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.'Journey to Scaramanga's Island'.. Magic!!
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The only REALLY GOOD track on the album.
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Disappointed that John Barry didn't like it but I've never understood the hate for this score. I think its far more interesting and inventive that say (apart from the main theme..) OHMSS.
Love all the funhouse stuff and the exotic flavours of the music.'Journey to Scaramanga's Island'.. Magic!!
Loved the film as well.Bring on the expansion!
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Had you mentioned, maybe, Octopussy, okay, but...
Far more interesting and inventive than say...John Barry's magnum opus??!
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For the time being, I think we can safely forget about getting any more John Barry James Bond scores expanded.
Mark my words, the Bond scores of every other Bond composer will get expanded long before you see any more expanded Barry.
I see all the David Arnold scores getting expanded.
I see all the Thomas Newman scores getting expanded.
I see the Kamen score getting expanded.
I even see the Serra score getting expanded.
And I'll bet The Spy Who Loved Me will get more support for an expansion than any Barry Bond score.
In fact, I think in twenty years time, when the old duffers like me are out of the way, John Barry will be remembered as the worst of the composers who ever wrote for a James Bond film and his scores will be remembered as the worst scores.
He's already considered to be the worst of the song writers and I bet if you put up a poll of the best James Bond soundtracks to the public (not FSM subscribers), I'll bet you'll find not a single James Bond score prior to 1989 in the top ten.
We're lucky for what we got in 2003, that was an anomoly of timing and the right people having the right influence with the right people at the right time.
Of course, personally, I think The Man With The Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy and A View To A Kill are the four most wanted expanded Barry scores, but that's because I'm a boring old duffer who hasn't worked out yet that this music was really shit and only everything written from 1989 onwards was any good.
I am being sarcastic of course.
Except the bit about betting we'll never see any more expanded Barry Bond scores. Of that, I'm sure.
Cheers
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In fact, I think in twenty years time, when the old duffers like me are out of the way, John Barry will be remembered as the worst of the composers who ever wrote for a James Bond film and his scores will be remembered as the worst scores.
If The Man with the Golden Gun is to be held up as the high-water mark of his 007 career, then yes, they surely will!
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I will say it again..
I am HAPPY with my 007 score collection on cd.
Anything new is just the cherry on the top of a delicious treat!
brm
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Dec 12, 2018 - 2:32 PM
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townerbarry
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For the time being, I think we can safely forget about getting any more John Barry James Bond scores expanded.
Mark my words, the Bond scores of every other Bond composer will get expanded long before you see any more expanded Barry.
I see all the David Arnold scores getting expanded.
I see all the Thomas Newman scores getting expanded.
I see the Kamen score getting expanded.
I even see the Serra score getting expanded.
And I'll bet The Spy Who Loved Me will get more support for an expansion than any Barry Bond score.
In fact, I think in twenty years time, when the old duffers like me are out of the way, John Barry will be remembered as the worst of the composers who ever wrote for a James Bond film and his scores will be remembered as the worst scores.
He's already considered to be the worst of the song writers and I bet if you put up a poll of the best James Bond soundtracks to the public (not FSM subscribers), I'll bet you'll find not a single James Bond score prior to 1989 in the top ten.
We're lucky for what we got in 2003, that was an anomoly of timing and the right people having the right influence with the right people at the right time.
Of course, personally, I think The Man With The Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy and A View To A Kill are the four most wanted expanded Barry scores, but that's because I'm a boring old duffer who hasn't worked out yet that this music was really shit and only everything written from 1989 onwards was any good.
I am being sarcastic of course.
Except the bit about betting we'll never see any more expanded Barry Bond scores. Of that, I'm sure.
Cheers
It is still Amazing why some here do not get it..or even can comprehend all the dynamics on why John Barry’s Expanded Scores Will Never See the light of Day!
Here are the Major Players.
Barbrara Broccoli...Michael Wilson...EON...And Mrs. John Barry.
And oh Yeah...Cash. Lol.
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In Jon Burlingame excellent book THE MUSIC OF JAMES BOND, John Barry says: I used to like to have time on the songs, but on TMWTGG there was no time, i was never happy with it. I thought the score was very good, actually, but the song just didn't happen.
Thanks for posting that. It makes a lot more sense than the impression I had from somewhere, that Barry didn't like the score. Of course he did. It's a great album anchored by a versatile, enduring melody.
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The song is no doubt the weakest of Barry's own Bond songs, but, as was said above, there's a pretty strong theme there, it's just lost a bit in a glittery and unrefined pop arrangement.
As is, it's just a bit juvenile, but with a bit more work could have become something with greater stature.
The very same melody with more considered arrangement, stronger lyric and less glittery vocal could have been a darn good song.
Cheers
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