For Your Eyes Only (1981 Film) [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Bill Conti | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 26, 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
• ASIN: B000026EBM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,442 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

2. A Drive In The Country

3. Take Me Home - Eddie Blair

4. Melina's Revenge

5. Gonzales Takes A Drive - Bill Conti B

6. St. Cyril's Monastery

7. Make It Last All Night - Rage

8. Runaway

9. Submarine

10. For Your Eyes Only - Derek Watkins

11. Cortina

12. The P.M. Gets The Gird/For Your Eyes Only - Reprise - Sheena Easton

13. Gunbarrel/Flowers For Teresa/Sinking The St. Georges

14. Unfinished Business/Bond Meets Kristatos

15. Ski...Shoot...Jump...

16. Goodbye, Countess/No Head For Heights/Dining Alone

17. Recovering The ATAC

18. Sub Vs. Sub

19. Run Them Down/ The Climb

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Ryko..., May 27, 2000

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Brandon (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Your Eyes Only (1981 Film) (Audio CD)

It is a true crime that for nearly 20 years the single best James Bond soundtrack was unavailable on compact disc. I was lucky to have an original cassette tape release and was about ready to convert it to cd-r when this latest album in the Ryko movie series made that unnecessary. On top of the 12 standard tracks, this cd also contains 7 previously un-released tracks including the snazzy Gunbarrel intro to the movie. For those of us that are completists such additional material makes it worth buying Ryko's "Deluxe Edition" versions even if we already have the original on cd.

Why is "For Your Eyes Only" the best Bond soundtrack ever released? First, the title track as sung by Sheena Easton is widely recognized as the best song ever written and sung for a James Bond movie. In addition, it achieved the greatest commercial success of any 007 title song and still gets regular airplay to this day. Of course the melody of this timeless classic was written by Bill Conti who also created the rest of the music.

What also sets the entire soundtrack apart for me is how well Conti integrates traditional Bond music with themes from the local Mediterranean setting for the movie. In addition he uses sophisticated, modern arrangements that do not sound as dated as some of the earlier 007 soundtracks. Finally, this is one of the last albums to be created with whole songs... not just a boring string of orchestral cues hinged together on a computer screen like all of the later Bond movie music.

Here is what you can expect. 1 great title track and 1 reprise both sung by Sheena Easton. 3 great action songs suitable for fast driving and hard cornering on sunny days. 1 slow, but very hip, 007 song, "Submarine". 2 smooth flugelhorn jazz instrumentals including one of the title song. You will also get various odds and ends like the Gunbarrel opening previously mentioned. The over-funkified "Gonzales takes a dive" and "Runaway" are admittedly bad, but with this much good music surrounding them it is easy to forgive a few poor choices.

If Ryko continues to release "deluxe edition" versions of the James Bond soundtracks, I think I'll be first in line to buy them despite the fact that I now have all of the originals on cd.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bond for the Eighties, April 25, 2000

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Neil Shurley "thatneilguy" (Greenville, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For Your Eyes Only (1981 Film) (Audio CD)

Okay, so it's not On Her Majesty's Secret Service, or even Tomorrow Never Dies, but it sure beats Goldeneye. For Your Eyes Only definitely shows its age in spots (particularly the track titled Runaway which was overused for years on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) but it's great to have it on CD after all this time and the bonus tracks are definitely worthwhile. (I personally would love to have the gunbarrel music from every film available, and this is a step in that direction.) The packaging and liner notes are well done, along the lines of the suberb Living Daylights reissue. In all, it's a great record for Bondmusic fans.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Long awaited CD release arrives, April 29, 2000

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"dziglar" (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Your Eyes Only (1981 Film) (Audio CD)

Finally, the last of the older James Bond soundtracks makes it to a CD release! This interesting departure from the classic John Barry style of Bond music worked. Bill Conti (best known for the music from Rocky) pulls off an excellent title theme and superb action sequence music for one of the most serious of the Roger Moore films.

This CD release appends seven 'bonus tracks' of music not previously released on the original 1981 LP. But since the LP release already contained the best of the music from the movie, do not expect any real treasures in the added material. The 'bonus tracks' are excellent for providing a complete soundtrack, though they are mostly compilations of brief or slower pieces of incidental music.

Several interesting items about this album: A typo in the labeling of this CD release lists two track 3's and no track 5. The original LP release also was victim of a typo. The track described as "Gonzales Takes A Drive" was supposed to have been "Gonzales Takes A Dive" - a play on words since Gonzales is killed by Melina's arrow as he is diving into the pool. That typo has perpetuated in the back cover labeling of this CD release, but is corrected in the inside notes. And finally, the track labeled "Melina's Revenge" is really two pieces from the film. Only the first 35 seconds of the track contain the dramatic queue from the emotional closeup of Melina just after her parents are killed. The remainder of the track is the excellent action piece from the pre-credits helicopter sequence, which likely would have been separately titled "Have a Pleasant Fright."