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John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003

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John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003

John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 174 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 82 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: EMI/Capitol | # 7243 5 41425 2 9 | 00:30:51

The release of re-mastered editions of the James Bond scores offered up some great albums that expanded the original soundtracks with extra cues ("Thunderball" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" are particularly superb). However, "Moonraker," one of the best scores of the series and one of the most lyrical and unusual (especially when you consider what a silly slapstick film it accompanies) arrived on CD in a bare-bones 30-minute edition that replicates the original LP version with no extra tracks.

This is an unfortunate occurrence, but the people loudly complaining and blaming EMI need to understand that the album producers had no choice. They wanted an expanded album (who wouldn't? more people would buy it), but there was a major stumbling block because of the way the "Moonraker" recording sessions were originally produced. "Moonraker" was a French-British co-production for tax reasons, and most of the film was shot in France. The recording sessions were also done in France, and the original masters reside in vaults in Paris. The American producers of this album were unable to obtain access to these master tapes to make a longer version, and the work to get them would have been prohibitively expensive – which would mean no album at all.

I too am disappointed we don't have a longer "Moonraker" album; however, the re-mastered sound and the general brilliance of the music makes it impossible for me to give this album anything less than five stars. I've loved this album for years, and still do. I think it shows John Barry at his best, and it's the most experimental score for a Bond film. Barry avoids the period music clichés (except for a slight disco beat under the end titles) that plagued Hamlisch's "The Spy Who Loved Me" score, and he also ignores the silliness of the film and turns in a serious, ethereal, and sensual score. Regardless of length, the "Moonraker" score wields a potent spell.

The theme song, sung by Shirley Bassey of "Goldfinger" fame, never became a big hit, but it's one of the best songs from a Bond film: exotic, timeless, and filled with soaring romanticism. Barry uses the heavy romantic melody in the cue "Bond Meets Dr. Goodhead," one is one of the album's most beautiful tracks. The theme also appears in the first half of "Bond Arrives in Rio and Boat Chase," this time with an understated calypso beat and chorus.

Barry ditches one of his signatures styles of the Bond series, the brassy and sassy use of trumpets and horns, for a more elegant and smooth approach. (In fact, you won't hear "The James Bond Theme" anywhere on this album, although it does appear in the film.) You can hear Barry's changed approach most clearly in "Centrifuge and Corinne Put Down," where Barry follows the death of Corrine at the fangs of Drax's hunting dogs with a hypnotic, slow building piece using strings and harp and only culminating in the brass at the end. More typical suspense music appears in "Bond Smells a Rat" (which covers Bond sneaking into Drax's Venetian laboratory and seeing the effect of the nerve gas on Drax's employees).

The action cue most reminiscent of the earlier scores is in the first half of "Cable Car and Snake Fight," with exciting brass punctuation marks, but then it segues directly into the snake deathtrap music, where Barry again takes an unusual approach with the orchestration, focusing on lyrical action and tension music. The second half of "Bond Arrives in Rio and Boat Chase" sees the return of `007,' a piece of thrilling action music Barry first used in "From Russia, With Love," only here it is orchestrated to match the tone of the rest of the score; it's both beautiful and exiting, and a perfect example of how Barry could turn the expectations of action upside down.

But the real highlights of the album are "Bond Lured to Pyramid," "Space Laser Battle," and "Flight into Space," where Barry creates hypnotic and gorgeous musical suites. "Bond Lured to Pyramid" plays as Bond weaves through the jungle following a beautiful woman to Drax's lair; Barry uses a chorus and chirping woodwinds over a thick layer of strings to create a feeling of exoticism and mystery. (In the film, this cue leads directly into "Snake Fight.") "Space Laser Battle" takes the ridiculous laser duel between Drax's forces and the U.S. Space Marines (???) and makes a slow, lyrical dirge out of it – a brilliant move on Barry's part that emphasizes the `space' aspect of the scene. "Flight into Space" is six and half-minutes of sustained beauty, and one of the greatest pieces Barry composed for any film: it's almost a complete ballet based on the theme of space travel, using a chorus, organ, and elegant trumpet and horn passages to create the portrait. The music for the emergence of the space station out of the darkness is especially stunning.

Yes, this isn't the longer album we hoped for. Perhaps one day the legal problems will be settled, but this is the best that EMI was able to do. And the remarkable score is still there and still as potent a piece of work as it ever wars. An essential album for all James Bond and John Barry fans.

Review by Claude Avary

Even by the standards of the Roger Moore years, Moonraker is a very silly, very bad James Bond movie, especially disappointing since it came after easily his best Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. After a space shuttle is stolen, Bond doesn’t just trawl round various exotic locations on Earth, he even ventures into space. And has a battle with laser guns. And has comic relief from Richard Kiel’s Jaws. It took until Die Another Day for the series to plunge lower depths.

Considering how silly the film is, it’s a wonder that the score is one of John Barry’s most reverential and serious of the whole series. Barry must have been aware that he wasn’t really working on cinematic gold here as he had on the earlier movies; but he still took the thing very seriously. Perhaps sometimes a little too seriously: the title song, seeing a return for the iconic Shirley Bassey, has always been my least favourite of Barry’s Bond songs. It’s a beautiful ballad, earnestly crooned by Bassey, but it’s so languid and so at odds with both what this lighthearted film is, and what most people think James Bond films should be, I’ve just never been able to connect with it. Worse, the disco-era end title arrangement (this was 1979, remember) is frankly ludicrous.

The score itself is a different matter. While the whole thing is extremely slow-moving, and the Bond theme – staggeringly – doesn’t appear on the album a single time -it’s still identifiably a Bond score, and extremely entertaining. The opening “Space Lazer Battle” must be one of the most ponderous pieces of action music anyone’s ever written for a film, yet it works beautifully and makes riveting listening, with its brass stings and subtle chorus. “Miss Goodhead Meets Bond” turns the title song melody into an attractive love theme, then there’s some more sloth-like action music in “Cable Car and Snake Fight”.

“Bond Lured to Pyramid” is a beautiful track, colourful long-lined string phrases accompanied by florid, fluttering flutes and gorgeous harp glissandi – and that choir again, a rarity in Barry’s Bond scores. Following is the score’s real gem, the epic “Flight Into Space”, which stands as a beautifully-constructed tone poem to the beauty and grace of space. Yes, the metronome is still moving down at number one on the Beaufort Scale, but there is such majesty to the piece – its slowly-building momentum somehow reaching fever pitch over the course of the six-and-a-half minute running time. I think it’s one of the most memorable pieces in any of Barry’s Bond scores.

The mood lightens considerably in “Bond Arrives in Rio / Boat Chase”, with vaguely exotic percussion accompanying an uptempo version of the main theme for the piece’s first half; then comes a surprise as the “007” theme Barry introduced back in From Russia With Love gets a (guess what) rather slow, but full, airing. Dark drama returns in the bizarely-titled “Centrifuge and Corinne Put Down”, with low strings providing some of the score’s darkest moments before easily the most fast-paced action material appears in the piece’s second half. “Bond Smells a Rat” is action music of sorts, more suspenseful though, and needless to say rather slow moving.

It’s the least showy of Barry’s James Bond scores and can only be termed “deliberately-paced”, but I still find Moonraker to make a very strong album. It’s a short one, only 32 minutes, and because the score was recorded in Paris and the tapes subsequently lost, apparently an expanded release will never happen; but it’s such a well-produced album, while I’m sure a lot of Barry fans would disagree, I think this is a perfectly good album as it is. Those raised on more recent Bonds would surely be shocked if they saw the film, and almost certainly also if they heard this score; but I think it makes a fine addition to any Bond music collection.

Review by James Southall, Movie-Wave.net

John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003


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Tracklist:

01. Main Title - Moonraker (3:12)
02. Space Lazer Battle (2:50)
03. Miss Goodhead Meets Bond (2:49)
04. Cable Car And Snake Fight (3:10)
05. Bond Lured To Pyramid (2:07)
06. Flight Into Space (6:32)
07. Bond Arrives In Rio And Boat Chase (2:40)
08. Centrifuge And Corinne Put Down (2:37)
09. Bond Smells A Rat (2:26)
10. End Title - Moonraker (2:29)


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John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003

John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003

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