Track Listing 1. Main Titles - Danny Elfman 2. Travel Music - Danny Elfman 3. Book / Obituaries - Danny Elfman 4. Enter...The Family / Sand Worm Planet - Danny Elfman 5. Fly - Danny Elfman 6. Lydia Discovers? - Danny Elfman 7. In the Model - Danny Elfman 8. Juno's Theme - Danny Elfman 9. Beetle Snake - Danny Elfman 10. Sold - Danny Elfman 11. Flier / Lydia's Pep Talk - Danny Elfman 12. Day O - Harry Belafonte 13. Incantation - Danny Elfman 14. Lydia Strikes a Bargain... - Danny Elfman 15. Showtime! - Danny Elfman 16. Laughs - Danny Elfman 17. Wedding - Danny Elfman 18. Aftermath - Danny Elfman 19. End Credits - Danny Elfman 20. Jump in Line (Shake, Shake Senora) - Harry Belafonte
| Details | | Playing Time: | 37 min. | | Producer: | Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes All music written by Danny Elfman. All Danny Elfman tracks are DDD while the 2 Belafonte tracks are AAD. Magic always happens when Danny Elfman teams up with director-producer Tim Burton. BEETLEJUICE represents this team's second outing together, the first being 1986's PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE. Elfman has a knack for combining classical motifs with pop and ballroom dance to create bouncy yet mildly creepy scores. BEETLEJUICE is no exception. Elements of waltz and samba are heard throughout the album, but they are warped to sound like dance lessons for the dead. Drawing heavily on Bernard Herrman's creature motifs from the 1960s, Elfman effortlessly blends the macabre with carnival amusement. Echoes of PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE can be heard throughout many of the action cues, especially through the use of harp, strained violin, and heavy piano. However, those cues that feature ominous tuba passages truly give this tale of love and bio-exorcism schizophrenic life.
Editorial Reviews Ranked #98 in EW's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks - ...One of the most slavishly imitated comedy scores of the '80s... Entertainment Weekly (10/12/2001)
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