Favourite Bond Score?

Post by **Kristatos** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:44 pm

What is everyone's favourite Bond movie score? Since nobody does it better than John Barry, IMO, I'm willing to subdivide this into Barry and non-Barry categories. My choices:

Favourite Barry score: OHMSS. A dynamic instrumental theme and Louis Armstrong. What more could you want?
Runner-up: You Only Live Twice. The theme song is a bit naff, but the full orchestral arrangement is beautiful, while Capsule In Space is Barry at his most menacing.

Favourite non-Barry Score: Tomorrow Never Dies. Arnold's first and in my opinion, best. The techno elements hadn't yet taken over, but they are there just enough to mark Arnold as his own man, rather than simply a Barry clone.
Runner-up: Live and Let Die. Dated, sure, but the melding of Barryesque elements with blaxploitation funk sounds good to my ears.

Post by **carl stromberg** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:32 pm

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best.

You Only Live Twice. The theme song is a bit naff

Are you mad?

Live And Let Die is great as well.

Post by **Dr. No** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:01 pm

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is great. To bad the Arnold rehash didn't live up to the original.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:22 am

Kristatos wrote:What is everyone's favourite Bond movie score? Since nobody does it better than John Barry, IMO, I'm willing to subdivide this into Barry and non-Barry categories. My choices:

Favourite Barry score: OHMSS. A dynamic instrumental theme and Louis Armstrong. What more could you want?
Runner-up: You Only Live Twice. The theme song is a bit naff, but the full orchestral arrangement is beautiful, while Capsule In Space is Barry at his most menacing.

Favourite non-Barry Score: Tomorrow Never Dies. Arnold's first and in my opinion, best. The techno elements hadn't yet taken over, but they are there just enough to mark Arnold as his own man, rather than simply a Barry clone.
Runner-up: Live and Let Die. Dated, sure, but the melding of Barryesque elements with blaxploitation funk sounds good to my ears.

I couldn't agree with you more Kris. Or should it be Aris???
A good idea, but I'll go with what you've said here.
Good stuff.

Post by **Kristatos** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:01 pm

carl stromberg wrote:On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best.

You Only Live Twice. The theme song is a bit naff
Are you mad?

I just prefer the instrumental arrangement on Mountains and Sunsets, without Nancy Sinatra's rather insipid vocal. (edit: and it seems the All Music Guide agrees with me).

Post by **Skywalker** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:00 pm

Live and let die is my personal favourite Bond score. Great theme song, that still sounds good today.

OHMSS and YOLT are also very good along AVTAK.

The worst IMO is FYEO. Way too much disco.

Post by **Kristatos** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:09 pm

Skywalker wrote:The worst IMO is FYEO. Way too much disco.

It's a toss-up between FYEO and Goldeneye for me.

stockslivevan · Post by **stockslivevan** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:28 am

Favorites:

YOLT - Barry makes a giant leap from his last four entries. Love the Japanese influences.

OHMSS - Very creative and moving with new sounds added. The love song by Armstrong is one of my favorite love songs.

TSWLM - One of the more unique scores for Bond, 70s style. Much better use of 70s sound than FYEO attempted. Right up there with GE as one of the most different and unique scores.

TLD - Barry once again brings new sound with new Bond in a very dashing way. Barry takes the 80s influences and has them flow perfectly.

GE - The most experimental Bond score. Some hate it for not being traditional Barry while some love it for being inventive for not trying be Barry (we're looking at you David Arnold). I happen to be in the latter, I thought it worked perfectly for GE's tone.

Worst:

LALD - It doesn't age well compared to Barry. It's just like all those other medicore 70s cop films.

FYEO - 70s sound wasn't done in a good fashion like TSWLM.

Post by **Kristatos** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:41 pm

stockslivevan wrote:FYEO - 70s sound wasn't done in a good fashion like TSWLM.

Plus, FYEO was made in the 80's.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:51 pm

I think stocks means that the music in FYEO has a 70's feel to it.

Post by **Kristatos** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:20 pm

Captain Nash wrote:I think stocks means that the music in FYEO has a 70's feel to it.

Yes, I know. I was pointing out that the sound was already dated by the time the film came out.

paco chaos · Post by **paco chaos** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:45 pm

I find the score for OHMSS to be my favorite.
the scores for Goldfinger, and Live and Let Die are great, and You Only Live Twice is pretty cool too.
As for opening theme, it's a toss-up between Dame Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger, and Sir Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die.
but i also really like Tina Turner's Goldeneye, Garbage doing the World is Not Enough, and Duran Duran's A View To A Kill.

Post by **Skywalker** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:53 pm

stockslivevan wrote:
Worst:

LALD - It doesn't age well compared to Barry. It's just like all those other medicore 70s cop films.

I think you are clearly in the minority with that comment.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:56 pm

Nothing wrong with being in a minority Anakin.
The man has a right to his opinion afterall.
I see alot of people like GE. I myself am not a fan of the film or it's terrible score.
YOLT and OHMSS would rank as my top scores in the series. And even TLD has it's moments, though the title track is far from special.

Post by **Skywalker** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:06 pm

Captain Nash wrote:Nothing wrong with being in a minority Anakin.

I think that minority hardly registers a percentage.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:09 pm

Skywalker wrote:
Captain Nash wrote:Nothing wrong with being in a minority Anakin.
I think that minority hardly registers a percentage.

Would that also include the anti-Craig brigade?

Post by **Skywalker** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:13 pm

Captain Nash wrote:
Skywalker wrote:
Captain Nash wrote:Nothing wrong with being in a minority Anakin.
I think that minority hardly registers a percentage.
Would that also include the anti-Craig brigade?

Put it this way. I've NEVER heard any Bond fan claim LALD as one of the worst Bond scores before. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:17 pm

Do you have a problem with that though?

Post by **Skywalker** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:27 pm

Captain Nash wrote:Do you have a problem with that though?

I wouldn't exactly say I have a problem with it as Stock gives the impression he is an educated guy, but more suprised and quite frankly shocked as it's my personal favorite and IMO still seems fresh today. There are other scores that seem far more dated than LALD.

Post by **Kristatos** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:32 pm

Skywalker wrote:
stockslivevan wrote:
Worst:

LALD - It doesn't age well compared to Barry. It's just like all those other medicore 70s cop films.
I think you are clearly in the minority with that comment.

Actually, I've heard quite a lot of people say similar things, which I why I started my mini-review with "sure it's dated, but...". I always thought I was in the minority for liking it.

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