Been listening to a lot of older soundtracks that I picked up in the early days of collecting, and upon stubling onto one cue from Batman* (and some others I'll touch base on later) I remember a "moment" from the first time listening to it. There's a possibility that I'm alone on this, but it was this surge of content and like the subject states, pride felt at a very specific moment. As a moderate youngster, the moment sort of let me say "I'm a film score fan d*mn it!"

Children of Dune contained another. Obviously, it's not every time the CD makes its way into a player, but rather just a passing time from here to there that really solidifies and makes what we do unique. I'm sure it happens with other types of music, film, books, etc. and I'd be curious to hear about that too!

Other Scores where this has happened:
-Back to the Future
-Hunt for Red October
-The Sand Pebbles
-Star Trek VI
-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
-The Wind And The Lion
-Snow Falling on Cedars (VERY specific moment)

*-Batman (Attack of the Batwing, approx. 1 minute)

Has this ever happened to anyone here? It can just be described as "a moment". Let me know if I'm off my rocker

• The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Walkers
  
• The Lost World: The Hunt

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Originally posted by Alexborn007:
the moment sort of let me say "I'm a film score fan d*mn it!"

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I love your quote, can I use it?

1. 'Fooooooooooooorrrrrth Eoooorlingas!'

2. Isengard Unleashed

The first time I heard "Klendathu Drop" watching Starship Troopers in the theatre.

The first time I ever heard Hans Zimmer's "Roll Tide" theme, I 'believe' back with the "Hoodlum" or "GI Jane" trailer.

The first time I saw "Gettysburg" in 8th grade history class and heard Edelman's theme as the soldiers charged up a mountain (or something along those lines).

About two minutes into "The Strawberry Fields" on "Snow Falling on Cedars".

A brief cue in "Hunt for Red October" about 4 minutes into it or so, on "Nuclear Scam".

The first time I saw "Star Wars" and heard Williams' force theme playing as Luke looked at the setting sun.

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I forgot to mention Stand by Your Man from Hellboy and some of Lonseome Dove too.

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Originally posted by firefox:
I think you should feel proud if YOU did something like scored a film. You can enjoy listening to music, but feeling proud because you're a film music fan comes across to me as a little empty. Maybe feel proud of yourself if you volunteer to help the homeless 10 hours a week, or if you got a refund from the IRS that you shouldn't have and you returned it to them. But proud because you know you like film music? That sounds like feeling proud because you like eating chocolate...

leuase

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Perhaps proud is an over generalization of what I was saying. The post's intent definitely wasn't to sound conceited or arrogant (quite the opposite really) in stating all film music fans have had surges of some foolish pride. It was really aimed to ask the question of times where you felt extremely content or glad to listen to what you listened to. It's not like there is a billboard or countless ads to promote and/or condine our hobby. It's just us and the music (with some persuasion from times to time, but it's still quite isolated). So the post's question was more along the lines of when the music made you glad and purely happy to be listening to nothing else. And this doesn't necessarily mean vindication by buying CDs and saying "Wow! I spent my money real good. Real good!" just that the works of the composer had penetrated you emotionally.