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Apr 16, 2015 - 3:24 PM
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joan hue
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In December of 2002, I wrote a topic about my need for nostalgia seen here.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=11094&forumID=1&archive=1
Since 2002, we’ve had a ton of new members register in the last 13 or so years who were not around for that topic, so I’d like to hear from them.
1. What are some of your favorite thread to topics for the last 12-14 years or since you
came to the board?
2. What brought you to the Film Score Monthly Board?
3. Share any of your favorite memories of this board. (Emphasis on positive.)
From the Jurassic Park Era of this board, I still love Howard’s Shoveling Snow while listening to Williams’ Stepmom. We became poets that night. Also, I’ll always love our Buffy The Vampire Slayer thread where we all became Buffy Buddies.
More recently, I like posts where people like Deputy Riley analyze music like he did with The Hunger Games movies. I like my very own Revisiting To Kill A Mockingbird topic where I analyzed the themes of one of the finest scores ever composed. I liked the responses on my “cherry-picking” topic where I asked what things like a member, a topic, a certain composer, etc. engage people into reading a topic. I also admit I’m shamefully addicted to the “Offensive Thread titles" topic. Nice to have a little levity.
Hey old timers who were around during my first nostalgia post, please share with us some of your favorite posts during the past 12-13 years.
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Apr 17, 2015 - 3:40 AM
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Thomas
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Okay, I’ll give it a go. I’ve been posting 6 years, so some of my favourite threads in that time:
-Our ‘Football Thread’, which is probably the one I post on most often and we have some good ‘banter’ there (you may wonder why come to a film music site to talk about football when there is thousands elsewhere on the net, but it’s better fun here)
-I like Thor’s thread when he posts some interesting interviews for his Norwegian site
-Phelpsie’s thread ‘In Appreciation’ of a certain now banned member was indeed a comedy classic
-My own ‘Cast Recordings’ thread was good, gathered some interesting information there and had many contributions from Ron who sadly passed
-Most threads where we have interesting discussions about John Barry and his music (he's the reason I'm here after all)
-The Alan Fivehouse thread. I don't think I've ever contributed to it, but it's pretty clever, fun stuff to read
-The various ‘Yum’ threads...
...and probably more I can’t think of right now.
I can’t remember exactly what brought me here, but I vaguely remember looking for an online soundtrack ‘store’ 7 or 8 years ago and coming across SAE and placing a few orders. I obviously started reading the message board and decided to join some time later.
The good things are that I’ve built up nice relationships with a few people here (they should know who they are!), and it’s been good to find a place to discuss other stuff I like with people who think the same. Like being an a-ha fan for 30 odd years, and finding Thor and Jon are too was a pleasant surprise!
After posting for 6 years, certain things do get on my nerve (like constant speculation and 'expanded' release request threads) and I have to say, some posters too but that has to be expected. Best to let sleeping dogs lie, and take a little break from time to time. I know you only asked for positive stuff Joan, but that’s just not in my nature. Sunlight and shadow and all that. Oh and thanks, this is probably the longest post I’ve made on this board...and I'm generally one who ignores long posts
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Apr 17, 2015 - 5:59 AM
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Jim Phelps
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These kids haven't lived long enough to need nostalgia! They just want their Zim-Zim and their Bel-Tram and their Ty-LOR. *End baby talk dialect* When's this assignment due, anyway?
1. What are some of your favorite thread to topics for the last 12-14 years or since you
came to the board?
There are many, many favorites. After all, I've been here twelve years. The aforementioned football thread, numerous 1970s score discussions, Vintage TV shows, the WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN and Alan Fivehouse topics have some brilliant stuff within their confines and are near and dear to my black heart. I also enjoy the various Empire Strikes Back LP topics, These Phrases Need to Go Away, The Marvel and DC Comics tributes, JJ's various Dr Who threads, the Rawhide topic (where are you there, Mrs. Western Joan? Huh???), the baseball thread has been going on for ten years!
I also have a soft spot for the Offensive Thread Title one; I need to contribute more to that...
I tend to like topics that add personal nostalgia and/or personal experiences with the music. I like knowing what this music means to the people who obsessively collect and bitch like unfrozen manchildren who've retained their worst pubescent tendencies into late middle age.
And though we share very few common interests, I read and enjoy Deputy Riley's posts. His views on the Bourne scores are required reading at the old Phelps Academy.
2. What brought you to the Film Score Monthly Board?
I was a subscriber and found this forum as a result of my years-long reading of the FSM mag.
3. Share any of your favorite memories of this board. (Emphasis on positive.)
A conversation with Anzaldiman early on, where we discussed 1970s detective shows. He was the first one here who made me feel welcome...I'm still waiting for the second.
Meeting my first FSMer in 2012. My wife and I were on holiday in Paris and we met and had a great time with FSMer Thomas, aka Stefan Miklos/(Member). I thought I would have met some London-based FSMers, but those bastards scattered like Talons of Weng-Chiang-sized rats when news of my arrival hit London. Now I quietly resent them and softly seethe whenever I crash into their posts.
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I look at this two ways: as a collector, and as a bloviator. (Yes, it is a word, I just used it!) I don't think of particular threads so much as trends.
As a collector, what I've loved most on this site is being constantly reminded or introduced to all kinds of music that had been below my radar (even though I think of myself as a very broad-minded and eclectic lover of music).
This board was the first place I learned about Japanese composers Joe Hisaishi, Akira Ifukube, Masaru Sato, Michiru Ohshima - can't believe I missed out on some of these for so long. (And in fact it was FSM that finally got me paying attention to Miyazaki's films, which are now some of my favorites ever.) Same with some Italian composers I didn't know - Piccioni, Umiliani - though I'm far less versed in this. Same with some Golden Age music - I can't believe I actually purchased a Jerry Lewis score (Walter Scharf's The Geisha Boy), but thanks to this forum I did - and I even listen to the darn thing from time to time.
It's also been fun to see how each of us stand proud for our various scores, and see just how differently people value different music. So while I tend to want us to replace the word "best" with "favorite," I've come to love the odd "what's your favorite 37 seconds of unreleased score?" thread that I never thought I would. And I just love Recordman's history of vinyl posts, and all the crazy threads about Spy scores - yes, I do love those all!
As a bloviator, it took me a long time to start pontificating on the board. I was on FSM from the late 90's, and had some letters published in Lukas' Film Score Friday slot (under my name-at-the-time Sean Carpenter). But I didn't visit the Board too much until later. I was frankly a snob ( ) about chat rooms because I would tend to focus on posts that drove me nuts. It was funny finding out recently that there was a thread about one of my letters about the difference in value between Classical and film music that led to some angry diatribes about me on the board in the mid-2000's (they warmed the cockles of my contrarian heart). So it took me several years to start posting, and then only occasionally.
But I paid attention to a lot of posters - Joan of course (because you're the best there is at stopping me up short and thinking about something rather than just the usual this or that is coming out etc.), Jeff Bond, the various tall guys and bills and prestons and recordmans and so many more whose handles I can't recall, including the folks here. So I finally started warming up to this. And sometimes I enjoy the healthy debates from various partisans, and some times people make great points in all kinds of threads. And some times we go a bridge too far - I mean, not me of course...
And I agree with many of the points here, especially about people describing their personal connection to music (I would, I do that a lot). and I'm listening to Drop Zone right now because Deputy Riley just posted about it, so I guess that's pretty influential itself.
Two last points: only visit the Offensive Thread Titles thread when you're in a good mood, or it can make you very very angry.
And here's the first way I was going to answer this, tongue so firmly in cheek that it hurts!
Nostalgia for this Board? Yes, indeed, I love to spend a golden afternoon reading and re-reading my incisive posts while soaking in a warm bath, sipping chardonnay....
Oh, do others post here too?
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Apr 17, 2015 - 9:27 AM
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joan hue
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From my old Nostalgia thread, here is how I found my way to this Internet Site.
“My beloved husband was given a Playboy Magazine subscription for Christmas from one
of his buddies. BLLEECKK! Now I realize that for some of you, the magazine is the
War And Peace of modern literature. As the mother of twin daughters, I find it a pile of
horse puckey. Besides, 99% of women don’t look like those “ladies” without surgical
additions “here” and subtractions “there.” Our God-given geometric shape is usually the
triangle. Small on top and wide on the bottom or vice versa. Anyhow, I’m lucky because
my hubby seemed to forget about the gift because he never mentioned not getting any
copies. I always picked up the mail. When that sack of garbage came, I opened it, read
the movie reviews (how many bunny heads or bunny ears did the movie receive?), and
trashed it. (I know, I know. I just committed the ultimate sin or act of heresy for some
of you.) No, I did not look at the pictures. Who wants to visually witness one’s own
shortcomings??? One day I saw an ad for the FSM Magazine on the same page as the
movie reviews. (Do you think that if Lukas had advertised in MS. Magazine too that more
women would be here? Nah. ) Ordered the magazine and found the reference for the
Internet site in it. Loved the magazine so much, I ordered all back copies. And aren’t
you all lucky that I found my way here and spared my husband
undue...undue...ahhh...undue....hmmm..undue..ahh Stress? Voyeurism? Significant moral
harm? Yeah, that sounds good. ”
The above is the story of my journey.
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Apr 17, 2015 - 10:06 AM
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Leo Nicols
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Thanks, Sean, for chiming in. I had no idea of your extensive FSM history, and I'm glad you joined, and am honored you put me into a group with such people as Preston, Jeff Bond, recordman and others. Their contributions are invaluable.
I never thought you were a bloviator; I've not seen anything empty or inflated about your posts. (I do think there are a few more posters here at FSM besides the two of us. )
Like you, I've learned about composers above and beyond our American and English composers. It is wonderful to have our film score horizons expanded beyond Hollywood's limited borders. As frustrated as I may feel at times about certain topics, this board is a valuable and international encyclopedia for film score lovers.
Hi Joan,
Long may it continue.
Thanks to this board, it has cost me a fortune in film scores.....and they are worth every penny !
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That's a great story, Joan - maybe the best one about how someone came to FSM.
I no longer can even remember how I got here, but I think I was first online in 1998, and first found Intrada online, and soon after FSM. Just can't remember if I came before or after that wonderful brief period when I found the magazine in a local chain of newspaper/magazine stores (long gone). It was like, What?! WHAT?! There's a magazine on film scores? The world has gone mad!
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Apr 17, 2015 - 3:15 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I can't remember HOW or WHERE I became aware of FSM, but unlike many others, it wasn't as much of a 'ooohhh, there are others' type moment for me cos I'd been quite lucky in the years prior.
I don't know how/why, but during the 80's and 90's, Liverpool was a strange soundtrack land where there were many 'others' and thanks to the Goldsmith Society/Legend/MovieMusic/Music From The Movies (all one mag...kinda) we were able to get together and form some solid friendships.
Even the record shops in the Pool were great for soundtracks (Cheverton, Probe).
I also already had magazines like 'Soundtrack Quarterly' (Belgium/Luc van de Ven) and CinemaScore on a regular (well...semi-regular) basis, although I will admit when FSM went colour, that was a cool WOW moment. I did like that it was less stuffy than the others with lots of silly humour thrown in.
I started buying FSM pretty early, but not from the off (the one sheet/newsletter thingy) and I finally opened a log-on here around 2005, after a few years lurking.
I can be a bit scattershot with my posts, adding my inane comments here, there and everywhere.
The only thread I'm a constant in is the Footy Thread, with Phelpsie, Thomas, TG and Bill C (who are the other main 4 contributors there).
I really like the dragon/fisch info threads, a highlight of the day around here.
I get bored of the constant Star Wars/Trek/Bond/Zimmer yah yah arguments pretty quickly and tend to tune out, but I like reading appreciations from members who want to share interesting titbits or their own personal experiences with films/music...even life in general.
And despite him being a bit...(insert your thought here)...I miss Yor
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PLAYBOY did do massive, in-depth interviews with Wendy Carlos and Randy Newman.
You might want those back issues.
I dont even recall how I got here. I got stapled FSM photocopies in the beginning. Did they advertise in the Screen Archives or Soundtrack Album Retailers catalog mail-outs? I'm guessing that's how it started. So long ago..... memory failing....
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Apr 19, 2015 - 4:17 AM
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DeputyRiley
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1. What are some of your favorite thread to topics for the last 12-14 years or since you came to the board?
Well, honestly, some of my favorite threads/topics have been discussions of Marco Beltrami's music. As he is my favorite composer (no, really!) it is virtually the only place I can discuss the man's work and share my enthusiasm for it with other like-minded folks. I have gone Mach-3 with my Beltami enthusiasm, it's true, but in cases where I've encouraged or inspired someone to seek out a Beltrami score, or opened someone's ears to his music, or persuaded someone to look at one of his works in a new way, I get enormous satisfaction. As much endless joy as I get listening to his music, if I can bring even 0.01% of that joy to someone else's world, that's deeply satisfying.
I really dig any thread that brings to attention a new composer or a new score that I otherwise would've missed out on. Having a space here to read discussion of these things helps inform me and has led me to great discoveries. For example I probably never would've listened to Jeff Grace's Cold in July if it were not for a few enthusiastic posts.
One of my all-time favorite threads was on the non-film score discussion side, about toys we grew up with. I can't remember the name of the thread, but it featured people reminiscing about toys they played with or remembered and pictures to help jog one's memory. This thread took me on a sublime stroll down the bucolic and happiness-strewn streets of Memory Lane.
Always enjoy Dragon's (Fisch) movie/TV news threads!
I've liked threads where I've received feedback on technical issues or advice that I've needed. It's very cool to post a question about some piece of tech or something ("does anyone know how to make the thing do the thing after it's been thinged by the thing, HELP") and have people respond with their own personal experience. I can then ask follow-up questions and people have always been so swift and helpful in their advice here. So much better than just typing the query in a searh engine or something.
Again, while it's not specific, threads on new releases of scores that I've desperately wanted for countless years have given me an outlet to express my gratitude to the labels. Whether they read them or not, I am grateful to have a place to thank them for the likes of the Friday the 13th box, the Die Hard 2 and 3 releases, the River Wild score release, Predator 2 Deluxe...
I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to have a place to share my thoughts on my favorite scores in detail. Like I mentioned with Beltrami, I'm not saying that my own posts or topics are my favorite, but topics concerning that composer are wonderful chances to share my thoughts and feelings on something I'm so passionate about. This is true recently of the Hunger Games threads (as one example); I've been so excited and satisfied to have a place to articulate my love of these scores and to explore them in detail, to describe my personal connection to them in many ways. Don't know any other place I could do that. Even if not many people read them, it was fun to do write-ups on them and transfer my enthusiastic passion for the HG scores from my solitary brain to the collective internet message board, and I enjoy the feeling of community and response for sharing such things. It's one thing to have a world of appreciation for this stuff in my head, but to try to share that and read responses or appreciation offers a new level of fun.
Those are a few that come to mind.
2. What brought you to the Film Score Monthly Board?
I honestly can't remember. Probably an off-shoot of my reading the print magazine back in the day, and when it went online I was led here and probably took a peek at the message board and start coming here. That was about 5.5 years ago.
3. Share any of your favorite memories of this board. (Emphasis on positive.)
There was a time 3 or so years ago when I needed to leave the board, and I received a surprisingly warm collection of comments from users, even from some that I had previously had static with. Stuff like "hope everything's ok" and "we'll miss your posts" or whatever. It meant a lot and that was the moment that I really felt like part of this community.
I have met some really nice folks here at FSM and getting a chance to get to know them a bit outside of the board, through email or facebook or whatever, has been really nice. I have thin-skin issues with the negativity and immaturity often found on this site, so to meet some nice ladies and gents has been a tonic and made coming here a treat.
Several years ago I was in a dire financial situation and had to sell off my large CD collection to help. This was before digital music really took off, and CDs were of a higher value. It was really good timing, actually, and even though I hated to sell cherished items like the Goldsmith at Fox 6-Disc box, I received again a surprising wave of support and was able to raise enough money and sell a ton of CDs to help my situation at the time. I believe I found wonderful homes for many of my lovingly-used discs and am still grateful for the turnout during that massive sale. So, so appreciative of this site to be able to hold the sale, I don't know where I would've gone to find such a wide audience for my CDs and have them sell so quickly, and know they were going to the right folks.
I have the urge to name some of the users at FSM who I've enjoyed talking to over the years or whose posts I consistently dig, but I know I'm going to leave people out so I'll just skip that bit. Ok, I guess I will mention my affection for Joan Hue's posts and threads, but only because she started this one!
P.S. Please provide link to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer thread -- I want to become a Buffy Buddy too!!!
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