Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Greetings from the far south of the UK! (Plymouth, in fact)

I've been trying to register on the forums for months, but my last three attempts were never fully activated - fourth time lucky, hah!

The main reason I wanted to register (apart from to join in guessing games about new releases) is so I could say thankyou to Doug, Roger and everyone else at Intrada. I've been collecting/listening to/loving soundtracks for probably just over half my 29 years, and as an 80s child obsessed by movies, music was always one of the keys for me. It was the way to take the films around with me all the time, not just when I had access to the VHS and big TV upstairs (the VHS then becoming a Laserdisc player, then a DVD player, and more recently a HD-DVD player (oops) and now blu-ray)

I can't remember exactly what was on the first mixtape I made from my video collection, but I remember it being the first of many (actually, there were songs and scores from FX: Murder by Illusion, The Dead Pool, Stakeout, Die Hard...things like that)

As I've become more serious in my collecting, there came the obvious gaps in what was available - and what I desperately wanted to hear. Intrada have made possible things I've always wanted.

My first purchase was WarGames, which is still one of my favourite movies - to finally hear that Main Title sans the helicopters and trucks was something I'd been dreaming of for years! I've followed this with Species; Body Double; Honey, I Shrunk The Kids; Something Wicked This Way Comes; a back-purchase of Jaws 3-D (a film I know in my heart is terrible, but I cannot stop myself from watching again and again) and I expect The Journey of Natty Gann to drop in sometime this week.

It's not just about the incredible music, it's about the feelings and memories it will bring back of the movies I love and how I was and felt/feel about them (the 10 year old me who had the biggest crush on Amy O'Neill is incoherent with joy at listening to Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!)

I'm not going to rant on this long with every post, but I'm so glad I can finally say to Doug, Roger, and everyone else at Intrada whose names I don't know, but wish I did - thankyou so, so much for everything you do.

Greetings sifr2 ! Shall we play a score ?:wink:
I think we've got a lot in common ! Wargames is one of my absolute favorite movies and the score is indeed one of the best scores ever written for a movie, thanks to Arthur B. Rubinstein ! And now we can listen to it without the dialogues and the Sfx on the original LP, thanks to who ?...

Thanks for the greeting, Anakin. Although I haven't been able to register before, I've been reading the forums for some time now, and I'd say yes, we do have a fair bit in common!

I was working on sound for an amateur theatre group the week WarGames arrived, and the first thing I did was arrive at the theatre early, turn up the sound system, and start playing WarGames very, very loudly. Bliss!