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Me searching for film score albums at Silver Platters in the Sodo neighborhood of Seattle: "Why do they have to place cast albums in with the soundtracks?
Me - maybe even the same day - searching for cast albums at...etc: "Why do I have to sift through all of these crappy soundtrack albums to find the Broadway shows I'm looking for?"
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Me searching for film score albums at Silver Platters in the Sodo neighborhood of Seattle: "Why do they have to place cast albums in with the soundtracks?
Me - maybe even the same day - searching for cast albums at...etc: "Why do I have to sift through all of these crappy soundtrack albums to find the Broadway shows I'm looking for?"
I totally get the frustration of CD stores mixing soundtracks and musical cast recordings. I assume that music executives think these groups overlap somehow but my experience is pretty much that they are quite discrete demographics most of the time. It would almost make more sense to mix soundtracks with classical, dare I say sticking them under "light classical" (if they really must) but definitely not mixed with cast recordings. Ah well, now we all shop online, it doesn't matter that much!
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Me searching for film score albums at Silver Platters in the Sodo neighborhood of Seattle: "Why do they have to place cast albums in with the soundtracks?
Me - maybe even the same day - searching for cast albums at...etc: "Why do I have to sift through all of these crappy soundtrack albums to find the Broadway shows I'm looking for?"
I totally get the frustration of CD stores mixing soundtracks and musical cast recordings. I assume that music executives think these groups overlap somehow but my experience is pretty much that they are quite discrete demographics most of the time. It would almost make more sense to mix soundtracks with classical, dare I say sticking them under "light classical" (if they really must) but definitely not mixed with cast recordings. Ah well, now we all shop online, it doesn't matter that much!
This is something I experienced just last week while I was looking for some cast albums for my collection - Silver Platters is still open; even the COVID closures didn't kill it off!
But, indeed...where should Candide be placed? Under "C" in the soundtrack/cast album section or under "B" for Bernstein in the classical racks? How about John Williams and the Boston Pops records?
Reminds of the time I wanted to find the Pet Shop Boys-produced Liza Minnelli album Results and was disappointed not to find it under "Pet Shop Boys." Of course it was in the "M"s. Smart thinking, Mark!
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Mar 31, 2021 - 2:58 PM
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orion_mk3
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I used to frequent Encore Records in Ann Arbor all the time when I lived just down the street from it. Still in business (as of 2019 anyhow) with a healthy soundtrack section. Strangely, when I lived there 12-13 years ago, soundtracks were in the VERY FRONT of the store behind the main window! As of 2019, they moved soundtracks way into the back and the selection is much slimmer due to getting fewer promos from radio types.
I couldn't afford much, but I was able to pick up some gems like Intrada's Mary Queen of Scots for $5, the 1992 Varèse Conan for $3, and what turned out in retrospect to be my best find, the La-La Land Dark Crystal CD for $10.
My favorite memory from that era of record store hunting is when I found a copy of Jeff Beal's Pollock in a $1 bin (amazing score, still a favorite today). I mentioned at the register that I wasn't sure if it would be any good, and he told me "one dollar means never having to say you're sorry." In addition to being good advice, it's become one of my stock quotes.
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Who else was buying cheap used soundtrack LPs in the 1990s? I was like a kid in a candy store with a hundred dollar bill.
Yep. That was my big decade of getting into film music. Used LPs, new CDs, Film Score Monthly magazine when it was still an 8 page newsletter, the Soundtrack Cinema radio show hosted by Ford Thaxton every Saturday night, taping the audio off of movies that had unreleased score albums, new music from Williams, Goldsmith, Horner, etc. every few months (sometimes weeks)...halcyon days, halcyon days.
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Apr 1, 2021 - 12:51 AM
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mistermike
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I can't remember any soundtrack stores of significance in Vancouver at all, although there was the phenomenal A&B Sound which in their glory days had prices on classical LPs which were among the cheapest in North America. I remember when they had a huge sale of Varese CD cut-outs.
There was also another massive sale of CDs from a Tower Records in Los Angeles which was seriously damaged by an earthquake; some Liquidation World-type store in the Vancouver area with multiple stores bought out their entire stock (much of which suffered water damage) but it was mostly classical stuff.
Most of my soundtracks were obtained from places like A-1 Record Finders, STAR, and US dealers whose names I got out of the classified ads at the back of High Fidelity magazine like A.J. Lutsky in Miami and Jim Robinson (Grammy's Attic), plus some guy in Whittier, California.
There was a store in Vancouver called Treacher's which was run by a guy who used to work at RCA Victor in Vancouver who had access to a lot of deleted material which was sold at very cheap prices. Since it was only a few blocks from my house, I would go there often and maybe find a couple of dozen copies of those made-in-Canada-only LPs like the ones by Ron Goodwin on Capitol (The Selfish Giant, weren't there 1 or 2 others?), Our Mother's House (once super-rare Canadian LP which became a super bomb after it was reissued) and multiple copies of RCA cut-outs like The Night of the Generals by Jarre. I would trade these to US dealers for things that I wanted. I found a lot of other soundtracks there which people would bring in for credit towards other things.
I remember also dealing with some store in San Francisco (can't remember the name now) which would make dubs of rare albums on cassette tape for you, where I got things like Rosenman's Cobweb, some recording of On the Waterfront on the Decca label, etc.
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Apr 1, 2021 - 2:54 AM
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Thor
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Also reminds me that FNAC, French CD chain, often have a fairly decent soundtrack selection. The FNAC stores in Rennes and Nantes, which I'd normally visit fairly often, have a pretty decent range. However, the best was the one on the Champs-Élysées in Paris which (at least from my last visit a few years ago now) stocks FSM, Intrada, LLL etc. albums. Usually rather pricey, but I have bought the odd thing they happened to have in stock.
Oh yes....FNAC in Paris. I was on a school trip to France in 1995, and some of us ended up in that store. I was wowed by their selection (including soundtracks). This was the first time I saw the Arista STAR WARS box, for example, which made my jaw drop. Of course, it was WAY too expensive at the time, but about a year later, I ordered it from a Norwegian mail order service instead.
By the way, if anyone has any reasonable answer to my earlier CD question, I'd love to hear it?
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All these stories of stores no longer there really makes me sad. Some of our funnest times was in record stores.
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