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Jan 25, 2016 - 5:29 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I was about 16 or 17 when I came out.
I hid it pretty well when I was still in school. I think a few close mates suspected, mainly cos they knew I had some*.
But my first main memory of sharing/unburdening was when we used to each bring a particular LP around to a mates house for a shared listen on some nights.
I brought Goldsmith's ALIEN.
I think it was forced off around track 3, with cries of 'please turn that sh!t off'. Some U2 or REM probably replaced my one moment in the sun. But it was out there!!
I
LISTENED
TO
FILM
SCORES!!
This would have been around 1980/81.
As the years have passed, I've become far more confident in my 'hobby' and I have noticed, in this day and age, it's now almost hip to be listening to something off the beaten track or the force-fed manufactured line.
So, have you always been 'up front and proud' of your (listening) habit, or did/do you hide it away?
*Star Wars, Superman, CE3K..on LP
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That's funny.
I used to have a roommate in college, who, upon returning to the room to find I was listening to a soundtrack, would actually take the needle off the lp, and turn off the machine.
So much for the liberal 1960's....
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Totally in the closet, Kev. Never acknowledged the truth even to myself. Even my wife doesn't know.
We won't tell anyone.
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Welcome to the new world of Filmscoremonthly.com clickbaiting
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In the 1970s my teenage friends were slightly bemused when they heard me listening to composers like Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin and Ennio Morricone, but they never gave me a hard time about it… probably because I was also into the music they were listening to: Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Focus, Barclay James Harvest, etc. My love of film music has always been equal to my love of rock music. Is that unusual?
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From 1964 to 2016 I've told many people about my passion for good film scores ....... none of them have any idea what I'm talking about! Oh well ...... 
But now PFK you have found a nice home from home here on this board and we all know what you are talking about!
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I suspected this was gonna be another of DIBs thinly-disguised.... star wars threads!
Very funny kev.
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I was very "closeted" as a teenager, growing-up in a pretentious college town where Jerry Garcia and Johnny Rotten were deified as "geniuses", but John Williams was mocked as a talentless hack and purveyor of the cornball.
I once naively asked one of the pot-smoking proprietors of a local record store "Do you have any Boston Pops albums?" "No" came his terse reply, in that tone of voice which made clear "We don't sell that low-brow crap". (They did have the soundtrack for Liquid Sky though).
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