Product Details

* Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
* Label: Warner Bros / Wea
* ASIN: B00006NSFX
* Average Customer Review: based on 47 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,717 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Die Another Day - Madonna Listen Listen
2. Bond Vs. Oakenfold - (Oakenfold mix) Listen Listen
3. Gun Barrel / On The Beach Listen Listen
4. How Do You Intend To Kill Me Now, Mr. Bond?
5. Hovercraft Chase Listen Listen
6. Kiss Of Life
7. Peaceful Fountains Of Desire
8. Welcome To Cuba Listen Listen
9. Jinx Jordan Listen Listen
10. Wheelchair Access Listen Listen
11. Jinx And James Listen Listen
On this CD:

1. Die Another Day (as used in the film "Die Another Day")
Composed by Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzai, Michel Colombier
with Madonna

2. The James Bond Theme, theme from film series James Bond Theme (Bond vs. Oakenfold)
Composed by Monty Norman

3. Die Another Day, film score
Composed by David Arnold
with Richard Edwards
Conducted by Nicholas Dodd

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Product Description
James Bond has never been cooler - and neither has a soundtrack in the action hero's series of blockbuster films. The title is track by Madonna, who has a cameo in the movie. Along with a score by one-time Bjork collaborator David Arnold, it also features the classic James Bond Theme remixed by cutting edge dance master Paul Oakenfold. The CD is also enhanced with Madonna's 'Die Another Day' music video, the making of the video segment, Bond bonus extras, women of Bond gallery and more. Warner Bros. 2002.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Splendid, But Perhaps Not to "Die" For, November 14, 2002
Reviewer: G M. Stathis (cedar city, utah USA) - See all my reviews
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It can now be said that only two film composers have written scores for more than two James Bond films. The first of course set the standard, John Barry. The second, David Arnold, is successfully taking 007 into a new era. With his third Bond entry, "Die Another Day," Arnold has again created a score that keeps touch with the revered past but also keeps pace with changing times. He may be guilty of too much of the latter, however, with perhaps just a bit too much in the way of electronic effects. Still, this is a solid Bond score with excellent action and dramatic cues and more than adequate romantic interludes. The opening "gun barrel" and pre-credit music ("On the Beach" and "Hovercraft Chase") is first rate. Arnold has been particulary effective with the pre-credit scences in all three of his Bond scores. Arnold once said that he had done just about everything he had ever wanted to do with a Bond score with his first foray into the Bond cycle, "Tomorrow Never Dies," and it remains his best effort so far. But Arnold's music for "Die Another Day" ably fits the bill and makes for the basis of a fine soundtrack album. The title vocal by Madonna is a bit much by Bond standards (that was to be expected), but will, no doubt, be embraced as a worthy addition to a long line of 007 themes. The inclusion of "Bond vs. Okenfold," however, is too much. How many trendy retreads of the James Bond theme do we really need? Arnold has made interesting and judicious use of this vital musical idiom in three scores, but the various "new interpretations" (this time Paul Oakenfold)are becoming tiresome. This is otherwise a splendidly produced soundtrack album; well recorded and packaged, with some wonderful additions as an enhanced CD (the gallery of Bond film posters is a treat). As a 40th Anniversary tribute to James Bond this will do nicely, and one suspects that like 007, David Arnold will return.

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Some Kind of Soundtrack, May 14, 2003
Reviewer: B. King "gobirds2" (New Englnd) - See all my reviews
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Now that DIE ANOTHER DAY has been released, the hype has all but vanished into oblivion and the film has been scrutinized to infinitum I think it is time to take a good look or good listen to the Soundtrack album to this film on Compact Disc. Madonna's "Die Another Day" main title unfortunately does not hold up on its own. It is very un-melodic, very un-Bond and very forgettable. Unequivocally it's about the worst Bond theme ever written. David Arnold's score really doesn't fare much better. He seems unable to imitate his own music more so than that of John Barry's. Even when he does seem influenced by John Barry such as on track 7: "Jinx Jordan" the music is off mark and is totally ludicrous. Bond senses are supposedly consumed by this iconic figure of female pulchritude emerging from the sea as the music so emphatically suggests. However, Jinx Jordan is probably one of the most unfeminine Bond heroines in the entire series. Why should such erotic music be composed for this female killing machine? This music and the following track: "Jinx & James" thus make no sense at all. As for the action music I can only describe it as a `cellar full of noise." Without question, this is my least favorite James Bond soundtrack. The only cut I liked by Arnold was track 6: "Welcome To Cuba" which somehow had the only ring of sincerity about it perhaps because it was rather nostalgic for the simpler days. I was also very surprised that I enjoyed track 2: James Bond Theme (Bond vs. Oakenfold) because it seemed to aspire to the notion of keeping the cinematic Bond current without forgetting his musical roots.

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The music is dead because Madonna shot it with her voice., August 20, 2005
Reviewer: John Q. Public "vhspreowner" (USA) - See all my reviews
This could have been a great music score, but Madonna had to sing it. Her lyrics killed the soundtrack and posioned every frame of the movie, worse they gave her a cameo part in the film and she can not act....Like we did not know that already. No wonder they have not cast the new James Bond yet, the series is dead.

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Wanna Be, May 5, 2004
Reviewer: A music fan
David Arnold is nowhere near as good as John Barry. I know John Barry recommended him to the Broccoli clan, but do they listen to the music? Have they tried playing it against Barry's? Please, please... there are other great composers out there I'm sure! Start looking! And do so in non-predictable fashion: No "names" unless they can back it up with a good score!