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obrigado

You're wrong: every single track is AMAZING!!!! Well some more than others...
This one needs the complete treatment.

NP The Last of the Mohicans
Both the original and the re-recording.

NP: my James Bond mix tape

Well, it's not a mix tape, of course: it's a playlist. But I've pretty much based the selection on my old "Best Of Bond" mix tapes, which I haven't heard for ages.

Interesting how taste changes over time. I used to enjoy the score to Octopussy but loathe the slow cadences of Moonraker. Now I find it's the other way around! My excerpts of the Moonraker score really blow me away with its dark raw power, while the more rhythmic Gobinda Gets The Knife from Octopussy does little for me.
Interestingly I also rather like Serra's New Style for Goldeneye a LOT better than ANYTHING from Kamen's License To Kill...what a stinker of a score.

I dislike the title theme version on the expanded Diamonds Are Forever: its edge has been dulled significantly . I need to get me the original album edition to round out my playlist.

Wow! I don't think it's a stinker whatsoever! Way over the top... hell ya! It's like Die Hard meets Bond. I love Kamen's sound, I love his version of the Bond theme and the variations it goes through in the massive and highly entertaining 9 minute "Licence Revoked" action set piece. IMHO, it's a boat load of fun!

-Erik-

Don't forget Annapolis!! Why doesn't anyone ever mention Annapolis? I think it's easily in Tyler's top 3 scores. And yes, definitely balanced.

So... yes, I'm back! I was away at a convention last weekend. Pimping out those glowy swords I've been building, and walking around dressed like vampire Brad Pitt. Got a lot of fun discussions to catch up with!

NP: Scorpio, Jerry Fielding.
Yes, finally got my copy in the mail, along with a huge order of other CDs. But Scorpio is the first one I popped in because I was so eager to see what the hype was about. Being a Jerry Fielding score, I expected a highly sophisticated and intellectual score but at the core very unfriendly and difficult to have fun with. And so far (up to track 6 now), it seems that is exactly what I'm getting. The jazziness is a bit catchier than expected, perhaps, but still, I'll need convincing before I agree this is the masterpiece everyone says it is. Hard to understand why this sold out as quickly as Goldsmith's Baby.

And please, someone buy that copy of Ice Age: The Meltdown from Justin!! Not saying that just so that we stop hearing about it... but also because such a super-fun Powell score can't go unclaimed like that! It's just plain wrong!

J-F

You don't like that stinger opening!??

I agree with you on Kamen's score but to be fair he didn't have much to work with. Much as I like License To Kill theme song, Kamen had great song writing credentials and should have had a hand in the song.

Kamen's score is one of the very weakest of the entire series.

Curious as to why you think so. I find that Kamen's keeps Barry's spirit alive while at the same time bringing in his own sensibilities.

BTW, well said, HeeroJF. I couldn't have described Kamen's effort any better!

-Erik-

A mostly dark brooding and murky score but unlike Barry there's no "hook" to much of it. I even prefer Conti's score over this one ( well, the NON-disco elements ). It's a better Bond score than Serra's but that's not saying much. Perhaps I'dchange my mind if I heard the whole score in the film but for that I'd have to suffer the film again.

p.s. Jf, nothing wrong with The Krays as a film score but I'm presuming you mean as a listen on album?

Don't hold back, tell us what you think Thomas!??

Have heard it too, i agree.

so I'm not the only one who's heard it????
Pfewww

you want to hear it?

NP - Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - Shigeaki Saegusa

One of my all time favorite Anime score. Heavy on the symphonic side, very melodic, very thematic, and somewhat catchy. Splashes of drum machine for percussion and synthesizers are there and the overall effect is very funk like. Sometime it reminds me of the Bond scores of Hamlisch, Conti and Martin. I like those styles so it immensely enjoyable for me to listen to. There's an abso-freaking-lutely GORGEOUS character theme for the main character, Kamille Bidan, that worth the whole first CD for me. There's even a cheesy guitar solo at the end too (as I'm listen to it right now). There are mucho tension cues that are expertly handled in the most sparse minimalistic approach. In between that and the vignette of pop cues and string pieces, it's an extremely enjoyable and delightful 4hour listen.

NP Appaloosa (Jeff Beal)

Nice main theme, but nothing else.