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The Szell Sony box

Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall

Jurassic Park (remastered OST)

The Empire Strikes Back (Gerhardt recording)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Quartet release)

A CD player

An amplifier 

Speakers (B&W)

A power generator 

 

Subject to change every day.

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- Beethoven’s 5th & 9th Symphony, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

- John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy (ANH, TESB, ROTJ)

- Danny Elfman: Batman & Batman Returns

- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons


(bonus: Howard Shore: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy)

 

I would be happy with these albums for the rest of my life. 

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2 minutes ago, JTW said:

Danny Elfman: Batman & Batman Returns

Does such an album exist? 

I just remember a Batman Trilogy album from Varese including tracks from Goldenthal's Batman Forever. 

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14 hours ago, JTW said:

One can’t have enough Bruce Broughton’s Lost in Space in their life. :)

 

Absolutely!  My first exposure to it was the Lost In Space Learning Adventure CD-ROM game.  That CD-ROM might've been the reason why this score felt like a whole galaxy for me to explore when I was a kid!

 

The game's soundtrack consisted of small samples of music taken from the film's recording sessions, including Decades Old, Pt.2 with a clean opening, and a small loop taken from Major Mayhem!  The latter puzzled me for ages until I heard the sample for Track 2 of the 2016 Intrada release.

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  1. The Social Network (Ross & Rez)
  2. Batman v Superman (Hans & Junkie)
  3. The Queen’s Corgi (Djawadi)
  4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Rosenman)
  5. Fifty Shades Darker (Elfman)
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If we allowed big set as one album then

  1. The John Williams Harry Potter Collection
  2. The John Williams Jurassic Park Collection
  3. John Williams Conductor
  4. Private Investigations ꞉ The Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler
  5. The John Williams Star Wars Collection (let's hope I'm trapped in the 22nd century)

Otherwise

  1. The Force Awakens
  2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  3. War Horse
  4. Living in the Age of Airplanes
  5. Private Investigations ꞉ The Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler
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Some interesting selections by folks. I would go absolutely bonkers if all I could listen to was film music. Need variety, the spice of life.

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8 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

But Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would be a hot candidate as well.

 

8 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

I'd bring the film.


Yes, please banish the film to a desert island or enchanted forest from which there is no return. :)

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6 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

 


Yes, please banish the film to a desert island or enchanted forest from which there is no return. :)

 

Perhaps I'll send you a free copy so you get a chance to see it. ;)

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1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Perhaps I'll send you a free copy so you get a chance to see it. ;)


Send it to @JTW, I've already seen it! :lol:

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38 minutes ago, Thor said:

Some interesting selections by folks. I would go absolutely bonkers if all I could listen to was film music. Need variety, the spice of life.

To be fair, nowadays it being film music doesn't necessarily = no variety.

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3 minutes ago, Presto said:

To be fair, nowadays it being film music doesn't necessarily = no variety.

 

True. But I need something that is straight-up pop or rock or classical or electronic without any dramatic application. I was a pop/rock/electronica fan long before I became a film music fan.

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3 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Actually, I thought I was replying to him.


I thought that might be it. lol

 

4 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

You guys are so interchangeable! :P


I'm maybe a tad less passionate.
 

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3 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

True. But I need something that is straight-up ... classical ... without any dramatic application.

Let me know when you find something 😉

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3 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:


Send it to @JTW, I've already seen it! :lol:

Take it away, you hear? Don’t you bring that thing near me! :D
 

2 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:


 


I'm maybe a tad less passionate.
 

I’m more handsome. 
 

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Actually, I thought I was replying to him. You guys are so interchangeable! :P

No worries, it happens a lot to me too when I want to reply to Thor and accidentaly reply to you. But since both of you are Norwegian, it doesn’t really matter. :D

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Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon (1976)
Peter Gabriel - Us
Les Luthiers - Volumen 3
John Williams - Jurassic Park: The Lost World (complete edition)
 

I'd add some honorable mentions with Sinead O'Connor, Linda Ronsdant, John Powell and Sui Generis; but I tried to narrow it down to my mega favorites.

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I listen to quite a lot of non-soundtracks that I'd find it hard to never hear again, so actually choosing just a few scores is the challenge here.

 

I'm going to pretend that my first option is a 2-CD 'box set' so to speak. If we're going with the idea that soundtrack box sets with multiple scores could be allowed, then I think I should be allowed this. If I'm not then Jurassic would have to go. I just love the other two scores more.

 

Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa Complete (Dua Lipa)

Islands (Ludovico Einaudi)

Fellowship of the Ring

Gladiator

Jurassic Park (Expanded)

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Sibelius: symphony no. 5, original and final version (Osmo Vanska, Lahti Symphony Orchestra)

 

Williams: Hook - the ultimate edition

 

Arnold: Independence Day

 

Goldsmith: Alien

 

Imogen Heap: Speak For Yourself

 

 

Making these choices depends on my mood, so if the evil spirits asked me on a different day, I might choose differently for all the above except the Sibelius, which is one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. 

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6 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

You've been cursed by an evil sorcerer to banishment in an enchanted forest for the rest of your life and you want to listen to Alien? 


If it's an enchanted forest, I'd suggest 'Legend'.

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37 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

You've been cursed by an evil sorcerer to banishment in an enchanted forest for the rest of your life and you want to listen to Alien? 

Some mood music before I drift off to sleep under the enchanted tree. 

 

30 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:


If it's an enchanted forest, I'd suggest 'Legend'.

Great idea! 

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6 hours ago, Thor said:

 

True. But I need something that is straight-up pop or rock or classical or electronic without any dramatic application. I was a pop/rock/electronica fan long before I became a film music fan.

To be honest, I do listen to a lot of non-film score music. But not actual albums though, mostly Spotify playlists or online radio stations.

 

So I do have a lot of songs that I love and I can't see myself spending a lifetime without listening to them again. They're mostly songs that remind me of aspects of my life, kinda like it was my own soundtrack to the soap opera that is my life (lol). But that love is just for separate songs though, not the albums where they first appeared.

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10 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

You've been cursed by an evil sorcerer to banishment in an enchanted forest for the rest of your life and you want to listen to Alien? 

Maybe he wants to scare away the sorcerer and all the facehuggers and xenomorphs of the forest. 

 

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I'm not going to include box sets. I'm sure I could find a "Complete Billy Joel" or "The Entire Dire Straits". That feels like cheating. Goodbye, Star Wars Anthology.

 

1. Star Wars (original LP program)

2. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

3. Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (LLL, either one)

4. James Horner - Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (LLL)

5. Billy Joel - 52nd Street

 

Honorable Mentions that I will miss dearly:

John Williams - By Request

John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back

James Horner - Star Trek: The Search for Spock

The Beatles - Abbey Road

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Billy Joel - Glass Houses

Mark Knopfler - Local Hero

 

I mean, it's not really a happy situation. I'm sure I wouldn't be thinking "This would all be OK if only I had more Goldsmith!"

 

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2 hours ago, Tallguy said:

I mean, it's not really a happy situation. I'm sure I wouldn't be thinking "This would all be OK if only I had more Goldsmith!"

 

Indeed. As much as you love this music, eventually you'd grow tired of it. After listening to these albums for the, like, 50th time, you would be begging the evil sorcerer (Sauron? Voldemort?) to listen to anything else.

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HARRY POTTER - THE JOHN WILLIAMS SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION, shipped in insane amounts of bubble wrap

Pinnock/English Concert on DG

Tinker Bell, Intrada

Karajan on DG

The Berlin Concert

 

(This is hopeless. I'll change my mind tomorrow.)

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1 minute ago, Andy said:

The edge damage on @Bespin‘s Star Wars slipcovers is giving me anxiety.  Those were not made to last. 

 

Not made to last. Exactly like me!

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