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John Zimmer Oscar® Winner	Well it's time for another unofficial poll and I hope that this will be an interesting thread. I'm Just curios but what was your very first score or soundtrack? The first score my family got which was from a friend for christmas, was Toy Story 2 by Randy Newman. It was an excellent start and I got so excitted about it that I ran out and bought MY very first soundtrack which was The Lost World By John Williams. I had a choice between Jurrasic Park and it and like a fool choose the lost world because I had know Idea which score to buy. Get this at that point I had not heard of Jerry Goldsmith the only composer I had heard of was John Williams. My brother's first score was The mask of zorro this was after I had bought mine. And my other brother's fist score was The 13th Warrior. Np:Amistad (John Williams) Jz
posted 06-03-2001 07:14 PM PT (US)

wistiti Oscar® Winner	1st soundtrack I ever got: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Birthday present soon after movie and soundtrack came out. Four years later: 1st soundtrack I ever bought: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country by Cliff Eidelman.
posted 06-03-2001 07:50 PM PT (US)

Buba Fett Oscar® Winner	Back to the Future, on tape. First only score release, Back to the Future 2. Those days long gone.
posted 06-03-2001 07:53 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	John, my first LP was El Cid shortly after I saw it at the Ridglea Theatre in Ft. Worth. After hearing that intermission march I had to have that score. I played it to death on my Aunt and Uncle's very nice stereo at the time. It is still one of my favorites even after all these years. John.
posted 06-03-2001 07:54 PM PT (US)

DaveK Oscar® Winner	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, by James Horner. Sadly, that was less than three years ago!
posted 06-03-2001 08:14 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Oscar® Winner	I think my first soundtrack was "Back to the Future" on tape! I'll have to look at my tapes to be sure, but I think that's it. That was back in 1989! --Brian
posted 06-03-2001 09:21 PM PT (US)

Hard Target Oscar® Winner	My first score, was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on LP. It was so freakin awesome, I had to beg my mom to buy it for me. I was like mom, mom, gimme gimme. And my first soundtrack on CD was Mark Isham's Timecop, I still have it and I still love the freakin score as short as it is. Ah well..
posted 06-03-2001 09:32 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	I think mine was Crimson Tide back in 95 (or was that 94? 96?)... Wistiti, speaking of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", I DESPERATELY want a bootleg of that score, it's awesome!!!! Oh well =( NP: What Dreams May Come (Rejected Morricone) **/*** ... Bad sound quality =
posted 06-03-2001 09:53 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Williams' JFK, back in January of '92. Followed by Aliens, then Sneakers. Yes, I'm a recovering Horner fan. Shaun
posted 06-03-2001 11:04 PM PT (US)

Big Bear unregistered	Soundtrack? 'The Muppet Movie', on LP, back when I was about four. Score? 'Star Wars', double LP set, around the same time.
posted 06-04-2001 01:53 AM PT (US)

sabbey Oscar® Winner	I can't remember which score was the first I bought. Since, I bought so much different music at the time. Though, I do remember getting the music from the Star Wars and BTTF trilogies, Batman and Terminator 2, just about that time. Along with a ton of songtracks. A few years earlier I think I had a cassette of at least one of the SW films as well. I did get a LP of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial when the film came out. However, it was a gift. And only listened to it once before the record player gave out. So, it did not make me a fan of film music. But, technically it was my first. Regards, Sean Robert Abbey
posted 06-04-2001 02:21 AM PT (US)

wistiti Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Hasta: Wistiti, speaking of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", I DESPERATELY want a bootleg of that score, it's awesome!!!! Oh well =( So would I, but I haven't heard of any bootlegs of this score.
posted 06-04-2001 06:48 AM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	Jurassic Park.
posted 06-04-2001 07:15 AM PT (US)

Quill Oscar® Winner	Star Trek VI...on tape in '92. When I finally got a CD player I purchased Basic Instinct. I was hooked and shortly thereafter went on binge with my meager funds and bought a disc copy of ST6...then Glory, Batman, and I believe...Alien3. Those were the days....
posted 06-04-2001 07:21 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	Robocop score, Back to the Future soundtrack and Back to the Future Parts II and III were the first scores I remember buying years ago, on vinyl no less. Dan (UK)
posted 06-04-2001 07:25 AM PT (US)

Aaron Hose Oscar® Winner	Only You, by Rachel Portman. NP: nothing.
posted 06-04-2001 07:30 AM PT (US)

SEBULBA Oscar® Winner	My first was Star Wars in 1977. It was actally my father who bought it, but I sat on the floor of the living room and listened to it for hours while looking through the LP booklet.
posted 06-04-2001 07:45 AM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	The first soundtrack album I heard was Jurassic Park, which I borrowed from the library. The first one I bought was Gremlins 2, followed by Alien. There was a really long story about this that I had up in my profile, but unfortunately I seem to have accidentally messed up updating it, & now it's not there no more. And it's far too long to type out again. At least for a while.
posted 06-04-2001 08:04 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Oscar® Winner	Same with me Pete ezcept I borrowed from the library Episode I. That's right, I'm that new to the score business. But now over that amount otime I have almost 100 scores. Jz
posted 06-04-2001 08:43 AM PT (US)

Scott Oscar® Winner	The Black Hole by Barry in 1981. That same year was Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back (all vinyl in those days). I bought Black Hole because I am a Disney fan. Star Wars (Williams) converted me into a collector and Williams fan. After those was Poltergeist and ET...now I was hooked and have been ever since. If it weren't for this addiction, I'd be a rich man by now. Scott
posted 06-04-2001 12:44 PM PT (US)

Bozman Oscar® Winner	First LP(s): The STAR WARS films in the early 80s. First Tape: HOOSIERS by Jerry Goldsmith. First CD: THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Basil Poledouris. -Sidney NP: "The Mystic" by Loreena McKennitt (used in the Fellowship of the Ring trailer) [Message edited by Bozman on 06-04-2001]
posted 06-04-2001 02:31 PM PT (US)

Camillu Oscar® Winner	Out of Africa - John Barry
posted 06-04-2001 03:06 PM PT (US)

felipevasquez Oscar® Nominee	I bought The Green Mile, on sale, after hearing Newman's work for American Beauty. Two days later I was returning to the CD store to buy my second CD: Jaws. Felipe Vasquez np: Crimson Tide (Hans Zimmer)
posted 06-04-2001 03:55 PM PT (US)

scored for life Oscar® Winner	well, i'm a little older than most, so my first soundtrack purchased was "Jaws" in the summer of 1975. I played the hell out of it but that started my long-standing love affair with movie music. When it needed replacing, i bought the cassette tape and then another LP of it just as a stand-by. So imagine my excitement when it first came out on CD! Sure have come a long way from those days, but that 26 year old LP still sits in my father's house as a reminder. I'll never get rid of it!
posted 06-04-2001 04:10 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Oscar® Winner	Amen for that! I went through my parents old collection of LPs the other night and found that my dad got "Rocky." I thought that was cool. --Brian
posted 06-04-2001 04:34 PM PT (US)

mgh Oscar® Winner	Well this will really date me. My first score was THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM. Not long after that I bought PETER GUNN, then STACCATO, GOD'S LITTLE ACRE and THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
posted 06-04-2001 04:41 PM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	My first soundtrack: Aladdin (1992) My first score: Jurassic Park (1992) Both in cassette. My first score CD: Mission: Impossible (1996) And the rest is history...
posted 06-04-2001 05:25 PM PT (US)

scoreguy15 unregistered	My first soundtrack was Dangerous Minds which I got 8 months before my first score. My first score was Broken Arrow. I didn't know scores existed until this CD. I asked myself one question the first time I heard the CD, "where's the singing?!" I got it for my b-day because I was a fan of the movie. But now, because of that awesome CD I love film scores. Clayton
posted 06-04-2001 07:36 PM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	Will, Jurassic Park was 1993...That is actually the first CD score I can recall getting, everything before that was cassette or vinyl. Dan (UK)
posted 06-05-2001 01:30 AM PT (US)

Kris Oscar® Winner	Long time ago, I think it was The Terminator somewhere in the 80's. I also remember buying Top Gun because of that one score track (Anthem). Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was an early purchase too. [Message edited by Kris on 06-05-2001]
posted 06-05-2001 03:13 AM PT (US)

Richard Street Oscar® Winner	First film music LP: BIG BOND MOVIE THEMES (Geoff Love & his Orchestra) First soundtrack LP: STAR WARS First cassette: GREMLINS 2, TOTAL RECALL. First CD: ROBOCOP 2 NP: THE THING (Ennio Morricone)
posted 06-05-2001 01:26 PM PT (US)

Bill R. Myers Oscar® Winner	First soundtrack-related purchase I made was the Spielberg/Williams collaboration tape in '91. First actual soundtrack was Gremlins 2 in the summer of '92.
posted 06-05-2001 04:26 PM PT (US)

ColDChill Oscar® Nominee	My First OSTs TAPE: Pump up The Volume CD: Teenage Mutant Turtles (I think That was a While ago )
posted 06-05-2001 05:13 PM PT (US)

Dave Oscar® Winner	First Tape: Raiders of the Lost Ark First CD: Jurrasic Park Hmmmmm both Speilberg/Williams gigs....is this coicidence?????? dave NP : beddy by for davey
posted 06-06-2001 01:37 AM PT (US)

Greg G Phillips Oscar® Nominee	A Christmas prezzie Dec 1977: STAR WARS on vinyl - I was a tender 14 year old then First one I bought was Close Encounters followed by Jaws and then Superman - The Movie. And 24 years later I'm still loving John Williams music and now also collect jerry Goldsmith, some Horner, some Silvestri, some James Newton Howard, some Elfman and some David Arnold. That Christmas prezzie was the best ever prezzie to have received, it has lasted nearly 25 years!!
posted 06-06-2001 02:37 AM PT (US)

Drixorial Oscar® Winner	god this will really show how green i am. the first score i bought was William's Star Wars Episode I right when it came out. followed by Glory the next day (a renting of the movie inspired that one) what would follow would be a spending flury that would have to be seen to believe! Jeron know's what i mean ! NP: Spitfire Grill - James Horner
posted 06-06-2001 02:54 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Oscar® Winner	Hmmm well I don't think your green (mostly because that was the first score I ever listended to) but uh not really. Any other newbies out there? Jz
posted 06-06-2001 07:33 AM PT (US)

SCimmerian Oscar® Winner	The first soundtrack album I heard was Kaper's MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. I was probably around six or seven years old. Its still my favorite main title music of any score. I was six when I heard Herrmann's THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and eight when I heard his MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. Was a Herrmann fanatic ever since. The first soundtracks I purchased indeed the first records I ever bought were Goldsmith's PATTON and Bernstein's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. Also I was in love with the music of Richard Strauss and this was all at the age of 10 or 11. My friends and family did not know what to think of this,I just knew this music was me and I will always love it.
posted 06-06-2001 01:56 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	I have told this story a number of times on the board already but here goes.... The very first film music LP I bought was Citizen Kane conducted by LeRoy Holmes (I didn't know it would be bad) at the age of 12 or 13. Ben-Hur or Obsession was the first Original Soundtrack I bought.
posted 06-06-2001 08:51 PM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	Started collecting in 1975 First soundtrack LP - Space:1999 Year One First soundtrack CD - North by Northwest p.s. I still have over 300 soundtracks on vinyl!
posted 06-06-2001 09:08 PM PT (US)

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