Favorite track (e.g. besides the main themes)?
Hannibal_Smith
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A few of mine;
"Tresspassers Will Be Eaten," from Live and Let Die
"Drive in the Country" and "Runaway" from For Your Eyes Only
Necros' theme from The Living Daylights
"Whiteout" from Die Another Day
"African Rundown" from Casino Royale
(BTW, anyone know where I can get "Drive in the Country," "Runaway" and "Whiteout" without buying the whole albums? I usually get my music from ITunes)
"Tresspassers Will Be Eaten," from Live and Let Die
"Drive in the Country" and "Runaway" from For Your Eyes Only
Necros' theme from The Living Daylights
"Whiteout" from Die Another Day
"African Rundown" from Casino Royale
(BTW, anyone know where I can get "Drive in the Country," "Runaway" and "Whiteout" without buying the whole albums? I usually get my music from ITunes)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-gghzPMuiE&feature=related
Someone has to buy John Barry a Vodka Martini for this one :x
"Exercise At Gibraltar " from The Living Daylights
"007 and Counting" from Diamonds Are Forever
"Bond Smells a Rat" from Moonraker
"Bond Settles In" from On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Without disagreeing with you re the music, I'm not sure that's his tipple!
This one is better. Listen to the ending.
I don't know. I have to divide 'em into categories:
Best love themes:
1. Bond meets Stacey (AVTAK)
2. We have all the time in the world - James Bond theme (OHMSS, but without the JB theme which kind of ruins this fantastic ending...)
3. Thats what keeps you alone (GE)
4. Paris and Bnd (TND)
5. Approaching Kara (TLD - The last bit)
6. Bond meets Tania (FRWL)
Best action themes
1. Golden Gate Fight (AVTAK)
2. Ski Chase (OHMSS)
3. Run Shoot and jump/The Goldeneye Overture part 3 (GE)
4. Death Of Largo (TB)
5. Hercules Takes Off/Inflight fight/ Air Bond (TLD)
6. Come in 007, your time is up (TWINE)
Best suspense themes:
1. Capsule in space (YOLT)
2. The laserbeam (GF)
3. Bond smells a rat (MR - in spite of the fact that I hate the movie)
4. Bond at the Monsoon palace (OP)
5. Bond escapes Roller/Mayday bombs out/Destroying Silicon valley (AVTAK)
6. Hips trip (TMWTGG)
7. Gumbolds office (OHMSS)
8. Murder at the fair/The sniper was a woman (TLD - Should have been placed higher on the list)
9. Acces Denied (TWINN)
10. If he finds it kill him (LALD)
I have to mention "Fatal Weakness" here. I truly love Serra's idea but the track is way too long and it there isn't much variety.
Best handfight music:
1. This never happened to the other fellor (OHMSS)
2. Bond awerts World War three (YOLT)
3. Airbase jailbreak (TLD)
4. Chateau Flight (TB)
5. Peter Francs (DAF)
Best landscape music:
1. In search of Scaramangas island (TMWTGG)
2. Following the diamonds (DAF)
3. St. Cyrils monastery (FYEO)
4. Mujahadin and opium (TLD)
5. Arrival at the island of Octopussy
6. Welcome to Baku
7. Over and out (OHMSS)
Best disaster music
1. The centrifuge and Corine puts down
2. Ninja (LTK - The end)
3. Goodbye countess (FYEO)
4. Death of Kerin (FRWL)
5. Death of Vesper (CR)
Best casino score:
1. Thunderball (More or less featured on the soundtrack)
2. On Her majestys secret service (Try - Very nice)
3. GoldenEye (We share the same passions)
4. The world is not enough (Casino)
5. Licence To kill (Not featured on the soundtrack at all)
Best tracks not featured on a CD
1. Fanfare (AVTAK)
2. Arrival at the Chateau of Drax, Freefall (MR)
3. Ice palace car chase (DAD)
4. Thakhunt around St. Petersburg (GE)
5. The Zagreb express (FRWL)
Worst tracks (Let's skip Dr. No shall we...?)
1. Miami International (CR)
2. Pleasent drive in St. Petersburg (GE)
3. Bond to Haiti (QOS)
4. Thats whats keeping you awake (QOS)
5. Boarding the stealth (TND)
Best songs (Not instrumental pieces):
1. The living Daylights (A-ha - The lyric could be better)
2. GoldenEye (Tina Turner)
3. A View To A Kill (Duran Duran)
4.Thunderball (Tom Jones)
5. For your eyes only (Sheena Easton)
6. Surrender (KD Lang)
7. The world is not enough (Garbage - Love that they used the "There is no point in living if you can't feel alive" line from the movie in the song - Awesome. Great chorus too)
8. From Russia With Love (Matt Monro)
9. Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
10. You know my name (Chris Cornell)
11. Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
12. Live and let die (Paul McCartney & Wings)
13. We have all the time in the world (Louis Armstrong)
14. If there was a man (The pretenders)
15. The man with the golden gun (Lulu)
16. Licence To Kill (Gladys Knight - Awesome lyric)
17. Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)
18. You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
19. If you asked me too (Patti LaBelle)
20. Where has everybody gone? (The pretenders)
21. Nobody Does It better (Carly Simon - It is a good song but maybe not suitable for an action thriller)
22. The experience of love (Eric Serra)
23. London Calling (The Clash - Briefly heard in Die Another Day)
24. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shirley Bassey and Dionne Warwick)
25. Do you know how Christmas trees are grown? (Nina)
26. Make It Last All Night (Rage - This one is really bad but it suits the scene very nicely as it is supposed be a happy pool party...)
27. Wedding Party (Ivory - This in not good, but trust me, from here it gets really bad....)
28. Stand by your man (Briefly heard in GoldenEye sung by Minnie Driver)
29. Die Another Day (Madonna)
30. Another Way to Die (Jack White & Alicia Keys)
31. Moonraker (Shirley Bassey - Basseys performance is good though...)
32. Dirty Love (Tim Feehan - It does suit the scene though)
33. Moonraker end title (Disco version by Shirley Bassey)
34. Underneath the mango tree/Three blind mice/Kingston Calypso (Dr. No)
35. California Girls (Beach boys - Briefly heard in A view to a kill during a silly action theme)
36. Only myself to blame (Scott Walker - Fortunately never featured in the movie)
37. All time high (Rita Coolidge - Probably the worst piece of crab I have ever heart... Especially for an action/Adventure film. It is so borring that I cannot believe it...)
38. Never Say Never Again (Lani Hall - My god...)
Hope I haven't offended anyone. It is hard to make these lists as one aleays seem to forget something...
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Pardon?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
For Your Eyes Only
and The Living Daylights
Best music in all three.
1. Dalton 2. Moore 3. Connery 4. Lazenby 5. Craig 6. Brosnan
Amen to that.
Personally, a pet peeve of mine is that they haven't used the Bond theme in the course of the last two movies (only for the end credits). I could understand why they didn't do it in Casino Royale because the whole point of the film is that he hasn't become the James Bond we know yet. But they should have started using it again in QOS. It's a good theme, damn it.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
DN: Tarantula (not included on the album unfortunately)
FRWL: James Bond With Bongos
GF: Oddjob's Pressing Engagement
TB: Chateau Flight
YOLT: James Bond In Japan
OHMSS: Journey To Blofeld's Hideaway
DAF: Bond Meets Bambi and Thumper
LALD: Tresspassers Will Be Eaten
TMWTGG: Let's Go Get 'Em
TSWLM: Bond 77
MR: Flight Into Space
FYEO: St. Cyril's Monastery
OP: The Palace Fight
AVTAK: Snow Job
TLD: The Sniper Was a Woman
LTK: Licence Revoked
GE: That's What Keeps You Alone
TND: Bike Chase
TWINE: Pipeline
DAD: Whiteout
CR: Death of Vesper
QOS: Time To Get Out
Quite an unusual list I guess, some fairly obscure tracks included but they're the ones I tend to enjoy most!
Favorite non-theme instrumental - Mujahadin and Opium (The Living Daylights)