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Of course, any Danny Elfman fan would enjoy this collection and I must admit that I listened to it many times over. Unfortunately, the tracks are not named, and all the listener gets is the number of tracks clustered together from a movie and the name of the movie they were from. I personally enjoyed the little blurbs of background onformation about each track that were in vol. 1, and I wish that this cd had been designed in a similar fashion. Otherwise, the music is awesome.
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I only realized who Danny Elfman was very recently and grabbed this CD right away. It's excellent, you won't be disappointed. If you like "The Nightmare Before Christmas", the creepy, the weird, the gothic or just cool musical arangements, get this. I highly recommend this one especially to people who are also fans of Tim Burton's work. Elfman has a talent of making his audience feel exactly what he's trying to convey. Fun to listen to and great dynamics. Great buy.
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I knew Elfman from his works for Tim Burton films (Beetlejuice, both Batmans, Edwards Scissorhands, etc) but with this CD you can hear wintry parts of "Dolores Claiborne", manic parts of "To Die For", et cetera, et cetera. I can't explain how much I love this CD, or how much you will too. Buy it for your own sake. It's really good.
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It's nice to be able to just pop two cd's in your player and hear the best of Danny Elfman all at once. Some of his greatest scores are present- like Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns- plus some neat little excerpts from televison commercials and shows he worked for. Plus, you get to hear for yourself the genius behind the man as you hear the demo version of "This Is Halloween" (that track is actually why I bought the cd). However, some excerpts are plain boring or unintersting - like Sommersby, Dead Presidents and a few other individual tracks scattered around. All in all, the best part of the cd is the Nightmare demo and some of the TV exerpts, (plus it was nice to hear a few of my favorite scores again) which may or may not be worth 22 dollars.
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Although i would have to say that i found the original "Music for a Darkened Theatre" a better listen, this one still has it's definite high-points. First of all, if you don't own Elfman's masterpiece "Edward Scissorhands", this has enough on it to entice you to purchase it, and i was as far from sorry for buying it as they come. also, it has samples from Elfman's new styles of music (i.e. Dolores Claiborne, Black Beauty, etc..), which in some cases is disappointing, but when he can use his own style of dramatic music it can surpass some of James Horner's finest moments. The second CD is basically 7 or 8 really original and fun tracks with some stuff that's just not worth listening to in between (i particularly enjoyed "shrunken heads", "The Flash", and the all-elfman "this is halloween" at the end). overall, a great listening experience when you can filter out the disappointing tracks.
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