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Merry Christmas to one and all and may God bless every one of you; preferrably with more Elfman in the coming year!
I think the arrangement on this Danny Elfman collection is the same one from “Comic Strip Heroes” which was rather hit and miss. Spider-Man(2) was bad, but their take on Batman (over 12 minutes!) was pretty good. The rendition of Jerry Goldsmith’s Shadow was spot on and they actually made John Ottman’s Fantastic Four theme seem almost decent!
Thanks for the Heads Up!
I still try to buy from stores as much as possible, I like holding the CD case in my hand and knowing I have it instead of I downloaded it. Then again I’m mental.
There was a Bond quiz in a local paper recently, and one of the questions was a mutliple choice on which rock group has not worked on a Bond film and guess which band they chose as the answer?
I do like the score for Casino Royale, but I have yet to warm up to the Quantum score. I didn’t think The new song was dull, but I didn’t think it fit with the Bond style. They changed so much in this film; still no gadgets, no catchphrases, and a lot more subtle interaction with the women, but I think they needed to keep the song more traditional. It makes for a smoother transition. But that has nothing to do with Elfman.
An Elfman Bond song? That has possibilites!
I thought I had read that Zimmer didn’t want to be up for Oscar consideration anymore.
Besides this means they might actually have to award a score because it’s good instead of popular,
but that means they’d have to give it to Danny and they wouldn’t like that.Referring to Monsterhead’s idea of Elliot Goldenthal, I would actually prefer that Goldenthal do the music for Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World” (otherwise known as “the New Gods”) if they ever make a film based on it. That property needs an overtly operatic sound, while also being very strange and experimental.
Oh, and He should never go near Batman ever again because that was JUST mental.
P.S. I too thought this forum was too classy for adolescent attempts at humor.
A friend of mine told me that IMDB is listing Christopher Lee as part of the cast as well as Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar.
Johnston and Cap sounds like good news, however considering the trend that has been started I have a feeling the music will at least sound like a Zimmer and Co. production. Craig Armstrong is not officially connected to Remote Control, but his Hulk score was cut from the same cloth.
Off the subject but I noticed every superhero film this year either had an Elfman quote in the music or was directly scored by the Man himself. Iron Man’s theme bore more than just a passing resemblance to Spider-Man, The Dark Knight had a quote(accidentally or not) of THE Batman theme, and lo and behold, Craig quoted Elfman in Hulk too! Surprisingly he quoted “Oh Mother Dear” from Little Demons!The first three notes are a little different and I can’t quite place where the quote would be on the Album, but I heard it quite distinctly when watching the film.
So, Here’s the Question I have: Will it be Standard Operating Porcedure or Milk to snag another Oscar Nomination for Danny?
Both are political, which The Oscars like, S.O.P. is very atypical of Danny which they might gravitate towards, but the last really respected film by Van Sant(Good Will Hunting) resulted in a nomination for Danny 11 years ago along with Men in Black (is MiB THAT old?).
So what do you think?
Oh, I thought Tim was gonna hire Hans Zimmer or Christopher Young! I’m sooo disappointed now!!!
I’m going to cry myself to sleep tonight! Who is this Elfman they’re referring to anyway?The big problem I have Silvestri’s music is that the electric guitar sounds like it came out of Hans Zimmer’s butcher job of Mission Impossible 2( although the film itself was a butcher job as well so maybe the score was fitting).
What Danny did that makes his MI score so great is the fact that He utilized elemtents of 60’s style scoring and filtered it through the then current pop sound while also adding a very orchestral quality at the same time and it all gels!
Also the fact that He used Schifrin’s theme is another plus, that ending without Danny’s fanfare and Lalo’s theme was LAME!!!!!
This is all well and good, but how long do we have to wait before Disney wakes up and realizes that we want a complete 2-disc score release for Nightmare?
I would just like to add that I really love Polyphnoic Spree’s rendition of “Town Meeting Song”. Is it a little too long? Yeah, But I found it to be very self-effacingly geeky, and I mean that in a good way. It sounds like they had a lot of fun at that recording session.
Ironically, the weakest tracks are Jack’s solos. Jack’s Obsession is slightly better JUST because it is SOOOO different, but the other two were really lacking in vocal performance. Jack’s Lament sounded like goth-Jonas Brothers and Poor Jack had the mis-fortune of “Poor” Elfman imitations throughout.
I was really annoyed by Jack’s Obsession, but again it’s a curio because of the interpretation.I think I’ve posted enough on this subject now, intentionally and otherwise.
I really like Rodrigo y Garbriela’s take on “Oogie Bogie’s Song’! I agree that All-American Rejects coverof “Jack’s Lament” was WEAK. I’m not a huge fan of Manson ( Charles or Marilyn) so I just don’t care for his rendition of “This is Halloween”. I liked Panic at the Disco’s version better from the last go `round. “To the Rescue” INDEED!!
The Instrumentals are quite intriguing. Some of the songs sound okay, but a spanish flamenco Oogie Boogie? Somebody was thinking outside the box!
