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My best James Bond score & film!
1. Exercise In Gibraltar.
2. Ice Chase.
3. Hercules Takes Off / Air Bond.
*Saw & shook hands with Timothy Dalton in the foyer of the Roosevelt Hotel,
Hollywood wayback in 199007!
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I'm with most everybody else on this one - it's probably been my most-played Bond album in the last twenty eight years (good lord, it's been that long!).
I've always felt it makes the very strongest of all the Bond OST albums - great length, great songs (and no I don't even like songs in scores most of the time), great variety, great update of the Bond theme, killer new action track in Necros Attacks.
I first had it on cassette, and side one was so terrific I set some silly lyrics of my own to the version of If There Was a Man in Kara Meets Bond. You can sing it with me at 1:20 in:
"Spooky kitty, shadow kitty, spooking in the cat shadows, that shadow kitty spooking...." 
But my very favorite track is the one that ended side one originally - Koskov Escapes - pure Barry Bond.
(The extra tracks are terrific, glad to have them, but that was a perfect 35-minute album.)
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Exercise at Gibraltar
Assassin and Drugged
Airbase Jailbreak
Necros Attacks
Where Has Everybody Gone?
This is one of my favorite Barry scores. Lukas made a great decision in expanding this. Barry really went out with a bang! I actually grew to like this movie more overtime. I think a lot of the movies bad reputation comes from Timothy Dalton playing the character as to serious of a person. He didn't exhibit that cocky, witted humor side of Bond we all love.
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Mar 2, 2015 - 9:46 PM
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Zoragoth
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I think a lot of the movies bad reputation comes from Timothy Dalton playing the character as to serious of a person. He didn't exhibit that cocky, witted humor side of Bond we all love.
The movie doesn't actually have a bad reputation. It, and Dalton's performance, was largely well-reviewed when it came out. It's LICENCE TO KILL that has the bad rep, mostly because it was (quite unfairly) denigrated as a MIAMI VICE clone. That film didn't do well for a number of reasons (including timing of its release and poor promotion) and suddenly the general zeitgeist decreed Dalton and his films utter failures.
Fortunately, like OHMSS, Dalton's films, and his bold, fearless performances, are coming in for critical reappraisal. I am confident that in the long run, they will end up, like OHMSS, near the top of the list.
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Mar 2, 2015 - 9:51 PM
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Zoragoth
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- "Murder at the Fair"; especially evocative when the strings shift from the 'Where Has Everybody Gone?' bridge to 'Living Daylights' 'All right, just hold on tight now'/'It's down...down to the wire'. (0:57-1:37)
This is one of my favorite parts of the score, and one of my favorite scenes in the movie, any Bond movie, actually, both for Barry's brilliant scoring and Dalton's performance here - that intense rage upon discovering his colleague's brutal murder, which he must then suppress to maintain his cover: some real, fierce acting and a bit of genuine drama that had not been seen since, well, Bond's wife died in OHMSS!
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