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Just curious to everyone’s first ‘spark’ of going, wowa…this music is cool, diff, dark…I love it! I’m a musician/composer/whatnot…so I think even before music education was in my life, I was sucking it up early on. I remember going to the theatre to see Beetlejuice, I was 10 at the time, and thinking the music was different from the other movies and I really liked it. My mom did too, she ended up getting the tape, and we used to play it in the car on rainy drives. But I think that’s where it started. Then in 9th grade I was in a dollar store and saw the batman returns soundtrack tape. Which I still have, and I can’t believe it’s not warped I’ve heard it a trillion times…I think it’s my fav. score of his. I use to pop it in the walkman when cutting the grass, which I hated, and it always got me through it. But that’s that…so Beetlejuice started this whole string of new music for me. And really, and introduction into filmscore, which I can’t get enough of….ok next.
I was eleven back in the day when Batman was released. I was obsessed. I knew everything there was to know about the movie–including the guy who scored it, and this other guy who directed it. Figure it only took a matter of seconds to get fully hooked.
I came on kinda late to the whole Boingo scene, and didn’t come around until 1996. I don’t know a single thing about music–not the technical stuff, anyways. But I know what I like, and that’s Danny. Good stuff.
I grew up with movies with Danny Elfman scores and I just didn’t realize it. My first “real” experience was when I was 15 and I suddenly, randomly got the urge to see The NIghtmare Before Christmas. I hadn’t ever seen it. I was 8 when it came out and my mom wouldn’t let me because it was Tim Burton and therefore it was “icky” (I don’t know where she got that idea; two of the movies I watched the most when I was little were Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Beetlejuice and she had no objections about those). I watched it and fell in love with the music, and that quickly turned into a full-fledged obsession with Tim Burton and Danny Elfman. I wouldn’t call myself “obsessed” anymore; I’m still a huge huge fan of both of them but I’m much more relaxed about it now.
In the confines of private Catholic School circa 1988, i met a quasimodo-looking red haired guy who let me in on Oingo Boingo – first song he played for me was “No One Lives Forever.” Ironically enough, and to my dismay, he committed suicide the following year – reasons unknown – and i’ve been into Elfman ever since… I had me a dark, spooky orientation to his stuff…impressions like this you can’t deny…it was just meant to be.
Although on a sidenote, i was into him without knowing it when he did “Weird Science.” Catchy tune.
I was ten-ish when the first Pee-Wee came out. A guy who went to church with my parents(imagine that) and I were talking about it and I told him that I really liked the music. He told me the guy who wrote the music had a band and let me borrow his Only A Lad tape. That was it. I went to my first (of seventeen) Boingo concerts about two years later and have been keeping up with his film music ever since.
Major, super influence on my life, no doubt!yeah, if you are drawn to him, then there’s a reason for it…
Beetlejuice.
That’s tough to recall, maybe the Breakfast Machine, back when I was a Pee-wee lovin’ youngster.
Soon after it was Batman, though at the time, I thought a guy named Prince did the music.
Hey, when you’re eight, you’re eight.
Boy, I’d have to say Nightmare Before Christmas back when I was 10. I found out who composed the music when my dad told me that the singer for jack was the same singer for Oingo Boingo. I thought it was so cool because when he put on the Boingo cd, I would always picture Jack singing in my head. I thought it was so awesome!! A few years later I wanted to listen to the song “Mary”, but I couldn’t find the damn CD for months and months, and when I did finally find it, I listened to the whole CD. I listened to Insanity and I didn’t remember hearing it when my parents would play it. I was HOOKED since then. So, I guess “Insanity” and “Mary” made me a big fan, while my dad and The Nightmare Before Christmas made me notice who he was.
Breakfast machine was the first anything I noticed in film solely for the reason of how perfectly it fit the film (obviously, I’d had Star Wars and Indiana Jone’s themes in my head before, but that hardly counts. they were EVERYWHERE)
Beetlejuice was the first whole score I noticed.
why is it that fathers just seem cooler now than they were for previous generations?
It’s hard to recall, but I’ve had a ‘revolution’ similar to Infynitie’s – while watching The Nightmare Before Christmas after a VERY long time of never noticing it on the top of my movie case, I heard the music and was utterly floored with its beauty. Afterward, I watched the credits over and over (mostly for the awesome Finale), and noticed that Danny Elfman was the lyricist, composer, singing voice for Jack, etc, etc…This made me realize that I had been listening to Elfman more than I had realized, with all of the music I had…before The Nightmare Before Christmas, seeing Elfman’s name on the Chicago CD and his prescence on the Men In Black 2 DVD commentary ‘Cosmic Symphonies; Elfman in Space’, were only coincidences in my music tastes. Now, I am a full-fledged Elfman fan and currently have 5 CD’s in my collection. *grins* So I suppose it was the Nightmare that did it for me *chuckles*.
Cheers,
~LeccathuP.S. My ‘revolution’ about Elfman only happened two months ago, so I’m still a new fan. I need to get my hands on some Boingo albums!
The phrase ‘It’s hard to recall’ in my previous post means nothing at all. I was going to delete it out of my post, but I pushed ‘Post’ before realizing it. Sorry about that. Hopefully it wouldn’t be too hard to recall last year when it was only a week back!!! 0_0
Cheers,
~Leccathui think it was the second batman. i just remember LOVING the theme. then i figured out that he did Nightmare and i just went crazy for his music from there. But its only been recently that i started to listen to oingo boing .. i think its been about 9 mnths actually.
I feel ashamed to say that I’m a late bloomer, but maybe the fact that I’m probably younger than most people here will compensate for that. Not too long ago, I got into film music because I realized that in general, it was better than most of the stuff on the radio. It was after watching Spider-Man that I found out that there existed a composer named Danny Elfman. I looked up what he had done and went on a mad rush to watch all or the movies he had composed, and I loved every one I saw. I realized that some of my favorite movies had music written by Danny Elfman. Of course, I like the works of many other composers, but Danny Elfman is my all-time favorite. Thank you, Spider-Man!
Well, guess this makes me to oldest here so far.
Was watching Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure in the theatre and at the end I said to my grown son, (YES I’m old, now leave me alone!) “wow, that soundtrack was quite unique, I really liked it.” He told me who it was, I had never heard of Mr. Elfman nor Oingo Boingo.
For my birthday he bought me the Elfman/Boingo album “So-Lo” and I was hooked.
One side note after my family was aware of my infatuation with anything Boingo, my wife bought me the soundtrack for Edward Scissorhands BEFORE the movie was released. I knew nothing of the movie, and yet I was amazed to find myself emotionally tied into this film before even seeing it. I never knew music could affect me so without a visual of some kind attached to it.
Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Crodley
I was drawn to Danny Elfman’s music after watching Edward Scissorhands a few years ago. The music was magical. The music alone could bring a tear to the eye. His creative abilities are awesome and inspiring.
Batman 89. My grandma bought me the video cassette back when it came out. I kinda didn’t care about movie music until 99 with the new Star Wars movie. I started paying more attention to music in movies. Now I watch new movies about three times: Once for the story, once for the music, and once for the full effect. So, I guess I’ll say thanks grandma!
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