'Batman' 1989 Soundtrack by Prince !

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

The Prince soundtrack is cheesy as hell, but I'll listen to it whenever I need a good laugh.

I think that people may feel the same way. It holds up as a nostalgic kind of thing, but nothing more than that.

(Haha, now I'm thinking about that scene from Shaun of the Dead. )

Ya when they throw the Batman vinyl at the zombie girl in the garden, thats priceless.

 

[terminalpicture]

It sounded dated and horrible to me then, and I can't imagine Burton was a huge fan of it either. Nicholson looked like a complete fool dancing to it.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

^
And you look like a complete fool talking about it!

 

[UltimateJustin]

^
And you look like a complete fool talking about it!

haha.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Their cool in the context of the movie but I wouldn't be caught dead buying this, the Bat-dance video was awesome leading up to the movie.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I listen to it at least once a week. The only song I don't really care for is "Arms Of Orion".

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Yep--love it. I espicially enjoy "Partyman" and "Scandalous."

 

[Chris Wallace]

Okay-do you like any songs that weren't in the movie?
Sorry-I didn't know there was already a thread.

 

[Bat Attack]

Ha ha, I picked this up on vinyl at a flea market last month for .99 cents.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Wow. I don't have anything still on vinyl.

 

[Bat Attack]

I collect records, but I transfer them into my computer, then to my ipod so I don't have to use them.

 

[Chris Wallace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLlQpc8D2Kc

 

[raleagh]

What the hell does "Ducky, I'm gonna put the 7" in the computer" mean?

Probably an innuendo, but I was watching a retro computer conference video recently and there were a couple of references to "ducky", but I couldn't understand the context of it.

Perhaps it was a computer term from the 1980's.

 

[PyroChamber]

I always thought he said "Hey Jackie".

 

[I Am The Knight]

"OUH
OUHHH
WAAAAH"

 

[The Shredder]

I always thought he said "Hey Jackie".

Yeah, same here.

I personally loved the Prince 1989 Batman soundtrack as a kid. The Future, Electric Chair, Partyman, Vicki Waiting, Trust, Batdance ... ahh great memories.

 

[CFE]

It's "Jackie" ... not "Ducky."

CFE

 

[K.B.]

Its a sex innuendo. Prince always throws them into his songs

 

[Chris Wallace]

It's "Jackie" ... not "Ducky."

CFE

The album cover says "Duckie".

 

[Chris Wallace]

I'm used to confusing lyrics from Prince.

 

[Lone Nut]

Anyone have any mp3's?

 

[Bathead]

Review and critique the soundtrack all you want... But my question was,

For you personally... Does it still hold up today?

No. Mainly because the Prince music was the one thing about that movie I found extremely annoying. Sorry, but I think Prince is highly overrated.
IMO, of course.

 

[Bubastis]

It dates the film like crazy and doesn't fit the spirit of Batman whatsoever.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I like the album, I enjoy listening to it, but I get what you mean by it not really fitting the spirit of Batman. The song that probably comes closest is "Vicki Waiting". But in all fairness, it's not like Prince is a die-hard comic fan. He clearly demonstrates his (at best) limited knowledge of what Batman's about through "Batdance". Again, the song is fun to listen to, the video's cool, but it has no substance. Random samples of dialogue, references to other songs on the album & a choir singing "Batman" in a manner that's rather remniscent of the TV show. It's a song about nothing. I think Warner went with him to cash in on his popularity. Plus the fact that they already had him under contract.
And the film is already dated by the 1940s-esque cars, clothes & set designs. The Joker's goons carried TOmmy guns, for God's sake!

 

[theMan-Bat]

I've always loved Prince's Batman soundtrack and it still holds up, especially since '80s music and '80s style is back in vogue again today. The fashion trend cycle always returns to stuff that was once considered cool in one decade (the '80s), then became considered tacky by the trendy crowd in the next decade (the '90s), and then is considered cool again in the following decade.

My favorites on Prince's Batman soundtrack are The Future, Electric Chair, Vicki Waiting and Batdance. I love the surreal Batdance video, too.

And my favorites on Danny Elfman's Batman soundtrack are Childhood Remembered, Descent Into Mystery, Photos/Beautiful Dreamer and The Joker's Poem.