Other critics were more generous ; Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal called it " another great and bizarre, twangy album of alternative-singer-songwriting stories about cars and horrible relationships ", while a reviewer in the New Straits Times noted its " smart, subtly dissident, and always catchy pop ".

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

In a 2010 interview, Goszka cited similiar musical influences ( Elfman, Carpenter, King Diamond, and Sabbath ) as well as Dead Can Dance.

In 2000, Bodhi and Jenna Elfman bought a home in the Hollywood Hills from Madonna, for USD4 million.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

Fellow composers Richard Band, Graeme Revell, Christopher Young, Danny Elfman and Brian Tyler consider Herrmann to be a major inspiration.

Douglas cites film composers Danny Elfman, James Horner, John Carpenter, Hans Zimmer, heavy metal acts King Diamond and Black Sabbath, radio dramas, and horror film scores as primary musical influences for Midnight Syndicate.

Ed Wood is notable for being one of the two films directed by Tim Burton that did not feature a score by Danny Elfman.

But on this soundtrack they did these songs with Danny Elfman, another famous film scorer.

Elfman and Burton created a rough storyline and two-thirds of the film's songs, while Selick and his team of animators began production in July 1991 in San Francisco, California with a crew of over 120 workers, utilizing 20 sound stages for filming .. Joe Ranft worked as a storyboard artist, while Paul Berry was hired as an animation supervisor.

Elfman left the scene in the film by editing in Matthew Bright's lips over the actor's face.

The game also includes the theme song from The Simpsons by Danny Elfman.

Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.

Elfman cites Scissorhands as epitomizing his most personal and favorite work.

Forbidden Zone was made as an attempt to capture the essence of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo's live performances on film, and also as a means for both Richard Elfman to retire from music to work on film projects, and to serve as a transition between Oingo Boingo's former cabaret style and a New Wave-based style.

In animation work, Valderrama voiced Rodrigo in Clifford's Really Big Movie, playing alongside John Ritter, Wayne Brady and Jenna Elfman.

Perhaps because of the group receiving their equipment in Area 52, Pepé's scene was cut, and in the final film, he plays only a bit part, dressed like a police officer, who tries to help DJ ( played by Brendan Fraser ) after Kate ( played by Jenna Elfman ) is kidnapped.

Elfman also guest-starred in his wife's television show Dharma & Greg, playing a performance artist who asks Dharma to be a part of his living display gallery.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

The Elfmans ' grandfather, Herman Bernstein, also appeared in the film, and Richard Elfman's accountant appeared under the name " Hyman Diamond " because Elfman had no idea whether or not he wanted to be credited.

Some of the film's sequences and characters led to director Richard Elfman being accused of racism ( because of its satirically surreal use of blackface ), and even anti-Semitism.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

But as the project grew to 35mm and the storyline evolved, Richard Elfman found himself re-shooting many of the original scenes to fit the new film.

Danny Elfman, who composed the score for Darkman, wrote the " March of the Dead " theme for Army of Darkness.

Danny Elfman composed his first score for the film and played the role of Satan.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.

Owing to creative squabbles during the making of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman declined to score Ed Wood, and the assignment went to Howard Shore.

Elfman has said he first became interested in film music upon seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still, and he paid homage to that score in his music for Mars Attacks!

The attraction will feature a " trackless " ride system and a musical score by Danny Elfman.

Danny Elfman composed the main theme, and John Debney composed the score for the film.

The film is also the fourth feature collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman.

The music for the show was provided by a diverse set of musicians, including Mark Mothersbaugh, The Residents, Todd Rundgren, Danny Elfman ( who provided the score for both of the Pee-wee movies ), Mitchell Froom, Van Dyke Parks, George Clinton and Dweezil Zappa with Scott Thunes ( spelled ' Tunis ' in the credits ).

Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided the singing voice of Jack, as well as other minor characters.

** Dick Tracy – Danny Elfman – For the original score

Forbidden Zone was the first film scored by Danny Elfman, who would eventually score, among other films, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

A 2 and half hour acrobatic journey through the world of cinema featuring an original score by Danny Elfman.

The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman.

The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman.

This is also notable as the first ( and until Restless in 2011 only ) unreleased Danny Elfman film score.

Author Kurt Vonnegut, has a cameo as himself, as does the band Oingo Boingo, whose frontman Danny Elfman composed the score for the film.

The film's score was composed by Danny Elfman, with the album released by MCA Records.

Elfman said of his score, " Again old-fashioned and melodramatic, but in a way that I'm crazy about.

Elfman then wrote a full score and recorded it in May 2006.