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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: Favorite track from FOR YOUR EYES ONLY?     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 11:31 AM     By:   henry   (Member) My all time favorite Bond soundtrack! I love them all, Melina's Revenge, Runaway, A Drive In the Country, the title song and instrumental, the gunbarrel! It's all good. What about you guys?    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 11:37 AM     By:   henry   (Member) I think it has the best gunbarrel, more cowbell!    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 12:42 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Great to know I'm not alone in loving this score. It's far and away my favorite Bond score ever. I love the entire score (even some of the background stuff when Bond is dining with Kristatos which I'm guessing was written by Conti - it certainly sounds like his work) but if I had to select one track from the soundtrack I'd go for Runaway - love that as a stand-alone track and it works brilliantly in the movie's stand-out action set piece (one of the best shot action sequences of all time IMHO). It's an absolutely great score and I was so disappointed Conti never came back for more Bond soundtracks (especially because I think the next movie, Octopussy, has an absolutely wretched score).    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 1:31 PM     By:   Simon Morris   (Member) I'd go for Runaway too. Love the punchy brass. Dated or not, there is a lot of very memorable music in the score.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 4:11 PM     By:   MRAUDIO   (Member) I love the entire score - but, RUNAWAY is a favorite...:-)    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 4:27 PM     By:   Brandon Brown   (Member) St. Cyril's Monastery Underrated Bond film, in my opinion. Lots of fun. "A nose, not a banana, Q"    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 5:18 PM     By:   Richard-W   (Member) The only track I like is the title song. John Barry is sorely missed. A good film that could have been a great film. You should see my fan edit.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 5:31 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) The only track I like is the title song. John Barry is sorely missed. If Barry had scored FYEO, the ski chase would have probably had some predicably boring version of the 007 cue ala the speedboat chase in Moonraker, the pacing of which would bear no relation whatsoever to the on-screen visuals.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 5:48 PM     By:   John Mullin   (Member) I love "Runaway" too... and many other tracks on this score. I love that it sounds like Bill Conti and like James Bond. Great stuff. As much as I love John Barry, it always made a Bond movie of that era a little more intriguing when he'd sit a picture out on occasion and someone else got the job. I love the George Martin, Marvin Hamlisch, and Bill Conti scores equally, really. All great stuff!    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 5:55 PM     By:   Thomas   (Member) Great to know I'm not alone in loving this score. It's far and away my favorite Bond score ever. I love the entire score (even some of the background stuff when Bond is dining with Kristatos which I'm guessing was written by Conti - it certainly sounds like his work) but if I had to select one track from the soundtrack I'd go for Runaway - love that as a stand-alone track and it works brilliantly in the movie's stand-out action set piece (one of the best shot action sequences of all time IMHO). It's an absolutely great score and I was so disappointed Conti never came back for more Bond soundtracks (especially because I think the next movie, Octopussy, has an absolutely wretched score). It's an awful score Mike, don't let your general dislike of Barry push you too far the other way. It has a dated sound and the title song doesn't hold up either. I have a fair idea why Conti wasn't asked back.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 6:15 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) It's an awful score Mike, don't let your general dislike of Barry push you too far the other way. It has a dated sound and the title song doesn't hold up either. I have a fair idea why Conti wasn't asked back. Sorry, but my dislike of Barry's shampoo-rinse-repeat sound-alike scores has nothing whatsoever to do with my love of the FYEO score. Is Conti's score dated? Yeah, I'd accept that, in the same way that Korngold's scores are dated. It doesn't make it any less valid as a score just because trends have moved on. And in the context of "dated" scores I'd suggest that ANY of Barry's Bond scores are equally as out of place by today's standards. And in the case of Moonraker, elements of that score were dated before the film was released ( "Bomd Arrives In Rio and Boat Chase", im looking at you). As for the title song - All Time High? Seriously? The word "crap" springs to mind for a Bond song. Even bloody Never Say Never Again Was Better than that rubbish. For Your Eyes Only is a good and memorable song, the song for Octopussy has been forgotten by everyone outside of the John Barry Unimparital Gush Club and Rita Coolidge's children. Don't let your general like of Barry cloud you to his inability to score decent action sequences in the late 80s.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 6:36 PM     By:   henry   (Member) Great to know I'm not alone in loving this score. It's far and away my favorite Bond score ever. I love the entire score (even some of the background stuff when Bond is dining with Kristatos which I'm guessing was written by Conti - it certainly sounds like his work) but if I had to select one track from the soundtrack I'd go for Runaway - love that as a stand-alone track and it works brilliantly in the movie's stand-out action set piece (one of the best shot action sequences of all time IMHO). It's an absolutely great score and I was so disappointed Conti never came back for more Bond soundtracks (especially because I think the next movie, Octopussy, has an absolutely wretched score). It's an awful score Mike, don't let your general dislike of Barry push you too far the other way. It has a dated sound and the title song doesn't hold up either. I have a fair idea why Conti wasn't asked back. The score, I think, has the best of both worlds with part of it being disco Bond and other traditional Bond. The disco parts are extremely fun, and the traditional parts are beautiful. The title song was nominated for an Oscar, and is one of few Bond songs I still hear on the radio.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 7:36 PM     By:   Timmer   (Member) I believe John Barry recommended Conti, I don't like most of this score and consider it only a few steps above Serra's and Kamen's efforts. A shame really because at the time I was really looking forward to hearing a Conti score for Bond and thought he'd nail it, he didn't and it stands as the most dated Bond score ever! What a shame this assignment wasn't given to Henry Mancini. The theme song is seriously low on my favourite Bond theme list too though it is well ahead of the woeful efforts of Sheryl Crow and Madonna.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 10:01 PM     By:   Richard-W   (Member) I believe John Barry recommended Conti. If that's true Barry must have been having a laugh at EON's expense. I don't like most of this score and consider it only a few steps above Serra's and Kamen's efforts. A shame really because at the time I was really looking forward to hearing a Conti score for Bond and thought he'd nail it, he didn't and it stands as the most dated Bond score ever! Not only dated, but also inappropriate. It does nothing to express the subtext of the story. It brings no style to the film. It's a score for some other movie. I consider it a few steps below Serra's and Kamen's efforts. What a shame this assignment wasn't given to Henry Mancini. Now there's an idea. A score from the composer of The Peter Gunn Theme could have been interesting. Or, EON could have leased Barry's score for the remake of KING KONG (1976). It's really a Bond score, and a very good one. The theme song is seriously low on my favourite Bond theme list too though it is well ahead of the woeful efforts of Sheryl Crow and Madonna. I place it high on the list after Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. The song is supposed to represent Melina Havelock's final surrender to Bond after resisting his advances throughout. The way the film was directed, a lot of things just didn't come across.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2015 - 10:14 PM     By:   Peter Atterberg   (Member) Mine is track 9 "Submarine"! When that music kicks into high gear around the 1:40 mark, it's so damn intense. In a close second would have to be "A Drive in the Country"! Also, all the slow paced instrumental versions of For Your Eyes Only are so romantic. They're great pieces to write too.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2015 - 3:35 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) This is a score I like a lot and have no problem with it sounding very dated. Of all the non-John Barry JB007 scores up until then it is my favourite and since then I find it preferable to Michael Kamen's Licence to Kill, Eric Serra's GoldenEye and Thomas Newman's dire Skyfall. It's a closer call re: the David Arnold scores ... I'm not that fond of the title song ... the melody is fine but I don't like Sheena Easton's flat delivery. As for favourite track: I do like his take on the James Bond Theme re: the cue Submarine and the badly-titled Melina's Revenge. From the expanded edition I should add Ski....Shoot....Jump.... but, in summary, I like the whole score. I could do without the moronic Make it Last all Night So, favourite track - probably Submarine. Mitch    Posted:   Mar 22, 2015 - 3:44 AM     By:   Dr Lenera   (Member) Used to really dislike this score. I grew to love it and now consider it one of the best non-Barry Bond scores [probably better, actually, than Octopussy, to me the weakest of Barry's ones]. Rich in diversity and styles. yeah a bit cheesy in places but this is Roger Moore as James Bond for goodness sake! Favourite track - all of the ski chase sequence [two or three tracks], from the sinister dissonant chords near the beginning to the triumphant melody at the end.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2015 - 4:12 AM     By:   Spymaster   (Member) My love (or not) of this score has waivered dramatically over the years. Considering the movie was striving to make Bond "serious" again after Moonraker - the cold blooded killer agent is back etc - the way that Conti throws disco at the action sequences (tipping them into broad comedy) has become increasingly jarring. Runaway is embarrassing in context. A Drive In The Country just about escapes. The serious stuff - from Submarine onwards - is pretty good I guess.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2015 - 5:36 AM     By:   agentMaestraX   (Member) LOVE IT ALL! An exciting entry into the 007 calibre.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2015 - 6:24 AM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) I don't understand the constant criticism that FYEO has dated. A huge amount of the Bond scores - including those by the bafflingly lionised John Barry - have dated in the context of the films but that doesn't make them bad music by any means. Let's take OHMSS for example - a score that, I assume, is probably hugely popular amongst Barry fans and Bond afficiandos alike. As a soundtrack album it is is still an extremely good and powerful score. But huge elements of it as used in the film just look seriously dated and that is because trends in movie music are constantly changing. Viewed as a movie from the late '60s, Barry's score works perfectly fine, but by today's sensibilities it is ludicrously OTT. The same applies even to Goldfinger, a magnificent score unquestionably and as a soundtrack album it is superb. But in the context of the film itself, it's very dated in parts. FYEO is a product of the early 80s and the score was written accordingly. As such it is very different from previous Bond scores, the same as later 007 scores were different again (could you imagine, for example, Barry scoring Octopussy is the same brash, loud, in-your-face-style as he used in Goldfinger or Thunderball?). As for the accusation that FYEO contains disco music, well I really don't get that either. Cues like "A Drive In The Country", "Runaway" and "Melina's Revenge" are jazzy, upbeat and most certainly routed in the 80s, but disco music? Sorry, not even close.     General Discussion: Favorite track from FOR YOUR EYES ONLY?    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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