Soundtrack vs Cast Recording BULL%*$$%- Page 3

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 9:58pm

all of the above, and the fact even other posters have said that those in the industry use the terms interchangeably.

And if its good enough for Apple, its good enough for me.
Havent' had a problem with one of their computers...ever.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 9:59pm

Good enough for Apple! Bwah! Genius.

No respectable industry person would ever call it a Soundtrack.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:10pm

This is the best thread EVAH!!

[HumATune]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:18pm

Well Fenchurch, I guess you'd led an easy life then, and have never gone through personal hardship. When people feel that their lives are spiraling out of control, they usually look for some way to gain control of their life.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:54pm

Why would anyone anywhere be so petty and obsessed with correctness that it actually took a toll on their health when people didn't abide by the rules?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:57pm

Perfect example. He could have had a full productive life, and died a happy man.

So whoever you are, don't let it eat at you, you might find yourself on a bridge that flies up into the air away from you some day.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:57pm

Lizzie wins the internet. Forever. And ever. Amen.

[kjklo]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:15pm

You say that language changes & evolves. True enough, but do you know what the engine of change so often is these days? Corporate business practices. Where do you think the incorrect term, soundtrack, is coming from? It's coming from retailers like Borders or Amazon or iTunes. They don't give a flying fig about the correct terminology. For them, it's all about convenience & cheapness of uniform labeling. And they are out there to colonize the minds of the youth of America. Don't go along! Take the high road and continue to use the proper terms. Realize that "elitist" is a compliment and not a pejorative.

[HumATune]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:18pm

Okay that was funny

Must. Collect. Dinner. That. Fell. From. Inside. My. Mouth.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:21pm

It's coming from retailers like Borders or Amazon or iTunes. They don't give a flying fig about the correct terminology.

And the grocery stores who don't stock avocados with fruit!

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:25pm

I would DEFINITELY be offended if someone called me elitist.

Elitist
A person who believes that a system or society should be ruled by an elite.

Wow. Thats a real englightened, progressive view.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:27pm

EVAH!!

[HumATune]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:44pm

Now, now, Fenchurch; language has evolved and "elitist" doesn't have to mean that.

[kjklo]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:53pm

Using "elitist" as an insult is a current right-wing locution, meant to demean those who dare to think indepentently or who exhibit any rationality or skepticism. The logic goes that good old boy "non-elites" are much more manageable/manipulatable. Why anyone would desire to fit in that category is beyond me.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:56pm

Language has evolved. And how!

[eb412]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:00am

i do think people take it a little seriously and why does it matter what it has called when it is under the soundtrack area in most cd stores and listed in the soundtrack genre on itunes...If the fact that cast recordings are wrongly placed in the soundtrack section and wrongly listed on itunes bothers you to a huge extent and you want change, then FINE go ahead and correct people so the general public will finally put cast recordings in the right section and correctly label them. But if that does not bother you so much that you are dying inside...who cares? We all know what everyone is talking about. Sure there is a distinction but no one acknowledges it.

[kjklo]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:12am

Call me crazy, but it does bother me so much that I'm "dying inside" that corporations mislabel categories for their own commercial convenience and those who should and do know better don't think it's a big enough deal to protest or even resist going along.

[Boq101]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:20am

Fenchurch, I think that you really didn't think this through. Why would you create an entire new thread on this? Couldn't post on an old thread? The words Cast Recording are the words that are on the CDs that I buy in Barnes and Noble, and that's telling me, as a newcomer to theater, that this is the recording of a cast that played this show live at some point. If you want to be a corporate puppet and decide that it's okay to slip down to the thinking level of the rest of corporate America instead of recognizing art for what it is, be my guest.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:21am

Aside from a few structural differences, there really isnt much to distinguish a man from a woman.

But imagine what would happen if you walked up to a guy and said, "Hey lady!"

[Weez]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 12:37am

I'm sleep-deprived and high on caffeine. Stuff imagination, I'm actually going to do that to the next man I see.

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:00am

I hope that Fenchurch starts a new thread soon.

It's SO entertaining to make fun of the angry and defeated!

[Boq101]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:03am

Wow, I love how critical people here are, we could put various Theatre Critics out of work. Imagine if on opening night the producers of a show went to our threads instead of the New York Times? They'd get like 67% more information here, instead of some paragraph on the parallels of the show and the coconut ice-dream to reviewer had the week before.

[kjklo]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:03am

Now, now, it's about a lot more important things than that.

[sondhead]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:27am

Fenchurch:
"What's offensive about that?
Its like calling a motion picture a movie
or a musical comedy simply a musical "

No, it's not. A soundtrack refers to the sound track of a movie being separated from the video track and put on CD. A cast recording is a seperate recording made only for CD to document the performance of a stage cast. A sound track is produced for a movie, released on disc to make money. A cast recording is a separate recording made specifically to be put on CD.

kjklo:
"Where do you think the incorrect term, soundtrack, is coming from? It's coming from retailers like Borders or Amazon or iTunes"

Actually Border's has a specific section for Shows, separate from Soundtracks as does Barnes & Noble. Amazon also specifies Cast Recordings from Soundtracks unless a stray CD is mislabeled. iTunes places them in the genre of Soundtracks only because CDDB has yet to add Cast Recordings or Show Tunes to the list of genres on the standard list of ID-3 tags. In parenthesis next to the title of the CD, they usually put Original Broadway Cast Recording, or Original Cast Recording, or something of that nature.

My point is, the big chains have wised up to the difference. Only incompetent people too lazy to think about the inherent difference in these terms use them incorrectly. Anyone with a brain would clearly be able to discern the fact that a live stage show doesn't have a soundtrack (or at least one they would care people to know about.. and I doubt we'll be getting a CD of the pre-recorded vocals from Broadway shows anytime soon.)

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 1:47am

I hate it when people get cassettes and 8-tracks mixed up.

They are two TOTALLY different things, people!