ChuckM 1 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Do you ever get stuck where there are a few select soundtracks that are all you want to listen to for months at a time? It's not that there's necessarily anything particularly special about them, they just click with you, and you want to hear them constantly.At the same time, you don't want to wear them out such that you can't stand to hear them anymore. And there are all those other soundtracks in your collection that you'd like to hear again some time soon.But to listen to another soundtrack would mean to stop listening to the one that you really want to be listening to right now, even though you know you just finished listening to it three times that day.Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do? Give in and listen to it again, or make yourself listen to something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 49 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I find it's healthy not to saturate yourself with the same music. Try to find something else before you become dulled to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,602 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Do you ever get stuck where there are a few select soundtracks that are all you want to listen to for months at a time? It's not that there's necessarily anything particularly special about them, they just click with you, and you want to hear them constantly.At the same time, you don't want to wear them out such that you can't stand to hear them anymore. And there are all those other soundtracks in your collection that you'd like to hear again some time soon.But to listen to another soundtrack would mean to stop listening to the one that you really want to be listening to right now, even though you know you just finished listening to it three times that day.Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do? Give in and listen to it again, or make yourself listen to something else?I never tire of listening to the pieces I really love. I may take a break from listening to them for a few weeks (or months) but I always go back to them, and listen to them again with renewed enthusiasm. For example, I listened to the Jurassic Park soundtrack for the first time in 1993, right after seeing the movie. For months, I loved the score. Then I stopped listening to it for a while, but then started listening to it again. It's been going on like this for years and years, and now, 16 years later, I still love the Jurassic Park score as on the first day....It's amazing, really, if you think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 5 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I try to, but it doesn't always work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,602 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Do you ever get stuck where there are a few select soundtracks that are all you want to listen to for months at a time? It's not that there's necessarily anything particularly special about them, they just click with you, and you want to hear them constantly.At the same time, you don't want to wear them out such that you can't stand to hear them anymore. And there are all those other soundtracks in your collection that you'd like to hear again some time soon.But to listen to another soundtrack would mean to stop listening to the one that you really want to be listening to right now, even though you know you just finished listening to it three times that day.Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do? Give in and listen to it again, or make yourself listen to something else?But to answer your question, I don't "force" myself to listen to anything.I listen to the pieces I want to listen to at the moment, even if it means listening to something for the 50th time in succession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I mainly listen in the car now, and I only listen to CDs, so my choices are limited to what I have in the car or what I decide to bring. I sometimes pick a random CD, but put it back because I am not in the mood. Lately I have my wife pick a random CD and I dont look until I am in the car so that I am forced to listen to it. I find it helps me compose to listen to random music because when I listen to only one CD, there's more chance it will bleed into my work. Last random pick was Islands in the Stream (by Goldsmith not the crappy pop song), so I have had that playing for a couple days in the car. Very good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 5,520 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Happens to me all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 2,082 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 There is a small family of cues I can't stop listening to, but I don't usually find it hard to find something different. In fact, there are times when I do nothing but jump around everywhere, marvelling at my collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I find it's healthy not to saturate yourself with the same music. Try to find something else before you become dulled to it.But the pleasure of indulging in favorite cues you knows aren't gonna remain that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Last random pick was Islands in the Stream (by Goldsmith not the crappy pop song),That was a good song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 152 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Happens to me all the time.It's a new experience for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,095 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 This never happens to me. I just listen to whatever happens to catch my eye while flipping through my library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 55 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Last random pick was Islands in the Stream (by Goldsmith not the crappy pop song),That was a good song!So good in fact that I've done it at karaoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I just continue to cycle through my collection with whatever I'm in the mood for. I may find one that I want to continue listening to so I just go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,759 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Like Jess, I listen mostly in my car but since I have much of my cd collection loaded on my mp3 player and it plugs into the car stereo I have no reason not to have a varied listening experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Never happens to me, I listen to whatever I feel like at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 1,492 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I think it's healthy to try to cycle through the collection from time to time. They wait on the shelf all year, waiting to be spun. It's like food. You have your favorite meals that you always return to, but after a while, you can get sick of it and need a change. That's why it's also good to try new stuff as well. Lately, I've been on a chai tea kick. I had no idea I'd love the stuff so much. It's kinda that way with certain scores or composers. Variety is the spice of life, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 9 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I have that problem all the time. I try to force myself, like sometimes leaving myself with that one album on an MP3 player. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's very hard for me to fall in love with something without having something to prepar me for it. I'll often listen to something, it won't have much of an effect, but the next time I put it on, several months later, that shallow listen I gave it months or years before warm me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I'm about 1/4-1/3 of the way through my annual runthrough of my entire Williams collection (credit to Joe for initially giving me the idea). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,095 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I tried to do an entire run through of all my music. That will never happen I tried to do it by composer, and got through quite a few , but those were just the CD's I owned and imported in. Now that I organized most of my HDD, there's a lot more to listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,759 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I'm about 1/4-1/3 of the way through my annual runthrough of my entire Williams collection (credit to Joe for initially giving me the idea).I was just thinking its time for me to start my annual runthrough, get the dust off some of the disks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 27,216 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Chuck is your avatar supposed to be anything other than a sideways C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,017 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Maybe it is a keyhole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 5,520 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 In fact, the more CDs I have, the harder it becomes to find something I want to listen to. It's odd. And I'm afraid to wear out my favourites - with the big Williams scores, I often find myself wanting to listen to them for weeks without every actually feeling like it when it comes to picking the next thing to listen to. I've had to force myself to listen to CE3K and Star Wars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 The original Star Wars trilogy is something I have to talk myself into sometimes, because I went so long with it being pretty much the only thing I had to listen to when I was first getting in to film scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,442 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 It's an old friend that sometimes I'm afraid to listen to out of fear I'll hear something I don't like in it, and not want to listen to it anymore.Recently I started listening to the SW Anthology for the first time in close to a decade. I had listened to the SE scores more often in that timespan, but I thought putting the Anthology onto the same MP3 CD with my Indy scores (which are as good as they're going to be for now) would make me listen to them more, and justify that $60 purchase back in the day. What a treat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I've had to give Indy a break after the Great Indy Binge last year too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 In fact, the more CDs I have, the harder it becomes to find something I want to listen to. It's odd. And I'm afraid to wear out my favourites - with the big Williams scores, I often find myself wanting to listen to them for weeks without every actually feeling like it when it comes to picking the next thing to listen to. I've had to force myself to listen to CE3K and Star Wars...I wondered if this happened to anyone else besdies me. Neurosis rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 2,082 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I've tried to listen to Star Wars more, but it just isn't music I connect well with, so I decided instead to condense episodes IV-VI down to 23 tracks, comprising about 1 hr, 50 mins of really amazing music.I know what some will say about that, but I don't give a crap about the movies, and the horrendous sound quality particularly on Jedi doesn't help. Phantom menace and Sith are hence the only two SW scores I have in their full OST forms.Have yet to do the great Indy binge, or TTT/RotK for that matter. There's just so much music to absorb in one sitting, and it's always easier and more satisfying to flick on one of my usual favourite cues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 That's a difference in listening styles too. I can't do induvidual cues, it's full scores/CDs or nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,442 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I don't even like full scores played on shuffle/random mode. There's something about being familiar with a score but not knowing what track is coming next that makes me a little too anxious to enjoy listening to them that way.And no, I'm not skipping my meds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 49 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 In fact, the more CDs I have, the harder it becomes to find something I want to listen to. It's odd. And I'm afraid to wear out my favourites - with the big Williams scores, I often find myself wanting to listen to them for weeks without every actually feeling like it when it comes to picking the next thing to listen to. I've had to force myself to listen to CE3K and Star Wars...I wondered if this happened to anyone else besides me. Neurosis rocks.Word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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