i've said this before...

[acroyear]

but i love commutes like this.

well, AFTER the school zone and stoplight hell of getting to Reston and getting there a mere seconds before the bus.

After that, it was great...

...'cause in notice of the DVD release of Casino Royale, XM Cinemagic (27) is once again doing its Bond theme song marathon.

For Your Eyes Only just finished.

Now the slightly crappy Octopussy.

Update: a-Ha's Living Daylights remains my personal fav, with Live and Let Die #2.  Cheesy as it is, Tom Jones' Thunderball shows some serious pipes.

Update2: They're so close in style that I almost couldn't tell the difference between Garbage's The World is Not Enough and Sheryl Crow's Tomorrow Never Dies.  However, The World is Not Enough seems to me the best of the Brosnan era themes.  On the other hand I can do without Madonna's Die Another Day.  The worst of her techno-dance excesses.

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[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

For Your Eyes Only just finished.

Now the slightly crappy Octopussy.

Actually, I like the score for Octopussy a lot better than FYEO. Conte's score has not aged well.

The Barry score that is kinda crappy is his score for A View To a Kill. Nothing particularly memorable about that score.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I'm only talking theme songs today.

i did hear some of the scores a couple of days ago and yes, View doesn't hold up well (and Live and Let Die is oddly curious in what george martin did to it).

but in the score department, Kamen's variations on the main themes for License to Kill was astounding. Kinda a Bond meets Lethal Weapon sort of thing going. :)

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I kinda got stuck in the loop of "The Man With The Golden Gun" to "A View To A Kill" every time I got into the car on Tuesday. So, I was dealing with the mixed bag that was the Roger Moore films. It was almost a relief when Barry's scores came back. A lot of forgettable stuff in there.

As for theme songs, the last good one in my eyes was Tina Turner's for "Goldeneye". The producers seem to have forgotten that you really need a great singer to do a Bond theme. Most lately have been pretty forgettable, including Chris Cornell's.

a-ha's actually works because their style fit in with the score.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I was dealing with the mixed bag that was the Roger Moore films.

yeah, they did kinda date those much more than many of the 60s versions (though there's dated sounds in that too, like Thunderball).

Goldeneye was too "typical" for me, more a homage to the classic ballads than a genuine development from it. License to Kill even more so. Nobody's really nailed the ballad with enough originality to make it work for me since "Nobody Does it Better".

On the other hand, Reboot's pastiche to the Bond genre, "Firewall", was excellent. :) (though Al's parody in Spy Hard, while good, could have been better)