Check out this reduction Patrick Suiter posted a couple of years ago of the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban quidditch match by John Williams. I guess I missed it at the time? It would take me hours to go through it carefully. This movie is like the Empire Strikes Back of the Harry Potter movies—where all the choices work together to make the very best version of the franchise. It’s not even a matter of being “darker,” just in elevating everything into more mature

We are making progress getting the new site organized—but there’s a ton left to do. I am particularly concerned with the search engine(s). We have 35 years’ worth of content, and it’s a priority for me that people be able to find what they’re looking for. This is likely going to take thousands of dollars to program, but we will do it!

I stumbled on a YouTube video about one of my guilty pleasures, Logan’s Run . (Nothing guilty about loving the Goldsmith score, though!) Here’s a playlist to a series of videos meticulously trying to reconstruct the lost bits, using audio from a preview screening.

Intrada has announced their next Kickstarter will be to record a CD of The Night of the Hunter , an absolutely gorgeous score by Walter Schumann that’s buried under narration on the existing soundtrack album. Bravo! Can’t wait for this one!

I was sorry to hear the news that Bob Burns has passed away. He was an institution in the sci-fi/horror/fantasy community— read here —and so generous and kind. I was given a tour of his collection in the early 1990s and it blew my mind the stuff he had, and how open and friendly he was in sharing access with likeminded fans. He and his wife Kathy (who passed a few years ago) were such gracious hosts. He also, by the way, was the person who rescued the stereo master tapes to T

Above: A signed, framed LP of The Prize by Jerry Goldsmith we have in stock . Thanks to everybody who bought from our clearance sale yesterday! Still lots of discounted and free items available— check out the details . And here’s a spreadsheet of our total inventory . Thank you!

Update: Here’s a spreadsheet of the inventory . Prices listed are the sale prices but you need to use the site itself ( www.fsmcds.com ) to see which items have sale prices. I have drastically slashed prices on the oldest items at www.fsmcds.com . These are CDs that we’ve had for 18–24 months, and who knows if I priced them too high, or just nobody wanted them (or both?) but I have radically reduced them—anywhere from 25% to 75% off. And a whole bunch I’ve reduced down to $0,

My compliments to YouTube user “rmxmusicprojects” who has completed James Horner’s Star Trek II score. He also has Star Trek III and TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds” on his channel—and lots more. Quite the investment of time—very well done!

I’ve carried the torch for a long time for the animation music of Johnny Douglas, whose jazzy, muscular writing for Marvel Productions in the early ’80s became a lifelong favorite. Thanks to his granddaughter, Louise Camby, at the family label, Dulcima Records , his music for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk and Dungeons and Dragons has been rescued from oblivion, and is now available on CD and vinyl, as well as digital download. Check out the details

I have to beg everybody’s indulgence: we need to ship the Kickstarter donor rewards in mid-January. This is because we finally have the Best of Film Score Monthly book at the printers, but they can’t turn it around faster than that. The other perks are done and ready to ship, but I have to ship everything all at once, otherwise it’s not fair to the people also expecting the book. And if I double-ship (send items in more than one shipment), it’ll be several thousand more doll

Very sorry to hear of the passing of jazz artist Gordon Goodwin . He suffered a stroke while fighting pancreatic cancer. I emailed with him briefly when we were working on the Deluxe Edition of Star Trek: Nemesis ; he did the arrangement of “Blue Skies” for Brent Spiner at the Troi-Riker wedding. Super talented and super nice.

Was Tron ever cool? I remember in the ’80s it was this kind of also-ran sci-fi movie that had a unique look and cool concept—but dramatically, was pretty inert. It was this sort of intriguing flop that we’d revisit once in a while. I never would have pegged it as a franchise, but Disney has tried anyway, and, well, zzzzzzz . The original Wendy Carlos score is super cool and here’s a video on it which I enjoyed: It comes from a unique point in time when mixing synthesizers wi

Today’s project on our end is getting the FSMOnline subscription/payment service to work right. There are a lot of moving parts on the “backend” as we say about websites: caching, e-commerce, “webhooks,” and a lot of other stuff I never thought I would learn about. It’s frustrating not to have a better grasp on this, personally, because I can’t get in there and help the way I could if it was, for example, editing a magazine article. But we’re confident in our tech folks to so

Thanks for all your orders from yesterday’s CD sale! We’re shipping them today. And there’s still a ton of great stuff in inventory! Check out the spreadsheet here (sorted with all the high-end goodies up top today) and go to FSMCDs.com to order. Proceeds are going to continued FSM website improvements—more fixes to the message board coming soon. Thank you!

We have added 115 listings to FSMCDs.com , including a lot of sealed box sets, like the La-La Land Lethal Weapon collection (above). Here is a spreadsheet of the available inventory , over 5,000 listings in all. Two special items today: an Elmer Bernstein concert program and a John Williams print . Here are photos of these items . Hope you find some goodies—thank you!

Our next CD sale will go live tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. Not a large number of titles, but some premiums collector editions and box sets. And a reminder that cool stuff, like La-La Land’s Die Hard With a Vengeance , is in stock now. There’s typically one copy of each, at way less than eBay prices. Thank you for supporting www.fsmcds.com !

We have a small lot of high-value items (100–200) we’ll be adding to FSMCDs.com Tuesday morning, 10AM Pacific time (1PM Eastern), 12/2/25. These are a lot of the hard-to-find collector’s items—most of them are sealed—and box sets, too. Some great stuff in here! And we still have in stock a significant number of the high-value CDs from our last sale, two weeks ago. Go to the FSMCDs.com site and then sort by descending value and you’ll see them on the first page. You can fi

David Newman is conducting John Williams’ score to Home Alone live to film at the Hollywood Bowl December 5–7. Go here for tickets , and use the code SPWDCH for 20% off select seats. Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, and here’s something to be thankful for: Thomas Newman is scoring the Star Wars: Starfighter movie . High hopes!

Attention humans: we’ve put Cloudfare protection onto the message board. This is to keep out the bots that were trawling it and using up all the server resources. I know it’s annoying and apparently some people can’t get in—so sorry about that. All this will be done with in a few weeks, certainly by next year, as we get our next programming team on board. Sorry for the inconvenience.