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I don't mind the techno drums but I would have also enjoyed listening to the film versions that didn't have them too. Same with Gustav Graves entrance.
True. True. :)
I have been playing this new release in the background of my living room, and though the volume was way up, I admit I may not have been paying the fullest attention to it. Still, I cannot say that I have heard anything that wasn't on the DAD double disc release of several years ago. So what again are supposed to be the major differences?
This one is legal and the other was a bootleg. ;)
Really that's it. But beyond that, the actual sound quality between the two is night and day, and—whether you like the idea or not—some of the briefer cues have been formed into mini-suites as Barry used to do, like "The Vanish/Bond Goes to Iceland."
Disc 2 has some music that wasn't bootlegged, I believe, like orchestra-only versions of some cues and the film mixes of some cues.
I believe Die Another Day is the only Bond score that had, unfortunately, been bootlegged in its entirety. That's the one thing that I'm worried might hurt sales (with EON keeping their eye on all this for future releases of Bond music). Because however many years ago, that very thing happened with La-La Land's release of Arnold's Independence Day. The score had previously been bootlegged in its entirety, and sales of ID4 were reportedly much lower than they should have been.
TND and CR have also been given very decent "full score" releases, without disturbing FX or anything.
If the sound quality on the LLL release is really so much better, damn, I might order it after all...
I've heard the unofficially expanded TND. I'd give it a pretty decent rating personally. ;)
Unlike DAD, the unofficial TND was still just a film rip. A long time ago, when I got ahold of some of these unofficial tracks and tried building a complete listening experience with the higher quality tracks from the OST, there were some tracks I just couldn't use because of bothersome volume fluctuations or minimal FX in the background. But then I'm very picky when it comes to the quality of my film music.
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The people who put those together do, however, try to pack a lot of extras which I must admit please me quite a bit. ;-)
Bond soundtrack fans have been complaining for years that there has been no interest from EON in getting the soundtrack releases up and running again. Surely, now that they have, it should be a no-brainer for fans to make the purchase even if DAD isn't their favourite movie or soundtrack.
I can't believe that there are so many people on other forums who have been waiting for this moment, and now they are saying - I may get it at some point / it's too expensive / I've got the unofficial release.
You´ve got my full sympathy for being picky with the quality of music.
Yeah, I remember that one from around 2000. It went out of print pretty quickly. That release did address a lot of the important music from the second half of the film—the first OST was exclusively from the first half of the film as Arnold was still writing the score when the album was prepared—but there are still several great tracks missing (the PTS dogfight, the fight over the printing press, Bond driving to the hotel, the shootout in the Saigon tower and banner jump, some of the stealth boat music).
Hope it does good business to warrant future releases.
That would be the best Christmas gift of all.
I´m quite happy with the releases of TND, TWINE and QOS (I wouldn´t be if I didn´t have both of the TND releases), and I don´t want LLL to think I´m not interested and stop releasing them ;-).
I imagine there are several "unofficial" TNDs floating around. One I've got has had the volume fluctuations fixed reasonably well.
I used to be very picky myself, now I don't give a damn. I want to listen to the music, and if it's buried beneath SFX, so be it.
I'm not familiar with any promo for TND, but regardless there is a lot more that goes into preparing these releases than pressing the original tracks. The music is virtually always remastered for optimal quality.
But I'd say TND or TWINE would be a safe bet for the next one as LLL has a good working relationship with David Arnold. I would say QOS (and it may be, you never know), but I can think of only two fairly brief cues from the film that haven't been released, whereas TND and TWINE have much more missing.
Yeah, I'm anxious.
Imagine they'll last awhile. 5,000 is a lot of copies for a relatively niche interest (film music), regardless of the Bond name. LLL will sell a lot, surely* enough to impress EON, but at 5,000 I can't see it selling out completely in under a year.
*assuming/hoping the bootleg doesn't hurt sales