[Nick Zwar]

Here’s one: according to both iTunes and MusicBee, my Bernard Herrmann collection is 70 Albums for a total uninterrupted listening length of 5 days… that’s a whole work-week.

I was looking for a certain album and just noticed. Not that it’s relevant.

Please, indulge me and share needless details (it’s about details, not about collection size number of composers etc.) about your collection. 🙂

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Fun topic.

To do what you did, if I pressed “play” on my John Williams iTunes collection today, and let it play continously, it would stop on November 11. 😀

I’ll see if I can think of other needless details.

[Nick Zwar]

Perfect reply. Exactly the spirit in which this thread was created. 🙂

[Malte Müller]

I have a collection of TV themes – self recorded via TV via cable back then and from other sources, generally not just from some CDs – that would run 1,2 days 😉

[Sigbjørn]

I don’t have any Zimmer albums in my collection.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I don’t have any Giacchino in my collection, and by God I’ve tried.

[Sigbjørn]

Me neither.

[Malte Müller]

I don’t think I don’t have at least one track by every “major” composer 😉 (I do like Zimmer and – primarily the earlier – Giacchino)

[GerateWohl]

In fact, I own two Giacchino albums: The Incredibles and Rogue One. And I like them both in their own way.

To my shame I must confess, that I own two albums, which feature a Zimmer track.
One is a piano collection of film themes, which has Time from Inception.
And the Raiders of the Symphony album of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra has the track 503 from Angels and Deamons.

Apart from that I am afraid, there is nothing special about my collection.
Maybe worth mentioning is the soundtrack that I bought the most often.

My very first soundtrack album was the The Empire Strikes Back LP, a birthday present from my parents.
As soon as I found it in a record store, I bought the double LP.
Later when CDs appeared, I bought again the single LP album on CD.
I skipped the double CD.
But then came the ARISTA box. That was the fourth time I got it.
Then came the special edition 2-CD complete score album. That was number five.
I skipped the sony edition and the disney demaster of the OST.
Some years later I bought the Charles Gerhard album for completenes, which made it purchase no. 6.
Since then I am waiting for some ultimate edition coming one day.
Maybe in two years?

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Perfect reply. Exactly the spirit in which this thread was created. 🙂

Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL. 😀

[GerateWohl]

Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL.

But still, it is interesting thought. Imagine, that guy has a composer career of about 70 years and in that time he probably hasn’t even written a Month time of music.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yeah, that’s an interesting way of looking at it.

[Sigbjørn]

He probably has if listening to the expansions.

[Sigbjørn]

Later when CDs appeared, I bought again the single LP album on CD.
I skipped the double CD.

There were both a single CD album and a double CD album for Empire?

[Nick Zwar]

Perfect reply. Exactly the spirit in which this thread was created. 🙂

Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL. 😀

Yeah, I noticed and wanted to ask you “wow, that’s a lot of John Williams recordings… what do you have?” I did check my own (considerable, but not as large as yours) John Williams collection. When I typed in “John Williams”, I get results for 170 albums and 12-13 days long, and so I was wondering what the heck am I missing? My actual “John Williams” albums are fewer, because just typing in “John Williams”, the programs also list compilations such as AMAZING STORIES where Williams appears, plus even unrelated recordings by the guitarist John Williams. I have about 125 albums or 9 days of listening time where the composer “John Williams” is the “Album Artist”.

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