Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 21 hours ago, JNHFan2000 said: For me it was Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl and more specifically the track 'One Last Shot' A great soundtrack to start out with. I think the first movie has at least 7 main themes! I love pirate period thriller stuff like Pirates otC, Count of Monte Cristo and Monkey Island. JNHFan2000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 SW, E.T., Jurassic Park... Actually JW in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 The first scores which opened my eyes to film music were Horner's American Tail scores. I was a classical nerd who had thought that real music ceased to be written around 1920. Then, I heard some John Williams (Far and Away) and Miklos Rozsa (Ben-Hur) on the radio. I was super impressed. And then I absolutely fell in love with Superman. I was hooked. The concert works of Rozsa and Williams are what led me to appreciate more challenging classical works as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Jaws on tv, Secret of NIMH in the cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 The Da Vinci Code Gladiator The Phantom Menace The Lord of the Rings In that order. Then it gets all jumbled up. Mr. Who 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amer 2,119 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 So.. this is our Origins story. Mine was Superman by John Williams in 1980 when I got the soundtrack. Never looked back. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurkensalat 340 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 In 1984, Temple of Doom in the cinema was the first time I took notice of the music and learned the name of the composer, John Williams. Later that year I saw Empire Strikes back for the first time in a rerun and stayed as the only person in the cinema over the whole end credits because I loved the music and wanted to listen until the end. Those 2 scores defined my Soundtrack hobby and are still among my favorites. Amer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thor 7,521 Posted March 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2022 Inspired by some comments in the "older scores" thread, and I'd like to elaborate on some posts I've made earlier in this thread. Not that it's interesting to anyone else, but I felt like writing my story. I've tried and tried, but cannot pinpoint the exact moment I got interested in soundtracks. It was a gradual discovery. In the late 80s (88? 89?), when I was about 11-12 years old, my father gave me a lot of cassettes that he had taped off of his friends' LPs (various old rock and pop). This became my first real passion. Among them was an LSO Plays Classic Rock album -- that certainly opened my ears to symphonic and instrumental music. By 1990, I was very much into progressive rock/art rock/symphonic rock and electronic music (primarily Jean Michel Jarre, who I had discovered on my own -- divorced from my father's influence), among many other things. Most of which was before my own time. Although I tried to keep in tune with what was happening on the pop music scene at the time, I was very much an odd kid that preferred weird music before I was born, or before I was mature enough to have a musical taste of my own. I then became completely obsessed with TWIN PEAKS as it aired on Norwegian TV in 1991(?) So much so that I borrowed a friend's CD of the soundtrack and copied it to cassette (and drew my own cover, using a cut-out of Kyle Maclachlan's head). I also wrote a whole, 130-page handwritten novel inspired by the series. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this was my first soundtrack. I call it the "awakening moment". I told this story to Angelo Badalamenti when I met him in 2010, and he told me "you should make a film out of it and give me a call!". I got my first CD player in 1992, bought for my confirmation money. I know that I bought THE COMMITMENTS on CD shortly thereafter, which would be my first soundtrack on CD. As previously noted, I was very much into old-school rock'n'roll, R&B and soul. But it doesn't really qualify as a score album. So I wasn't really a soundtrack buff yet, despite the TWIN PEAKS ordeal. The second "revelation moment" is around the same time. I watched THE ABYSS on TV (a TV screening that I had copied to VHS when it aired). I have this vivid memory of getting up to turn off the VCR as the end credits rolled, but then pausing for a moment, lying down on the floor and listening to Silvestri's magnificent music. As I lay there, I remember thinking to myself "wow, this is some neat music. I wonder if it's anything like those conceptual albums I love, and if I can buy it on album?". This is the "awareness moment". Here's a picture of my boy's room at this time, and a conversation picture with Silvestri: The third 'revelation moment' was JURASSIC PARK. By the time I saw it in the cinema in the summer of 1993, I was already a film music fan. I went out to the local record store to get the CD, but it was too expensive. A friend of mine bought it before I could assemble the allowance money to get it, I borrowed his CD, copied it to cassette (much like with TWIN PEAKS) and played it to death over the next few years -- on my stereo, on my walkman. This is the "cementation moment", i.e. when my film music/soundtrack interest was firmly cemented. Long story short, this is the basic history that I've constructed out of my memories. My pathway into soundtracks was sorta through what I watched, but mostly through other forms of instrumental or conceptual albums, which might explain why I feel so differently about how soundtracks should be presented than most other people here. It was a further revelation when the internet became commonplace a few years later, and I encountered likeminded people all over the world. Like Ricard in the mid 90s, who would later go on to create this site. He and I might have different preferences and attitudes about things these days, but we were both very much in the same phase at the time. While both of our projects exist to this day (Celluloid Tunes was a Yahoo Group in the late 90s, like Ricard's Heroic Film Music Club), JWFAN is more popular than my site these days. Memory lane, I love it! [Edit: Ah, thank you, Jay, for finding a more suitable thread than the one I ressurected.] mrbellamy, MrJosh, Jay and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I bought the sheet music of Saint-Saëns' The Assassination of the Duke of Guise back in 1908. Feels like yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 First scores that I remember noticing in the film: Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Hook. First soundtrack album: The Lion King First Williams album: Star Wars Trilogy (Skywalker Symphony). First Williams score album: The Lost World Karol KittBash 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,402 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 So far... I may be the old man here. (Bespin seems to be in the running.) My first score was my Dad's record or Grand Prix by Maurice Jarre. This would have been 1972ish. We grew up with the LP for The Sound of Music. I didn't see the film until years later. (Come to that I didn't see Grand Prix for decades.) Also we had Mancini's The Pink Panther. I only ever listened to the title. Oh, and introductory Lee Holdridge (kinda)! I remember seeing The Island at the Top of the World in grade school. When I heard the music for the airship I recognized the style immediately. I didn't know who Maurice Jarre was yet, but that was my first hint that this music was written by individuals and they sounded like something. Growing up I knew TV themes (Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, The Incredible Hulk) but I didn't really pay much attention to underscore. Then: STAR WARS. And CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. And BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. And so on and on and on. (Superman, The Black Hole, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Tron...) Star Wars was the first LP I picked out at the store (although it was my brother's birthday present). I'm not sure how Close Encounters ended up at our house but I'm glad it did. (With the 45!) Everyone probably thinks they were born at the perfect time for film scores. But I really was! GerateWohl and Andy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,521 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Cool. Tallguy (who I assume is not the same Tallguy as on FSM), what is your age? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,402 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, Thor said: Cool. Tallguy (who I assume is not the same Tallguy as on FSM), what is your age? I am Other Tallguy on FSM! And I'm 53. Thor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 But how tall are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Return of the Jedi, Jurassic Park, Elfman's Batman scores, Batman Forever and Kilar's Dracula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,419 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Temple of Doom and E.T. As a kid I would rewind ToD to listen to the British arrival and Return to the Village scenes just to listen to the music. Same with the bike chase scene in E.T. As far as listening to scores the way I do now, when Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out it made me want to listen to the Indy scores and the rest is history. Slowly realized I loved pretty much anything by John Williams and slowly got into other composers. But the seed was definitely planted with those moments of rewinding VHS tapes. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,714 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I remember buying the vinyl for TMNT II The Secret Of The Ooze when I was around 12… I don’t think I identified as a “soundtrack guy” that young, but that was certainly the start of something. Next phase was when the SNES arrived. Besides being fascinated by the graphics I was blown away by the sound! I remember finding the cheat to Super Star Wars where you could access the soundtrack as a kind of midi-player and browse through the tracks… I’d do that instead of playing, just lying on the floor listening to music. I loved the soundtrack to other games as well and used to pause the game just to be able to soak ion the music. Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Mario Paint (!). Then I purchased John Williams Conducts John Williams The Star Wars Trilogy which was my first CD ever. I didn’t even have a CD player! I listened to it on weekends while visiting stepdad. After getting a CD player, in quick succession a few other JW OSTs followed… Jurassic Park. What an eye opener!), E.T., Hook, Superman. I remember I bought the Arista 4CD box of the Star Wars Trilogy around then as well. The rest is history… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,402 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: But how tall are you? 6'6". Just shy of 2m. 20 minutes ago, rough cut said: Next phase was when the SNES arrived. Besides being fascinated by the graphics I was blown away by the sound! I remember finding the cheat to Super Star Wars where you could access the soundtrack as a kind of midi-player and browse through the tracks… I’d do that instead of playing, just lying on the floor listening to music. This was remarkable. It wasn't just generic Star Wars themes. It was actual Star Wars music! You could hum along with The Little People Work just because you knew the soundtrack! 20 minutes ago, rough cut said: After getting a CD player, in quick succession a few other JW OSTs followed… Jurassic Park. What an eye opener!), E.T., Hook, Superman. I remember I bought the Arista 4CD box of the Star Wars Trilogy around then as well. That still gives me chills. This was... I can't even compare it to anything. Especially since I wasn't on any message boards or anything. One day I went to the music store and there it was! Vader and Luke's final duel! All the missing music from the 2 LP Empire that wasn't on the CD! (Well, except for the space slug...) The destruction of Alderaan! DRAWING THE BATTLE LINES! Ahhhhhhh. I need to lie down. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, Tallguy said: 6'6". Just shy of 2m. Jeesus Christ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 28 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: 33 minutes ago, Tallguy said: 6'6". Just shy of 2m. Jeesus Christ! Nah: Jesus was about 5 foot 5 inches (1.7 meters) tall, or the average height seen in skeletal remains from males there at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 More interesting, he was born 4 BC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,473 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 My dad had some film score albums amongst his massive CD collection when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, he had The Lion King, Twin Peaks, Braveheart, all three LOTR, A.I., HP1 and that JW Greatest Hits 1969-1999 compilation, which was the most played one. I wasn't much of a film music fanatic back then, but I was definetly aware of the power a great score can have over a movie or TV show. When I was 8 or 9, me and some friends were trying to write a play, and I remember listening to the Zimmer tracks in the Lion King OST in order to use them as our score... lmao. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 My dad had the soundtrack of Live and Let Die at home, on vinyl of course. That was the only soundtrack in his collection. A Hard Day's Night on 8-tracks (the American release including the instrumentals) does it count as a soundtrack? Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amer 2,119 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Superman: The Movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Amer said: Superman: The Movie Excellent choice, Amer 9 hours ago, Bespin said: ...instrumentals... "instrumentals"? 9 hours ago, Bespin said: ...does it count as a soundtrack? Of course it does, and a very good soundtrack it is, too! Bespin and Tallguy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,373 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 18 hours ago, Tallguy said: 6'6". Just shy of 2m. Hold my beer. Edit: And I will hold yours. I just googled and found, we seem to share the same height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 @Naïve Old FartThere are four jazzy instrumental tracks on the North American album of The Beatles's Hard Day's Night. I like them very much! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,143 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 20 hours ago, Tallguy said: That still gives me chills. This was... I can't even compare it to anything. Especially since I wasn't on any message boards or anything. One day I went to the music store and there it was! Vader and Luke's final duel! All the missing music from the 2 LP Empire that wasn't on the CD! (Well, except for the space slug...) The destruction of Alderaan! DRAWING THE BATTLE LINES! Ahhhhhhh. I need to lie down. There have been AMAZING expansions, and we'd all like the Star Wars scores fine tuned by Matessino. But nothing, NOTHING will ever compare to the quantum leap expansion the Arista set presented. Growing up Star Wars, and knowing ALL. THOSE. CUES. buried under the dialogue and sound design. Finally hearing them in crystal clear sound. That handsome box set with Lukas Kendall's notes. The artwork on the discs pairing the mastery of Ralph McQuarrie with John Williams. The unassuming minimalist black on charcoal covers. For us old timers (I am 50 this year) , there will never be an experience like this, that opened the door for possibilities for future expansions. [Honorable mention for the DCC Raiders!] Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 @Bespin The UK release is songs only; no instrumentals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Who 919 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 For me it was Narnia, Harry Potter and POTC! bruce marshall and JNHFan2000 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said: @Bespin The UK release is songs only; no instrumentals. Yeah, it's known since 58 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=70286&forumID=1&archive=0 5 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: @Bespin The UK release is songs only; no instrumentals. The US releases are TRUE soundtracks. HELP also. Not those pseudo soundtracks put out in UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post itsevilr 4 Posted March 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2022 Titanic Oomoog the Ecstatic, bruce marshall and Mr. Who 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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filmmusic 1,843 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 The first soundtrack I "purchased" was a tape copy from an LP of Kilar's DRACULA. Up until then I didn't know that the music of films existed and you could buy it and listen at your home. So, before that I had made a mixed tape with my cassete player that I connected to my TV and VCR and recorded music from movies, mainly end credits or main titles. I remember the tape contained E.T. end credits, Superman main titles, Batman Returns, The Simpsons opening theme (),Star Wars throne room and finale, a couple of Academy awards music sequences from the best score category and I don't know what else.. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxTheHouseelf 324 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Two scores from 2004: Michael Giacchino's "The Incredibles" which I bought after seeing it in cinema followed by Williams "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 The first score I had was Return of the Jedi (Sony Classical reissue of the RCA expansion) and it was the only one for some years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tallguy 3,402 Posted March 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2022 5 hours ago, MaxTheHouseelf said: Two scores from 2004: Michael Giacchino's "The Incredibles" which I bought after seeing it in cinema followed by Williams "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Hmmm. Were the early 2000's (Prequels, Pixar, Harry Potter, Pirates) the next late 1970's / early 1980's? MaxTheHouseelf, Andy and Edmilson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,143 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 For the young people growing up in that era, yes. My Star Wars is someone else’s Jurassic Park, and someone else’s Harry Potter. This thread is really wonderful to see so many younger listeners share their stories alongside the older fans. MaxTheHouseelf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 I remember cringing when people said STAR WARS got them into scores. Now, it's HP. God, I'm old.😣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 2 hours ago, bruce marshall said: I remember cringing when people said STAR WARS got them into scores. Now, it's HP. God, I'm old.😣 Now I know why you thumbed up someone saying Titanic 😊. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Score 770 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 The first time I realized film music was a thing was when I saw Star Wars in VHS as a kid. Then, the scores that cemented my interest in film music afterwards were Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Titanic (all seen at the movie theatre), and The Mission (seen at home). I still remember the impression that all these scores made on me. When the SW prequels, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter appeared, I already was a film music fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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