The Dark Knight (Limited Edition)
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Free Music Review: Excellent music for an amazing movie
Hit: 5 Stars
In short,the OST is what The Dark Knight is to Batman Begins...a bigger,more polished,more emotional,more accomplished version of it's predecessor.Free Music Review: The absolute best superhero score ever crafted
Hit: 5 Stars
Just like Christopher Nolan took everything he started with Batman Begins to new heights with The Dark Knight, composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard take the superhero film score to new heights as well. From the creepily opening epic "Why So Serious?" to the tension-laced and hair raising "Always a Catch"; Zimmer and Howard have not only once again crafted a classic film score, but have raised the bar for superhero film scores, just as Nolan raised the bar for superhero films. The real standout of The Dark Knight's score however is the emotional "Harvey Two-Face", which depicts the tragic fall of the heroic "white knight" Harvey Dent. Other compositions, including "I'm Not a Hero", "Like a Dog Chasing Cars", "Agent of Chaos", and the grandoise closer "A Dark Knight" are masterpieces that are feasts of the ears. All in all, the soundtrack to The Dark Knight is absolutely the best superhero score ever crafted, and like the film itself, will stand as a masterwork to be cherished and imitated for years to come.Free Music Review: This soundtrack is another casualty in the loudness war
Hit: 1 Stars
The music on this album is great, but the mastering of the CD itself is terrible. There's so much dynamic compression that many parts of it are unlistenable -- some are even painful. I haven't heard mastering this bad since the soundtracks for the last two Pirates of the Caribbean movies (also by Hans Zimmer, interestingly).
If you're going to make MP3s from this album and listen to them with a pair of cheap earbuds, you might not notice the problem. But with a decent set of headphones or a real stereo system you'll hear some harsh digital distortion in the loud parts of the tracks.
Audiophiles, don't buy this album. Complain to Warner Sunset/Warner Bros. instead.
For more information, do a Google search for "loudness war."
Free Music Review: Movie Score Of The Year.
Hit: 5 Stars
I was impressed with Hans Zimmer's score for Batman Begins. But I'm even more impressed his score, along with James Newton Howard for The Dark Knight. All the scores in the film are excellent. But the best is "Why So Serious?". That score really is errie and matches for The Joker.
I bought the limited edition CD because it comes with a booklet and 3 two-side cards of Batman, The Joker and Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. If you heard the score in the movie, and love it, get this soundtrack.
Free Music Review: A 5-Star Soundtrack, a Disappointing "Limited Edition"
Hit: 3 Stars
The music and track listing on the "limited edition" are exactly the same as those on the regular CD/iTunes release...so you're paying a couple of dollars more for different packaging, which includes exclusive photos. With the advent of digital music stores and the decrease of CDs, I would have expected more "incentive" to buy the physical CD. Consumers have spoken in droves: They want the music, not the plastic, and voting with their money by buying from Amazon's music store and iTunes. Why the record company decided to release two CD versions for the same music is a mystery.