Danny Elfman/Awesome Music


 * Elfman's work on Batman is awesome enough to rate its own page.
 * Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice theme.
 * And his work on Edward Scissorhands.
 * Most of Elfman's career consists of this. See also the opening credits music in Sleepy Hollow, the opening credits in the newer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, and the first two Spider-Man installments.
 * Danny Elfman's music in Spider-Man 2 as he stops the runaway train....just amazing.
 * Though Christopher Young's music was used in the original instead of Elfman's...
 * Sadly, Elfman's score for the second film was such a case of Screwed by the Network (cues from the first film being tracked in, parts of Elfman's score reworked by Young and John Debney) that he said he'd never work with Sam Raimi again (explaining why Christopher Young did the third film - and got his score tampered with as well!). Happily, as with his bustup with Tim Burton after The Nightmare Before Christmas Elfman has since patched things up with Raimi, and he's returning to his side for Oz.
 * Don't forget the first track he composed for Raimi, "March of the Dead from Army of Darkness.
 * The "the naughty children suck" songs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all pretty good, but the first ("Augustus Gloop") and the last ("Mike Teevee") kick ridiculous amounts of ass.
 * Elfman gets double awesome points for both composing "This is Halloween", from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and for providing Jack Skellington's singing voice.
 * Triple. He was Bonejangles in Corpse Bride, too.
 * He also wrote two absolutely killer Villain Songs: "Kidnap the Sandy Claus" and "the Oogie Boogie Man".
 * Wanted has him singing rock once again, in the awesome "The Little Things".
 * The score to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. "Breakfast Machine", while Nightmare Fuel then (it's like the aural equivalent of clowns!), is certainly a CMOA today.
 * But it doesn't even make you breakfast! It just shoots you! What was the point of all that?!
 * The opening to Planet of the Apes.
 * Alice's Theme is absolutely breathtaking.