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The film appears underscored....deliberately, but what we do hear of a score is absolutely excellent and seamlessly fits each scene like a glove.
Great work by Newman and gives me hope for the more spy like scenes in SP
I totally forgot about his score for "Bridge Of Spies". I most certainly will catch this film. I love some of the more grittier spy films, like "A Most Wanted Man" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy".
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Isn't this Piracy? You can download any of those without paying for it.
These three are quite Bondian imho
3. Ejection Protocol
5. Rain
7. The Article
The two below are very Newman'esque but I like them too
11. West Berlin
12. FriedrichstraBe Station
There is a repetitive motif that Newman uses throughout all the above and I guess that is his 'Bridge of Spies' theme. I look forward to what he has for SP in this respect.
I like how's he's used parts from Skyfall. A bit of consistency is good in regard to this as SPECTRE does lead directly on from Skyfall.
Let's wait for the rest of the 24 tracks. This Friday ;-)!
Newman's interview with the BBC, talking about SPECTRE and his approach to music in general.
http://hd-music.info/album.cgi/7517
I am loving it. It overall sounds a bit more uplifting than the "Skyfall" score. The action cues sound more....rythmic, have more 'power'.
We could have had the best Bond movie ever and it was ruined by Newman who was too pride and egocentric to use someone else's work.
The Eternal City totally sounds like Brave New World from Skyfall.
Six minutes of "preview" at best out of 100 mins of music.
I wouldnt moan just yet.
What I did learn though:
The previews don't contain a clear motif. It does have variations of the Bond theme (track 24).
If I didn't know any better, I would have guessed that this was a Hans Zimmer score.
I really think this is simply due to the composer and singer working independently. This isn't the first time in the Bond series. The singers that worked on LTK, GE, DAD, QOS, and SF did not work with the composers on their songs, consequently there were no references to the songs in the score. In the case of SF, it was only brought up in one scene because Newman incorporated it at the last minute.
We'll how much Newman puts the song in the score in SPECTRE, but I'm really not expecting much because he and Smith never worked together. Had Mendes had Newman and Smith work together on a song, I think it would have been more woven into the score.
Arnold referenced AWTD in Time To Get Out and Pursuit at Port Au Prince.
He even made a very brief reference to Madonna's song during the Ice Palace party and later stated he didn't weave her song in the score because it was impossible to get a melody from it.
The Madonna song at the ice palace (which is an instrumental version of the remix heard in the end credits) simply served as source music for the scene (as in, it's a song playing in the setting by a DJ). That is not David Arnold's work. In fact, it replaced this music that Arnold originally wrote for the scene:
And "Another Way to Die" did not appear in the two tracks you mention. What is heard is a melody that Arnold would use a year later in "No Good About Goodbye", not the Jack White/Alicia Keys song.
That "Writing's on the Wall" instrumental is gorgeous, and by my ears it looks like "Westminster Bridge" is going to be the action highlight of the whole score.
Excited for my copy to arrive tomorrow.
I was being appreciative, wasn't I? At least I thought I was.
That should keep the naysayers happy for a while....at least I hope so.
Great track imho.
The composer working together with whoever does the theme song - and him using the melody - should be an absolute requirement when they sign on for the Bond gig.
I am going through all the old Bonds now and the music is such a huge part of the appeal. The way the melodies come back is just superb. The absence of that is extremely disappointing.
It's funny posters gripe that Smith's song isn't in the score (how do they know?) but then just as many gripe about the song.
It's like "that song sucks but umm it better be featured throughout in the score :D).