During the production of Tim Burton’s first film, execs at Warner Bros. began to consider their options for the soundtrack. Wanting to “keep it in the family,” and perhaps inspired by a certain color-palette affinity, they turned to Prince, who was then signed to Warner. (“We started seeing dailies, and it so happened that the Joker character was dressed in purple,” the then-head of Warner Bros. Music . “The cars were purple. It started to point to Prince.”) The resulting record doubled as Prince’s proper 11th studio LP, spawning an unlikely Number One single in “Batdance,” a bizarre film trailer in song form that wove audio clips from the movie into a sprawling, episodic electro-funk track. Meanwhile, “Partyman,” an upbeat theme song of sorts for Jack Nicholson’s Joker, went on to crack the Top 20. Other songs like midtempo groover “Vicki Waiting” and “The Arms of Orion,” a melodramatic Sheena Easton duet, seemed to have very little to do with the Caped Crusader, but somehow the strange pairing worked and the album topped the Billboard 200 for six weeks in the summer of 1989., The best movie soundtracks: the Beatles, Prince, 'Almost Famous,' and more, The best movie soundtracks of all time also curate amazing songs that pair perfectly with a film's tone, themes, setting, time period and plot..