History AwesomeMusic / Batman

The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', ''WesternAnimatiion/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', and the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'' have [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanArkhamSeries pages]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries of]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold their]] [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse own]].

The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', ''WesternAnimatiion/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', and the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'' have [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries pages]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanArkhamSeries of]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold their]] [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse own]].

''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', and the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'' [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold have pages]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanArkhamSeries of their]] [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse own]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In many, many ways. The show introduction is famous for the music as much as for its almost-a-storyboard art style. The second intro is less well-known, but also features some epic music. And most villains have their own (often awesome) leitmotifs. BTAS had a unique soundtrack for ''every episode'', a feature that might never happen again.
** Awesome, in part, because it's the same theme Music/DannyElfman wrote for the Creator/MichaelKeaton ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie. Some of the best TV watching memories were when that Creator/WarnerBros logo faded away, the police headlights came on, and those horns started blaring. One of the best themes to a television show. Ever.\\
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Just to give an idea - this theme was so awesome, that even the ''staff of the show'' didn't realize that the title of the show didn't appear during it. Go ahead and rewatch if you don't believe that fact.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yC4zKDeDkM theme]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The Adventures of Batman and Robin]]''. Shirley Walker gave Batman a {{Leifmotif}} as memorable as the 1980's movie's.
** Also, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9pXkjI5Z6U The Grey Ghost's theme]] (until about 0:51). Very short, but brilliant!
** There's a lovely theme that plays in the BTAS episode "Heart Of Ice" that makes one think of snow falling...
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df9RJaFQ0Y The Joker's Theme]] from BTAS (the second song). [[ThemeTuneCameo He even]] [[ThemeMusicPowerUp whistles it.]]
** For many, Shirley Walker's Batman overture is even more iconic than Danny Elfman's theme (which is only heard in a few of the episode scores, like "Nothing To Fear" and "The Cat And The Claw, Part II"[[note]]but not Part I[[/note]]). It helps that the animated theme is very much a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the film's version.
** The intro to each episode not only provides great film noir imagery but great film noir music as well, setting the tone for the episode. And thanks to La-La Land, there are now ten discs worth of music available!
%%*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOPWTjPa--0 And now we have the entire playlist.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu873F0eTjs "I Go Looney""]] sung from Creator/MarkHamill himself! Is there anything we can say here?

** The music as Batman enters the cathedral to follow Joker and Vicki.

* [[Series/{{Batman}} It's campy, but still iconic and awesome.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoMN_xi-AM Nanananananananana Batman!]]

* While it never made it into a Batman movie or TV show, there is the VillainSong [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-SLN3whXW0 from a cancelled Batman musical.]] If you listen closely, you can hear the Music/DannyElfman theme mixed in with the awesomeness that is Music/MeatLoaf. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ymjj7wQ5dY It was a cover of this]].

''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' ,the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', and the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'' [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold have pages]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanArkhamSeries of their]] [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse own]].

''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold have their]] [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanArkhamSeries own pages ]].

* Also not directly related to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', Music/MiracleOfSound broke from their normal pattern of video game-inspired music to create [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfk5-8oy_o "Rise"]].

*** The network television premiere of ''Batman Returns'' on February 12, 1995 (prime-time slot on NBC-TV) was kicked off by a montage of the most action-packed scenes from the film set to what is perhaps ''the'' Crowning Music Of Awesome: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (specifically the ''Freude, schöner Götterfunken''[[note]] perhaps best known to Roman Catholics and Anglicans as "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" [[/note]] [[StandardSnippet part everyone remembers]].

*** Especially epic is the opening number, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcezzUjCF8 "Birth of a Penguin"]], complete with a dark re-orchestration of the previous film's theme.
*** Much of the incredibly intense Music/DannyElfman score. "The Final Confrontation" in particular takes the cake.

** The intro to each episode not only provides great film noir imagery but great film noir music as well, setting the tone for the episode.
*** And thanks to La-La Land, there are now ten discs worth of music available!
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOPWTjPa--0&feature=BFa&list=FLPD1UsYa8LELWDgDxYiIIMg And now we have the entire playlist.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':

->"''There are few movie music moments when you know a big gun has entered the room- the sweeping orchestral strains of Williams’ ''Film/{{Superman}}'' among them. Now a “new” hero was arriving with an attitude for a far more jaded generation of fans. And when those menacing strings rose with glistening percussion, before bursting into a galloping, instantly memorable theme, you knew this was one of those [[HolyShitQuotient holy shit musical moments]] - the sound of major talent arriving on the scene [[IncrediblyLamePun like a bat out of hell]].''"

** The opening number, literally titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11BPzYehUE "The Batman Theme"]], makes the accompanying titles so awesome that you can fail to notice that next to nothing's happening onscreen. The theme gets a reprise at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tiGCeWaYuM film's end]]. It is also rescored as the opening theme for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk Batman the Animated Series]]. See the page quote for its impact.

** The opening number, literally titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11BPzYehUE "The Batman Theme"]], makes the accompanying titles so awesome that you can fail to notice that next to nothing's happening onscreen. The theme gets a reprise at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tiGCeWaYuM film's end]]. It is also rescored as the opening theme for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk Batman the Animated Series]].

->"''There are few movie music moments when you know a big gun has entered the room- the sweeping orchestral strains of Williams’ ''Film/{{Superman}}'' among them. Now a “new” hero was arriving with an attitude for a far more jaded generation of fans. And when those menacing strings rose with glistening percussion, before bursting into a galloping, instantly memorable theme, you knew this was one of those holy shit musical moments- the sound of major talent arriving on the scene like a bat out of hell.''"

->There are few movie music moments when you know a big gun has entered the room- the sweeping orchestral strains of Williams’ ''Film/{{Superman}}'' among them. Now a “new” hero was arriving with an attitude for a far more jaded generation of fans. And when those menacing strings rose with glistening percussion, before bursting into a galloping, instantly memorable theme, you knew this was one of those holy shit musical moments- the sound of major talent arriving on the scene like a bat out of hell.

** Actually, pretty much everything from the '89 soundtrack is top-notch...except maybe for "Childhood Remembered", which now sounds like [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece stereotypical 1980s synthesizer crap]].

** "Waltz to the Death," which is what the Joker and Vicki Vale were dancing to while Batman was beating up {{Mooks}}, is also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywytpSrzktg quite amazing]].

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoK2d3mC3RA "Descent into Mystery"]], which is heard when Batman drives Vicki Vale through the forest to the Batcave. ''So'' epic, it was reused in the trailer to ''Batman Returns''.

** Especially epic is the opening number,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcezzUjCF8 "Birth of a Penguin"]], complete with a dark re-orchestration of the previous film's theme.
** Siouxsie And The Banshees' "Face to Face".
** Much of the incredibly intense Music/DannyElfman score. "The Final Confrontation" in particular takes the cake.

** Elfman's incredibly intense score for ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is nothing short of awesome, either. Especially epic is the opening number,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcezzUjCF8 "Birth of a Penguin"]], complete with a dark re-orchestration of the previous film's theme.

** Especially the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9I-ICtgylw the main theme]]. (Song starts at beginning). Also at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c_ijTjKC8 end of the movie is another version]]. The weird thing is that that's not Latin; it's the names of some of the music crew being sung backwards. ''And it is still awesome.'' Considered by some to be Shirley Walker's magnum opus.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K1qNsE9v0&feature=related The Birth of Batman.]] The close-up to the eyes and Alfred's reaction really sells it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'': Especially the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9I-ICtgylw the main theme]]. (Song starts at beginning). Also at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c_ijTjKC8 end of the movie is another version]]. The weird thing is that that's not Latin; it's the names of some of the music crew being sung backwards. ''And it is still awesome.'' Considered by some to be Shirley Walker's magnum opus.

** Whatever other flaws ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' may have, it used the ''bombing-awesome'' theme song introduced in ''Forever''.
*** Plus, the pop soundtrack is really good (even if the vastly superior remix to R. Kelly's "Gotham City" is left out) in a "Why tie this music to this movie?" sense.
*** So much that Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" was recycled in a ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' trailer, which was featured before ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', of all movies.