DRAWER 1, gathering dust as we speak: James Horner.

DRAWER 2, below drawer 1, Elfman, Herrmann, Silvestri, Thomas Newman

DRAWER 3, Jerry Goldsmith

DRAWER 4, John Williams/Jerry Goldsmith

The rest is either in my spinner or across the room, which used to be a dreaded spot for scores, but has as of late become the only place I have to put stuff.

Anyway, I wanted to know how you guys (especially the Goldsmith fans) arranged your collections (just your favorite composers' works).

Here's how mine goes. The numbers are of course just the collection numbers, that I didn't feel like deleting:

FIRST GOLDSMITH DRAWER:JERRY GOLDSMITH
1. Air Force One (Varese)
2. Alien (complete score, 2CD, 99 minutes)
9. Barnaby Jones (pilot episode score; 20 minutes)
10. Basic Instinct
11. The Blue Max
12. The Boys From Brazil (complete, but glitchy)
13. Breakheart Pass
16. The 'burbs (complete score, 57 minutes) 18. Capricorn One (complete score; great sound)
19. The Cassandra Crossing
21. Chinatown
23. Coma
25. Contract On Cherry Street (Prometheus club)
26. Damien: Omen II (A Black Mass)
27. Deep Rising
29. The Edge
33. Explorers
34. Fierce Creatures
35. The Final Conflict
36. First Blood
38. First Knight (complete score)
47. Gremlins (complete score)
54. In Like Flint/Our Man Flint
56. Islands In The Stream
57. Justine (Germany; also has a cue by Herbert Spencer!)
60. LA Confidential (complete score)
61. Legend (Silva)
66. The List Of Adrian Messenger (complete)
74. Masada (complete 2CDs- second disc is Morton Stevens' arrangements/originals)
76. Medicine Man
81. Mulan (complete score, Academy promo/alternates)
82. The Mummy (Decca release)
83. The Mummy (complete score, 90 minutes)
85. The Omen (Varese)
87. 100 Rifles (FSM release)
88. Outland/Capricorn One
89. Papillon
90. Patton (FSM release)
91. A Patch Of Blue (Intrada, good version)
92. Planet Of The Apes/Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
94. Poltergeist
98. Psycho II
99. QB VII
100. Rambo: First Blood Part II (Silva expanded edition)
103. The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud (complete)
107. Rio Conchos (original tracks, complete FSM edition)
110. Rudy
111. The Russia House
121. Small Soldiers: The Recording Sessions, Volume One (2CD; 90 minutes)
128. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Sony Legacy)
135. The 13th Warrior (aka Eaters Of The Dead; 50 minutes, 20 minutes not on Varese)
136. The 13th Warrior (Varese release, 20 minutes not on bootleg)
139. Total Recall (expanded, 30 minutes more music; good sound )
140. Twilight's Last Gleaming
141. Twilight Zone: The Movie
142. 2 Days In The Valley (rejected score)
143. Under Fire
144. U.S. Marshals
146. Von Ryan's Express/Our Man Flint/In Like Flint (album arrangements; I put this in because I put everything my girlfriend gets me in the first drawer)
149. The Wind And The Lion

Phew! That's Goldsmith: Drawer One

Here's Goldsmith: Drawer Two (due to it being mostly Williams stuff in the drawer, there aren't many, but these are ones that I frequently listen to as well)

7 Bad Girls
14. Breakout (Prometheus club)
43. The Ghost And The Darkness
64. Lionheart
65. Lionheart Volume 2
67. Logan's Run
68. Lonely Are The Brave
72. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Volume One; all Goldsmith)
79. Morituri/In Harm's Way
84. Night Crossing (59 minutes)
93. Players (30 minutes)
102. Ransom/The Chairman (horrible sound, for an official release)
113. The Sand Pebbles (Tsunami)
122. SPFM Tribute (incl. Baby, The Flim-Flam Man, Take A Hard Ride, and Magic)
134. Take A Hard Ride (complete)

Now, the spinner:
24. Congo
28. Dennis The Menace
30. Escape From The Planet Of The Apes/The Mephisto Waltz (better sound than Varese)
40. Freud
48. Gremlins 2
49. The Haunting
50. Hollister (theme by Jerry; music by Joel Goldsmith; also features Little Miss Millions by Joel)
62. Leviathan
71. Malice
78. Mom And Dad Save The World
96. Powder
108. Rio Lobo (32 minutes)
106. Rio Conchos/The Artist Who Did Not Want To Paint (Prologue to "The Agony and The Ecstasy")
109. The River Wild
114. The Satan Bug (with sound effects)
116. The Secret Of NIMH
117. The Shadow
124. Stagecoach/The Loner (FSM release)
125. Star Trek: First Contact
126. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
127. Star Trek: Insurrection
129. The Stripper/The Travelling Executioner
130. Studs Lonigan
131. Supergirl (Silva)
133. The Swarm (complete score, 2CDs; great sound)
151. Jerry Goldsmith:The Rare Collection (includes a TON of unreleased scores; Salamander, Seconds, The Lineup, Fate Is The Hunter, more)
148. Wild Rovers/The Great Train Robbery

The rest, over on the other side of the room on the shelves:

3. Alien (Silva Screen)
4. Alien Nation (rejected score)
5. Angie
6. Baby: Secret Of The Lost Legend
8. Bandolero!
15. The 'burbs (Varese Club; 30 minutes)
17. Caboblanco
20. Chain Reaction (Varese release, with 7 extra minutes of demos)
22. City Hall
31. Executive Decision
32. Executive Decision (2CD complete, about 90 minutes)
37. First Knight
39. Forever Young
41. Frontiers (incl. Logan's Run, Illustrated Man, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
42. The General With The Cockeyed I.D./City Of Fear
44. A Girl Named Sooner (30 minutes; hissy)
45. Gladiator (rejected score; Rowdy Herrington directed)
46. Gremlins (Geffen Germany)
51. Hollywood Symphonic Spectacular (Japanese release, includes rerecorded The Swarm, 5 others)
52. Hour Of The Gun
53. The Illustrated Man (46:00, all ONE track!!)
55. Innerspace (complete score)
58. King Solomon's Mines
59. LA Confidential (Varese)
63. Lilies Of The Field
69. The Lonely Guy (three cues by Goldsmith)
70. Love Field
73. Masada (Varese)
75. Matinee
77. The Mephisto Waltz/The Other (Varese; actually inferior to the bootleg)
80. Mulan (Disney album release, 32 minutes)
86. The Omen (complete score)
95. Poltergeist II (short one, sucky)
97. The Prize (4 cues from LP)
101. Rambo III
105. Rent-A-Cop
112. The Sand Pebbles (Varese rerecording; extra cues)
115. Sebastian (24 minutes, from LP)
118. Six Degrees Of Separation
119. Sleeping With The Enemy
120. Small Soldiers (Varese, 31 minutes)
123. The Spiral Road
132. The Swarm (LP transfer)
137. Tora! Tora! Tora! (rerecording, also features Patton)
138. Total Recall
145. The Vanishing
147. Warning Shot
150. Jerry Goldsmith: Odds & Ends (includes Seven Days In May, The List Of Adrian Messenger, The Challenge, other unreleased scores)
152. Jerry Goldsmith: The Rare Collection, Volume Two (TV themes--Black Saddle, Help, Hawkins; also The Prize, The Red Pony, To Trap A Spy, more)
153. The Twilight Zone, Volume One (features 3 Goldsmith scores and 2 from Herrmann; main theme also)
154. Jerry In The Zone: Music From The Twilight Zone (includes all Goldsmith's available compositions for The Twilight Zone)

Tell me what you think? Ask me questions!

Feeling VERY insignificant,
Jeron

......Really, I've lost all hope. Devastation... Dismay... Perhaps I'll cry myself to sleep...

PS - I don't know how old you are... but it would make me feel better if you were 50 or so. At least I'd know I'm doing good for my age... Of course, if you ARE my age, I think that'll make me feel even worse.

Sean Robert Abbey

I personally do my arranging of Cds in chronological order starting with whoever has the most CDs and work my way down to the composer who I own the least amount of CDs by(ie - Williams (Angela's Ashes-Cowboys, then Goldsmith on down to Conti)

So it starts with my classical CDs, than Comedy, Compilations, Hard Rock, New Age,
Rock/Pop and last Soundtracks. Then within those genres, alphabetical by artist than
title.

I hope that makes sense!

I will tell you that I am considering, putting them in another order, at least for the non soundtracks. Seeing as I only have one shelf devoted to CDs other than the
soundtracks and compilations, I might try to put them in an more *better* order.

I'd be interested in hearing what you all think is the best way to organize them.

Thanks, and See ya' later.

NP: Starship Troopers

Then I have two cabinets to hold my LP collection (in-house, as opposed to about 600 LPs in storage) with roughly 900 LPs. All soundtracks.

In both case, I arrange the CDs/LPs in alphabetical order by title....there are far too many composers out there to generate a one-of-a-kind divider for. By sorting titles alphabetically, I don't need dividers.

NP: Still Prokofiev... "Romeo and Juliet" is still running.

Then I have two cabinets to hold my LP collection (in-house, as opposed to about 600 LPs in storage) with roughly 900 LPs. All soundtracks.

In both cases, I arrange the CDs/LPs in alphabetical order by title....there are far too many composers out there to generate a one-of-a-kind divider for. By sorting titles alphabetically, I don't need dividers.

For the other shelves: I arrange the composers alphabetically. Then, within each composer's section, I arrange the scores by year. Then, within each year, I arrange the albums alphabetically.

Ideally, I'd arrange them according to WHEN THEY WERE RECORDED, but in most cases I simply don't know that.

I do know more about Goldsmith's schedule than that of most other composers, but obsession has its limits, so I simply go by release year, and then arrange them alphabetically as I do with the others. For example, 1979: ALIEN, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, STAR TREK. Actually, I think they WERE recorded roughly in that order. But then it gets difficult: CABOBLANCO came out in 1980, but I'm not sure when it was actually recorded. I think MASADA followed, but THE FINAL CONFLICT played on screens before MASADA was on TV. And then OUTLAND. See, it gets confusing. Hence, the alphabetical system.

For theme compilations, I just put those at the top of the composer's category. Thus, "Jerry Goldsmith Suites and Themes" and "Frontiers" would be put at the very top of the Goldsmith shelf. Ditto his "Tribute" from 1993. Then we can get into the chronological arrangement.

And I've only got 37 Goldsmith CD.s.

Goldsmith scores: I have 1! That will soon swell to 2! Oh baby!

Anyway, the way I organiz my, as I just found out today, pathetic collection is by Composer and then by the year the film came out. My collection starts (surprise, surprise) with John Williams continues on to Jerry Goldsmith. All other scores are seperated on a cd spinner or in a cd wallhanger.

Scott

All is alphabetical, EXCEPT:

My favourite composer is JOHN WILLIAMS. This is how I arrange my 90 CD collection:

Chronologically. Alphabetical within same year.

Coupled discs like POSEIDON ADVENTURE/CONRACK/PAPER CHASE and the STAR WARS sets and IRWIN ALLEN sets are pains in the ass, but I group them together, although this deviates somewhat from my chronological order. The POSEIDON disc goes by the first title on the disc, for simplicity.

If there's more than ONE sequel, they are also grouped together (i.e. the STAR WARS'es and INDY's are together chronologically by release of first film). With only ONE sequel (such as HOME ALONE's, JAWS'es or JURASSIC PARK's), they are separated and put into their respective year.

Compilations and non-soundtrack works are put at the end - alphabetically, chronologically and by label.