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It makes you watch the movies in a different way, and you appreciate the scores and soundtracks more, and wish you had what wasn't included. For example, all the music heard in the scenes in Rio in Moonraker would be wonderful to have.
I do wonder if anyone else notices time discrepancies, where frequently, the film version of tracks ends up being slightly faster than the OST version? I've recently heard that PAL DVDs speed up playback slightly, and wonder if that is the issue. To give an extreme example, if I play my PAL DVD of the opening titles of For Your Eyes Only, alongside a Youtube video of the same footage on Blu Ray, my DVD version comes in at least 10 seconds faster, and pitched sharp.
Would appreciate any insights.
Indeed!
From Reddit :
"Since the original show was shot in 24fps, but TVs in Europe play at 25fps, Europian VHS and DVDs actually speed up movies and TV shows and play them at 25fps, which results in a 4% increase of playback speed. Thus a 25 minute episode for example, would be reduced to 24 minutes and would play at a higher pitch. This problem doesn't exist on Blu-Rays and digital services like Netflix and Amazon Prime as newer TVs in Europe can run with variable framerate."
But even then, there are often differences between a "clean" version (in theater, on Blu-Ray) and the released score.
It's funny that you picked FYEO because it's one where the title music is indeed sped up, not just on dvd! I guess this is to match the timing of the title sequence. We know that the title song was re-worked at a late stage so that "For Your Eyes Only" were the first lyrics of the song. Maybe it changed the length of the track a bit and it had to be sped up to gain a few seconds. But that's very speculative.
"Dumping Blofeld" is another sped up track, while the gunbarrel is at normal speed.
So there is no rule and getting to the bottom of this is the path to madness (and we love that). These were analogic days and I'm no expert but I guess slight speed changes could happen while editing a movie, even if unitentionnal.
And then you have alternate takes, where the pitch is the same but the tempo is different, because the track from the CD and from the movie are not from the same take!
(note : speeding up a track without changing the pitch is only possible with modern audio softwares)
One example : A Drop in the Ocean from YOLT. A bit faster in the movie, but same pitch. You can tell it's a different take by listing at the trumpets at the very end, which differ a tiny bit.
Madness, pure madness :p