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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You didn't think I'd miss this performance, 21 Jul 2003
By A Customer
The Living Daylights was a landmark movie in a long-running series, by far the best Bond film that appeared in the 1980s. One key feature of the film’s success was John Barry’s excellent score, and this CD gives us a chance to relive some of the film’s finest musical moments. We have, of course, ah-a’s superior title track, and two songs performed by The Pretenders, but more interesting are Barry’s instrumental offerings on the soundtrack. ‘The Sniper was a Woman’ and ‘Koskov Escapes’ are full of atmosphere and suspense. ‘Necros Attacks’ and ‘Ice Chase’ are thrilling and action-packed. Particularly memorable is ‘Kara Meets Bond’, with its enigmatic opening and evocative flute solo, perhaps the finest love theme in any Bond film. Also worthy of note is the epic sweep of ‘Mujahadin and Opium’, which both looks back to Barry’s earlier Bond scores and anticipates his Oscar-winning work on Dances with Wolves. This reissue also includes some intriguing bonus material, including the music from the film’s teaser sequence (in the form of ‘Exercise at Gibraltar’), as well as ‘Murder at the Fair’, ‘Final Confrontation’, and some ‘Alternative End Titles’. An essential purchase for anyone even vaguely interested in Bond music -- or simply for anyone who enjoyed the film.
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
outstanding soundtrack!, 8 Jan 2004
Before he died, Cubby Broccoli commented that he did not care for the A-ha's The Loving Daylight theme and hey would return to he ballad style of Bond songs. That sort of shocked me, when I read that, for I consider The Loving Daylights one of the top three - Tom Jones' Thunderball and Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger the other two. A-ha was he first Timothy Dalton string of Bond Film, so maybe that express some of Cubby's displeasure. While Dalton made a good boy, he was too tenderhearted for some. This sound track, with all the beautiful John Barry music, rocks. The music is bright, incisive and sensual. Some sound tracks give you small cuts of music from the film, but this gives your wonderful full-length songs that just floats around you and lifts you up! I use this soundtrack for my aerobics' work out. It is the perfect lengths and pace to do a complete workout. A-ha's song just gets the blood to pumping! It makes
the hour pass so fast and is fun.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Saved the best until last!, 2 May 2003
From his orchestration of the James Bond theme in 1962 to this orignal soundtrack Barry has composed many of the great Bond films, his factor is an essential component as it brings them to life much more.This is the 25th Anniversary film, and Barry must have known it had to be a bit a special. Keeping the idea of using a popular band of the times after the success of Duran Duran's A View to a Kill, Barry opted for the very talented A-ha whose hits included the brilliant Take on Me. The blending of Barry and A-Ha is timeless and we are left with on of the most lively, modern sounding and orignal Bond theme of the decade. One band is not enough for Bond and Barry, working with the Pretenders he worked on two incidental classics: Where has everybody gone and If there was a man. Where has everybody gone, is a classic song with a powerful sound. It is also is presented in the film to introduce action and suspense. If there was a man, is a powerful love song, it brings life to the strong scenes with Bond and Kara in the movie. Other highlights of this album include the synthesised based Ice Chase. The most modern version of the Bond theme up to that point. It has a great synthesiser based beat with the traditional orchestral in the background like many other action themes in the score. This is the soundtrack that really moves with an excellent movie and stands alone as a geninus score. Barry will excite you, move you and thrill you all in your own home. Perhaps Barry's best score, and a great bow out to a key figure in the quite amazing world of 007!
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