Does anybody have any idea whose signature this is on a digipak reissue of El Greco by Vangelis? It is not Vangelis. I thought maybe the director, Iannis Smaragdis, but can’t find any examples online. Thanks folks!

The time has come for me to type up the listings for a small box of soundtrack cassettes as part of the Jeanne Jones collction. Here is a sealed Runaway cassette from Varèse Sarabande. A Goldsmith rarity! If you collect these and would be interested in a bulk buy at a discount, feel free to reach out asap: lukaskendallmv@gmail.com. Thanks!

Just as a reminder: if you have CDs you want to sell through FSMCDs.com, we’ll take them! We pay 50% on consignment. Our new office is already stuffed but we can always find room for more! Email LukasKendallMV@gmail.com to inquire.

There’s a lengthy and very engaging interview with John Ottman on YouTube courtesy Half a Picture: Good stories!

Thanks to everybody who bought from yesterday’s sale list. A shout-out to that gutsy person on eBay selling our Miklós Rózsa box set for $1529. Makes our $445 copy look like a tempting offer, right? Here is an updated spreadsheet of our inventory. Thanks folks!

We have added a few hundred new listings to FSMCDs.com, including some rare John Barry collector editions, as well as some film music books. Here is a spreadsheet of the inventory as of this morning. You can use the list to search quickly, then make your selections at the store itself. Thanks! Also, please note: FREE STUFF! If you view the store by price, you’ll see a few dozen items (mostly classical and random things) that we’ve marked down to $0. Yes, they’re free! And, fo

Hello everybody! We have begun a FREE PREVIEW of FSM Online and everything that is usually behind our subscriber paywall. We’re not sure how long it will last, but at least a week as we reach out via mailing lists and social media for a much-needed subscription drive. Check out the newest issue, as well as the redesigned search engine of the 20+ years of online issues—and the archives, both online (2006–today) and print (1990–2005). For a table of contents of the print issues

FSMCDs.com will be live on Tuesday, June 23, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern with a couple hundred new CD listings—including some out-of-print John Barry titles. See you soon!

Folks who go way back to the 1990s black-and-white issues of FSM may remember that Box 1554 was my address at Amherst College, 1992–1996. I was extremely, well, not popular, but certainly well-known at the campus post office for the amount of mail I got—not only submissions, subscriptions and correspondence, but packages of CDs to review (yay!). For reasons I still don’t understand, there were two deliveries a weekday—a batch of mail in the morning, and another in the early a

Exciting news in the field of Star Trek theme archaeology. Loyal Trekkies will recall that there were two versions of the title theme in season one: the first had the theme performed by electric violin, recorded by Alexander Courage during the session for “The Man Trap.” This was replaced by a version with the theme played by celli, arranged and recorded by Fred Steiner. But when exactly was the change made? We haven’t been sure, since the episodes in circulation now don’t ad

I am loving the 2CD Intrada release of Explorers with the previously unreleased alternates on disc two! I found the alternate of “Crazed Bubble” with the foregrounded “Wak boogie” especially interesting. Per the liner notes, Joe Dante asked Goldsmith not to tease the Wak/alien music before the final act reveal of the character himself, which was the right call...but it reminds me of being 11 years old in the movie theater thinking, whaaaaaahhh? This movie was on the way to be

I thought I knew a lot about Shaft, having produced our 3CD set anthology years ago, but I had never heard this fascinating interview with the original wah-wah guitarist. Fun!

Here is an updated spreadsheet of FSMCDs.com inventory. Thanks! A shout-out today to Tim Burden who produced a concert in Dublin with Peter Bernstein to celebrate Elmer Bernstein’s centennial. They are now selling a 100-unit only 3CD set of the complete concert. Please see all the details at their Bandcamp page. A very special item—check it out. Thanks!

Thanks to everybody who bought from the new FSMCDs.com sale yesterday. We are shipping the new orders asap! Here is a spreadsheet of the current inventory. I am so excited to see Disclosure Day tomorrow for many reasons—but here’s one you might not have thought of. As far as I am aware, this film is set in the present day (or very near future). Since Jurassic Park and its sequel, Spielberg has directed 19 films. Know how many have been set in contemporary reality? Just three:

We are live with new listings at FSMCDs.com! We have slimlines and FYC CDs from Jeanne Jones’s collection, sealed FSM editions and box sets from my mom’s basement, and some neat CDs and cheapo damaged CDs from another collector. Here is a spreadsheet of inventory. And the site, to order, as always: FSMCDs.com. Happy shopping and thank you!

Be here tomorrow for our next CD sale: we have around 850 items from the Jeanne Jones collection, consistingly mostly of promos in cardboard sleeves and “slimline” cases. We also have a few hundred CDs from another collector, including a bunch that were water damaged (but the disc is fine) for only a buck of three. Finally, over the years I used to send a copy of each completed FSM album to my dad and another copy to my mom. I sold the “dad collection” a few years ago through

The June issue of FSM Online is live! Cutting and pasting the announcement email: The June issue of FSM Online is ready for your reading and listening pleasure! To check it out, click here. This month, we have THE BOROUGHS (John Paesano), KRAKOW FMF 2026 (James Newton Howard, Antonio Sanchez, Robert Townson), MORTAL KOMBAT II/WELCOME TO DERRY (Benjamin Wallfisch), MOVIESCORE MEDIA TURNS 20 (Mikael Carlsson), Scott Dunn on his GOLDEN AGE FILM MUSIC CONCERT "From Hell to Hollyw

This is the first chance I am having to lavish well-deserved praise on Quartet’s new recording of The Ipcress File, the John Barry spy classic. The soundtrack album is a classic but much of the original score as heard in the film has never been released—and with both recordings and written scores long lost, the only way we’d ever hear it is through a painstaking reconstruction and new performance. This is exactly what Quartet’s team has done—Leigh Phillips for the reconstruct

Wow—so grateful there is a new John Williams score to discover and enjoy! I thought this might never happen again, but it’s here, and of course it’s great. (Shades of Born on the Fourth of July.) Sample on YouTube: How lucky we are!

I am back from the East Coast and just a short note today to plug the return of BuySoundtrax’s Mystery Box for Father’s Day: 30 CDs from BSX, Dragon’s Domain, Citadel and others for $44.99. Details here! Offer good through end of day on June 17th.