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That's "Jellyfish" and one of the relatively few standout tracks for me, I really like the very suspenseful feel of it and it excellently captures the feel of Bond silently stalking a fellow assassin.
The people who appreciate Arnold and his devotion to both his mentor and keeping Bondian music alive totally get this. This is why you have to do more than write in a few well known cues and do your own thing. The best Bond composers other than the master in Martin and Arnold understood that their own creativity had to have the Barry spirit as part of the package. All of those you mention are Arnold's best Bond work in my opinion, and the latter showed Arnold was starting to mature as a composer. Holding him in low esteem because he doesn't conduct is kind of cheap to me, because I'm a composer and musician and I never conducted my band with sheet music and baton waving, that's OK if you like that of course. I told them what I wanted and they were musicians enough to do it within the parameters of my style.
I think Arnold is too techno to be close to Barry. (Although I will commend Arnold for starting to abandon the over reliance of techno cues in the CR and QOS soundtracks.)
I think Ludovic Bource (The Artist, OSS 117) would be an inspired choice. Michael Giacchino, too.
Giacchino would be awesome, too, but with Star Wars on the horizon for 2015, I very much doubt it.
I think you're confusing Arnold with Newman.
I think John Williams has that one in the bag.
One thing I loved about Thomas Newman's score to SF was that it not only provided a wonderful atmosphere for the film but also sounded different than anything else we have heard in a Bond picture. For that reason alone I would rather the series move on to a new artist to place their musical mark on the 007 world. I would love to see Patrick Doyle do it.
He infamously did the Tank Chase score for Goldeneye, but hasn't gone on to any other major project.
I personally like Serra's GE score, but the chase theme is one of the better parts of the score, and it's not by Serra.
Give this man a job, and this is why:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1888527/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr8#composer
He also be music editor work for some movies like Johny English Reborn, Batman Begins and Lord of the rings Trilogy or additional music.
And Grant Kirkhope? Not THIS Grant Kirkhope?
Donkey Kong? Super Mario Bros? Seriously? Then why not have Commodore C64 pecial effects?
What the hell do you have against Kirkhope???
His style is very classical and his use of stringinstruments are sublime, i would like to hear what he could do with Bondmovie!
I think he did a great job on There Will Be Blood but his style is way too avant-garde for a Bond movie. The producers would probably rather work with Eric Serra again than hire Greenwood. :)
If not him, then I wouldn't say no to:
Steven Price (Gravity)
Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek
Ryan Amon (Elysium)
Steven Price's GRAVITY score is quite good, but would like to hear some other stuff he did.
Alexandre Desplat would be a good choice, liked his GHOST WRITER score.
I also think, that Mendes wants Newman back, so we have to wait for MGSW && BB's judgement. Six months form now on we might know more.
Where Arnold actually got things right was in QOS, thanks to Marc Forster of all people, since he made Arnold work by what was on the script rather than what would be on the screen and it helped a lot. He even improves on the Vesper theme by making it more haunting when Bond is drinking those martinis, and that ending with the necklace in the ice. If Arnold is ever to leave on a high note after such a mediocre run, QOS should be the one.
I think EON has been way too generous to have him come back after his laughable TND score, especially after the three following scores that didn't add anything new. After Thomas Newman brought some class, I can't imagine ever returning to Arnold. When the Craig era rebooted the Bond series, it should have left Arnold behind in the Brosnan era, along with Vic Armstrong, John Cleese, ect.