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Diamonds gets my vote for the greatest Bond song ever. Best music, best lyrics, best performance and best recording. There's such an elegant mature wisdom about the relationship between men and women in the song. I think its unique perspective about relationships comes from the fact that it's a song sung by a women, about men but written by a *gay* man. I think about the lyric "men are mere mortals who are not worth going to your grave for" all the time.
While I would question the "wisdom" or ethics of the lyric, DAF is not meant to portray a good girl or give real advice, so that's beside the point. The song itself is a stunner, insanely good, and I think that's because the earth-shaking execution lived up to and even exceeded the solid composition.
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Oct 16, 2018 - 5:39 AM
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OnyaBirri
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The Ray Martin Bond sound is very Austin Powers, downright comedic as heard today. For the Barry fan, Martin is not in the same league as Shaw, and he's not even playing the same sport. The Shaw-Martin divide between serious and comedic is much greater than the analogous dichotomy between Connery and Moore films.
Have you heard Ray Martin's non-Bond albums? I assume that "for the Barry fan," maybe not, but I'm asking. I don't consider myself a Barry fan per se, but more generally a fan of both the spy genre and space-age bachelor pad music. Ray Martin contributed to both of those genres. With Bond, I think Martin's picking up on the comedic subtext in the Connery-era Bond films. I consider Barry as the creator of the spy music template, but I feel that many composers did it much better than he did, including Edwin Astley, Laurie Johnson, Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, and probably others I'm forgetting. In my world, Ray Martin is just as important as John Barry.
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I'm just thrilled to learn about this Ray Martin world that I didn't know existed. And I say that sincerely, without irony or snark, because I care about worlds in this corner of the universe. And I want that egg chair!
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Bringing the conversation full circle to your avatar, do you think Barry ever wrote anything as good as "The Cage" or "Man Trap?"
Well, I won't deny my passion for Star Trek music.
But you can't compare the music portfolios of Star Trek and James Bond, they're great in such different ways. Where they approach the same space, in areas like fight music and love themes, I wouldn't dream of subordinating either one of them in a contest. They're above that.
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