Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Sound Track [Soundtrack]

Tom Jones, John Barry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: December 29, 1965
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000DR8A
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title-Thunderball - Tom Jones

2. Chateau Flight

3. The Spa

4. Switching The Body

5. The Bomb

6. Cape Martinique

7. Thunderball

8. Death Of Fiona

9. Bond Below Disco Volante

10. Search For Vulcan

11. 007

12. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Every Copy of this CD is DEFECTIVE, October 29, 2000

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gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Audio CD)

Ever since "Thunderball" was issued on CD it has contained a defect. I have purchased 3 copies through the years and they all contain the same defect.

On Track 5 titled "The Bomb" at exactly 2:40 and 2:41 minutes the sound goes dead and then skips a note as it returns. This is one of John Barry's best tracks on this album and it just ruins it, for me at least. I purchased my third copy just this last summer thinking the problem would have been corrected after all these years. It has not.

As an interesting note, when this album was issued on Liberty audiocassette it did not contain this defect. When Liberty reissued the audiocassette simultaneously with the "Thunderball" CD it too contained the same defect. If you own these on audiocassette you will note that the serial numbers for both audiocassettes are different.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THUNDERBALL: Not bad for an incomplete score!, May 3, 2000

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Lowell C. Johnson (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Audio CD)

Definately, one of my favorite John Barry scores for the 007 series. Even more than GOLDFINGER, the previous James Bond adventure, THUNDERBALL perfectly captures the essense of Bond and his world.

In fact, you could say that the 007 music fully evolved with this film. Unlike the sparse sounding music of the first three films, THUNDERBALL has a fully orchestrated sound filled with exciting musical motifs.

My personal favorite is the pre-title music "Chateau Fight," which fully captures the intensity of the moment where 007 confronts a cross-dressing SPECTRE agent which results in a rather nasty fight, which climaxes when 007 dons a crash helmet and a jet pack.

My only dissapointment is that this score is from the first half of the film. The second half which features the climatic underwater battle can be heard in the 30th Anniversary album. It's a shame that MGM hasn't combined the halves into one.

But, that quibbling aside, this is definately one of the best early scores.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Underrated is the word., April 28, 2000

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Håkan Tallgren ([e-mail]) (Karlstad, Sweden, Scandinavia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Audio CD)

I believe some else of the reviewers of this soundtrack mentioned the word "underrated". That's true. I would say that this soundtrack is a little TO dark and mysterious to be the best Bond-soundtrack, but I rate it very high on my list. To start with, the dark songs on this soundtrack really is great, and those are what you associate this soundtrack with. The following songs are of this type: Track nr 3: "The Spa", Track nr 4 "Switching the Body" and Track nr 5 "The Bomb"(should be named "The Bombs", I think!). The best of those songs are "The Spa", but "The Bomb"-theme is also good. And just how marvellous isn't the beginning of "The Bomb"? The soundtrack is also filled with instrumental versions of the songs "Thunderball " and "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"(which is instrumental on the soundrtack as well, but there exist vocale versions of this song, in one sings Shirley Bassey and in the other Dionne Warvick). The beatufil "Cape Martinique" is a version of "Mr Kiss...", and so is "Death of Fiona". Instrumentals of "Thunderball" are Tracks nr 7 (of course) and nr 9 "Bond below Disco Volante". (in an action-version) The action-song "Chateau Flight", from the beginning of the film, is superb and a great and cool version of the Bond-theme. The classic "007"-theme returns, here in the strangest way it ever appeard. The version is quite cool, but I can't compare it with the original, cause it is in a total different way. But I am missing the action-music from the end of the film, when they are fighting at Disco Volante. (this theme is also played shortly when Bond runs away from Fiona during the Junkanoo) It's one of Barry's absolute best action-themes, and to have that song on the soundtrack that would have made it incredible. But as usual we Bond-fans doesn't get all we want. The three best songs: Track nr 2: "Chateau Flight" Track nr 3: "The Spa" and Track nr 8: "Death of Fiona"