Track Listing

1. Why So Serious
2. I'm Not A Hero
3. Harvey Two Face
4. Aggressive Expansion
5. Always A Catch
6. Blood On My Hands
7. Little Push
8. Like A Dog Chasing Cars
9. I Am The Batman
10. And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad
11. Agent Of Chaos
12. Introduce A Little Anarchy
13. Watch The World Burn
14. Dark Knight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1325 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Running time: 74 minutes

Customer Reviews

Much better than expected
I bought this on a whim, just out of interest really, and didn't expect that I'd go back for repeated listens. On the one hand the score is quite predictably "Hollywood blockbuster"-ish with lots of big drums, urgent marcato strings and dark industrial synth sounds. But you get past that, and the vision of the score becomes clearer over repeated listens, and I began to find it a very satisfying piece of work, and as an album, feel that the narrative and coherence works really well: the album flows seamlessly. Recommended for children of darkness everywhere.

On a different note, some reviewers commented that the album leaves off some of the score - but the CD comes in at 73 minutes, so you can't really complain that you don't get your money's worth. Possibly a double CD album would have nailed it 100%, but then maybe the album wouldn't have been so coherent, and anyway, it means you've got an excuse to watch the film for those missing parts eh?

Missed titles and mixed ones
I totally agree with B.J.Lee. Some titles are missed (e.g. the piece after Gordon gives his "Dark Knight" monologue). Frankly, I bought the CD just for the last track in the film, but it wasn't there!
In addition, some other tracks are "blended together"!
Bottom line, the soundtrack on CD was worthless for me; I even didn't add it to my music library. However, the movie soundtrack is great, but they are NOT identical.

Disapointing
Whilst I really enjoyed the music that Zimmer and Howard produced for the film itself, I am a little disapointed that the album appears to be the "highlights" of the score, rather than a definitive reproduction of it. For example, you only get literally about 4-5 seconds of the opening scene (where the window is blown out and the robbers get onto the roof) (the tracks are blended together). The same goes for the scene where Batman is beating the drug dealers in the car park, but here it seems to be totally missing.

There are other bits missing, but I forget. I don't think that the piece where Gordon is giving his "Dark Knight" monologue is there either.

A great great score, but poorly represented on this CD.