Hello! I have a Question!
SeriousAgent
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Hello all! 
I'm SeriousAgent!
Okay, so I joined these forums just a few minutes ago because I have a question that's been driving me insane regarding a particular music track from James Bond. I was going to ask on one of those "ask a question" sites but I figured I'd have better luck going directly to people who are fans of James Bond everything and asking them.
See, a long time ago a family member downloaded this James Bond theme from somewhere, but he must have not looked up the real orchestra/composer/artist and/or he downloaded it for free somewhere and so the information he tacked onto the iTunes file is totally incorrect. I have been looking on Google to find what movie it comes from, who composed it, and what the album is foreverrrrrr! It's been driving me insane! Every time I listen to it, I get all excited and stuff cuz it's action-y, but I try to look it up on Youtube or Google and it's NOWHERE.
I KNOW I've heard this theme in a movie or something somewhere, which only drives me crazy even more.
Okay, so the song: It's 3min 15sec, or at least that's the length on my iPod, from the very first note to the last. I know the Bond themes are generally orchestrated, so I don't know if saying "it's orchestrated and has a lot of brass instruments" is redundant. What makes this one totally awesome and exciting is that it starts out slow and cool, but then it smashes into an epic, action-y, car chase kinda music, VERY dramatic and some voices singing kinda... like... chorusy. All at once, higher and higher, like how music does in really dramatic trailers before te scene cuts out and you see the title.
Ugh, music is SO hard to describe. -_-
It might not be the theme to a movie, now that I think about it, it might be background music used in a commercial or one of the movies' action scenes. Thing is, I don't know what movie, though I think it's one of the recent ones (recent meaning after 1990. I really don't think it's one of the older ones).
I hope you can help me, it's really been bothering me. It seems like such a silly thing to get twisted up about, but it's been years that I haven't been able to find it and every time I hear it on my iPod I get all frustrated, an itch I can't scratch! If I can just get at least some pointers in the right direction, I can continue my search, hopefully.
I'm SeriousAgent!
Okay, so I joined these forums just a few minutes ago because I have a question that's been driving me insane regarding a particular music track from James Bond. I was going to ask on one of those "ask a question" sites but I figured I'd have better luck going directly to people who are fans of James Bond everything and asking them.
See, a long time ago a family member downloaded this James Bond theme from somewhere, but he must have not looked up the real orchestra/composer/artist and/or he downloaded it for free somewhere and so the information he tacked onto the iTunes file is totally incorrect. I have been looking on Google to find what movie it comes from, who composed it, and what the album is foreverrrrrr! It's been driving me insane! Every time I listen to it, I get all excited and stuff cuz it's action-y, but I try to look it up on Youtube or Google and it's NOWHERE.
I KNOW I've heard this theme in a movie or something somewhere, which only drives me crazy even more.
Okay, so the song: It's 3min 15sec, or at least that's the length on my iPod, from the very first note to the last. I know the Bond themes are generally orchestrated, so I don't know if saying "it's orchestrated and has a lot of brass instruments" is redundant. What makes this one totally awesome and exciting is that it starts out slow and cool, but then it smashes into an epic, action-y, car chase kinda music, VERY dramatic and some voices singing kinda... like... chorusy. All at once, higher and higher, like how music does in really dramatic trailers before te scene cuts out and you see the title.
Ugh, music is SO hard to describe. -_-
It might not be the theme to a movie, now that I think about it, it might be background music used in a commercial or one of the movies' action scenes. Thing is, I don't know what movie, though I think it's one of the recent ones (recent meaning after 1990. I really don't think it's one of the older ones).
I hope you can help me, it's really been bothering me. It seems like such a silly thing to get twisted up about, but it's been years that I haven't been able to find it and every time I hear it on my iPod I get all frustrated, an itch I can't scratch! If I can just get at least some pointers in the right direction, I can continue my search, hopefully.
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-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5WHj0bZ2Q
It's not exactly legal for you to upload the track for us to hear, but maybe if you could record a short clip of part of it, we can help identify it...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
You. Guys. Are. AWESOME! My brain sighed in relief. I am so happy right now. :x I have a lead!
And thank you for welcoming me!
I'm on Youtube, trying to find the exact one. So far, I can't find it.
This one by Smirnoff is sooooo close, but it lacks the 'explosions.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTHET76ZVo
The song starts like this, by Nicholas Dodd. (Until 36 seconds, then it' not the same anymore) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLl1MilV18
I'll try to do a recording. I'm not sure how to do that....Could I do it using my mic somehow?
I did it. I got a recording. It was actually easy.
I put it on Youtube, unlisted, so only you guys can see it. It's a clip from about 30 seconds into the song and stops short about a minute, so it's a good chunk of the middle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jLmlzPUJNY
You'll have to turn up the volume cuz it's not very loud. ._. Sorry.
And I hope it works, it cut short on youtube a couple times on my comp. If it doesn't work, I'll rerecord and save as mp3 instead of wav and upload again. ._.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
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If being knighted by a newbie means anything, *takes out Sword of Aid and Enlightenment, Newbie Edition* I dub thee Sir SpectreBlofeld, Knight of the Wordy Ears.
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As for the exact recording of what you have... dim memory serves that there was some sort of weird remix contest/initiative concerning the Bond trailer music when it came out. The trailer music was released on the internet in such a way that allowed for remixing, my releasing the track in layers - strings, percussion, choral vocals etc all released as separate tracks. I don't remember what the purpose or goal was, or if it was even all legit, but the end result was the ability to 'remix' the trailer music in a number of ways. Therefore the recording you enjoy now probably isn't exactly like the trailer music, and even the various trailers for the film vary, even though they're all remixes of the same thing.
That, or a stray piece of debris from Dr. Shatterhand's exploding volcanic botanical garden hit me in the head while I was floating away clinging to a Death's Head balloon, causing me to lose all memory, drawing what clues about my former life as I could, perhaps from a news-clipping from an outhouse sporting the word 'Vladivostok', as happens so often, spurring me to abandon my Ama shell-diving lifestyle.
If you haven't read the novels yet, disregard the above.
He put down "Peter Bolvi." I have no idea who that is.
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/26631/trailer-music-avalible-to-download/
It was a Smirnoff-sponsored contest back when CR was about to come out.