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-The World Is Not Enough
-Casino Royale
-Quantum Of Solace
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
GoldenEye
Casino Royale
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
OHMSS
YOLT
DAF
GF
TB
TLD
MR
YOLT
MR
GE
TLD
AVTAK
LALD
QoS
FRWL (for the theme that plays out through multiple films)
TLD
GE
TB (has an amazing underwater score)
CR
DAF
MR
TMWTGG
GE
TLD
AVTAK
OHMSS
DAF
LALD
TLD
MR
TND
AVTAK
YOLT
LALD
TSWLM
Octopussy
GoldenEye
CR
OHMSS
FYEO (I find the first three about just as good for different reasons: FRWL for it's early Bond, very classic sound, OHMSS for it's late 60s style, and FYEO for it's 70s/80s style.)
GF
AVTAK
TLD
DAF
LALD
AVTAK
YOLT
TB
TSWLM
TND
YOLT
MR
TB
AVTAK
DAF
LALD
TLD
TSWLM (BOND77)
CR
TWINE
AVTAK
DAF
OHMSS
TND
MR
TLD
TWINE
CR
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
ok then my seven are...
OHMSS
TD
GF
YOLT
TLD
LALD
DAF
X.
MR
TLD
OHMSS
YOLT
TB
AVTAK
(and it hurts to leave out the other Barry scores.)
- The Living Daylights
- Thunderball
- Moonraker
- A View to a Kill
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Tomorrow Never Dies
A View To A Kill
Quantum of Solace
Moonraker
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day
You Only Live Twice
-You Only Live Twice
-On Her Majesty's Secret Service (The very best IMO)
-Live and Let Die
-Moonraker
-A View To A Kill
-License to Kill (I always really loved Kamen's score)
-Casino Royale (I'll give Arnold some credit here. I think his work on QOS was great too)
DAF - Runs a pretty close 2nd to the above.
YOLT - Beautiful, haunting and ethereal.
FRWL - Has a bit of everything... and a great version of the Bond Theme to boot.
GF - Just love some of the Bond motifs and the way the title song is used through out this score.
TB - Bombastic and thrilling.
MR - Barry's best score for a Moore movie (IMO).
YOLT
TB
TLD
FRWL
LALD
CR
I think this would be interesting and it won't require another thread: Which are your top 7 instrumental tracks?
Mine are: Escape from Piz Gloria (OHMSS), He's Dangerous (AVTAK), We Share the Same Passions (GE), Inside Man (QOS), Chateau Fight (TB), On the Road (DAF), I'm the Money (CR)... an many, many more!
OHMSS
TLD
LALD
TND
GF
YOLT
1. GF- Like the movie itself, the "Bond Sound" was created here. The scores that followed would not have that "sound" if it wasn't created here. There has yet to be a better theme than the title song.
2. DAF- The ethereal sounds Barry creates are just awesome. The Vegas big brass and horns are perfect- if you close your eyes and didn't know the movie was in Vegas, you might guess you were there or listening to a mob movie. And the mobsters still found their way in anyway! The title song Barry's second best without question, like GF I still get chilled to the bone listening to it after all these years. Brilliant stuff.
3. OHMSS- Probably one of if not the greatest instrumental ever in the movie genre. Provides me with this incredible boost of energy. I found the Nina song ill-fitting and awkward sounding and always skip the track. Otherwise a great soundtrack.
4. OP- I've been listening to it a lot more lately and appreciating it a lot more. I like the title song much better as an instrumental weaving it's way through the film. The locality themes in India fit well. It mostly all seems to fit really well.
5. LALD- The best non-Barry score in the series. Martin uses the title song like Barry, which I feel all Bond composers should do because it really helps give the movie and individual soundtrack an identity to help it stand out from the other movies, especially when the same composer scores multiple films.
6. YOLT- Another haunting theme that you can hum over and over. The Oriental themes are lush and atmospheric. Love it.
7. TND- Surprise, surprise, but I still feel this is Arnold's best work. I realize it is in part a tribute to the Barry era, but even his more original stuff is pretty good compared to most of his other work. Surrender is a classic theme of any Bond era and should have been the title piece, I rank the song with Barry's best pieces and it takes a lot to impress me like that.
You Only Live Twice
The Living Daylights
Moonraker
Thunderball
Goldfinger
A View To A Kill
I almost forgot MR!
OHMSS - Barry at his best, a fulltime inhabitent of my Ipod.
Moonraker - Another of Barry's brilliant moodcompositions.
LALD - Very Bondian and yet so different from the regular composer, really a taste soundtrack with a killer themesong
FYEO - Tom Conti's 80's soundtrack that is another original and great moodpiece that is instantly recognisable as Bondmusic.
YOLT - 007 goes oriental and yet once more hauntingly recognisable.
TLD - the movie is not my favorite but the music is for the last time a qualitypiece in the franchise. After this they have yet to find a composer that can compete at this level of sheer Bondian moodfest.
I shall do so but that does not take away that this first attempt is already very very good. And has as a firstling far more power than DA is been able to come up with in all his tries of soundtrackmaking for the 007 franchise. That is mostly my letdown with DA he was allowed to do something special and failed imho.
GoldenEye
On her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
The Spy who Loved Me
License to kill
From Russia with Love