I don’t know if this have been suggested before, but here I go.
How about a SW soundtrack database. I’m not talking about a whole new site, but a database that have it’s place within SWDB. I know there is a option to click on the Soundtrack information button, but that information isn’t to spectacular. What if we had detailed information about every SW soundtrack (just like we have information about every SW films).
For example like this;
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Per un pugno di dollari (Soundtrack) (US, 1967 / Composer: Ennio Morricone) Runtime: 26 min (RCA Victor LP, 1967), 38 min (GDM CD, 2006) Release Date: 1967 First Released As A Album By: RCA Victor
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone Chorus: I Cantori Modernisation di Alessandroni (The Modern Singers of Alessandroni) Trumpet: Michele Lacerenza Harmonica: Franco the Gemini Guitar and Flute: Alessandro Alessandroni Producers: Tom Berman / Gianni dell’Orso
Track Listing
RCA Victor
Titoli (from “A Fistful of Dollars”) (02:37)
Almost Dead (01:40)
Square Dance (01:33)
The Chase (02:21)
The Result (02:25)
Without Pity (02:00)
Theme from “A Fistful of Dollars” (01:45)
“A Fistful of Dollars” Suite (13:38)
GDM
Titoli (02:58)
Quasi morto (01:40)
Musica sospesa (01:02)
Square dance (01:36)
Ramon (01:05)
Consuelo Baxter (01:18)
Doppi giochi (01:41)
Per un pugno di dollari (#1) (01:26)
Scambio di prigionieri (00:55)
Cavalcata (03:29)
L’inseguimento (02:25)
Tortura (09:31)
Alla ricerca dell’evaso (01:22)
Senza pietà (02:08)
La reazione (02:36)
Per un pugno di dollari (#2) (01:49)
Per un pugno di dollari (Finale) (01:09)
About
Here there could be text about the soundtrack and what went into making it.
Trivia
Fun facts or something like that.
This section down below would be in the upper right corner, under a picture of the CD or LP (just like the film pages is set up)
Contents:
Available CDs
Available MP3 Downloads
LP releases
Single releases
Pictures
Soundtrack Review
Discuss and rate this (Talk about the soundtrack in the forums, just like we do with the films)
I know this idea of mine would require a lot of work, but couldn’t it be awesome?
You’re right. My idea is that fans will get easier access to detailed information about SW soundtracks, on this site (all in one place). SWDB is already an formidable site (one of my favorites!) but things can still be modified and developed, and in the end make everybody more pleased than they were before. If realised, would be awesome!
Good idea but like you said it requires lot of work. I have added lots of cd release infos on the database but in most cases I’ve just added the front cover and not much anything else because of the lack of time or I just didn’t have more information about the release. It would be nice if people would add more info and edit the pages to look better.
If there aren’t ones already, there should just be links from the movie on swdb to the relevant entry on www.soundtrackcollector.com … You will never in a million years come close to the amount of information they have of all sorts of releases for the various (sw) movies there. No point in reinventing the wheel.
I’m not talking about adding all soundtrack releases that exist to one specific movie, but just the most imorportant, like the original LP (maybe some singles) and the best release as of today (Like GDM, Verita Note etc.) But maybe your right, it would probably be a lot easier to just ad a link from Soundtrackcollector.com
But having a “Discuss and rate this” link to the soundtracks would be nice, and information what went in to making the soundtracks, and trivia (of course, if there actually is information to be found).
Re-opening this. About 14 years have passed since @Lee_Van_Cleef posted the idea above originally. In the meantime, the SWDb’s soundtrack info has grown and expanded, but it’s still a part of the database that lacks far behind the reliability, completeness and quality we have for example regarding home video information.
So “soundtrack project” definitely has to entail:
listing all soundtrack releases, ever.
track listing, label information, release date, format, product code (CDs have these..), additional information, edition info, art, etc.
A way to display these user friendly.
Now as for that last item. Since soundtrack releases differ a lot in track listing, if we include each release’s entire track listing, these entries take up a lot of space, so we need to think of a way to display these a bit differently than home video sub pages. One idea: Soundtrack pages start with the general soundtrack info and track listing for the film, and then with releases. And those releases don’t include track listings, only information in how they may differe from the official tracklisting (e.g. include additional tracks, or only include tracks so and so, etc.).
Happy to hear thoughts and suggestions and gather a posse of deputy sheriffs to get to work. We can also pick out one movie and work on its soundtrack page to perfection until we consider it a model to be applied to all the others (that’s what we’ve been doing with film pages, book pages, etc).
