Back in about 1990 (I was 4 or 5), I started getting into the Back To The Future series. After singing the title song (and Johnny B. Goode) over and over my parents introduced me to "Soundtracks" (from annoyance or guidance...I'll never know lol). I was amazed, that they would take all the music from a movie and put it on cassette! After listening to BTTF on cassette countless times, I lost it and I fell out of movie music until...I started watching Godzilla movies. I loved the music in them to no end, (even recorded the movies onto cassette myself for the scores. Unfortunately, there was next to no way I could have obtained those soundtracks at the time.

So, I fell out again and was yanked back in by Jurassic Park. This score blew me away and it was my first CD. The Star Wars Trilogy and Star Trek Astral Symphony followed. A very long lapse followed, but I noticed people around me started liking actual bands...while I was perfectly content with the soundtracks I had.

When I came back into it (around 1995) I was able to get a nice collection going. I had all the BTTF, Apollo 13, Star Wars 1-3, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crimson Tide, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and a some others that escape me. Unfortunately, they were ALL lost when I moved and I regressed back into an almost nonexistant collection.

Then, in 1999, I got the Raiders and Saving Private Ryan sound track again and I was about to be back on the CD collecting...until Napster entered. I was on a James Bond craze at the time so I picked up Tomorrow Never Dies (Vol 1&2) and The World Is Not Enough. Those were my last CDs Then, I stopped completely and had CDRs as far as the eye could see. I was in almost no need to buy CDs.

This continued on through 2002, until I was in a car crash. While re-abilitating, I got really bored one day and did an Ebay search for the one Soundtrack I wanted more than anything else as a kid...ROBOCOP. I found it and made a strange decision to buy it since its nonexistant on the P2P programs (at least back when I used them). I stumbled onto soundtrack-express.com looking for a review of it. There I started looking at other reviews and came on ST II: The Wrath Of Khan. I remembered how bombastic and FUN this score was. I then decided to get that, as I read the review for ST: The Motion Picture...and I got both. Then, I added LOTR:FOTR to the list...then Hunt for Red October, and then Batman.

Afterwards, I picked up even more CDs and before I knew it...I was back into score collecting like never before. Now, I've been able to obtain almost all the titles I had as a kid (BTTF 2 is almost here) like Godzilla 1984, Godzilla Vs. Biollante, Robocop, Star Trek II, and Star Trek I. My collection will grow even larger I hope, as switching back to legitimate music buying has given me a very bizarre comfort and experiences that have easily helped me recover from this accident. Also, I've rediscovered something I loved so long ago (in things I can't live without). That alone, is worth the price of admission (even if a bit expensive at times).

1. love for many kinds of music when I was a kid

2. we had a great tv station in Ft. Worth back then-KTVT 11, which showed many old films, also Channel 8 in Dallas showed some on Great Movies on Fri night. I noticed Steiner, Korngold, Skinner and Salter and others on those films in the late 50s and got interested in film music.

3. A little later on I noticed Rozsa and Goldsmith, still two of my favorites.

4. by 1963 I was following Goldsmiths career already. Have since.

5. I was in bands several years back then, liked orchestral music.

6. Early 60s a great time for film music and I saw many of the films then. Spartacus, Alamo, all the Rozsa epics, Mutiny on Bounty. Many of these were well known themes then also. HWWW and so on.

Then over the years it was a case of getting the STAR WARS trilogy along with LPs I heard in the movies, taping films off the TV for their music (videotaping the movies and then going back to record the best bits) and occassionally hearing scores being played in stores such as HMV (e.g., RAMBO FIRST BLOOD - PART II).

Then it has really snowballed since then to about 450 scores. I have found that access to the internet, web buying and availability of audio clips has accelerated my purchases.

As an aside, I am always amazed how much you can tape Morricone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY off the TV and get music without dialogue.

P.S. At least with the Meco single there was a brilliant B-side ("Funk")

This is my first post on this board - it seemed like a good place to jump in...

It would have to be John Williams' score for the first "Star Wars" film back in 1977. I t was the first soundtrack album I had ever bought. I listened to it over and over - replaying the scenes from the movie in my head (I had seen it so many times!).

I even used to play it at a very low level while going to sleep - I never seemed to tire of it. What can I say, I was only 17!

Later folks,
Bryan

Actually, it was "Phantom of the Opera" that got me into film scores. After listening to the original musical, I got so interested in the actually music I just jumped into film scores. I think my first tape was "Back to the Future."

The first time I realized there was a great connection between film music and me, I think it was when I listened to the little mermaid’s score (Alan Menken) and that was perhaps the first movie I saw.

Since film music can be a lot more than something material that will soon or later perish, it is among the best inversions you can make. I’m talking about good film music of chores.

Then I met my future husband who had been collecting soundtracks for years...and the rest is history as they say!

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Originally posted by rachmaninov:
Film music really touches my spirit. It is a connection between the world we see and the world inside of us. It transforms material sound waves into something deeply fulfilling, trying to get closer to perfection and to the absolute truth.
Rach

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But, to be brief -

Ten years old. Shy. Bad hair. Every week I waited for the Friday night horror movie on STV. The "Don't Watch Alone" series of movies. Those movies were larger than life for me, and really transported me into another world. Started taping the main themes onto cassette as a souvenir of the movies, long before I knew that there were composers behind all that great work. Started noticing names, mostly for the horror and SF genres - James Bernard, Bernard Herrmann. Grew into a spotty adolescent. Couldn't get girls, so watched TV. Films were my escape, and the music a way of remembering those filmic escapades. Began to realise that the best music really was composed by the same people. Started watching other kinds of films, Clint Eastwood movies and such stuff. So got into jazz too, through soundtracks. Started buying LPs of horror film scores just as they started to become more prominent on the market, plus Schifrin stuff when that became available, just to satisfy the jazz leaning. Went on from there.

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And, of course, now my hair is very nice, and I've had LOADS of girlfriends.

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*Sun breaks through the sky and shines down on Alex's future*