[Thor Joachim Haga]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of CDs I would have loved to buy, if money and space weren’t an issue. But for now, I’m concentrating on those I need on physical format, for completist purposes, to a price I can accept:

John Williams – Goodbye Mr. Chips (3CD)
John Williams – Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (2CD)
John Williams – Live in Vienna (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Live in Berlin (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Live in Tokyo (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Across the Stars (Deluxe Edition)
John Williams – Violin Concerto No. 2

Danny Elfman – Avengers: Age of Ultron
Danny Elfman – Goosebumps
Danny Elfman – Before I Wake
Danny Elfman – The Grinch
Danny Elfman – Big Mess
Danny Elfman – Bigger Messier
Danny Elfman – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (LP)
Danny Elfman – Aliens, Clowns and Geeks
Danny Elfman – Third Coast Percussion: Perspectives
Danny Elfman – Percussion Concerto/Wunderkammer
Danny Elfman – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (score album)
Danny Elfman – Dark Universe (LP)

Elliot Goldenthal – Othello Symphony
Elliot Goldenthal – Jabberwocky
Elliot Goldenthal – Symphony in G Minor
Elliot Goldenthal – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Elliot Goldenthal – The Glorias
Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Films

[Malte Müller]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of CDs I would have loved to buy, if money and space weren’t an issue.

Yes, same for me. However I have most of Goldenthals listed or Superman IV digitally and that’s totally sufficient for me (even if not all lossless). For said money reasons I gave up the “I only really have it if I have the CD” credo long time ago…

[GerateWohl]

I never was a completist in film music. For my favourite Bands yes. But movie soundtracks, no. I got a little infected, when I joined the JWFan community and when I found out, that it gets more and more difficult to purchase soundtrack CDs at a reasonable price. There I started buying stuff, especially golden age rerecordings, without really knowing it just to check it out. And I became kind of a completist for John Williams.

Btw, two albums that I missed out on in physical format are Joel McNeely’s rerecording of Herrmann’s North By Northwest and Rózsa’s Fedora. Both I have just in digital format.

[GerateWohl]

John Williams – Goodbye Mr. Chips (3CD)
John Williams – Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (2CD)
John Williams – Live in Vienna (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Live in Berlin (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Live in Tokyo (Blu-ray)
John Williams – Across the Stars (Deluxe Edition)
John Williams – Violin Concerto No. 2

With the John Williams concert albums you can be lucky at Black Friday sales. Are you really just interested in the BluRays or the versions BluRay plus audio CDs?

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Just the Blu-rays, if they are available separately. I don’t need the album; it’s “double up” (or “butter on fat”, as we say in Norway). Even if I don’t have a Blu-ray player at the present time.

While it’s no doubt possible to find them in sales at some point, there are all the other issues that jank up the price, per the “Four Threats” thread.

Do you have all of these?

[GerateWohl]

I have the violin concerto doubled because it’s also contained in the The Legend of John Williams box.
Across the Stars deluxe I have as well. Btw the longest CD I own with slightly over 82 minutes. Live in Berlin of course for the remembrance. The Tokyo deluxe box with the CDs I only bought, because it was available at a black friday sale.
I refused to buy the Vienna disc as the only interesting track for me would have been the ASM version of Devil’s Dance. But that was not enough. I was shortly tempted when there was the version with the bonus tracks from Vienna 2. But it never came out officially in Europe.

[Nick Zwar]

Of these I personally have and do not have:

John Williams – Goodbye Mr. Chips (3CD)
I’m afraid I don’t have that one… missed it. Can’t have everything.

John Williams – Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (2CD)
Yes, that one I have via the FSM Blue Box.

John Williams – Live in Vienna (Blu-ray)
Yep, Bluray/CD version. I haven’t actually watched the Bluray yet, though I have heard the CDs.

John Williams – Live in Berlin (Blu-ray)
Yep, same as Vienna, Bluray/CD version. Once again, I haven’t actually watched the Bluray yet, though I have heard the CDs.

John Williams – Live in Tokyo (Blu-ray)
No, I don’t have that one… just didn’t feel like buying every single concert outing by John Williams, especially not in light of the fact that most of the material is the same. The Tributes! (for Seiji) would be nice to have though. I thought I’ve got Vienna, I’ve got Berlin… that’s John Williams conducting two of the premier orchestras of Europe, which both have a very different sound and performance tradition. That’s pretty cool.

John Williams – Across the Stars (Deluxe Edition)
Yep, got that.

John Williams – Violin Concerto No. 2
Got that one too.

[GerateWohl]

I have to say,the biggest asset from the Tokyo concert for me isn’t the tribute piece but the suite from E.T.
Really like that recording.
But I am slightly annoyed by that publication politics of putting one rare track on a best of album.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I don’t like that they’re basically all the same programs, but suppose I have to own them for completist purposes (especially the Berlin one, since I was actually there — although I’ve come to understand there isn’t a lot from the Thursday premiere performance, it’s most from Saturday’s).

[GerateWohl]

But you heard Princess Leia’s Theme!
I didn’t. And I was there Friday and Saturday.

[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

For my top three favorite composers – Williams, Goldsmith and Chris Young, I think my collection is pretty complete, with some 360, 200 and 100 CDs, respectively. I also have, I think, all their LPs, at least the ones released concurrently with the movies (I haven’t joined the recent vinyl resurgence craze).

My definition of “complete” is basically everything the composer has composed – meaning, for instance, that I don’t have every release where Williams was “only” the pianist or arranger.

I realize that being a “completist” might seem somewhat stupid. I mean, I buy every Goldsmith release, but I’ve listened to CRIMINAL LAW maybe twice (or was it once…?), and I have no plans to do it again. Still, trying to get a complete collection of something (or someone) can be fun. And as Thor said, once you start, it can be hard to stop!

I don’t really have any “holy grails” I’m looking for at the moment. These days, I mostly buy stuff that’s readily available, either new releases by my favorite composers, or other stuff that I’ve sampled and found interesting, or that other people have recommended.

Thor, I’m sorry to hear that your tinnitus is having such a negative impact on your listening. 🙁
I have tinnitus myself, but it’s not affecting my listening to any noticeable degree. So far, anyway…

[Sigbjørn]

I don’t like wasting space, so if I have an album I’m quite certain I won’t listen to again, I get rid of it.

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