Its pretty good, but not Barry's best. I like the instrumental version of Goldfinger on it.
The problem with it, I think is that it fits the movie too well, where you need to be watching the movie to enjoy it. It doesnt stand up so well on its own. Still said, its a great score.
It's a pretty cool score, very jazzy and cool. It fits the film very well and symbolizes the hipness of the 60's Bond films and Goldfinger in general. Unfortunately a lot of cues are missing on the original soundtrack, which doesn't make it as interesting as some of the other soundtracks. Even after the secondary tracks on another CD (I forgot which, sorry), there are still a lot of missing cues like the Kentucky stud farm one with Vic Flick's very cool guitar bit. "Into Miami" is my favorite track. All and all, it's very good but not the best.
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Goldfinger is easily one of my fav soundtracks, it's probably the one I have listen to a most and is one of the only original soundtracks I still owned on Vinyl for many years. When I had the chance to buy the CD re-releases a few years ago GF was the first one I re-purchased...the next two where YOLT and Thunderball.
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The problem with it, I think is that it fits the movie too well, where you need to be watching the movie to enjoy it. It doesnt stand up so well on its own. Still said, its a great score.
All Bond, VERY Bond. :007)