Beautiful piece Nancy, thank you.

Oh, that was hysterical!  Thanks so much, cousin!  I pretty much figured I'd love Depp's performance regardless, but I know I'll be getting a kick out of Ms. Green, as well!

Aw, darn it all.  After getting all excited yesterday that Johnny has a track on the soundtrack, a friend pointed out to me that Sony's Austrian site indicates that his track is only 18 seconds long 

http://www.sonymusic.at/Various/Dark-Shadows/P/2662530

Oh well.  Long enough to be a guitar riff, I suppose.  Or it might even just be a little spoken word snippet.  We'll see!

I just noticed this morning that the link I gave above no longer works, but rather redirects to the Sony Austria's home page.  Maybe it's just that they are editing it or adding information, but I sure hope they didn't decide not to release a soundtrack!    Or I wonder if it could possibly be delayed.  It's so strange that Amazon doesn't yet show it, but if it is coming out on May 8, it is awfully late to be putting it up for preorder.  We'll see...

Oh my, I am so saddened to hear this news this morning.  I will always have such wonderful memories of running home from school every day to see him. 

Aw, darn it all.  After getting all excited yesterday that Johnny has a track on the soundtrack, a friend pointed out to me that Sony's Austrian site indicates that his track is only 18 seconds long 

http://www.sonymusic.at/Various/Dark-Shadows/P/2662530

Oh well.  Long enough to be a guitar riff, I suppose.  Or it might even just be a little spoken word snippet.  We'll see!

Soundtrack announced...

Slightly disappointed that some of those trailer songs appear...  I was under the impression they would not be in the film.  Maybe they won't be?  I don't know how soundtracks work nowadays... 

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2012/04/16/dark-shadows-soundtrack-announced/

There's some decent songs in the mix though.

Thanks so much for the link, Cousin!  I've been waiting to hear news about this and was starting to wonder if it was a misprint that there would actually be a score *and* a soundtrack.  I'm glad there's a soundtrack.  I guess I've gotten used to the idea of the trailer songs appearing in the film.  While some of them are not my favorites, it seemed to me that both Top of the World and No More Mr. Nice Guy are integral to the story and would thus pretty much have to be there.  I'm most thrilled about Nights in White Satin and the Iggy Pop song- Iggy is a very old friend of Johnny's, btw- too bad he's not in the movie but a poster of his made it into Carolyn's bedroom!

I'm also very intrigued by the last track:
11. The Joker – Johnny Depp

As someone who is always interested in Johnny's musical pursuits (I run a website devoted to his music), I've been quite exhausted over the last couple of weeks, trying to keep up with several live performances, news of a couple of album appearances, and a music video, and now there is this tantalizing little tidbit to ponder.  I wonder if they mean the Steve Miller song?  If so, I'm guessing it'll be an instrumental- as great as Johnny was singing in Sweeney Todd, he tends to shy away from singing otherwise!  Can't wait to learn more about this!

I do think they could've put a few more than 11 tracks on the CD, though.  I guess they didn't have enough music to fill it, which is probably why the Elfman tracks were added.  (Too bad they couldn't have added a couple of Cobert's tracks, though!)

(Edited to add after seeing KMR's post- yes, I agree that it's quite possible that only snippets of these songs will actually be in the film- that is pretty common in soundtracks- to have just clips of songs in the movie and then the complete song on the soundtrack.  We'll see, I guess!)

Reviewers are usually embargoed from giving reviews until a certain agreed-upon date, usually around the time of the film premiere.  Sometimes the embargoes get broken, and I'm not sure what the penalties are for that.  Sometimes, I imagine the studio would refuse to let the ones who broke them attend future advance screenings.  But sometimes, a major site breaking the embargo (especially if it's a positive review) creates so much MORE buzz for a film that I start to think it's kinda sorta accidentally on purpose publicity    In this case, ain't it cool probably skirts it a little by trying to pass it off as more of a description than a formal review (and it doesn't hurt that it's very positive- I know that I myself am thrilled by what I read!)  But they probably don't want to start doing this TOO early!

I saw on the JD Zone that the actual press event for DS will take place May 5-6, and the premiere is at Grauman's on the 7th. 

Yep, that's what it looks like!  Interesting that my postcard was signed with one of those silver poster markers, instead of a red one.  Mine was #1468 of 2500.  I hope yours ships soon, MB!