I'll be all over this one for the steeplechase chase cue alone!
I'm eagerly awaiting the main theme fanfare on brass as Bond descends the ladder from the burning building, one of the great moments in film scoring:
I can't find that moment in any of the clips of that scene, they all end before it or start after it, but you can basically see it in this multi-angle feature from the DVD at 0:48
I remember feeling like a REAL collector when I ordered the Japanese version of this score on CD with the OBI and everything. I used to stare at the liner notes wondering what they said.
I played it endlessly on my Sony Walkman and this is still a sentimental favorite, although it doesn't get played as much as DAF and TLD, it's a solid Bond score with some really great suspenseful writing ("Destroy Silicon Valley" is a personal favorite, such beautiful music for a discussion about mass murder).
Also has one of the cooler cover illustrations, imo, with Bond and Stacy defying gravity and the laws of physics standing on the side of a cable on the Golden Gate Bridge
I'll take amazing film scores to godawful movies for $800, Alex
I'll take very entertaining film with an awful score. The Durex Durex song is awful and that grating guitar cry in the action tracks is like rubbing the 11th finger with splinters in it.
This is THE Bond score I’m holding my breath for. That guitar led action motif is just *chef’s kiss*.
And I don’t care how hard you judge me but I don’t get the hate for this one. This is up there with my favorite Bond films.
Never understood the hate for this one either other than Moore looked his age. Liked the plot. And liked the craziness of having an insane CEO. This was a time when we thought leaders of corporations and governments could not be crazy. It’s the first Bond movie to do this and I think the next one was Tomorrow Never Dies.
Plus you have a true pop hit at a really excellent score.
Barry was on fine form for this one, and I'm confident LLL will bring us a cracker later this year. The steeplechase/Inferno cue alone will be worth the £40.
I remember feeling like a REAL collector when I ordered the Japanese version of this score on CD with the OBI and everything. I used to stare at the liner notes wondering what they said.
I played it endlessly on my Sony Walkman and this is still a sentimental favorite, although it doesn't get played as much as DAF and TLD, it's a solid Bond score with some really great suspenseful writing ("Destroy Silicon Valley" is a personal favorite, such beautiful music for a discussion about mass murder).
Also has one of the cooler cover illustrations, imo, with Bond and Stacy defying gravity and the laws of physics standing on the side of a cable on the Golden Gate Bridge
I would buy this in a heartbeat.
I bought the Japanese one too. And I bought the American version when they finally released it in 2003. Agree on the artwork.
I'll take amazing film scores to godawful movies for $800, Alex
I'll take very entertaining film with an awful score. The Durex Durex song is awful and that grating guitar cry in the action tracks is like rubbing the 11th finger with splinters in it.
D.S.
Stu I love your music. It is some of the best music I’ve ever heard for television. But I totally disagree with your assessment of AVTAK.
This is THE Bond score I’m holding my breath for. That guitar led action motif is just *chef’s kiss*.
And I don’t care how hard you judge me but I don’t get the hate for this one. This is up there with my favorite Bond films.
Never understood the hate for this one either other than Moore looked his age. Liked the plot. And liked the craziness of having an insane CEO. This was a time when we thought leaders of corporations and governments could not be crazy. It’s the first Bond movie to do this and I think the next one was Tomorrow Never Dies.
Plus you have a true pop hit at a really excellent score.
Completely agree. Moore's age and one or two ropey lines aside, it's a very good Bond film. Grace Jones acquits herself really well and Patrick Macnee is great. The score is superb, and I can't wait to hear it in full, powerful remastered glory!
Out of all the possible Bond expansions, this is the one I'm most excited/hoping for. I've loved the score and the Duran Duran song going way back to 1985 when I first watched it at the cinema. I think I went back 2 more times to see it and I played the hell outta the cassette tape until it was done for.