>
>well i just had one of those deals where you find out several seemingly
>unrelated things turn out to connected, and you go, "hey, cool!".
>
>I'm sure most of you all know who danny elfman is, right? the composer
>for all of tim burton's soundtracks, the simpsons, and basically 2 out
>of every 5 hollywood releases.
>
>DID YOU KNOW: He's ALSO the lead singer of Boingo Oingo, the band that
>sings "Weird Science"? that's right! same guy! He has a whole second
>career, not just a hobby, a completely seperate legit job as a
>rock'n'roll dude. for some reason I had this picture in my head for as
>long as I've known the name "Danny Elfman" of this 60-ish skinny guy
>with a long beard.
>
This makes me feel a bit old since I approached this from the
other direction having known of Elfman from Oingo Boingo in the '80s and
being rather surprised when he moved into doing classical soundtracks.
I still find it kind of remarkable that he went from a poppish style
rock band (I still enjoy "Dead Man's Party") to writing classical soundtracks.
Pretty cool.
Danny Elfman's classical soundtrack from the first Batman movie
is definitely one of the classics, up there with John Williams stuff IMHO.
I still listen to it often.
Steve
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