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James Bond: 40 Years, 20 Themes

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This soundtrack compilation is NOT the opening theme songs that have vocals, these are simply the musical themes.

Great price if all you want is the music. If you are looking for the actual songs from the movies, you do NOT want this CD.

Caveat Emptor. It was only $3.97 when bundled with the "Best of Bond...James Bond, 40th Anniversary Edition" but that's $3.97 too much when you consider what this disk is. I took a chance thinking that it might contain some of the soundtrack theme's from the movies (i.e. chase scenes, seconday themes) rather than renditions of the theme songs but that isn't the case. When the disk arrived, I read "Performed by the United Studio Orchestra" and still had hope that some of the music might be salvagable in spite of the "Made in Holland" stamp. From the opening notes I realized that the "United Studio Orchestra" was some Dutch clown with a computer and a MIDI card (and a bad one at that).
Put your $3.97 towards the purchase of The Best of Bond disk with the songs from the original artists and steer clear of this disk unless you want to help fund Jorgen's new MIDI card.

Beware of deals that are too good. I bought the CD thinking it was some of the original theme songs from the Bond movies. The title of the CD is, afterall, "40 Years of James Bond: 20 Themes" It SHOULD have been named: "20 songs BASED UPON 40 years of James Bond." I was highly disappointed that this is just all orchestral music and synthesizers. And not even great quality at that. Oh well, live and learn.

I bought this product thinking and believing it was vocals of the James Bond themes. Instead, it was instrumentals and while they are nice, they are not themes that are tremendously well done.

This set was purchased along with "The Best of Bond . . . James Bond" which is a single CD. Given the opportunity to preview both of them before purchase, I would have passed on this one in favor of the other. Disc two contains three radio spots and one demo version of "You Only Live Twice". Space between songs doesn't exist which is a big minus for me.

a compilation of instrumentals. I will be attempting to return it tomorrow.

A very low-quality collection of James Bond themes. The fact is that there was no "United Studio Orchestra," as claimed on the cover, just some dude with a bunch of midis and a cheap sound card. Even by 2003 standards (when this cd was produced) the audio quality of these pieces were really bad.

I don't like orcestra music i just like the original so i thought it was terrible! I wondered why the price was so cheap when i bought it. guess what i returned it the next day!

Walked into a store the other day and just happened to lean over the soundtrack section in the electronics department and find this CD. As a James Bond fan, the $3.97 they wanted for it was worth it, whatever it was. When I saw the print reading "Performed by United Studio Orchestra," I knew that I wouldn't hear any words (which is fine, because I own the "Best of Bond" disc). Some of the tracks are extremely faithful to their predecessors (i.e. Die Another Day, All Time High) but some go completely off on a tangent (you can hardly hear Nobody Does it Better, one of the better Bond songs). All in all its a great CD. Some of the tracks remind you of something you'd like to hear on a cruise ship (most notably, GoldenEye) but I suppose that's what I love about it. For the price, every Bond fan should own a copy.