Tyler_Durden

I'm constantly considered "weird" because I dislike most of today's popular music with a passion and only buy soundtracks and scores (with a few exceptions) as far as music is concerned. In addition to movie music, I like 60s/70s popular music (e.g. The Who, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, CCR). I also enjoy jazz and blues.

Still, about 99% of my original CDs are soundtracks and scores. I own about 65 at the moment. As far as soundtracks are concerned, I refuse to buy albums that just throw in "hot" artists of the moment to cash in on a movie's success (e.g. MIB - The Album, Godzilla, Batman & Robin). Instead I buy soundtracks with music that is in the movie, fits the movie, and is actually good (e.g Pulp Fiction).

How about you?

raKim

i probably have at least 40
see post The rock

Tyler_Durden

I saw it since I'm the one who replied to it.

Trout

Over 100, mostly Euro-horror. I am still trying to complete my Lucertola collection, but at a reasonable price.

raKim

i know(i figured that out afterwards)
and also
uhhhhhhh...it was for other ppl to so they could join in on our private conversation that seemed to be spanning two posts

mllefoo

I have around 20, mostly from cult movies like Repoman and Sirens, and fun stuff like Ghost and the Darkness, Edward Scissorhands, and Cyrano deBergerac.

Robert

My collection consists almost entirely of soundtracks and scores. I absolutely can't stand most popular music today. Most groups going strong today will never last as long as classics like The Doors, Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith.

I own 40 soundtracks/scores, most of which is John Williams. I also have several burned cds which contain numerous tracks of movie music, songs from movies, and all my Rolling Stones and Doors songs. I own 6 Aerosmith albums though.

Eplicon

I have over 400 (motion picture scores, none of that pop song compilation fodder), which would probably seem excessive to non-soundtrack fans, but a median amount for people like me. (I know of people that own 800-1000 and more!) So 99.95% of my total CD collection are soundtracks. Everything else is Beatles, classical, Enya, and ummm.... Madonna.

My collection is both Golden Age (Auric, Copland, Herrmann, Newman, Prokofiev, Rozsa, Tiomkin, Waxman) and the usual contemporary stuff (Elfman, Goldmsith, T. Newman, Williams, etc.).

So this is my current list of my top 20 favorite classic scores:

-The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
-La Belle et la Bête (Georges Auric )
-Ben-Hur (Miklós Rózsa)
-The Best Years of Our Lives (Hugo Friedhofer)
-The Big Country (Jerome Moross)
-Breakfast at Tiffany's (Henry Mancini)
-High Noon (Dimitri Tiomkin)
-Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Prokofiev)
-Jules et Jim (Georges Delerue)
-King Kong (Max Steiner)
-The Lion in Winter (John Barry)
-On the Waterfront (Leonard Bernstein)
-Our Town (Aaron Copland)
-Picnic (George Duning)
-Pinocchio (Leigh Harline)
-A Place in the Sun (Franz Waxman)
-Rebel Without a Cause (Leonard Rosenman)
-The Robe (Alfred Newman)
-To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein)
-Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)

...and my list 20 favorite contemporary ones:

-Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri)
-Conan the Barbarian (Basil Poledouris)
-Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)
-Emma (Rachel Portman)
-The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
-Enter the Dragon (Lalo Schifrin)
-The Godfather Part II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola)
-Grand Canyon (James Newton Howard)
-Interview with the Vampire (Elliot Goldenthal)
-Much Ado About Nothing (Patrick Doyle)
-The Natural (Randy Newman)
-Once Upon a Time in America (Ennio Morricone)
-Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith)
-Return to Oz (David Shire)
-The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman)
-Silverado (Bruce Broughton)
-Sneakers (James Horner)
-Superman: The Movie (John Williams)
-Taxi Driver (Bernard Herrmann)
-WarGames (Arthur B. Rubenstein)