In memorium, I wrote a post about seven of my favorite Goldsmith albums. I tried to concentrate on overall listening experience, on albums that I like to play in their entirety rather than needle dropping onto just the main titles (cough cough 100 Rifles cough cough).

And in other news, I still use phrases like "needle dropping."

It was the first Bond soundtrack I owned, purchased on LP for something like two dollars at a small convenience store in a small town during a small period of my youth. It must have been late 1976, early 1977. Bond was returning to the big screen soon with The Spy Who Loved Me and this album became my gateway to the world of Bond music. I'd watched many of the earlier films on television, with my dad. It was always an event, a great bonding experience (if you'll pardon the word choice). But I had yet to see James Bond on the big screen. That summer, when The Spy Who Loved Me arrived in our tiny town, I got to see it. What a fabulous introduction to Bond at an impressionable age. No wonder I've been a Bond fan ever since.

But before that, I had Live and Let Die.

I want to crank up Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the score that, to me, still perfectly encapsulates Jerry’s genius and continues to reveal depths and shadings to me after decades of play.

But instead, I’m listening to The Illustrated Man.

These days, we're lucky to get a credit sequence at all, let alone an original standalone theme.

Well, for the upcoming "re-imagining" of Hawaii Five-0, CBS is targeting the classic theme song as a lynch pin in its overall marketing strategy. Yes, the Morton Stevens tune is being treated like a product -- and CBS plans to blanket the world with it.

It's an interesting strategy - hoping young viewers who've probably never even heard of Jack Lord will tune into this CSI-like show simply because of the cool theme. If it works, could we see a renaissance of actual theme songs on TV?

Today I took a look, just for grins, at the "Top 25 Most Played" list (that iTunes automatically adds to your list of folders). Right away, I saw confirmation of the recent Star Trek bender I've been on.

But you know what? A couple days back we found out from David Arnold that a 2 cd set of Independence Day is coming from LaLaLand. And today I got to see some of John Debney's music from Iron Man 2.