FSM Scores You'll Be Buying Before They Close Shop

[scallenger 374]

Are there any scores, exclusively from FSM, that you will be buying before they close up for good? With the quantity lists for each score still available being revealed on their site, it's kind of making me want to buy the ones I always thought about getting in the next few months. Which ones may they be?

I still would like to get (in order):

Poltergeist (2CD)

Islands In The Stream (OST)

The Time Machine (1960 OST)

Coma/Westworld/Carey Treatment (2CD Crichton Film Score Set)

The horrible thing is, two of the scores listed above I actually sold last year when I was unemployed for some extra money, and have regretted it ever since. But the other two have been on my backburner to get for sometime.

Also, if I happen to have more money before they sell out entirely:

Star Trek 2 (Expanded)

Star Trek 3 (2CD Expanded)

I'm not as big a fan of those two scores like many people are (I prefer Goldsmith's effort with the first film, and I feel like everything Horner did in his two Star Trek films was done better and more memorably in Krull, which I already own from LaLaLand). However, they are definitely good scores, but they don't have the level of needing them in my personal collection like the four above it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Fsm will not close. They just wont be producing new cds.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476]

You'll probably still want to buy the Superman set if you haven't. They've now numbered it at 6000.

I'll get TV Omnibus, Not With My Wife You Don't Volume II and Nightwatch.

[Incanus 5,518]

Yes I too will have to get that Blue Box and a good pile of those JW scores they have produced but before that I have to get a big pile of smackaroos from someplace first.

[scallenger 374]

Fsm will not close. They just wont be producing new cds.

Well isn't that pretty much the same thing? They aren't producing anymore CDs, and when their stock has completely run out (which I know will take a VERY long time until their stock is) then the shop is closed, because there are no more products to sell. I know Screen Archives isn't who is closing, if that's what you meant, but FSM's label is. Although if a MOD wants to modify my thread title to "FSM Scores You'll Be Buying Before Production Ends", feel free.

And as for the Superman Box I was thinking of that one too if money was available... although I really just like the first score. Does it sound that much better in the box?

[Trent B 317]

With certain CDs being unlimited IE: Gremlins, Star Trek 2 and 3 they'll continue to sell those even after they close up as a label. So you won't need to rush out and buy them.

The only thing I want to do is sometime rebuy the Superman FSM set for historical reasons.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476]

Well you never know what can happen with unlimited CDs. Witness now with King Kong 1976, for example.

I say plan on getting anything and everything you've wanted soon.

scallenger, Superman's FSM presentation is likely the best it will ever sound on CD. A major upgrade from the 2-disc version. It's also worth it for the additional music, Superman IV (a weird amalgam of JW music), lovely booklet and packaging. I would get it if you love the first score.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Fsm will not close. They just wont be producing new cds.

Well isn't that pretty much the same thing? They aren't producing anymore CDs, and when their stock has completely run out (which I know will take a VERY long time until their stock is) then the shop is closed, because there are no more products to sell.

FSM is also a magazine, and a website and forum.

[Thor 5,273]

I am in no rush to get any FSM titles at the present time. I recently bought NIGHTWATCH, and that will be it for a while (since they're not producing any more Williams).

There are a couple of titles that could have been interesting to own, but my present situation prevents me from picking them up. Maybe later, if they're still available.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

FSM CDs I plan to eventually buy:

Gremlins

Nightwatch

White Dog

Kelly's Heroes

Hawaii Five-O

TV Omnibus: Volume One

...and maybe Navajo Joe just so I could have my own copy.

[Wojo 2,442]

With certain CDs being unlimited IE: Gremlins, Star Trek 2 and 3 they'll continue to sell those even after they close up as a label. So you won't need to rush out and buy them.

Is this true? They will cease to produce new albums, but they will still print additional copies of these "unlimited" albums? I would think that once they stop producing CDs, they're done producing CDs. They just sell what they have, and when stock is gone, it's gone.

I hope I'm wrong for the sake of everyone who hasn't bought what they want yet.

[Datameister 1,394]

I'd like to buy the Blue Box someday. I just haven't been able to justify the cost, when really all I'm interested in is the first score.

[indy4 152]

At some point I'd like to own every John Williams release. From FSM, the ones I'm missing are:

TV Omnibus

Towering Inferno (I'll probably wait for a label to rerelease this)

The Paper Chase (same as Towerning)

Not With My Wife You Don't! - Volumes 1 and 2

Nightwatch

The Ghostbreakers

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Diamond Head

I think it'll be quite a long time before my collection is complete, but at least it makes it feel like more of an accomplishment each time I add to it.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

I forgot about Goodbye Mr. Chips. Add that to my list. I'll pick up a good portion of these whenever Lukas kicks in the new promotion.

[scallenger 374]

Fsm will not close. They just wont be producing new cds.

Well isn't that pretty much the same thing? They aren't producing anymore CDs, and when their stock has completely run out (which I know will take a VERY long time until their stock is) then the shop is closed, because there are no more products to sell.

FSM is also a magazine, and a website and forum.

Yes, but they are still closing their "shop" once everything sells out, yes?

Anyway, Trent, are you really sure they are going to keep pressing the unlimited ones? Like Wojo said, it seemed like they would produce a unlimited amount for now, but once they do their last release it's just whatever they have left that will sell. I thought that was part of the whole point of why Kendall wanted to end it in the first place, to not manufacture the discs anymore or worry about their warehouses full of CDs and how much more they need and etc.?

[Greg1138 2]

I'd like to buy the Blue Box someday. I just haven't been able to justify the cost, when really all I'm interested in is the first score.

If you heard the difference in sound between the Blue Box and the Rhino 2CD set, you wouldn't be hesiatating. That, plus the excellent presentations of the other scores, the stunning packaging, the accompanying book that goes in to every detail possible in such a format....this set it indispensable. Even if you just buy it for the first score alone, it's worth every penny. As I've said elsewhere, it's not so much a CD - more of an experience.

[avalanche 0]

I imagine I'll pick up Gremlins and The Accidental Tourist sometime before the end of the year. There were a few others I had passing interest with, but I'm really trying to cut down the number of CDs entering my collection at this point.

[Trent B 317]

I don't 100% know for sure if that's what they'll do, I'm just assuming. Maybe someone should ask Lukas Kendall directly if that's what will happen.

[filmmusic 925]

Are there in any list all the Williams FSM releases to see which am I missing?

[Incanus 5,518]

Are there in any list all the Williams FSM releases to see which am I missing?

Here you go:

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/list.cfm

[Jay 27,216]

Are there in any list all the Williams FSM releases to see which am I missing?

Right here: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18835

[filmmusic 925]

Oh, thanks.

I'm still missing:

-Poseidon adventure/paper chase OOP

-Towering Inferno OOP

-Penelope/bachelor in Paradise

-Goodbye Mr. Chips

-TV Omnibus

But I have also the question, how do they handle the unlimited editions..

They stop now at whatever number they have pressed?

[Jay 27,216]

Lukas Kendall has indicated he plans to keep everything in print that he can. He simply won't be producing any new CDs or renewing any licenses beyond the announced quantities.

[filmmusic 925]

oh, ok. thanks for the info.

It would be good also if by stopping producing new cds, they made a deal or something by lowering the value of older releases to help us get the cds we want..

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476]

I'll pick up a good portion of these whenever Lukas kicks in the new promotion.

You know something I don't?

[Koray Savas 2,095]

Well a little over a month ago he asked the FSM board for ideas on what the next promotion could be, so it's only a matter of time before there is another one.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476]

The only title I want marked down is the TV set. I realize it's 5 discs, but I don't desire all of them. This is what happens when you bunch a ****load of unrelated TV scores by various composers into one weird hodgepodge.