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While for the most part I believe my posts tend toward either positive enthusiasm, respectful criticism, or simple questions I'd like to know the answers to, I'm certainly not immune to having used my keyboard to post some negative comments or to bitch. It also feels as though we've had an inordinate amount of negativity on the board lately.
So...
I thought it might be both corny and uplifting to post some of our positive thoughts about scores, labels, different releases, etc. The only rules are:
1. It must fit into the Score Discussion section parameters;
2. It must (obviously) follow the FSM Message Board rules;
3. It must be positive.
(If somehow this thread devolves into negativity, I will myself ask our moderator to lock the thread.)
I'll start...
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I am consistently amazed that we get so many incredible releases every year, and it's all due to some very passionate labels and their peeps.
Firstly, I'd like to thank MV et al, who have taken up much of the Golden Age mantle that we lost when Lukas decided to retire the FSM label. Lukas paved an incredible path that MV et al have done their best to keep open.
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Thumbs up to positivity! Good on you AG for starting this thread.
This really is the Golden Age of film score collecting, with so-called small labels hitting the ball out of the park with famous and utterly obscure scores of every stripe. With even room for the occasional Goldn Age title, even for films that are almost forgotten.
In some ways I'm most appreciative of re-releases of classic scores that hopefully will never be out of print for long. Ooh, and new recordings of great and lesser known scores from masters like Barry - Mister Moses and The Betsy - and Rozsa - Sodom & G and The Man in Half Moon Street.
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Nov 30, 2015 - 7:47 AM
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MikeP
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Excellent thread.
All I can really do is second your post. JAWS arrived in the mail Saturday, and I am just floored by the flat out perfection of the release, top to bottom.
We're lucky we do have the boutique labels dedicated to releases like this.
I genuinely love movie music, and love sharing it with people. Not long ago a new friend was discussing her musical tastes with me, and although she wasn't really into film scores, I let her listen to "There's No Place Like Home" , from Giacchino's LOST . It reduced her to tears, really. She was touched by what she took as a yearning, longing quality to the piece. She actually shed tears, thanked me for sharing it with her and since then has been looking to find film music she likes.
She also likes the "ethereal" feel of Zimmer's Interstellar.
It felt great to introduce someone to this music and see such an emotional response.
I love driving to work at 6 in the morning and listening to "Welcome To Hickory" from Hoosiers ( that's the title of the main titles cue on the Best Of Hemdale CD, of course it is the last section of The Finals on the actual soundtrack album ).
160BPM from Angels & Demons.
King Richard from Goldsmith's Lionheart. The version of the Barnaby Jones theme on his Suites & Themes album. These always make me smile.
The people at the score labels who work hard to get this stuff to us, taking big losses sometimes, hitting a home run at others. We can't thank these folks enough.
I love movie music 
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Thanks for this, Sean. I actually hadn't thought about checking out THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET but now I should. Sir, like I don't have enough to purchase?!?
I don't see any availability for the movie itself, either on DVD or Blu-ray, at least in Region 1. Would love to see the film and hear the score!
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Excellent thread.
All I can really do is second your post. JAWS arrived in the mail Saturday, and I am just floored by the flat out perfection of the release, top to bottom.
We're lucky we do have the boutique labels dedicated to releases like this.
I genuinely love movie music, and love sharing it with people. Not long ago a new friend was discussing her musical tastes with me, and although she wasn't really into film scores, I let her listen to "There's No Place Like Home" , from Giacchino's LOST . It reduced her to tears, really. She was touched by what she took as a yearning, longing quality to the piece. She actually shed tears, thanked me for sharing it with her and since then has been looking to find film music she likes.
She also likes the "ethereal" feel of Zimmer's Interstellar.
It felt great to introduce someone to this music and see such an emotional response.
I love driving to work at 6 in the morning and listening to "Welcome To Hickory" from Hoosiers ( that's the title of the main titles cue on the Best Of Hemdale CD, of course it is the last section of The Finals on the actual soundtrack album ).
160BPM from Angels & Demons.
King Richard from Goldsmith's Lionheart. The version of the Barnaby Jones theme on his Suites & Themes album. These always make me smile.
The people at the score labels who work hard to get this stuff to us, taking big losses sometimes, hitting a home run at others. We can't thank these folks enough.
I love movie music
I couldn't have said it better myself, Mike. And I was going to just quote a small part of your post in my reply, but then you made too many great points! I, too, love "There's No Place Like Home" and find myself humming it often. HOOSIERS is another of those Goldsmith scores that I've never checked out - that and RUDY. Just haven't delved much into his "sports scores." Maybe I need to.
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It´s really fantastic these days to get scores released in pristine condition, mostly complete.
Back in the 80´s it would have been unthinkable to actually have so many specialty labels offering so many great scores so often. Even the thought of one label releasing four scores a month would have been science-fiction.
Score fans today get so many opportunities, it´s simply magnificent!
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Sean, meant to ask you what your avatar illustration is from. Beautiful.
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Score fans today get so many opportunities, it´s simply magnificent!
We're pretty damned spoiled!
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This is my type of thread.
I recently published my very first book and I have to say, without the film score releases to write specific scenes to, I just don't know if it would have come out as well. I'm the type of writer who needs to have good music playing in order to write a good scene.
It's been pretty dang cool to see not just the first Back to the Future, but ALL THREE now on my shelf. I can't tell you how many times I searched for unmentionables before this, just hoping for even the slightest bit more music from the three movies.
Tackle the Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and Speed series onto that. On top of that, scores like Broken Arrow, The Edge, Bad Boys, Blown Away, The Bodyguard, Days of Thunder, Money Train, The Peacemaker, and more that I discovered before ever seeing the movie since the outbreak of soundtrack releases. Braveheart has recently been added to that list.
I've always leaned more towards La La Land Records, but Intrada and a few others have definitely seen my wallet open for them too. It's funny, a lot of the scores I used to complain about not having, I now have and can write away too.
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I recently shifted CD storage around, and it is an absurdity of riches that I got over the past few years.
I, too, have been doing the same. What's really good about this is that I've had to scale back and really, REALLY determine which scores I feel I can't live without and which ones I truly don't need to listen to again. (I also realize that this level of "can't live without" and "need" is far different than true needs.)
The other good thing about this is that it makes more room for the scores that are coming that I really, really do want to have in my collection.
And the third good thing, possibly the most important: I appreciate the scores I've taken the time to determine are staying in my collection. When I whittled the collection down to its essentials and a bunch of outliers (can't get rid of WATCHMEN, for example - just like it too much), I really do enjoy it more.
Loved your story about the shop you used to frequent, too. In our little city we had 4 stores from which to buy soundtracks on vinyl. Even in a small city.
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I am simply overjoyed with the many great releases this year, I'm so moved that I'm planning on sending some of the labels actual snail mail thank you cards in the mail. I also encourage you posters to do the same, it's one this to take a few seconds to write a post. It's a whole other thing entirely to send something back in physical form.
What an incredible idea! And the addresses are all on their websites so it's easy to find. I'll try to do the same thing!
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Nov 30, 2015 - 8:24 AM
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Francis
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I second the work done by the labels and want to give a shoutout to Peter 'DMD' Hackman amongst others for releasing my dream 'Nightmare' boxset. I'm extremely thankful for releases like Gremlins 2, Outbreak, Warlock, Judge Dredd, Cat's Eye, Jaws, BTTF, Amityville, ... and who knows what nexth month will bring.
I'm not going to use the e-word, even better this year has been *huuuuuge*.
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This is my type of thread.
I recently published my very first book and I have to say, without the film score releases to write specific scenes to, I just don't know if it would have come out as well. I'm the type of writer who needs to have good music playing in order to write a good scene.
It's been pretty dang cool to see not just the first Back to the Future, but ALL THREE now on my shelf. I can't tell you how many times I searched for unmentionables before this, just hoping for even the slightest bit more music from the three movies.
Tackle the Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and Speed series onto that. On top of that, scores like Broken Arrow, The Edge, Bad Boys, Blown Away, The Bodyguard, Days of Thunder, Money Train, The Peacemaker, and more that I discovered before ever seeing the movie since the outbreak of soundtrack releases. Braveheart has recently been added to that list.
I've always leaned more towards La La Land Records, but Intrada and a few others have definitely seen my wallet open for them too. It's funny, a lot of the scores I used to complain about not having, I now have and can write away too.
All very true. Well said! Tell us more about your book and post a link for purchase. I know it's not what the thread is about, but what the hey. Put it here anyway; would love to see what it's about.
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I second the work done by the labels and want to give a shoutout to Peter 'DMD' Hackman amongst others for releasing my dream 'Nightmare' boxset. I'm extremely thankful for releases like Gremlins 2, Outbreak, Warlock, Judge Dredd, Cat's Eye, Jaws, BTTF, Amityville, ... and who knows what nexth month will bring.
I'm not going to use the e-word, but safe to say this year has been huuuuuge.
Thank you, Francis! I must admit to being one of the complainants with the NIGHTMARE box. Not its having been released, but some of the other details about it. One of the reasons I started this thread - to get the bad taste of my own negativity out of my mouth and start afresh. Peter did a freaking incredible job just getting that thing to us, regardless of its issues. I haven't had a chance yet but I need to get them all onto my iPod and start listening to them.
And almost all the others you mentioned are also in my collection - all but OUTBREAK and WARLOCK. Not for any reason other than I don't know those two. And believe me, there are already enough scores to buy that I do know!
Thanks for sharing!
P.S. At the risk of asking you to say it, I don't know what the "e word" is. 
P.P.S. Oooh, is it that word that means "more music on a release but we can't say 'complete'"?
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Agree with you, Thor. There's nothing wrong with critical thinking and expression as long as it doesn't devolve into a dark, negative abyss of bitching. But this particular thread is just for gushing, lauding, and general new-age feel-goodiness - a salve, if you will. And more importantly, to reflect back and give thanks for some great work, both this past year and for years prior. 
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