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It's a commercial decision not a philantrophic one.
In some cases it's neither. If it's not a high profile new movie, not a lot of money can be made from a soundtrack recording. Predator 2 as a film is best forgotten (thankfully), how many units do you think they'll sell?
Or the Prague re-recordings of entire film scores. It's not so much a matter of how much money they'll make, it's about how to lose as little money as possible. They're being made because a producer WANTS to get them made, HE thinks they're important. Same goes for the Tribute recordings that were financed by a well-meaning millionaire (or millionaire's wife IIRC).
If I won the lottery I'd sponsor some albums that I want, but certainly wouldn't care about the opinion of some people on a board. I would be prepared to lose money on them (David Buttolph's House of Wax would be one such project - no money to be made there).
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It's all me, I'm telling you.
Whatever The Mutant decides. Complete!
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influence? nil.
relevance? none.
just keep buying the CDs and in future, dont get ideas above your station!
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Here's a different take - how much influence does this board have on members?
I know I've re-evaluated many a score, and been introduced to many others, because of thoughtful, intelligent posts from numerous members of this board. Often when someone writes well about something I've dismissed, or don't know. (I'm not at all influenced by negative posts, I find.) Another way of saying it is you lot have cost me a lot of money.
I don't care whether we influence producers, I think the better job is to see if we can positively influence each other!
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I doubt this board has any influence this way or that way, which is as it should be -- it should be a place that nurtured free speech; which is open for both positive and negative (and even indifferent) reactions to labels and issues in general.
What it DOES have, however, is a means for the producers to chart reactions to their product. FSM being the biggest and most active film music forum on the internet (that I'm aware of), this is a valuable resource. At least it has that poential.
But I'm not a producer, so I'm just speculating.
Agree with the second half. The FSM board is the place where after months, sometimes years of work we're told just how bad of a product we just released and how this or that user/person could have done it 100 times better. It's nice to see folks happy with a release or seeing someone say on here, OH MY GOSH I never thought I'd ever see a release of...The Long Long Trailer or some other great score. I think I can agree ALL all labels and producers work their tales off whether it be La-La Land, Kritzerland, Varese, Intrada, Quartet etc. etc. on every single release to make sure it's the best it can be. Do goof ups happen of course, we never said we're perfect, but that's when we ask for you the listener/the buyers patience sometimes. We all try our best and appreciate all the folks who buy these goodies 
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Producers: How much weight do you put on what we ask for?
About 1.5%
MV
Posted by: Josh
LOL. This is by far the best reaction in the entire thread. Brownie points to you, Josh.
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