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Greetings! ScoreKeeper here with yet another post regarding the insanely popular score to THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard.

Next week, on December 9th, Warner Brothers Records will be releasing a two-disc, special edition complete score album from THE DARK KNIGHT [available HERE]. Even amongst my relative apathy for this particular score, I do find this news to be extremely welcome and substantial.

As an ardent film score aficionado and student of the craft, I love my soundtracks complete or at the very least, nearly complete. I want all of it. Every cue. Every note. Everything. It’s not a practice that is commonplace especially among new releases, so when a mainstream label like Warner Brothers Records decides to release one of their best selling scores as a complete special edition, I wholeheartedly welcome the decision and will do my part to support it.

Here is the track listing for the complete two-disc set sporting an additional fifty minutes of unreleased music and also includes an 8x8 forty page hardbound book:

Disc One
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. A 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. A Dark Knight

Disc Two
1. Bank Robbery (Prologue)
2. Buyer Beware
3. Halfway To Hong Kong
4. Decent Men In An Indecent Time
5. You're Gonna Love Me
6. Chance
7. You Complete Me
8. The Ferries
9. We Are Tonight's Entertainment
10. A Watchful Guardian
11. Why So Serious?(The Crystal Method Remix)
12. Poor Choice Of Words(Paul van Dyk Remix)
13. Gunpowder And Gasoline(Remix by Mel Wesson)
14. Rory's First Kiss(Remix by Ryeland Allison)

I would truly love to see more labels release score editions like this which are as complete as possible. Thank you Warner Brothers Records for this one. I’ll definitely be picking it up.

ScoreKeeper!!!