BOND POLLS 2015: 007 Music Score Contest (TOP 10 Best Bond Scores, FINAL RESULTS ARE IN, p. 4!)

Gustav_Graves

Here are the final results of the "007 Music Score Contest", which includes all your TOP 10 of Best Bond Scores. 45 (!!) people have voted in here, and John Barry's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was unanimously voted as the big winner (no real surprise).

But also have a close look at the scores for "Moonraker" and "Thunderball", which got into the TOP 5 without too many problems. Although "Moonraker" never got a top mark of 12. David Arnold's score for "Tomorrow Never Dies" seems to be the favourite score of the forummembers. And it's the highest ranked non-Barry score.

Only one other David Arnold score made it into the TOP 15: David Arnold's score for "Casino Royale". Rounding up the TOP 15 is Thomas Newman's score for "SkyFall". The unofficial score for the 1967 spoof "Casino Royale" scored better than the scores for the official films for "Doctor No" and "Die Another Day".

Here are the detailed results in Excel-format, which I transferred to .jpg images:

Final results (ranking order):


Final results (ranking order):


And here's a color graph of the results (the more 'green', the higher a score got ranked):



So, let the discussion begin! A fair result ;-)? And how will Thomas Newman's score for "SPECTRE" fit in this ranking? Does it earn a spot in the TOP 10? What do you think of David Arnold's wonderful result for "Tomorrow Never Dies"? Let me know.

Cowley

Well we not only had Eurovision style voting but a nil point too!

I'm personally sad to see OP rated so low but other than that I'd say the top 6 just so happens to feature Barry's six personal best soundtracks so no complaints here.

I watched OHMSS last night as part of my SPECTRE countdown and there isn't one foot wrong with the scoring throughout the entire film. A worthy winner.

Gustav_Graves

Cowley wrote: »

Well we not only had Eurovision style voting but a nil point too!

I'm personally sad to see OP rated so low but other than that I'd say the top 6 just so happens to feature Barry's six personal best soundtracks so no complaints here.

I watched OHMSS last night as part of my SPECTRE countdown and there isn't one foot wrong with the scoring throughout the entire film. A worthy winner.

I think "OP" has a lovely score. It's very.....esoteric, mild and mellow for one's ears. It has this beautiful Far East/Arabian/Indian flavour. Still, I think it lacked some...'punch'.

I am especially glad "TB" and "OP" did so well. Andddd, very important, I am glad to see a more or less 'confirmation' that Arnold's score for "TND" truly was his best Bond score. "SF" deserved to be at least in the TOP 15, and it managed to do just that.

Thunderfinger

Surprised to see FYEO do so well, relatively speaking.

Satorious

I can't really argue too much with the top 6 (other than perhaps moving YOLT a bit higher for that lovely Capsule in space music). One or two surprises below this. OHMSS and TLD at the top, which is good to see. And I didn't even get to vote!

Gustav_Graves

Satorious wrote: »

I can't really argue too much with the top 6 (other than perhaps moving YOLT a bit higher for that lovely Capsule in space music). One or two surprises below this. OHMSS and TLD at the top, which is good to see. And I didn't even get to vote!

Why didn't you vote :-P! The topic was open for such a long time :-P.

Satorious

I've only recently joined the forums! :)

Mark_Hazzard

I'm actually surprised to see DAF rank that high! Then again TND does not surprise me, since it's a marvellous score. Too bad David Arnold didn't do the score for SPECTRE, I always love his musical nods towards other scores.

I'm also glad to see GF, TB and AVTK made a solid Top-10 ranking. Recently watched TLD again and John Barry definitely went out with a bang!

Gustav_Graves

I can't wait for upcoming Friday :-)! I will spend listening the soundtrack the whole bloody weekend :-P.