Soundtrack vs Cast Recording BULL%*$$%

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:22pm

"if you're interested in (or working in) a certain trade, you should know the jargon"

This is a quote from another board.

My reply:

GET OVER IT! Use the terms interchangeable as most people often do, but know the distinction, it is YOUR responsibility as the listener, if you want the information.

But to chastise someone relentlessly? It's just ego-driven ridiculousness.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:31pm

So, because you got mad on another board, you needed to bring that anger here?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:38pm

It's offense to me for someone to call a cast recording a "soundtrack." That's not what it is.

As for correcting others, I only do so to those not involved in the business in any capacity. Unless they post on BWW.com

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:48pm

How could it possibly be offensive?

Incorrect, yes, but offensive, no.

And someone who corrects like that is, in my opinion, a prig.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:49pm

Calling a Cast Recording a Soundtrack is not offense. It is just incorrect.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:54pm

Perhaps it's just offensive to me because a lot of people that I know in the industry say "soundtrack" over "cast recording" because it's shorter to say.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:56pm

OH GOD.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:56pm

What's offensive about that?

Its like calling a motion picture a movie

or a musical comedy simply a musical

the word musical was originally an adjective and not a noun, but over time it changed, and the word "comedy" was dropped, for the sake of ease as well as the fact that some musicals were not really comedies.

But regardless, language changes, like I said before. Get over it.

No reason to be offended unless youre that kind of person.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:58pm

To me a soundtrack is music from a movie a sound track.

a cast recording is from a musical because it is a cast recording.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 4:59pm

Did you get yourself chewed out on the other board, and then just come here to vent?

Relax.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the turntable this morning.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:06pm

Does it make me a bad gay if I just call them "Recordings"? For example, I just bought the Spring Awakening recording this week.

[Julian2]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:13pm

Fenchurch, I have to say that I find the way you constantly attack people in highly vindictive ways because they don't share your opinion on one issue or another incredibly immature. I'm not attacking your opinions, I simply am sick and tired of you constantly berating people for not sharing them. Instead of arguing your point with civility, and perhaps changing a few minds, you adopt a "I'm right, your wrong, and since you don't see this you are a (insert insult here)". That's no way to get your point across. There is a lot of bashing on this board, but I find the way you post your opinions highly immature and irrational.

Updated On: 1/20/07 at 05:13 PM

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:21pm

Actually, my posts are never personal attacks, but I apologize if they were taken that way by people espouse the IDEAS that I attack.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:41pm

Here is my question: If you know a cast recording is not a soundtrack, then why call it a soundtrack? When it's not? To me, it's not really offensive, it just sounds ignorant. When you learn the difference between a cast recording and a soundtrack, then why call a cast recording a soundtrack? And it's not the same as calling a movie a motion picture, since those are two different terms for the same thing. It's like calling a play a movie. Two different things. See?

I don't get all mean and crazy about it. Some people don't know the difference. But if you do, and consciously choose to call something by the wrong term, then you only have yourself to blame, really. So why the rant?

Updated On: 1/20/07 at 05:41 PM

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:43pm

Soundtrack: a track of different sounds
Cast Recording: a recording of a cast

I know which one sounds preferable to me.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:45pm

My point is that regardless of which term you use, people know what you're talking about.

So why the picky-nasty-priggish corrections that go on and on and on all the time?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:53pm

I just want to pop in and say that Gypsy has the best Overture ever written.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:53pm

My point is, regardless whether people know what you're talking about, why purposely use the wrong term? To me, that says you want to appear ignorant. It's like people who use an apostrophe to pluralize nouns. If you say something correctly to begin with, people won't bug you about it. Problem solved.

"Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this!"

"Then don't move your arm like that."

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:02pm

Because sometimes it's a slip of the tongue, and since it is in such common usage, (no matter how incorrect it is), then I feel the terms should be interchangeable, or at least should be understood.

Again, I think its overbearing and obnoxious to correct someone like that.

Its like correcting people's grammar in a conversation. Its rude.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:08pm

Its like correcting people's grammar in a conversation. Its rude.

You forgot an apostrophe.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:09pm

"Its like correcting people's grammar in a conversation. Its rude."

Guilty of that one here.

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:09pm

Its like correcting people's grammar in a conversation. Its rude.

Do you think I'm rude if I correct you?

It's rude not Its rude.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:10pm

I don't know about you guys, but I think overtures are vastly underrated. Why don't we get them so much anymore? I miss them. And I think I like the 'Oklahoma!' overture best myself.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:12pm

I like chocolate cake.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:13pm

The use of "soundtrack" doesn't annoy me too much, but I do agree with the people who have said if you know the correct term, use it. It's as simple as that.