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  • in reply to: My Danny soundtrack collection #68444

    The one track category could also include Oingo Boingo. There’s Fast Times, Beverly Hills Cop, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and Ghostbusters II.

    in reply to: My Danny soundtrack collection #68396

    Jealous.

    I have… Beetlejuice, Batman, Darkened Theater, Edward Scissorhand, Batman Returns, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Wanted, Terminator Salvation and Alice on CD. Hopefully I didn’t forget anything. I’m doing this on memory.

    And I have Pee-Wee, Back to School and Darkman on digital – in additional to random tracks from his various scores/soundtracks. Again, hopefully I’m not forgetting anything.

    Plus, I have a handful of Oingo Boingo songs on digital.

    in reply to: Scream 2 Deluxe Edition (Featuring Elfman cues!) #68403
    in reply to: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children #58460

    I thought the score was really good. It’s like a simpler Elfman score. It works for the movie, and yes, I saw the movie. It’s pretty good – better than Dark Shadows and Big Eyes.

    in reply to: Elfman on ‘The Girl on the Train’? #58332

    sajrocks Wrote:


    > What was it like collaborating with Danny
    > Elfman on the score?

    >
    > Tate Taylor: It was a dream. He’s such a master
    > and his work speaks for itself. We had a blast. We
    > took chances, and I told him to go as crazy as he
    > wanted. He’s fantastic and became a great
    > friend.
    >
    > http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2016/09/23/the-girl-o
    > n-the-train-press-conference-with-emily-blunt-luke
    > -evans-hayley-bennett-tate-taylor-and-paula-hawkin
    > s/

    Danny on the loose is usually a good thing.

    in reply to: Elfman on ‘The Girl on the Train’? #68372

    LOTS of music unless the tracks are short

    Found this random YouTube channel with alternate versions of Danny Elfman’s Beetlejuice theme. I’m not sure if these are from the Burton collection or elsewhere.

    in reply to: Potential Work For Elfman On The Way! #58361

    An OLD SCHOOL 1985-94 era Elfman score.

    in reply to: Elfman on ‘The Girl on the Train’? #58360

    I have no idea what’s going on in that photo.

    Danny’s Flash theme is for sale at iTunes. It’s available on the album titled Music of DC Comics vol 2.

    in reply to: Additional composers #58336

    Thor Wrote:


    > Well, I’d argue that NOVOCAINE was at least as
    > “famous” (relatively speaking) as CABIN BOY, even
    > if he did with Danny. Or the two episodes he did
    > of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

    I wasn’t referring to the movie’s popularity. Only people who were alive in the 90’s know what Cabin Boy is. I was talking about the music. Cabin Boy was Steve’s BIG score. If the movie had been a success at the box office, Steve could have become an in-demand film & tv composer. He could have left Danny and just done his own thing. It’s funny to think how Cabin Boy making money could have re-written Danny Elfman’s post-1995 career. How different would his scores have sounded without Steve as his main orchestrator?

    in reply to: Fifty Shades Darker #58335

    Thor Wrote:


    > Ha! I LOVE TERMINATOR: SALVATION! Hugely
    > underrated.
    >
    > As for turds scored by Elfman, I would count FIFTY
    > SHADES OF GREY, HOT TO TROT, FLUBBER and arguably
    > BIG EYES and PLANET OF THE APES (although they DO
    > have some redeeming features).

    All those movies are far more memorable than A Civil Action and Instinct.

    in reply to: Back to School #58328

    lonzoe Wrote:


    > Actually “Back To School” came out on June 13th
    > 1986 in the US.

    Damn. You’re right. It actually came out the same day as Ferris Bueller. Imagine watching those two as a double feature? Anyway, it’s Club Paradise that’s turning 30 in a few days. I don’t know how I got those two movies mixed up. lol. Regardless, Happy 30th to Back to School.

    in reply to: Back to School #58324

    The 30th anniversary of Back to School is in a few days. A few years back, I bought the Pee-Wee/Back to School combo pack. It’s the digital album, not the CD. So whenever I listen to Pee-Wee, I end up listening to Back to School as well. As a result, my appreciation for the score has grown tremendously. But there has also been another result. Like many, Study Montage was my favorite track, but as I’ve listened to the album several times, Triple Lindy has replaced it. There’s something so shamelessly cheesy about that track that it’s difficult not to love it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpcMPtl8pyg

    in reply to: Elfman being taken for granted #58323

    ddddeeee Wrote:


    > Well it might seem that way to us but the Fifty
    > Shades has the most Amazon reviews of any Elfman
    > score in recent memory and FilmMusicReporter’s
    > post about him scoring the sequel is by leaps and
    > bounds their most popular ever post. All this
    > comes with the territory with a fanbase as rabid
    > as that but still.

    and Carter Burwell’s most “popular” score is Twilight.

    in reply to: Tulip Fever #58322

    Is this The Wolfman all over again?

    in reply to: Fifty Shades Darker #58321

    Luckily, Danny Elfman has never scored a movie that was truly awful. People may exaggerate about Hot to Trot, Planet of the Apes, Fifty Shades of Grey, etc, but none were a trainwreck.

    in reply to: Additional composers #58320

    Thor Wrote:


    > Steve Bartek has written several scores, not only
    > CABIN BOY.

    Cabin Boy was the big one. The rest were teen comedies and B-movies. Also, for reasons I’m still confused about, he was an orchestrator on Pirates 3. Considering Hans Zimmer’s history with additional composers, it’s possible he might have written something, but not big enough to be officially credited. Zimmer is usually good with acknowledging his cronies, even if its buried in the end credits.

    in reply to: Happy Birthday, Danny Elfman (was: Birthday Card) #58288

    The thread is 7 years old, not 9, but it does feel a decade old.

    in reply to: Elfman’s approach to sequels #58287

    I think I agree with Ryan. The Men in Black II score doesn’t take itself too seriously, probably cause the movie doesn’t either, and Men in Black III was mostly lazy. Neither are in the same atmosphere as the Oscar-nominated original. Spider-Man 2, yeah, I can see your point. But I mostly think of Spider-Man 2 as an IMPROVEMENT as opposed to an expansion of the original. Which is why it’s so tragic that Raimi and his sound editors butchered the score in the film. But when it’s all said and done, Batman Returns remains the gold standard. No one wants repetition. They want new themes and revisions of the old ones. This is something that goes back to John Barry’s 007 scores from the 1960’s. Each movie deserves its own musical identity.

    in reply to: Elfman being taken for granted #58286

    I can’t speak for the film music fandom since I normally visit general entertainment sites. So I think the under-appreciation comes from his choices. I can’t think of many people who gave a crap about Goosebumps or Fifty Shades of Grey. And his score for The Avengers 2 was buried under sound effects. So, truth is, most people just aren’t exposed to his recent scores. Hans Zimmer, love him or hate him, sticks to high-profile projects. His Wonder Woman theme from Batman vs Superman is one of the few things people liked about that movie. “No Time for Caution”, from Interstellar, might have been the most hyped score cue from 2014. In the last 5 years the only Elfman scores that got any mainstream attention were The Wolfman, mostly thanks to the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy trailer, and Oz: The Great and Powerful which had such a popular opening title scene that Disney uploaded it to YouTube while the movie was still playing in theaters.

    in reply to: Additional composers #58315

    If Shirley Walker were still alive, I wonder how much music she would have claimed to have written. And I’m surprised Steve Bartek never claimed to write anything. He did write the score to Cabin Boy, so he does have the chops.

    in reply to: I’ll just leave this here… #58314

    That might be my new favorite Elfman photo.

    in reply to: Tulip Fever #58477

    Yeah, the music sounded VERY Elfman.

    in reply to: Let’s take a moment to remember Shirley Walker #58602

    ddddeeee Wrote:


    > It might be sacrilege but there are many times I
    > find myself preferring her Batman theme even to
    > Elfman’s. There’s a sadness and gravity to it I
    > find myself really drawn to.

    Batman: The Animated Series, in general, had phenomenal music and rivals the work of Danny Elfman in Batman and Batman Returns. The albums that Warner Bros. released are on iTunes. They’re worth buying and do feature some Elfman bonus tracks since he wrote the intro/outro and his theme is used in a few of the early episodes.

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