Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979 Film) [Soundtrack]

John Barry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: June 29, 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: United Artists
• ASIN: B000008HTH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,989 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Moonraker-Main Title - Shirley Bassey

2. Space Lazer Battle

3. Miss Goodhead Meets Bond

4. Cable Car And Snake Fight

5. Bond Lured To Pyramid

6. Flight Into Space

7. Bond Arrives In Rio And Boat Chase

8. Centifuge And Corrine Put Down

9. Bond Smells A Rat

10. Moonraker-End Title

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JOHN BARRY and the Enigmatic MOONRAKER, October 4, 2000

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gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979 Film) (Audio CD)

Watching "MOONRAKER" the other night I never realized how well structured this film was crafted. If, what some would call objectionable juvenile elements were removed, what remains is a quintessential Bond movie with Roger Moore turning in his best performance as 007.

It is of interest how John Barry scored this film. The score represented on the album concentrates on the virtues of the main character, the spectacle and the action at hand. Barry never reverts to or even hints to the "James Bond Theme" on this album. He relies more on the character's endearing and enduring qualities. We can hear Bond as the romantic hero, spy and adventurer. We also hear the beautiful passages of earthly and unearthly encounters. Some of the score contains a yearning for the enigmatic meaning of life itself. It is a very unusual score for a film that has deep unfathomable undertones hidden beneath its gloss. This score matches the film perfectly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Barry Back in Action!, March 3, 2000

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Håkan Tallgren (Karlstad, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979 Film) (Audio CD)

John Barry wasn't able to writw the score to "The Spy Who Loved Me", but now his back. Moonraker is a classic Barry-score. Many songs are very beatufil, like "Bond lured to pyramid", and a couple of them are tuff action, "Cable car and snake fight". In the end of the film they are in the space, and Barry's music to that is just great. (Track 2, track 6) In "Bond arriws in Rio and boat chase" returns The "007" theme for the last time, this time in a special way. Unfortunately it's only 30.51 minutes long, but that's not John Barry's fold. He composed more songs to the film then those who came along on the soundtrack. The three best songs: Track nr. 3: "Cable car and snake fight", Track nr. 6: "Flight to space" and Tarck nr. 7 "Bond arriws in Rio and snake fight". Please enjoy a medium good Barry.Bond-score!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Moonraker," One More Time in Orbit for Barry and Bond, February 9, 2000

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G M. Stathis (cedar city, utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979 Film) (Audio CD)

Given the success of "Star Wars," and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," it was believed that James Bond had to step into space to be current. An early poster for "Moonraker" (1979) proclaimed "Outer Space Now Belongs to 007." Actually, that aspect worked fairly well for the film, and for composer John Barry, who had some interesting opportunities via space shuttles, space stations, and laser battles in orbit. The plot proved interesting, and the music was good. Shirley Bassey was once again employed for the title song by Barry with surprisingly fitting lyrics by Hal David, except that we never learn the meaning of "mooraker" (an eighteenth century English smuggler?), except as the name of one of the space shuttles. The song is not in a class with "Goldfinger" or "Diamonds Are Forever," but it is enjoyable. A disco version of the title, prefaced by a brief element from Barry's space music, is used for the end titles and is arguably the better format for this film. As usual the title provided a theme that appears in many guises, even as a Latin American prelude to Barry's "007" theme on the soundtrack. By far the most interesting music emerges with the voyage into space. The soundtrack includes two full tracks with Barry's space music, "Flight into Space," a very interesting slow march that easily matches the "Space March" in "You Only Live Twice," and "Space Lazer Battle" that highlights a climatic melee in orbit. Taken together, these tracks, were among Barry's most original contributions to the Bond series in years. New themes were introduced with choral background, and all of the music was given center stage since there was little in the way of competing dialogue or sound effects during these scenes. "Flight into Space" incorporated a full scene; the track is over six minutes long. Missing from the soundtrack, and any other recording, is music from the pre-title sequence, which is unusual. This is perhaps an uneven entry in the Bond soundtrack cycle, but the new space music, especially "Flight into Space," makes it worthwhile.