Batman - Original Soundtrack by Prince, Score by Danny Elfman

Prince

When director Tim Burton approached Prince to write an original song for this 1989 blockbuster, Prince responded like only he could: He cranked out an album's worth of material instead.

Though very little of what's here actually soundtracked the film, its gathering of panoramic guitar heroics ("Electric Chair"), diaphanous pop ("Vicki Waiting"), maximalist funk ("Partyman"), and hip-hop-inspired breakbeats ("Batdance") provides a vital companion to (and commentary on) Burton's often grotesque vision of '80s-inspired Gotham.

"Hollywood conjures images of the past," Prince sings on the throbbing opener. "I've seen the future and it works."

Tracklist

The Future

Electric Chair

The Arms Of Orion

Partyman

Vicki Waiting

Trust

Lemon Crush

Scandalous

Batdance

Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman's first scores for Tim Burton, Peewee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, had established the former Oingo Boingo leader as a specialist in an akimbo style that many audience members—not to mention several Hollywood execs-would likely describe as "weird." But his work on Burton's smash Batman put him in a rarer class. He could still play the freak ("Kitchen, Surgery, Face Off, "The Joker's Poem"), but he also seemed to take the prospect of scoring an action movie seriously ("The Batman Theme," "Attack of the Batwing").

And while there have been dozens of movies in the franchise since, it's important to remember that most audiences in 1989 would have thought of Batman as your regular American superhero: Violent when necessary, but always in the right. Inspired by graphic novels like The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight Returns, Burton and Elfman instead evoked something more like an anti-hero: Troubled, vengeful, haunted by an internal dissonance he can't quite resolve ("Childhood Remembered"). A twisted portrait, no doubt, but one that gave the superhero figure a moral complexity and sense of depth it didn't quite have before. It's natural to root for the good guy. But it's more fun when he's a little bit bad.

Tracklist

The Batman Theme

Roof Fight

First Confrontation

Flowers

Clown Attack

Batman To The Rescue

Roasted Dude

Photos / Beautiful Dreamer

Descent Into Mystery

The Bat Cave

The Joker's Poem

Love Theme

Charge Of The Batmobile

Attack Of The Batwing

Up The Cathedral

Waltz To The Death

The Final Confrontation

Finale

Batman Theme Reprise

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