The Music of Bond #023: For Your Eyes Only Soundtrack Review

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4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

It's time to bring 007 back down to Earth on this week's, The Music of Bond.

Rocky composer, Bill Conti reports for duty on 1981's, For Your Eyes Only. As a film we go back to the roots of Fleming with a more serious offering, but what of the score?

Tune in for discussion on the history of the music, a look behind the scenes and a track by track discussion of the original For Your Eyes Only soundtrack release.

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0:00.0	This is Robert Dobby, and you're listening to The Music of Bond on James Bond Radio.
0:05.2	Shaken, not scared.
0:08.1	Hello, hello, 007 fans, and welcome to James Bond Radio, the music of Bond, episode number 23.
0:16.1	Today, we are bringing 007 back down to earth and we will be discussing, breaking down and
0:21.9	giving much love to the music from, for your eyes only.
0:26.2	Who better to help me get this show grounded than T.S. and I ain't talking Elliot.
0:31.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Sears. Say hello, Tom Sears.
0:33.9	Hello, buddy. How's it going?
0:35.9	It's going great, man. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm very, very well. I'm excited to talk about Fewer Eyes Only. You know what? This film, man, when I was a kid, I went really deep and hard on For Your Eyes Only. Like, if GoldenEye was, as I've often told everybody a million times, GoldenE was that seminal movie for me when i was about 13
0:54.2	that turned me into a a nutter when i was a young kid i'm talking like five and six i would
1:02.5	have for your eyes only on all the time and i watched it so much that i had to take a break from it
1:10.3	and and just because i every time time I put it on, I've
1:12.9	seen this too much and I know every inch of this film, I need to take a break. So there was a,
1:18.5	I don't know the exact length of time, but it was the best part of 20 years where I didn't
1:24.7	watch for your eyes only just so I could I could reboot it and the first time I
1:29.7	watched it again after that break was when we reviewed it for JBR isn't that incredible incredible and what
1:34.9	was that how did you feel revisiting all those years was it fresh was it stale was it exciting
1:40.8	what was the what was the vibration? It did exactly the job.
1:44.4	You know, it's like one of those things.
1:45.7	You know, when there's a movie that you love when you're a kid and you haven't seen it for a long time and then watch it and it just brings back all those memories and stuff?
1:52.0	It was just like that.
1:53.2	It was, the break absolutely worked.
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