Doesn't have to be the most valuable or your favorite, but the one you'll never give up. I have a few. Mine are Jack Wall's Myst IV: Revelation, Jesper Kyd's Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelation from the Japanese "Ezio's Saga" release, and Intrada's Back to the Future. Let's hear 'em!
The first CD my dad ever gave me as a kid was "By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops." I was already tuned into movie music, and it instantly became one of my most cherished possessions. Many years later, I was able to personally hand it to John Williams for him to sign. If my apartment were about to be destroyed and I could only save one album, that would be the one.
The first CD my dad ever gave me as a kid was "By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops." I was already tuned into movie music, and it instantly became one of my most cherished possessions. Many years later, I was able to personally hand it to John Williams for him to sign. If my apartment were about to be destroyed and I could only save one album, that would be the one.
That's awesome you got to meet him. Great story behind it.
The first CD my dad ever gave me as a kid was "By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops." I was already tuned into movie music, and it instantly became one of my most cherished possessions. Many years later, I was able to personally hand it to John Williams for him to sign. If my apartment were about to be destroyed and I could only save one album, that would be the one.
By Request and James Horner's Dad were the first 2 CDs I owned. I was already in love with John Williams and film music and Dad helped me become a big Horner fan.
But my most cherished? Maybe my FSM Superman box set. It is the most expensive thing I bought and it really is a beautifully produced set with music to match it.
FSM's Lalo Schifrin 5-CD set. It contains some of my favorite scores by one of my favorite composers and is produced in the label's typically impeccable fashion.
Albums like that and the TV Omnibus are what really make me love this hobby.
For me, it's kinda hard to separate between a topic like this and your favourite music. They kinda go hand in hand.
But if I had to choose, maybe the ol' Arista box of the original STAR WARS scores. The first lavish soundtrack box I bought, after having seen it first in a FNAC store in Paris, ca. 1995 (but not having enough money at the time). I bought it through mailorder a few months later.
I have four - three of them belonged to my late father and were my first introductions to film score. These were The Alamo, YOLT and OHMSS (gatefold). I don't suppose I'll ever play them again (they're all more scratch than record) but you'd have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.
The fourth is Morricone's double LP "I Film Della Violenza", which I sent off for as a teenager and fell in love with on first play. I've reproduced the playlist on my iPod from the various CD issues but the sound just isn't as warm or comforting as the LPs. I haven't got a CD that I wouldn't sell if the price were right.
These are the only film music LPs I kept when I sold my collection following the birth of my first child, and they'll be part of my meagre estate when the reaper comes a-knocking.
Toshiyuki Honda's Shin Kujaku-Oh or Peacock King Spirit Warrior. Before the internet age it took me five years to track down a copy. vgmdb.net/album/31486
Also Saori Kobayahi's AZEL: Panzer Dragoon RPG Memorial album, I won it on ebay in high school before paypal and purchased for $86 it by good ol' fashioned money order. vgmdb.net/album/1039
(you can now make it 10 CDs with La La Lands release of "Superman Returns")
I'm with you here. Every time I think of the BLUE BOX (It must be capitalized!) I hear an angelic choir. This is my favorite set. Nothing else comes close really.
As much as I love the 1997 RCA Star Wars Trilogy 2-disc sets, I'd have to say my most cherished CDs would be the 1993 4CD Star Wars Anthology box set -- it was amazing to finally hear so many of the unreleased cues for the first time on CD! I really wore out that fourth disc of unreleased/alternate cues.
Until such time as it actually gets released, two CDs worth of Jonny Quest underscores which someone made a copy of for me. If there ever were a real release of all of this material, however, I'd toss these copies in the trash.
The other, of course, is Intrada's The Great Escape re-release.
