Danny Elfman - Dick Tracy
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Artist: Danny ElfmanEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-06-28
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Main Titles
- After the Kid
- Crime Spree
- Breathless' Theme
- Big Boy/Bad Boys
- Tess' Theme
- Slimy D.A.
- Breathless Comes On
- Meet the Blank
- Story Unfolds
- Blank Gets the Goods
- Rooftops
- Tess' Theme (Reprise)
- Chase
- Showdown/Reunited
- Finale
Music reviews of Dick Tracy
Music Review: A Definite Batman feel
Rating: 4 Stars
Since Elfman released this soundtrack a year after he wrote the legendary soundtrack for Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, Dick Tracy has a definite "Batman feel." The overture features a bombastic and march-like opening which later tapers down to a 1940's Mariln Monroe-esc orchestral love theme (Tess' Theme). The next track, "After the Kid," continues the original overture theme (the Batman-sounding one) with a slightly more creepier and exciting feel (you know how Elfman is). The third track, Crime Spree, is by far the best Elfman composed Jazz I've heard yet (Corpse Bride's got nothing on it!); Crime Spree is on of the jewels of this sountrack and helps create the "old gangster movie feel" throughout the soundtrack. So now you're thinking: "Wow! I gotta get me this here soundtrack now!" Well... here's why I rated it a four instead of a five. Track four, entitled Brethless' Theme, starts out beautifully and evokes a mood similar to that of the opening song (not the overture, mind you) of Bizet's Carmen. While you're busy marveling at the beauty of the first violin chord, however, you soon realize that half of the track has gone by and you haven't even been listening to it! The music after track three is utterly forgettable save for a few recoveries in tracks five and fourteen. Before I bought this CD off the "Amazon Marketplace" I wondered why in the world Dick Tracy was out of production and why Amazon wasn't selling directly (I mean, come on guys! Elfman doesn't composes crap!). Now you know. While the soundtrack contains several intriguing and exciting themes foreign to some Elfman fans who haven't discovered this CD yet, these few themes and songs are not strong enough to carry the entire soundtrack. There is a remedy, however. Madonna's soundtrack inspired by the Dick Tracy movie completes the circle. While some of its tracks are completely laughable, it does contain (like Elfman's soundtrack)a few musical jems. Combining the best songs from these two CD's and burning them on to one disk creates the best effect. Mr. Elfman, I applaud your efforts on this CD, but, unfortunately, some of the tracks weren't just up to your normal, fantastic standard.
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