Mars Attacks (1996)
Men In Black – The Score (1997)
Planet Of The Apes (2001)
Three Sci-Fi Soundtracks From Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman
In our ongoing quest to repair deleted links, we’ve re-upped all of our soundtrack posts (see below) and are newly posting this trio of sci-fi scores from ex-Oingo Boingo frontman, Danny Elfman, to draw attention to the archives. Elfman’s early works with director Tim Burton are filled with dark, freewheeling, calliope weirdness that has helped to shape Burton’s bizarre imagery in films like Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Sissorhands and others. The scores are often broad, colorful palates that display a sensitive wit and emotional depth. His later work has been tempered a bit by the demands of the other directors he’s worked with, sometimes sounding like more conventional soundtracks, but still greased with Elfman’s offbeat humor and expertise. Mars Attacks! and Planet Of The Apes are both Burton films as well. And, if you’ve got a spare $630 lying around, you can pick up the Elfman/Burton 25th Anniversary 16 CD Box Set (with rarities, outtakes and an elaborate box). Yeah… that’s almost $40 a disc. We suggest going the used route. We didn’t bother with listing the titles for these just to save a little space. Mars, Men and Apes are all at Amazon.
SOUNDTRACK RE-UPS
We’re now just getting a lot of our links back up and running. Here’s what we have in the soundtrack section, in case you haven’t looked lately. Lots of cool stuff, including old sci-fi/monster scores (Godzilla, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Outer Limits), a collection of five Twin Peaks releases (Angelo Badalementi & David Lynch), four classic Ennio Morricone spaghetti westerns, a handful of “albums” that double as soundtracks (or vice versa… The Monkees’ Head, George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music, James Brown’s The Payback & others) and even some classic Warner Bros. cartoon music. Whatever you do, don’t miss the 4CDs of Twilight Zone music (or the Grateful Dead’s rare 1985 TV soundtrack to The Twilight Zone). Because of the way we loosely categorize things around here, we may have missed a few, so let us know if you stumble on any soundtracks that haven’t gotten links yet. Click here to scroll through two pages of soundtracks and oddities (including music samples, videos and more).
- 12 Monkeys
- 2001 (Alex North’s Unused Score)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Blindman (Ringo’s Spaghetti Western)
- Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo)
- CARL STALLING PROJECT Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958, More From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1939-1957 + Bugs Bunny On Broadway
- Cold Turkey (Randy Newman)
- Devil In A Blue Dress
- ENNIO MORRICONE A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly + Once Upon A Time In The West
- Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter)
- Foxy Brown (Willie Hutch)
- Godzilla: 50th Anniversary Edition
- Head (The Monkees)
- Local Hero (Mark Knopfler)
- Man Bites Dog
- Mexico And Mariachis: Music From And Inspired By Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi Trilogy
- Nowhere Boy (John Lennon Bio)
- Passion (Peter Gabriel)
- Patty Hearst (Scott Johnson)
- Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)
- Tex Avery Original Soundtracks
- The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
- The Black Gestapo
- The Day The Earth Stood Still (Bernard Herrmann)
- The Mack (Willie Hutch)
- The Outer Limits (Dominic Frontiere)
- The Passion Of The Christ (John Debney)
- The Payback (James Brown)
- The Prisoner Files Vols. 1-3
- The Twilight Zone (TV Soundtrack) (Grateful Dead)
- The Twilight Zone – The 40th Anniversary Collection (4CD)
- Touch (Dave Grohl)
- Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me, Season Two Music And More & Twin Peaks Archive, Vols. I & II (Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch)
- When The Wind Blows (Rare Roger Waters Mini Opera)
- Wonderwall Music (George Harrison)
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THANKS, W!
I have a bunch of DE’s soundtracks but not these.
Can you re-up David Grohl’s TOUCH soundtrack? Thanks….
Was double-checking just as you posted. Now up.
Thank you :o)
You’re the best!!
Thanks a bajillion, as always, Cap.
Your pal,
PopC
But if it isn’t Miles Davis, is it music?
I didn’t intend to remain anonymous.
Drugs again?
Thanks for all the reups — don’t know if I mentioned it when you originally posted The Prisoner — that was my fave show in high school — a great soundtrack for sure! Do you know if that series is being broadcast anywhere in tv cableland?
I haven’t seen it if it is. I owned the box set for awhile before selling it, but I’m getting a hankering again. What a great, unique series on so many levels. Especially McGoohan, who created one bizarre anti-TV character.
You can actually find it online (or at least could. who knows now with Megaupload down). However – the GOOD NEWS is that you can watch the full episodes online at You Tube
here’s the link to the first one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuCCgQsyq8s
and in the uploaders folder are all the other ones to watch. If you have keepvid ( which is free) you can even download them all!
Actually, we’ve already got episode 1 posted for viewing on our Prisoner Files post.
Ah, but I got those files BEFORE you posted the clip, so I didn’t know!
I should have known you already covered all the bases!
That’s what i get for not going back to the post to see what you have done.
Kudos, as always
Definitely one of the best series of all time, and still refreshingly weird!
Oregon Public Broadcasting used to show the Prisoner right before Monty Python on Friday nights, which meant I could watch those shows, and still catch Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert and the Midnight Special on Saturdays. And on Sunday night, KATU from Eugene would play old Kung Fu movies.The theme music for the KATU THEATER was part of “Trilogy” by ELP
*sigh*
Those were the days
Nah… no problem at all. Just wanted to steer folks to the music, too.