music you like that annoys the hell out of others

What BigHairyFeet said.

All I ever seem to buy nowadays is movie scores, as that's mainly all I listen to. Being that it's a niche market and all nearly all of the companies that publish them nowadays are internet-based and they limit print runs of seemingly EVERYTHING to a limited number of copies. Which is total bullshit (in one sense) since some have sold out in literally hours of being listed online so those who are inconvenienced by living halfway around the world don't have a chance to buy it since it's gone by the time they get online. Which means the value shoots up to nearly four times the original sale price on eBay. On the other hand, it's good business for the companies and it forces people to buy the CDs because of their limitation. The more CDs they sell, the more profit they have to obtain licenses to print more scores.

But I digress. There's probably only a couple people here in the actual community that enjoy film music to some extent - the rest of them that I know have never even ventured outside of My Stuff. And because film music is all I buy, my family and my relatives always know what I'm buying. I don't mind sharing exactly what I've gotten, although it seems like they don't really care in the end.

I get why film music isn't so popular. Most of it is unmemorable dreck that only really works in context of the movie itself. There's a hell of a lot of gems buried in the trash however. Some of my favorite scores:

Conan the Barbarian (Basil Poledouris)
Link (Jerry Goldsmith)
One Night With the King (J.A.C. Redford)
The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
The Mechanic (Jerry Fielding)


There's numerous other scores where I really only enjoy one or two tracks and the rest is blegh. That's pretty much it though - and it's definitely true that the quality of scores has decreased sharply since the Golden and Silver Ages. What's even more odd is how a good chunk of scores from the 80s to now have had commercial releases and are easy to find whereas music from the 70s or older are uncommon or rare. Which... could be why there's a bias against movie music from the mainstream. Only place to really buy them now is off the internet or at secondhand music stores (of which there is only ONE in my city that has a decent/large selection).

Jam it back in, in the dark.