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******************************************************************************* Danny Elfman - Music For A Darkened Theatre Vol.2 ******************************************************************************* Tracklist CD1 01.- Main Titles (Edward Scissorhands) [02:36] 02.- Storytime (Edward Scissorhands) [02:35] 03.- Suite (Edward Scissorhands) [04:19] 04.- Suburbia - Barber (Edward Scissorhands) [03:05] 05.- The Grand Finale (Edward Scissorhands) [03:26] 06.- Main Titles (Dolores Claiborne) [02:44] 07.- Vera's World (Dolores Claiborne) [02:35] 08.- Flashback (Dolores Claiborne) [01:32] 09.- Sad Room (Dolores Claiborne) [00:51] 10.- End Titles (Dolores Claiborne) [04:48] 11.- Main Titles (To Die For) [04:08] 12.- Suzie's Theme (To Die For) [01:40] 13.- Busted (To Die For) [02:01] 14.- Wheepy Donuts (To Die For) [01:49] 15.- Finale (To Die For) [01:18] 16.- Main Titles (Black Beauty) [02:27] 17.- Baby Beauty (Black Beauty) [03:11] 18.- Jump For Joy (Black Beauty) [00:57] 19.- Frolick - Sick (Black Beauty) [04:03] 20.- Bye Bye Jerry (Black Beauty) [02:27] 21.- Memories (Black Beauty) [01:28] 22.- End Titles (Black Beauty) [01:37] 23.- Birth Of A Penguin (Batman Returns) [05:36] 24.- Trouble Suite (Batman Returns) [02:15] 25.- The Finale (Batman Returns) [03:13] 26.- End Titles (Batman Returns) [04:41] Tracklist CD2 01.- Trouble (Mission Impossible) [03:20] 02.- Looking For a Job (Mission Impossible) [03:53] 03.- Betrayal (Mission Impossible) [02:56] 04.- Main Titles (Sommersby) [04:40] 05.- Return Montage (Sommersby) [04:26] 06.- Finale - End Titles (Sommersby) [07:21] 07.- Main Titles (Dead Presidents) [04:01] 08.- Daughter (Dead Presidents) [01:24] 09.- Montage (Dead Presidents) [02:17] 10.- Nam (Dead Presidents) [05:49] 11.- Nightmare (Dead Presidents) [01:17] 12.- Overture (Nightmare Before Christmas) [01:47] 13.- Jack and Sally Suite (Nightmare Before Christmas) [05:03] 14.- Christmas Eve Montage (Nightmare Before Christmas) [02:10] 15.- Main Titles (Freeway) [02:44] 16.- On The Road (Freeway) [02:58] 17.- Back in the Car (Freeway) [01:20] 18.- Main Titles (Shrunken Heads) [01:54] 19.- Family Dog - Part 1 (Amazing Stories) [00:52] 20.- Family Dog - Part 2 (Amazing Stories) [01:28] 21.- Mummy, Daddy (Amazing Stories) [02:23] 22.- Nike Commercial (Barkley Superhero) [00:31] 23.- Theme (The Flash) [01:32] 24.- Suite - Part 1 (Pee Wee's Playhouse) [00:34] 25.- Suite - Part 2 (Pee Wee's Playhouse) [01:09] 26.- Suite - Part 3 (Pee Wee's Playhouse) [00:24] 27.- Suite - Part 4 (Pee Wee's Playhouse) [01:27] 28.- Theme (Beetlejuice Animated Series) [01:02] 29.- This is Halloween (Original Demo for Nightmare Before Christmas) [03:19] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REVIEW from FILMTRACKS.COM http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/elfman2.html Music for a Darkened Theatre: Volume II: (Danny Elfman) The early 1990's arguably represent the pinnacle of composer Danny Elfman's achievements in film music. In the shadows of Batman, the rocker turned composer cranked out scores that have either earned him millions (Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas) or have continued to earn the quiet respect of film music critics across the board (Black Beauty and Sommersby). The first "Music for a Darkened Theatre" compilation was released in 1990 just as Elfman fans were experiencing the zeal of discovering a fantastic new talent in the genre, and the single album contained tracks from his earliest days through Darkman, Nightbreed, and Dick Tracy. By late 1996, Elfman had matured into a A-class composer in Hollywood and had already begun his transition from his gothic, symphonic efforts to the more electronic and percussive sorts that better reflected his pre-orchestral scoring days. Just as Mars Attacks! was hitting the theatres, Elfman released his much anticipated "Music for a Darkened Theatre: Volume II" for his fans to chew on, and the 2CD set remains one of the best composer compilations ever to be pressed commercially. The remarkable aspect of these "Music for a Darkened Theatre" albums is that it is difficult (fiscally and ownership-wise) to get such massive compilations of original recordings released, and "Volume II" (like the first CD) presented some never-before released music in the days before bootlegged CDrs spoiled fans with access to such works. Matching his eccentric personality, the packaging of the set includes bizarre photography of the composer, as well as insightful and funny remarks by Elfman about each section of the album. The only wide-spread complaints about the album include some curious edits of cues (and mixing of adjoining music) and, more importantly, the fact that the scores are not presented in chronological order of release. A quick rundown of both CDs follows. The first CD of the set opens with the necessary suite from Elfman's personal favorite (and most fans' favorites from the composer), Edward Scissorhands. Elfman touches on both the comedic and tragic elements of the score by ranging in inclusion from "Barber" to the absolutely essential "Grand Finale." The lesser-known but respected Dolores Claiborne score suffers perhaps the most in its placement on the album, simply unable to compete with the overbearing emotion of Edward Scissorhands and the quirkiness of To Die For. The latter score is among one of Elfman's most playful, with the juxtaposition of an innocent children's chorus with rocking electric guitar rips performed by Elfman himself. A bizarre roller coaster of a ride, To Die For is an important inclusion here if only because it will likely ward some Elfman's pre-1995 fans away from its complete album. Back to Elfman's tragic favorites, a generous offering from Black Beauty skillfully merges several cues from across the score into one unsurprisingly gorgeous suite. As a nod to his Batman theme (another personal favorite of his), the collection of cues from Batman Returns includes the obvious pronouncements of the title theme, as well as the "End Credits" representation of Penguin and Catwoman themes. The second CD offers a wider variety of Elfman's production, beginning with the hot score at the time, Mission: Impossible. While the score would be a rhythmically percussive departure from Elfman's previous action music, it's interesting to note that he chose to include on this album the cues that are most similar to the rest of his body of work, highlighted by the "Betrayal" cue that tops the score in quality. None of Lalo Schifrin's theme appears here (perhaps due to rights issues). By contrast, Sommersby remains a hidden gem, and its lengthy suite is extremely welcome on this compilation. For any fan of Elfman's tragic symphonic works, this suite will send you seeking the score's original album without hesitation. Among one of Elfman's commercially unreleased scores at the time was Dead Presidents, which combined with To Die For caused considerable shock for fans of the composer in 1995. Among the alternately harsh and hip 1970's rock sounds came the introduction of the electric base into Elfman's ensembles... a permanent addition. Woefully out of place on the album is The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which Elfman includes the three most impressive score cuts from the album and unfortunately none of the songs (perhaps a rights issue once again?). The unreleased score for early 1996's Freeway, a gift score from Elfman for a friend, is Elfman's first improvised synthetic work, and hails back to his "Face Like a Frog" days... it's truly bizarre and sick, bordering on completely intolerable even to a veteran Elfman collector. The odd selection of items that follows typically falls closer to this bizarre end of the spectrum, with Shrunken Heads resembling The Nightmare Before Christmas very closely. Elfman's "Amazing Stories" cues --like those of John Williams-- are highly valued and offer some of Elfman's most comedic symphonic writing since Beetlejuice. The theme for the 1990 Warner TV show "The Flash" is a playful Batman knock-off. The four cues from "Pee Wee's Playhouse" are lower-budget renditions of the nearly identical film score cues, and they can't compare to the original orchestral performances. The Beetlejuice television show theme likewise will send you scampering for the original. The album ends with a remarkable demo of "This is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas in which Elfman confirms his immense talents to the world by performing every instrument and voice himself. This 2-CD set is simply unbeatable in its lengthy offerings of original recordings from each of the composer's works between 1991 and 1996. With the continued movement towards diversity in Elfman's career, a third volume is highly wished for by his fans, though with ten years passed without any word on Volume III and such a large volume of material now collected in his career, any hopes for such an album are slim. Even so, if Elfman can ever arrange the finances and permissions necessary for Volume III, there's everything from the magical Nissan commercial music from 1996 to the fifteen minutes of beautiful unreleased music from The Family Man to be included. Let's keep hoping... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EAC LOGs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danny Elfman / Music For A Darkened Theatre (Vol.2) - Disc1 Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N Adapter: 3 ID: 1 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : No Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : No Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : Yes Command line compressor : F:Archivos de programaExact Audio CopyFLACFLAC.EXE Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 2:36.30 | 0 | 11729 2 | 2:36.30 | 2:35.00 | 11730 | 23354 3 | 5:11.30 | 4:19.12 | 23355 | 42791 4 | 9:30.42 | 3:05.10 | 42792 | 56676 5 | 12:35.52 | 3:26.35 | 56677 | 72161 6 | 16:02.12 | 2:44.45 | 72162 | 84506 7 | 18:46.57 | 2:35.45 | 84507 | 96176 8 | 21:22.27 | 1:32.40 | 96177 | 103116 9 | 22:54.67 | 0:51.10 | 103117 | 106951 10 | 23:46.02 | 4:48.13 | 106952 | 128564 11 | 28:34.15 | 4:08.52 | 128565 | 147216 12 | 32:42.67 | 1:40.58 | 147217 | 154774 13 | 34:23.50 | 2:01.59 | 154775 | 163908 14 | 36:25.34 | 1:49.33 | 163909 | 172116 15 | 38:14.67 | 1:18.65 | 172117 | 178031 16 | 39:33.57 | 2:27.55 | 178032 | 189111 17 | 42:01.37 | 3:11.35 | 189112 | 203471 18 | 45:12.72 | 0:57.15 | 203472 | 207761 19 | 46:10.12 | 4:03.30 | 207762 | 226016 20 | 50:13.42 | 2:27.55 | 226017 | 237096 21 | 52:41.22 | 1:28.00 | 237097 | 243696 22 | 54:09.22 | 1:37.00 | 243697 | 250971 23 | 55:46.22 | 5:36.50 | 250972 | 276221 24 | 61:22.72 | 2:15.33 | 276222 | 286379 25 | 63:38.30 | 3:13.22 | 286380 | 300876 26 | 66:51.52 | 4:41.65 | 300877 | 322016 Danny Elfman / Music For a Darkened Theatre (Vol.2) - Disc 2 Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N Adapter: 3 ID: 1 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : No Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : No Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : Yes Command line compressor : F:Archivos de programaExact Audio CopyFLACFLAC.EXE Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 3:20.30 | 0 | 15029 2 | 3:20.30 | 3:53.72 | 15030 | 32576 3 | 7:14.27 | 2:56.55 | 32577 | 45831 4 | 10:11.07 | 4:40.05 | 45832 | 66836 5 | 14:51.12 | 4:26.10 | 66837 | 86796 6 | 19:17.22 | 7:21.13 | 86797 | 119884 7 | 26:38.35 | 4:01.62 | 119885 | 138021 8 | 30:40.22 | 1:24.60 | 138022 | 144381 9 | 32:05.07 | 2:17.43 | 144382 | 154699 10 | 34:22.50 | 5:49.59 | 154700 | 180933 11 | 40:12.34 | 1:17.41 | 180934 | 186749 12 | 41:30.00 | 1:47.34 | 186750 | 194808 13 | 43:17.34 | 5:03.23 | 194809 | 217556 14 | 48:20.57 | 2:10.55 | 217557 | 227361 15 | 50:31.37 | 2:44.43 | 227362 | 239704 16 | 53:16.05 | 2:58.60 | 239705 | 253114 17 | 56:14.65 | 1:20.70 | 253115 | 259184 18 | 57:35.60 | 1:54.57 | 259185 | 267791 19 | 59:30.42 | 0:52.40 | 267792 | 271731 20 | 60:23.07 | 1:28.50 | 271732 | 278381 21 | 61:51.57 | 2:23.23 | 278382 | 289129 22 | 64:15.05 | 0:31.17 | 289130 | 291471 23 | 64:46.22 | 1:32.38 | 291472 | 298409 24 | 66:18.60 | 0:34.50 | 298410 | 301009 25 | 66:53.35 | 1:09.67 | 301010 | 306251 26 | 68:03.27 | 0:24.18 | 306252 | 308069 27 | 68:27.45 | 1:27.12 | 308070 | 314606 28 | 69:54.57 | 1:02.33 | 314607 | 319289 29 | 70:57.15 | 3:19.42 | 319290 | 334256 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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t9924jp (2012-01-14)

Please seed..please. Danny Elfman is one of my favorite composers of the modern era!

kechiguy (2012-03-03)

Wonderful, repopo! Thanks to you, I have Vols. 1 & 2, and Vol. 3 from one-click filehosting. Thanks a million, and I'll keep seeding to show my gratitude!