Danny Elfman – Batman (Original Motion Picture Score)

Can anyone comment on the quality of this pressing? Thanks in advance!

Can someone please put some normal picture and not that artistic bs! Thanks

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No issues with my LP. The purple side sounds just like the black side.

Was this reissued again with an OBI strip and a barcode sticker calling it "Batman Vs. Joker Vinyl"?

While Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is my favourite take on the Batman universe hands down, Tim Burton's "Batman" has always been acknowledged as one of the best (the best by many people, actually!) movies based on the caped crusader's saga, and a classic reference for any cinematographic attempt to depict Gotham and its protector.

With an unlikely Batman/ Bruce Wayne portrayed by a surprisingly convincing Michael Keaton that, through his acting, managed to embody all the required physical presence and power of the tragic hero in his rather petite body structure, and a completely unleashed Jack Nicholson perfectly embodying that insane and twisted psychopath named Joker, "Batman" succeeded in portraying both the dark and the comic book essences behind the characters and settings.

This was also achieved in Danny Elfman's score.

Elfman has always understood Burton's particular universe and style (not in vain, their professional relationship is one of Hollywood's longest and most fruitful ones, Spielberg and Williams' aside, of course), and gave the "Batman" soundtrack the required dark tone, without forgetting that he was scoring a movie based on a comic book character, succeeding in fusing both sides of the story all across his score, but mainly in its dark, yet bold and compelling, undoubtedly heroic main theme that, despite of the brilliant scores by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard for Nolan's trilogy, remains as one the most iconic and recognized main themes of all history of superhero movies, and the one I'm still start spontaneously humming while read any of my Batman comics.

All in all, a piece of history of Hollywood's long tradition of brilliant scores.

I have just received my vinyl copy today, 17 March 2023 and whilst it’s a decent pressing, quieter ages reveal excessive surface noise. It’s very noticeable on side A and ruins the listening experience. Will have to give it a clean with reference cleaning material to hopefully eliminate said noise.

Very clean dynamic and detailed pressing.
Sound is astonishing.
No inner groove distortion.

My copy was spotless, same as the comment below, perfect sound, the packaging was a bit of a let down tho, the front cover is a capture from the film so it is not a very sharp image, the vinyl came in an standard paper sleeve (that I will definitely replace) and there is an insert as well, but it is just an image with propaganda for other film scores available, for the price this is selling at retailers, which is above 30 euros, I was expecting maybe a dedicated insert or maybe a gatefold with some artwork that could do justice to this marvel of a soundtrack. Oh well, the music is what's important here and, as I said before, my copy is perfect in such sense. I would recommend this regardless of my minor complain.