Line #17 AwesomeMusic/DannyElfman


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6	Awesome moments from Elfman's scores for ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/BatmanFilmSeries here]], his work on ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/SpiderMan here]], his work for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/MCUPhase1And2 here]], and his work for ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' can be found [[AwesomeMusic/DCExtendedUniverse here]].
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8	* Whenever Elfman gets together with Creator/TimBurton, you can expect awesome music.
9	** The score to ''Pee-Wee's Big Adventure''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyD55elKJA#t=1m14s "Breakfast Machine"]] at the beginning is a quirky piece of music that perfectly sets up the comedic tone of the rest of the movie.
10	** [[TheVillainSucksSong "The naughty children suck"]] songs in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' are all pretty good, but the first ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiMpTzd0Gqo "Augustus Gloop"]]) and the last ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQj2oDqJsY "Mike Teevee"]]) kick ridiculous amounts of ass. (Both "Teevee" and "Making Christmas" have touches of DeathlyDiesIrae about them too.)
11	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyspn61ccyE Alice's Theme]] from Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is absolutely breathtaking.
12	** Elfman gets piles of awesome points for both composing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny33f3mSjHs This is Halloween]]", from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', and for providing Jack Skellington's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJENLw1QWek singing voice]]. He also wrote two absolutely ''killer'' {{Villain Song}}s: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNSk-oMNqw Kidnap the Sandy Claws]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPWbXAWflA Oogie Boogie's Song]]". It's just as much his movie as it is Tim Burton's.
13	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91w7A-VNh8 "The Grand Finale"]] from ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' may be the most gloriously bittersweet of his compositions.
14	%%** ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZktSPrGSck theme]].
15	%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KB_Djszro opening credits]] music in ''Film/SleepyHollow1999''.
16	%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQjksu45wU opening]] to ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''.
17	%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62TEljaPzo0 opening credits]] in the 2005 ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' movie.
18	%%** He was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qgmdVgN70 Bonejangles]] in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', too.
19	%%** Also from ''Nightmare'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFy3gPzuGQc Sally's Song]], which doubles as a TearJerker.
20	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBomQh0np6w His score for]] ''Film/MarsAttacks''
21	* Then there's his work on Creator/SamRaimi's films. The first track he composed for Raimi, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHAX1K4sKQ "March of the Dead"]] from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
22	* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has him singing rock once again, with the awesome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWsqZNJa_M "The Little Things"]].
23	* His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJC9Ztd6Ts theme for]] the ''Film/MenInBlack'' trilogy is also awesome, with a great ostinato.
24	* ''Film/TheKingdom'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rTXZrcDeQ Finale]]. So much that it was used in the [[TearJerker highway scene]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''.
25	* ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]'': The hard-charging music that plays over that first approaching shot to the bullet train.
26	* ''Standard Operating Procedure'': For a serious documentary examining the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Abu Ghraib abuse scandal]], we get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA4mm5Vuqc "Main Titles - Vacation in Iraq",]] an appropriately haunting song which helps set the mood.
27	%% * ''Film/TheWolfman2010''. Danny Elfman, you've done it again.
28	%%* His music played during ''Film/{{Hulk}}''[='=]s SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
29	* The '90s live-action ''[[Series/TheFlash1990 Flash]]'' TV series came and went... really quickly... but Danny Elfman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9b7ZQ3Zkw theme tune]] is still some of the best superhero music ever composed for any medium. As are the episode scores (and that of the pilot) by the late great Shirley Walker.
30	* His theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Not only is it one of the most epic sitcom openers ever and massively catchy, it's gone on to become one of the most famous television themes of all time.
31	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xKyWemAr0 "Happy,"]] a characteristically CreepyAwesome pop/rock song, the first he's released since ''1984'', which dropped with absolutely no anticipation two days before Halloween 2020, complete with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xKyWemAr0 an equally awesome music video]]. He's StillGotIt. Followed by another song in early 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSLLRGC6tM "Sorry,"]] with animation reminiscient of WebAnimation/{{Cyriak}}.

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