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I picked it up! The demos included on Disc 2 from Best Buy are:
Making Christmas
Oogie Boogie’s Song
This is Halloween
Kidnap the Sandy Claws
Town Meeting Song
What’s This?So WHAT’S THIS? and TOWN MEETING SONG are the exclusive tracks!
Is it just me, or are there additional effects in the “This is Halloween” demo compared with the MFADT2 version?
The glasses made my head hurt. It was a pretty surreal experience…..especially when a Jack Skellington and Sally came into the movies.
A) It’s not out yet…
You can hear the track here: http://www.myspace.com/nacholibresoundtrack“The Cookie Factory” is a similarity. “Beetlejuice” is a quote (or sounds extreeeeeeeeemely close to it). It’s the trills in the woodwinds. Section A of “Powerhouse”. Also the trill that runs in the IBM Paperwork Explosion.
Yes, I have Manhattan Research. Crazy stuff. “Pygmy Taxi Corporation” scared me to death.As usual, I’ll point out Elfman’s quoting Scott (he’s one of my favorite composers):
“Beetlejuice” quotes section A of “Powerhouse” throughout the whole score. Mainly the clarinets. It’s also in the “Castle on a Hill” track of “Edward Scissorhands”, and, in the same movie, “The Cookie Factory” sounds alot like “Powerhouse”.
I purchased “Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights” and heard ALOT of music I recognized from Looney Tunes. I highly recommend that CD or The Beau Hunks recording of Scott’s music called “Celebration on the Planet Mars”.
Raymond Scott was also a pioneer in electronic music, and wrote some crazy, crazy stuff.Spider-Man was what introduced me to Danny Elfman’s name, Batman was the score that made me a fan, having watched that movie over and over as a kid.
My advice is buy Music for a Darkened Theatre 1, 2, Batman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas”, but definitely the Darkened Theatres for a cheap overview of Elfman’s work up until ’97 and some stuff that you can’t readily get otherwise. Batman is my personal favorite CD out of the 400+ I have, and Nightmare’s just too much fun with all the songs and stuff.Jack Black has 2 singing opportunities…..and the End Titles…so, he sings 3 times in the movie, but I don’t think they’d be considered Tenacious D songs.
Every bit of music in that movie was gold. There’d better be a soundtrack! I might be speaking heresy, whatever, but I enjoyed Nacho’s music better than The Corpse Bride’s music. The accordions and trumpets were so freakin’ cool!
I did that one time at an Airforce Exchange base. I have the soundtrack to MIIB, but never have really listened to it. Moreover, I’ve never seen the movie. But I heard it playing and thought….”Sounds like Elfman,” aqnd, of course, it was.
I like filmmusic.com and……yeah…that’s where I get some harder to find soundtracks. Usually footlight.com has alot of rarer listings, but both times I’ve tried to order form them, they’ve been sold out. >:#
I don’t think it’s THAT funny, but it’s a pretty interesting read. I’ve only gotten into the theory part, where I get lost in all those musical terms that I don’t understand, but the history behind Elfman and the movie itself is a pretty good read. I’ll have to read the rest when I get a chance.
The “Music for a Darkened Theatre” compilations are great for getting to know Elfman, and they highlight the great parts of the scores represented (atleast the second volume) but I HIGHLY recommend Batman. It’s my absolute favorite CD and, in my opinion, Elfman’s best score.
My disc is the reprint, and it has 21 tracks. I think Disney rereleased a bunch of soundtracks at the same time with that same artwork on the spine; my “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” has the same artwork.
I’m going with Bernard Herrmann. I love Jason and the Argonauts (Scherzo Macabre = one of the best action cues ever), The Day the Earth Stood Still (love the theremin), The Trouble with Harry (I can’t really describe why I like it other than it’s just plain beautiful…and sometimes is funny “Bum bum BUM bwaaaa”), and Vertigo is probably my 2nd favorite film score ever, only next to Batman.
The Elliot Goldenthal featurette was pretty interesting (as was Goldenthal himself!)
He said something to the effect of, “How do I compose a theme? Well…kids when they’re playing with toys hum their own themes! Dum…dum dum dum dum..dum dum dum..”
I checked on Batman & Robin and I don’t think it has a music featurette (probably because so much of the music was rehashed! Compare the two opening action scenes! I even heard THE RIDDLER’S THEME in Batman & Robin!)
Not that I’m anti-Goldenthal, “Batman Forever” is a wonderful score (his theme’s nice, and who doesn’t love the theremin, saxaphone, and Elliot’s screaming vocals [according to the CD listing] ?)
Still, Elfman’s score to “Batman” is my favorite of all time….of any score EVER.Oops….haha, misread what you said!
No, I think the featurettes are all pretty close to the same in length….but I think Elliot’s may have been a tad bit longer….I might be wrong. But there’s 2 Elfman featurettes compared to Elliot’s one (if I’m right on there not being one on Batman & Robin)I bought the anthology because I’ve always loved the Batman movies, no matter how corny they were. “Batman Forever” and “Batman and Robin” came out at a time where I didn’t really care if they were cheesy or good. Tim Burton’s “Batman” is my favorite, and my favorite score[of all time] is to “Batman”, but I also love Goldenthal’s score to “Forever”. I was kind of dissapointed that there weren’t any deleted scenes for “Batman”, but both the Elfman segments are really good. There’s even a Goldenthal section on “Forever” (admit it, the theremin/saxaphone section is awesome!)
As far as “Batman Begins”, I got that too, with the comic in it. I honestly think “Begins” was the best, but “Batman” is my favorite (I’ve already said that, haha) but it’s just so great! The score to “Begins” is, to me, a bunch of noises (freaky when listened through headphones) with one noticable theme. It’s still pretty good, but no one will ever match Elfman’s themes.
Anyways, I love the anthology, and in the rare occurance anyone likes the 3rd and 4th movies, I highly recommend it.
