Oh shyt, I was just listening to the B side (Hits) disc and just realized that 200 Ballons and Batdance sound like the same track. Give it a listen I kid you not..or maybe I'm just a little slow @ picking this up? Has anyone else noticed this? Holla back!

Yeah, I think 200 Balloons was the prototype for Batdance...or vice versa.

The 3rd segment of Batdance sounds near identical to 'Balloons.

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[This message was edited Tue Mar 2 12:56:23 2004 by r1ghteousone]

200 Balloons came first. Batdance uses it's drum loop for the beginning and end sections.

200 Balloons kicks Batdance's ass

It has so much energy. it just rocks the house !

why can't he write a FUN kickass song like that again ?

not this reflection and what do u want me 2 crap rubbish ...

Ask Bruce Wayne

Wasn't 200 balloons originally intended for the "Trust" sequence in the film?

Would have been better IMO.

as the b-side to "Batdance", it is well-known that "200 Balloons" sounds like the same chit.

goat2004 said:

200 balloons was the b-side to batdance. In the movie, the joker used giant inflatable parade balloons filled with a poisonous gas, and batman swoops down and collects them all up (I don't think there were 200 of them though!) hence the line, "Who can stop 200 balloons? Nobody!"

Clearly they must have outlined the plot to Prince before the movie was finished. I read somewhere he presented them with 200 balloons, but they didn't like it, so he went off and it turned into batdance instead.

TheFrog said:

Yup, 200 Balloons was originally intended for that sequence, but for whatever reasons it was
rejected. Prince then wrote Trust to replace it in the movie.

On a side note. When the movie was being filmed (before Prince had written any music for it,
and probably before he'd even been approached) they used 2 existing Prince songs on set.
The 'Partyman' sequence was filmed using the track '1999', and the 'Trust' sequence was filmed
using the track 'Baby I'm A Star'. That is why '1999' and 'Partyman' have the same tempo and
very similar song structures. The same goes for 'Baby I'm A Star', '200 Balloons' and 'Trust'.

goat2004 said:

"200 Balloons" and "Rave To the Joy Fantastic"(NOT un2) were both rejected by Tim Burton-Prince used their elements in Batdance.

In other news, rain is wet and sugar is sweet,

BorisFishpaw said:

thanks borisfishpaw.

i'm a sucker for this type of info.

can you pull some more of those batman-related stories out of your hat.

i'd sure want to hear them.

or is there a way i can fill myself in on those stories (in other words: what are your sources?).

thanks in advance.