Casino Royale | 
| Artists: David Arnold, Nicholas Dodd
Label: Sony Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
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Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 4503
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 702369
UPC: 886970236928
EAN: 0886970236928
ASIN: B000IOM1SW
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | African Rundown | | • | Nothin' Sinister | | • | Unauthorised Access | | • | Blunt Instrument | | • | CCTV | | • | Solange | | • | Trip Aces | | • | Miami International | | • | I'm The Money | | • | Aston Montenegro | | • | Dinner Jackets | | • | The Tell | | • | Stairwell Fight | | • | Vesper | | • | Bond Loses It All | | • | Dirty Martini | | • | Bond Wins It All | | • | The End Of An Aston Martin | | • | The Bad Die Young | | • | City Of Lovers | | • | The Switch | | • | Fall Of A House In Venice | | • | Death Of Vesper | | • | The Bitch Is Dead | | • | The Name's Bond...James Bond |
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Amazon.com
Now in its fifth decade, the James Bond film series has outlived the Cold War concerns that spawned it--not to mention the acting careers of a Sean Connery replacement or three. Indeed, its musical sensibility has often been the cycle's most reliable artistic link across the decades. While the arrival of latest Bond Daniel Craig inspired the producers to forge a long-overdue prequel plot gambit ("How Bond became Bond") for their Casino Royale redux, composer David Arnold's fourth Bond score helps bridge the past while subtly pushing it ever forward. The album's absence of a pop-song title single (though the melody of the Arnold/Chris Cornell-composed "You Know My Name" is interpolated into the underscore) isn't terribly shocking, considering the waning fortunes of recent efforts in the genre. But other traditions continue, with the full-bodied score here subtly infusing the elegant spirit of original Bond maestro John Barry into Arnold's own mix of brooding tension-builders and the dynamic, brassy rhythms of his signature action cues. The latter even gingerly cross over into the synth-charged club milieu of Eric Serra's GoldenEye score, a sensibility that was reviled as sacrilege by Bond aficionados a decade ago but that's since become a staple of mainstream film scoring. Arnold brings it all full circle with the muscular coda "The Name's Bond...," a lovingly authentic, barely revamped workout of the epochal Barry/Monty Norman theme that anchors the series to glories past. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 69 more reviews...
 amazing soundtrack to a amazing movie November 3, 2008
one of the best bond scores i hear in recent memory buy this soundtrack if your a fan of arnold's bond scores you wont be sorry p.s get quantum of solace soundtrack too its also very good just as good as casino royale soundtrack you wont be sorry
An Excellent Re-Boot for an Excellent Re-Boot September 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Frankly, I'm only writing this review to negate the detrimental effect of other reviewers bringing the rating down because it does not included Chris Cornell's "Know My Name" introduction song(which was great, no doubt). But this is an original score, something different from a soundtrack, which confuses many people.
Now, this is the first Bond movie released in the last 8+ years to not completely suck. Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Sir Connery and the overall production was just fantastic. That statement includes David Arnold's score. Cues like "African Rundown" and "Miami International" are epic in scope and exceedingly appropriate for the actions on screen. I thoroughly enjoy this score and hope the next effort for Quantum of Solace turns at just as well.
Not Bad at All September 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Despite the main title song absent from this CD I still like most of it. I really like AFRICAN RUNDOWN. It has a lot of drive and a great beat. You can hear the main title throughout different cuts on this CD.
 Confused July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like everyone else is, I am quite confused why the Title Track is not on this Soundtrack? I won't lie, the rest of the soundtrack is wonderful, and fills the movie with colors that are vivid and quite entertaining, but You Know My Name is a masterpiece, on par with Garbage's The World Is Not Enough, if not better. Who/What/Why ... robbed us of such an instrumental part of the movie?
Not good.
 Needs some Chris action. October 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, it's nice to see the disclaimer, in hackneyed English no less, which essentially says Chris Cornell's spectacular title music isn't included, but as with all of David Arnold's works, this one is worth the purchase. (And proves David Arnold was a worthy successor to John Barry, despite having to score some of the worst Bond films ever made...)
Definitely a must-get for track 4, "Blunt Instrument", but it is not a complete soundtrack album. Chris Cornell's piece should have been included. (His album featuring the song, plus another 13 is available elsewhere and is definitely worth the listen... It's also nice to have real musicians doing the title music pieces again...)
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