Marvin Hamlisch - Bond 77
Track Review
Released: 1977
Download It (6.2MB)
You see what I'm doing? I'm segueing. I'm continuing the recent Bond theme of my reviews, because there's naught much better than a continuing theme, is there? (apart from a private screening of Back Door Sluts 9, that is).
1977. Roger Moore is firmly ensconced as Bond now, but there's something that's not quite right.
Ah. The music. Still using that damn big-band brass-influenced John Barry original from '62?
Well, fuck that.
For the new movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, let's make Bond go disco.
0:00 - 1:14 : Hamlisch starts out by serving up one of the best minutes of Bond music. Ever. Those synthesisers! The disco bassline! And ... it works! This is seriously groovy. Well done Marvin, but can he keep it up?
1:15 - 1:25 : A huge mistep is made with the introduction of the orginal guitar track over the top of the new spiffing disco backdrop. This sounds, utterly, completely, horribly, wrong. It only lasts 10 seconds though, so maybe it's just an abberation, and the track will steady itself from here?
1:25 - 1:57: Marvin brings into the mix a simple twangy guitar note which works! Go Marvin!
1:57 - 3:04 : Inexplicably, the song takes another twist into the abyss with the introduction of a schmaltzy sax. Now beginning to sound like the Village People at a gay tuxedo party, Marvin better have something good up his sleeve if he's gonna recover from this.
3:04 - 3:36 : Clutching at straws now, Marvin dives for the "classical" button on his casio keyboard, cursing under his breath the producer who insisted the track must last for 4 minutes. Yep, the sax solo has stopped, but he's bought in cheesy STRINGS! What tha?
3:37 - 4:22 : Just as we were about to write Marvin Hamlisch off as Disco's version of the Titanic, he's saved the ship with a brilliant blast of brass instrumentation that oozes style, glamour and danger, sounding just enough like the original theme to resonate but still working in the confines of, well, disco.
So there you have it.
Bond 77.
If you're a chimpanzee visiting this website, fuck off.
6/10
Released: 1977
Download It (6.2MB)
You see what I'm doing? I'm segueing. I'm continuing the recent Bond theme of my reviews, because there's naught much better than a continuing theme, is there? (apart from a private screening of Back Door Sluts 9, that is).
1977. Roger Moore is firmly ensconced as Bond now, but there's something that's not quite right.
Ah. The music. Still using that damn big-band brass-influenced John Barry original from '62?
Well, fuck that.
For the new movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, let's make Bond go disco.
0:00 - 1:14 : Hamlisch starts out by serving up one of the best minutes of Bond music. Ever. Those synthesisers! The disco bassline! And ... it works! This is seriously groovy. Well done Marvin, but can he keep it up?
1:15 - 1:25 : A huge mistep is made with the introduction of the orginal guitar track over the top of the new spiffing disco backdrop. This sounds, utterly, completely, horribly, wrong. It only lasts 10 seconds though, so maybe it's just an abberation, and the track will steady itself from here?
1:25 - 1:57: Marvin brings into the mix a simple twangy guitar note which works! Go Marvin!
1:57 - 3:04 : Inexplicably, the song takes another twist into the abyss with the introduction of a schmaltzy sax. Now beginning to sound like the Village People at a gay tuxedo party, Marvin better have something good up his sleeve if he's gonna recover from this.
3:04 - 3:36 : Clutching at straws now, Marvin dives for the "classical" button on his casio keyboard, cursing under his breath the producer who insisted the track must last for 4 minutes. Yep, the sax solo has stopped, but he's bought in cheesy STRINGS! What tha?
3:37 - 4:22 : Just as we were about to write Marvin Hamlisch off as Disco's version of the Titanic, he's saved the ship with a brilliant blast of brass instrumentation that oozes style, glamour and danger, sounding just enough like the original theme to resonate but still working in the confines of, well, disco.
So there you have it.
Bond 77.
If you're a chimpanzee visiting this website, fuck off.
6/10
posted by commando at
11:09 pm
1 Comments:
Nice one G. This fits in well with retro porn music i've been listening to lately.
8/10
Bez.
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