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[scaramunga]

A 2 disc and 1 disc Best of Bond 50th cd collections...

http://www.amazon.co...es bond 50th cd

http://www.amazon.co...es bond 50th cd

There's also a 3 disc version listed..

http://www.amazon.de.../dp/B00949G52U/

[YoYoBoy19]

I wonder if this going to be a release of the former Prague CDs or not.

[scaramunga]

They've updated the cover art on Amazon.com, but there is still no track listings.

The 2 disc set states on the cover it will be 50 tracks!!!!

Any more news on these???

[SecretAgentFan]

The track listing of the Amazon.de-set features only the title songs.

[scaramunga]

This set will be a "pass" for me..

Disc: 1

1. James Bond Theme The John Barry Orchestra
2. From Russia With Love Matt Monro
3. Goldfinger Shirley Bassey
4. Thunderball - Tom Jones
5. You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
6. On Her Majesty s Secret Service The John Barry Orchestra
7. We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong
8. Diamonds Are Forever Shirley Bassey
9. Live And Let Die Paul McCartney & Wings
10. The Man With The Golden Gun Lulu
11. Nobody Does It Better Carly Simon
12. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
13. For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton
14. All Time High Rita Coolidge
15. A View To A Kill Duran Duran
16. The Living Daylights - A-Ha
17. Licence To Kill - Gladys Knight
18. GoldenEye (Single Edit) Tina Turner
19. Tomorrow Never Dies Sheryl Crow
20. The World Is Not Enough Garbage
21. Die Another Day Madonna
22. You Know My Name Chris Cornell
23. Another Way To Die Jack White & Alicia Keys

Disc: 2

1. Dr. No s Fantasy The Monty Norman Orchestra
2. Under The Mango Tree - Diana Coupland
3. 007 The John Barry Orchestra
4. Opening Titles (Medley): James Bond Is Back/From Russia With Love/James Bond Theme The John Barry Orchestra
5. Into Miami The John Barry Orchestra
6. The Laser Beam The John Barry Orchestra
7. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Shirley Bassey
8. Switching The Body The John Barry Orchestra
9. Capsule in Space The John Barry Orchestra
10. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown Nina
11. Bond Smells a Rat - The John Barry Orchestra
12. Fillet Of Soul-New Orleans/Live And Let Die/Fillet Of Soul-Harlem (Medley) The George Martin Orchestra featuring B.J. Arnau
13. Underground Lair The John Barry Orchestra
14. Hip s Trip - The John Barry Orchestra
15. The Pyramids Marvin Hamlisch
16. Cable Car And Snake Fight The John Barry Orchestra
17. Make It Last All Night Bill Conti featuring Rage
18. The Chase Bomb Theme - The John Barry Orchestra
19. Snow Job - The John Barry Orchestra
20. Where Has Everybody Gone - The Pretenders
21. If There Was a Man The Pretenders
22. The Experience Of Love Eric Serra
23. James Bond Theme Moby
24. Surrender - k.d. lang
25. Only Myself To Blame Scott Walker
26. Vesper - David Arnold
27. Time To Get Out David Arnold

Edited by scaramunga, 26 September 2012 - 02:29 AM.

[SecretAgentFan]

Oh, good, at least "Make it last all night", "The Experience of Love" and "Only myself to blame" are on this. So this truly is a Best of. Kudos to the guy choosing the tracks.

Edited by SecretAgentFan, 26 September 2012 - 05:15 AM.

[Messervy]

That second disc sounds interesting indeed.

[SecretAgentFan]

Sorry, I was being ironic.

[Messervy]

Actually, so was I! I should have added a smiley...
Anyway, I do hope they'll release remastered discs from all the soundtracks. There are some that I really would like to get (TSWLM, most notably, since for some reason I've always been attracted to the "disco"-vibed Bond theme).

[SecretAgentFan]

Sorry, I should have payed attention to your avatar ;-)

And yes, we need remastered and expanded editions of ALL the scores.

Well, I need them.

Okay, need is maybe a too strong word.

But I want them.

Please.

[thecasinoroyale]

UK listed here now on Amazon...

http://www.amazon.co...8729631&sr=8-34

£20.18...not bad for a decent collection.

[JimmyBond]

That second disc looks like a real curiosity item. I'll get it for the first disc alone, but (and this is unironically) I imagine I'll be giving the second one a listen to on a few different occasions.

[Messervy]

Well, seriously now, there are indeed some interesting items on this second disc (for instance, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown; Where Has Everybody Gone) which really do bear witness to their film's overall vibe. But, on the whole, I find this selection rather odd. "Vesper", for instance, is not really representative of CR's musical mood.

[Satorious]

Where has Everybody Gone - a song that just scream BOND! That's a great addition...

[Brisco]

Oh, good, at least "Make it last all night", "The Experience of Love" and "Only myself to blame" are on this. So this truly is a Best of. Kudos to the guy choosing the tracks.

Personally, I like seeing a set (finally!) that includes the songs from the end credits and other vocals from the films (and even rejected from the films) as well as the title tracks. Of course I'd prefer it not to be marred by "The Experience of Love," but then I'd be a hypocrite since I just said I wanted all the end credits vocals! But then this doesn't do that anyway. It's odd that "If You Asked Me To" is excluded. I would have preferred that to "The Experience of Love" if it was a choice. (You couldn't have loaded up Disc 2 with ALL the wretched vocals from the LTK soundtrack though...) But "Under the Mango Tree," the BJ Arnau LALD, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (though of course we've had collections with that before), "If There Was a Man," and ESPECIALLY "Surrender," "Where Has Everybody Gone?" and "Only Myself to Blame" (a Scott Walker/David Arnold collaboration does NOT belong on a list with "Make It Last All Night" and "The Experience of Love!") absolutely deserve a place on an official Bond collection!

[scaramunga]

Oh, good, at least "Make it last all night", "The Experience of Love" and "Only myself to blame" are on this. So this truly is a Best of. Kudos to the guy choosing the tracks.

Personally, I like seeing a set (finally!) that includes the songs from the end credits and other vocals from the films (and even rejected from the films) as well as the title tracks. Of course I'd prefer it not to be marred by "The Experience of Love," but then I'd be a hypocrite since I just said I wanted all the end credits vocals! But then this doesn't do that anyway. It's odd that "If You Asked Me To" is excluded. I would have preferred that to "The Experience of Love" if it was a choice. (You couldn't have loaded up Disc 2 with ALL the wretched vocals from the LTK soundtrack though...) But "Under the Mango Tree," the BJ Arnau LALD, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (though of course we've had collections with that before), "If There Was a Man," and ESPECIALLY "Surrender," "Where Has Everybody Gone?" and "Only Myself to Blame" (a Scott Walker/David Arnold collaboration does NOT belong on a list with "Make It Last All Night" and "The Experience of Love!") absolutely deserve a place on an official Bond collection!

There's a few end credits renditions still missing right?

Die Another Day remix and wasn't there some score also at the end of Die Another Day?
The Bond theme from the end of Quantum.
The Bond theme for the end of TWINE.

Those would've been nice inclusions.

It's a decent set, I guess but the 30th was still cooler at the time it was released. It really had a decent rarities disc as well as including some of the radio ads, which was such a treat at the time!

[Mr. Arlington Beech]

A 2 disc and 1 disc Best of Bond 50th cd collections...

http://www.amazon.co...es+bond+50th+cd

http://www.amazon.co...es+bond+50th+cd

There's also a 3 disc version listed..

http://www.amazon.de.../dp/B00949G52U/

Anyone has some information (or confirmation) about this 3 disc version? I can't find anything about this.

[gkgyver]

So, this is really the only thing we are getting for the 50th anniversary of James freaking Bond?
A disc of title songs that were released a dozen times before, and a disc with cues that were apparently chosen by a monkey randomly pointing at track numbers?

Sweet mercy.

[scaramunga]

So, this is really the only thing we are getting for the 50th anniversary of James freaking Bond?
A disc of title songs that were released a dozen times before, and a disc with cues that were apparently chosen by a monkey randomly pointing at track numbers?

Sweet mercy.

Yes. Maybe there's some good news though and those Roger Moore scores that were not expanded in 2003 are being worked on at this moment and will need a bit more time before release.

One can hope right?

[SecretAgentFan]

Isn´t it wonderful that this "collection" is already dated since it does not include Adele´s song?

[JimmyBond]

This collection comes out next week. The Skyfall score comes out next month. No way Sony is going to hurt sales of the score by putting the Adele song on this collection.

[thecasinoroyale]

Isn´t it wonderful that this "collection" is already dated since it does not include Adele´s song?

That's what I was a bit niffed at, it's not 50 Years Of James Bond really is it...it's 46. If this could have held off a while longer to include at least Adele's 'Skyfall' song, it would really have encapsulated 50 Years of 007.

Shame.

[Bill]

Disappointing. Not one previously unreleased track (unless I missed something). And not including the Adele song instantly puts it out of date.

Ironic that the 30th anniversary release was better than this one, 20 years later--and without even a new Bond film that year.

However, the 40th anniversary soundtracks with the up to then previously unreleased material would have presumably exhausted the potential for new material this time around. If I remember correctly, the masters for the the few scores without anything additional had been lost forever--at least that was the announcement then.

Are there plans to rerelease the scores--with possibly newly unearthed material?

Edited by Bill, 02 October 2012 - 09:31 PM.

[scaramunga]

Disappointing. Not one previously unreleased track (unless I missed something). And not including the Adele song instantly puts it out of date.

Ironic that the 30th anniversary release was better than this one, 20 years later--and without even a new Bond film that year.

However, the 40th anniversary soundtracks with the up to then previously unreleased material would have presumably exhausted the potential for new material this time around. If I remember correctly, the masters for the the few scores without anything additional had been lost forever--at least that was the announcement then.

Are there plans to rerelease the scores--with possibly newly unearthed material?

No one knows about the older scores being reissued. No news at all on that front.

I thought the track listing for the Bond 50 years disc 2 cd collection is pretty odd. I made my own Itunes playlist but added and substituted some a bit too.

[perdogg]

The album contains a Shirley Bassey's version of "Mr Kiss, Kiss Bang Bang" . This was the only piece on the album that I did not have.It was not on the Thunderball Soundtrck.

[Shaun Forever]

Make it last all night long, dear God wasn't that the terrible pørn style track from 'For Your Eyes Only'?


I remember when I was about 10 years old, showing a mate the film for the first time, his expression when that song kicked in was absolutely hilarious, he gave me a look as if to say "wtf".

How on Earth did a song like that make it onto a Bond soundtrack, let alone a 'best of' compilation.



See what happens when John Barry doesn't have any input on a Bond soundtrack? it instantly dates it.

Edited by Shaun Forever, 14 October 2012 - 07:10 PM.

[scaramunga]

The album contains a Shirley Bassey's version of "Mr Kiss, Kiss Bang Bang" . This was the only piece on the album that I did not have.It was not on the Thunderball Soundtrck.

I have it on the 30th anniversary 2 cd set.

Make it last all night long, dear God wasn't that the terrible pørn style track from 'For Your Eyes Only'?


I remember when I was about 10 years old, showing a mate the film for the first time, his expression when that song kicked in was absolutely hilarious, he gave me a look as if to say "wtf".

How on Earth did a song like that make it onto a Bond soundtrack, let alone a 'best of' compilation.



See what happens when John Barry doesn't have any input on a Bond soundtrack? it instantly dates it.

Yeah. I raised an eyebrow when I saw it was included. Horrible choice. I did not add that one on my 50th playlist...

Oh, good, at least "Make it last all night", "The Experience of Love" and "Only myself to blame" are on this. So this truly is a Best of. Kudos to the guy choosing the tracks.

Personally, I like seeing a set (finally!) that includes the songs from the end credits and other vocals from the films (and even rejected from the films) as well as the title tracks. Of course I'd prefer it not to be marred by "The Experience of Love," but then I'd be a hypocrite since I just said I wanted all the end credits vocals! But then this doesn't do that anyway. It's odd that "If You Asked Me To" is excluded. I would have preferred that to "The Experience of Love" if it was a choice. (You couldn't have loaded up Disc 2 with ALL the wretched vocals from the LTK soundtrack though...) But "Under the Mango Tree," the BJ Arnau LALD, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (though of course we've had collections with that before), "If There Was a Man," and ESPECIALLY "Surrender," "Where Has Everybody Gone?" and "Only Myself to Blame" (a Scott Walker/David Arnold collaboration does NOT belong on a list with "Make It Last All Night" and "The Experience of Love!") absolutely deserve a place on an official Bond collection!

There's a few end credits renditions still missing right?

Die Another Day remix and wasn't there some score also at the end of Die Another Day?
The Bond theme from the end of Quantum.
The Bond theme for the end of TWINE.

Those would've been nice inclusions.

It's a decent set, I guess but the 30th was still cooler at the time it was released. It really had a decent rarities disc as well as including some of the radio ads, which was such a treat at the time!

Strange more unreleased tracks are not included. The 30th Anniversary 2 cd set got that right at the time. They included unreleased tracks which made it much more interesting as a set.

[lazenbyland]

What I'd like to see is an album collection of the actual film versions of the songs and themes. Probably some bureaucratic red tape preventing this but would make a change from the standard compilation each time. Some differences are obvious whilst others are more subtle. Of course for some of the below, an expanded album wouldn't go amiss anyway.

1. Gunbarrel and James Bond Theme leading into Three Blind mice from Doctor No.
2. James Bond is back From Russia With Love (with the extra Bond theme intro bar and emphasized maracas)
3. Goldfinger Into Miami ( I think this stands as the film version already)
4. Dawn Raid on Fort Knox (as in the film)
4. Thunderball (This stands as the film version already)
5. You Only LIve Twice (This stands as the film version already)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (with the two extra descending theme bars at the end)
7. We Have All The Time In The World (shorter version as in the film and emphasized guitars)
8. Ice Skating music from OHMSS. (I think this exists but couldn't fit on the expanded album)
9. Diamonds Are Forever (the expanded album seems to haev given us the film version but Bassey's voice does sound different on the actual film)
10. Live and let Die (shorter version as in the film)
11. The Man With The Golden Gun (This stands as the film version already)
12. Nobody Does it Better (shorter version without the fading out)
13. Bond 77 (film version)
14. Moonraker (shorter version as in the film)
15. For Your Eyes Only (This stands as the film version already)
16. All Time High (This stands as the film version already)
17. A View To A Kill (I think the film has a shorter version)
18. The Living Daylights (shorter version as in the film)
19. Licence To Kill (shorter version as in the film with Gladys Knight singing 'Licence to Kill' instead of 'Licence to Kilt')
20. GoldenEye (film version)
21. Tomorrow Never Dies (This stands as the film version already)
22. The World Is Not Enough (This stands as the film version already)
23. Die Another Day (This stands as the film version already)
24. You Know My Name (This stands as the film version already)
25. Another Way to Die (film version)

Feel free to correct me on any of the above)

[Mr. Arlington Beech]

What I'd like to see is an album collection of the actual film versions of the songs and themes. Probably some bureaucratic red tape preventing this but would make a change from the standard compilation each time. Some differences are obvious whilst others are more subtle. Of course for some of the below, an expanded album wouldn't go amiss anyway.

1. Gunbarrel and James Bond Theme leading into Three Blind mice from Doctor No.
2. James Bond is back From Russia With Love (with the extra Bond theme intro bar and emphasized maracas)
3. Goldfinger Into Miami ( I think this stands as the film version already)
4. Dawn Raid on Fort Knox (as in the film)
4. Thunderball (This stands as the film version already)
5. You Only LIve Twice (This stands as the film version already)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (with the two extra descending theme bars at the end)
7. We Have All The Time In The World (shorter version as in the film and emphasized guitars)
8. Ice Skating music from OHMSS. (I think this exists but couldn't fit on the expanded album)
9. Diamonds Are Forever (the expanded album seems to haev given us the film version but Bassey's voice does sound different on the actual film)
10. Live and let Die (shorter version as in the film)
11. The Man With The Golden Gun (This stands as the film version already)
12. Nobody Does it Better (shorter version without the fading out)
13. Bond 77 (film version)
14. Moonraker (shorter version as in the film)
15. For Your Eyes Only (This stands as the film version already)
16. All Time High (This stands as the film version already)
17. A View To A Kill (I think the film has a shorter version)
18. The Living Daylights (shorter version as in the film)
19. Licence To Kill (shorter version as in the film with Gladys Knight singing 'Licence to Kill' instead of 'Licence to Kilt')
20. GoldenEye (film version)
21. Tomorrow Never Dies (This stands as the film version already)
22. The World Is Not Enough (This stands as the film version already)
23. Die Another Day (This stands as the film version already)
24. You Know My Name (This stands as the film version already)
25. Another Way to Die (film version)

Feel free to correct me on any of the above)

I don't understand what you mean by "This stands as the film version already"; but what I do know is that the film version of You Know My Name remains unpublished... which IMO it's such a big shame!. In fact, I would buy a whole 2CD compilation, if they put at least that version from CR score, not only for collections purposes, but because it's so much better than the other versions.

[JimmyBond]

Not only that but all four themes from the Brosnan era are edited in the films. Each song loses a verse. We've never had those versions on CD either.