The Best Of Bond
James Bond (2008/Capitol Records DVD/CD Set)
Picture:
C Sound: B- Extras: B- Music: B
One of
the greatest legacies of the James Bond films have been its music and theme
songs, so much so that as movies and especially TV shows have dropped them,
they seem more like a Bondian thing than anything else. Over the years as a promo for the series and
its music, Capitol Records has often issued compilations of the theme songs and
in chronological order. The Best Of Bond
James Bond (2008)
includes all the theme songs up to the prior film before the one out now. Here you get:
1)
The James Bond Theme John Barry Orchestra
2)
From Russia With Love Matt Monro
3)
Goldfinger Shirley Bassey
4)
Thunderball Tom Jones
5)
You Only Live Twice Nancy Sinatra
6)
On Her Majestys Secret Service John Barry Orchestra
7)
We Have All The Time In The World Louis Armstrong
8)
Diamonds Are Forever Shirley Bassey
9)
Live & Let Die Paul McCartney & Wings
10) The Man With The Golden Gun Lulu
11) Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me) Carly Simon
12) Moonraker Shirley Bassey
13) For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton
14) All Time High (from Octopussy) Rita Coolidge
15) A View To A Kill Duran Duran
16) The Living Daylights A-Ha
17) Licence To Kill Gladys Knight
18) Goldeneye Tina Turner
19) Tomorrow Never Dies Sheryl Crow
20) Surrender (end theme to Tomorrow Never Dies) k.d. lang
21) The World Is Not Enough Garbage
22) Die Another Day Madonna
23) You Know My Name (from Casino Royale) Chris Cornell
24) BONUS: James Bond Theme John Arnold
The PCM
16/44.1 2.0 Stereo sound on the CD is decent for the format, sounding on par
with the recent series of reissues of some of the soundtracks as upgraded a few
years ago. I was not always happy with
the 5.1 versions (even the DTS) within the respective films on the current wave
of DVD and now Blu-ray upgrades of the films, so this is a fine set to have if
you are a fan and to compare to any of the films you now own on disc. The PCM 16/48 2.0 Stereo on the DVD is just
as good, sounding clear and clean, with Music Videos for tracks 15, 13, 18, 16,
14 and live version of 3 (Shirley Bassey Live At Royal Albert Hall, 1974,
which deserves its own DVD) that is a great bonus. The Videos can be soft, even when they were
filmed, since they were finished on analog videotape, but maybe an upgrade
could be done down the line? You also
get The
Bond Sound The Music Of 007 featurette, which is a must-see program.
Besides
the bonus track on the CD, extras include the DVD, which we count as such since
a single version has been issued.
For more on the Bond films, start with these links:
Dr. No/From Russia With Love/Thunderball/Live & Let Die/For Your Eyes Only/Die
Another Day Blu-rays
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7716/James+Bond+Blu-ray+Wave+One:+Dr
Casino Royale Blu-ray (original issue with
DVD-Video)
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5088/Casino+Royale+(DVD-Video+++Blu
- Nicholas Sheffo
