Film Score Monthly

11/07/2024

FSMCDs in stock—updated list of available inventory! Order today and we ship tomorrow (before our summer vacation). Thank you!

10/07/2024

A shout-out to my friends at Intrada for their latest Kickstarter, to finance a new recording of Frank Skinner’s Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Support them today!

A shout-out this morning to my friends at Intrada for their latest Kickstarter, to finance a new recording of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein by Frank Skinner.This is incredibly noble and ambitious to record a Golden Age score in this day and age and I know their team will do it justice!Here.....

09/07/2024

Big concert at the Bowl this weekend! And quick FSMCDs store update.

I’m sure most die-hard fans know this, but this weekend is the big John Williams summer concert at the Hollywood Bowl. David Newman is conducting on the Maestro’s behalf.Go here for tickets and info.As a reminder for our FSMCDs.com store, we have thousands of titles from our recent lot still ava...

08/07/2024

Many thanks to The Stunt List for the shout-out today! Seeking kind amplifications from my peeps. Thanks!

The writers showcase site The Stunt List has been nice enough to give me a plug today. Could all my peeps with Twitter accounts be so kind as to amplify?Would really appreciate it.

06/07/2024

Kyle Newman and I were happy to discuss Pop Culture Coffee on The Reel Life Perspective Show—thanks to Reel Life for having us on!

Kyle Newman and I were guests on The Reel Life Perspective Show last night, where we discussed Pop Culture Coffee along with other fun stuff like 1980s cartoons—and even some film music, given my background.EP:41 | FAVORITE 80'S CARTOONS with Pop-Culture Coffee & Director Kyle NewmanIt was a lot o...

04/07/2024

Happy Fourth, everybody! Here is an oddball John Barry obscurity on YouTube, the 1977 Christmas TV movie, The Gathering:

Happy Fourth, everybody! But I stumbled across a Christmas movie, or more specifically a TV movie: The Gathering (1977), with music by John Barry. I can’t embed it, but it’s here on YouTube.This was a curiosity to me because, back in the day when I was running the FSM label, of course I scoured ...

03/07/2024

Thanks for all your orders at FSMCDs! What an amazing three weeks. Tons more stuff available for sale, but please note our upcoming vacation deadline to get your order in—thanks!

Thank you for all the orders at FSMCDs.com! It’s been a whirlwind three weeks. We should have all outstanding orders filled by the end of day.We still have over 3,000 amazing film music CDs still in stock—and believe me, I want them in YOUR collections and out of my living room! So by all means,...

02/07/2024

380 CDs added to FSMCDs this morning, 7/2/24! On top of the 2000+ still available from last week’s mega-sale—check out the listings for great film music, cheap!

We have added 380 CDs to the FSMCDs.com store this morning (Tuesday, 7/2/24). These were titles we didn’t have to time to process when the BIG batch went live last week—and, to be honest, table or even floor space to lay them out!Here is a spreadsheet of everything available at the store as of t...

29/06/2024

Cool! Piano takedown of “Lockons” from Jerry Goldsmith’s all-electronic RUNAWAY score. Grating synths in 7/8 time, WORD! Tom Selleck a movie star? NO! Kirstie Alley a smokeshow? YES! Michael Crichton sci-fi tech that came from Sears—only in 1984!

Update! Our CD sale is live and going strong, check out the listings at www.fsmcds.comMany thanks to composer Harrison Ingemarson for this piano reduction (which he created by ear) of Jerry Goldsmith’s “Lockons” from the all-electronic 1984 Runaway score:Runaway - Lockons ♪Piano Sheet Music....

28/06/2024

Did you see our ENTIRE CD list this week? Explanation here... Thanks!

We are mostly through the job of shipping out the orders from this week’s CD sale. Thanks to everybody who ordered.A funny thing happened as I was pulling the last batch of orders: I noticed the boxes with the titles from early in the alphabet were more depleted than at the end.The interest in the...

26/06/2024

Over 3700 film music CDs in stock at our store and going fast! Please check out the updated lists and keep the orders coming!

What a day yesterday! We have an avalanche of orders at www.fsmcds.com.It’s a ton of work but it’s what we’re here for—thank you!Please keep the orders coming! We have over 3,700 items still in stock—lots of hard to find collectables as well as great stuff, cheap! Here is a spreadsheet for...

24/06/2024

HUGE SOUNDTRACK CD SALE coming tomorrow at FSMCDs! Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 10AM Pacific!

Be here tomorrow at 10AM Pacific, June 25, 2024, for over 4300 CDs to go live at www.fsmcds.com!We have a huge and broad assortment of hard to find goodies, obscure pressings, and oodles of just plain old soundtracks at incredible prices ($1–$5).A few notes about this sale:We have a lot of CDs tha...

22/06/2024

Another memory of our late friend, the beloved and amazing librarian at USC, Ned Comstock:

Above photo by Marilee BradfordI paid tribute to the late Ned Comstock, beloved librarian at USC, earlier this year—as did many people. He was a gift to all of us who have researched film history.I was contacted by Debra Levine, another scholar who was helped immeasurably by Ned, who wanted to sha...

18/06/2024

New film score CD listings are live at FSMCDs! Nearly 300 titles, including some high-value Intrada, La-La Land, FSMs, etc.

Nearly 300 new listings are now live at www.fsmcds.com—including some high-value collectables (mostly Intrada Special Collection CDs).Here is a spreadsheet of what’s in stock, with new titles on the top.Mark your calendars for a week from now, June 25th, for another 4,500+ CDs that we’re still...

17/06/2024

New CD sale list going live Tuesday, 6/18/24, 9:30AM Pacific time!

It will be a busy few weeks for fsmcds.com! Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 18th, we go live with a “mini-sale” of “only” a few hundred CDs—but they include some of the highest value out-of-print titles (particularly from Intrada) that people seek. Usually I do this at 10AM but due to a scheduling...

11/06/2024

A couple of June events for my hometown peeps on Martha's Vineyard, including the local Trekkies!

A couple of upcoming events for my friends on Martha’s Vineyard:My friend Barry Rosenthal made a lovely hour-long documentary, The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief, which will be shown at 4pm this Sunday, June 16th, at the M.V. Film Center. Tickets. Barry will be there, tell him I said hi!Trekk...

07/06/2024

Helping out the Indiegogo for a short film score, ALZILLA, to use a live orchestra! Check it out—

A few days ago I received a short Facebook message from David James Nielsen who is raising money on Indiegogo to record his score for the short film Alzilla with a live orchestra. Here is the link.I am typing hundreds of CD listings a day so I haven’t checked out David’s videos or links. Hopeful...

30/05/2024

We had a monster CD sale day yesterday at our used film music CD store—thank you! Here’s what we have left, plus some other updates. Thanks!!!

We had a huge CD sale day yesterday at www.fsmcds.com, thank you to everybody who participated! We will start shipping tomorrow (Friday).A lot of the “hot” titles went fast, but we still have some rare discs, like a copy of The Island at the Top of the World by Maurice Jarre on Intrada. Here is ...

29/05/2024

800+ CDs added to the FSMCDs film music store! Rare Intrada, La-La Land, Quartet—lots of Disney and electronica titles—check them out before they’re gone! Thanks!

10AM! The www.fsmcds.com store is updated with our new CDs—a little over 800 titles.Here is a spreadsheet for faster reading, and the new ones up top.A few notes for today’s CD sale:The shopping carts: These are set to hold your items exclusively for you for six hours. After that, they will stil...

28/05/2024

New CD sale starting tomorrow, Wed. May 29th, 10AM Pacific! And a store policy update, thanks!

We’re confirmed! We will be going live with our next CD sale at www.fsmcds.com tomorrow, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 10AM Pacific. Two things I want to add...I’ve started to receive wish lists and “do you think you might have...?” emails—and I’m sorry to disappoint, but I have to set a p...

25/05/2024

New film music CD sale coming next week!

We have in a new combined lot (from two different collectors) of 800+ CDs we are processing. Look for this to go live at www.fsmcds.com next week. Not exactly sure when—but certainly midweek, as Monday is a holiday in the U.S. while Friday is a bad day to announce things.There are lots of rare Kri...

24/05/2024

A few words of support for a very cool company creating watches, pens, pins and more from your favorite franchises, OKKTO!

So you’ve probably heard I’ve helped start a coffee company. It’s been interesting learning about a new area of collectibles. Soundtracks I know very well. Food and beverage, not so much. We launched our TMNT line this week and it’s been very well received.We’ve been lucky to get the advic...

21/05/2024

Announcing TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE coffee and cold brews from Pop Culture Coffee!!

We have announced our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coffee at PopCultureCoffee.com! Please check out our line of TMNT coffee (either whole bean or ground coffee) or cold brews with exciting flavor combinations.Use this discount code for 15% off: COWABUNGA15.Thanks!

15/05/2024

A look at autographed CDs in stock at our used CD store—and I realize why I never collected autographs!

I’ve enjoyed doing a round-up of interesting CDs we’ve had in stock at www.fsmcds.com. Please see the last couple of weeks of my blog posts.At some point I realized that because of the way I was looking at our inventory, I wasn’t seeing all the autographed titles. You can see those yourself he...

14/05/2024

The final installment—for now—in cool CDs we have in stock!

The V.I.P.s is a late-M-G-M score by Miklós Rózsa, to the “Liz and Dick” soap drama. We have the Chapter III Records release of the old album program (all that survives) for $12.Valhalla by Ron Goodwin I’m not familiar with but the Plant Sounds CD seems like the kind of collectable somebody ...

13/05/2024

T and U titles in stock at our used CD store, from The Taking of Pelham to Tess to The Undefeated—check them out!

Picking up with the T titles in stock at www.fsmcds.com:The first CD I ever produced was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by David Shire, way back in spring 1996. I was a senior in college! That first production was pretty amateurish in light of what I’ve since learned—but it’s also rare, an...

12/05/2024

Back for more from used CDs in stock at the FSMCDs store—the S titles!

Okay, where were we? We were at the S titles—more cool stuff in stock at www.fsmcds.com. Scaramouche was one of the more popular Golden Age albums we released at FSM. It’s a 1952 swashbuckler by Victor Young.There are so few Gil Mellé albums available from his huge output, mostly in television,...

09/05/2024

So many film music CDs in stock at our store! Some highlights of P, Q and R titles:

Okay, where were we? Here are more cool CDs we have in stock at www.fsmcds.com:We have two copies of The Postman Always Rings Twice by Michael Small on Intrada, a really sharp neo-noir. This is one of the harder-to-get Intrada Special Collection releases, each copy is $65. We have one copy of the 1C...

08/05/2024

Recommendations from the N and O titles in stock at our used film music CD store!

On to the back half of the alphabet!Nick of Time: This was sort of the last hurrah for Arthur B. Rubinstein, who made such a mark in the 1980s but as styles changed, fell out of favor in the 1990s. It’s an action-thriller-suspense score and we have one copy of the original Milan album for $2. Nigh...

07/05/2024

L and M titles in stock at our used film music CD store. Check out some of the goodies!