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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: More soundtracks than you can listen to?     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:12 PM     By:   AndrewH   (Member) Does anyone have more CDs than they will ever listen to again? I have a fairly modest collection of soundtrack albums but easily less than 100. But looking at them, I do wonder if there are some in there that it is highly unlikely I will ever listen to again in my lifetime. Equally, there are some that I really need to make more of an effort to listen to. But it also shouldn't be a test of endurance. But as I enter what will almost certainly be the second half of my life, I try and be fairly selective in what I obtain and only make sure it is stuff I want to listen to over and over rather than just lying on a shelf (or a forgotten file on my media player).    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:26 PM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) A topic we've discussed a time or two before ... but, nonetheless, is always good for a laugh when you discover just how many scores / albums some people own. Like me. I would struggle to number them because I've ripped most of mine to a PC~NAS for streaming and often broken the recordings down into separate parts (e.g. many CDs of older scores have two or more scores). I have nearly come to the end (a few operas, Bruckner and Mahler symphonies and some odds'n'ends to go - until that is I rip the latest 15 CDs I've just purchased) - though quite a few works have had more than one play - having started in Dec 13. It's a good job I have plenty of home time ... and I'm so looking forward to hearing many of those works which I so dearly love but have refrained from playing so as to hear something else. Bonkers, I know (it's in the name!) and I recognise it as an addiction but it's better than smoking! Enjoy your music however much you own. Mitch    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:29 PM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) No yet, but in about ten years I probably will. At the same time I lament the lack of great new scores, I'm also not in a hurry for there to be more, 'cause the list of scores I want from decades passed, is a long, longm long, LONG listen.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:32 PM     By:   JeffM   (Member) My problem is that I never say never. I don't get rid of stuff because there will be that ONE time that I want to listen to something. There is also the assumption that some music I don't "adore" now may grow on me in the future. Early in collage I sold off a copy of Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Don't Know How To Party" because it wasn't my thing at the time. A few years later I heard some more of their stuff and I love their music now. I had to rebuy the same damn CD for more than I got when I sold it.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:38 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) Cue the multiple links to similar thread discussions. My problem isn't what I hardly ever listen too. It's having so much great music. Some scores I only need to hear once or twice every decade or so. I play them once and enjoy them, then they go back on the self and into hibernation. However I have so many great scores, many don't get played out of neglect.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 2:52 PM     By:   eriknelson   (Member) I have hundreds of them on both LPs and CDs. At my age (early 60s), I'm sure there are many I will never listen to again. In fact I've begun to be very picky about what I buy nowadays. I have thousands of discs, neatly catalogued. Chances are they'll end up in a landfill someday after I'm gone. As one gets older the urge to accumulate things decreases.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 3:02 PM     By:   JohnnyG   (Member) MANY more!... (Also more classical discs than I can listen to, more jazz, more rock...) P.S.: If advances in medical technology don't make us live at least to 120 I stand absolutely no chance of listening to all that stuff...!    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 3:07 PM     By:   Rameau   (Member) Yes I have number of soundtrack CD that I'll probably never listen to again, mostly FSM CD's from 10-15 years ago. But whenever I've got rid of a CD, I always get the urge to listen to it about 6 months later, so I'm keeping them all. CD's are quite small & don't take up that much space.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 3:11 PM     By:   Erik Woods   (Member) If I listened 24/7 to every single album I own it would take me 202 days to do so. Yes, I have too much but I wouldn't give it up for the world! -Erik-    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 3:13 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) Yeah, this is a "luxury problem"-type topic that pops up with regular intervals here on the board. I don't have more soundtracks than I can listen to, but I do have too many to properly familiarize myself with all of them, like I did back in the 90s when I only had, like 10% of what I have now. Back then, I could listen to each album so many times that I knew them all by heart. Now, however, in addition to my old physical collection of some 8-900 CD's (I've been selling off quite a few over the last years), I have some 5-600 in digital format plus I'm receiving a steady stream of promos every week. Consequently, I don't have the time to reach that level of familiarity. But I do my best. I pick my new acquisitions VERY carefully, and try to listen to the newbies as much as I can. Oh, those pesky First World problems...    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 4:23 PM     By:   Thomas   (Member) I reckon I have too many to get round to on any regular basis. I must have about 700 film music CDs, a large number of which I haven't listened to in years. Some of them I haven't any idea what they sound like. They just sit upstairs on the shelves. I also have about 250 cast recordings, and about the same in pop/rock and whatever else. Again, loads I haven't listened to in years. And I'll probably still buy more.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 6:41 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) So what if you listen to an album once in your life? You can easily throw down $100 for dinner. Are you ever going to get that night back again?    Posted:   Oct 5, 2015 - 7:07 PM     By:   ryanpaquet   (Member) Well, I look at it this way. CD stores are not a prominent as they used to be. One of my favorite past times used to be going to the record stores in Toronto, and other big cities and flipping through what was available. Now I find that I'm doing that instead with my own collection! It's a couple hundred or so - these past years I've added quite a lot through some spectacular deals and lucky finds. But like someone else said, the CDs don't take up that much space, and every time I get the chance to put one on - it's a spiritual experience.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 1:23 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) I've just played the first score of the day ... Nic Raine/CoPP's 2001 recording of John Barry's Walkabout (1971). I last played it 21 mths ago! And, I surprised myself by how marvellous it is. It's one of JB's scores which has never quite gelled with me. Lovely, yes, and incredibly effective with the visuals but as a stand-alone, not up there with many of his others. Perhaps it won't sound as good next time (another 21 mths?) but I'm sure glad I have it ... the last 27 minutes have been listening bliss! Mitch    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 1:50 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) So far for the last 4-5 years I've managed to keep my number of scores around 500 titles, selling off the titles I rarely listened to or hung onto for the movie. But even at that number it's difficult to listen to it all. And I agree with Thor that back in the day when I only had 50 soundtracks, I'd be much more familiar with them because I'd play them on rotation, whereas now I'm lucky to play any of them at all. I also found that whereas in the past I was more forgiving towards some soundtracks that aren't top notch or just had a handful of cues I enjoyed, I now just get rid of them and try to keep the good stuff that holds up.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 5:05 AM     By:   Randy Watson   (Member) I don't have more soundtracks than I can listen to, but I do have too many to properly familiarize myself with all of them, like I did back in the 90s when I only had, like 10% of what I have now. Back then, I could listen to each album so many times that I knew them all by heart. Same here. But back then score albums were usually shorter (some may b*tch and moan about them, but I'm still fond of those 30 min Varese albums) and I also had a lot more free time. I myself have roughly 1100 cd's and some get played a lot, others maybe once or twice a year and some only once every few years. Still, I won't get rid of them, I know I would want to listen to them once they are gone    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 6:32 AM     By:   AndrewH   (Member) Thanks for replies. Apologies if it is revisiting old threads. I did dust off John Barry's "Born Free" soundtrack and listened to that (the one without the vocal) and it was excellent. I hadn't listened to it for over three years but just magnificent. I do think that some soundtracks are just SO good that they need to be listened to in one sitting like we would have done in the old vinyl days. So I probably won't listen to "Raise The Titanic" unless I know I have a long enough window in my schedule. Though I have transferred some of my soundtracks onto my mp3 player, it often seems sacrilege to just have it on random play or listen to bits of the soundtracks. So I'm happy to wait till I can play the whole thing which usually means having to wait a while.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 6:59 AM     By:   jkannry   (Member) In one word: yes. iTunes which represents a fraction of my collection would require me to listen for 30 days straight before hearing a repeat.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 7:02 AM     By:   jkannry   (Member) I don't have more soundtracks than I can listen to, but I do have too many to properly familiarize myself with all of them, like I did back in the 90s when I only had, like 10% of what I have now. Back then, I could listen to each album so many times that I knew them all by heart. Same here. But back then score albums were usually shorter (some may b*tch and moan about them, but I'm still fond of those 30 min Varese albums) and I also had a lot more free time. I myself have roughly 1100 cd's and some get played a lot, others maybe once or twice a year and some only once every few years. Still, I won't get rid of them, I know I would want to listen to them once they are gone Exactly same in that afraid as soon as get rid of will want. Maybe we should all sell and buy back our own collections. Some clutter expert said one experiment is to ask yourself which ones would you buy and for how much if today.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2015 - 7:11 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) In one word: yes. iTunes which represents a fraction of my collection would require me to listen for 30 days straight before hearing a repeat. My iTunes library is up to 91 straight days and I've yet to import all my CD's.     General Discussion: More soundtracks than you can listen to?    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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