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[Guy Haines]

Some time ago I made an estimate of the amount of missing music for each film:


Casino Royale: none?

Actually there's a missing cue in Casino Royale , the Death of Dryden, which is not on "Licence: 2 Kills".

Isn't there a brief snatch when Bond has lost to Le Chiffre at poker, grabs a table knife and sets off to confront the villain only for Leiter to stop Bond on the stairs and offer to buy him back in the game? I believe its called "A Brother From Langley".

Yes, but it's not worth buying.

Wasn't intending to, I'd just seen it listed somewhere. If they do a re-issue of the whole CR soundtrack, bonus tracks included, I might get that. As for this QoS 2 disc soundtrack that has been mentioned elsewhere, I can't think that there is much from the movie that didn't end up on the single CD.

[The Shark]

Some time ago I made an estimate of the amount of missing music for each film:


Casino Royale: none?

Actually there's a missing cue in Casino Royale , the Death of Dryden, which is not on "Licence: 2 Kills".

Isn't there a brief snatch when Bond has lost to Le Chiffre at poker, grabs a table knife and sets off to confront the villain only for Leiter to stop Bond on the stairs and offer to buy him back in the game? I believe its called "A Brother From Langley".

Yes, but it's not worth buying.

Wasn't intending to, I'd just seen it listed somewhere. If they do a re-issue of the whole CR soundtrack, bonus tracks included, I might get that. As for this QoS 2 disc soundtrack that has been mentioned elsewhere, I can't think that there is much from the movie that didn't end up on the single CD.

There's the non-orchestral stuff source music, such as the Bolivian music, some local tune that plays in the bar and Tosca. Apart from that there's one or two cues from Arnold that are missing, like the one that plays after Felix says "James, move your ".

[Solex Agitator]

I love the music in TMWTGG when Bond enter Ms. Anders hotel room while she showers. The piano work is incredible and the strings lush...

[Dekard77]

I love the music in TMWTGG when Bond enter Ms. Anders hotel room while she showers. The piano work is incredible and the strings lush...

Agreed, one of the reasons I bought that soundtrack. There are some heavy tracks on that film that works very well. I don't like the Scaramanga's funhouse but the rest is fine.

[O.H.M.S.S.]

The first shot of Bond in Cairo when he appears under the arch with the minaret in the background (TSWLM).

[darthbond]

I love the music in TMWTGG when Bond enter Ms. Anders hotel room while she showers. The piano work is incredible and the strings lush...

Agreed, one of the reasons I bought that soundtrack. There are some heavy tracks on that film that works very well. I don't like the Scaramanga's funhouse but the rest is fine.

Really? Scaramanga's funhouse is one of my favs. There is a few more from CR. Running to the elevator in the soundtrack is different to its movie counterpart. African Rundown is also a little different. Same with Blunt Instrument.

darthbond

[SecretAgentFan]

There is a wonderful cue in TWINE when Bond and Elektra go skiing.

Can´t imagine why this superior piece of Arnold´s score was not included on the CD.

[Bond... Raybond]

This, and another track from TWINE, are available from David Arnold's own website under the media section:

http://www.davidarnold.com/

There are some DAD tracks as well.

[Burky]

Hi everyone, This is my first post.

I add these cues to the missing ones you've quoted:

FRWL
Another Gipsy Dance Source Music

LALD
The end of Sacrifice when the music calms down

[AMC Hornet]

Having become a Bond fan in the dark days before VTRs, I collected the soundtracks as 'souvenirs' of the movies, something to invoke the feeling I experienced while watching the films for the first time.

When the expanded rereleases came out I gobbled them up, and although I regret that not every cue made it to disc, I don't miss what's missing. The films themselves, on the UE DVDs, are the ultimate souvenirs. There is the missing music, in the scenes the music was composed for.

What more could anyone want?

[The Cat]

There is the missing music, in the scenes the music was composed for.

But in many cases, they aren't there.

[sharpshooter]

There is a wonderful cue in TWINE when Bond and Elektra go skiing.

Can´t imagine why this superior piece of Arnold´s score was not included on the CD.

I know. "Snow Business" is the best piece from the film. "Access Denied", "Welcome to Baku', “Kazakhstan", "Casino", "Elektra's Theme", "Body Double" and "Christmas in Turkey" had the right idea. The action themes are chaotic and repetitive - but I don't mind "Ice Bandits". At least the Bond theme isn't there every five seconds.

[Marcato]

TO THREAD POSTER -

The destroying globe at the end was taken from FLIGHT INTO SPACE - so you can remove that from the list

[Guy Haines]

There is a wonderful cue in TWINE when Bond and Elektra go skiing.

Can´t imagine why this superior piece of Arnold´s score was not included on the CD.

I know. "Snow Business" is the best piece from the film. "Access Denied", "Welcome to Baku', “Kazakhstan", "Casino", "Elektra's Theme", "Body Double" and "Christmas in Turkey" had the right idea. The action themes are chaotic and repetitive - but I don't mind "Ice Bandits". At least the Bond theme isn't there every five seconds.

I agree with you about the TWINE soundtrack. Some decent non-action music, but the action stuff is, as you say, chaotic and repetitive - and discordant. The Bond theme isn't used all that much though, compared with TND. Now, if Arnold had based his action music for TWINE around one basic theme, such as "Ice Bandits", perhaps it would have been a bit easier on the ear.

Some of the best John Barry Bond scores - the classic 60s scores, for example - took two or three basic themes, plus the original Bond theme, and re-worked them throughout. But in such a way that it hardly mattered that what one was listening to was another take on something heard earlier.

[DamnCoffee]

Personally, I feel that Arnold is such a dull composer anyway. Even when he tries we don't get anything truly ground breaking.

I really do think though, that the Die Another Day soundtrack would sound beautiful with the electronics removed. I also like how Arnold ruined the Bond theme climax in 'Icarus Disconnected' by including three massive "WHARRRHHHH WHARRRHHHH WHARRRHHHH!"'s, in the middle of the Bond theme, which sounded awful. I can't bring myself to use that track in any trailers, I make, because he completely ruined it.

[Gav]

FRWL:

TSWLM:

- Gunbarrel
- Submarine crew spots tanker/Gogol learns of loss of the British sub/Anya and lover in bed
- Short, ski-chase version of Bond 77
- Bond theme fanfare
- Anya is informed on the death of her lover
- Bond in Cairo (I like this one a lot)
- Film version of Pyramids (with different synthesiser motif for Jaws)
- Romantic rendition of NDIB as they travel in the back of Jaw's van
- Stalking II - spiritual successor to Barry's FRWL cue, heard when Anya and Bond are being followed by Jaws
- Bond and Anya travel - From them leaving Jaws in the shredded telephone service van, to Bond being knocked unconscious by Anya's gas cigarette on the boat
- Bond to MI6 (can't remember if there's music here)
- Another NDIB version on the train
- Side-car missile bike
- Faster Bond 77 recap for the Lotus vs. Helicopter chase
- Lotus Underwater (beautiful cue)
- Lotus vs. Stromberg's Frogmen - Essentially the very end of Bond 77
- Lotus surfaces
- Destruction of Atlantis

MR:

- The hang-glider
- Drax's Shuttle takes off

OP:

- Bond arrives in India

AVTAK:

- Gunbarrel
- Bond and M learn of Zorin
- Some of the Eiffel Tower cues
- May Day takes care of Bond
- Asian man drops out/"What a view... To a kill!"
- Fight at Stacey's house
- Bond and Stacey in the shower

LTK:

- Tonnes of cues

GE:

- Gunbarrel/Damn jump

Ive got pretty much all of these. Clean, SFX and dialog free, consistent volume and NOT from a PAL source - unlike some scores on here. Why dont these bootleggers slow the pitch and tempo down to their proper tones? The bootleg of Spy Who Loved Me would be 4% longer if they had just fixed the PAL speed-up!

Edited by Gav, 16 June 2010 - 12:02 AM.

[00Twelve]

I think I've decided my favorite gunbarrel music in the series is GE.

[scaramunga]

A View To a Kill:
Fight at Stacey's house
Bond escapes by horseback

Octopussy:
Bond and M at Checkpoint Charlie

I'm sure there is more missing from these 2 films as well.

I hope they expand the rest of the Roger Moore Bond films soundtracks soon.

Moonraker, TMWTGG, Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy and A View To A Kill.

[AMC Hornet]

Re: Octopussy: I've heard the Bond arrives in India cue on YouTube, and although the arrangement is pretty close to the original, it just doesn't seem as striking - probably because it lacks the exotic visual impact you get with the film.

That said, I'd like to find a recording of the 'All Time High' piano instrumental that's playing in the background during the backgammon match. It would fit perfectly on the 'Clubs & Casinos' compilation I've made.

As I get older I find I enjoy the 'clubland' and 'stalking' cues more than the frantic action themes. Give me John Barry's DAF score over David Arnold's TWINE any day (Caviar Factory used to be exciting, now it's just noise).

I suppose I have Only Myself to Blame...