I love lists. The obsessive-compulsive inside me has always been attracted to them. Oscar winners, Pulitzer winners, year-end lists of every shape and size…you name it. If it’s a list, I dig it. For the last ten years, I’ve kept track of every book I’ve read, every CD I’ve purchased, and every film and theatrical event I’ve seen. (Scary, huh?) So to drive myself into further OCD madness, I’ve decided to instigate a weekly list post here on Film Score Click Track detailing the film music I listened to throughout the prior week.
In addition to the new scores that I need to hear for this site and other projects, I’ll also be going through my entire score collection of roughly 3,000+ scores. A lot of scores get “lost in the shuffle” (remember those posts?) and this way I can start rediscovering some of the buried treasures on my external hard drive. Even at my average rate of 4-6 scores a day, which I undoubtedly won’t keep up every day, it will still take me roughly two years to get through everything.
I’ll be adding a sentence or two to each title if I have anything interesting to say, and perhaps an audio and/or YouTube clip or two. I don’t want this to get bogged down in tons of information. It should just be a quick read, with hopefully some ear candy to go along with it. Something fun, foolish and easy for all of us.
What would make this a whole lot more fun is to have you guys play along. All you have to do is keep track of the film scores you listen to from Monday through Sunday week by week. I’ll be posting on Monday or Tuesday of each week with my scores from the prior week. You guys can add your selections in the comments section. I’m sure we’ll all find some undiscovered gems from each other.
If you’re interested, start keeping track of the scores you listen to throughout the week from now through Sunday. Then check back next week and let’s see what sort of fun things we can come up with. We’ll just keep going until we run out of music or we get bored with it.
Let’s give it a spin.
This is a great idea and something I tried to implement on my SHUFFLING THROUGH iTUNES programs – http://www.cinematicsound.net/?p=570 – Unfortunately I wasn’t able to record the show as frequently as I would have liked to in order for the listeners to follow my weekly listening habits. But I’m more then happy to participate here and share my weekly film music playlist with you.
-Erik-
Yay! Though not just with me. Hopefully we’ll all find some fun out of this. The good thing about this is that it requires no audio editing or anything, simply typing (which, granted, may be quite a lot some weeks). I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ve got next week. Thanks for playing, Erik!
Wong Chia Chi’s theme from Lust Caution, cause a little bit of Desplat always keeps me going.
Looking forward to listening to the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack in detail though, now that I’ve finally seen the film. IT’S GONNA BE GOOOOOD :D
Well it is Sunday night here is Oz, so here is my list:
Atonement – Dario Marianelli (typewriter still have a use after all)
Citizen Kane, Fahrenheit 451 – Bernard Herrmann (Happy 100 Benny)
Copernicus Star – Abel Korzeniowskki (my current favorite, high rotation)
Dolores Claiborne – Danny Elfmann (it’s no Black Beauty, I’ll say that for it…)
Empire of the Sun – John Williams (this was my rediscovery this week, a great score I’d never really absorbed)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – John Williams (My favorite Harry Potter score)
The Lion in Winter – John Barry (that fanfare at the beginning really set the tone of the whole film)
Miller’s Crossing – Carter Burwell (beautiful, spare music for gangsters)
The Queen – Alexandre Desplat (this was my first Desplat score purchase and my introduction to his work)
Rudy – Jerry Goldsmith (Love it and I don’t even know anything about baseball, being an Australian)
The Russia House – also Jerry (people rave about this, and there are some great cues, but it has never really grabbed me as a whole)
Son of Kong – Max Steiner (It’s no King Kong, but unlike Dolores Claiborne it is a whole lot of fun)
Spartacus – Alex North (I only have the previous CD album release which was quite rare and valuable until recently. Still a landmark score whatever release you have)
True Grit – Elmer Bernstein (does not get the attention that Magnificent Seven gets, undeservedly so)
West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim (Social delinquents never sounded so good, Officer Krupke.)