The Dimensioner
12-24-2011, 11:59 PM
Complete score or recording sessions? I'm not sure what to call this one.
Like my last (as-yet unfulfilled) request, I am aware of what music already exists out there for this release. The original soundtrack was released along with the movie a long time ago, and they have re-released it several times since then without adding anything. And then there's the crappy demos that sound like they were recorded through computer speakers, and then we got an upgrade, and there's a release that has various artists covering all the songs from the movie.
...At long last, we finally got an expanded set of music for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with the release of the Burton/Elfman Music Box earlier this year. While it helped to fill in a lot of the score that was missing, it is still incomplete. Most noticeably is the fact that "Doctor Finklestein/In the Forest" is composed of two cues, and there is music that plays between them that still has not been released. Other things missing are the short cue at the end of "What's This?", the film version of "Sally's Lament/Wandering Jack", and the film version of "Poor Jack" (the inflections in his voice differ in several places compared to the OST version). One more minor complaint is that the "Christmas Eve Montage" is still incomplete despite being gloriously expanded. A ten-second insert is missing early on in the track.
I don't know if anything bigger than what we already have really does exist, but I've been told that the score isn't that hard to find (if only I knew the right elitists, of course! Hrmph!). I do have a few leads, though. This page appears to just be an analysis of the full score: http://elfman.cinemusic.net/complete_nmbc.html....if it was still around. It has been deleted since last I looked. I've also seen a score cover for a promotional score, but that could just be from a blog that makes up covers for stuff whether it exists or not. My biggest lead comes from here: Thread 77256. There is something on the website that thread links to labeled as "The Nightmare Before Christmas (The Complete Score)" but all links on that website are dead and nobody can/will help me in the main thread.
Sorry if this got too wordy, but help of any kind will be greatly appreciated.
Like my last (as-yet unfulfilled) request, I am aware of what music already exists out there for this release. The original soundtrack was released along with the movie a long time ago, and they have re-released it several times since then without adding anything. And then there's the crappy demos that sound like they were recorded through computer speakers, and then we got an upgrade, and there's a release that has various artists covering all the songs from the movie.
...At long last, we finally got an expanded set of music for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with the release of the Burton/Elfman Music Box earlier this year. While it helped to fill in a lot of the score that was missing, it is still incomplete. Most noticeably is the fact that "Doctor Finklestein/In the Forest" is composed of two cues, and there is music that plays between them that still has not been released. Other things missing are the short cue at the end of "What's This?", the film version of "Sally's Lament/Wandering Jack", and the film version of "Poor Jack" (the inflections in his voice differ in several places compared to the OST version). One more minor complaint is that the "Christmas Eve Montage" is still incomplete despite being gloriously expanded. A ten-second insert is missing early on in the track.
I don't know if anything bigger than what we already have really does exist, but I've been told that the score isn't that hard to find (if only I knew the right elitists, of course! Hrmph!). I do have a few leads, though. This page appears to just be an analysis of the full score: http://elfman.cinemusic.net/complete_nmbc.html....if it was still around. It has been deleted since last I looked. I've also seen a score cover for a promotional score, but that could just be from a blog that makes up covers for stuff whether it exists or not. My biggest lead comes from here: Thread 77256. There is something on the website that thread links to labeled as "The Nightmare Before Christmas (The Complete Score)" but all links on that website are dead and nobody can/will help me in the main thread.
Sorry if this got too wordy, but help of any kind will be greatly appreciated.
