Danny Elfman

This sweet soundtrack for the Tim Burton film mixes oldies and classic rock with delightful scoring by Danny Elfman. Most of the album consists of Elfman's twinkling music, which Burton knows matches his imaginative, quirky films perfectly. (Elfman's scored many a Burton film.) Pearl Jam's "Man of the Hour" is the album's only original song, and it's a fragile work of art.

Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman's typically old-fashioned symphonic score fills much
of director Tim Burton's latest soundtrack, and Elvis Presley, the Allman Brothers and
others make bouncy musical cameos. But the star is the film's end-titles' closer, Pearl Jam's
"Man of the Hour," which captures the darkness of Big Fish's central Oedipal conflict.