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 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 6:18 PM   
 By:   danbeck   (Member)

Finally I finished the list of Soundtrack CDs I own in an excel file - (almost actually because I still have to include the complilations).

It allowed me to obtain some statistics about my collection that I did not had before (as I organize my CDs in film name order I did not new how much CDs from each composer I owned).

Now I know that, of my 867 soundtracks CDs:

1) 110 are from Jerry Goldsmith;
2) 62 are from John Williams;
3) 32 are from James Horner;
4) 32 are from John Barry;
5) 25 are from Bernard Herrmann;
6) 22 are from Alan Silvestri;
7) 20 are from Danny Elfman;
8) 18 are from Basil Poledouris;
9) 17 are from Ennio Morricone;
10) 16 are from Michael Kamen
11) 14 are from Elmer Bernstein;
12) 14 are from Trevor Jones
13) 14 are from Hanz Zimmer;
14) 12 are from James Newton Howard;
15) 11 are from Christopher Young;
16) 11 are from Howard Shore;
17) 11 are from Graeme Revell;
18) 10 are from Elliot Goldenthal;
19) 10 are from Miklós Rosza;
20) 09 are from John Carpenter;
21) 09 are from Marco Beltrami;
22) 08 are from Bruce Broughthon;

It is interesting how the numbers do not necessary reflect my preferred composers (e.g. I like Broughthon better than Zimmer, but have more Zimmer than Broughthon scores...)


I also discovered that of my CDs:

1) 352 are adventures;
2) 145 are terror;
3) 94 are suspense;
4) 76 are scy-fi/fantasy;
5) 75 are drama/romance;
6) 51 are comedies;
7) 22 are westerns


Pretty interesting information huh? Well, maybe not that interesting, but it was great to be able to finish the list I've been doing for months...

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 7:33 PM   
 By:   CAT   (Member)

Pretty COOL, danbeck...and quite interesting as well!

I've been wanting to compile some sort of database for a while. How does the excell file work?

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 7:56 PM   
 By:   TheSeeker   (Member)

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 8:30 PM   
 By:   vinylscrubber   (Member)

Geez, no wonder FSM and Intrada have so much trouble moving the golden age stuff.

No Waxman? No Friedhofer? No Steiner? No Newman?--etc., etc., etc.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 8:56 PM   
 By:   TerraEpon   (Member)

Well, I keep my soundtracks in alphabetical order by composer, under the main composer (well, excpet The Rock I have under Zimmer for some reason) -- so stuff like Born on the 4th of July is still Williams, Mulan is Goldsmith, etc. I also have a couple after that are too split (namely, Penelope/Don't Make Waves, and the FSM Shoes of a Fisherman).
Another thing is that classical stuff is with the classical, so Rosza and Williams and so on....

That said, here's some of my larger composer collections:

11 E. Bernstein
14 Delerue (one on the way)
14 Elfman
15 Goldsmith
15 Herrmann
15 Hisaishi
12 Horner
14 Rozsa (7 film, 7 classical)
13 Shostakovich (film, I have 22 classical)
29 Silvestri
42 Williams (38 film, 4 classical)

I also have under 10 but love much of Poledouris, Goldenthal, T Jones, Steiner, and Rota. Also of course is game composers like Uematsu, Mitsuda, Iwadare, Shimomura, and K. Tanaka.

My most of any seems to be Jean Sibelius with 43. I like variety...and this is albums, so multi-CDs count as one. I have heavy love for Saint-Saens, Rimsky-Korsakov, L. Bernstein, Dvorak, Mozart, Corigliano, Liszt, Hovhaness, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gottschalk, Chaminade, Alfven, Gershwin, Smetana...the list goes on really.


-Joshua


-Joshua

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 9:01 PM   
 By:   danbeck   (Member)

I am not really a very big fan of the Golden Age... I prefer the silver age scores and 80's orchestral stuff. That's why I have only 6 North's, 4 Steiner's, 3 Newman's and 2 Waxman's (I love Bride of Frankenstein).


What I made is simply a Microsoft Excel file in which I included collums for title, composer, genre, duration, my personal cotation (from one to five stars) and one for additional information (such as "complete score", "re-recording by XXX", etc.)


 
 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 9:06 PM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

Also missing from the above lists. Alex North. I have 14 of North's scores in my collection. In the melody of the that song from THE MUSIC MAN, "You ought to give Alex North a try".

Zoob

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2004 - 10:13 PM   
 By:   RcM   (Member)

Aren't statistics fun. I have 1149 Albums (including CDs, LPs, and cassettes) that would fall into the soundtrack or score category. There are 189 different composers represented. The top 25 (including compilations) are:

1. Goldsmith (110)
2. Horner (88)
3. Barry (81)
4. Herrmann (78)
5. Williams (69)
6. Rozsa (61)
7. Bernstein, E. (51)
8. Waxman (50)
9. North (35)
10. Newman, A. (33)
11. Mancini (29)
12. Young, C. (28)
13. Korngold (25)
13. Steiner, M. (25)
15. Friedhofer (19)
16. Jarre (18)
16. Nyman (18)
16. Schifrin (18)
19. Morricone (17)
20. Fenton (16)
20. Goldenthal (16)
22. Glass (15)
23. Elfman (14)
23. Rota (14)
23. Scott (14)

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 12:12 AM   
 By:   TerraEpon   (Member)

Also missing from the above lists. Alex North. I have 14 of North's scores in my collection. In the melody of the that song from THE MUSIC MAN, "You ought to give Alex North a try".



Eh, I have three North (counting Shoes), with one on the way (though it'll be a replacement). Frankly I find a lot of his music not to pleasureable to listen to. He wrote some georgeous melodies when he wanted to, sure, but most of it is just...hmmm...almost TOO complex. In fact, Cleopatra is more of an interesting listen than a really good one, though Shoes and Agony are both wonderful.

Blasphemy, I know....

-Joshua

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 12:39 AM   
 By:   Anonie_Mouse   (Member)






........I have two cats..........




 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 12:40 AM   
 By:   Anonie_Mouse   (Member)

I *love* statistics! :D Here are mine, as far as they go:

411 CDs as of December 11th, 11pm.

1. 38 CDs by Goldsmith
2. 35 CDs by Williams
3. 30 CDs by Franke (all Babylon 5)
4. 23 CDs by Zimmer
5. 20 CDs by Horner
6. 13 CDs by Shore
7. 11 CDs by Elfman
8. 11 CDs by Howard
9. 8 CDs by Bernstein
10. 8 CDs by Silvestri
11. 7 CDs by Doyle
etc.

Note: x CDs by y doesn't necessarily mean x scores by y. ;)

N^



No Herrmann? No Rozsa?

I'm wondering if I should weep or just ()......



 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 2:37 AM   
 By:   CAT   (Member)


........I have two cats..........


Obviously a man with impeccable taste.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 2:59 AM   
 By:   Anonie_Mouse   (Member)



Obviously a man with impeccable taste.



Phideas & Aloysius would ADORE you.... and the boys have the most remarkable ability to sleep through any loud volume of music that I play...

Of course there's always the possibility it has more to do with ennui, being the arcane creatures that they are....

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 8:52 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

I wonder if the 110 Goldsmith and 17 Morricone that Danbeck and RcM each have are the same ones? I bet there's at least 90% overlap...

..even if I personally think that Morricone is criminally under-represented in both collections!

Chris

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 8:58 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

...but then again, I guess most of you would feel the same about my Goldsmith.

The best-represented composers in my soundtrack collection are:

Morricone 117
Barry 39
Williams 34
Sakamoto, Elfman and Goldsmith 12 each (counting the Fox Box as one).

Hell, even I feel that Goldsmith is under represented...

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 9:47 AM   
 By:   Christian Madsen   (Member)

Collection: 2535 CDs (soundtracks only) including:


1. Jerry Goldsmith: 139
2. Ennio Morricone: 97
3. John Barry: 93
4. John Williams: 79
5. James Horner: 68
6. Maurice Jarre: 56
7. Hans Zimmer: 51
8. Elmer Bernstein: 45
9. Georges Delerue: 40
10. James Newton Howard: 37
11. Basil Poledouris: 36
12. Alan Silvestri: 36
13. John Scott: 34
14. Danny Elfman: 32
15. Lalo Schifrin: 32
16. Henry Mancini: 31
17. Bernard Herrmann: 29
18. Michael Kamen: 29
19. Mark Isham: 27
20. Francis Lai: 26
21. Roy Budd: 25
22. Georges Fenton: 24
23. Howard Shore: 24
24. Christopher Young: 24
25. Miklos Rozsa: 23
26. Bruce Broughton: 20
27. Bill Conti: 20
28. Randy Edelman: 20


NP. Piranha II (Stelvio Cipriani)

 
 Posted:   Dec 12, 2004 - 4:08 PM   
 By:   RcM   (Member)


..even if I personally think that Morricone is criminally under-represented in both collections!


I would agree, but there is a reason. When I was first getting into this whole film score thing (in the '80s) the sheer volume of material by Morricone was just overwhelming - and he seemed to have a new score every week. So I'm just more selective with his work. Still, 17 CDs (18 if you count his album of chamber music) isn't too shabby.

 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2004 - 11:25 AM   
 By:   plindboe   (Member)

Here are my statistics(compilation albums included in the count): big grin

1.380 Ennio Morricone
2.82 Georges Delerue
3.73 Jerry Goldsmith
4.60 Basil Poledouris
5.42 John Williams
6.36 James Horner
7.30 John Barry
8.29 Hans Zimmer
9.26 Miklos Rozsa
10.25 Elmer Bernstein
11.19 Wojciech Kilar
12.17 Michael Kamen
13.16 James Newton Howard
13.16 Rachel Portman
15.15 Danny Elfman
16.14 Thomas Newman
16.14 Trevor Jones
18.13 Alan Silvestri
19.12 Howard Shore
20.11 Bernard Herrmann
20.11 Henry Mancini

A little golden and bronze age, but mostly from the age of silver.

Peter smile

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2004 - 12:55 PM   
 By:   Hercule Platini   (Member)

The top ones in mine. Here I'm counting 2-on-1 CDs as two (SCREAM 1/2; THE MEPHISTO WALTZ and THE OTHER), but ignoring different recordings (I have two different versions of CITIZEN KANE, but it counts as one). This isn't counting compilations.

Jerry Goldsmith - 109
Ennio Morricone - 59
John Williams - 55 (includes CHAMBER OF SECRETS)
James Horner - 54
Hans Zimmer - 35 (includes co-credits)
John Barry - 31
James Newton Howard - 30
Alan Silvestri - 29
Danny Elfman - 28
Elmer Bernstein - 28
Chris Young - 28
Michael Kamen - 26
Graeme Revell - 22
Maurice Jarre - 22
Howard Shore - 21
Mark Isham - 21
Henry Mancini - 20
Basil Poledouris - 20
Randy Edelman - 20
Carter Burwell - 16
John Debney - 16
John Carpenter - 15
Trevor Jones - 15
Patrick Doyle - 15
Bernard Herrmann - 14
Richard Band - 14
Pino Donaggio - 14
David Arnold - 13 - (includes WING COMMANDER)
John Powell - 13 (includes co-credits)
Marc Shaiman - 11 (includes the SOUTH PARK film)
John Ottman - 11
Marco Beltrami - 11
Elliot Goldenthal - 11
Lalo Schifrin - 11
Brian May - 11

Total film music CD collection (including compilations; counting box-sets as 1): 1691 as of today.

Total Varese count: 548. smile
Total FSM count: 14 (includes THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, ENTER THE DRAGON and THE EXORCIST). frown
Total Intrada count: 51.
Legitimately obtained illegitimates (either through ignorance, differing international law or gifts): 4.
FYC Promos: 4.
Irreparably scratched CDs: 2.
Average length (includes doubles and box sets): 50 minutes 34 seconds.

 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2004 - 1:15 PM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

I don't have stats to post, but I do have 616 albums. But, here's the burning question. . .

When do we listen to them all? I have a score going at work right now. I also listen in the car, when I write and before I sleep.

Anyone else?

 
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