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More Dr Horrible

I got another request for a Dr Horrible song so here is Laundry Day / Freeze Ray from Act I:

For easy access, here are my previous three efforts:

Enjoy! (and go buy Dr Horrible on iTunes to hear the real thing)

PS If you're Jed Whedon, I'd love to talk to you more about your scoring.

UPDATE (2008-08-04): Here are backing versions (i.e. without vocal lines) of the other two songs above:

UPDATE (2008-08-05): Here's the Bad Horse phone call from Act II:

UPDATE (2008-08-06): Here's Brand New Day from Act II both with and without vocal lines

UPDATE (2008-08-06): RINGTONES! Now see Dr Horrible Ringtones

Comments (48)

Chris on Aug. 2, 2008:

Very cool stuff, thanks! Where's the .m4r for iTunes ringtones though? :)

Krissy on Aug. 2, 2008:

Is there anyway you can do the 'Bad Horse' ringtone that Dr Horrible has on his phone (in Act II)?

James Tauber on Aug. 2, 2008:

Chris, it never occurred to me people would want to use these as ringtones :-) I'll look into it.

Gigi J on Aug. 3, 2008:

Fabulous! You are a gem.

brosner on Aug. 3, 2008:

Hey jtauber,

I love it man. So glad you are taking time to do this. I love Dr. Horrible and the stuff you are making. Keep it up! :)

+1 to the ringtone idea!

The Lazy Canadian on Aug. 3, 2008:

Wow, that's awesome--it even works as karaoke! Try singing ze lyrics along with the song. It works. :D

Jimmy Rogers on Aug. 3, 2008:

I just set up a Digg page for this so, let's try and get it out there!

http://digg.com/movies/Dr_Horrible_Soundtrack_On_Synth_Free

Wandel on Aug. 3, 2008:

Do you take requests? If so, Brand New Day is my favorite song from Dr Horrible :)

Moses on Aug. 3, 2008:

Hey James,

I'm doing unofficial transcriptions of Dr. Horrible songs in sheet music form-- I've done Perfect Day and Bad Horse so far. Perhaps we can work together?

Also for the people who are looking for a Bad Horse Ringtone, I've put up a short MP3 at http://moses.leifam.com/

I tried to replicate the cell phone sound but I'm not sure how successful I was, anyway, give it a whirl.

Moses

Moses on Aug. 3, 2008:

Sorry, I meant "Perfect Story" above (getting my song titles mixed up). If you got a broken link before it's fixed now.

Erin on Aug. 4, 2008:

I thought you'd be pleased to know that you got some props from the makers of Dr. Horrible on their twitter page! Here's the quote: "We're working on our own ringtones but till then here's this http://tinyurl.com/57tth3. No rest for the WICKED"

Xupa on Aug. 4, 2008:

Couldn't agree more... Bad Horse Ringtone!!!

Xupa on Aug. 4, 2008:

Just saw the other one that was posted at http://moses.leifam.com/audio/bad_horse_ringtone_v3.mp3

Since most phones support polyphonic these days, that's a bit tinny for me... I'd love a Tauber approach that sounds more like the tone on the show... (no offense)

Moses on Aug. 4, 2008:

Xupa: That's what I thought too, so I made an orchestra version. It's linked at http://moses.leifam.com/

AvalonXQ on Aug. 4, 2008:

Extremely well-done! Thank you! These are wonderful to sing along with.
Any chance you'll do "Brand New Day" at some point?

Jannis Leidel on Aug. 5, 2008:

Hey James, that is just awesome! Thanks for creating and sharing those audio files.

+1 Brand New Day

Thien-Kim on Aug. 6, 2008:

Thanks for adding Brand New Day!

jennyvier on Aug. 6, 2008:

These are AWESOME! Great job!

I'm especially in love with the "bad horse" one that starts with doc horrible's ringtone he has set for bad horse. I think if anyone could re-create the entire ringtone it would be you. (and you'd make a lot of DH fans out there delieriously happy. ^_~*)

Krissy on Aug. 6, 2008:

The Bad Horse ringtone is awesome! Thanks so much!

Xupa on Aug. 7, 2008:


you rock quite a lot.
that is absolutely perfect.
hehe it's got the "neigh" vote!
love it. bravo!

chicgeek on Aug. 7, 2008:

Excellent! Thanks!

Chris: All you need to do is manually rename the file from an .mp3 to an .m4r and reimport into iTunes. :D

klevermore on Aug. 7, 2008:

These are so awesome! Thank you so much, my life is complete now. (Well, except for needing a sequel). Now to decide who gets which ringtone!

lenny on Aug. 7, 2008:

gah why can't i save these?? i fail at quicktime :(

lenny on Aug. 7, 2008:

d'oh! nevermind, figured it out

Robert-Jon on Aug. 7, 2008:

These are great!!

What are the licenses on these? How about performing with these mp3's?

James Tauber on Aug. 7, 2008:

Performance rights technically lie with the publisher/songwriter, not me :-)

lovesthai on Aug. 7, 2008:

Okay, I'm SO not a cell phone tech person!!! Could anyone tell me how to send this to my Verizon phone so that I can use it as a ringtone? Please please please please?

AthenaMuze on Aug. 7, 2008:

I would love all the songs if possible, but if I can only request one I'd like the song Penny sings, Keep Your Head Up (no clue if that's the real name). Also I wanted to let you know that Joss apparently called it My Freeze Ray and does not like it when people call it Laundry day.

This is fantastic regardless and I'm snagging a few of them. :) Thank you so much!

AthenaMuze on Aug. 7, 2008:

ok I lied, these are better than fantastic, they are amazing! I'm taking them all, want more! ;)

dianamac on Aug. 7, 2008:

Thanks so much for these! I love the Bad Horse one!

ShishKaRobb on Aug. 7, 2008:

Excellent! Great Job!

Cheeky on Aug. 7, 2008:

Thanks ever so much! If you're taking request, is there anyway you could do the first Bad Horse song from Act I?

JBarn on Aug. 9, 2008:

Hey, I love these songs! I was just wondering if you're going to upload all of the songs in the 3 acts? My friends and I are recording with voices and don't have Act 1's "A man's gotta do" or whatever it's called. Thanks!

JBarn on Aug. 10, 2008:

Hey, I love these songs! I was just wondering if you're going to upload all of the songs in the 3 acts? My friends and I are recording with voices and don't have Act 1's "A man's gotta do" or whatever it's called. Thanks!

Vince on Aug. 11, 2008:

Any chance of Midi's for older polyphonic phones please please please???

JazzyFizzle on Aug. 12, 2008:

Hey, these are awesome! I just noticed something though: the intro for On The Rise Backing seems to be missing. The music for that one starts right when the singing comes in. Somehow the front end got lopped off?

AFB on Aug. 12, 2008:

I'd also love polyphonic midi ringtones!

merriwyn on Aug. 13, 2008:

these. rock. the only trouble I have now is deciding which one to set as my ringtone, they are all so good!

John Wilkerson on Aug. 13, 2008:

Thanks for the karaoke tracks. I used the one from "Freeze Ray" to record a parody which will appear in my podcast next week.

You rock! \m/

Serendipity on Aug. 14, 2008:

I love the Bad Horse phone call - but what I really want is just the first bit looped. I don't want it to go into the song - I just want the part that is Dr. Horrible's cell phone ringing. Doable?

Thanks for your hard work.. these really are amazing.

Jen on Aug. 14, 2008:

These are amazing!!! Thank you! If you do "Man's Gotta Do" I'll dub you my favorite person of 2008. If you do the finale I'll put you through for 2009 too:)

Kelly on Aug. 16, 2008:

Does anyone know where I can get the web app for the Dr. Horrible Van Remote for my iPHone? I could have sworn I saw a link to it a few days ago - and now....? Thanks in advance.

Robert-Jon on Aug. 16, 2008:

@Serendipity:

I've taken the liberty to edit the Bad Horse phone call song. I'm using it as my current ringtone on my iPhone and it's just like the real thing. :D

Download .mp3 or .m4r:

http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.eckhardt/Forum%20spul/Bad%20Horse%20Ringtone.mp3
http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.eckhardt/Forum%20spul/Bad%20Horse%20Ringtone.m4r

Hope you like it!

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alucarrd on Aug. 21, 2008:

I cant seem to download them. I have a voyager from Verizon. Anyone know if it is even possible to set these as ringtones for anything besides iphones?

alucarrd on Aug. 21, 2008:

I cant seem to download them. I have a voyager from Verizon. Anyone know if it is even possible to set these as ringtones for anything besides iphones?

alucarrd on Aug. 21, 2008:

I cant seem to download them. I have a voyager from Verizon. Anyone know if it is even possible to set these as ringtones for anything besides iphones?

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Created: Aug. 2, 2008
Last Modified: Aug. 7, 2008
Author: jtauber