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| View Larger Image | Quantum of Solace | Audio CDDavid Arnold (Composer)
| List Price: | $11.94 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Studio: | J-Records | | Release Date: | October 28, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 61,575st |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Time To Get Out- David Arnold
- Track 2: The Palio - David Arnold
- Track 3: Inside Man- David Arnold
- Track 4: Bond In Haiti - David Arnold
- Track 5: Somebody Wants To Kill You- David Arnold
- Track 6: Greene & Camille- David Arnold
- Track 7: Pursuit At Port Au Prince- David Arnold
- Track 8: No Interest In Dominic Greene - David Arnold
- Track 9: Night At The Opera- David Arnold
- Track 10: Restrict Bond's Movement - David Arnold
- Track 11: Talamone - David Arnold
- Track 12: What's Keeping You Awake - David Arnold
- Track 13: Bolivian Taxi Ride - David Arnold
- Track 14: Field Trip - David Arnold
- Track 15: Forgive Yourself- David Arnold
- Track 16: DC3 - David Arnold
- Track 17: Target Terminated- David Arnold
- Track 18: Camille's Story - David Arnold
- Track 19: Oil Fields - David Arnold
- Track 20: Have You Ever Killed Someone? - David Arnold
- Track 21: Perla De Las Dunas- David Arnold
- Track 22: The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance - David Arnold
- Track 23: I Never Left - David Arnold
- Track 24: Another Way To Die-Jack White & Alicia Keys
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
Quantum of Solace continues the high octane adventures of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Directed by Marc Fisher, this 22nd installation in the 007 franchise hits theaters on October 31st, 2008 in Europe and November 14th in the US. This film features music by composer David Arnold and the new single 'Another Way To Die' by Jack White (White Stripes) and Alicia Keys, a first ever duet for a James Bond flick. The Quantum of Solace soundtrack will include the movie score and this new single. David Arnold is a Grammy-winning English film composer, best known for scoring five James Bond films including the score for Casino Royale and the blockbuster Independence Day. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 36 reviews)
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Missing parts> by J. Gable (Virginia)  3 Stars
April 11, 2009
After seeing the movie I wanted to get the soundtrack mainly because of the music over the ending credits. Best I can tell, it's not here. So I'm holding off from buying a soundtrack that appears not to have the one song I know I want. None of the clips sounds like the closing music which was cool and traditional Bond.
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Not Bad, Not Great... by John D. Pride (Atlanta, GA USA)  2 Stars
March 11, 2009
Back in the Sean Connery heyday of James Bond films, there were a number of reasons the entire world breathlessly awaited the release of another 007 movie. Of course, the superspy genre was new and exciting, and James Bond launched a cultural tsunami rivaled at the time only by The Beatles. But, together with the amazingly unique (for the time) films themselves and Connery's iconic portrayal of Bond were the extremely-cool artwork of the film posters and the John Barry soundtracks. These scores were almost as anxiously awaited as the films themselves, and for good reason; nothing has ever been recorded since that equals the pure, unmitigated thrill of hearing Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service or, to an only slightly lesser degree, Diamonds Are Forever. Barry even did great work with films as listless as The Man With The Golden Gun, Moonraker, A View To A Kill and The Living Daylights. Subsequent contributions by Bill Conti, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Kamen and George Martin absolutely pale in comparison. They just don't bring any sparkle to the films they accompany, most of which were largely forgettable to begin with.
Which brings us to the curious era of David Arnold, self-professed admirer of John Barry's work (good) and electronic music (not so good). When Arnold is on his game, such as in Tomorrow Never Dies, he is stellar. When he gets into his electronica thing (Die Another Day), he is not. His work on Casino Royale was quite good, if on a par with many other decent action film scores (Barry's work was unique in the world of film, blending the cool of his 7-piece combo days with the visceral jab of a full orchestra). "You Know My Name" was a terrific song for the title sequences in CR, and Arnold employed it as a recurring theme to good effect. His work here on QOS is good as well, if not quite up to CR's finest moments. Overall, QOS is a serviceable music score that works well within the framework of the movie it accompanies.
So, what about the main theme song for Quantum of Solace (the film's title is not confusing in the least, as it simply means a small bit of satisfaction, or vengeance, for the hell Bond endured in CR), "Another Way To Die"? It starts off genre spy-cool, then gets upended by the excesses of Jack White and Alicia Keys. If these two had remained true to the disciplines of the basic elements of the song, we might have been given a song almost as good as Gladys Knight's Goldfinger-bookend "Licence To Kill", Tina Turner's Shirley Bassey-like "Goldeneye", Garbage's nod to John Barry "The World Is Not Enough" or Sheryl Crow's ultra-chic Perry Mason Theme tribute, "Tomorrow Never Dies" (or, from that film, K.D. Lang's superb "Surrender"). Sadly, Alicia Keys is off-key throughout the song, and by by midway into the track, Keys starts howling and vamping inexplicably, like she just finished off a few dozen martinis. That section - the middle part of the song - is so undone by Keys that it takes us completely out of the song, and her continued off-key caterwauling ("bang bang!!) ultimately ruins what could have been a decent entry into the pantheon. White and Keys have only Madonna and Rita Coolidge's mega-stinker "All Time High" to thank for saving "Another Way To Die" from being the worst Bond film theme song of all time. Had Alicia Keys been removed from the vocal mix, it could have been so, so different.
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Unmemorable, with the worst 007 title track ever by SK  1 Stars
March 04, 2009
Over the years I've purchased a copy of all the bond soundtracks available, including Casino Royale, despite the fact that the theme song wasn't included on the soundtrack. (I still can't believe that they did this. If you're spending $30 on a CD based on a movie then you should get the whole score. Not including the title track was a poor marketing exercise, intended to help sell CD singles)
Quantum of Solace will be the first 007 score that I won't be buying.
One of the things that helped Casino Royale was that the score was excellent. Most Bond scores are essentially derivatives of two themes - the main title song of the movie, and a love theme. In Quantum of Solace the title song is in my opinion, the worst bond song ever. Unfortunately the rest of the score is just as unmemorable. I've enjoyed all of the other scores by David Arnold since he took over in 1997, (Particularly Tomorrow Never Dies, which had excellent music from start to finish) but even by current movie standards this score just isn't inspiring.
But it's when you compare this soundtrack to previous Bond movies that it suffers the most. Live and Let Die, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice... all those movies had brilliant scores, and fantastic theme songs. The soundtrack from Quantum of Solace just isn't in the same league. Hopefully the music in the next Bond movie sounds like it belongs in a Bond movie.
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A Worthy and Exciting Follow Up to Casino Royale by Dennis E. White (Pacific Palisades, CA)  5 Stars
February 07, 2009
Working without the breadth of thematic material afforded by the superb storyline of Casino Royale, David Arnold has nonetheless crafted a melodic, colorful, and pulsating score that is a very worthy follow up to his incredible score for Casino Royale. Again, if you're looking for the great Monty Norman theme to blare out repeatedly, then get a Bond's Greatest Hits cd; as with CR, Arnold has woven the theme through the fabric of the score which makes it that much more exciting when it appears. The subtle re-appearances of the beautiful but almost tragic Vesper theme and the sweeping CR love theme are reminders that Quantum is a film not only of revenge but also memories. With all due respect to the Bourne films, which all Bond fans must thank the re-direction of the series to what Ian Fleming originally intended, when it comes to a comparison of the scores, there is no comparison.
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INCREDIBLE, MYSTERIOUS by E. Mavridou 5 Stars
January 12, 2009
I BELIEVE THE FUNS OF JAMES BOND WILL ENJOY IT!
ESPECIALLY WHITE'S SONG. IT IS VERY DYNAMIC..
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