I have gotten my cousin to like it; his favorite composer is Thomas Newman.

Hehe, but my parents and sister still don't like it all that much. But my sister's husband likes it, I am going to hook him while I can

--Brian

In some rare cases (Love Story, Romeo and Juliet (Rota), Ben Hur, Gladiator (Zimmer, Walton and co.), or The Man in the Iron Mask (Glennie-Smith)) when I would listen to those scores, they might recognise the scores and say they remind them of something, or they might actually identify the movie.

however, they think I am a freak for my collecting habits.

So your a FREAK eh JJ?...ME TOO!...good club innit!!

p.s. No one would DARE tell me NOT to play something....have you seen my Spider?!

It does put the burden on me....it does leave me having to define everything I play aloud....It's not as though someone could come into the room and instantly know what i'm listening to. Most responses of people who overhear me listening to film music:
"this is annoying."
"this is loud."
"this is sad."
"this is *too* sad."
"this is going to put me to sleep."
"what the hell is this?"
(also, "what the hell are you listening to?")
"this sounds too new age."
"don't you have anything with words?"
"this sounds just like that other thing you were playing yesterday. why do you need 2 cds that sound like this?"

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Originally posted by Lancelot:
"this is going to put me to sleep."
"don't you have anything with words?"
"this sounds just like that other thing you were playing yesterday. why do you need 2 cds that sound like this?"

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Ugh. Probably my three most loathed responses. They fill me alternately with rage, sadness, frustration, and an overwhelming sense of helplessness. *shudder*

I was looking for "Enemy at the Gates" (shaddup!) and asked the girl (who was fairly unattractive) if she had set it out. She gracefully plodded along to the soundtrack aisle (which I could have done) and browsed FOR ME. Didn't find it... go figure. I said, "Do you know when you might get it in?" She looked at the ceiling as if it held the answer and then responded: "I'm sure we'll get it in some time." Lots of help. She then decided to be smart and add: "I don't understand why they release soundtracks before the movie comes out. Who in their right mind would wanna hear it before they see the movie? How do they even know it's good?" I then summoned all the wit within me and said, "Well, it's James Horner... so I kind of know what to expect."

END STORY.

Anyway, Mr. Dad, I've got 2 parents (yep, 2! cool huh?), 1 grandmother, 2 sisters, and 3 friends who all enjoy the kind of music I listen to. Everyone else pokes and prods with annoying questions like the ones Lancelot mentioned.

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Originally posted by Jeron:
I was looking for "Enemy at the Gates" (shaddup!) and asked the girl (who was fairly unattractive) if she had set it out. She gracefully plodded along to the soundtrack aisle (which I could have done) and browsed FOR ME. Didn't find it... go figure. I said, "Do you know when you might get it in?" She looked at the ceiling as if it held the answer and then responded: "I'm sure we'll get it in some time." Lots of help. She then decided to be smart and add: "I don't understand why they release soundtracks before the movie comes out. Who in their right mind would wanna hear it before they see the movie? How do they even know it's good?" I then summoned all the wit within me and said, "Well, it's James Horner... so I kind of know what to expect."

END STORY.
Jeron

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Don't tell me this is the first time that happens to you.

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Originally posted by Jeron:
"Well, it's James Horner... so I kind of know what to expect."

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MOM-
Snow Falling on Cedars
Cider House Rules
Emma
Legend of Bagger Vance

SISTER
Cider House Rules
Out of Africa
Legend of Bagger Vance

DAD
The Rock
Drop Zone
Dances With Wolves

BROTHER
Drop Zone
Plunkett and Maclane

My Mum is not averse to listening to a bit, as long as it's not too loud or nasty (my parents weren't too pleased with listening to The Final Conflict one meal time, similarly Aliens & Alien Resurrection. You'd have thought I'd have learnt, really.)

Oh, & my flat mate has a couple. Sadly, he seems to think The Rock is the best score ever (sigh), & he also likes Vangelis' 1492. And he has the A-Team album. Another flat mate has Air's Virgin Suicides, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Whole 9 Yards & a couple of others.

My girlfriend has seen my soundtrack collection and was impressed although I have yet to make her listen to them yet.

My son, who is 12 likes to listen to them, in fact I usually give him my originals when an expanded version comes out and I have bought him some Williams scores. He also has a fondness for Akira Ifukube, mostly due to Godzilla, so I bought him GNP's Godzilla CDs.

My daughter, who is 14, will listen to them if I'm playing them but she prefers Lil Kim, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Kid Rock etc.

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Originally posted by wistiti:
Don't tell me this is the first time that happens to you.

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• My mother likes Horner, and a few others.
  
• My father doesn't like much of it, but appreciates some scores (like Gettysburg and Hunt For Red October).
  
• My brother generally likes most of the stuff I play.
  
• One of my sisters, Rosemary, likes Goldsmith in particular (The Mummy, Deep Rising, and Hollow Man are a few of her favorites) and other things in general. Sometimes she'll simply ignore whatever I'm playing (if she doesn't like it) but sometimes she'll decide she has to get the CD (like with Bram Stoker's Dracula, Needful Things, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, etc.)
  
• One of my other sisters, Catherine, enjoys film scores somewhat less, but has a few. (Mostly for films she's seen, although she expressed interest in The Claim when I played it.)
  
• My remaining two sisters are too young to have developed much in the way of musical taste, although the older of the two is obsessed with Pokemon and has the score CD for that.

NP: Evangelion Vol. III, Shiro Sagisu

Now I have to make sure that I never act as nutty as that.

NP: Basic Instinct (Goldsmith) ***/*****

The interesting thing is that I basically got into film music because I found Gerhardt's Star Wars album in my father's collection, at a time when I neither cared for orchestral music nor had ever seen the film. Yet, for some strange reason, I put in the CD and was instantly hooked. My father had bought the album because he had heard one piece on the radio and liked it, but it wasn't on the CD (the piece later turned out to be the Imperial March). He didn't like the rest of the stuff on the CD. Interesting, because our musical tastes are quite similar in other places, e.g. I "inherited" my love for Anton Bruckner's works from him.

Because of my constant (and probably annoying) talking about film music when I still lived with my parents, my mother has become somewhat aware of film music, though I'm always disappointed when she says she found the music in Great Train Robbery rather distracting, or she was annoyed by the songs in Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing, finding them to be too musical-like - I'm no fan of musicals either, but these songs are perfect!

I have a friend who likes film scores and classical music as well, though he doesn't listen to it nearly as often as I do and therefore only has a small collection - he's a great hobby composer, though. It was him who introduced me to music like Star Trek VI or Ben Hur by showing me the films, and he's also responsible in the first place for making me not only listening to the Star Wars scores but also watching the respective movies.

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...and asked the girl (who was fairly unattractive) if she had set it out...

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Does this mean...
1. Only attractive people like film scores?
2. Unattractive people are ugly?
3. Unattractive people are stupid?
4. Unattractive people don't like film scores? (see point 1)
5. Only "fairly" unattractive people work in CD shops.
6. Jeron is only ever served by those who are unattractive?
7. Only dumb ugly people are smart?
8. Only Jeron is smart?

CONTROVERSY!!!!!!!!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally muttered by Richard:
Does this mean...
1. Only attractive people like film scores?
2. Unattractive people are ugly?
3. Unattractive people are stupid?
4. Unattractive people don't like film scores? (see point 1)
5. Only "fairly" unattractive people work in CD shops.
6. Jeron is only ever served by those who are unattractive?
7. Only dumb ugly people are smart?
8. Only Jeron is smart?
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Answers:

1. No.
   
2. Yes, to a greater or lesser extent. That's what 'unattractive' means, at least when refering to physical appearance
   
3. Yes, some of them. Others aren't. Much like attractive people.
   
4. See point one.
   
5. Some CD shops hire people based partly on their appearance. In those shops, yes. In others, no.
   
6. Yes. Attractive people avoid him, sadly.
   
7. No. Dumb people can not, by definition, be smart.
   
8. No. I, too, am smart.
   

I also have some other friends, who enjoy particular scores and on occasion ask me to give them a copy of this and that. Mostly, this is because they love a certain film or because I have played something to death (ie urge overkill) and then they find, they want their own copy.

One of them does his morning ironing to 'The Matrix' and 'The X-Men complete' which I find rather amusing. Maybe its the idea of preparing his armour to 'do battle' with the world. His best friend is always asking me why I don't listen to real music but I know he's kidding. How can you take someone who likes to affectionately punch me in the arm seriously?

Peers-wise, some of my fellow film students really get into it as well. But just some. One in particular is as obsessive as I am about TTRL and other music from Malick films.

Family-wise, its just my sister who I adore. She recently asked me to send her a copy of 'Crouching Tiger'.

They Love JOHN BARRY!

And so does my brother. He'll occasionaly come and sit down for a listen and run away when the grand big slam bang parts appear.

My Mom although is gung ho about my "obsession" but she will often lament with:

"Turn off that Horrifying music, My blood pressure is rising" or " put it down my head is aching"

She thinks Ilike to listen to High tension music.

I used to listen to music while studying and she would blame my bad grades because of it.

Now, That I go to work and listen music in my car she tellms it dangerous for me as it may interfere in my driving concentration.

and she hates the MURDER music cue from PSYHCO.

The first time she heard it she thought it was nieghbours carpenter screeching away!

The only music my Dad likes occasinaly s Jazz and Elmer Bernstein's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN because that was his favourite movie when he was young boy!

By the way, I made a nice a nice compilation of film usic themes for my office's PABX machine. So, when my customers call and if put on hold they can listen to my music selections.

Again, Ive used John Barry, Herrmann, Goldsmith, Williams etc.

One occasion a female customer requested for this beautifull humming melody from AMISTAD and I ended up making a nice tape selection for her.

Amer Zahid
Karachi-Pakistan

My father was fond of Georges Delerue, especially DAY FOR NIGHT, and was entranced (God knows why, I sure don't) by James Newton Howard's main theme to GRAND CANYON. (Don't yell at me, Howard fans, I just don't cotton to most of his stuff.)

My mother is more responsive to film music than my father was, especially Goldsmith's "Kick The Can" from TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE.

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My wife likes Out Of Africa, Braveheart, Legends Of The Fall and some of Medicine Man (all girly things), oh and Moon River

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So I guess that makes me girly? JJ, shut up you.

Out of Africa is responsible for my love of film music...

My mother likes a lot of what I play to her, but then I don't (very often) play her stuff I don't think she'll like. Again, Mancini and Barry seem to be her favourites.

My dad doesn't take any notice of it being film music, it's just "music". But he hates the main themes to BEST SHOT and MR BASEBALL.

My sister won't listen to film music at all.

My wife says "my" music makes her nervous. It never fails - I'll put on something benign like "Powder" but she'll walk in right at the most atonal, noisy part.

I'm having more success with my 12 year-old daughter, who at least will listen and says she likes some things - like the "Star Wars" scores - but right now I cannot compete with the Backstreet Boys et al.