LITTLE WOMEN SOUNDTRACK??- Page 2

[Albin]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 6:19am

She called it a soundtrack.

She should be hauled over to the Virginia theater and stoned.

[riv]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 10:29am

They are cast albums. The distinction does matter.

And I would like to ask stylinbohemian how much Colony overcharged them for the Little Women CD. Considering it's everywhere, Colony is the last place I'd go to get it.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:49pm

No, NOT "Whatever." You are supposed to be a theatre fan. At the very least you ought to know the difference and use the correct terms or just use a generic term, CD. "When does the CD of X come out?"

As I said earlier, it's perfectly all right to call soundtracks cast albums..so why not just call every show or movie CD a cast album? Is it really that difficult to do??

Updated On: 5/1/05 at 08:49 PM

[Albin]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:54am

If those of you concerned about the proper usage of "soundtrack" are really trying to educate those who use the word incorrectly and not embarrass them with your superority, why not send them a private message? Because then we won't know just how superior you really are...

[Wax Lion]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:16am

Wax Lion thinks this post is funny.

Love,
Wax Lion

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:29am

I think anyone who is seriously interested in musical theatre should learn the difference between the two. Or, prepare to come off as uneducated when they call cast recordings soundtracks. I am amazed how many people are proud of their ignorance.

Updated On: 5/2/05 at 09:29 AM

[Wax Lion]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:33am

"I think anyone who is seriously interested in musical theatre should learn the difference between the too. Or, prepare to come off as uneducated when they call cast recordings soundtracks. I am amazed how many people are proud of their ignorance."
-BobbyBubby

Wax Lion thinks you should learn the difference between the "too", too. One might think you are uneducated.

Love,
Wax Lion

Updated On: 5/2/05 at 09:33 AM

[Wax Lion]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:34am

Wax Lion just got his cast recording of Tiny Ladies. He thinks it's astonishing.

Love,
Wax Lion

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 10:38am

I am very aware of the difference. I wrote that at 6am. Mucho sorry.


Updated On: 5/2/05 at 10:38 AM

[Albin]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:25am

Bubby, he/she is not even worth apologizing too...

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:40am

Good to know Albin, thanks. I think I have a persecution complex today, or something.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:55am

Bobby . . . . channel La Ripley . . . . you'll feel much better.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:57am

That always helps Hanna. La Ripley forever! Updated On: 5/2/05 at 11:57 AM

[TGIF]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:08pm

"If it doesn't matter. then I'd like to buy the soundtrack to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"

Is that the movie with the St. Benard? I didn't know they were on their 5th sequel. I liked the second one the best, I especially like the Dolly Parton song for the movie.


While I think friendly reminders/corrections are okay, I don't feel like open warfare on the subject is. Some people just don't realize there is a difference (I blame the music stores who put CRs under "Soundtracks"). Others just like calling it a soundtrack to stirr people up.

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:16pm

Some of you need to seriously get a life. The way you flip out about stupid little things like someone calling a cast recording a soundtrack, a topic being posted twice... wow. There is a real world full of real problems beyond this message board.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:43pm

I point it out as a matter of education, and yes I usually send a PM to the person just to let them know that they should go in and change it. I try not to be rude or nasty about it, and I hope my posts do not come across that way. I'm passionate about teh subject but never mean. (I have been colecting original cast and soundtrack recordings for over 35 years now!)

I stand by my earlier point: let's lose the term soundtrack (for at least the purpose of Broadway World) and just use either the generic term CD or the perfectly correct "cast recording" or CR for all show recordings, film and stage.

This is not such a radical idea: because of sound quality issues, very few movie soundtracks are actually recorded directly from the film soundtracks any more. If you listen to older discs of actual soundtrack recordings...THE MUSIC MAN on Warner Bros for example or some of the old M-g-M soundtrack albums, they all have a flat "boxy" sound quality.

They films are recorded that way on purpose, oterwise the sound would be too hollow in the large movie theatres. On records, however, they sound dull and flat.

In the 1960s some labels like Columbia (for WEST SIDE STORY, MY FAIR LADY, FUNNY GIRL and 1776) just added a lot of reverb to the records.

Capitol Records got around this by having the movie casts of OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL and KING AND I re-record the scores in studio for release on records. (They eve put the phrase "from the soundtrack of the motion picture" on the Lp covers, even though the Lps were not!) You wil notice if you listen to the original soundtrack albums for these films that the Overtures and some of the songs are completely different performances. The recent "expanded" edition on Angel incorporates additional material taken from the actual film soundtrack.

Today they can digitally alter and remix the sound for theatrical and home video use, and again for CD release. That is why soundtracks often do not sound like the performances you hear on your DVD of the movie.

That's a very long-winded technical explanation for you.

For those of you who think it doesn't matter, if that really is the case, please indulge the rest of us and just call them Cast Recordings.

[TGIF]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:53pm

I did not find any of your posts mean, frontrow. In fact I agree with you completely. I was simply commenting on long threads that sometimes result.


When I first came on the board (over a year ago), I did not know the difference and from somebody pointed it out to me (or someone else, and I just read the thread) the difference between the two. I really appreciated the information/correction and I am confused why it has now been such a big deal. *sigh*

Updated On: 5/2/05 at 12:53 PM

[musicalfandukie]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:57pm

if you go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/ they call alot of the cast recordings soundtracks...maybe we should write them hate mail!!..lol....i think we all knew what the poster ment when she said soundtrack i doubt she would be posting on this board if she was talking about the little women movie soundtrack.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 1:07pm

We're all here to share information and help educate eachother.

And you are right, there is no need to be nasty about it.

Although must admit when I see the posting asking "When is the LITTLE WOMEN soundtrack coming out?" my immediate temptation is to reply "after they make a movie of the show!"