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Must I read this?
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I absolutely get this Howard. I've also been delving into so many films and scores as a result of people talking about them during the zoom chats. Plenty of great suggestions by yourself! Wait Until Dark was last night 
Sometimes something will come on random while I'm working, and I suddenly need to put that film on my list. I'll even get partway through a film and think "ah, sod it, I need to listen to that bit on its own!" so I go grab the CD or LP. I think the vast majority of my score appreciation is inseparable from my appreciation of the film it accompanies. Not a blanket rule, of course... we all have favourites that we can happily listen to but can't stand watching!
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I'm in Howard's gang here. The two are linked beyond doubt. I often get the urge after doing one, to do the other. As he says, this is the evidence of how well the two are melded together. There is no way I could ever say they are completely the opposite. If that's the case, surely the composer has done a bad job? Or at least the director or producer has got the wrong composer?
Back in the 70s when I bought Bernard Herrmann compilations thanks to the Phase 4 series, just to get to film music that I wanted it got me to listen to other tracks that were on there. As a result I discovered Hitchcock!! I was pretty much a kid btw..
In all the years I got Morricone's work for the Italian westerns I never saw anything other than the Doallars trilogy. Boy oh boy did I long to see stuff that I only had music for! Relatively speaking I've really only just managed this.
But Howard is absolutely spot on.
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My angle on this is that seeing the film is when I fall for the score and want to buy it. And later, seeing the film again can make me want to revisit the CD as an encore.
But playing the scores I love does not make me want to pop the movie in. I don't have time for that many movies.
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Who does?! The question is do you feel the compulsion just the same?
Not really. I usually play the movie in my head while listening to the score, re-imagined to suit me because so few films are just right. Very often I dream up a whole different mental movie for great music.
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