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Monty Norman - Dr. No: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1962) Remastered 2003

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Monty Norman - Dr. No: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1962) Remastered 2003

Monty Norman - Dr. No: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1962) Remastered 2003
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 231 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 102 Mb | Scans included
Label: EMI, Capitol | # 72435-80890-2-8 | Time: 00:39:47
Soundtrack, Score, Latin Jazz, Easy Listening

Musically, in terms of being a James Bond score, Dr. No is the weakest of the soundtrack albums in the film series, with only Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" marking out familiar territory. But as a piece of music and a pop culture artifact, Dr. No may be the most interesting album in the whole output of the James Bond series. A good portion of the most memorable music in the film, including "Kingston Calypso" (the "Three Blind Mice" theme from the opening of the film) and "Jump Up," constituted mainstream American (and European) audiences' introduction to the sounds of Byron Lee & the Dragonaires (who also appeared in the movie, performing "Jump Up"), who became one of the top Jamaican music acts in the world just a couple of years later; sharp-eyed viewers can catch a young white man dancing in that same scene, incidentally, who is none other than Chris Blackwell, the future founder of Island Records.

Adele - Skyfall (2012) CD Single

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Adele - Skyfall (2012) CD Single

Adele - Skyfall (2012) CD Single
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 58 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 25 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Vocal Pop | Label: XL Recordings | # XLS593CD | Time: 00:09:35

"Skyfall" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for the James Bond film of the same name. It was written by Adele and producer Paul Epworth and features orchestration by J. A. C. Redford. The film company Eon Productions invited the singer to work on the theme song in early 2011, a task that Adele accepted after reading the film's script. While composing the song, Adele and Epworth aimed to capture the mood and style of the other Bond themes, including dark and moody lyrics descriptive of the film's plot. "Skyfall" was released at 0:07 BST on 5 October 2012 as part of the Global James Bond Day, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the first James Bond film.

John Barry - Octopussy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) Reissue 2003

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John Barry - Octopussy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) Reissue 2003

John Barry - Octopussy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) Reissue 2003
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 194 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 84 Mb | Scans ~ 53 Mb
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Capitol Records | # 7243 5 41450 2 5 | 00:36:06

Octopussy is the soundtrack for the eponymous thirteenth James Bond film. The score was composed by John Barry, the lyrics by Tim Rice. The opening theme, "All Time High" is sung by Rita Coolidge and is one of six Bond film title songs or songs that are not named after film's title.

Thomas Newman - Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2012) [Re-Up]

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Thomas Newman - Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2012) [Re-Up]

Thomas Newman - Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2012)
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 381 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 177 Mb | Scans ~ 77 Mb
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Sony Classical | # 887654013026 | Time: 01:17:31

The SKYFALL motion picture soundtrack features original score music by Thomas Newman. Newman is one of the most respected and recognized composers for modern film. He has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades. The film is the 23rd James Bond adventure and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the movie franchise.

Marvin Hamlisch, Carly Simon - The Spy Who Loved Me: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1977) Remastered 2003

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Marvin Hamlisch, Carly Simon - The Spy Who Loved Me: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1977) Remastered 2003

Marvin Hamlisch - The Spy Who Loved Me: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1977/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 189 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 94 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Easy Listening, Disco | Label: Capitol | # 72435-41469-2-3 | 00:36:20

The Spy Who Loved Me is the soundtrack for the tenth James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me. The soundtrack is one of only two Bond soundtracks to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The theme song "Nobody Does It Better" was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and was performed by Carly Simon. It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to "You Light Up My Life". It was one of five Bond theme songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

George Martin, Paul & Linda McCartney - Live And Let Die: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1973) Expanded Reissue 2003

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George Martin, Paul & Linda McCartney - Live And Let Die: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1973) Expanded Reissue 2003

George Martin, Paul & Linda McCartney - Live And Let Die (1973)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Expanded Remastered 2003

EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 348 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 140 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Pop/Rock, Lounge | Label: EMI, Capitol | # 72435-41421-2-3 | 00:56:33

Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name. It was scored by George Martin. The title song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was the first Bond film score not to involve John Barry. The digitally remastered CD re-release, 2003, as well as adding eight additional tracks also extended several of the original ones, such as Bond Meets Solitaire.

John Barry - Diamonds Are Forever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971) Expanded Remastered 2003

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John Barry - Diamonds Are Forever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971) Expanded Remastered 2003

John Barry - Diamonds Are Forever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 416 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Capitol/EMI/MGM | # 72435-41420-2-4 | 01:15:48

Diamonds Are Forever has undergone a somewhat less significant though thoroughly pleasing expansion with the February 2003 release of the remastered, expanded version. Still mid-priced, the disc features 24 additional minutes of music from the completed film – included is "Gunbarrel and Manhunt," alternating between original John Barry music and Barry's variations on Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme," and the musical accompaniment to various key action scenes, as well as some playful romantic scoring for some of Sean Connery's romantic activities. The main virtue is the improved sound (which greatly benefits Shirley Bassey's finely nuanced performance of the title song) on what was an entertaining and distinctive, if not terribly creative or ambitious score, a somewhat closer relative to Barry's work on Goldfinger and to the exoticism of You Only Live Twice or the bold, near-symphonic scope of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The annotation is reasonably thorough, although on this occasion it focuses far more on the movie than on the music.

John Barry - On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1969) Expanded Remastered 2003

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John Barry - On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1969) Expanded Remastered 2003

John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Nina - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Expanded Remastered Reissue 2003

EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 432 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 194 Mb | Scans included
Label: Capitol, EMI, MGM Music | # 72435-41419-2-8 | 01:19:47
Soundtrack, Score, Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Lounge

John Barry's best score for any James Bond movie – including the best song ("We Have All the Time in the World") ever written for any movie in the series – is reasonably well represented on this CD. Barry had already begun adding more diverse and complex orchestral pieces to his underscoring and greater lyricism to his songs with the preceding movie, You Only Live Twice, and he continued the process with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The serious nature of its plot, however, and the unique mood of the movie, dictated that almost an entirely new score be devised: the brassy "007 Theme," which had appeared in three prior films, was absent, and the "James Bond Theme" was re-arranged. Barry also wrote one of his longest and most easily embellished action themes (heavily featuring the synthesizer, an instrument new to film scores), and dressed it up with a string section playing running scales that is startling to hear in stereo, with the discreet separation of the orchestral parts. And then there was "We Have All the Time in the World," the best song ever written for the Bond series; a serious, poignant love song that underscores the doomed romance between Bond and Tracy (Diana Rigg), it was sung by Louis Armstrong in what proved to be the jazz legend's final recording session.

John Barry, Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1967) Expanded Remastered 2003

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John Barry, Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1967) Expanded Remastered 2003

John Barry, Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1967/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 366 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 178 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: EMI/Capitol | # 7243 5 41418 2 9 | 01:12:45

You Only Live Twice is the soundtrack for the fifth James Bond film of the same name. It was composed by Bond veteran John Barry. At the time, this was his fourth credited Bond film. The theme song, "You Only Live Twice", was sung by Nancy Sinatra, the first non-British vocalist of the series, with music by Barry and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The soundtrack has previously been available in two versions on CD – the first, a straight reissue of the LP soundtrack, and the second, an expanded reissue including several previously unreleased tracks.

John Barry - From Russia With Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1963) Remastered 2003

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John Barry - From Russia With Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1963) Remastered 2003

John Barry - From Russia With Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1963/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 213 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 94 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Easy Listening | Label: EMI, Capitol | # 72435-80588-2-6 | 00:36:54

After the surprise success of 1962's Dr. No, the producers of the budding James Bond series began to establish what would become its trademark elements, with its debonair anti-hero frolicking libidinously through increasingly amped-up foreign intrigue and exotic locales. Musically, this soundtrack represents perhaps their most crucial decision: hiring band leader/budding composer John Barry as scorer. Abandoning the first film's calypso kitsch for an orchestra powered cocktail of elegance and jazzy sophistication, Barry immediately gave the Bond saga a focused musical language that would become arguably its most consistent element over the decades and amidst a revolving series of lead actors and increasingly improbable cinematic predicaments. While anchored by a medley that includes Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme," this soundtrack also introduced another longstanding Bond tradition, the pop-ballad title track/single, here penned by Lionel Bart and sung with urgent conviction by British crooner Matt Munro. This digitally remastered new edition features new liner notes, as well as artwork and stills from the film.

John Barry - Goldfinger: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1964) Remastered 2003

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John Barry - Goldfinger: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1964) Remastered 2003

John Barry - Goldfinger: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1964/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 225 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 105 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: EMI, Capitol | # 72435-80891-2-7 | 00:41:13

One of John Barry's best efforts, with a particularly striking title song belted out by Shirley Bassey between blasting brass fills, Goldfinger was also the first James Bond soundtrack to hit the number one spot on the U.S. charts (ironically, displacing another United Artists soundtrack, A Hard Day's Night), even as Bassey's performance hit number eight as a single. While Barry effectively expanded his collection of Bond themes with Thunderball (underwater themes) and You Only Live Twice (space themes), Goldfinger was a prime opportunity to lock in some of the action themes that would recur over the next 35 years. Of particular note is the track compiling Barry's cues for the robbery of Fort Knox ("Dawn Raid on Fort Knox"), which provides a slow build so wonderfully agonizing that the remainder of the album, including "The Arrival of the Bomb and Count Down," with its pounding drums and roaring brass, actually serves as stress relief. In February of 2003, Goldfinger was issued in a remastered edition that featured not only significantly improved sound but also added an extra nine minutes of music, contained in four sections of the soundtrack that originally appeared only on the British LP edition.