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Gae Oscar® Winner	There have been a lot of posts on the subject of "1st soundtrack" but after our discussion on "song soundtracks" I was wondering how many people first got into soundtracks "accidentally" by hearing part of some score on one of these above-mentioned "song soundtracks" and how many from just noticing the music directly at the cinema (personally, I rushed out to buy the soundtrack to "Jaws" after hearing the music in the film back in '75). How did you get into scores? I'll be interested to see how many were like myself(noticing the music through a movie) and just how many were by a happy accident! Gae [This message has been edited by Gae (edited 04-22-99).]
posted 04-22-1999 02:01 PM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	It all started for me with Back to the Future, and it was from actually watching the movie. I loved the score, it was amazing, and it was the first score that ever really stood out to me and made me take notice! I forced my dad to take me somewhere in town where I could get the soundtrack, I got it (on vinyl) and played it for hours on end... It wasn't really the songs from the film I cared for, just the score, but after repeat listed I did get into the songs more then ever, but at least with BTTF the songs formed part of the movie itself. After hearing the BTTF score on its own I quickly began paying more attention to scores in other films, especially Spielbergs films, and thats were my love of Williams started (with ET) and progressed (once I'd just watched the StarWars trilogy paying close attention to the music I was shocked at what I'd been missing and taking for granted)... Dan (UK)
posted 04-22-1999 02:31 PM PT (US)

Raashid unregistered	I first got into Soundtrax when I was 12. I watched The Last of the Mohicans and loved the music to that (not sooo much now). My sister went out and got the CD and eversince I have been hooked onto soundtrax. My collection is now about 90 and rising rapidly. Raashid P.S. Dan, where in UK u from? Im in Berkhsire just outside London.
posted 04-22-1999 03:06 PM PT (US)

Widescreen Oscar® Winner	For me, it was Star Trek: The Motion Picture, age 5. Now, considering it was a great masterpiece of filmmusic, and the time in which it was made- it still holds up today. Can you belive it? A five year old goes into a record store and buys with birthday money a vinyl copy of this soundtrack- most kids my age were still on The Chipmunks! Amazingly, Goldsmith keeps me coming back for more. The Mummy will undoubtedly be a worthwhile buy.
posted 04-22-1999 03:41 PM PT (US)

Matt Oscar® Winner	My parents raised me with the Star Wars record(got me to stop crying as a baby), but my first foray into buying a musical score because i really liked it during the movie was Jurassic Park...i was one of those obsessed with Jurassic Park freaks who saw the movie WAY too many times, but it was my first purchase(all previously owned stuff was picked up by my parents). That started it, but what really got the ball rolling was The Rock, the first in my very long chain of soundtrack purchases in a row(havent bought a normal music CD in quite some time now) NP: Shawshank Redemption(really good people)
posted 04-22-1999 04:11 PM PT (US)

Ted Oscar® Winner	The first score that got me into film music was Terminator 2, for some odd reason. Though I was in second grade at the time, the main theme to me was the coolest thing in the whole world. NP: FF7 Reunion
posted 04-22-1999 04:29 PM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Oscar® Winner	I've always liked the music from SUPERMAN and I usually taped'em from the TV, also an "Evening at Pops" with John Williams conducting music for Steven Spielberg films. Then I bought ny first soundtrack: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE when I started watching Star Trek on TV. And I've been buying soundtracks since then. NP. "Rising Force"(Yngwie Malmsteen)
posted 04-22-1999 06:22 PM PT (US)

S Smith unregistered	As a kid, my parents would take me to the Hollywood Bowl. John Williams was always a must. That's it. I liked what I heard, been hooked ever since. It's just grown from there.
posted 04-22-1999 06:35 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Thanks for all your responses! So far you've all confirmed what I believed, that most of the "bona fide" film music fans got into film music by hearing it in the movie itself (or by listening directly to a film score) and being affected by it. I still maintain that people who are'nt into film music are just so because they either dont like it,full stop,or they just are'nt as perceptive,musically, as we are (or as has been suggested before its not "hip" or "groovy" to be into orchestral music). Its their loss anyway!!! Gae
posted 04-22-1999 07:17 PM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	I think I got into film music when I bought Far and Away (actually I got this not because of the music, but for Tom Cruise!) but then the interest grew in me when I bought Terminator 2 and then Hot Shots 2 and within a 2 years my collection expanded. To date I've got about 70 soundtracks.
posted 04-23-1999 03:39 AM PT (US)

Aaron R. Brown Oscar® Winner	I got interested in soundtracks from Star Trek. I have been a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation since I was 11. When I heard the main title from the show (which is the theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture) I was hooked on soundtracks. In 1997 when I got a cd player, I finally when out and purchased Star Trek : First Contact and Generations. They were my first soundtracks.
posted 04-23-1999 08:24 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	Raashid, I'm out in Buckinghamshire (Little Chalfont to be exact). Dan (UK)
posted 04-23-1999 09:10 AM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	The first score I ever bought was Independence Day by David Arnold, back in 1996. I noticed the score when I saw the movie, and I went out and got it just after. I don´t know why it was exactly that score, but it just made a good impression on me. In the almost three years I´ve been collecting scores, I have found alot of other scores wich I think are much better than ID4, but it will always mean something special to me. I think alot of people feel that way about their first score. SFT NP: Cape Fear, Bernard Herrmann
posted 04-23-1999 10:34 AM PT (US)

Kevin Oscar® Winner	Gae, I did the same as you. I went out and bought the score to "Jaws" after I saw the movie (and checked in the pool for sharks! ). Kevin NP - Hunt For Red October (Poledouris)
posted 04-23-1999 10:59 AM PT (US)

Dawk Oscar® Winner	Well, subconciously, it all started when I first heard Danny Elfman: Music for a darkened theater vol. 1. even after getting the soundtrack for Total Recall when it came out, I didn't realize it then.. it started to dawn on me when I bought the soundtrack to Jurassic Park.. and then after a while I said "I can admit it, I'm a film score freak!"
posted 04-24-1999 09:41 PM PT (US)

Bradley Oscar® Winner	I love this question. The first time I was interested in a movie score I was seven years old and my mom took me to see...Star Wars (what a shock!) Anyway, after we saw that, I couldn't go into any store that sold records without looking for Star Wars and trying to get my mother to buy it for me. After constant nagging, she finally caved in and bought me a version of the score. It wasn't the original movie score, it was a version performed by the Electric Moog Orchestra, but for me, it was good enough. I wore that LP out! I've been hooked on movies scores ever since!
posted 04-26-1999 09:01 PM PT (US)

Maestro Sartori Oscar® Winner	I only started on soundtracks ten years ago this month, (My anniversary! I'm a freak!), with Back to the Future. I'd gone to Universal Studios Hollywood and seen the backlot and set to BTTF, where they played the music over the speakers on the tram. It was so cool! My next soundtrack was the score and song albums to Batman (how's that, SFT?). I've been collecting ever since. Now I have 272 soundtracks and my collection's growing all the time! (Now... correct the above entry to 279 soundtracks!!) [This message has been edited by Maestro Sartori (edited 06-09-99).]
posted 04-27-1999 04:36 AM PT (US)

Audacity Oscar® Winner	Bradley, I had the same LP when I was a kid. Even though that was way before I ever got into film scores I used to play that thing all of the time. For anyone who hasn't heard it, this LP was the Electric Moog Orchestra playing the themes from Star Wars with their own twist to them. It was like they took the Star Wars themes and made them sound fun and jolly so that little kids would like them more than the sometimes dark and loud regular version. I finally got a new record player a couple months ago and dug out all of my scores on LP and this was among them so I put it on. It brought back so many memories of watching Star Wars while trying to build The Millennium Falcon and Tie Fighters out of Legos. Man, see what music does. Audacity
posted 04-27-1999 06:11 AM PT (US)

pietari Oscar® Winner	My first time of noticing film music was with Elfman`s Batman, even though I got the horrible Prince album before finally finding a vinly copy of the score fro about two pounds.Weird Fact: the vinyl has les scorethan the cd version. Since then I haven`t listend to anything else besided soundtracks. After that Goldsmith was my main source of film music especially with Total Recall, which I also got in vinyl.(After that I`ve bought both of them on cd) Now I have over 500 soundtrack and growin weekly.
posted 04-27-1999 08:20 AM PT (US)

Bradley Oscar® Winner	Audacity, That is soooo cool!!! I didn't think anyone else would have even heard of that album. I'm going to go digging around myself now and see if I can find that old LP. I hope I haven't passed it on to my nephews, yet Bradley
posted 04-27-1999 12:45 PM PT (US)

Floyd Pepper Oscar® Winner	I like the idea that lots of people are still attracted or even "convinced" by film music, and their number seems to grow... Unfortunately the shops in Germany still did not get the clue and most of them only sell the pop samplers... My first contact with film music (besides in films) was when I bought SUPERMAN - The Movie on vinyl. Actually this was accidental because I thought it was a radio play, I didn't know that "scores" existed (I was about 8 years old , as ffar as I remember). Then there was ALIEN on, and I had to ask myself why the film had so much effect on me. It did not take me long to consider Goldsmith's score a major factor. so I went bying it, the old fox record, and instantly fell in love... when I remembered my old SUPERMAN score, it was the beginning of a collection now consisting of around 650 scores - but what are numbers? it is the music that counts, and still it is film music that touches and surprises me most...
posted 06-08-1999 04:39 AM PT (US)

Jasom Oscar® Winner	My score collection started with the movie Rudy. This movie was such an emotional one and Goldsmith did such an awesome job that I went out right after watching the movie and bought the soundtrack. A big reason why my collection kept getting bigger is that I work at a movie theatre and I would usually go pick up the trash after a movie was over while the credits were playing. A lot of times I would get really interested in a soundtrack just from listening to the closing credits. Now my collection is well over 200 soundtracks. Jasom-np:Star Wars: Phantom Menace
posted 06-08-1999 11:02 AM PT (US)

Norman McCay Oscar® Winner	Forrest Gump, the movie. 'Nuff said.
posted 06-08-1999 02:25 PM PT (US)

Steph1 unregistered	Well my first soundtrack was "Last of the Mohicans" and it was actually watching the movie that inspired me to buy it.
posted 06-08-1999 02:48 PM PT (US)

Sean Bires Oscar® Winner	When I was twelve, I bought the Star Wars soundtrack on audio cassette. Star Wars introduced me to orchestral movie music.
posted 06-08-1999 03:30 PM PT (US)

Aaron Collins Oscar® Winner	I liked film music before, but I really never bought any soundtracks. Actually, the first soundtrack was purely by accident.
posted 06-08-1999 07:18 PM PT (US)

Aaron Collins Oscar® Winner	I liked film music before, but I really never bought any soundtracks. Actually, the first soundtrack was purely by accident. I aciddently switched cds with someone and wound up with their Twister and Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtracks. I really enjoyed those and I immediately started buying more and more. I now have about 150 soundtracks and 30 compilations. I am really glad I got into film music. I started composing and now I have composed music for local films and now I am starting with Disney soon! It is a dream come true! Aaron NP: ET
posted 06-08-1999 07:21 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Oscar® Winner	Back to the Future all the way Then Jurassic Park, and of course Cameron's T2, oh yeah it rocked and still does Personal Note: If you guys are out there, Thank you Steven Spielberg and John Williams for making my visions of JP reality when I was 12 years old. As for scores I've been hocked ever sence the ones listed above --Crono/Kyp Writer/Director/Producer Forrest Gump: Alan Silvestri (****) [This message has been edited by Crono/Kyp (edited 06-08-99).]
posted 06-08-1999 07:55 PM PT (US)

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