How complete is your film music collection?
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I consider my collection of film score albums almost complete. There is maybe a handful of albums where I am waiting on an opportunity to get them at a reasonable price like Horner’s Brainstorm. And I would buy either an expansion or a reissue with improved sound quality of James Newton Howard’s Unbreakable.
Any new Rózsa or Alfred Newman rerecording would be welcome. Or a new John Williams expansion.
But I think, that’s about it.I am anyway not deep into new or modern film scores and in that sense more the nostalgic type.
How about the others here? How complete are your collections and what are you missing or looking forward to?
Good topic, Gerate!
I have about 3000 albums, covering almost 700 different composers and artists, which is enough for a lifetime, really. So in that way, it’s sorta ‘complete’. But I’m always exploring and exploring, both within the works of composers I know and those I’m not too familiar with, old and new alike. Right now, it’s all come to a halt due to the aforementioned tinnitus problems (which has killed 90% of my music enjoyment), but I hope I will get back into it at some point.
Another way to interpret ‘completeness’ is in regards to the composers to whom you have a completist relationship. For film music, that means Williams, Elfman and Goldenthal for me (even though Elfman and Goldenthal are now slightly off my top 10…once you start a completist streak, it’s difficult to stop). I have pretty much everything by all of these, but I’m missing some titles on physical media, since they’ve been too expensive for me in recent years. Right now, I’m missing 7 by Williams, 12 by Elfman and 6 by Goldenthal on CD/LP, within my parameters (which obviously doesn’t include expansions).
I have about 3000 albums, covering almost 700 different composers and artists
Wow! That is a collection.
The times when I counted my albums are long gone. But in the meantime I think, I own a lot of albums, that I wouldn’t have needed and would have been fine to just experience them once or twice on streaming. But maybe their time.will come. Especially some of the Stromberg rerecordings.Fortunately, one doesn’t have to count anymore. My iTunes counts 2870 albums at the present time, and then I probably have about 200 LPs on top of that (all CDs were transferred to iTunes years ago, and are included in the 2870 number).
Do you plan on unloading some of those albums you don’t feel you need?
If so, feel free to send them to me. 😀
Seriously though, it’s very easy to set up a Discogs store, much less cumbersome than Ebay.
Do you plan on unloading some of those albums you don’t feel you need?
Sometimes yes. Especially, since I promised to my wife my two new CD cupboards will last forever and I won’t need a new one ever. And these are full now. So, if I get new albums, I will have to throw something out.
Right. The discussion we have is not about music, but about our joined living space. And in our flat there are no more walls for more shelves.
She wouldn’t mind if I bought another thousand CDs and store them in a box under the bed. But I believe she’s right and I took the challenge to get it managed with my two shelves.I have a lot Goldsmiths and Williams which is surely extensive but not complete. I think Goldenthal I have indeed more or less complete including concert works but that’s a little easier as he doesn’t have that much releases 😉 But I am not a completist for completism’s sake anyway.
But I am not a completist for completism’s sake anyway.
Booooooooh! How DARE you call yourself a soundtrack fan? 😉
The interesting question here is rather, how long are your lists of albums that are missing to complete your collection?
When I started collecting music, I was about 14. First LPs, then later my first CDs. Much later again digital downloads (I bought my first one in 2018… but I count them with the rest). I imagined one day, a future version of myself standing in front of my shelf, not just filled with discs, but with a representative collection classical and film music, a shelf filled with emotion and memories… and I guess I am now at that point.
All the major film scores by the likes of Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Ennio Morricone… they are there. Classical works from Vivaldi and Bach to Penderecki? They are there.
I don’t necessarily have ALL of their film scores, I certainly don’t have ALL Ennio Morricone scores, but quite a few. iTunes says I have 240 Jerry Goldsmith albums, that’s certainly almost all of his released film scores, but not quite all.
That does not mean my collection is literally “complete”. Can it ever be? “Completeness” implies a certain fixed immobility; I do not like that. Obviously, I still discover new music or new composers to explore. The universe is expanding, and so is the world of music. Take Carl Nielsen, for example. My first Nielsen CD landed on my shelf sometime last century. I liked it, but didn’t pay all that much attention to it. For years, it stood alone. Then in 2016, something shifted. I began exploring him seriously. Now, shelf space has filled up with four complete symphony cycles, plus chamber works and more.
Another more recent revelation was Arnold Bax. No idea why I skipped him for so long. But when I finally tuned in, I heard something raw and luminous. Music that punches and haunts. Some of it sounds like it could have written for mysterious science fiction worlds.
So while my collection is not “literally” complete, and cannot really be for as long as I live, it is complete in another way. It is complete in the sense that it became everything I once hoped it would be. And more. My 14 year old self would be proud of me. Well, at least in that regard. 🙂
Apart from a few doubled up CDs etc. which I keep boxed up in our garage, (some of which I actually got rid of a few years ago), my music collection is an integral part in our living room, always has been. It’s on USM Haller highboards (which means, theoretically, I can expand them), but it’s got room for them all and still some space left. Of course, I have doubled up rows here and there, but since I don’t actually need to access my CDs to play them anymore, that doesn’t bother me.
Anyway, it happens that guests notice the music shelf; it has certainly been a conversation piece now and then.The interesting question here is rather, how long are your lists of albums that are missing to complete your collection?
I don’t really have a list… obviously, there are some albums I would love to have but that have not been released, like Maurice Jarre’s 5 CARD STUD and William Lava’s THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS. The latter is a long shot, I know, but heck if I know why the former has never had a proper release. It was composed by an A-list composer and even features a Dean Martin title song.
Of those soundtracks that have been released that are definite “missing” to “complete” my collection, as in, I have to get it one day, I cannot think of too many… let’s see… there is..
Ennio Morricone: THE HILLS RUN RED
Fred Karlin’s FUTUREWORLD
It’s been released years ago, but I missed it, and never got around to picking it up. Unfortunately, it’s not available digitally either.There are some others that I’d like to have that for some reason have not yet turned up in my collection, like John Cacavas AIRPORT 1975 or Peter Schickele’s SILENT RUNNING, though I’ve got the LP of the latter, and both of these scores are available on Qobuz, so I can listen to them.
That doesn’t mean that’s all… I’m sure there are others that I would like to have that I just cannot think of right away. But over the years, I managed to “complete” many gaps in my collection.
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