Awesome moments from Elfman's scores for Batman (1989) and Batman Returns can be found here, his work on Spider-Man Trilogy can be found here, his work for Avengers: Age of Ultron can be found here, and his work for Justice League (2017) can be found here.
- Whenever Elfman gets together with Tim Burton, you can expect awesome music.
- The score to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. "Breakfast Machine"
at the beginning is a quirky piece of music that perfectly sets up the comedic tone of the rest of the movie. - "The naughty children suck" songs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all pretty good, but the first ("Augustus Gloop") and the last ("Mike Teevee") kick ridiculous amounts of ass. (Both "Teevee" and "Making Christmas" have touches of Deathly Dies Irae about them too.)
- Alice's Theme from Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) is absolutely breathtaking.
- Elfman gets piles of awesome points for both composing "This is Halloween", from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and for providing Jack Skellington's singing voice. He also wrote two absolutely killer Villain Songs: "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" and "Oogie Boogie's Song". It's just as much his movie as it is Tim Burton's.
- "The Grand Finale" from Edward Scissorhands may be the most gloriously bittersweet of his compositions.
- The score to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. "Breakfast Machine"
- Then there's his work on Sam Raimi's films. The first track he composed for Raimi, "March of the Dead" from Army of Darkness.
- Wanted has him singing rock once again, with the awesome "The Little Things".
- His theme for the Men in Black trilogy is also awesome, with a great ostinato.
- The Kingdom: Finale. So much that it was used in the highway scene from Rango.
- Mission: Impossible: The hard-charging music that plays over that first approaching shot to the bullet train.
- Standard Operating Procedure: For a serious documentary examining the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, we get "Main Titles - Vacation in Iraq", an appropriately haunting song which helps set the mood.
- The '90s live-action Flash TV series came and went... really quickly... but Danny Elfman's theme tune is still some of the best superhero music ever composed for any medium. As are the episode scores (and that of the pilot) by the late great Shirley Walker.
- His theme song for The Simpsons. Not only is it one of the most epic sitcom openers ever and massively catchy, it's gone on to become one of the most famous television themes of all time.
- "Happy," a characteristically Creepy Awesome pop/rock song, the first he's released since 1984, which dropped with absolutely no anticipation two days before Halloween 2020, complete with an equally awesome music video. He's Still Got It. Followed by another song in early 2021, "Sorry," with animation reminiscient of Cyriak.
