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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re listening to music from GoldenEye!
When it comes to music on vinyl records, most 12” albums are classified as long-plays (or LPs for short). Typically, a single is found on a 7” record and has one song per side. An Extended Play record (or EP) is a musical recording that is longer than a single but shorter than a full album.
An EP usually includes three to eight songs total, with a runtime of 15 to 30 minutes for both sides. Artists would normally use the EP format to release new material more frequently without the larger commitment of creating a full-length album.
I really don’t have much to say about this 12” vinyl ‘The James Bond EP..’ Released only in Germany, the artist’s moniker ‘Guns & Ammo’ doesn’t have other album credits that I could find. The A-side features a pair of techno remixes of the James Bond Theme written by Monty Norman that run just under 10 minutes. The B-side (labeled here as the AA side) features another pair of remixes than total around nine minutes. This side, however, covers the song ‘GoldenEye’ written by Bono and the Edge and originally performed by Tina Turner.
It’s interesting to me that this cover debuted in 1995, when the GoldenEye film and the soundtrack with the Tina Turner single weren’t even released until November of that year. Also, the EP format was likely the best way to put out this selection of Euro house music recordings, as a full-length album is probably not necessary. 😄
151. Guns & Ammo – The James Bond EP
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