Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Free Music Notes for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Free Music Review: best 2-pack i've bought in a while
Hit: 4 Stars
i will admit, i have been and will be a manson fanatic for a number of years. Nightmare before Christmas has also been on a consistent highnote for me even as a little kid when we got on VHS. so when i heard Danny Elfman on the radio talking about this thing a few weeks before it came out, i heard "marilyn manson will be doing a cover of "this is halloween", my heart jumped and i almost veered of the I-15. i bought two copies of it, one for myself and one for a friend who i knew would also appreciate it for the Panic! cover.
i will also admit i bought this cd without any hesitation, and only for that one song, and i must say it hit it right on the money. Marilyn Manson in my mind is the master of taking good, popular songs, and twisting them into something unique and that makes a statement (hearing him sing "boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?" is rather convienient).
i also enjoyed the rest of the cds with more or less the same appreciation.
my only gripe with this cd is She Wants Revenges version of Kidnap The Sandy Claws. that was something i was looking forward to, and the signers monotone singing does little to honor the song. the background tune hardly resembles the melody it was taken from. in that song there were 3 distinctive voices, with SWR, you got one unchanging voice with no emotion. hell Beastie Boys coulda done a better job on this song.
Free Music Review: A review
Hit: 4 Stars
Seeing as I am an impulse buyer as well as a fan of this movie, I wasn't surprised to wake up one morning and find the package for this sitting on my doorstep. I listened to the second disc first and decided that it was OK. After reading some of the other reveiws I came to agree with some but disagree with others. Everyone has been saying that the Manson version of "This Is Halloween" was the best because it was scary and the Panic! version of said song sucked becuase it was too carnical like. If any of you remember the movie, the original song wasn't meant to be scary, but celebratory. I think Panic! captured that feeling best. Fiona Apple's song was beautiful, but I found that She Wants REvenge missed the mark a little. It had a good beat, yes, but it was too monotone for my taste. Fall Out Boy's cover is a kepper and has made it's way to my most played list. The demos are great, thought the demo of Kidnap the Sandy Claws kinda freaks me out when I remember that it's one guy doing three voices.Free Music Review: Jasmine's Choice
Hit: 4 Stars
The varied styles of the artists on this album lend an even more creative air to Danny Elfman's unique music. There are two different remakes of the songs to The Nightmare Before Christmas, this one providing a more alternative Rock flavor to the songs, while the Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited provides a more alternate Metal feel to the works. Not all the songs are better than the originals, and Elfman's own voice provides a better version of Jack's songs than the remakes, and is included along with some of the other original artists. Only a few songs are remade, so don't expect a completely different album. For that you need the Revisited album.Free Music Review: Good
Hit: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie and enjoyed the soundtrack. I did not really like the covers as much as I thought, but overall the disc is nice, if you enjoy the movie!Free Music Review: 3 Stars based on the Bonus Material ALONE!
Hit: 3 Stars
Since the original score of the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack has been covered many times, this will be a review of the bonus disc.
If I were to rate Elfman's oringal I'd give it a 4, they're great songs and easily stand out away from the movie on their own. However, I'm giving this a 3 star based solely on it's bonus material.
The remakes are simply atrocious. She Wants Revenge just stumbles and mutters under his breath in the same monotone voice. I listened to their version of "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" only once and that's all I can stand, I fought every urge to change it even then.
Panic! at the Disco's version of "This is Halloween" is very boring, they have some pretty good highlights, but just like SWR he just mumbles through with the same tone. Did they even care about the source material? Fall Out Boy was a little bit more listenable than the other 2 mentioned, but they don't do the original song justice at all. Maybe it's because the songs sound odd out of context, or maybe it's just that they don't sound like the songs were treated with respect. I don't know, but it doesn't work at all.
On a more pleasing note I was happy with Marilyn Manson's cover of "This is Halloween". I've never been a huge fan of Manson's, but this song works for him. It is of course very dark and macabre and Elfman himself wanted Manson to collaborate with him on this project. The highlight on this special edition is Fiona Apple's "Sally's Song", she brings such a beautiful and haunting sadness to the song. The original song was always great and Catherine O'Hara did a great job for the movie, but if you were to take ONE song out of this movie that could have been made a single on it's own I believe it would have been "Sally's song". Kudo's Fiona! My favorite track on the 2nd CD and alone worth the $15 I paid for the soundtrack.
The rest of the CD is a pure bonus, rare Elfman demos of various songs from the movie. It is interesting because every note, cue, lyric and voice was carried out by Danny himself. These are stripped down, raw versions of what was ultimately used in the movie. Even with the unrefined sound of these demo recordings, they are still 100% better than some of the recent aforementioned covers.
I find it hard to pinpoint just who Disney was trying to target this CD for.
I can understand getting some currently popular bands together to try getting a younger crowd, but then to include Manson and Apple kinda offsets the trend. I doubt very seriously fans of Manson would by this CD for his one song. The Demo recordings were to appeal to the die hard fans and thank God for them. The entire 2nd CD is hit & miss.
For fans who bought the original Nightmare Before Christmas score, I'd say there probably is enough here to warrant purchasing the same thing again...though you may want to try iTunes to avoid the most of the garbage.