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Thunderball 60th Anniversary Expanded & Remastered Limited Edition (La La Land records)

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  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 3,068
    FYI,

    The sampler for the remastered and expanded THUNDERBALL soundtrack has been posted.
  • nsb1234nsb1234 Sunny California
    edited September 7 Posts: 36
    What you meant to say was someone downloaded the samples I made for the LLL site and turned them into a YouTube video to gain clicks. I suppose an argument could be made that it's getting the album some exposure, but then links aren't provided to the LLL page or the 007 Store, so what's the point?
  • LeighBurneLeighBurne
    edited September 7 Posts: 105
    bcalou wrote: »
    To think that back in the days people had to wait the same time between GF and TB than we had to wait between La La Land's GF (seems like yesterday!) and TB.

    La-La have really accelerated their Bond release schedule since Tomorrow Never Dies.

    Which is, needless to say, excellent.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 18,185
    R1s1ngs0n wrote: »
    For me, Thunderball and The Ipcress File are Barry’s nearly identical twins in terms of arrangements and musical motifs. I absolutely adore both.
    While I have the Japanese cd of Ipcress (without the dialogue snippets, which is a plus imo), one of my biggest wishes is to see LLL give it the same treatment as the Bond series.

    I adore both too! A LLL The Ipcress File release would be fantastic, but my dream "Harry Palmer" release would be a 3-CD release including Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.
  • morcarvicmorcarvic france
    Posts: 148
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    R1s1ngs0n wrote: »
    For me, Thunderball and The Ipcress File are Barry’s nearly identical twins in terms of arrangements and musical motifs. I absolutely adore both.
    While I have the Japanese cd of Ipcress (without the dialogue snippets, which is a plus imo), one of my biggest wishes is to see LLL give it the same treatment as the Bond series.

    I adore both too! A LLL The Ipcress File release would be fantastic, but my dream "Harry Palmer" release would be a 3-CD release including Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.

    Both sequels have had their soundtracks released on cd before can't think of anything missing on the"funeral" release as for "B.D.B" aside from the film version Main Title having a crescendo start not on the released album version there's really only the two shostakovich pieces absent.having said that the after thought strikes me that "BRAIN" could do with remastered improved sound.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    I’d probably be up for that, I’m quite fond of both of those sequel scores.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 18,185
    morcarvic wrote: »
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    R1s1ngs0n wrote: »
    For me, Thunderball and The Ipcress File are Barry’s nearly identical twins in terms of arrangements and musical motifs. I absolutely adore both.
    While I have the Japanese cd of Ipcress (without the dialogue snippets, which is a plus imo), one of my biggest wishes is to see LLL give it the same treatment as the Bond series.

    I adore both too! A LLL The Ipcress File release would be fantastic, but my dream "Harry Palmer" release would be a 3-CD release including Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.

    Both sequels have had their soundtracks released on cd before can't think of anything missing on the"funeral" release as for "B.D.B" aside from the film version Main Title having a crescendo start not on the released album version there's really only the two shostakovich pieces absent.having said that the after thought strikes me that "BRAIN" could do with remastered improved sound.

    I can't think of anything missing from the scores of those two films either, but should that be the case, or if there's an improvement to be made with the sound quality, then I'd love a LLL release – or releases!
    mtm wrote: »
    I’d probably be up for that, I’m quite fond of both of those sequel scores.

    I think The Ipcress File is by far the better soundtrack, but they are all very different from each other, and fit their respective film very much.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    Tracking says it’s arriving on Monday, lovely stuff.
  • morcarvicmorcarvic france
    Posts: 148
    My tracking has mine just arrived at L.A.distribution centre ,so based on recent bond ordering i' guessing I'll be waiting around another 6 to 8 days for arrival as it generally sits in customs for approx 3 days in france.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 18,185
    My copy is "Awaiting shipment". No tracking updates beyond this…
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    Arrived :D
  • LeighBurneLeighBurne
    Posts: 105
    Got my dispatch notification from the 007 store, so should hopefully have my copy by the end of the week.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited September 22 Posts: 19,180
    Interesting to read in the notes from Mr Bulk that this one was in production when the changeover from Eon to Amazon occurred, and that's reflected in this one being the first to not have Danjaq mentioned anywhere on it.

    The nervous fan in me hopes that doesn't mean any interruptions in the (amazing) releases! Plenty to enjoy in this one though of course.
  • Bernie99Bernie99
    edited September 22 Posts: 280
    mtm wrote: »
    The nervous fan in me hopes that doesn't mean any interruptions in the (amazing) releases!

    Don't think so. In another board a person had similar minds and Neil S. Bulk answered with "Relax" :)

    So hopefully we get AVTAK to Christmas. It's a great time for us, so many Bond Expanded Scores in the last 2 Years. Big Thank you at Neil S. Bulk and all the others from LLL. You made an amazing job
  • andybandyb
    Posts: 13
    Is anyone that has received this this week able to confirm something please? I have opened mine and noticed there seems to be misalignment on the spine, so there is a white strip along the spine where it hasn't printed correctly. Anyone else have this? Sounds small, but very noticeable when you look at it, especially with the other cds in the series, and at the price.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    On the rear side? Yeah mine has that. I was actually thinking it's odd this one doesn't have a black spine to match the others, but no big problem.
  • nsb1234nsb1234 Sunny California
    Posts: 36
    mtm wrote: »
    I was actually thinking it's odd this one doesn't have a black spine to match the others, but no big problem.

    What?

    https://bsky.app/profile/nsbulk.bsky.social/post/3lyqjxs2yhc2j

    Neil
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    Okay, point taken, I just had the latest ones next to me here at my desk rather than the rest on the shelf, I don't really worry too much about that sort of thing and I like them being varied.
  • andybandyb
    Posts: 13
    This is mine. Not sure if others have the same.

    Sorry if link doesn't work, it's my first attempt at posting pics here.

    https://postimg.cc/gallery/85j8w5b
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,942
    Isn't the music what counts? ;-)
  • andybandyb
    Posts: 13
    It is, but i have a habit of caring about the little aesthetic details, things that mean less to others. We're all different.
  • DavidW07DavidW07 London England
    edited September 26 Posts: 1
    Wow, just wow! I received this soundtrack a couple of days ago and it is stupendously good; I can't stop listening to it. This is something I've been waiting 50 years for. When Lukas put together the expanded scores over ten years ago they were wonderful, but so much had to be omitted from Thunderball because of the limitations of a single-CD release. Now we can bask in the full unexpurgated score, in glorious, even better sound, AND in film order. There is so much extra music and detail in these recordings. (Even the two mono stem tracks sound good in processed stereo.) An extra thrill for me was the gorgeous stereo mix of the alt instrumental of Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Disc 2 track 9), with its wonderful laid-back sax solo. This track was only in mono on the "Lukas" CD release. Thank you so much to Neil and everyone at La-La Land for making these expanded soundtracks happen, and for doing it so well. "I must be dreaming".
  • morcarvicmorcarvic france
    Posts: 148
    DavidW07 wrote: »
    Wow, just wow! I received this soundtrack a couple of days ago and it is stupendously good; I can't stop listening to it. This is something I've been waiting 50 years for. When Lukas put together the expanded scores over ten years ago they were wonderful, but so much had to be omitted from Thunderball because of the limitations of a single-CD release. Now we can bask in the full unexpurgated score, in glorious, even better sound, AND in film order. There is so much extra music and detail in these recordings. (Even the two mono stem tracks sound good in processed stereo.) An extra thrill for me was the gorgeous stereo mix of the alt instrumental of Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Disc 2 track 9), with its wonderful laid-back sax solo. This track was only in mono on the "Lukas" CD release. Thank you so much to Neil and everyone at La-La Land for making these expanded soundtracks happen, and for doing it so well. "I must be dreaming".

    reading this comment is just making me more frustrated for my copy to arrive ,i think its soon now tomorrow or monday fingers crossed.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,180
    DavidW07 wrote: »
    Wow, just wow! I received this soundtrack a couple of days ago and it is stupendously good; I can't stop listening to it. This is something I've been waiting 50 years for. When Lukas put together the expanded scores over ten years ago they were wonderful, but so much had to be omitted from Thunderball because of the limitations of a single-CD release. Now we can bask in the full unexpurgated score, in glorious, even better sound, AND in film order. There is so much extra music and detail in these recordings. (Even the two mono stem tracks sound good in processed stereo.) An extra thrill for me was the gorgeous stereo mix of the alt instrumental of Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Disc 2 track 9), with its wonderful laid-back sax solo. This track was only in mono on the "Lukas" CD release. Thank you so much to Neil and everyone at La-La Land for making these expanded soundtracks happen, and for doing it so well. "I must be dreaming".

    Hi David, great first post! I agree, all of these releases have been fantastic, but there's been something extra jaw-dropping about the sound quality of these most recent two for me.
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