Nightmare Revisited

  This Christmas I bought a CD according to the season (or maybe not :-P ), I got the Nightmare Revisited. It is a remake of the original A Nightmare before Christmas' Soundtrack, the main difference in this remake is that the songs are performed by other artists than Danny Elfman, in this disc you can hear themes played by Marilyn Manson, DeVotchka, The All-American Rejects and more (you can read the complete track list at the end of this post).

  The new way to perform the classic songs from the original Nightmare is very good, but I was waiting for a better performance of certain songs, basically it don't deserves a 5 stars classification because lack of inventive (my point of view) from certain bands. Many tracks are instrumental (for example Ooogie Boogie's song) where originally there were characters saying their dialogues. The songs that I don't like are: Ooogie Boogie's song, Nabbed, Christmas eve montage, to the rescue (it sounds like a song from a SNES videogame like a midi format). On the other hand songs like This is halloween, Jack's lament, What's this?, town Meeting song, Jack's obsession, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, Making Christmas, Sally's song and Poor Jack sound incredible.

This disc is a Must-Have to every fan of Burton and/or Nightmare before Christmas, it really sounds very good and it's a new way to hear classic songs, yeah!

Additionally there are certain songs performed by another artists that are not included in this album, like "Sally's song" performed by London After Midnight (one of my top 50 favorite songs), if you know about another song from this awesome Nightmare performed by any one else just let me know.

The following is the track list of this album:

1. "Overture" (DeVotchKa) – 2:36
2. "Opening" (Danny Elfman) – 1:00
3. "This Is Halloween" (Marilyn Manson) – 3:22
4. "Jack's Lament" (The All-American Rejects) – 3:15
5. "Doctor Finkelstein/In The Forest" (Amiina) – 3:17
6. "What's This?" (Flyleaf) – 3:20
7. "Town Meeting Song" (The Polyphonic Spree) – 8:55
8. "Jack and Sally Montage" (The Vitamin String Quartet) – 5:44
9. "Jack's Obsession" (Sparklehorse) – 5:32
10. "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" (Korn) – 3:37
11. "Making Christmas" (Rise Against) – 3:27
12. "Nabbed" (Yoshida Brothers) – 7:34
13. "Oogie Boogie's Song" (Rodrigo y Gabriela) – 2:48
14. "Sally's Song" (Amy Lee) – 3:02
15. "Christmas Eve Montage" (RJD2) – 3:46
16. "Poor Jack" (Plain White T's) – 2:34
17. "To the Rescue" (Datarock) – 3:34
18. "Finale/Reprise" (Shiny Toy Guns) – 3:06
19. "Closing" (Danny Elfman) – 1:24
20. "End Title" (The Album Leaf) – 3:46

Bonus tracks

21. "Oogie Boogie's Song" (Tiger Army) (iTunes Store bonus track) – 3:02
22. "Sally's Song" (Scott Murphy) (Japanese bonus track) –

Have a happy New Year.

Diegue


(The image was taken from Amazon)