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Mar 6, 2021 - 7:22 AM
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Hitch22
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Why not share some ideas for playlists regarding film music.
Some might be basic, others might be original, don't mind to share all your idea's. 
Here are some of mine:
Playlists according to MOVIE FRANCHISE
- Separate playlist for all Harry Potter music, all the Star Wars Music, ect...
VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD
- Scores like Rebecca, Dial M For Murder, ect.
(Composers like Franz Waxman, Bernard Hermann and such)
FIRST CLASS (TITANIC)
- Inspired by the classical source music on the LLL Titanic boxset.
I added other classic music to this playlist as well. Great for fancy dinner party's. 
THIRD CLASS (TITANIC)
- Contrary to my First Class playlist, this list has the third class songs from the LLL Titanic boxset, as well as other Irish inspired music, such as "Flaming Red Hair" from the Lord of The Rings soundtrack.
CLASSIC DISNEY
- Scores of the older Disney movies (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Aristocats, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, ect)
MODERN DISNEY
- Scores of the newer Disney movies (A Goofy Movie, Brother Bear, Enchanted, Bolt, Princess And The Frog, Tangled, Moana, ect)
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Occasionally I get in a mood for 50s/early 60s detective jazz, so that's fun to explore . . . followed by late 60s detective jazz and spy music.
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I have one which i have imaginatively christened "Westerns" - whos contents is, in fact, westerns.
Anyone wishing to use this ingenious idea, feel free, i wont take you to court.
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I love working with playlists within iTunes and have many. Here is a small sample:
- I prefer to keep boxed sets together when adding to iTunes, then break apart those sets into playlists. For example, the Ben-Hur Complete Collection is broken down into the film score, the Savina album, the Kloss albums, and the alternates/bonus tracks. And the Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection is broken down by each episode.
- There are playlists for actors I really enjoy, like Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, etc. Their names are listed in the Comments section of the metadata, to utilize the smart playlists feature.
- Same for directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, etc.
- And unique genres beyond the typical ones like westerns and horror, like Arthurian, dystopian, time travel, etc.
- I have electronic score and symphonic score playlists.
- Movie franchise playlists: Hannibal Lector movies, Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (both separate and combined), Star Wars (with playlists broken down by prequels, original and sequel, John Williams specific - which would exclude films like Solo and Rogue One), Bond movies, etc.
- Other playlists include ones for overtures, main titles, suites, etc.
- Playlists combining TV soundtracks, such as with Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Game of Thrones
Just to name a few...
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- I prefer to keep boxed sets together when adding to iTunes, then break apart those sets into playlists. For example, the Ben-Hur Complete Collection is broken down into the film score, the Savina album, the Kloss albums, and the alternates/bonus tracks. And the Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection is broken down by each episode.
When I entered the FSM Ben-Hur into ITunes, it actually got broken exactly as you described your playlist idea. The only playlist I actually created was one with all the music from Act I to create a seamless whole (I’ve also done this with a few other roadshow scores, creating Act playlists for both acts of The Ten Commandments)
Perhaps the most noteworthy playlist I’ve created was one taking the music from The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators into one narrative playlist (basically after the finale for The Robe, it goes straight into the Prelude for Demetrius serving as a sort of Entr’Acte)with the bonus material for both scores coming after the main program for Demetrius. I call this playlist The Saga of The Robe.
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Some interesting ideas... I have a whole range of playlists, but broadly:
- I have a lot of playlists to reorder albums into chronological order, such as all those Disney soundtracks where the songs are up front with the score at the end. I like to sometimes just listen to the songs or score but it's great to mix them up into film order too.
- Where there's an expanded release, I often recreate the original album rather than having the original album duplicated in my library. Obviously this depends on the level of editing in the soundtrack in terms of combined cues or micro-edits. Sometimes it's easy if the original album is just a selection of cues (more or less) exactly as they were recorded and you just strip out the extra ones. Some have album takes or album edits tracks (such as Elfman's Batman Returns) in the bonus material. Inversely, a few recent albums have short cues as "bonus tracks" (such as Elfman's Goosebumps) so I have a playlist that inserts them into the correct place (at least as far as I can tell from useful sites such as Chronological Scores) for the full presentation. On that note, there's the scores that I've put into film order (or close to if they've been edited) based on that site and info elsewhere. Also if a score has lots of chopping and changing, I've assembled the film order (such as Mystery Men) based on the information included in the liner notes.
- I've also done some hybrid arrangements, such as Star Trek V where I replaced a couple of the action cues which got some judicious editing for the original soundtrack that cut out some pauses and loops in the original takes, plus I cut out Spock's fall which I always found a bit incidental. For The Wrath of Kahn where I added a couple of tracks to the original album assembly to provide a hybrid that adds the nifty shuttle music early on, plus all of the additional cues between Battle in the Mutara Nebula and the end (leaving out of those less interesting Kahn suspense cues early on). Then there's something like Close Encounters or ST:TMP where I recreated previous expanded releases - Close Encounters I recreated the Arista sequencing and for ST:TMP the 20th anniversary edition, both of which I think are very satisfying album arrangements. For the Phantom Menace, I mixed up the original album and the Ultimate Edition to try and skip some of the horribly edited cues from the finale but include all those wonderful moments that were otherwise excised for the original soundtrack.
- Through the Whittlers thread and other suggestions, I've put together some bespoke album arrangements, such as the 72 minute version of Superman IV someone suggested which just makes a tighter presentation.
- A few where I've replaced the songs with orchestral arrangements (such as Mary Poppins Returns and the Beauty and the Beast remake) where there's a "karaoke" album meant for kids has been released, but for the more geekily inclined, provides terrific instrumental versions of the songs. Great to hear all the detail that's otherwise obscured by the singing (which I enjoy, but it's great to hear what's going on behind). There's a few where I've cut out the songs, such as Horner's Once Upon a Forest where the trite/twee songs spoil the mood of his otherwise charming score.
- I have some composer compilation assembled from original score tracks or suites or whatever I think works best. These vary from a fairly standard 70 minutes that could be a real compilation to some that are several hours and probably not that well curated!
- Then there's automatic playlist such as themes, preludes/overtures, TV themes (based on a grouping), titles/credits that use key words (including spelling and language variations, such as Generique Fin (end credits) for French soundtracks, for example).
- Have a Christmas playlist which basically goes on a loop in December (from Home Alone to orchestral versions of Christmas carols) and a Dinner Music list which is a mix of jazzy/lower key stuff. Then there's a "heroic" playlist of upbeat/exciting themes for when I just want something upbeat and exciting (Star Wars, Raiders, HTTYD, Jurassic Park, Star Wars that kinda thing) and an Action playlist of my favourite action cues (or any in passing which I happen to enjoy), which has rather got out of control lately and now runs to over 25 hours. Oops. Still, great for a random play at the gym.
- A couple of years ago, I started doing a playlist for the decade anniversaries, so this year it's 2011, 2001, 1991 etc. as a way of exploring scores I may have forgotten about.
On second thoughts... maybe I should get out more?! ;-)
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