BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 John Barry, through watching the Bond films in my teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,323 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Wow, great question!I think I started noticing film music and that the same man was responsible for all my favorites sometime around 1993/1994. So some of the earliest non-Williams film scores I got into (from seeing the films in theaters) where probably The Fugitive, Clifhanger, Speed, Die Hard 3, Waterword, Jumanji..... Sometime around that time there were the older films on VHS that I was starting to notice scores in, like Predator, Aliens, the Star Trek movies, etc.I think the first non-Williams CD I purchased might have been The Great Fantasy Adventure album. That's one of the earliest at least. I am not sure what my first "full" non-Williams score on CD was, though. Could have been The Abyss, Back To The Future 2 or 3, Batman.... idk. I actually might not have even purchased my first non-Williams CD until maybe Independence Day... I dunno! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Back to the Future, easily. All three of them. Part II was my first soundtrack purchase, actually.Also along with Star Wars and Indiana Jones, it inspired me to take up trumpet in the 4th grade. Hlao-roo and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,178 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Either Gremlins 2 or Rosenman's Lord of the Rings. I taped them off the TV before I was aware of Williams. But I didn't realise at the time that this was original music written for the film. With LOTR, I specifically remember wondering what music they used. The thought that it could have been especially written didn't even cross my mind back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,626 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Star Trek The Motion Picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Masters of the Universe by Bill Conti and Danny Elfman's Batman. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,823 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Batman.I think so too, yes.1989 of course.Unless we count TV cartoons too.Then it must have been the anime series Ulysses 31, where I noticed the music. (I was less than 5 years old) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I don't take the numerous children's shows of my childhood into count though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,626 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I think most of us noticed the music in TV shows we watched earlyI taped the End Credits of the Star Wars Holiday Special, so that was my first recording of Star Wars music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 If we're just counting anything that made a big childhood impression, then Herbert Stothart's score for The Wizard of Oz would definitely be #1 for me. I didn't count it, though, because it didn't specifically get me into film scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Titanic was the first score I listened to away from the film. It caught my attention in the film and the soundtrack was readily available. I spent quite some time listening to the Titanic OST before finally tracking down a copy of Jurassic Park and starting a John Williams collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,342 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Chicken Run or The Lord of the Rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,478 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I'm so terrible at remembering these things, but I'm fairly confident that Angelo Badalamenti was the first I ever discovered, at least a couple of years before I discovered Williams and film music in full. Why? Because I copied a cassette from a TWIN PEAKS CD that would sit with my other non-film music as any other concept album. This was, oh, 1990 or thereabouts?This TWIN PEAKS cassette actually inspired me to write a whole novel! When I told Angelo this story in 2010, he told me to "make a film out of it and give me a call!". That made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 WarGames (Arthur B. Rubinstein), D.A.R.Y.L. (Marvin Hamlisch), Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri), The Boy Who Could Fly (Bruce Broughton), The Land Before Time (James Horner), and Dead Poets Society (Maurice Jarre) were all influential in shaping my extra-Williams interest, but I can't point to any one score in particular that led me to branch out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 CE3K was probably the first film music I ever heard, and it stuck with me. But also contributing to sparking my interest in film music/music in general, excluding Williams, would have been Paul J. Smith's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, North's Cleopatra, Jerry's POTA, Jerry and friends' work for the various Star Trek films/series, and then a bit later, Zimmer's Rain Man and The Lion King, Horner's Apollo 13.... It progressed in stages like this, with various scores nudging me further along, but it wasn't until I was fairly mature that Shore's FOTR and Williams' A.I. made me decide to actually pursue this growing interest in a real way.I'm sure there was also a lot of TV music that fascinated me. Stuff like Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Quantum Leap, The X-Files.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,323 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 WarGames (Arthur B. Rubinstein), D.A.R.Y.L. (Marvin Hamlisch), Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri), The Boy Who Could Fly (Bruce Broughton), The Land Before Time (James Horner), and Dead Poets Society (Maurice Jarre) were all influential in shaping my extra-Williams interest, but I can't point to any one score in particular that led me to branch out.Did you know about this?http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/Daryl.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 WarGames (Arthur B. Rubinstein), D.A.R.Y.L. (Marvin Hamlisch), Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri), The Boy Who Could Fly (Bruce Broughton), The Land Before Time (James Horner), and Dead Poets Society (Maurice Jarre) were all influential in shaping my extra-Williams interest, but I can't point to any one score in particular that led me to branch out.Did you know about this?http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/Daryl.htmlYeah, it's been on my shopping list for the last few months. Once I figure out what else I want, I'll order it from MovieMusic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 186 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Rozsa's Ben-Hur suite, in a youth orchestra concert. That was a short while before getting to know the Star Wars music, and I guess the starting point for my interest in film music (although also preceded by taping main/end titles from Disney cartoons from the TV). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Batman Returns was the first score, almost for certain. I've seen the first film before that, but can't remember having any kind of recollections of music. It was on a very old television set, on which everything looked green. The second score I can remember very vividly. And would rent the VHS tape constantly just to listen. Finally, my parents bought me a copy. The soundtrack album came later.But The Lion King was my first album ever.Both are dear to my heart and expanded re-releases are terrific.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,626 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Or it could have been The Black HoleCan't remember if I saw it before or after STTMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 The Da Vinci Code was my first serious film score and album. It was followed immediately by Gladiator and some other Zimmer stuff. All of which eventually led to LOTR and then Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 crocodile and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF1_freeze 131 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Apart from Williams i remember being thrilled by the score to "The Lion King" and by the music of the Winnetou and Old Shatterhand movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 You did it all backwards!I'm the original KK! He's anti-KK and that's a proof!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I'm just the better one!Search your heart, you know it to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 For I am KK the Wise, KK Post-maker, KK of Many Colours!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 You did it all backwards!I'm the original KK! He's anti-KK and that's a proof!KarolI am KK. Or KK as he should have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 The Nightmare Before Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Might've been Elfman's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or maybe PotC 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Star Trek: The Next Generation on TV, so the Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme as adapted for the titles of that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,508 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I bought "Planet Of The Apes" in the same week that I bought "Earthquake" (my second JW album), in 1975.As far as JG is concerned, I started right at the very top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy 55 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Silvestri's Back To The Future Part II, Elfman's Batman, Goldenthal's Batman & Robin and this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bilbo 3,709 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I guess the Lion King, Titanic, Gladiator and the Fellowship of the Ring. Fellowship was the first OST I ever bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 As a very very small kid, I saw/heard Born Free and It sounded absolutely beautiful. Now it is horrible, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Also, the 1989 Batman. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 452 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 It was Danny Elfman's Batman or Shirley Walker's Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Danny Elfman's Batman... that I purchased on LP when it came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Probably Dave Grusin's opening suite in The Goonies or Jerry's Poltergeist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Martin Böttcher - The Music from the Karl-May-Films. A German Western-Film-Series that started around 1965. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,092 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Television? Probably Batman '66. Used to hum the "death trap" music while playing as a kid.Movie scores that caught my ear were probably Battlestar Galactica (had the 8 track of that and Star Wars), the Black Hole (had the dialogue record) or Star Trek the Motion Picture (from the advertising). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 On my own, probably Star Trek III through multiple early viewings but through my dad playing his music downstairs of an evening probably John Barry's great body of work. Mostly James Bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsHeh. I see what you did there. For me, John Williams definitely got me into film music - one of my earliest memories as a child is listening to a cassette tape of the Home Alone soundtrack. For non-Williams scores, I would have to say there are three big ones that stand out in my early memories - Horner's The Land Before Time, Isham's October Sky, and Mike O'Donnell's and Junior Campbell's "Thomas the Tank Engine" scores. To this day, the Narrow Gauge theme is one of my favorite melodies from any film or tv score. Sadly, there was never a score album released, but I found a couple of mockups people made on youtube. Some day, I'll get around to making my own suite of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Score 770 Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 My interest in film music was triggered by John Williams (Star Wars and Jurassic Park), but apart from that, the first non-Williams scores that caught my attention were probably (in chronological order): 1) Titanic, by James Horner (when the movie came out, the girls of my age were crazy about Leonardo Di Caprio, so I "had" to learn to play "My Heart Will Go On" at the piano, for obvious reasons...)2) Mission, by Ennio Morricone (his best score, in my opinion)3) The Piano, by Michael Nyman (not a big Nyman fan, but this score is solid gold).I heard both "The Piano" and "Mission" first on CDs, and only later I saw the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 First off . . . I resent this deliberate—and successful—attempt to make me feel old.I was roller skating to Star Wars when I was a kid, and watched Close Encounters (the T.V. edit, which is still the most complete version of the film, something many people these days have never seen) and Star Trek II every day after school in the earliest days of commercial VHS. I had those first two soundtracks when I was younger, but STII was the first one I ever saw as a cassette apart from the movie (a friend of mine owned it). That was my first non-Williams pickup, and those scores started my collection way back in the early 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,626 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 ST2 made me notice this new Horner guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 It was probably The Lord of the Rings, actually. I might have been into film scores before then but that's the first one I remember falling in love with that wasn't done by John Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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