Spider-Man 2 Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]

Danny Elfman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 2004)
• Original Release Date: June 30, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0002IO1D2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,006 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short and Sweet and now I know why, August 8, 2004

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A. Thurman (The United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spider-Man 2 Original Motion Picture Score (Audio CD)

I recently purchased a copy of the Spider-man 2 score. By the way, it was hard to find a copy in my city, but I eventually picked up one in Chicago. The CD is really nice with a lot of what I heard in the theater except a few cues that were used in some key moments of the film. Some of these cues are the unveiling of Doc Ock's machine (the one with all the choral sounds), Peter trying to deliver his pizzas on time, and all the cool cues we heard during the train fight/train stopping sequence. I knew this was the case before I bought the CD, but was still a little disappointed even after I bought it anyway. I'm not disappointed I bought the CD, just disappointed that I can't hear those cool music cues on my home speakers. I wondered what the reason for leaving such great song moments off the CD was and then I read a Film Music site and it explained that during post production, some of the movie was re-edited and that Danny Elfman was more than likely busy working on another project by then and they needed a few parts of the movie to be rescored. These parts that were rescored were done by John Debney and Christopher Young. That's the reason they call tracks 10 and 11 bonus tracks because they're the original score that Danny Elfman had planned on being used in the edit of the movie that he saw. They didn't put the new rescored tracks on the CD since Elfman wasn't responsible for those. Well, hopefully they'll put an isolated music track on the Spider-man 2 DVD when it comes out.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Replacement cues, January 1, 2005

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Elastic Planet (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spider-Man 2 Original Motion Picture Score (Audio CD)

This is a good Elfman score, but I wished they included the replacement cues written by Christopher Young, John Debney, and Joe LoDuca. Christopher Young wrote the train scene music for those of the other reviewers wondering why that track was not included on the CD. On the one hand, it's interesting to hear the original score and try to guess why Sam Raimi didn't like it. On the other, it would be nice to have the music that was actually used in the film. (note: Young, Debney, & LoDuca are not listed in the credits, but are in the crew list on the IMDB)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great score!!!, July 16, 2005

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Spider-man freak - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spider-Man 2 Original Motion Picture Score (Audio CD)

This score wasn't just beautiful music, it also puts you in the mood of superhero's. The beginning theme is probably the best. I was suprised to find that the next one after that,(2), is also very well done. Peter Parker's theme with Aunt May is also very nice. #9 and #10 are also very good themes and have alot of action music in them. The last theme, #14, is also one of the best on the cd. And of course, there's #15, Raindrops keep falling on my head, which is a true classic. All in all, I'll say that this cd is definately worth buying. My only complaint would be that it is too short. But trust me, buy this cd if your a true fan of Spider-man!! ;)