Best of the James Bond Themes

Best of the James Bond Themes Artist: Various Artists
Label: Madacy Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 056775545420
EAN: 0056775545420
ASIN: B000000L8L


Release Date: 1994-09-12

Best of the James Bond Themes


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Tracks:

  1. Dr. No: James Bond Theme
  2. License To Kill
  3. The Living Daylights
  4. Never Say Never Again
  5. The Man With The Golden Gun
  6. A View To A Kill
  7. Octopussy: All Time High
  8. Casino Royale: Theme
  9. For Your Eyes Only
  10. Live And Let Die
  11. From Russia With Love
  12. Diamonds Are Forever

Tracks:

  1. You Only Live Twice
  2. Nobody Does It Better
  3. Thunderball
  4. Moonraker
  5. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  6. Goldfinger
  7. 007
  8. Blues For Dr. No
  9. Pussy Galore Meets Bond
  10. 'M' Joins The Hunt
  11. Death Of Goldfinger
  12. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Its Has A Special Surprise!.......2005-03-19

I am the first to admit that this is a flawed product. As a longtime collecter and fan of the "Bond Genre" I have heard a lot of Bond covers and most of these on this disc fall short. There are some redeeming aspects to most songs but the arrangement is questionable on many and the "mix" lacking in others. So.. the question is "Why the great rating?". Well.. simply put there are four tracks on disc two directly lifted from what I ( and many others.. judging from auction bids) consider one of the most dynamic cover albums of the early Bond days.It is "James Bond Thrillers" by The Zero Zero Seven Band released in 1965 by Somerset Music. I know of no other version of any of these songs on CD (other than custom jobs direct from album). Which songs? I won't say.. but beleive me.. when the guitar twang and the soaring blasts of the "smoky nightclub saxophone" wail out you will definitely notice the difference from what previous tracks had to offer. I paid less than ...well..I cant say... but I am smiling BIG.

1 out of 5 stars "Best of the James Bond Themes"?...only the titles.......2001-11-30

This by far the worst of the renditions of the Bond themes. First, all of the performers (I can't call them singers), sound worse than the worst (aka cheeziest) Las Vegas lounge act. And since I live in Vegas, you can believe me when I say this. Second, the orchestrations are horrific. Third, there are some songs that don't even exist in the movies! This waste of time and energy is good for one thing...a big LAUGH! If you get together with your fellow hardcore Bond fans and play this CD, get drunk and laugh for hours. This is a pathetic effort to cash in on Bond.

5 out of 5 stars So tacky, it's an Austin-Powers must have!.......2001-07-15

This cd is bad. It sounds like an aging big band mentally stuck in the fifties recorded it in the seventies, still believing they were cool long after popular culture had moved beyond their genre. What is so charming about it, however, is that it is played with sincerity and amateurish devotion, as if recorded for an Austin-Powers soundtrack, but this is the real thing. Particularly tacky-hilarious are "From Russia With Love", "Diamonds are Forever", "You Only Live Twice" and "Goldfinger". Buy this for the laughs, it will be a huge hit at your next party.

1 out of 5 stars Bond could use these CD's as skeet practice........2001-03-01

Expecting a wonderful rendition of the great themes from the James Bond movies but by different artists, I instead ended up with woefully imitated (at times VERY imitated), badly sung rip-offs. Not all of the songs like Diamonds are Forever even have the singing! Some songs like Man With The Golden Gun and On Her Majestie's Secret Service don't even sound like their original incarnations! A bad or unpopular song like Golden Gun could have benefitted greatly from a redo! I got rid of this CD "collection" like a live grenade (I will not even comment on the atroctious rendition of Nobody Does it Better.) Stick with the original The Best Of Bond... James Bond 007 for supiorior music by the original artists. You need these CD's like you need Blofeld feeding you to some piranna's. It's awful.

1 out of 5 stars

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  5. Brain Powered 2 ~ Yoko Kanno , Maaya Sakamoto , and Steve Conte
  6. Texhnolyze: Man of Men ~ Keishi Urata , and Hajime Mizoguchi
  7. Larger Than Life (Soundtrack) ~ Original Soundtrack
  8. Digimon Tamers Song Carnival ~ Japanimation
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Live at RTSI ~ Lucio Dalla

Roppongi Revolution ~ Various Artists

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