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Danny Elfman - Beetlejuice [Soundtrack]

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Format: CD
Catalog: 424202
Rel. Date: 10/25/1990
UPC: 720642420225

Beetlejuice [Soundtrack]
Artist: Danny Elfman
Format: CD
New: Available $13.98 $ 9.98 ON SALE
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Main Titles - (with Danny Elfman)
2. Travel Music - (with Danny Elfman)
3. Book / Obituaries - (with Danny Elfman)
4. Enter...The Family / Sand Worm Planet - (with Danny Elfman)
5. Fly - (with Danny Elfman)
6. Lydia Discovers? - (with Danny Elfman)
7. In the Model - (with Danny Elfman)
8. Juno's Theme - (with Danny Elfman)
9. Beetle Snake - (with Danny Elfman)
10. Sold - (with Danny Elfman)
11. Flier / Lydia's Pep Talk - (with Danny Elfman)
12. Day O - (with Harry Belafonte)
13. Incantation - (with Danny Elfman)
14. Lydia Strikes a Bargain... - (with Danny Elfman)
15. Showtime! - (with Danny Elfman)
16. Laughs - (with Danny Elfman)
17. Wedding - (with Danny Elfman)
18. Aftermath - (with Danny Elfman)
19. End Credits - (with Danny Elfman)
20. Jump in Line (Shake, Shake Senora) - (with Harry Belafonte)

More Info:

Danny Elfman provides one of his most quintessentially Elfman-esque scores for one of Tim Burton's most quintessentially Burton-esque movies, Beetlejuice. The film's dark yet sardonically funny "Main Titles" is among Elfman's all-time best moments, bustling along with a dark joie de vivre or is it joie de morte? that defines the spooky fun of both this movie, and his collaboration with Burton.

Reviews:

The score's stylized world also includes the ironically perky "Travel Music"; "Incantation," a tensely percussive cue that unfolds into exaggerated brass and ghostly vocals and organs; and the eerily pretty but still whimsical "Lydia Discovers." The tip-toeing pizzicato strings and pianos, and the theatrical brass, organs, harps, and percussion that appear on every track -- most definitively on tracks like "Enter...The Family / Sand Worm Planet" -- underline the film's live-action cartoonishness, with the music's hyperactive shifts, and the addition of Harry Belafonte's "Jump In Line" and "Banana Boat Song Day-O" just adding another layer of quirkiness to the whole thing. A perfect mix of silliness and spookiness, Beetlejuice remains one of Elfman's most consistent scores.

        
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