Vinyl Record

Prince - Batman Motion Picture Soundtrack

Prince - Batman Motion Picture Soundtrack on LP vinyl. A 1989 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1989

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1989 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Batman Motion Picture Soundtrack is Prince's 1989 album-length collision with Tim Burton's Batman, released at a moment when blockbuster cinema, pop albums and corporate synergy were learning how loudly they could amplify one another. It is also stranger than a simple tie-in. Prince did not just donate a theme song; he built a full record around the film's characters, dialogue fragments and dualities, turning Gotham into another Prince theatre of masks, lust, power and cartoon danger. Batdance became the obvious pop-cultural explosion, but the album's personality is spread across The Future, Electric Chair, Partyman, Vicki Waiting, Trust and Scandalous, where funk programming, guitar sparks, ballad seduction and sample-like film references keep changing shape. Released between Lovesexy and Graffiti Bridge, the record occupies a peculiar but revealing place in his catalogue: commercial recovery, soundtrack assignment and private oddity all at once. In 1989, it put Prince back at number one while proving he could make a franchise object sound unmistakably like himself.

Batman matters because it shows Prince bending a blockbuster commission into a personal album. Its success with Batdance and its six-week run at the top of the U.S. album chart made it a major 1989 pop event, but the deeper interest is hearing him turn superhero myth into funk theatre.

For collectors, Batman is not a side note to skip between Lovesexy and Graffiti Bridge. It is the strange commercial hinge where Prince's late-1980s studio language meets mass-market cinema, yielding a record that is glossy, eccentric, character-driven and inseparable from the cultural scale of the Burton film.

Late-1980s Prince funk-pop with soundtrack dialogue, programmed drums, sharp guitar, comic-book drama, seductive balladry, dance-floor edits and a bright synthetic Gotham atmosphere.

Recommended for: Prince collectors completing the Warner Bros. album run; Soundtrack fans interested in artist-led film albums; Listeners who enjoy Prince's late-1980s studio eccentricity; Shelves focused on pop records tied to major cinema moments.

When was Prince's Batman album released? Batman was released in June 1989 as Prince's soundtrack album for Tim Burton's Batman film. What was the big hit from Batman? Batdance was the lead pop phenomenon from the album and became a number-one single in the United States. Is Batman a normal Prince studio album or a soundtrack? It is both: a soundtrack project tied to the film, but constructed as a full Prince album with his own funk-pop, ballad and character-driven ideas.