You know you're a soundtrack fan when...

[Tallguy 4,215]

... you smile appreciatively because the music you are listening to came to a triumphant fanfare just as the destination you are driving to became visible. The fact that it was a Circle K is hardly relevant.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

...you buy, listen to, and talk about, soundtracks.

[rough cut 1,741]

…you know who scored a movie, but not who directed it.

[tomsmoviemadness 3,466]

...The only music you want to listen to are scores/soundtracks.

...You make endless lists and breakdowns of scores (Guilty is charged )

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

...a friend of yours says that they like the music when Nedry steals the dinosaur embryos, and you point out that it is ripped-off from J.F.K. ...and they look at you as if you've grown an extra head.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,007]

...you get extremely angry when you read Amazon reviews that give a negative rating for various modern soundtrack albums because...  the album consists entirely of the actual score to the film instead of the preexisting pop songs that were used in the film.

 

As if those preexisting pop songs couldn't be obtained anywhere else.  As if the score itself could! 

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

...you know that the OST for THE FABELMANS is going to be released on the Milan label.

[Marian Schedenig 8,892]

4 hours ago, rough cut said:

…you know who scored a movie, but not who directed it.

 

…you can tell the release year of a film because you know the release year of the soundtrack album.

[GerateWohl 4,976]

...you chose movies you watch neither by director, actor or story, but by the composer, who wrote the score.

...you stopped going to the cinema about ten years ago, because you were disapointed by the new movie scores.

...you stay in your movie seat until the end of the end credits.

...you are still buying CDs.

...you know the difference between arranger and orchestrator.

...you have a movie theme as ringtone on your mobile.

...you have no idea, who these people in the top 10 billboard charts are.

...you are hanging around in this forum more than with your friends.

...you have posted something in this thread.

[Andy 5,069]

You time your commute home just right so Goldsmith's "The Enterprise" concludes in sync as your garage door closes shut behind you.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

6 minutes ago, Andy said:

You time your commute home just right so Goldsmith's "The Enterprise" concludes in sync as your garage door closes shut behind you.

I used to do the same thing, but I did it to "Descent Into Mystery".

[Tallguy 4,215]

10 minutes ago, Andy said:

You time your commute home just right so Goldsmith's "The Enterprise" concludes in sync as your garage door closes shut behind you.

 

3 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I used to do the same thing, but I did it to "Descent Into Mystery".

 

I have, of course, done both.

 

I had a part of my cross country drive going from highway to freeway where I knew just where to start the main title to Batman so that the end of the intro ended when I hit the higher speed limit.

 

If you start The Right Stuff on the Cincinnati Pops' Star Tracks II at 1:12 when you average commercial airliner starts it's takeoff roll you will just get airborne when the chimes (chimes?) start to play.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,007]

26 minutes ago, Andy said:

You time your commute home just right so Goldsmith's "The Enterprise" concludes in sync as your garage door closes shut behind you.

 

My very first driving playlist consisted of ~90% action music.  Now those action cues are intertwined with what is basically an approximation of the OST for TMP, minus Main Title/Klingon Battle, Ilia's Theme, and End Title, and with The Enterprise and Spock Walk swapped.  I almost never reverse park my car, but I did do it once, solely because I realized I hit the correct moment in The Enterprise to do so.

 

I also really, really love starting my driving journey with Leaving Drydock.  So glorious!

[Marian Schedenig 8,892]

22 minutes ago, Tallguy said:

If you start The Right Stuff on the Cincinnati Pops' Star Tracks II at 1:12 when you average commercial airliner starts it's takeoff roll you will just get airborne when the chimes (chimes?) start to play.

 

Airplane captains should really announce the exact projected takeoff time so we can configure our playlists accordingly.

[Andy 5,069]

I used to play the Fast Streets of Shanghai as we'd taxi on the runway and try unsuccessfully to get the quote of the ("nice try Lao Che") Raiders March to sync up with takeoff.

 

Descent into Mystery is a brilliant one I never thought of.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

... you've posted five times on this thread, within seven hours

 

 

Whenever I decide to go on a mini adventure around the islands, I like to start with "Journey To Baltimore".

[Gabriel Bezerra 383]

...you have the perfect score in your head for every current situation. (And wish everyone could hear it too)

[Brando 2,077]

When you type 'film' on your phone, the next suggested word is 'version'

Acronyms for movies are also suggested

'Matessino' is suggested after 'Mike'

[Jay 39,171]

8 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

you are still buying CDs.

 

Is it really just us? 

[Bellosh 3,853]

...you cringe when people call tracks on scores, "songs"

[Richard Penna 4,089]

... you carefully select a soundtrack for a particular journey

... and feel a strange sense of happiness when something synchronizes perfectly with the music

... you consider it a rite of passage to drive over the Severn Bridge with Khazad-dum playing.

 

... and you can't make it through 15 minutes of an episode of Rings of Power without checking at least 6 times that the music you just heard is on the album. Your evening is temporarily ruined when you find a bit that's not.

[GerateWohl 4,976]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

 

Is it really just us? 

Jazz fans buy vinyl, I guess.

[Brando 2,077]

2 hours ago, Bellosh said:

...you cringe when people call tracks on scores, "songs"

It does irk me but I don’t correct certain people(if they’re friends or family I will, nicely), but other people probably don’t understand the differences and I know what they’re talking about so I go with it.

[SyncMan 327]

...when you are in an aisle seat at an LTP concert and before the show you hope and pray that the hall has a technical malfunction with the projection and audio amplifiers so that the orchestra plays the film’s entire music score without the film, but you would settle for not hearing the dialogue and sound-effects track.

[Bellosh 3,853]

.....when you have (film version) in the track title in your playlists

[Bespin 8,674]

... when you have a whole shelf dedicated to film music in your office.

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,609]

On 12/09/2022 at 2:12 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Airplane captains should really announce the exact projected takeoff time so we can configure our playlists accordingly.

They should... although guess it does somewhat depend on how long you're holding before taking off. Then again, as I live on a small island with a tiny airport, planes usually go straight from terminal to runway and takeoff, my favourite for this is usually Leaving Drydock from ST:TMP or the equivalent from TWOK. For landing, I often turn to the final movement of James Horner's double concerto, Pas de Deux which I can usually line up fairly well when flying home since you can reasonably estimate how far there is based on how far across the English Channel you are...

 

 

The usual expression of my film music nerdiness is to name the composer whenever someone mentions a film or TV show. Plus usually some bit of film music trivia that my partner, family or friends pretend to be interested in, bless them.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

Whenever I travel by aeroplane (which is, hopefully, as least as possible), "YYZ" is always playing in my head, on takeoff.

 

 

4 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

Then again, as I live on a small island with a tiny airport, planes usually go straight from terminal to runway and takeoff... 

Kudos, dude.

The island that I live on is only 20km² larger than yours, and it's got its own airport, and the landing aeroplanes go - literally - right past my bedroom window, and I live 50 miles north of one of only two runways in the world, that are also beaches.

It's good to be small 

[Brando 2,077]

On 12/09/2022 at 9:12 AM, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Airplane captains should really announce the exact projected takeoff time so we can configure our playlists accordingly.

Not to brag or anything but on one of my flights this year, I think it was The Arrival of Tink and the Flight to Neverland that I was able to time it just right with taking off from the ground and hitting the crescendo towards the end of the track. It was glorious.

[Tallguy 4,215]

Wow, that is just one of the best songs.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,007]

...your solution to Weird Al's difficult question in White N' Nerdy ("Do I like Kirk, or do I like Picard?") would be to hum Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek theme and see whether he calls it the TMP theme or the TNG theme.

[Tallguy 4,215]

35 minutes ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

...your solution to Weird Al's difficult question in White N' Nerdy ("Do I like Kirk, or do I like Picard?") would be to hum Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek theme and see whether he calls it the TMP theme or the TNG theme.

 

TMP theme.

[Disco Stu 15,501]

TNG theme

[Tom Guernsey 2,609]

STV:TFF theme. 

[Cindylover1969 48]

When wonder if Smash Hits' reviews of the soundtracks for Ghostbusters, Back To The Future mentioned the score tracks.

When you have multiple copies of Jaws and Jurassic Park a not and not a single Beyonce (or any other popular contemporary recording artist's) album.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

On 12/09/2022 at 9:57 PM, Richard Penna said:

... you consider it a rite of passage to drive over the Severn Bridge with Khazad-dum playing.

Which one? The M4, or the M48?

[Richard Penna 4,089]

M4.

 

I know that's the 'new' one and not technically called the 'Severn Bridge', but it's still a bridge over the Severn...

[tomsmoviemadness 3,466]

....When you watch dramaticaly out over the city from of your (office) building. HAHAHHA

[ThePenitentMan1 1,007]

34 minutes ago, JNHFan2000 said:

....When you watch dramaticaly out over the city from of your (office) building. HAHAHHA

Which cue are you thinking of when you do this?

[Tallguy 4,215]

Batman, obviously.

[tomsmoviemadness 3,466]

1 hour ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

Which cue are you thinking of when you do this?

 

The Force Theme

Ancestral Plane (Black Panther)

Stoick's Ship

Batman Theme (Elfman)

Porch (Infinity War)

 

To name a few

[Once 680]

...you know exactly what 'Descent into Mystery' means with no further explanation.

[Loert 2,629]

You know what Neo-Riemannian theory is.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

You instinctively know which "Main Title" or "The Hunt" someone is taking about.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,007]

...you lie down on the couch and start to reconsider the entirety of existence every single time you find alternate takes between two releases of your favorite scores.  (Also applies to takes used in the film not on any of the albums)

[Marian Schedenig 8,892]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

You instinctively know which "Main Title" or "The Hunt" someone is taking about.

 

…your top track on Last.fm is "Main Title", played four times as often as the track on second place ("End Title").

35 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

…your top track on Last.fm is "Main Title", played four times as often as the track on second place ("End Title").

 

(And Last.fm groups by artist, so those are just the Jerry Goldsmith ones)

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

... when someone quotes a movie line, and you start to play the music which underscores it, in your head.

[The Great Gonzales 6,217]

....you have atleast one subfolder labeled Editing Package

[Naïve Old Fart 10,311]

... when your Jerry Goldsmith CDs outnumber your Megadeath CDs, 10-1.

[Tallguy 4,215]

You can (and do) watch a movie and start humming the music that isn't there but was scored for the picture!