Lost but now found! The Unreleased Bond Music Thread!

mtm · May 25

Love it! Another bit of excellent work. You're doing the Lord's work in restoring to us these nuggets of The Greatest Film Ever Made.

Really looking forward to Pegasus Disappears- that's a lovely little cue.

Beakerweb5576 · May 25

Bravo sir 🫡

DarthDimi · May 25

@mattjoes You are making this seasoned Barry fanatic very, VERY happy! Thank you.

bcalou · May 25

Great work, thank you! I thought the sax was quite good for a virtual instrument.

I love how Barry likes to conclude a lot of his cues with the same kind of low, sustained string chord :D

mtm · May 25

bcalou wrote: »

I love how Barry likes to conclude a lot of his cues with the same kind of low, sustained string chord :D

Yes, I love that chord! :)

May I ask, after Pegasus, which I'm very much looking forward to, do you have any plans to look at the cue where the airship is approaching the bridge at the climax of the film? It's maybe my favourite cue in the film, although I can imagine it might be pretty challenging as it's got the full force of the orchestra going.

mattjoes · May 25

Thanks everyone.

bcalou wrote: »

I love how Barry likes to conclude a lot of his cues with the same kind of low, sustained string chord :D

Classic Barry touch.

mtm wrote: »

May I ask, after Pegasus, which I'm very much looking forward to, do you have any plans to look at the cue where the airship is approaching the bridge at the climax of the film?

Yes.

mtm · May 25

mattjoes wrote: »

Yes.

morcarvic · May 26

on the money again mattjoes,well done and congrats .will you by any chance at a later date be looking at the short cue where zorin declares to gogal that he no longer considers himself a kgb agent.

mattjoes · May 26

mtm wrote: »

mattjoes wrote: »

Yes.

Saved for future use.

morcarvic wrote: »

on the money again mattjoes,well done and congrats .will you by any chance at a later date be looking at the short cue where zorin declares to gogal that he no longer considers himself a kgb agent.

Thank you. I don't have plans to work on that one at the moment. I have a limited selection of cues from the film that I want to reconstruct, and the sinister motif in that cue is already represented in the album, in the track Bond Escapes Roller.

mtm · May 27

When Bond gives his winning ticket to Moneypenny at Ascot, is that the motif from KGB Pipeline being played with the Bond vamp or is it something else? It's a tricky one to make out.

mattjoes · May 27

mtm wrote: »

When Bond gives his winning ticket to Moneypenny at Ascot, is that the motif from KGB Pipeline being played with the Bond vamp or is it something else? It's a tricky one to make out.

No, it's a different melody. Hard to make out, but I think it's two alternating notes. A-G-A-G-A (pause) A-G-A, then repeat 3 more times. Played on flute and clarinet just like KGB Pipeline.

mtm · May 27

Yes I'm sure you're right; I think there's a nice sinister slow drum beat in there too or something like that. It's so full of nice little varied moments like that, I'd love a full score release.

mattjoes · May 27

Yes, very rich score. One of my favorites. I've actually got most of the unreleased music of the film transcribed, but for now I just want to work on what I think are the most interesting cues. It is perhaps an exercise in futility, as it's possible the full score will be released in the near future. If it's not, I might do more tracks than my current plan. Referencing another John Barry-scored film, I feel like John Dunbar in Dances with Wolves, visiting the (musical) frontier before official re-releases make it disappear. It's just that doing this is very enjoyable. You get "inside" the music in a way that doesn't happen when you merely listen to it.

But, of course, there are other scores less likely to get expanded releases. I've also got to complete my own fan-made Bond mini-soundtrack for an imaginary film.

Pegasus Disappears is coming along nicely.

chrisesqetc · May 30

Hi all - while @mattjoes continues to treat us with his excellent releases, I’ve been working on some custom art for the James Bond series. While I am a big fan of much of the official artwork - and also many of the great custom covers created by others over the years - I wanted to try and introduce a consistent style across the collection.

For these covers, I have used the 4K Blu-Ray editions for most of the Daniel Craig films from Casino Royale to Spectre as my guide. For the earlier films in the series, I referred to the most recent Blu-Ray covers. Although some of these were less than ideal (Licence To Kill's cover, for example, did Dalton dirty...), I do have a fondness for a few, like The World Is Not Enough, which evokes a Man on Fire vibe. I also created covers for the unofficial films Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again in a similar vibe, as their Blu-Ray covers were particularly lacking.

I did toy with making some versions based on the Blu-Ray steelbooks with artwork from the main title sequences. Might come back to this at some point.

When it came to the video games and other specials, the resources were more limited, but I did my best. I might revisit these to create a tone more aligned with the films in the future.

I hope you enjoy the artwork. This is my first time creating covers like this, so if you spot any errors or have any feedback, please let me know!

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Dr. No (1962)

From Russia With Love (1963)

Goldfinger (1964)

Thunderball (1965)

Casino Royale (1967)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Live And Let Die (1973)

The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Moonraker (1979)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Octopussy (1983)

Never Say Never Again (1983)

A View To A Kill (1984)

The Living Daylights (1987)

Licence To Kill (1989)

Goldeneye (1995)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Die Another Day (2002)

Casino Royale (2006)

Quantum Of Solace (2008)

Skyfall (2012)

Spectre (2015)

No Time To Die (2021)

Goldeneye 007 (Video Game) (1997)

Tomorrow Never Dies (Video Game) (1999)

The World Is Not Enough (Video Game) (2000)

007 Racing (2000)

Agent Under Fire (2001)

Nightfire (2002)

Everything Or Nothing (2004)

Goldeneye Rogue Agent (2004)

From Russia With Love (Video Game) (2005)

Quantum Of Solace (Video Game) (2008)

Blood Stone (2010)

Goldeneye Reloaded (2010)

007 Legends (2012)

The Sound Of 007 Live From The Royal Albert Hall (2022)

007 Road To A Million (2023)

mattjoes · June 3

Nice work.

Feedback:
- Some of the credits text can be hard to read because it runs into white parts of the background images. Maybe some shadow in those cases?
- Instead of the TND game cover, you posted the TND film cover again.
- For TWINE, I think Don Veca composed the PS score, and Neil Baldwin the N64 score.
- The Nightfire score was composed by Steve Duckworth and Jeff Tymoschuk.

mattjoes · June 4

I will be releasing three more cues in the next days. Hopefully by the end of the week!

NoTimeToLive · June 4

mattjoes wrote: »

I will be releasing three more cues in the next days. Hopefully by the end of the week!

Any chance you'll ever release the mystery cue from No Time To Die that shows up as Bond is driving the plane to Felix's boat and also the plane to Safin's island? :D I would really appreciate it!

Bond_Scores · June 5

mattjoes wrote: »

I will be releasing three more cues in the next days. Hopefully by the end of the week!

You really do spoil us, @mattjoes. Thanks so much for everything you do for the Bond music community :)

bcalou · June 12

Great work @chrisesqetc !
I don't like the official Blu-Ray covers too much... (what happened with some of the actor's face... !)
But this is a great job at making everything more cohesive, especially with the Craig films.

mattjoes · June 16

NoTimeToLive wrote: »

mattjoes wrote: »

I will be releasing three more cues in the next days. Hopefully by the end of the week!

Any chance you'll ever release the mystery cue from No Time To Die that shows up as Bond is driving the plane to Felix's boat and also the plane to Safin's island? :D I would really appreciate it!

That's not in my plans, but I'll let you know if I change my mind.

mattjoes · June 16

A virtual instruments reconstruction of the cue from A View to a Kill heard when Tibbett finds Pegasus has disappeared from the stable.

A View to a Kill: Pegasus Disappears - Download here:
https://mega.nz/folder/8Zx02KpD#7a6hUbxvANUvLsxyG7T8Xg

My music reconstructions will return tomorrow with another cue!

mtm · June 16

Brilliant as always, looking forward to tomorrow's!

NoTimeToLive · June 16

mattjoes wrote: »

NoTimeToLive wrote: »

mattjoes wrote: »

I will be releasing three more cues in the next days. Hopefully by the end of the week!

Any chance you'll ever release the mystery cue from No Time To Die that shows up as Bond is driving the plane to Felix's boat and also the plane to Safin's island? :D I would really appreciate it!

That's not in my plans, but I'll let you know if I change my mind.

Thanks :x

mattjoes · 12:12am

There is beauty, there is ugliness... and there is death.

A virtual instruments reconstruction of the cue from The Spy Who Loved Me heard when Bond meets Stromberg.
It's an orchestral rendition of Chopin's Nocturne No. 8.

The Spy Who Loved Me: Bond Meets Stromberg (Nocturne No. 8) - Download here:
https://mega.nz/folder/VVAH1LCR#qx-6xAMWvhUPp-FlP3C5pg

My music reconstructions will return in:
A View to a Kill: May Day Escapes
(I was planning to release it closely after these last two tracks,
but it'll take longer to finesse, so it'll come a little later.)

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