1. Roughly how many soundtrack CDs do you own?

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

My answers:

1. 120
2. John Williams
3. Ennio Morricone
4. Probably Jeron
5. About half but I'm catching up.
6. Pearl Harbour, Lord of the Rings, Episode 2.

1. Roughly how many soundtrack CDs do you own?

- About 500

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

- Jerry Goldsmith (110), John Williams (45), Morricone (25)

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

- Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

H. Rocco, Jeron, Kinsinger

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

Yes, I have.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

1. Roughly how many soundtrack CDs do you own?

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

My answers:

1. Approaching 750.
2. Jerry Goldsmith
3. John Scott (many thanks to Tim Turner and Mike Joffe)
4. Shaun, Scott, Camillu, Hatfield, Rocco, and Peter. I'm sure there are more...
5. No way...
6. 3 films? Hmmmm... here's 11: The Mummy Returns, Star Trek X, LotR, Ep. 2, Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, Castaway, Vertical Limit, Pearl Harbor, Finding Forrester, and Bond 20.

2) James Horner

3) Max Steiner

4) Howard L, closely followed by vulcantouch (now no longer attached to the Movie Music Message Board)

5) 72.4% (exactly)

6) THE PLEDGE, HANNIBAL, LAST ORDERS (out of sheer curiosity)

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?
James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?
William Ross, Mark McKenzie, Christopher L. Stone

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?
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5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?
No. and No. In case you're interested, I often buy stuff based on the composer, not the movie. In the last few years, I have seldom been so interested by a score so as to buy it.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?
None. All crap.

BTW, I'm also looking forward to Harry Potter, but that would make 4.

2. Jerry Goldsmith followed closely by Ennio Morricone.

3. Morricone

4. Probably Shaun Rutherford, Mark Hatfield and H Rocco...and anyone else who likes orchestral horror and suspense film music.

5. a) Hahaha! b) only if I win the lottery

About 385

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

Hans Zimmer, 41 scores

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

John Scott

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Uh... I don't think anynone.

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

A majority of them I haven't seen the movies.
Some of them I want to see.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

Uh.... hard to say since I don't know what will be around 2 years from now.
Pearl Harbor, Mummy Returns, and Vertical Limit I plan to get.

2.) Goldsmith

3.) Basil Poledouris and Carter Burwell (tie)

4.) Brad, Joe, Shaun, Chris, Mark, Marian, Jeron, and Joan.

5.) I've seen almost all of them, and have plans to see the majority of the rest.

6.) I'm not already prepared to buy or trade for scores to any of the upcoming movies - let's see how they sound, first!

Top people I collect: pare no. CDs only

Goldsmith(114), Rozsa(27), Williams(36), Newman(27), Howard(27), Poledouris(25), Waxman(18), Korngold(17), Steiner(12), North(12), Bernstein(20), Herrmann(27), Edelman(14). Also like 25 others including McKenzie, Safan, Barry, Mancini, Salter, Skinner.

Really interested in the MMM no. 3 Cd right now with Creature. Next on the list.

Mostly I collect the composers I am most interested in but any score I like I buy. 1929-present good film scores by anyone.

Really interested in Newman CDs that will come out also. Like Westerner and some of Tiomkin's and Waxman's Objective Burma, just out.

Joan Hue and Lou Goldberg have many of same interests I do on this board and others too like Jeron.

Also a big John Scott, Moross, Friedhofer, Kaper, Addison fan.

A pitiful 61.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

Jerry Goldsmith

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

Jerry Goldsmith

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Hum?

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan to?

Yes I have most of them and I do plan to see the ones I haven't.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

AI, Along Came a Spider, and The Matrix 2

I don't know, man! I have about 1300 CDs total, but that includes "real music".

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?
JerG.

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?
Christopher Young.......and scores written by Dan Goldwasser (stupid joke that only people who read his "New Reviews" posting will get)

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?
Nobody. I hate you all.
In truth,
"The Marks"---Hatfield and Olivarez

"majestyx"

Jeron---though he fails to share my love of scores written by Harold Faltermeyer

PeterK---especially with "real music"

Henry Rocco, um,

Howard L---made me love the Matinee score

Who else? Actually, took DjC's advice and picked up Blue Man Group and loved it (percussive as hell!), oh, forgot Mom! Thanks for bein' you, Joan! Brad, oh Brad! Joel! Mike! Al! Holy hell, I forgot JJH! You da man! Anyway, you guys are cool, you know that.

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?
I've seen 100% of the films that I've seen.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?
Next two years? Looking forward to Chris Young's The Gift, I guess the next Star Wars score, whatever John Ottman's doing, Shore's Lord Of The Rings. Hard question!

Well, anyway, thanks for liking good music!

Shaun

Total about 300, mostly classical and film music. Film music probably clocks in at around 200.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

Williams, then Goldsmith (although Goldsmith might be very close now, it's difficult to count them at the moment because there are now too many CDs to fit on the shelf)

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

Goldsmith, although I'm just calming down again. I've gotten so many new CDs in the last few months that I generally try to cut down on CD purchases and catch up with listening.

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Hard to say. Many people here share favourites, but virtually everybody has other favourites I've never heard.

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

No, many of my scores were bought unheard. I usually try to see the film for a score if possible, because I think that it enhances my understanding of the music (of the music separated from the movie, not as plain film music, Thor )

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

Harry Potter (might be Williams' next [i]Hook or Jurassic Park), The Lord of the Rings, Episode 2 (whatever Goldsmith does, of course, too. Will Matrix 2 be scored by Don Davis? Then it should also be very exciting).

So, heeereee they go.

1. Roughly how many soundtrack CDs do you own?

750

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

There is a tie....

James Horner: 83
John Williams: 83
Second up; Jerry Goldsmith: 61
Third; Hans Zimmer: 48
Fourth; Danny Elfman: 33 (just about everything that has been released)

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

It varies from day to day. Recently it has been Thomas Newman, but today browsing through some Williams sites and listening to some old cd's I decided that I am gonna focus on getting more Williams.

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

I'm too new here. Don't know anyone yet. Although some names look familiar from the old, and obsolete rec.music.movies days!

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

The big movies, yes. The small independant movies, yes. "The Rapture" and "Mutant"... NO. Don't plan on it either!

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

Episode II, Hannibal, A.I

I guess thats it. I could go on and on and on about what scores I'm looking forward to, but I won't bore you with that!!

Roughly 437, counting double sets as one.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

Jerry, of course. (My, but he's popular here. Almost everyone owns the most of his stuff...)

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

Joe Hisaishi. If you're not looking into him, you should be!

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Gee... that's tough. Just about everyone here shares my tastes in some ways, but doesn't in others.

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

No, and no. I've seen maybe half the films for scores I have, and I have no plans to look into the other half. The number of films I've seen for scores I have is sure to go up, though, do to my new policy of not buying scores on a chance (unless it's a VERY good chance, like anything Poledouris or Hisaishi).

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

Only three??
Whoa... I guess LOTR, Pearl Harbor, and JP3. Runners up: Final Fantasy, Vertical Limit, Along Came A Spider, anything Williams, anything Goldsmith, anything JNH, etc., etc.

About 200.

2) Which composer takes up most of your collection?

John Williams.

3) Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

Franz Waxman

4) Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Not sure.

5) Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan to?

Yes and yes (for the few I haven't seen yet).

6) Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

I only own about 5 or 6 soundtracks
(let's see... Driving Miss Daisy, Cinema Paradiso, Gladiator, Mission Impossible, ummm...) Pathetic! (Classical music doesn't count, d'oh!)

Since I don't know the answers to the other questions, I will just say a couple things, since I am new.

I am a senior in high school in California, and I have only recently gotten interested in film scores. Coming to this board was great, because you guys are all so knowledgeable and frank and ready to give recommendations right away! Before coming here I had no idea which direction to turn! I only wish that I could afford to go to the store and buy every single CD you have all recommended...

So, thank you all very much for answering the survey, making me extremely jealous, and providing me with an endless stream of new products to consume--albeit that many of them I won't hear for a while.

Because some guys are more prolific than others, the guy with the most CDs on the rack, isn't necessarily the guy I hold in the highest esteem. For sheer numbers, it's got to be Goldsmith, possibly Morricone, Herrmann, or Rozsa.

The composer whose works I'm most interested in getting into my collection right now is Akira Ifukube.

There are a lot of guys here who share my tastes or part of them--John Winfrey, Graham Watt, Gunther K, Rang, Rocco, various Marks past and present, the Anime guys, etc. But I've been vocal against Horner and the Media Ventures crew (both have done good stuff though) if you ask whose tastes I don't share.

In a majority of the cases, I have seen the films of scores I own, even own the films on VHS. There are some pretty obscure films I've seen, but there are even more obscure films, especially foreign ones, which I have scores to but cannot see even if I wanted to.

There are promised CDs I want, but nothing specific I'm looking forward to in new film scores--I follow my favorites, but maybe someone new will surprise me.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?
The most prominent is probably Jerry Goldsmith

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?
Max Steiner

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?
Marian, Joan and Andre (with the exception of the Danny Elfman thing)

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan to?
I have seen the film for many of them, but whether or not I see a film depends on elements other than the score.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?
John Williams & Jerry Goldsmith

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

John Williams & Akira Ifukube

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Shaun, Lou, H Rocco, Marian and Jeron

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

I'd say about 90%

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

As of my last count just over 500.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

That would be,

Jerry Goldsmith - 48
John Williams - 36
James Horner - 27
John Barry - 17
Alan Silvestri - 16
Basil Poledouris - 13

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

That would be Basil Poledouris, James Newton Howard and Christopher Young.

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

Too many to mention. Though Jeron, JJH, John Dunham, Marian Schedenig and OHMSS are all similar, it would seem!

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

Nope! Not these days. Almost all new scores, I have not, since I never go to the theater. It's all about the music IMO, Though, I do normally plan on seeing the films, if I like the music. So, far I would think more than half of my collection, is to films I have not seen.

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

SWII
The Mummy Returns
Jurassic Park 3

2. John Williams, followed closely by Hans Zimmer.

3. Not really sure...

4. Those who like Zimmer's works

5. I usually buy the soundtrack after I watch the movie, except in the case where I hear really good reviews of the score, and the movie is no longer playing in the cinema and I don't want to buy/rent the video.

6. Episode 2, Pearl Harbour, Final Fantasy Movie

NP Final Fantasy 8 Piano Collection

I sometimes worry that with all my new CDs coming in, I'm only giving the new ones a few quick listens before putting them proudly on the shelf. When I had only a handful I knew each score off by heart and could anticipate every note and fanfare.

Does having so many CDs mean that you don't give them enough listening time to get to know them well?

Or have they been collected over many years?

I've promised not to buy any more until 2001 (except Phantom Menace Ultimate) so as to sit down and appreciate some CDs I got this year and which I only heard sparingly. So far I've kept this promise since early November - but it's been tough

NP - The Godfather - Rota

Probably around 60 or so... I'll get up there in the hundreds, one day!

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?

Hans Zimmer and Jerry Goldsmith, collectively, represent 35% of my collection.

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?

Probably JG.

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?

A lot of people have similar tastes.

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?

Heck no. Unless they come out on the networks

6. Which 3 scores are you most looking forward to in the next 2 years?

Pearl Harbor, mainly. I'll take the others as I hear more about them.

2. Which composer takes up most of your collection?
John Williams – 50
Jerry Goldsmith – 44
James Horner – 34 (I had no idea I had so much James Horner)
Danny Elfman – 33
Ennio Morricone - 19

3. Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?
Max Steiner

4. Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?
Jeron (who, like myself seems to enjoy many different composers)
Thor (John Williams and Danny Elfman)
H Rocco (Jerry Goldsmith)

5. Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?
Yes, I love movies as much as movie music and I feel that you have to see the film to judge how well it works as a film score as opposed to a pure listening experience.

Luca$film hasn't announced the actual title.

2) Mr. Goldsmith takes up most space (around a quarter, with 47). Other than that, it's fairly well spread out, next up is Elfman with 11, Beltrami with 10, & Williams with 9.

3) Hard to choose just one, but I'm quite keen on finding more by Zbigniew Preisner, John Scott, & Pino Donaggio at the moment.

4) Not really sure. A few people (I won't mention names, to avoid offending those I don't mention) like fairly similar things to me, but also like stuff I don't, or dislike stuff I like. Ah well.

5) I've probably only seen around half of the films. Some I'd really like to see, others I'm quite happy with just having the CD (Rambo 3 springs to mind with this).

6) Along Came a Spider. Dracula 2000. Planet of the Apes.

np Up at the Villa (Donaggio)

2) Goldsmith (pity I can't be more original, but that's who's leading) with 7

3) So many to choose, but I must go with Silvestri, Debney, Walker, D. Newman and, of course, #2

4) No one, actually; I guess I was just destined to march to my own beat

5) Surprisingly, for a person who lusts after scores based on audio clips as opposed to seeing the film (I'm not the only one. Admit it!), I've seen a healthy portion - 67% - of the films in my collection

6) The Mummy Returns,...to be square with you, that's all I can think of.

Which composer are you most interested in collecting at the moment?
....Zimmer, Craig Armstrong

Which other board member do you think has tastes most similar to yours?
....Haven't been here long enough to really tell, but I tend to agree with Jeron on several issues.

Have you seen the films of most of your scores? Do you plan too?
....about 99%

2. Jerry Goldsmith

3. Hmmm... Jerry G., John Williams, Hans
Zimmer, Trevor Jones, James Horner and
Beethoven( I know, I know. He's not a
film composer. But damn his music is
amazing!)

4. I don't really know anyone here. Every
time I post no one replys, so I don't
come here to often. Sorry.

5. I've seen most of them. I would like to
see all of them.

6. I'm looking forward to: The Mummy
Returns, A.I., SW: Episode II, ST:X,
Pearl Harbor, Lord of The Rings, The New
Dune Miniseries, Atlantis, Along Came a
Spider, Cast Away and Jaws 5(just
kidding).

quote:

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Originally posted by Camillu:
Does having so many CDs mean that you don't give them enough listening time to get to know them well?

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Not really. Whenever I buy a CD, I listen to it as often as I can in the first few weeks.

When I get to know it well, I pick the tracks I want and I copy them on tape.

After that, I tend to listen mostly to the tape. I'd only listen to the full CD if I'm planning a long stretch of work (for example a five hour math assignment).

1. A lot! (but not as many as some of you on these boards have)

2. Unlike the majority, Goldsmith isn't my favorite film composer BUT I have more of his scores than anyone else's, probably 80 or 90! (I haven't counted)

3.Mychael Danna and Christopher Gordon are really ringing my bell at the moment, looking forward to hearing more from these two!

4. NONE OF YA! (only joking), I go along with the above people who don't want to mention names, I'm pretty sure that we ALL share some aspects of each other's taste, some more than other's etc....but this is a film music board for cripes sake!!

5. Probably the majority of them.

6. I'm not in any hurry...when they come out they come out!,In the mean time there's plenty of films and music available right now!

Tim

2. My first soundtracks were Goldsmith and Barry and they still dominate. About 120 Goldsmiths, 59 Barrys, 40 Horners, 27 Elfmans and Williams, 18 Edelman and Schifrins.

3. Don't really focus on specific composers, but I've been picking up a lot of Roy Budd lately. Among newer composers, I'd like to see more from Debbie Wiseman and Christophe Beck.

4. My taste is somewhat eclectic, but Jeron might be closest. I'm not as fond of John Williams or the Media Ventures bunch as many here are. They just don't connect with me on an emotional level.

5. I very rarely see the films in the theater, but catch a lot on cable. Those of you that are married can probably relate to the current obsession with crude language making most current films unacceptable to my spouse (we actually have a reviewer that counts the profanities).

I used to do a rotation thing with them, but I have decided that It's not worth it. Everything gets listened to, but the frequency varies.

2.Danny Elfman

3.No one really i like about everyone

4.Good question?? I don't know of anyone at the moment?

5.most of them i have and the ones i haven't i hope to soon!!

6. 1.Pearl Harbor
2.Episode 2
3.Bond 20

A suggestion to all the people out there trying to get Steiner scores into their collection (but you have to have a tape deck):

Contact the Max Steiner society at hometown.aol.com/steinerlib/ they have cheap cassettes of tons of Steiner scores, straight off the discs that Steiner collected of his own sessions (why they never went over to CD...but they never did).

Jezebel, The Searchers, Sgt. York, The Letter, Dark Victory, Casablanca, Now Voyager, Don Juan, Helen of Troy, Since You Went Away, The Woman in White, The Fountainhead, Operation Pacific, etc. etc.

NP: The Lighthorsemen (Mario Millo)