I was happy to see Stu Phillips on YouTube with Mike Matessino and Deniz Cordell discussing the upcoming Intrada box set of the classic Battlestar Galactica: I have fond memories of working with Stu on the FSM Knight Rider album and am glad he’s involved and interested in this new BSG box set.

Soundtrack Gems is a pretty massive archive of film scores and composers—so massive that I asked its provenance and the owner described as human-created, A.I.-assisted. It has a YouTube channel as a companion, making it a pretty neat—and free—resource to explore composers and scores. I really appreciate these things because it takes me back to the 1980s when I was getting into film scores. Needless to say there were no soundtrackgems.com. There was me turning over the video b

AI script coverage is exploding and I hope people take it with a grain of salt. It’s genuinely useful to get free and instant feedback, but you have to know how to use it. For one thing, there is no reason to use a paid service when you can just use Claude (the smartest of the LLMs) for free or for a basic subscription. I hope people understand that Greenlight Coverage did not actually build an LLM themselves? They just run your script through ChatGPT, with their own “wrapper

Did you know there were two versions of Varèse Sarabande’s CD of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the Elmer Bernstein recording? (They released the OST some time later.) I didn’t until I came across both in this new collection we are prepping for sale in September. On the right is the first version, from 1985, then on the left is the revised tray card a few years afterwards when they had distribution by MCA. September will be HUGE at FSMCDs.com! Not only do we have this massive new c

So sorry to read, just now actually, that Peter Cullen has died—most famously the voice of Optimus Prime. But he had quite the career beyond that. As a Gen X kid, Optimus Prime was up there in wise, trustworthy authority figures—and Cullen’s deep but gentle tones were a huge reason why. It was so cool that they brought him back for the films, instead of recasting with a celebrity as is typical. Autobots...transform and roll out.

Thank you for buying from our new list at FSMCDs.com yesterday—tons of goodies still in stock! Here’s the spreadsheet of inventory—although you might find the search functions directly at FSMCDS.com faster and easier to use. Thank you!

We’re live at FSMCDs.com with, what else, film music CDs! Here is a spreadsheet for easy review, and then go to FSMCDs.com to order. We’ve added 425 new items with a lot of the “hot,” out-of-print collector titles: La-La Land, Intrada, Quartet, Kritzerland. Way less than at eBay! We’re also continuing to discount titles that have been in stock for many months. We are not previous about prices! Today 383 items have their prices newly slashed, and you’ll find them on the spread

I haven’t spoken about this before (I don’t think) but wow, I hope the Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. does not go through. These consolidations are so bad for everybody except a handful of billionaires.

It’s insane what people make nowadays. Here is a walkthrough of the Discovery from 2001: Nicely done!

We will be going live with a small but excellent new lot of film music CDs at www.fsmcds.com on Tuesday morning, 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. There are around 425 items, and some “hot” titles in there that I am sure will make some collectors very happy!

Above: The Time Tunnel, because it why not? I thought I had been blogging more or less every day for four years, but turns it it’s actually been five—I started around this time in 2021. As people probably noticed, I’ve run out of a lot of memoir-like stories that were fun to tell, but I can’t bring myself to stop blogging either. A friend of mine has a big-time social media presence, and he was turned down for an awesome job for which he was more than qualified at a big strea

I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Nick Glennie-Smith, at 74. Please see this write-up at Movie Music UK.

Our friends at the Hollywood Bowl have a giveaway offer for the upcoming annual John Williams concert—check it out! ### We're giving away a pair of tickets to Maestro of the Movies at the Hollywood Bowl! To enter: Follow @HollywoodBowl, @soundingpointla, and @FilmScoreMonthly (Facebook) Tag 2 friends in the comments One winner will be selected to receive a pair of tickets Experience the ultimate celebration of John Williams, the legendary composer behind the unforgettable sco

Here’s good news: the Intrada Battlestar Galactica (classic) albums by Stu Phillips are coming back as an 8CD box set. I love Intrada’s video trailers, wish we could have done them back in the day for FSM!

I did not expect to be operating a used CD store—or, when I did, to be sitting on 7,000+ film music CDs, with thousands available for under $5. If you’re looking to fill out your collection with stuff you always considered trying, you’d be shocked to see they’re available now for $1-5. It’s a great time to buy! Here is our store, and a spreadsheet of inventory for review. Thanks!

Work on our Kickstarter-financed recording of rare James Horner TV scores is proceeding on schedule! Neumation Music, who have done the engraving, put together a video (using computer samples) of the end title cue, check it out on Facebook. Lovely!

Mark Rydell has died at the age of 97. Here’s the Deadline obituary. He made some great movies, and worked with great composers, notably John Williams on The Reivers, The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty and The River. And On Golden Pond by Dave Grusin is good. His first feature film as director was The Fox, with a great Lalo Schifrin score. R.I.P.

Happy birthday to the late James Horner, who would have been 73 today. I remember reading about him in the 1980s when he was barely in his thirties.

I forgot to mention I saw Project Hail Mary on the plane during last month’s vacation, and thought it was excellent. I liked the score, too, with its sort of galactic hymn-and-world music approach. It’s funny because if this was made in 1983 we’d have a top-five all-time Jerry Goldsmith score, but times have changed and so have audience sensibilities. Lord and Miller definitely have an approach that works, but to think they tried to make Solo full of this kind of jokiness—tha

Thank you to everybody who bought from our new sale list at FSMCDs.com, see yesterday’s blog. Here is a current spreadsheet of inventory. Want to know something interesting? Right now we have 7,267 items in stock. Know what the median price is? $5. There are 1212 items in stock that are $15 and up, and they are valued at $30,462. The other 6,056 items are valued at $27,184. Put another way: 4,532 items (priced from free to $5) are valued at $12,589. I could go deeper into it,