The End Is The Begining Is The End Is The Begining Is... The End?

The Music of Batman ends with a bang tonite, as we look at the music of one of worst film of the last ten years (yes, there are worse than this…!) 1997’s Batman & Robin [* out of *****].

Originally, I was going to post a little something-something about how filmmakers like Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher forget or just ignore the main aspects of characters and/or their original reference material, but I realized it was going to be too long to write in a short time, and it’s been crazy researching all of this info. One day, promise.


Batman & Robin was the final film of the four-feature Batman franchise for Warner Bros., for obvious reasons. The Batman & Robin Soundtrack was actually a modest hit, mainly thanks to Jewel’s contribution track Foolish Games. My favorite songs include R.E.M.’s Revolution and Lazy Eye by the Goo Goo Dolls.

The first big Alternative singles from the Soundtrack were the now infamous Smashing Pumpkins songs; The End Is the Beginning Is the End, followed by The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning, which was just a slower, more mellow version of the former. The songs are infamous for not going anywhere. The tunes, like the film were a bust, and to make matters worse (for the fans, anyways) Warner Bros. owns the masters to the tracks, not the Pumpkins’ label Virgin. That means the band can’t use it for compilations and the lot.

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