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Best Gunbarrel Music


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#1 Cameron007

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:14 AM

Which Bond movies have the best gunbarrel music? My picks would be GoldenEye and TWINE.



#2 DamnCoffee

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:18 AM

OHMSS, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill and GoldenEye are my top choices!



#3 Janus Assassin

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:49 AM

Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker, and GoldenEye for me. (It took me awhile to realize that OP, AVTAK  and TLD are basically the same tune)



#4 Satorious

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 08:18 AM

OHMSS and DAF. Right next to each other and very different. Great scores also.



#5 Walecs

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 09:08 AM

Goldfinger, OHMSS, TSPWLM, GoldenEye, TWINE, Casino Royale.


Edited by Walecs, 19 August 2013 - 09:11 AM.


#6 The Shark

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 11:37 AM

DAF. Seriously menacing.

#7 Templar

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:28 PM

LALD, TMWTGG; YOLT; FYEO



#8 ChickenStu

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Posted 29 October 2013 - 06:51 PM

Licence To Kill.

 

Sounds sinister and foreboding, gets us nicely in the mood for what is to follow...



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Posted 01 November 2013 - 06:38 AM

GF: Bond Back In Action! (actually, I love all of Connery's GB themes from FRWL to DAF)

 

LALD : Love that funky wah-wah guitar!

 

LTK: Kamen's GB is the best thing about his score.

 

GE: Ditto. Using the synthesized kettle drum sound was truly innovative.

 

None of Craig's gunbarrels (CR excepted) are memorable.


Edited by dtuba, 01 November 2013 - 06:39 AM.


#10 Grard Bond

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Posted 01 November 2013 - 11:50 AM

For your eyes only is for me the best one. Ofcourse all the Barry ones are great and right in your face, especialy when the volume is very loud.                                                            


Edited by Grard Bond, 01 November 2013 - 11:51 AM.


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Posted 02 December 2013 - 09:53 PM

I'm in the minority, but I think TND is the best one .



#12 Guy Haines

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Posted 02 December 2013 - 11:04 PM

I like all the John Barry openers involving orchestra and guitar. Not quite so keen on the no-guitar/all orchestral versions. I bought the LP "The Concert John Barry" when it was released in, I think, 1973 (Other school contemporaries were into The Bay City Rollers, but never mind!) I listened to the RPO version of The James Bond Theme thinking it was a philharmonic one-off - I never thought it would be John Barry's default arrangement for the rest of his time with the Bond films.

 

My favourite non-Barry arrangement is that of George Martin for LALD. Funky but still menacing. This weekend whilst driving I had The Beatles on the car CD player followed by the LALD soundtrack. Interesting combination, and I never once listened to it wearing ear muffs! ;) 



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Posted 03 December 2013 - 05:50 AM

I like all the John Barry openers involving orchestra and guitar. Not quite so keen on the no-guitar/all orchestral versions.  

 

Me too--the theme is a little too quiet without the guitar. After TMWTGG Barry's scores in general lost some of their pizzazz, though they were still fantastic. My own favorite gunbarrels are OHMSS, thanks to the driving bass-line and sinister, otherworldly synthesizer, and FYEO, which has a big pop fanfare sound--blaring horns, steady beat, and even cowbell! 



#14 Double-Oh Agent

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Posted 03 December 2013 - 08:22 AM

The best ones are Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live And Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Licence To Kill, and Tomorrow Never Dies. But my favorite is For Your Eyes Only.



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Posted 03 December 2013 - 03:50 PM

Best gunbarrel music is, without question, the music that accompanies Licence to Kill's gunbarrel. 



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Posted 03 December 2013 - 11:16 PM

Without a doubt, DAF. Love the electric guitar.

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Posted 06 December 2013 - 04:53 AM

OHMSS, FYEO, Licence, Goldeneye.

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Posted 06 December 2013 - 06:00 AM

I'm in the minority, but I think TND is the best one .

I agree with on that one. GF, FRWL, OHMSS follow it very closely. 



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Posted 08 July 2014 - 07:27 PM

OHMSS and DAF. Right next to each other and very different. Great scores also.

My thoughts exactly.



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Posted 09 July 2014 - 01:26 AM

all the early ones are great. FRWL,THUNDERBALL being my favorites. Goldfinger was great, DAF was great, really nasty and dangerous....but a lot different than the movie that accompanied it.



#21 Janus Assassin

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Posted 09 July 2014 - 05:31 PM

Ones I love

 

Thunderball

Diamonds Are Forever

Moonraker (The horns really get me going for the film)

FYEO

GoldenEye

 

It took me awhile to realize that OP-TLD is the same tune. I hate LTK's gunbarrel. Not a fan of LALD or TMWTGG. The early Connery ones are ok, I think if it would have been Sean in the barrel, I would enjoy the music more.


And I just realized that I posted the same thing about a year ago.



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Posted 10 July 2014 - 08:52 PM

Goldfinger, DAF, TMWGG, FYEO and Goldeneye are my faves in terms of gunbarrel music.



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Posted 11 July 2014 - 07:17 AM

My Top 5 has to be:

 

1) 'For Your Eyes Only' - Dark, dangerous and very 80s

2) 'Licence To Kill' - Dark, dangerous and very fitting for the tone of the film

3) 'Live And Let Die' - Bold and bombastic and a great new sound for a new Bond

4) 'GoldenEye' - Radically new, but faithfully original for the new generation

5) 'Tomorrow Never Dies' - Captures the old, orchestral essence of Bond for the new era

 

:)



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Posted 12 July 2014 - 12:28 AM

My top five would be:

 

On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Diamonds are Forever.

For Your Eyes Only.

Licence to Kill.

Goldeneye.



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Posted 21 July 2014 - 05:25 AM

Thunderball

   GoldenEye

      Licence to Kill

        The World is Not Enough


Edited by iBond, 21 July 2014 - 05:26 AM.


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Posted 22 July 2014 - 02:25 AM

For me, the twanginess of YOLT and DAF are the clear winners, though all of the Connery-era ones sound good.

 

I really wish there was a harder sound for the Dalton TLD gunbarrel, which has the Roger Moore walk-in-the-park airiness that is fine if you're in the mood for (OCTO)PUSSY, but otherwise quite horrid.


Edited by trevanian, 22 July 2014 - 02:26 AM.


#27 Monsieur Scaramanga

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 10:28 PM

My top 3 favorites are Tomorrow Never Dies, License to Kill, and Goldfinger.


Edited by Monsieur Scaramanga, 22 July 2014 - 10:28 PM.


#28 Iceskater101

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Posted 09 August 2014 - 02:15 PM

License to Kill is a great choice! That's probably my favorite.



#29 Guy Haines

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Posted 10 August 2014 - 12:08 AM

One thing I hope for Bond 24 is that whether the gun barrel is at the start or the end, the composer, whoever that person is, comes up with his/her own "take" on the Monty Norman theme. One slight disappointment for me about the SF soundtrack was that the arrangement of The James Bond Theme wasn't that of the composer, but his predecessor. And this is nothing against David Arnold, by the way. I liked how Thomas Newman wove the Bond theme into his score in subtle and unexpected ways. I just couldn't understand why, when it came to the theme "as it's played" he didn't try and put his own stamp on it. Even John Barry, who had eleven scores, re-worked the Monty Norman theme more than once.



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Posted 23 August 2014 - 09:32 PM

One thing I hope for Bond 24 is that whether the gun barrel is at the start or the end, the composer, whoever that person is, comes up with his/her own "take" on the Monty Norman theme. One slight disappointment for me about the SF soundtrack was that the arrangement of The James Bond Theme wasn't that of the composer, but his predecessor. And this is nothing against David Arnold, by the way. I liked how Thomas Newman wove the Bond theme into his score in subtle and unexpected ways. I just couldn't understand why, when it came to the theme "as it's played" he didn't try and put his own stamp on it. Even John Barry, who had eleven scores, re-worked the Monty Norman theme more than once.

Totally Agree! I was very disappointed that Newman did not do an interpretation of the JB theme, choosing to recycle David Arnold's arrangement. Unlike previous composers who rendered the theme in their own style - Sir George Martin's funk, Marvin Hamlisch's disco-rific Bond 77, and Moby's electronica version. I even thought I heard an inverted version of the JB Theme in the instrumental version of "Another Way to Die".

 

Newman's score was pretty good, but his handling of the theme was IMO lazy. I would not be sad if he didn't return this time. 


Edited by dtuba, 23 August 2014 - 09:34 PM.