [[Mort Dixon|M. Dixon]] and [[Allie Wrubel|A. Wrubel]], performed by [[Xavier Cugat]] and his Orchestra
* "Rogaciano", courtesy of [[Monitor Records (New York)|Monitor Records]]
* "[[He'll Have to Go]]", written by [[Joe Allison]] and Audrey Allison, arranged by Jim Roberge, performed by Joan Black
* "El Sueno", written by Camilo Namen, performed by [[Johnny Ventura]] y su Combo
* "Anahi", performed by Maria Luisa Buchino and her Llameros
* "[[Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson song)|Sweet Dreams]]", written by [[Don Gibson]], performed by [[Patsy Cline]]