Let’s talk collections and listening habits!
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I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?I do, too. LEGEND is a good score and the synth work pretty well although as usual a matter of taste.
Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
Can understand that. I like it, nice moody theme but otherwise lots of rather routine standards like with many 90s Goldsmiths for me.
LEGEND was my first Goldsmith album and has a special place in my heart. To be honest, I don’t remember what was the second. But it was a CD already. Probably THE OMEN. Or Poltergeist.
LEGEND was his only score, that I had as an LP.Oh, we’re doing special composer sections now? (by the way, that’s an impressive Goldsmith collection, Mr. Zwar).
I made this floor spread (perhaps the ultimate geekboy activity?) when John David Towner Williams turned 88 five years ago. Only a very few new JW CDs since then, so I can still use it:
I love that picture, Thor. Great collection! But could it be that Superman IV is missing?
Williams wrote three new themes for that. And I don’t see it on the picture.Yup. I have SUPERMAN IV on CD-R (and obviously files), but that doesn’t count. It, along with six other JW items, are missing from my physical collection (although, again, I own all as files). Also, the picture is from five years ago, so there are some more missing that I actually HAVE managed to procure since then (like THE FABELMANS and INDY V….and the Greiving book, I’d probably add that to the picture too if I were to make a new one). Why are those 7 items still missing, you ask? Well, because this.
I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?I don’t have any meaningful statistics, unfortunately, how much I listen to what, but Goldsmith is definitely one of my favorite composers and perhaps I’d go so far to say Jerry Goldsmith is probably the most “important” (as in important for me) composer of film scores in my collection. He was the initial “starting point”, when I was a teen and started to search the record stores for film music, I bought every Goldsmith album there was, never knew quite what to expect. I have over 240 Goldsmith albums in my collection, most of his output. Not sure how “complete” it is, but I guess I wouldn’t stop now to complete the gaps. 🙂
Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
I’m afraid I OD’d on BASIC INSTINCT copies over the years.
I think both the score and the movie are excellent, among my favorite Jerry Goldsmith scored movies of the decade.
Thor, I have many but by no means all of the John Williams albums in your picture. I’d never give away that LOST WORLD CD with the dinorama packaging. 🙂
Impressive Williamas collection. Don’t have all those on CD, too. But I have some expansions you of course don’t 😉 And for weird reasons I even once parted with my HOME ALONE CD (old album) because I thought “Ah, Christmas music, often do I listen to that…” (“how often” is of course a joke for any album by now…). The bottom rule is of course to never part with especially Williams or Goldsmiths at all. Of course I have it digitally by now (no I didn’t even copy the CD back then…).
Here’s photo of my physical collection:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KG46sB-m5wNosuJ7E4ztqH7QahfQOldt/view?usp=sharing
Looks I am running out of space. That isn’t the case actually, I just need to re-organise and get better shelves at time 😉Nice, Malte! Yes, you know you’re running out of space when CDs are placed in all different ways…horizontal, vertical, in every empty space. 😀
I’d never give away that LOST WORLD CD with the dinorama packaging.
Will never be sold, no, even if it scratched my CD a bit. I put it inside a plastic sleeve, and THEN inside the cardboard packaging to protect it a bit. But that’s not particularly healthy either. I just hope it still plays fine.
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