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In the five James Bond films that featured John Barry's other theme for Bond "007" ("From Russia With Love", "Thunderball", "You Only Live Twice", "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker") which your favorite from among them? Mine would be the the one that introduced the theme ("From Russia With Love").
Yeah. FRWL. Thunderball was OK.
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"James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season."
Not my favorite Bond (although it was my first) but by far my favorite Bond villain. With THE best lines.
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My favorite is the version from "Diamonds are Forever", especially the extended version on the 2003 re-mastered release. It's just so fully orchestrated, with a really full bottom end sound.
Runners up would be "You Only Live Twice" and "From Russia with Love".
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Love the version in You Only Live Twice.
The motorboat chase in Moonraker, however, gets my nomination for the worst scored action sequence in any Bond movie. It's just terrible and totally out of step with what is happening on screen. If you heard the cue independent of the visuals, without ever having seen the film, you would never guess this music was for an action scene. Just terrible.
Agreed. I know Barry had this thing where he liked to "Score against the action", but I didn't get this choice at all, a really bizarre misstep in my opinion.
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Well thanks for asking, it got me to listen to all the versions to decide. Can I post preference in order? Yes I can!
1) From Russia with Love, still the leanest version and I knew it the best from my first album collection in the 70's.
2) You Only Live Twice - cause I always loved the little Nellie sequence. It's the ye olde British Barry Gray/Ron Goodwin version for me.
3) Thunderball - because of the just terrific extension/variation, which nevertheless I never miss when I don't hear it.
4) Diamonds Are Forever - because there it is again!
5) Moonraker - down low, too slow. (But I don't mind, plays nicely after the Rio version of the theme on the album.)
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"James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season."
Not my favorite Bond (although it was my first) but by far my favorite Bond villain. With THE best lines.
'You resist my attempts top provide you with an amusing death.'
I'm quite a fan of the more arch Bonds- MR, LALD, DAF
In the movie, this slower version works OK- but it does not survive a solo listen.
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"James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season."
Not my favorite Bond (although it was my first) but by far my favorite Bond villain. With THE best lines.
'You resist my attempts top provide you with an amusing death.'
I'm quite a fan of the more arch Bonds- MR, LALD, DAF
In the movie, this slower version works OK- but it does not survive a solo listen.
"Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him. "
OK, I'm done now. 
I'll have to go back and give You Only Live Twice a listen.
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