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    The Nightmare Before Christmas (2-CD Reissue)

    01/01/2006 | Disney 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Danny Elfman, who has scored many of Tim Burton's imaginative films (Edward Scissorhands, his two Batman films, etc.), is a perfect musical partner for the somewhat macabre director, and never more so than here, where, in fact, Elfman gets not only to write the music but to play the part of the main character. The Nightmare Before Christmas is an animated movie musical about the abduction of Christmas by the denizens of Halloween land, and Elfman sings the part of Jack, the Pumpkin King. The score is in his usual lush but threatening style (Kurt Weill is his biggest influence), but the highlight is Elfman's singing. Even in his rock band Oingo Boingo (now merely Boingo), Elfman doesn't get to sing like this. Granted, the soundtrack album inevitably lacks the film's outlandish visuals, but it tells the story on its own, and one is better able to appreciate Elfman's outstanding performance. [The 2006 reissue comes packaged with an additional nine-track bonus CD.] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • Overture
  • 1:48
  • 2
  • Opening
  • 0:57
  • 3
  • This Is Halloween
  • 3:16
  • 4
  • Jack's Lament
  • 3:14
  • 5
  • Doctor Finklestein/In the Forest
  • 2:36
  • 6
  • What's This?
  • 3:05
  • 7
  • Town Meeting Song
  • 2:56
  • 8
  • Jack and Sally Montage
  • 5:17
  • 9
  • Jack's Obsession
  • 2:46
  • 10
  • Kidnap the Sandy Claws
  • 3:02
  • 11
  • Making Christmas
  • 3:57
  • 12
  • Nabbed
  • 3:04
  • 13
  • Oogie Boogie's Song
  • 3:17
  • 14
  • Sally's Song
  • 1:47
  • 15
  • Christman Eve Montage
  • 4:43
  • 16
  • Poor Jack
  • 2:31
  • 17
  • To the Rescue
  • 3:38
  • 18
  • Finale/Reprise
  • 2:44
  • 19
  • Closing
  • 1:26
  • 20
  • End Title
  • 5:05
  • 21 (2)
  • This Is Halloween
  • 3:22
  • 22 (2)
  • Sally's Song
  • 3:20
  • 23 (2)
  • What's This?
  • 3:00
  • 24 (2)
  • Kidnap the Sandy Claws
  • 5:09
  • 25 (2)
  • This Is Halloween (Demo Version)
  • 3:36
  • 26 (2)
  • Making Christmas (Demo Version)
  • 5:34
  • 27 (2)
  • Oogie Boogie's Song (Demo Version)
  • 3:15
  • 28 (2)
  • This Is Halloween (Demo Version)
  • 2:51
  • 29 (2)
  • Kidnap the Sandy Claws (Demo Version)
  • 3:19

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