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Really looking forward to Pegasus Disappears- that's a lovely little cue.
I love how Barry likes to conclude a lot of his cues with the same kind of low, sustained string chord :D
Yes, I love that chord! :)
May I ask, after Pegasus, which I'm very much looking forward to, do you have any plans to look at the cue where the airship is approaching the bridge at the climax of the film? It's maybe my favourite cue in the film, although I can imagine it might be pretty challenging as it's got the full force of the orchestra going.
Classic Barry touch.
Yes.
Thank you. I don't have plans to work on that one at the moment. I have a limited selection of cues from the film that I want to reconstruct, and the sinister motif in that cue is already represented in the album, in the track Bond Escapes Roller.
No, it's a different melody. Hard to make out, but I think it's two alternating notes. A-G-A-G-A (pause) A-G-A, then repeat 3 more times. Played on flute and clarinet just like KGB Pipeline.
But, of course, there are other scores less likely to get expanded releases. I've also got to complete my own fan-made Bond mini-soundtrack for an imaginary film.
Pegasus Disappears is coming along nicely.
For these covers, I have used the 4K Blu-Ray editions for most of the Daniel Craig films from Casino Royale to Spectre as my guide. For the earlier films in the series, I referred to the most recent Blu-Ray covers. Although some of these were less than ideal (Licence To Kill's cover, for example, did Dalton dirty...), I do have a fondness for a few, like The World Is Not Enough, which evokes a Man on Fire vibe. I also created covers for the unofficial films Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again in a similar vibe, as their Blu-Ray covers were particularly lacking.
I did toy with making some versions based on the Blu-Ray steelbooks with artwork from the main title sequences. Might come back to this at some point.
When it came to the video games and other specials, the resources were more limited, but I did my best. I might revisit these to create a tone more aligned with the films in the future.
I hope you enjoy the artwork. This is my first time creating covers like this, so if you spot any errors or have any feedback, please let me know!
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Dr. No (1962)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
Casino Royale (1967)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live And Let Die (1973)
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
A View To A Kill (1984)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence To Kill (1989)
Goldeneye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
Casino Royale (2006)
Quantum Of Solace (2008)
Skyfall (2012)
Spectre (2015)
No Time To Die (2021)
Goldeneye 007 (Video Game) (1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (Video Game) (1999)
The World Is Not Enough (Video Game) (2000)
007 Racing (2000)
Agent Under Fire (2001)
Nightfire (2002)
Everything Or Nothing (2004)
Goldeneye Rogue Agent (2004)
From Russia With Love (Video Game) (2005)
Quantum Of Solace (Video Game) (2008)
Blood Stone (2010)
Goldeneye Reloaded (2010)
007 Legends (2012)
The Sound Of 007 Live From The Royal Albert Hall (2022)
007 Road To A Million (2023)
Feedback:
- Some of the credits text can be hard to read because it runs into white parts of the background images. Maybe some shadow in those cases?
- Instead of the TND game cover, you posted the TND film cover again.
- For TWINE, I think Don Veca composed the PS score, and Neil Baldwin the N64 score.
- The Nightfire score was composed by Steve Duckworth and Jeff Tymoschuk.
Any chance you'll ever release the mystery cue from No Time To Die that shows up as Bond is driving the plane to Felix's boat and also the plane to Safin's island? :D I would really appreciate it!
You really do spoil us, @mattjoes. Thanks so much for everything you do for the Bond music community :)
I don't like the official Blu-Ray covers too much... (what happened with some of the actor's face... !)
But this is a great job at making everything more cohesive, especially with the Craig films.
A virtual instruments reconstruction of the cue from A View to a Kill heard when Tibbett finds Pegasus has disappeared from the stable.
A View to a Kill: Pegasus Disappears - Download here:
https://mega.nz/folder/8Zx02KpD#7a6hUbxvANUvLsxyG7T8Xg
My music reconstructions will return tomorrow with another cue!
Thanks :x
A virtual instruments reconstruction of the cue from The Spy Who Loved Me heard when Bond meets Stromberg.
It's an orchestral rendition of Chopin's Nocturne No. 8.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Bond Meets Stromberg (Nocturne No. 8) - Download here:
https://mega.nz/folder/VVAH1LCR#qx-6xAMWvhUPp-FlP3C5pg
My music reconstructions will return in:
A View to a Kill: May Day Escapes
(I was planning to release it closely after these last two tracks,
but it'll take longer to finesse, so it'll come a little later.)
I'm on AVTAK once again, working on the aforementioned May Day Escapes plus another cue, one of the highlights of the score as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, that bit is indeed missing.
In the film, it is followed by a suspenseful section on trumpets and brass chords, which then reoccurs another time, but is only heard once in the album track, between 2:17 and 2:35. I'm unsure as to how much of the music repetition in the scene was recorded like that vs. being achieved through editing. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the track had actually been recorded like that, since we know the music was edited down for the 2003 album (for instance, the longer ending of the main theme), obviously to make room for more interesting musical material at the expense of repetition.
I'm not a fan of every musical choices in TSWLM, but Hamlish could have use any classical recording here and he choosed to arrange this piece specifically for the movie instead.
Bond composers have always been very involved in their work, I think, which make the series so interesting musically.
I did not even know the original piece was played only on piano until this day, so thank you!
0:00 Moscow
0:18 Stinger
0:28 Sleigh Ride
In the movie there is a "suspense" guitar chord at the end of the track. It was not on the sheet music so I left it out (which suited me well because I wouldn't know how to make a virtual guitar sound good). Maybe it was added later in the movie production?
2:01 Ferrara Killed
In the movie there is a sound effect associated to the Dove (heard right before the transition Corfu). Once again it was not on the sheet music so I left it out.
2:46 On the Terrace
3:44 Dove to Warehouse
The Bouzouki at the start was extracted with AI from the very small portion officially released, which can be heard at the start of Sub Vs. Sub on the CD
4:41 Divers Approach
Only two short extracts are heard in the movie. Apparently the whole track sounded too much like another movie, I can't figure out which one ;). The final, dissonant chord is not heard in the underwater scenes, but it was repurposed for Bond falling off the cliff during the climax.
5:24 Inside the Monastery
The download link below contains a version with a transition to the rest of the cue (part 2 of St. Cyril's Monastery on the CD). One of the most underrated Bond Theme renditions ever.
5:57 Raid on St. Cyril's
I re-used the "pom pom" ostinato from the released track "St. Cyril's Monastery".
Download here: https://mega.nz/file/seMkWSAK#yzZvU7VmV-bMU9O5Zp32HCtcljawk32CLgYSHUj0xiM
The full score published by Neumaton music (https://neumation-music.com/products/bill-conti-for-your-eyes-only-in-full-score) helped me enormously to achieve this. These tracks feature way more instruments that what is possible to hear in the movie mix. I can't recommend this book enough and I hope other Bond scores will be released in sheet music form.
But the longest part was actually finding the right virtual instruments (thankfully Musescore 4 has great ones), closely listening to the movie source and trying one bazillion of settings to get the final mix right. It can never be as good as the real thing, but I hope I dit it justice.