QoS Soundtrack hits iTunes
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But only in the UK :v
If you set your iTunes store to United Kingdom however, you can listen to the 30 second samples.
Sounds great! Love the opening to 'Time To Get Out', and there seem to be loads of references to CR's soundtrack - lots of that Vesper theme
I'm trying not to download it though - knowing the soundtrack can hamper the film in my opinion. But this is bloody hard
If you set your iTunes store to United Kingdom however, you can listen to the 30 second samples.
Sounds great! Love the opening to 'Time To Get Out', and there seem to be loads of references to CR's soundtrack - lots of that Vesper theme
I'm trying not to download it though - knowing the soundtrack can hamper the film in my opinion. But this is bloody hard
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@merseytart
Play.com orders are can be cancelled before dispatch. It depends if you're after the CD itself. But If like me, you're trying to avoid the music as a form of spoiler, then at least this gives you a decent excuse for a week!
@merseytart
Although, I'm struggling to pick up on new melodies. CR had Vesper's and Solange's themes, alongside instrumental versions of YKMN. What new themes have we here? :S
I believe if you set your iTunes to UK you can listen to the samples of the tracks (but you can't buy them)- even on the samples there are plenty of examples of Bond theme all the way through.
Even more bizarrely though, one of the tracks sounds like a slight variation on the Montenegro track from CR: i.e. You Know My Name's in there! Weird.
The Opera track does sound very nice, though. I think Camille's theme is in there, but it seems to be a variation on Vesper's.
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Of course you don't have to but it'd be nice! I will have a listen as soon as I get home tonight.
Well, your own ears should be able to tell you that's not true. Have a listen on youtube. M5 ain't lying. I don't think there are any major fully blown versions of it, but it's there throughout the film much stronger than it was in CR.
Oh I dunno- Arnold reused a few of his ideas several times; not least the romantic end-of-the-film music. Which may have been his way of saying that the films were all a bit samey, I don't know.
I don't think he was saying that, actually - was Barry saying the Bond films were a bit samey when he reused "007" in five different films?
@merseytart
If The Bond Theme doesn't appear in this manner or is used only at the film's close a la CR, then I will be pretty disappointed.
-Roger Moore
(And I've not had a proper chance to listen through it yet...I'll update once I have!)
QoS is possibly Arnold's best soundtrack, in part because rather than just lift cues from Barry and others, he's finally found a niche that's both retro and modern -- listen to "Field Trip," for instance, which almost sounds like something from a bygone era. The samples so far make this a much richer soundtrack than Casino Royale's. One complaint is that Arnold still has this ADHD thing, where just when a hook or lush movement is getting started he switches to some asymmetric spastic percussion with discordant strings . . . that's driven in part by the scene I'm sure, but it often makes listening more chaotic than enjoyable and stands in sharp contrast to the retro quality of the rest of the score.
I really enjoyed the score for CR, the way in which YKMN threaded its way throughout, and the subtle insinuations of the Bond theme in spots. It seems a given that AWTD is not in the QoS soundtrack, but can I at least look forward to hints of the Bond theme?
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
While there is no all-out guitar-riffing version of the theme on any of the tracks I've heard, the Bond theme is present pretty distinctly in Field Trip (which you might be able to find online). Those of us who own the 60s Barry soundtracks know that he was rather disciplined about using the guitar riff anyway, preferring to work more with the title song as a motif, so Arnold in many ways is following that strategy. I do also hear elements of AWTD in the soundtrack, though because the song is rather "rock-y," it would be easy to miss the cues when played more "symphonically."
That doesn't bother me at all---like Q and Moneypenny, I think that such a thing will be back in the mix soon enough, so I won't begrudge Eon taking their time with it. In the meantime, they're intent on delivering some slam-bang thrills, and I'm more than ready B-)
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Arnold does a good job, BTW, of bringing in Casino Royale cues to tie this film to the last one. Arnold's work is best when being inspired by past Bond composers, but his theme for Vesper, for instance, is strong enough to get him proper kudos.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
I did notice something odd . . . Arnold seemed to borrow a few cues from Danny Elfman's Batman theme on one or two tracks. I realize it's been 20 years, but the music is so distinct that it probably is a little harder to swipe from without being noticed. Only a few notes, but the right ones to make my ears take notice.
Cheers to David Arnold- yet again, a soundtrack worthy of the heir to the John Barry mantle... -{
But QoS has a gunbarrel, albeit at the end of the film.
One disappointment, however: while the James Bond theme is more present than in CR, there is no gunbarrel version.