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What John Barry score do you listen to the most?

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  • united1878united1878
    Posts: 92
    TLD & OHMSS
    FRWL is runner up
    B-)
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    Posts: 23,883
    There are a few tracks I like on the GF soundtrack, but personally much prefer FRWL for its somewhat simpler staccato, sinister and suspenseful flavour. I also love TB's soundtrack. The way Barry evokes the ocean with that dreamy score is masterful.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    Posts: 2,043
    It's either FRWL, GF, or OHMSS
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Those are all fantastic.
  • 007Blofeld007Blofeld In the freedom of the West.
    Posts: 3,126
    Ohmss
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    Posts: 15,423
    Goldfinger, Thunderball and Game of Death.

    My holy trinity of the John Barry scores.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    None Bond Barry score would have to be Dances with Wolves a masterpiece.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    Posts: 9,020
    The song I've listened to the most in my life is A View To A Kill by Duran Duran/John Barry.

    The song I've listened to the second most in my life, must be Propellerheads/David Arnold: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the 9:26 version.
    That's pretty amazing considering the fact it only was made in 1997.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited April 2017 Posts: 1,009
    DAF, OHMSS and AVTAK, though I have to say that I also love The Lion In Winter.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
    Posts: 6,844
    AVTAK and OHMSS are surely my most listened to Barry scores. Plus "That's My Little Octopussy" which is just a little slice of amazing.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • RevelatorRevelator
    Posts: 2,895
    Mid-period Barry was perhaps his greatest era--the hot streak of YOLT, OHMSS, and DAF has no equal in Bond soundtrack history.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 7,959
    The Specialist. It’s a very sultry score.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,526
    @Revelator
    I wholeheartedly agree although I do think MR and TLD are two major contenders as well for the title of best Barry Bond score.

    @talos7
    Definitely my favourite Barry score outside the Bond series.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,026
    I watched DANCES WITH WOLVES yesterday. It's a fabulous film, but it wouldn't have half of the same impact without Barry's score. Just sublime.
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
    Posts: 3,342
    The soundtracks I always end up coming back to from Barry's Bonds are MR and TLD, with OP and AVTAK close behind.
  • vzokvzok
    Posts: 4,023
    talos7 wrote: »
    The Specialist. It’s a very sultry score.

    Same
  • JeremyBondonJeremyBondon Seeking out odd jobs with Oddjob @Tangier
    Posts: 1,318
    TLD by a longshot. It's pure brilliance.
  • JohnBarryFanJohnBarryFan
    Posts: 1,405
    OHMSS and TLD, IMO two masterpieces.
    Somewhere in times and Across the sea of times also strokes of genius.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Kicking: Impossible
    edited January 2019 Posts: 6,714
    The Bond scores are the Barry scores I listen to the most. Outside of Bond, it's probably The Specialist. As said earlier, it's a very sultry score. Sensual, bohemian, full of longing and regret and with healthy doses of suspense. It has Bondian touches to it but it's not a Bondian score in full. It's a different beast. Edit: the music that plays when Quick tries to defuse the bridge bombs at the beginning is magnificent. It captures and enhances the emotion of the moment perfectly.

    I've also found myself listening to The Tamarind Seed quite a bit in recent times. Still waiting for a proper release to get my hands on but it's a fine score with a haunting main theme, even if the suspense music during the defection scene, while certainly very enjoyable, seems a bit undercooked. The music right after the title sequence, during the montage that sets up the plot, is some of Barry's best work. Shades of TMWTGG (released the same year) with the mysterious flute figure that bookends the piece.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Kicking: Impossible
    Posts: 6,714
    The Knack is another favorite. Outstanding sound quality in that album, and very catchy music. Lovely strings and female voices.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Kicking: Impossible
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    Eight years ago today.

  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
    Posts: 2,630
    In my car, there's always a rotation of FRWL/OHMSS/TLD playing
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    Posts: 8,676
    At the risk of coming about as a showoff, I own 75 John Barry scores on CD (beaten by 128 times Morricone, but still)...but I mostly listen to them, as FLAC files, from a computer disk set to random. So I can't really tell which particular scores I listen to the most. But I am surprised that in this thread which deals with quite a few non-Bond Barry scores, nobody seems to have given honourable mention to the likes of Born Free, Chaplin, Raise the Titanic, The Black Hole, The Lion in Winter, to name but a few. Each of them a masterpiece in its own right...yet typically Barry.
  • GetCarterGetCarter
    Posts: 386
    AVTAK.

    Wine With Stacey is pure bliss.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,330
    The Black Hole is a non Bond Barry score I listen to a lot It's great.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    Lately for me it's been his score for King Kong:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLasRC1FxrewR1dPp33ILZM2aXVe0uCQKS&v=UEFv9nMZcRY
  • BT3366BT3366
    Posts: 1,882
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    At the risk of coming about as a showoff, I own 75 John Barry scores on CD (beaten by 128 times Morricone, but still)...but I mostly listen to them, as FLAC files, from a computer disk set to random. So I can't really tell which particular scores I listen to the most. But I am surprised that in this thread which deals with quite a few non-Bond Barry scores, nobody seems to have given honourable mention to the likes of Born Free, Chaplin, Raise the Titanic, The Black Hole, The Lion in Winter, to name but a few. Each of them a masterpiece in its own right...yet typically Barry.
    Not a showoff at all, quite the opposite. I'm impressed.


  • muzz100muzz100
    Posts: 81
    For me the great thing about JB is how understated his best themes are. Obviously the big tunes are great too. Still remember the shivers down the spine seeing him conduct at the Albert Hall.

    What do people think about recodings of his work by others? I find I really always want the original recording he made, not a cover, however accomplished.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited February 2019 Posts: 8,676
    muzz100 wrote: »
    For me the great thing about JB is how understated his best themes are. Obviously the big tunes are great too. Still remember the shivers down the spine seeing him conduct at the Albert Hall.

    What do people think about recodings of his work by others? I find I really always want the original recording he made, not a cover, however accomplished.

    I can see where you're coming from, but I think most cover recordings today (say those by the City of Prague Symphony under NIc Raine and the like) are of considerable quality - a far cry from cheap ripoffs or "Little Jimmy Miller plays John Barry on his Hammond organ". If an original Barry recording is unavailable (which to me applies to those that may still be around second-hand, but at outrageous prices), or is of an inferior audio quality, I don't hesitate to buy a modern "cover" in up-to-date sound quality, rather than pass up on the score in question altogether: Case in point: Raise the Titanic, with its majestic main theme which no doubt was the best thing about the entire movie and whose original recordings somehow got lost.

    But just to get this into perspective, this applies to maybe five percent or less of my Barry scores - haven't really counted before writing this.
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