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I love this version
Pretty decent instrumental
Awesome
Phenomenal
It's grown on me this score over the years lol its no John Barry admittedly though I don't mind it
One of John Barry's best
I'm in a minority that likes, doesn't love MR...
I find he picks up with strong efforts for OP and AVTAK... with a slight, very slight, dip with TLD....
One of my favourite themes
Awesome track
Dalton is a God!
Actually like the TMWTGG score. It's fun and lighthearted, just like the movie.
There are some good tracks on the soundtrack, TMWTGG is always a fun listen.
Very much so. My personal favourite track from the TMWTGG score, is this one:
Not the most special Barry track necessarily, but the string section of this one is just brilliant, and has that "Barry touch", that no one does the same way.
Pure class
This is a lovely track, from a FANTASTIC score. My favourite bit of the TB score, is actually the repeating theme at the end of this track. Sounds even better in a larger scale, like this one:
It's one of my favourite Bond scores, I love when the music ramps up during the underwater battle when the shark appears, Barry at his best.
This made me try to find the «Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang» song that was supposed to be the main theme for TB. Luckily both the Shirley Bassey version and the Dionne Warwick version was available on Youtube. Although we (luckily) got «Thunderball» with Tom Jones in the end, I must say that I liked this song – especially the Warwick version.
When I watch TB I often play the audio alternative that allows you to play Mister Kiss Kiss Bang over the title sequence, I like both tracks though Warwick is slightly better than Tom Jones in this instance. Mister Kiss Kiss Bang is a brilliant song.
It really is - we are spoiled when the unused main title theme is that good!
What release of TB allows you to play an alternative audio track?
I have the Bond50 Bluray Boxset, though I would guess any Bluray version of TB will do it. When you play the film just toggle through the many commentarys until you hear the track. I can't remember if any of the DVD's had the same option.
TB also has quite a different sound from GF. Where GF is bright, TB is "duller," more muted and sinister in its sound, in both string and brass passages.
Finally, the TB score is distinguished by its underwater cues; slow-paced, moody and evocative. They achieve probably the highest ideal in film music-- not only scoring the action and drama effectively but going a step beyond to take the main aesthetic elements of the film and transforming them into musical ideas. The flutes, harps, vibraphones and strings almost pop out of one's ears and allow one to visualize the idea of being underwater. I was just listening to Jerry Goldsmith's main title music for Medicine Man (starring Sean Connery, of course) and thinking that Goldsmith did a terrific job in using synthesizers to capture the essence of the sounds of the jungle and integrating them into his music. Pretty much what John Barry did with Thunderball.
As an aside, it's interesting to point out that Barry considered his score for 1977's The Deep to be one of his most difficult assignments, supposedly because of the great amount of underwater screentime. I wonder if Thunderball presented similar, albeit smaller challenges. I imagine underwater scenes are difficult to score because musically-speaking, the composer has to do some heavy lifting, given the reduced stimuli on a visual and narrative level.