Michael Giacchino's THE BATMAN (2022)

[mstrox 5,860]

I blame the Joker

[Luke Skywalker 1,505]

And those are True CDs or CDRs?

[May the Force be with You 2,031]

49 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

And those are True CDs or CDRs?

CDRs as written in the title of the main page

[Jay 31,998]

58 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

And those are True CDs or CDRs?

 

What, at the Intrada site?  It says CDR on the page

 

"THE BATMAN (CDR) (2 DISCS)"

[Luke Skywalker 1,505]

D'oh i skimmed through the information text without reading the heading/name of the item.

[Max 140]

There's a new interview with Mick Giacchino where he talks about The Batman (among other things). In a nutshell, Mick wrote the Batmobile chase because Michael was busy with Spider-Man, and "Highway to the Anger Zone" on the soundtrack is a combination of two cues. The first cue (0:00-1:34) was written by Michael and is called "If Batmobile Street Could Talk", and the second cue (1:35-5:20) is "Highway to the Anger Zone" and was written by Mick.

 

I'll post the video below, but here's a transcript of Mick talking about the process (I cleaned it up a little):

 

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I had the insane opportunity to score the Batmobile chase. In the past when my dad has asked me to write something for additional cues, it's generally a source cue or like a smaller scene that's maybe 30 seconds or so, and so this was kind of a surprise. They were initially planning on not having any music during the car chase. The music was going to start when the Penguin takes off and says, “Kenzie, get the money” and [the music] was going to end right when Catwoman pulls her visor down. Then it cuts to the shot of the Batmobile on the highway driving and there was going to be nothing -- it was going to be all sound effects.

 

So they had the review of the full film -- their second music review -- and after that my dad and Matt realized, “We need music here.” At that time my dad was recording Spider-Man and Batman back to back. Generally it would take maybe four days to record a full movie with everyone in the same room and all the musicians, but because of COVID restrictions everyone had to be separated into different studios, so it dragged out the process to two weeks for each film. There was literally a month-long period where it was recording Spider-Man and there were two days off -- maybe even one day off -- and then the Batman sessions started in that last week, so there was essentially a month of sessions. That last review had happened right before Spider-Man was starting and my dad didn't really have the time to write [the Batmobile chase] and so he was like, “Hey, do you want to do the Batmobile chase?” And I was like, “You're kidding, right?” Yeah, so no pressure at all.

 

I got the scene and he gave me an overview of like, “All right, Matt really doesn't want any fanfares in this” or “He doesn't want it to feel heroic; this should feel scary. It should feel like Batman's hunting and chasing down the Penguin.” So I did the first pass beforehand and I tried to fit some of the themes in there because I get excited about, like, “Oh my god, I’ll put this fanfare or this kind of heroic moment in there”. And my dad was like, “All right, let's take all that stuff out because this needs to be more scary and more threatening.” So that kind of led to some weird string trills and interjections that were kind of fun.

 

…

 

[Talking about “Highway to the Anger Zone” on the soundtrack] That’s a combination of two cues. The first cue is right when the Batmobile takes off and that was my dad's. That was called -- talk about good name for cue titles, this was a Paul Apelgren one -- “If Batmobile Street Could Talk”. And then the chase was a separate cue. Again, the cut between [the cues] is when Catwoman pulls her visor down and then there's a trumpet rip up and there's a brief second of silence and then it goes into the big statement of the theme and that's when my cue starts.

 

This part starts at 24:24 of the interview:

[Jay 31,998]

Wow!  I never would have suspected that!  Pretty impressive that his cue is one of the highlight tracks that made everyone's short list when they first heard the album.

 

Does the physical CD version's booklet indicate Mick contributed to that track?  Mine still hasn't arrived

[Knight of Ren 514]

That's crazy! It's probably my favorite statement of the Batman theme along with the one in A Bat in the Rafters Pt. 2, and to know it was done by Mick makes me feel he is just not there because of his father, but that he also has quite some talent.

 

I mean, he is imitating his father's scoring style, but there is so much potential in there if he can write a cue with so much energy and excitement, like this one.

[Edmilson 4,925]

Jon Broxton called this track one of the most musically impressive of the score in his review:

 

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The subsequent “Highway to the Anger Zone,” which underscores the phenomenal Batman-Penguin car chase sequence, is brilliant, full of dense and complicated orchestrations, pulsating rhythmic ideas, and some of the score’s most rousing flashes of the Batman motif. Some of the phrasing of the brass in this cue especially appears to be an homage to Elliot Goldenthal’s work on Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, as well as the more flamboyant parts of scores like Interview with the Vampire – it’s just remarkable.

 

[Jay 31,998]

It's also interesting to read how a score that previously took 4 days to record with the LA musicians now took 2 weeks.  I wonder how this affected The Fabelmans score

[Luke Skywalker 1,505]

If joseph williams had followed the steps of his father…

[Romão 2,157]

Truth be told, it is much, much easier to follow the footsteps of Giacchino than John Williams

[Jay 31,998]

After Extinct I was very much looking forward to Mick's next score, now I'm hoping its something where he gets to write action material!

[Jay 31,998]

Does anybody know if there is a retailer one can order a copy of the pressed CD version or am I SOL?

[blondheim 1,031]

So I noticed that the track order changed for The Riddler and Catwoman to Catwoman and then The Riddler. I much prefer it the first way. The flow between the suites is stronger, I think. What does everyone else think?

 

For a while I listened to the suites entirely by themselves before diving into the score proper. They make a nice four part listening experience. I’ve noticed the physical edition is the way I don’t prefer it and that is the only reason I haven’t scoured for a copy

[Edmilson 4,925]

Giacchino's Batman score was nominated for Best Score at this year's Grammys:

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Batman – Michael Giacchino
Encanto – Germaine Franco
No Time to Die – Hans Zimmer
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
Succession: Season 3 – Nicholas Britell

 

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/11/15/65th-grammy-awards-nominations-announced/

[Jay 31,998]

It's one of my favorite scores of the year 

[Richard Penna 2,631]

One of the better scores of the year.

 

No Time To Die otoh.... not so much.

[May the Force be with You 2,031]

Glad for The Batman but yeah No Time to Die is a shame espacially since Don't Worry Darling isn't nominated

[Jay 31,998]

I was just going through my CD shelf and realized that i never actually bought this album physically.

 

Is there a working link for the pressed CD version out there, or am I stuck getting the CDR version at this point?

[fommes 133]

I didn't get it either yet, quite a high price to pay for a CD-R. I don't think there's ever been a guaranteed pressed version?

[Jay 31,998]

I don't remember and am too lazy to scroll backwards right now to look

[crocodile 7,060]

The only pressed version that I know of came via this Japanese label Rambling Records. It was available on the Japanese Amazon but disappeared very quickly. I managed to snatch a copy right when it came out.

 

These are my pictures of the CD set:

 

On 15/03/2022 at 5:40 PM, crocodile said:

My Japanese CD arrived today from Tokyo. Looks like a normal CD release to me:

 

 

 

Karol

[Jay 31,998]

Yea, I forget now why I didn't order it from Amazon JP too. I think I was waiting for something else I wanted to come out so I'd bundle them together, but then the Batman went unavailable before that happened. 

 

D'oh! 

[Jay 31,998]

Anything here that isn't on the OST album? 

 

https://www.wbawards.com/film/?film=thebatman

[DangerMotif 656]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

Anything here that isn't on the OST album? 

 

https://www.wbawards.com/film/?film=thebatman

No,and there is some stuff missing in the OST, weird that the Batmobile scene is in here when he didn’t do most of that track

I got an email with the Wakanda Forever one, it’s also the OST

They are running him though as expected 

[Jay 31,998]

So even in the FYC Mayoral Ducting is like the OST track where there first 40 seconds are from the film's opening cue and then the rest is the cue that goes after the Halloween and Vengeance cues?

[MedigoScan 277]

And dont forget that those 40 seconds arent even the full opening cue.

[Richard Penna 2,631]

They should reserve that microediting crap for a listening oriented single disc OST. We need more double-release scores.

[Jay 31,998]

Such a shame, the FYC could have been a nice opportunity to give us the full version of that cue and a clean opening to the other one

[Richard Penna 2,631]

I guess that rule about FYCs having to contain film takes/cues is no longer there then...

[Jay 31,998]

Or whoever runs the WB FYC site doesn't know/understand the rules?

[Richard Penna 2,631]

In which case there's no point in the rule if basically no one is following it 

[HunterTech 738]

WB was always bad about actually putting up an FYC that reflected the movie, as they nearly just use the OST every single time. It's part of why The Lego Movie, Tenet, and WW84 stood out, as those seem to be the only instances where anything was different/new (plus Tenet having the benefit of them accidentally putting up the full score, and even the final FYC is a bit different from the OST).

[DangerMotif 656]

Credit to WB though, they are the only studio to send out Blu-ray's instead of DVD’s for FYC

[enderdrag64 373]

1 hour ago, HunterTech said:

WB was always bad about actually putting up an FYC that reflected the movie, as they nearly just use the OST every single time. It's part of why The Lego Movie, Tenet, and WW84 stood out, as those seem to be the only instances where anything was different/new (plus Tenet having the benefit of them accidentally putting up the full score, and even the final FYC is a bit different from the OST).

Don't forget DUNE

1 hour ago, Gibster said:

Credit to WB though, they are the only studio to send out Blu-ray's instead of DVD’s for FYC

Do you know if there were any otherwise streaming exclusives that got FYC Blu-rays?

[HunterTech 738]

I already had forgotten WW84 when I was originally writing (and I own the frickin CD for it!). I guess Dune felt a bit less significant as someone who isn't the biggest fan.

[DangerMotif 656]

1 hour ago, enderdrag64 said:

Do you know if there were any otherwise streaming exclusives that got FYC Blu-rays?

What do you mean?

[enderdrag64 373]

Just now, Gibster said:

What do you mean?

like an HBO Max exclusive that had no commercial Blu-ray but got one as an FYC

[DangerMotif 656]

13 minutes ago, enderdrag64 said:

like an HBO Max exclusive that had no commercial Blu-ray but got one as an FYC

Not yet, the only WB ones i’ve seen is The Batman and Elvis

[Jay 31,998]

It looks like me forgetting to import a foreign physical CD edition has paid off!  

 

Mondo is releasing a 2-CD version tomorrow!

 

https://mondoshop.com/blogs/news/the-batman-by-michael-giacchino-vinyl-restock-cd-release-on-sale-info

[Luke Skywalker 1,505]

Did they announce the price tag?

[Jay 31,998]

I linked to the only page with any information available

 

The page does not mention a price.  It only mentions that the 3xLP edition will be $50

 

If it helps, their 2-CD edition of Bear McCreary's LOTR:TROP score is $25

[crocodile 7,060]

Awesome. I've already got a CD version of this but might get it if it has some cool artwork.

 

Karol

[Jay 31,998]

Maybe they will use the Mondo LP artwork?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[crocodile 7,060]

It could be. Whatever artwork they use, I am delighted that others can add this to their collection. It's a very fine work by Giacchino.

 

Karol

[Jay 31,998]

I agree with karol krocodile

[Jay 31,998]

Order page is live

 

https://mondoshop.com/products/the-batman-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-2xcd

 

 

 

 

 

[Luke Skywalker 1,505]

20$ is very good, has anyone from europe order from them?

[Jay 31,998]

Ordered!