Do you buy movie soundtracks?

[The Penguin]

I'm a big fan of movie soundtracks, but my dad always tells me, "Just because you liked a movie doesn't mean you have to buy the soundtrack." But I do anyway because most of the time I think they're great. Score, songs, I'll take either or depending on the movie. So do you buy movie soundtracks? If so what have ya got? If not then why not?





"Hey Penguin, what do you have?"
Why thank you for asking Wakko. I've put them in a nice, organized list so it's easy to read.

Actual Score
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Trek Nemesis
Batman Beyond
Batman Beyond Return of The Joker
Aladdin (few songs, but from the movie)
The Lion King (see Aladdin)

Music From & Inspired By
Men In Black (probably shouldn't have gotten this one, I don't care for it all that much)
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin (movie bad, soundtrack goo... okay maybe not good, but way better than the film)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Space Jam
Friends
¡Mucha Lucha! (I got it for free so it's not like I paid money for it)

On the 'Need to buy sooner than later' list
Spider-Man (the score)
Men In Black II (no songs other than Will Smith, I love Danny Elfman )
Treasure Planet
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (if I could only find it )

[Colin]

I've got some soundtracks & scores... I usually pick them up if I like the movie and/or think it has an amazing score... I have, in no particular order:

American Pie 2 - stk
A.I. - sco
Spiderman - stk, sco
Batman & Robin - stk
X-men - sco
Sixth Sense - sco
Sleepy Hollow - sco
Armageddon - stk

I'm currently contemplating picking up the LotR movie soundtracks... we have the one for the Two Towers @ work... I'm also contemplating picking up the Harry Potter ones...

I'm a sucker for symphonic music from movies... =)

[Barb Gordon]

You bet I do! I'm an addict when it comes to movie soundtracks. Spiderman, Batman, LOTR, Harry Potter...heck, I even buy more then one if it's got a different cover! My mom's got them all somewhere in the house, so at the moment I can't think of what we've got. I'm with you Pengy, I so want the Treasure Planet and especially the Batman: MOTP soundtracks.

~Barb

[James]

Pengy, you seem to be talking to yourself again... something disturbingly familiar about it all... - said Brenda from the Teen Angels. 'Zowie!' she continued, 'Perhaps Cavie can help!!!'

etc.

Soundtracks. Yes.
Let's think...

Star Wars: TPM: OST
Star Wars: ESB: OST
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock: OST
Batman - Danny Elfman: OST
Batman - Prince: Music Inspired and featured
Batman Forever: Music Inspired and featured
X-Files: The Movie: Music Inspired and featured
Ghostbusters: OST and Music Inspired and featured
Back To The Future: Music Inspired and featured
Back To The Future II: OST
Gremlins 2: OST
Flash Gordon: OST
Labyrinth: OST
Blade Runner: OST
Young Guns 2: Music Inspired and featured
Battlestar Galactica: OST
The Lost Boys: Music Inspired and featured
Twin Peaks: FWM: OST
The World Is Not Enough: OST

I still need to get The Black Hole (if Disney EVER release it), Dark City and Star Trek II

I have my collection of TV OST too but they don't count do they..?

[Ruffian]

I'm a soundtrack nut. Soundtracks make up most of my CD collection.

Not a complete list, but pretty close:
Dragonheart
Gettysburg
Last of the Mohicans
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Braveheart
Glory
Willow
Balto
Backdraft
Little Women
Much Ado About Nothing
Star Wars: ANH
Star Wars: TPM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Batman Beyond
The Rock
Top Gun
Notting Hill
Good Will Hunting
Beauty and the Beast (SE)
Singin' In the Rain
Easter Parade
Bambi
Sleeping Beauty
Animaniacs

[Ordinary Guy]

Yes I buy them. Depending on the movie and if I like music featured in it. I'm a junkie when it comes to '80s movie soundtracks. I too want the Mask Of the Phantasm soundtrack.

My soundtracks:

'90s-current
Drumline
Blade 2
Tommorow Never Dies
Beverly Hills Cop 3
Crimson Tide
Dumb and Dumber
Men In Black
Space Jam
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Money Talks
Pretty Woman
Scream 2
Judgement Night
Bad Boys
Rocky V
Any Given Sunday
Blue Streak
Gone In 60 Seconds
Mission: Impossible 2
Tomb Raider
Fast And the Furious
Training Day
Osmosis Jones
Star Wars: Episode 1 & 2

older-'80s
Cocktail
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Back To the Future
Top Gun
Rocky IV
Secret Of My Success
Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2
Transformers: The Movie
Footloose
Miami Vice
National Lampoons: Animal House

[Ajax]

Those were the only kind of CD's I would buy when I was a kid. I always loved movie soundtracks.

[finbarlafume]

Most of my CD collection consists of movie soundtracks. My favourite composers are Akira Ifukube, Miklos Rosza, Joe Hisaishi and Jerry Goldsmith.

Cartoon soundtracks:

The Secret of NIMH
My Neighbour Totoro ( regular version & symphonic suite )
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke ( regular version & symphonic suite )
Joe Hisaishi Animage Best Symphony ( compilation of studio Ghibli music )
Chicken Run

General:

King Kong ( 1933 )
King Kong ( 1976 )
Son of Kong
Lost Horizon
The Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Excalibur
Great composers: Elmer Bernstein
Lord of the Flies ( 1990 version )
The Quiet Earth
Utu
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Music from the Alien movies
Star Wars trilogy
The Valley of Gwangi & other scores by Jerome Moross
Into the West
Vertigo
Bernard Herrmann compilations ( 4 discs )
The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold
The Time Machine ( 1960 )
The Thief of Bagdad/The Jungle Book ( 1940s )
Time After Time
Ben Hur
Miklos Rosza collections ( 4 discs )
Total Recall
Capricorn One/Outland
Close Encounters
Titanic
Planet of the Apes
Star Trek 3: Search For Spock
Back to the Future Trilogy
Various movie compilation discs

Japanese movies:

Battle in Outer Space
The Mysterians
Godzilla vs. Mothra ( 1992 )
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla ( 1995 )
Godzilla vs. Destroyah ( 2 disc edition )
Godzilla symphonic concert
Godzilla best of CDs ( about 5 compilation discs )
Akira Ifukube 50th Anniversary Toho Movie Music File
Works of Akira Ifukube
Toho Monster Marches volumes 1 & 2
Film Music by Masaru Satoh volime 4 & volume 13
Music from Kurosawa movies




Television:

Animaniacs ( 3 CDs of music from the show )
The Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Tv's Greatest Hits ( 4 volumes )
Star Trek volume 2 ( I bought this for the battle music from 'Amok Time' )
Babylon 5
A couple of Dr. Who discs
The Prisoner volumes 1,2&3
Gormenghast
Walking With Dinosaurs
The Stand
Various Tv compilations

[Daniel P]

Not usually, unless I really liked the music.

[Stu]

I bought the Spider-man score and have been looking for the Batman/Batman Returns/ Batman MOTP tracks for years but can't seem to find them. I don't really want to ship them from the USA as past experience has shown me they take AGES to come.

[Discloner]

I guess I'm not the oddest person out there!

I've always preffered movie soundtracks to regular "teen hip" music. Don't ask me why...I just do.

I think the fact that alot of movie soundtracks have scores on them is the reason. When I was young I made this little "crappy" films with our huge camera, and soundtrack scores always gave my imagination a way to plan certain things. Didn't work most of the time...but it works in my brain.

Recently I've been thinking I want the MIB II soundtrack...The evil girl's (who's name I know....just can't remember at the moment ) theme has been stuck in my head.

Forgive me...I'm odd.

[Lonestarr]

Heck, soundtracks are all I ever buy when I buy CDs, but only if the original score is dominant.

Most soundtracks are a joke. They usually consist of 17 songs, less than half of which are actually in the film. Not only does this reek of avarice, but it's an insult to the composer who worked so hard to write a good score for the film. I have about 140 cds, all movie soundtracks (except for a greatest hits CD from Queen and a few TV soundtracks: Drew Carey, The Simpsons).

[Defector]

If the soundtrack has Rammstein on it I sure as hell do.

[Elven Moon]

Rarely, but here's my list at the top of my head:

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Rugrats: The Movie (I know, I know...)

Um... and a few more, I'm sure.

[Simpler Simon]

I LOVE movie soundtracks to death...since I listen to a variety of stuff (from Rammstein to Britney Spears), there's always a different CD in my player...but in the end, I always come back to movie soundtracks, especially orchestral ones. I love playing out the scenes from the movie in my head while listening to the music, or composing new scenes to go with them.

What I have:

Batman
Batman (Prince Album)
Batman Returns
Batman Forever (non-orchestral one)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: Ultimate Edition
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Special Edition Reissue
The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition Reissue
Return of the Jedi Special Edition Reissue
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone
Best of Bond: James Bond 007
The Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons

And do broadway musical soundtracks count? I have:

Highlights from the Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (Canadian Cast)
Grease
FAME
Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert

BTW, I'm thinking about buying the soundtracks for Harry Potter 2, Two Towers, and Die Another Day. Two Towers is a no brainer, but how are the other two?

[JDuncan]

i don't own that many, just:
Requiem for a Dream
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Mallrats

[Mad Monkey 7]

Are you ready?
Oliver and Company
The Little Mermaid
Transformers The Movie
Mission Impossible
Hunchback
Aladdin
Hercules
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
TV Tunes- Cartoon songs
Scooby Doo-Cartoon soundtrack
UHF
Tarzan
Pochantas
Mulan
Walt Disney World Report Ablum
Disneyland Ablum
Disney Classics
Spider-Man
Scooby Doo-live-actoin
Mission Impossible 2
Batman
Batman Returns
Fatantasia 1 & 2000
Muppets: Music and Maythem
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Beaty & The Beast
Looney Tunes
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
The Matrix
The Country Bears
Lilo & Stitch

[James]

Originally posted by finbarlafume
Back to the Future Trilogy

Yeah I knew I forgot one! I bought that one last year at a con - not the original recordings but a nice mix of all the infamous tracks!

Well if we do TV too...

Toons
Science Ninja Team Gatchman
Battle Of The Planets
Hanna Barbara Collection
Batman Beyond OST

TV
Babylon 5 - Vol 1
Babylon 5 - Messages From Earth
Doctor Who - 25th Anniversary Sountrack
Twin Peaks
Lexx Vol 1
Lexx Vol 2
Mission Impossible TV Score
Star Trek Volume 2

Star Trek volume 2 ( I bought this for the battle music from 'Amok Time' )

LOL so did I! And the amusing Doomesday Machine music!!

[Blight]

Heck, yeah! I love movie scores. My entire CD collection consists entirely of movie scores. I don't really like songs. They just don't do anything for me, so I've never bought a CD with only songs. Movie scores, however, are what I live for. I never get tired of them.

Here's my list:

Batman - Danny Elfman
Batman Returns - Danny Elfman
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Shirley Walker
Batman Beyond - various composers
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker - Kristopher Carter
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace - John Williams
Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones - John Williams
Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope SE - John Williams
Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back SE - John Williams
Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi SE - John Williams
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - John Williams
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - John Williams
Superman: The Movie - John Williams
Jurassic Park - John Williams
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - John Williams
Jurassic Park 3 - Don Davis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - John Williams
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Brad Fiedel
Unbreakable - James Newton Howard
Men in Black: The Score - Danny Elfman
Men in Black 2 - Danny Elfman and Will Smith
Spider-Man - Danny Elfman

Hope you didn't mind my strange need to name the Star Wars movies by their complete, unabreviated titles.

See ya!
Blight

[Alaskanbullworm]

I would if I could find any for some movies.

Right now I only have The Nightmare Before Christmas, Austin Powers in Goldmember and Dr. Doliddle(given to me)