James Bond - Bond Back in Action [SOUNDTRACK] [Soundtrack]

james bond - bond back in action [soundtrack] [soundtrack]

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This ensemble, which specializes in film-score covers, revisits Bond in a roster that spans from Dr. No to Diamonds Are Forever. The focus is mostly on previously unreleased scores and action cues assembled into suites. The style, while grand and reverential, has the lackluster quality often inherent in semiclassical approaches to orchestral pop. The collection does shine occasionally, thanks mostly to the counterpoint of electronic keyboards and guitar touches that include Vic Flick--the man who provided the original surf licks on the familiar "James Bond Theme." The highlight is a nicely arranged and crisply engineered main theme to From Russia with Love. The liner notes also provide some useful information about how John Barry's style had evolved with each movie. --Joseph Lanza

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Another Essential James Bond Recording
A must have, for any James Bond Fan.
Great as an introduction ï¿½ but collectors, only think twice
Really good, but...
Good idea, flawed execution

James Bond - Bond Back in Action [SOUNDTRACK]
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The Essential James Bond (Film Score Re-recording Anthology)

ASIN: B00002EPWM
Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

Dr. No: The James Bond Theme
Medley: Dr. No: Suite: Death Of the Tarantula/Killing the Guard/Death Of Dr. No
From Russia With Love: Suite: Main Title
Medley: From Russia With Love: Suite: The Zagreb Express/Gypsy Camp
From Russia With Love: Suite: The Golden Horn
From Russia With Love: Suite: Girl Trouble
From Russia With Love: Suite: 007 Takes the Lektor
Medley: Goldfinger: Suite: Into Miami/Alpine Drive
Goldfinger: Suite: Dawn Raid At Fort Knox
Medley: Thunderball: Suite: The Bomb/Cafe Martinique (Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)
Medley: Thunderball: Suite: Fight On the Disco Volante/Death Of Largo-Finale
Medley: You Only Live Twice: Suite: Bond's Funeral/The Human Torpedo/Mountains And Sunsets
Medley: You Only Live Twice: Suite: The Wedding/James Bond Averts WWIII/Capsule In Space
Medley: On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Suite: This Never Happened To the Other Fella'/Gumbold's Safe Break
Medley: On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Suite: Bond Meets the Girls/Who Will Buy My Yesterdays?
Medley: On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Suite: Escape From Piz Gloria And the Ski Chase
Medley: Diamonds Are Forever: Suite: Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd/Moon Buggy Ride
Medley: Diamonds Are Forever: Suite: Blofeld's Laser/Killing Wint And Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever: Suite: Diamonds Are Forever

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This ensemble, which specializes in film-score covers, revisits Bond in a roster that spans from Dr. No to Diamonds Are Forever. The focus is mostly on previously unreleased scores and action cues assembled into suites. The style, while grand and reverential, has the lackluster quality often inherent in semiclassical approaches to orchestral pop. The collection does shine occasionally, thanks mostly to the counterpoint of electronic keyboards and guitar touches that include Vic Flick--the man who provided the original surf licks on the familiar "James Bond Theme." The highlight is a nicely arranged and crisply engineered main theme to From Russia with Love. The liner notes also provide some useful information about how John Barry's style had evolved with each movie. --Joseph Lanza

Customer Reviews:

Another Essential James Bond Recording.......2005-01-20

This CD contains both music still unavailable on any soundtrack and suites constructed to immerse the listener into the highly impressionable and pleasurable music of the cinematic James Bond experience. The background score for DR. NO is virtually non-existent except for one cut (The Island Speaks) on the original soundtrack CD. Here we finally get a suite (track 2) of Monty Norman's score for DR. NO and it is brilliant. The reconstruction of the musical elements from DR. NO recorded digitally is impeccable and very impressive. I think it is outstanding and made me re-think the valuable contribution to the James Bond series that Monty Norman has made. This alone makes this CD an essential recording to own. From an esthetic perspective the tandem suites (tracks 12 and 13) from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE are beautifully haunting yet powerful and evoke the aura of 007 as only John Barry so brilliantly can. These two tracks are pure Barry. The FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE score is also well presented (tracks 3 thru 7) including a previously unreleased cut (Zagreb Express) and highlighted throughout with Vic Flick's impeccable guitar work. I also enjoyed the music from GOLDFINGER and THUNDERBALL. The DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER main title (track 19) is beautifully nostalgic and makes one yearn for those days when this film was first released. Considering any attempt to include the synthesized elements that were originally included, the score to ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE has always been a difficult one to reconstruct. A commendable job is done here. Nic Raine and the Prague Philharmonic demonstrate some outstanding craftsmanship on this CD and I highly recommend it. I play this CD quite often

A must have, for any James Bond Fan........2004-03-30

A great CD to have! It has great soundtracks from select 007 films.
Great recreated songs, with great sound. A Must have!

Great as an introduction ï¿½ but collectors, only think twice.......2002-11-08

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I bought 'The Classic John Barry', conducted by Nic Raine and performed by the Prague Philharmonic some years ago, and it turned me right off these re-creations. Raine's conducting of pieces such as 'Raise the Titanic' was too rapid, while his 'Eleanor and Franklin' was cut short. Two of John Barry's finest third-decade themes were ruined.

Since then, I have stayed away from Raine. I preferred the Joel McNeely 'Body Heat' re-creation and while the timing wasn't perfect, there was some conducting panache to it that made it more Barry-like to me. 'Somewhere in Time' as conducted by John Debney wasn't as good from my perspective, but then it is hard to create the same emotion given Barry's own personal circumstances around the time of the original score.

However, I still bought 'Bond back in Action'. Here, I can finally tell why some fans regard Raine as one of the best interpreters of John Barry's work. He certainly is the most prolific. ...these tracks are 85 per cent faithful and there are some marvellous moments with the cues from 'Thunderball' onwards. However, some are lacklustre for the same reasons as the earlier Raine album: going back, 'Goldfinger' cues such as 'Into Miami' sounds less stereo than stereotypical; the theme from 'From Russia with Love' is rushed, though it can grow on you; 'The James Bond Theme' at the beginning lacks both the originality of the oft-heard Norman version or the sheer gut feel of the 1962 Barry recording.

Some of the later cues are not that great: bits of 'OHMSS' are flat, particularly 'This Never Happened to the Other Fella', which is on the OST anyway; and the 'Escape from Piz Gloria' does not sound as taut as the film version. 'Diamonds Are Forever' is interesting in that the arrangement is closer to the one Barry first used in his early 1970s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performance rather than anything from the film. That said, it is fuller and more spectacular than the original, with Raine putting the Prague Philharmonic to good use.

So know there are musicians taking odd liberties. However, there are few enough to make me splash out. My recommendation: if you're a diehard Barry fan, listen to the clips here or at a CD store first, and see if Raine and the Prague Philharmonic's liberties are tolerable (in the context of the compression and your computer's speakers). Also note that the manuscripts for a lot of this work have disappeared so one must congratulate Raine for his patience and service to the music of John Barry and the James Bond series.

If you are a purist who must have very close re-creations, then stay away, since these RealAudio tracks at Amazon.com are fairly representative.

For me, for the first time, I feel I can sincerely look the orchestratorýconductor in the eye and thank Mr Raine for his work. A good mixture of tracks, with flaws in the execution that I can live with.

Really good, but..........2002-08-29

I was really excited about this and couldn't wait to hold it in my hands and I was not that much dissapointed.
It might be a bit unusual that some tracks are combined into one, for example "This never happened to the other fella" and "Gumbold's safe break", but it's not that much puzzling.
Let me say that Nic Raine did an excellent job in reconstructing the scores, when you pay attention to the fact that the originals are lost. Unfortunately, the very one track I definitely looked forward to most, the ski chase music from OHMSS, is in my opinion [messed] up. And, yes, there's also something wrong with the James Bond Theme. It absolutely doesn't sound like the original. For some reason, it remembers me the Bond Theme from the Agent Under Fire video game.
All in all, it's a pretty fine CD, but it's the ski chase music that makes your stomach hurt.

Good idea, flawed execution.......2001-10-28

Perhaps a CD as ambitious as BBiA would find it impossible to satisfy all listeners simply due to its aim: to reconstruct the lost music of the Bond flicks, as well as update old favourites. But it doesn't fully realise half of its potential, which is doubly irksome when you realise that this album was helmed by talents Nic Raine and the Prague Philharmonic, both excellent musical entities in their own respective rights. What gives?

One point that's particularly irritating is that a good percentage of the music is already available, and more to the point, is available in direct-from-film versions instead of interpretations or "second-hand" recordings like we have here. For example, there is nothing at all new from "Thunderball" or "Goldfinger" and only one brief minute-or-so clip from "From Russia With Love" -- the rest being previously released, and not only that, the versions that appear here are not faithful to the movies. The most obvious error is frequently speed and duration: while precise matching of cues to the movie music is probably too much to ask for from such a recording, a lot of the tracks sound very rushed compared to the originals.

Of the movies that do have significant unreleased material appearing here ("Dr. No", "You Only Live Twice", "OHMSS" and "Diamonds are Forever") the quality is similarly uneven. The Monty Norman James Bond theme, while in a fit of brilliance calling back Vic Flick to do the honours, sounds like the orchestra had been doped up on Thorazine. However, the unreleased No "tracks" (one big medley) are probably 85% faithful. There is a large amount of new material from "OHMSS" as well, and "Diamonds" fans will be elated to finally have a decent version of the Wint/Kidd theme, haunting sax melody and all which is agonisingly *almost, ALMOST* identical to the film (a personal favourite of mine). Alas, of particular note, "Moon Buggy Ride" is played at hyperspeed and also lacks the lazy version of the title theme played in the Whyte House -- stick to the official score album for this excellent track.

Where this album excels, however, is unfortunately in its collector's value, not its musical value. The CD is in an arresting red jewel case, with a surprisingly lucid and entertaining booklet with film and soundtrack notes. This alone may be enough for more rabid Bond groupies to buy this, no matter what they think of the music.

There is much unavailable musical genius in John Barry's work on the early Bond movies, and the bottom line is this is the only place you'll find it. While this audacious attempt is the sole way you can fill this artistic void, disappointingly, it does not fill it completely.

James Bond: Back in Action, Vol. 2
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Pretty good within the span of time allotted

How shall I try to put this....

Decent, not outstanding...

Perhaps Not a "Must" But Still Good

"007 Films Scores by Nic Raine & City of Prague Gang"

James Bond: Back in Action, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Silva America
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ASIN: B0000507Z4
Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

The Man With The Golden Gun - Suite: Kung Fu Fight/Lets Go Get 'Em/In Search Of Scaramanga's Island
The Man With The Golden Gun - Suite: Chew Me In Grisly Land/Hip's Trip/Return To Scaramanga's...
The Man With The Golden Gun - Suite: Slow Boat From China/Nick Nack/The Man With The Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me: Ride To Atlantis
The Spy Who Loved Me: The Tanker
Moonraker - Suite: Arrival At Chateau Drax/Freefall
Moonraker - Suite: Miss Goodhead Meets Bond/Bond Lured To The Pyramids
Moonraker - Suite: Flight Into Space
For Your Eyes Only: Main Theme
Octopussy - Suite: Bond Meets Octopussy/Bond Look Alike/The Place Fight
A View To A Kill - Suite: Wine With Stacey/Fanfare/Snow Job
The Living Daylights - Suite: Koskov Escapes/Hercules Take Off
The Living Daylights - Suite: Mujjahadin/Afghanistan Plan
The Living Daylights - Suite: Air Bond/Necros Attacks
The Living Daylights - Suite: End Title (Alternative Version)
Golden Eye: Tank Drive Around St. Petersburg (Film Version)

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good within the span of time allotted.......2001-11-08

It is disappointing that there are no "License to Kill" or "Live and Let Die" cues in this CD. Some of the remaining cues, such as from "For Your Eyes Only" and "A View to a Kill" are unfortunately brief.

On the other hand, the producers _did_ try to condense almost 20 years of music onto a single CD. Compare this to the first collection, which encapsulated about 10 years of music - obviously much more time to devote to each individual film. Ah, if only they could've done, say, a Roger Moore CD and then a Dalton/Brosnan CD. In any case, I didn't really miss "License to Kill" all that much - while it works great on film, Kamen's score here seems a bit too sparse and incidental (bordering on meandering) to really produce enjoyable standalone pieces. ("Brazil" or "Die Hard", on the other hand...)

That said, this is a rather fine collection. What's particularly interesting are the breaks from Barry's scores - the lavish string arrangements for Conti's "For Your Eyes Only" (if only they added the disco cues, but again see above comments) and Hamlisch's jet-setty "Ride to Atlantis" provide an interesting contrast from the string pads and brass fanfare that dominate the remainder of the CD. John Altman's "GoldenEye" contribution is a refreshing interpretation of the original Bond theme.

I happen to have the Rykodisc version of "The Living Daylights", so there's nothing new here for my favorite score of the Bond films. Seems also like they set the drum machine a little too fast for "Hercules Take Off"....

How shall I try to put this...........2001-07-13

I thoroughly enjoyed the first 'Bond Back In Action', and I really tried to like this. While it has it's high's (like the 'TLD' and 'GE' parts, as well as 'TSWLM' and 'FYEO'), it had it's terrible, crash and burn, lows, such as: what ever happened to 'LALD'?? What, did it suddenly get lost? And doing music from 'TMWTGG'? That was some of the corniest music (Chinese overtones? I know we're supposed to be in the Far East and all, but please spare me).

One of the very first things I noticed when I got the CD: the packaging was very poor and just done very badly (like a trained monkey had put the thing together), and, in addition, the front cover of the case had a big 2-inch crack in it.

Sadly put: this CD could've been better. Lots better.

Decent, not outstanding..........2001-02-11

I wish I could say I love this album, but it doesn't compare to Bond Back in Action 1. It seems like a lot of stuff was left out and some songs don't sound like the originals. Not that this album is bad, its just not impressive. After the first one, I was expecting more. But for Bond fans, what's included is good and is worth listening to.

Perhaps Not a "Must" But Still Good.......2001-01-12

This the third anthology of James Bond film music done by Nic Raine and The City of Prague Philharmonic. The interpretations and performances for this recording are perhaps the best of the three. But as with any review of earlier film scores, there are ups and downs here. The good news is that there are several positives with this recording, including the performances and interpretations. Several of the sutites are quite enjoyable, especially "The Man with the Golden Gun," "Moonraker," and "A View to a Kill." Bravo, as well, to the "new music" from "Golden Gun," "Moonraker," and "Living Daylights." The best cut is "Fanfare" from "The Living Daylights," and this is no surprise, since Raine worked with John Barry on the original soundtrack. The down side includes music still missing: a full pre-credit suite from "Moonraker" and "Octopussy," and the "Welcome to India" flourish or fanfare from "Octopussy." Oddly, the best pieces are all by Barry, and the least impressive are the non-Barry inclusions which still fail to excite despite a noble effort by Raine. The music from "Goldeneye" remains a problem, there is no way around this reality. The packaging is disappointing, but adequate. Overall, however, this is still a very worthy effort and worth the price.

"007 Films Scores by Nic Raine & City of Prague Gang".......2000-12-14

Silva Screen presents a follow-up to their previous releases of the most famous "Secret Agent" ever to grace the big screen - "The names Bond, James Bond!". Our bigger than life hero has appeared in many forms - Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan - all capable actors with an aire of complete confidence in saving the world.

To assist our hero are various film score composers - John Barry, Bill Conti, Marvin Hamilsch, Eric Serra and Monty Norman, all have attained immortality and classic status in film scoring. Monty Norman had done the famous James Bond Theme of sorts, but John Barry gave it the polish with a new arrangement, a guitar, different accompaniments and so forth...now recognized world wide as the most popular theme ever.

Nic Raine who was fortunate to work with composers - Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, George Fenton, Gerald Gouriet and Stanley Myers...but was passionate when he orchestrated two James Bond scores for John Barry - "A View To A Kill" and "The Living Daylights" and conducted both Silva Screen's release "THE CLASSIC JOHN BARRY" and "THE ESSENTIAL JAMES BOND" with The City of Prague Philharmonic.

This latest album "BOND BACK IN ACTION 2", with a faithful and outstanding interpretation in the form of suites which incorporate some of the best "action" cues - some material that hadn't been available before. Nic Raine adapted and changed the material where necessary for the demands of a 75-piece orchestra. This is a "must have" for "film-score-buffs" and "movie-music" collectors!

Total Time: 65:38 on 16 Tracks...Silva Screen 1119...(2000)

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