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Rich Douglas Oscar® Winner	I picked up Diamonds are Forever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Live and Let Die last night at Tower Records. I must say, it truly is a heavenly experience listening to these! They sound incredible!! Thank you so much to all those involved! I wrote a review of DAF with a track by track analysis for commanderbond.net today. Those of you that want to know what each track contains specifically, check it out, it'll definately make you more excited! Here's the addy: http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/1877-1.shtml Rich
posted 02-11-2003 03:59 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Oscar® Winner	That's great to hear. I'll have copies of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and From Russia With Love arriving to my mailbox quickly (thanks Peter!) Doesn't it seem kinda cheap to lump a bunch of cues into an "Additional and Alternate Cues" track on Diamonds are Forever? I guess since it's $12, I can forgive them. I've got my fingers crossed that there is some sort of improvement of sound quality with the remastered but unexpanded From Russia With Love. If not, it will be disappointing but no great loss. I've been wanting this music for a while now in some form other than Silva's re-recording. [Message edited by jonathan_little on 02-11-2003]
posted 02-11-2003 04:41 PM PT (US)

TV's Frank Oscar® Winner	I think all the Bond score fans are over at FSM.com! There's been no excited responses here, but their board is all lit up... anywho, still reveling in these releases.
posted 02-13-2003 08:21 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Rich Douglas: Expanded Bond Scores Are Here!!! No they aren't!
posted 02-13-2003 09:27 AM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	I'm excited, just haven't bought any yet.
posted 02-13-2003 09:28 AM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	Ya know, I'm really pumped for these releases guys, I just don't have time to sit down and drool over them. I think that's probably the case with a lot of people here. So just because we aren't hyping them up, doesn't mean we aren't equally as excited. If you came into my home, you'd instantly realize how big of a James Bond fan I really am. I don't have much of an income at the moment, so the idea of spending whatever I'd have to in order to acquire all of these great, new discs... is a little daunting and something I'd rather just not think about. I'm 21 years old, a majority of the people here are on average quite a bit younger than the guys over at FSM. So I would imagine my feelings are shared by many people on this board. Take it into consideration. Jeron
posted 02-13-2003 09:36 AM PT (US)

ManOfSorrows Oscar® Winner	They are not in Sweden yet I have no money anyway though... On my account right now: 80 cents.
posted 02-13-2003 10:28 AM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by ManOfSorrows: On my account right now: 80 cents. I feel ya, brother.
posted 02-13-2003 01:39 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Oscar® Winner	OK, my From Russia with Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service discs have arrived. I don't own the original CD releases, so I can't compare, but... OHMSS sounds very good. I just can't believe some of the tracks that were left off of the original disc, like "Escape from Piz Gloria." I still think sequencing all of the "bonus tracks" at the end of the disc is a poor choice. From Russia With Love sounds alright. This is one where the original masters couldn't be found, so the LP master tapes were used. There is a bit of hiss evident, but I'd rather have some hiss over noise reduction. There are some sound issues with specific tracks, especially "007 Takes the Lektor." This isn't anything the producers of this disc could fix, the percussion section was just recorded very poorly. The music is fantastic. I highly recommend both.
posted 02-14-2003 06:05 PM PT (US)

BMikeJ Oscar® Winner	From Russia With Love definitely sounds better than the previous CD release. I'm very much looking forward to the rest of these re-issues.
posted 02-14-2003 08:59 PM PT (US)

Richard Street Oscar® Winner	LALD I ordered last Thursday (from Silva in the UK), and the other two expandeds I just ordered from the USA. $10.99 each, free postage.
posted 02-15-2003 07:31 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Oscar® Winner	Just waiting for Pete to get some more OHMSS and I'm there! Jz NP: You Only Live Twice
posted 02-15-2003 09:24 AM PT (US)

ManOfSorrows Oscar® Winner	Finally being released in Sweden on 31th march. And to the great price of $8.90
posted 03-25-2003 03:02 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	I was surprised to see the remastered version cost so little. Only 11 bucks per CD. I picked up OHMSS and Living Daylight and that pretty much completes my 2cd collection of Barry's Bond music. I didn't like any of the other score from Barry. The new version of OHMSS has more cues with the love themes and that's a definite plus. I've been looking for The Living Daylight RYKO expanded on ebay for cheap, but this CD is way better than what I would have gotten used. I hate the foldout liner notes. Them packaging designers must have had some massive brainfarts when they worked on this. but the Jeff Bond (no relation) notes on OHMSS was very informative. I was sad to find out that Kamen's License to Kill didn't get an expanded/remastered release. Anyone knows why? PS. What was name of the Bond movie that Bill Conti scored? You know the one where Bond went funk and black...?
posted 03-25-2003 10:19 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Oscar® Winner	Those horrible "poster notes" were ported over from the previous Rykodisc release. It seems like EMI probably sent these releases through the pipes pretty quickly and maybe they didn't have time to create new packaging for the Rykodisc re-releases. Bill Conti scored For Your Eyes Only. I believe that Licence to Kill wasn't expanded or re-issued because EMI doesn't own the rights to it.
posted 03-25-2003 11:10 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by jonathan_little: Those horrible "poster notes" were ported over from the previous Rykodisc release. It seems like EMI probably sent these releases through the pipes pretty quickly and maybe they didn't have time to create new packaging for the Rykodisc re-releases. *Bill Conti scored For Your Eyes Only. I believe that Licence to Kill* wasn't expanded or re-issued because EMI doesn't own the rights to it.** Hmmm, that's lame... but hey, I got what I REALLY want (THE SCORES) so all is cool
posted 03-26-2003 12:26 AM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	And I'll definite have to get For Your Eyes Only... One of my favorite Conti
posted 03-26-2003 12:27 AM PT (US)

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