Danny Elfman 'Big Mess' Noise11.com 2021
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2021
- When he first heard of Danny Elfman he was fronting US rock band Oingo Boingo. Australia liked Oingo Boingo. ‘Weird Science’ was a top 40 hit, so was ‘Stay’.
The ‘Weird Science’ soundtrack got Danny involved with Hollywood. His career took a turn when he started working on movies. There was ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ in 1986. Not long after Danny was working on ‘Beetlejuice’, then ‘Batman’, ‘Dick Tracy’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’. Up to now he has done over 110 soundtracks.
And then there is The Simpsons Theme, probably his best know work. He talks about that in this interview … as well as ‘Big Mess’, his first solo album in 37 years. In fact it has been 25 years since his last Oingo Boingo album.
Danny Elfman caught up with Noise11’s Paul Cashmere.
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Elfman's speaking voice is absolutely incredible
Danny, I appreciate your humility but I don't think you understand how enormous your fan base is. You've always been relevant to the point that it scares people, which I've always appreciated. Thank you, from all of us out here!
He’s the kind of guy who can look like the sweetest friendliest person but can turn himself into a full fledged ghoul for music videos and visuals and it’s so cool
Imagine him thinking his new album isn't going to be popular ... That it isn't going to sell .... This is one of the most amazing albums I've heard is decades .... This is ground breaking material, and people love it, Danny .... Count on it ... Can't wait to see the Coachella show ....
When is the Coachella show ?
@Guy Smith, I completely agree. I've not heard anything like "Big Mess" for way too long.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the band "Sparks" at all? If not, or even if you are I definitely suggest giving the album "Hello Young Lovers" a listen. Not as dark as what Danny Elfman is doing right now, but a really nice album in the aspect of things that you don't hear anymore, or never really have.
Wonder if he'll do more albums like this.
Hope he will do more albums after big mess, so far the singles are amazing
Have you checked Undo K From Hot?
I want him to do his own video for Weird Science since he didn’t get any creative say in the first one.
From Forbidden Zone to the present, Elfman (and Boingo) has just been inspirational. Glad that the new album pulls no punches.
This album is gonna be insane, I can’t wait!!
Mr. Elfmen making albums again is truly a blessing, And far better then garbage that's out there now. welcome back Sir.
He is the modern Mozart!!...... Genius!...... Greatest artist of all time..... 🎃🎻💀
Well, I'm a new fan Danny - your art is total fucking godhead!! Insanely creative!
great word for it. i hear the godhead in his music too
He has over 50 years of incredibly creative music to discover
Danny, heard one song and bought the vinyl immediately! Bravo!
This album is responsible for making me excited about music again ..ITS SO INCREDIBLE !!! Deep insanity ,different,,refreshing . No one else is doing this stuff. Great job Mr. Ellfman
My fave artists are always the ones 're-inventing'/discovering/trying something 'different' because they already did a thing once... Beck, David Bowie, even Madonna... Eclectic personalities like to 'sample a bit of everything' at the artistic smorgasbord. That 'jaw-dropping'/WTF reaction is how you know you've struck oil, re: originality.
So if it's awesome and otherwise artistically interesting/enriching, it attains longevity and becomes 'iconic.'
You always impress and move us, but i'm excited to have my jaw knocked to the floor by whatever comes next, Maestro Elfman. And there are LOTS of us down for that adventure :)
danny elfman... my number one, of all time. I'm me because of you danny. thanks.
a true artist
You gotta Love this man!!!!
I’m so excited about this album!!!!
Best album I have heard in a decade or so.
@17:00 "I can't say who I'm collaborating with."
My mind, reeling through my wishlist rolodex of people I'd love to hear work with Elfman... It's almost too big to imagine; i can't even narrow it down to 'categories' or genres.
This will be a pleasurable agony until I actually hear names--thank you for that :)
I didn't see Trent Reznor as being one of the artists he was collaborating with, that's for sure. But so damn glad that they did!
I just have to say, I think he would be the perfect Joker.
Only if he wrote the script. He says he’s a shitty actor but his acting is all right in all the stuff I’ve seen where he’s written the script for it. And he’s written screenplays for movies that never got made (look up “Little Demons” and “The World of Jimmy Callicut”, he got as far as recording the demos before the projects got cancelled for lack of funding I guess)
No need for makeup.
He'd be an amazing voice actor
Legend.
Paul this is such a great interview! It is so awesome to see Danny get this creative spark back and have watched it unfold over social media the last year. Just hearing his enthusiasm talking about this new record is so refreshing and exciting! Also, with as passionate and intense as he can come across he also seems so incredibly humble. How rad we get to partake of his creative brain.
The songs released are so good!!!! I can’t stop listening. I ordered the vinyl last week! Thanks for this excellent interview. It answered a bunch of questions I had. I loved hearing about the visual aspect of the videos - such a great and skewed aesthetic. 👌
I just bought BIG MESS ,,,,,wow wow!!! Blown away .
I'm working thru it now.
So different from his other work. It's like discovery him all over again
Great album! I love how wild it is. Great job Danny!
The album is fantastic!!
I have to say BRAVO MAESTRO DANNY and THANK YOU 8~)
Being able to once again actually hear the thoughts that are thrashing around in his brains compiled with his music mastery is just magnificent !
Absolutely. Hearing his voice again is a dream come true.
I too really liked the artwork of vinyl albums 👍😎.
DANNY ELFMANS GOTTA COME TO DARK MOFO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOSE MY MIND
Pretty damn dark. This interview explains some of the darkness. True sounds exactly the way I would have imagined an Elfman Reznor colab would sound. If my imagination was good enough to imagine that in the first place.
danny elfman haveing a bad hair day lol
I’m very happy that Danny is fine with people not liking Big Mess. It is difficult music and in my personal opinion just short of a masterpiece. Perhaps people are so accustomed to all the garbage out there these days that really different, creative music is off putting. I don’t really know. But I hope that he keeps creating it. I did not know him from the Oingo Boingo days. I first heard his music while workin on nightmare before Christmas and thought the score was magical. I love all his film scores.
i hope he makes more albums after this
yes
Completely agree about missing the 12 inch vinyl experience. Loved the anticipation waiting to see what was inside the cover...whether there'd be lyrics or not (and being a little disappointed if there wasn't).
Master
At 2:48, it sounds like he said Star-rie. LOL!
Absolutely genius album. I hate to say, " at his age...." so I won't.
genius
Go there too
I believe the reference should have been Rip Van Winkle. 😜
JUST TAKE MY MONEY
Huge boingo fan, but I can't handle all the distortion on big mess, kills me.
Big Mess is a massive departure from Oingo Boingo.
But his decades of film scores were too. Apparently he's a fan of many musical styles, metal included. This is just a extremely talented and creative artist changing over time.
Are the interviewer's vocal chords made of metal or something? Every time he speaks, there's this metallic high end that matches what he says.
Chandler has really let himself go. Could he GET anymore fluffy? Good job interviewing Danny, though!
Why would he say that So-Lo is his first solo album, when it is the fourth album by Oingo Boingo? He had to call it So-Lo by Danny Elfman due to the legal transition from the contract from A&M Records to MCA Records.
That's not really true. MCA signed Danny solo because Boingo was on hiatus and they apparently werent interested in signing the band. Danny still got most the band to play on the album and wanted to continue Oingo Boingo, so he persuaded MCA afterwards to change the contract. By that time he had regrouped the band with the new bass and keyboard players. It doesnt matter if it's considered a Danny Elfman or an Oingo Boingo album really
@@OingoBoingoTapes LOL! I don't believe that. To me it will be a fourth Oingo Boingo album. I believe in what i said and what i found out. In fact on Wikipedia, So-Lo is listed as the fourth album by Oingo Boingo, so there!
@@chadergeist you do know that wikipedia is not really a trustworthy site right? People can edit in all kinds of stuff on that site. Plus Oingo Boingo Tapes knows more OB history that wikipedia does.
@@Amy.B You have to have proof of the facts when posting on Wiki or the staff will remove it.
Swoon
Dead or Alive!?
I freaking hated the tiny artwork of CDs
I loved his music in the 80's and 90's,now it's been years than his music is just ordinary run of things and i just stopped buying his cd,i have seen his last video clip and am wondering about his mental health.
It could be that you that require very pedestrian art and don't like music that has political commentary. Don't worry you're not alone, most folks just want to escape and be entertained and not reminded of the scary reality around us. We just lived thru and survived(Barely) trump!
@@jeremyserwer2586 good luck living through and surviving Biden, funny how so many people are regretting having voted for him, lol. It's not that the guy above likes pedestrian music, it's just that he's able to pick up on the rather obvious undertones that you apparently aren't. It's ok, most people prefer to go through life totally blind and oblivious to the real world that exists behind the fake one. Boy, I'll bet you have no idea how these songs Danny's putting out have severe religious aspects, are sort of confessional in nature, and rather prophetic. I'm sure you're completely ignorant to the serpent motifs used for the music video for sorry, what the meaning behind that imagery is, or where in the world you would find those same motifs repeated, or how Danny knows anything about it, or why he knows. I'll bet you didn't ever go into and ponder the lyrics of songs like Nasty Habits, or It Only Makes Me Laugh(another confessional piece for Danny), or I'm so bad. I'll bet all those years ago, when Danny showed up for that interview on that french tv show with a black eye, you didn't see what that was really about. Lol, kinda funny you should be calling anyone else pedestrian. But hey, go back to sleep and don't even worry about it.
@@jauger99 Haha. Please keep going around patting yourself on the back and don't ever stop. The guy above I responded too, was worried about Danny's mental Health because of the Video's he saw--artists are not bankers or sports stars. They live in many cases very odd ball existences and it's not some affect--they truly see the world differently.
I'm just referring to what He's stating above in the interview about barely escaping fascism and the rise of Fascism worldwide. Arrogance is something many americans suffer from and especially those on the right, I see you have a very severe version of it. I and most americans voted to oust trump and not for Biden. We don't want to live in a Fascist dictatorship. You must be one of the folks who think Qanon is how your eyes are so open to the fake world behind the real world, right? If so, you better get ready for trump to return to office by August. The best way to prepare is by sending a very large "One Time Donation" to trumps end democracy PAC STAT!
@@jeremyserwer2586 Biden is sadly doing little to correct Trump’s fascism. Trump unleashed the vaccine from Hell on us right before Biden got elected, having dumped so much money into it that it became Too Big to Fail and now it’s past the point of saying sorry and correcting their mistakes and releasing a vaccine such as Novavax or Corbevax that’s safe, effective and doesn’t prey on us with experimental technology. I swear this is what “Native Intelligence” is about. He probably wrote it before the vaccine came out, when all the liberals were still scared of the Trump vaccine (Trump took advantage of their worship of science; all he had to do was be presented as being at odds with Fauci and have the news downplay his role in enabling Big Pharma)
"ordinary run of things"? After shutting down Oingo Boingo he dedicated himself to writing movie and TV scores.
Extremely creative scores that set him apart from virtually every one in that field.
If you've ever seen a Tim Burton movie youve heard Danny Elfman. Either upbeat and quirky or dark and brooding, he can pull it off
Rip Van Winkle, not Rumplestiltskin.
It's a good thing I've been such a huge fan of his work and Bingo because him dropping the 'Trumpism' made me roll my eyes in cringe. Dude didn't need to go there
You have to understand he is walking on eggshells here, scared to death of getting cancelled by some random narc he was friends with five or ten or twenty or thirty years ago. He has commented more recently that he thinks the far left is also dangerous and he reads conservative literature as well just to stay broadly informed. What bothered him was that Trumpism even purged reasonable conservatives and intellectuals from the GOP.
That's how I felt when I heard him say that. A little bit of a bummer.
"Old white men", Danny? Ah, yes, the hippest phrase that's all the rage these days. Yeah, because any other race in power wouldn't fuck things up.
White people seem to hate their race more than other people and for that reason they devalue humanity in general and consider their own people, and all people, disposable for the sake of capitalism.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 You mean like black-on-black crime? But that's just for sneakers, so...
@@ashwitmoro Yeah that’s just for sneakers. But they’re forced into that situation by capitalism. The capitalists want blacks and whites to fight each other instead of teaming up to fight the capitalists who by the way own so much that everybody else collectively owns NOTHING in comparison. It’s getting dangerous. Jeff Bezos could literally do another Holocaust if he wants and who would have the power to stop him?
he didn't say anything about other races not being capable of bad things, but in america the majority of people in power ARE old white guys, a ton being racist or bigoted; what is he supposed to say?
@@kida5004 Well he did say that they were sucking HIS old white blood so they sound like equal opportunity bloodsuckers to me...
lost his marbles
if you think that you really haven't been paying attention to anything hes done or said for the past 40 years
Go back to early Oingo Boingo. Or even Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo before that.
He's always been out there creatively. Was in his 20's and now in his late 60's.
Music and style changed over the years, but that creativity is the same
When i heard Happy i heard a bitter jaded old man that is creative having a crack. Dark. Might as well tho
I feel like "What You See" is very topical. It sounds like it could have been written about Antifa (and the video for True reminds me of statues being torn down and smashed by Antifa). Also Perfect System, and Controller, and Grey Matter, and Nothing to Fear, and No Spill Blood, and Just Another Day, and New Generation, and When The Lights Go Out, and Insanity, and War Again...
Haha, yeah maybe you should stick to the White Power punk and metal stuff. You can goose step and Heil trump all day long. We will be enjoying all the good music and art on the left! Antifa is Anti Fascist, I'm totally anti fascist are you pro fascist?
@@jeremyserwer2586 I’m afraid white power and Trump support is more Antifa’s style than mine. He was using you guys as his useful idiots in much the same way Hitler did. And the attitude that being against “antifascism” is pro-fascism is literally one of Umberto Eco’s 14 points of Ur-Fascism.
Did you listen to Danny’s interview with Marc Maron? HE DOES NOT LIKE MOBS.
“Patrolling the streets with all of their friends
Bashing you around trying to make you like them
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET”
But you’ll probably think he’s racist after hearing him talk about Idi Amin, that dictator in Uganda, because only white people can be fascist right?
And wait until you hear all the racist songs he wrote in the 80s like “Only A Lad” and “Perfect System” and “Reptiles and Samurai” and “Cool City” and let’s not forget that racist movie he did with his brother. Or all those lily-white movies he scored for Tim Burton whom he still to this day hasn’t denounced as a racist.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 Your reply is hugely confusing. White power and trump support is more Antifa? So Antifa supports trump and White Power?
Trump met all the criteria for a fascist dictator. www.bremertonschools.org/cms/lib/WA01001541/Centricity/Domain/222/Fourteen%20Defining%20Characteristics%20of%20Fascism%20slides.pdf
The mob that went into the capitol for trumps big lie on Jan 6th is definitely still a mob.
The left is of many different mind sets. Many of us are not pro biden but if you're on the right your only choice is absolute adoration and submission to trump, PERIOD! That's a mob mindset. Just wait, when trump gets on a roll again doing his insult comedy tour over the next few months. Violent politically charged crimes from the right will be on the uptick significantly. Danny Elfman doesn't pander too trump and his cultist base. He wants free thinkers not people who seek a big daddy figure to do all their thinking for them.
@@jeremyserwer2586 Even Danny doesn’t think that Trump is quite a fascist dictator. He is an idiot savant at causing chaos and inciting violence (I never even heard of Antifa until Trump came around; if I didn’t know better I would have thought they were Trump’s Brownshirts) and driving the mainstream media crazy and bringing out the worst in them. And he had some very dangerous people on his team, including the types of people that want the same kind of theocracy that Danny describes in “No Spill Blood” (a Noahide theocracy). But he just plain sucks at being a fascist. He had Reichstag fire moments handed to him on a silver platter and he failed to take full advantage of them. He could have invoked the Insurrection Act to stop the Antifa violence, like Bush did in 1992. He didn’t. Any competent fascist would have taken advantage of the pandemic to seize power. I’d say he’s maybe what you can call an anarcho-fascist in that he promotes the kind of anarchy that can lead to a fascist later coming to power.
And the riot of January 6th honestly made the Beer Hall Putsch look like Napoleon’s conquest of Europe. I’d blame that partly on mass censorship of a lot of the more reasonable right wingers but not Qanon for some reason which put them in a Qanon echo chamber, as well as the Facebook algorithm that reinforces echo chambers. Perhaps they thought they could get away with it after seeing all the riots being encouraged by the mainstream media. Nobody batted an eye when poor people had their homes and businesses burned down but now when a bunch of pampered ass Congress people are threatened everyone loses their minds? I don’t agree with their cause AT ALL but at least they identified the correct target. These are the people that Danny literally calls “Insects” in his newest video, can you blame the Qtards for wanting to stomp them even if for the wrong reasons?
I’m on the left myself but I think that antifascism is being promoted by the Woke CIA for sinister motives that I’m not sure about yet. Maybe they plan on installing A Black Hitler or something crazy like that. But I think that they want to serve fascism to America wrapped in a rainbow flag and carrying a cross with George Floyd nailed to it. I would have preferred Bernie Sanders but I voted Biden in the general election because I think he will put some calamine lotion on this Antifa herpes infection.
>muh materialism
I get the feeling he didn't like being in a band...and now he has written a double album full of angry songs about how much he hates Trump. We will see how well it plays in 37 years compared to So-Lo (which is actually still great).
He loved being in a band which he put together and stayed with for 17 years, only he didnt like being expected to do the same sorts of music year after year. He was a super prolific songwriter in the early years but when he had to stick to a sound for a long time he started to lose interest. He’s a very genuine artist and really great he’s found inspiration again with the new record
@@OingoBoingoTapes well said.
Who said it’s all about Trump? I’ll bet he attacks the Woke people as well (who themselves are a monster that Trump largely created)
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 danny elfman is woke king wdym
@@solara9551 Danny wrote songs attacking all sides in the 80s anyway. Pretty sure he wrote a song comparing the COVID vaccine to “taking a bath in cyanide” too but then again remember the approval of these shitty genetic vaccines (as opposed to a traditional vaccine like Novavax) is very much Trump’s fault.
I love Boingo, love Danny, but i didnt like the album, its bad.
Sorry!
When Elfman can't even do an interview without mentioning Trump or Congress, his soul is gone. I don't like Trump either, but I don't spend my existence hating about him. I won't even listen to this album now, knowing it's all full of hate.
I saw another interview he did a year later, he had a much different tone, like he felt free to criticize the left as well as the right. He said that the extreme of both sides wants to force their views on us if they get into power. He also reads articles from conservative intellectuals that he doesn’t necessarily agree with.
By the way the album has a song that compares the 💉 to “taking a bath in cyanide”
And a song about Antifa and their “mostly peaceful protests”
And the one song where he plays a voice clip of Trump, well, out of context you can’t even tell whether he supports him or not.
It sucks when a 67 year old musician disagrees with you.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131And maybe that's the point; Danny probably doesn't want anyone to know who he supports, or if he supports any of them.
@@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113 He does though. He's been open about it outside of his music. He's open to the point that it doesn't get him in trouble. I don't think he supports Zionism for instance but he's probably afraid to bring that up.