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| Why do you listen to scores? Select your best answer: |
| To relive my favorite moments in movies I love |
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| Because great music is great music, whatever the source |
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| Another reason (please share!) |
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 LadyInque
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: Why do YOU listen to scores? |
 
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I'm curious to see why people listen to scores. (Obviously you do, or you would not have come here.)
For me, it's about the movies. I have a hard time liking music without a context to go with it, even if I have to invent one. That's why I can't warm up to classical music that is titled with numbers. But scores capture the feeling of my favorite stories and characters.
So why do you listen to scores? |
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 Armand
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Of course I listen to soundtracks to remember scenes in film I love, but that's not the main reason.
I get inspired by the music, it gives me a feeling that I just need to express through a poem, a drawing or a photo.
The feelings I get are as mixed as the music, meaning that I don't always get the same feeling from the same piece of music. It changes, and that makes it even better.
Once I was drawing while listening to sst, drawing because of the music that was here when I turned on, but as it happen here on sst the track ends and a new one starts. The music that day was so different that my drawing ended up being a complete mess, but in an interresting way 
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: |
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I listen for the feelings that it can bring out in you from the score. What makes a great score is when it reaches down and touches your soul to being life to you.  Yes i just made that up.
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 alien_avatar
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: |
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I'll have to admit that I have a certain weakness for dramatic, orchestral music (preferably with a vast choir in the background... ) and quite a lot of movie scores (or parts of them, anyway) fit that description.
I very rarely "relive the movie", unless it's something I've seen a million times or I remember that particular scene for some other reason (mostly when it was especially ridiculous, scary, or near the end).
"Throne Room" from STAR WARS comes to mind...
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Cinder 
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: Music to me... |
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I think one of the things about sound tracks is the different styles. There is fast and jazzy or slow and smoooth. There are classical pieces to set a mood, and there are pieces to make the scary movie just a bit more on the edge.
I am not a music aficionado, but it just makes me feel better. Inner peace I guess.
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 bpewien
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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For me it's not only an accompaniment for a movie, it's also a musical event.
I'm always imagining many of these pieces performed at big concert halls, but on the other hand it's always nice to sit in a chair and relive many movie scenes in your imagination... 
Great thread idea, LadyInque!
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tranzishun
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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for me it's the emotions and mood the music stirs up inside of me weather it's watching a film, or listening to the soundtrack or seeing a live performance film score is some of the most deeply felt music ever created in my opinion. It is cool to relive moments from the film but the music often takes me other places. Film score although made to accompany a film is music that can stand alone without picture just like reading a book creates an image all your own film music can do the same thing. |
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Jorelson
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Tranzishun, for me it is definitely the emotions that the musical score revives in me. For the most part, I don't listen to scores from films I haven't seen as I can't relate them to any particular scene or emotional response.
However, I have purposely watched films after hearing part of it's score because the music itself was so moving.
Granted, beautiful music is beautiful music, and there are many scores I am experiencing and discovering just listening to SST, but, for me, I need that connection to bring out the emotion I experienced when I first heard the piece with the film.
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LadyInque
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Well, I feel like a goober. Everyone here seems to love music for its own sake so much, and I just can't always get into it. Sigh.
On an unrelated note, I just love the Christmas-themed avatars some people have. Cool! |
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tranzishun
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Jorelson, i hear you about watching the movie first as that is most often how i make my decision to purchase a score however i have made quite a few score purchases without seeing the film. i am a very big movie fan as well but i do have some scores that i don't also own the movie which most of the time is due to the music being much better than the film. |
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Pauldrescool
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Because great music is great music, etc... |
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LadyInque
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Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot one of the reasons for which I listen. I like to listen to music while I study, but music with words is distracting. So scores accompany me quite nicely in those situations. And the occasional vocal track is good for getting me to look up, refocus my eyes, that sort of thing. That's how I do it at home, too. Listen to a mix of my score CDs, with vocals thrown in. |
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Nate
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Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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To tell the truth I am not specifically sure when and why I made the transition to listening to film scores. I have always loved to watch movies and never really paid much attention to the score in movies until I saw Tombstone and heard that main theme. The theme just blew me away and I had to have the CD. Once I got that CD it was just a domino effect from there. So, I guess in some respects I listen to the music because it reminds me of the movie and sometimes I listen to it because I enjoy it. All the pop stuff that I used to listen to doesn't have much 'staying power' while I can replay a score over and over again and rarely get sick of it.
As others have mentioned, I also think film scores generally provide good background music without being too distracting. I have always been a person that likes to have some kind of noise, be it television or music, playing while I am working.
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Ruka
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Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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The music to a film can tell the story to the film...dramatic at certain parts, mellow at others. Each score is different and the complexity to the scores is why I keep coming back to them. Some themes just stick in your mind. |
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 TheSnowLeopard
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Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I can actually remember sitting in a darkened theatre back in 1977, just as Star Wars had begun, and turning to my friend and saying "Geez, this score is a bit over-the-top"! Strangely, I also remember lying on the living room floor with my double-LP Star Wars album, poring over the photos and liner notes. Somehow I went from dissing a JW score to playing it endlessly.
Whatever happened, what was true then is also true now: while I can't explain a score's artisitic merit, or even articulate why I like a score, it does enable me to "relive" the movie or recall fond memories from seeing it, probably more so than actually re-watching the movie.
I am particularly drawn to scores that are more dramatic. Sometimes when I hear an emotional or suspensful cue I often find my imagination conjuring up a trailer to a make-believe movie that I would like to make (no doubt the last vestige of a once passionate desire to be a film director).
My favorite themes always effect me beyond their funtion in the movie. They are the ones that leave me sad or inspired or motivated. Film music really provides a measure of temperance to my character. It helps me try and be a better person is what I trying to say, if that doesn't sound pompous. Pop and rock'n'roll were for a time when I was young and foolish and impetuous. Film music is perfect for me now when there is more time in my life for reflection.
That's not to say that classical music and youth are incompatible. Quite the opposite. It shapes and matures us in ways that pop music never can: it just doesn't have the vanity and posturing and preoccupation with image. It is both cerebral and emotional.
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