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La-La Land Records Present Moonraker: 45th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded 2CD Album

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  • nsb1234nsb1234 Sunny California
    Posts: 47
    The film version uses mostly take 3 and cuts to take 4 for the ending while the album uses take 3 with a fade out, because a buzzer started going off in the studio! Maybe a train was coming.

    Neil
  • mattjoesmattjoes Pun Barrel
    Posts: 7,289
    Haha, very interesting, thanks for sharing.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Pun Barrel
    Posts: 7,289
    One last, thoroughly geeky question. There are two versions of the bugle call in the track of the same name. Was there any indication on whether one was an alternate of the other, or if perhaps they were meant to be heard at different moments of the scene?
  • nsb1234nsb1234 Sunny California
    Posts: 47
    No, they just did two wild takes and we included both. The shorter one is the one used in the film.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited November 2 Posts: 19,519
    I watched MR today and ended up doing something a little tragic and playing in the score on my phone to see the differences! Some of the cuts I hadn’t quite twigged before, like the trims to Vennini Glass and I Bid You Farewell (thanks to Mr Bulk for his naming of the tracks which makes them really easy to place!). Launch Program Commence remains majestic, and eternally puzzling why it’s not in the film.

    It’s quite funny how they often didn’t get messed around with in the edit, just dropped in and out, but usually keeping the timing Barry had established.
    The only one I couldn’t quite figure is the Jaws Lends a Hand: does that play on directly from Reunited? I couldn’t quite work out where it’s cued in. Also, how do you guys think Globes Destroyed was supposed to play out? It mostly fits but seems to end before the climactic moment, was the picture re-edited after the score you think?
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I think Jaws Lends a Hand starts after Bond tells him the shuttle can't disconnect and asks him for help. I overlayed it over that part and it fit there.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ah okay, yeah you must be right, thanks. I guess it starts with some dark chords which probably come in as the film cuts to a shot of the station exploding a bit, right after Dolly whispers in Jaws' ear. It's a very odd cue though, I can kind of see why they left that one out- it reminds me of tracks from Barry's Beyondness of Things period much later on, when he went a bit sort of pastoral.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
    Posts: 8,938
    GOD DAMMIT

    Really hope GE is just getting a delayed 30th anniversary expanded CD. Not liking we haven’t heard anything of it.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,405
    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    GOD DAMMIT

    Really hope GE is just getting a delayed 30th anniversary expanded CD. Not liking we haven’t heard anything of it.

    I'm a little concerned as well. GE and AVTAK are the two expansions I've been wanting most after OP and MR's expansions released.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,977
    I want other Bond scores. But the 3 Bond scores I want the most are TSWLM, AVTAK & GE.
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