Best Single From A Batman Soundtrack

batdance

I always liked the Batman Forever soundtrack, mostly for those Method Man and Offspring songs (this is secretly my favorite single by them I think - even if it is a cover) but also was way into the SDRE and Flaming Lips songs that ended the album back in the day.

kiss from a rose, fuiud

the 90s were truly the decade of gratuitous crosspromotion, huh

That Method Man track is awsums

kiss from a rose, fuiud

this can only be kiss from a rose. it would be tougher if gotham city remix was included instead of the original. (honorable mention to the riddler.)

there are more from Batman & Robin iirc

take it up with wikipedia

this is a surprisngly good list of songs

"Moaner" was a great moment-of-unexpected-awesome-ruffness-from-a-soundtrack IMO.

all horrible bullshit

wait-- i don't know the Method Man track. Maybe it's good.

kiss from a rose duh

I love Seal and Prince is one of my favorite artists.

Voted "Moaner"

batman forever and batman & robin soundtracks were big to me when i was young

going w/ bone thugs

batman forever soundtrack poll
Batman & Robin Soundtrack Poll

I love the Prince soundtrack, but couldn't really vote for anything else than "Kiss from a Rose". Such a classy, timeless ballad, especially considering that before it Seal was (at least to me) known only as a house music vocalist. (Not that I dislike his house tunes, quite the contrary.)

the riddlaaaaaaa

Anyway, if you like Prince's "The Future", it's well worth tracking down the maxi single, which has remixes of "The Future" and "Electric Chair" by Mark Moore & William Orbit - they're both even better than the original versions.

it's THE RIDDLAAAAAAAAA

worst song on any soundtrack ever is probably "foolish games"

Would've voted for "Electric Chair" if it was a single, but gonna have to go w/ Seal.

"Electric Chair" is the B side of the "The Future" single, though it doesn't have the album versions at all, just the remixes.

kiss from a rose duh

― max, Friday, January 7, 2011 6:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nb i haven't actually heard 4 of those prince songs :o

That's a Damned cover, right?

"Once again it's the mind bender, three-time felony offender
Demented, brain cemented, mixed in the blender"

I like that U2 song! Also, I like that Alanis Morissette song from the Wings of Desire remake from the same era. Both were major irritants at that point, and it confounded me. Puffy's "Kashmir", not so much.

Love the Pumpkins track, so voting for it.

The U2 track is pretty much the only thing they've ever done that doesn't make me want to jump up and down on the stereo until it's smashed up into tiny little bits.

fuiud kiss from a rose otm

U2 second best

Gonna make like a canadian and pick seal.

Seal is my vote, glad other people are repping for it! One of those incredibly schmaltzy songs that manages to transcend the cheese and become quite epic and moving.

This has reminded me that Hold Me Thrill Me etc is one of the few U2 songs I quite like.

tbh the main reason I voted "Moaner" is because it's the only song on this list I've played with any regularity in the past 5 years, and I probably listen to it once every other month

torn between batdance for maximum batness and seal for getting stuck in my head on the regular

apparently the song is going to get a lot of play on this season of the bachelor

"rose," i mean, not "batdance"

The arrangement for "Kiss From a Rose" is really beautiful; so are the chord changes.

"Kiss From a Rose" just ahead of "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me". Both of those are brilliant pop songs.

"Batdance" easily wins the prize for the worst.

Am I mismembering it as being "like I feel love", like that "King of Snake" was?

Moaner.

It wasn't entirely dissimilar and had a similar feel but was much harder. Also, King of Snake actually *was* the I Feel Love bassline and Moaner wasn't.

Batdance was such a bizarre song. I can't believe it was a hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FgZRW27vXU

This is "Moaner"; I was looking for the actual video from "Batman and Robin" but it seems to have vanished off of Youtube.

That's a Damned cover, right?

Yup.

Anyway, if you like Prince's "The Future", it's well worth tracking down the maxi single, which has remixes of "The Future" and "Electric Chair" by Mark Moore & William Orbit - they're both even better than the original versions.

For everyone's consideration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzzsD8wUrBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzkejLcHPU

I feel like we should try to dream up best case and/or worst case scenarios for if Nolan hadn't been too uptight for his Batman movies to have pop soundtracks

Oh, to dream of what Kanye would rhyme with "Ra's Al Ghul"

TRY TO BATTLE MY BATS???
THAT'S NOT LEGAL!!

This is Kanye we're talking about, he probably would have tried to rhyme it with "Louis Vuitton"

i like the u2 song too, but i find it difficult to separate my feelings regarding that song from my lingering affection for weird al's dentist-themed parody.

Hmmm, what dentist-related verb could rhyme with 'thrill'?

Drill

Partyman

Shill

to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino.

Mill

1. To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.
2. To transform or process mechanically in a mill.
3. To shape, polish, dress, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool.
4.
a. To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).
b. To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).
5. To agitate or stir until foamy.
6. Western U.S. To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.

lol at the moaner vid upthread. Somehow the colors rhythms suggest a sense of 3D.

The "Batman" soundtrack is the only pre-mid-90s Prince album that I don't own. Don't feel any need to either.....

voted 'the future' , bet played the fuck out of 'scandalous' so it always reminds me of autumn 1989 whenever i hear it (last time i heard it: spring 1990), except for 'arms of orion' that whole album's alot of fun if tossed off, maybe it's prince's tattoo you. still weird that he actually recorded 'batdance' (after they rejected '200 balloons' right?), it was released as a single, and it was a huge huge hit, absolutely everywhere that summer along w/ 'on our own'. would love to see todd edwards do something w/ 'the future'. batman forever was a really really good soundtrack, loaded damn near front to back. 'kiss from a rose' will walk away with this and it's the best thing up there by a few miles but i always remember it coming out as the second single from that seal album (was nuts about the first single, 'prayer for the dying', miss that kind of early 90s positive lite r&b-ac), was disappointed when it didn't do nearly as well as i thought it should, very happy to see it become a huge hit on the back of val kilmer and jim carrey.

all that is OTM re: Prince and Seal

not regretting voting "Moaner" for a second

ok does anyone here no the seal catalog really well cuz i'm wondering if i just get a seal greatest hits am i gonna be missing anything obv, is there some seal deep cut i need to hear, etc? also apparently he covers 'lips like sugar' on that greatest hits - !!! ?

lol I would buy it just for that because although I haven't heard it, my life is absolutely incomplete without having Seal's take on "Lips Like Sugar"

I only really know his first album, which is back to front amazing and a required purchase for everyone

it. is. awful. there are fake synth steel drums i think? my dog is barking angrily at the computer right now. and now she's looking at me and barking angrily at me. mikey dread is on this btw. this was ill conceived.

lolol

fuckin love kiss from a rose tho, there are very few polls i wouldn't vote for it on

especially fun if you don't know the lyrics that well and just fill in with "rose"

Now that your rose is a rose,
The rose that I rose, rose-a-rose...

ROSE-AY!!!
I compare you to a rose from a rose on the rose!

ah it was from that 50 first dates soundtrack that i'm pretty sure had that fucking 311 reggae version of the cure's 'lovesong'. apparently mark mcgrath also does a (presumably reggae) version of the psychedelic furs' 'the ghost in you' on it also. somebody poll that thing.

Just for Dan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIypaxJ5VCk

what

what is happening to me

I wonder if this is what Sam Neill's character in "Event Horizon" felt like after he stared into hell

That song needs moaning off pitch singing

My favorite Seal song is "The Beginning." Think Trevor Horn does house.

I'm the only one voting for "Face to Face" then? I pretty much bought the Batman Returns ost on the strength of it.

Voted "Partyman" because when i was 8 this was my first music purchase ever and i would play that track over and over again!

"Kiss From a Rose" gets alot of ironic love these days. I've seen a couple indie bands cover it in the past few years.

"ironic"

voted Batdance, probably should have voted Moaner

have always found Kiss From A Rose, and every other note recorded by Seal that wasn't Killer, unbearable

^^^signs you might be a Cylon

The songs by Seal, Smashing Pumpkins & U2 are my favorites by those artists.

The Smashing Pumpkins one slays! It also does a fantastic job of bridging the gap between their Mellon Collie and Adore albums. And the b-sides are all different takes (including an instrumental/ambient version) on the original.

'The future' by a million miles. Still play it out pretty regularly

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This is a hard one because I grew up listening to the tracks from Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. I voted Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me because it's my favorite off of either soundtrack. Batdance, Kiss From A Rose, The Riddler and Foolish Games are awesome as well. It really upset me when I bought Jewel's Pieces of You and the radio edit of Foolish Games wasn't present, or at least it wasn't until it was added as a hidden track on later copies.

Now I'm tempted to dig up whatever Space Jam Soundtrack thread there is.

I'm sorry but batdance is so gd ridiculous that I can't not vote for it.

WHO IS DUCKY?

"Face to Face"

....cripes, am I the only voter for that? Shame on you all.

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love that, while it's a landslide, only four of these songs didn't get votes

The 13 that did would make a good Batmix

Ha, "Lazy Eye" was probably my favorite Goo Goo Dolls song, too. It's pretty rocking for a Goo Goo Dolls song.

It deserved a vote, "Foolish Games" did not.

cleaned my room many a time to the original prince batman ost

For reference:
Classic or Dud: Prince's Batman "Soundtrack" Album

bat dance wuz robbed

http://2tha9s.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/prince-batdance-2.gif