[Hatter313]

@dollar wow though, small it may be (for now hehe) there’s nothing but pure gold here.

@scojo NOES main theme is one of the main culprits that started this obsession with me, couldn’t agree more on Bernstein’s work.

Love at first bite is straight fire and a hell of a lot of fun

[ScoJo]

Love at first bite is straight fire and a hell of a lot of fun

I'm on my fourth spin through 'Fly By Night' and let me tell you it is NOT GETTING ANY LESS AWESOME

[inksb]

Well I just got a deal on a record I've been after for years. It's not VS but has a VS release. It's not the condition I want and it's missing an important part but the average sale price over the last two years has been around $100 plus shipping. I just got it for under $30 so I can't complain and the cover is excellent.

[static14]

So it’s missing an OBI. Phantasm or Halloween maybe?

[Hatter313]

Well I just got a deal on a record I've been after for years. It's not VS but has a VS release. It's not the condition I want and it's missing an important part but the average sale price over the last two years has been around $100 plus shipping. I just got it for under $30 so I can't complain and the cover is excellent.

Hell yeah.

Seven seas phantasm?

[CrossedPete]

Damn @dollar those are some good ones I would love to add all of those to my collection one day. Great stuff.

I like how @static is like a vinyl Detective. You give him clues and he’ll sleuth out the answer. Based on @inks clues I think you might be right.

@scojo that Bernstein is disco is pretty catchy. I not one for disco usually but sounds great. I think all I have is the Entity for Bernstein but April Fools Day and NOES are both on the list.

[Dollarhyde]

Thanks for the other Charles Bernstein recs @scojo, and I've always got time for some disco vampires ;)

NOES was my horror as a kid which is partly why I ended with those two, would like to get 2 and 3 at some point. I'm also a huge TZ fan so need to get the other volumes.

@crossef Pete I don't have all of the vols of TZ but I think I'm familer with the music from them all and would say each has their merits. However one of the great things about TZ is a lot of it was scored by either a young Goldsmith or Herrmann, there were other composer too.
V1, maybe, it has invaders by Goldsmith, walking distance by herrmann, and perchance to dream by Van cleave with some great 50s theremin like electronics.

I'm a fan of V3 which has van cleaves great paranoic score to 'a world of difference' and herrmann's magical score for 'the lonely'

Next one I hope to pick up is V4 which has the jazzy themes used on, is it something like 'man with four faces?' And also Goldsmiths amazing score for 'nervous man in a four dollar room'

[CrossedPete]

Thanks for all the great info @dollar sounds like they all have merits

[tim28212]

VS collection. This will have to do till I can spread them out for better pics. This includes everything I have from Themes From Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films (1978) to Village of the Damned (2020).

[ScoJo]

VS collection. This will have to do till I can spread them out for better pics. This includes everything I have from Themes From Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films (1978) to Village of the Damned (2020).

Boi-yoi-yoi-yoi-YOING!

[CrossedPete]

Looks great @tim how do you have them organized? Artist? Title? I keep my VS by cat #

[tim28212]

Looks great @tim how do you have them organized? Artist? Title? I keep my VS by cat #

Title, it's the only way I can find what I want. I'm seeing if I like having them seperate from the rest of my soutrack collection.

[static14]

VS collection. This will have to do till I can spread them out for better pics. This includes everything I have from Themes From Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films (1978) to Village of the Damned (2020).

[deafmetal]

@tim - Now that is a sight. Excellent collection. One thing I noticed when going through my collection was how easy it was to spot the Varèse Sarabande label print on the bottom of the spines on most of the titles. It looks great seeing so many of them lined up like that your shelves. When I compare this to some of these modern soundtrack labels with their upside down/sideways/backwards and constantly changing spine printing it's like night and day quality.

@Dollar/ScoJo - One thing I will add to the "What is it about VS?" discussion is just how enjoyable it was to discover seeing something that looked like a "soundtrack label" and it was releasing the best horror/scifi/fantasy scores. It was not something I picked up on early as Tim by ordering from magazines, but I started seeing that label "on all the good stuff". It also extended into the 90's when vinyl was dying off a bit and you could still walk into the CD section of any music store, and I distinctly remember doing this, I picked up a copy of the Conan The Barbarian OST on CD and flipped it over thinking "wow, who is releasing this on CD?" of course.... Varèse Sarabande. So, cool. I know Milan was doing very similar things in Europe, so this may be much more of a US-based experience, but I was finding VS albums in the stores I went to, especially secondhand vinyl.

@ScoJo - still feeling the Bern of my mistake, gonna have to pull out that Love At First Bite 12" now.

[Hatter313]

Looks great @tim how do you have them organized? Artist? Title? I keep my VS by cat #

Title, it's the only way I can find what I want. I'm seeing if I like having them seperate from the rest of my soutrack collection.

Contemplating a similar arrangement, I already separate out the new boutique labels (except morricone, carpenter, and lynch related records live in a separate unit)

[Hatter313]

@tim - Now that is a sight. Excellent collection. One thing I noticed when going through my collection was how easy it was to spot the Varèse Sarabande label print on the bottom of the spines on most of the titles. It looks great seeing so many of them lined up like that your shelves. When I compare this to some of these modern soundtrack labels with their upside down/sideways/backwards and constantly changing spine printing it's like night and day quality.

@Dollar/ScoJo - One thing I will add to the "What is it about VS?" discussion is just how enjoyable it was to discover seeing something that looked like a "soundtrack label" and it was releasing the best horror/scifi/fantasy scores. It was not something I picked up on early as Tim by ordering from magazines, but I started seeing that label "on all the good stuff". It also extended into the 90's when vinyl was dying off a bit and you could still walk into the CD section of any music store, and I distinctly remember doing this, I picked up a copy of the Conan The Barbarian OST on CD and flipped it over thinking "wow, who is releasing this on CD?" of course.... Varèse Sarabande. So, cool. I know Milan was doing very similar things in Europe, so this may be much more of a US-based experience, but I was finding VS albums in the stores I went to, especially secondhand vinyl.

@ScoJo - still feeling the Bern of my mistake, gonna have to pull out that Love At First Bite 12" now.

Yeah before I made the switch to wax I already had a sizable VS CD collection. Most of the scores I bought at like FYE or something were VS

[CrossedPete]

For the most part my records are organized by artist unless I have some reason to group some records up like my Cold Chillin records. I also have them broken down by genre. For soundtracks all my boutique records and VS are by category # the rest are alphabetized by title. It’s kinda a mess my wife hates it cause she can never find anything but it works for me.

[tim28212]

someone mentioned CDs, everything before the Fish House is VS. I think I accidently stored some away in the closet because I know of a few titles that are missing.

[static14]

If I hadn’t all ready used the spicy meatball gif I would have now. :)

[Mateo Sanboval]

Good God, man. Show some mercy!

[ScoJo]

What are a 'SeeDee'?

[inksb]

Well I just got a deal on a record I've been after for years. It's not VS but has a VS release. It's not the condition I want and it's missing an important part but the average sale price over the last two years has been around $100 plus shipping. I just got it for under $30 so I can't complain and the cover is excellent.

Hell yeah.

Seven seas phantasm?

Lifeforce!

[Hatter313]

Well I just got a deal on a record I've been after for years. It's not VS but has a VS release. It's not the condition I want and it's missing an important part but the average sale price over the last two years has been around $100 plus shipping. I just got it for under $30 so I can't complain and the cover is excellent.

Hell yeah.

Seven seas phantasm?

Lifeforce!

OH YES! Love it!

[Bezulsqy]

three days in and we are at 4 pages already... i can't keep up. Because my main focus is on Japanese VS with obi I don't have a lot of VS OGs.

I appear to only have 6 old VS and 2 new VS and then there is this:

[Mateo Sanboval]

Bez, Is that a CD box set full of mini LP sleeves of vintage VS horror scores?

And, for God's sake please treat Mr. Collette with a bit more respect.