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Sep 21, 2006 - 7:44 PM
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ahem
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This is BEAUTIFUL music, some of my favourite Elfman and up there as the most inventive score music of the 80s.
FAIRLIGHT sample heavy, FACE LIKE A FROG is VERY much influenced by The Art of Noise's first album WHO'S AFRAID OF THE ART OF NOISE (which seemed to have more of an impact on Elfman the composer than it did on Boingo)- Elfman is indebted and plays tribute to AON programmer JJ Jeczalik and ideas man Trevor Horn with the "BeatBox" style busy sampling. If only the ART OF NOISE had sounded this good in the mid-late 80s, and not the fake big band cover nightmare Anne Dudley turned it into (PETER GUNN, DRAGNET, Prince's KISS all mutilated).
FACE LIKE A FROG can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthLXGKMjbw
The film itself is just a tiresome, apparently homemade YELLOW SUBMARINE wannabe, and to be honest it's NOTHING without Elfman's A+ calibre score. Infact, even though the score is the only reason to watch the film, it sounds so much better on CD played independently from the images. Really intelligent electronic music.
You HAVE to check this out if you haven't heard it- Elfman very much revisited this ART OF NOISE inspired keyboard sampling with his recent CHARLIE songs- I think Elfman is damn underrated with the electronics (just as he is with songriting and production).
A gem, a treat! 
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Sep 21, 2006 - 8:12 PM
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Thor
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Indeed, and I'm happy that someone finally put that film out on the net. The youtube clip isn't the best, but it's LEAGUES better than the crummy VHS copy I've had for years.
This animated "acid trip" film was directed by Sally Cruishank, a close friend of Elfman at the time (1987, in case we didn't mention that). Of course, the composer was not alien to weird, abstract imagery - as exemplified by FORBIDDEN ZONE (you really should check that out, ahem!) and the Mystic Knights performances. Everything you hear is composed in his own basement. My favourite part is probably the flamenco-inspired bit at around 1:30, with those blasting brass samples with echo effect! Plus the Cab Calloway'ish "Don't Go in the Basement" song by the Mystic Knights, of course. Cool stuff.
A very brief suite was released on the first MUSIC FOR A DARKENED THEATRE compilation, but there's some extra worthwhile music here.
Thanks for directing attention towards this overlooked Elfman score, ahem!
NP: "A Saucerful of Secrets" (Pink Floyd)
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meh...
But, yeah, it IS wonderful music by Elfman.
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