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Track Listings
| 1. Allegretto |
| 2. Shine |
| 3. Fuego |
| 4. Strange Paradise |
| 5. Speed |
| 6. Big Love Adagio |
| 7. Kashmir |
| 8. Gypsy Rhapsody |
| 9. Libertango |
| 10. Sahara |
| 11. Ride |
| 12. Space |
| 13. Bond on Bond (James Bond Theme) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the space of two years, Bond has achieved phenomenal international success with healthy record and ticket sales throughout Europe as well as in the Far East, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Shine reflects this with musical influences ranging from India to South America. But this is far from world music; every track has been so heavily produced that the string quartet sound is all but lost amid heavy beats and electronic effects. At its best, Shine is a dance album with a bit of a limp; at its worst it's pure Hooked on Classics. --Rebecca Agnew
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Customer Reviews
The music and artistic quality is of course above exceptional, but the tracks are not as appealing as Born proved they could do.
Whereas Born had the excellent Victory, Shine has nothing to even compare. A couple of the tracks are slightly "toe-tapping" and while all are wonderful to listen to, there are perhaps only two tunes which immediately stood out: Strange Paradise and Bond on Bond. The latter being a reworking of the classic James Bond theme.
I know that Bond were severely and unfairly penalised by the classic charts because they weren't recognised as classical and weren't exactly pop, but at least with Born the music was powerful and made an impact. With shine, the music is pure easy listening, "I'll put you on in the background but not really going to listen to". Which is a shame and a total waste.
Bond are 4 of the best classical musicians at the moment, but alas this album is mediocre. Perhaps we were spoilt by Born, but I was hoping for a lot more, and sadly it failed to deliver.
I was quite hesitant at giving the album a full 5 Stars as I normally reserve that for Albums that have stood the test of time, but this is definitely a good one.
I bought the LP and was pleasntly surprised. Read more
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