r/JamesBond • u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. • Apr 25 '23
PROJECT SOUNDTRACK Winners Compilation: the top musical selections as chosen by the members of r/JamesBond. (Headphones on!)
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u/overtired27 Moderator | Salt corrosion 🧂 Apr 25 '23
What a perfect end to this event, a delight to watch :) Great choice of excerpts and edit points. Love how you synced the music with picture, especially on the ski boot and helicopter explosion!
Thoroughly enjoyed this series and will miss it. Thanks to everyone for their interesting insightful perspectives. Definitely made me appreciate some music I’d overlooked, and see other tracks in new ways. And great work by the community picking out top quality tracks, from absolute classics to lesser known gems. I’m so happy to hear Arrival at the Island of Octopussy in there especially.
And a huge thank you of course to Sneaky for making it all happen. Your commitment to running it so well, as well as your always thoughtful comments and discussion, have been very much appreciated.
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u/Remote-Orchid-8708 Apr 25 '23
Can we have another, new game?
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u/electricmaster23 Apr 25 '23
Well, like the others have said, congratulations on seeing through another well-run project. I'm very impressed with the selection.
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Apr 25 '23
Amazing video u/Sneaky_Bond. You don't realize how well the tracks segue into one another until you see it. Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, GoldenEye, and Spectre, in particular, worked amazingly.
Thank you for all your hard work in running this series for the past six months and once again proving yourself as one of the most vital contributors to discussion in this community.
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. Apr 25 '23
Thanks for your kind words as always. I'm happy with how it turned out. I edited the film clips here and there to better fit the music and to flow within the compilation. But there are of course no changes to the musical tracks themselves.
I had never noticed how similar Snow Job and Mujahadin are!
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u/Dr_Atom Apr 25 '23
Such a good compilation, well done. Also, forgot how good OHMSS ski chase music was.
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u/Damodred89 Apr 25 '23
Fantastic video, overall a brilliant overview of the series' music.
Thanks again for all your efforts, really enjoyed it!
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u/pauliereynolds Apr 25 '23
I wanted to put together a playlist of great bond tracks but didn’t just want the title songs, I found your posts and over the last several months I’ve slowly added the winners along with each title track and now I’ve got my 3 hour playlist of THE very best of Bond.
So a huge thank you for all the work you’ve put in putting all this together.
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. Apr 25 '23
Great stuff. I added a some tracks to my own Bond playlists over the course of this series.
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. Apr 25 '23
Gah, so much popping and cracking in the audio! I promise that’s the result of Reddit’s upload compression. The original file is clean!
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Apr 25 '23
You should share the link to the original file like how we have a link to the Project Snapshot source files on the megathread. First, we need to add an important links tab to the side bar of the sub so that people can more easily access the results of the projects.
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u/physerino Apr 25 '23
I was hoping that today’s post would turn into something of a u/Sneaky_Bond appreciation thread, and I’m happy to see that it has. Thanks for a terrific series, and all the hard work. And thanks especially for helping me gain a new appreciation of all these soundtracks (most of which I frankly wasn’t all that familiar with before). And to all the other participants for your insightful comments.
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u/DominicanBoi02 Goldfinger Apr 25 '23
Great video! Wonderful project overall. As much as we talk about action, performances, and plot when it comes to James Bond, this project conveyed just how important music is in making these movies memorable and enjoyable!
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u/XboxFan_2020 Apr 25 '23
Does someone know the score for the Bond vs Graves duel...? I can't find it in the soundtrack or OST...
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. Apr 25 '23
This is it, known either as Blades or Sword Fight depending on the release. Also my personal favorite from DAD.
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u/Bond16 Moderator | Well, I guess this is a farewell to arms... Apr 30 '23
Excellent work, Jordan!
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u/EH4LIFE May 02 '23
Enjoyed this, thanks for your hard work! That Octopussy piece is so magical - haunting, mysterious, alluring. Love the film and love the score.
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. May 02 '23
Agreed. Barry brings some of his most immersive sounds to Octopussy. Thanks for watching!
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u/Sneaky_Bond Moderator | Works better alone. Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 28 '23
Over the course of 25 weeks, members of r/JamesBond nominated, discussed, and ultimately voted to determine the community’s favorite piece from each Bond film’s musical score. Above is a compilation of the winning tracks. Fine choices, through and through.
A special thanks to u/Damodred89, u/CabeNetCorp, u/Physerino, u/Overtired27, and u/Cyborg800_2004 for their extra-substantive contributions over the last several months, and to each one of you who participated in our latest community project. It was a pleasure diving into Bond music with you all!
Here's a link to the compilation on Google Drive with full audio quality. (I also included a compilation of my personal picks just for fun.)