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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re listening to music from all 25 EON Productions James Bond films. This includes the film celebrating its 10th anniversary next week, Spectre!
The album title ‘The Best of Bond… James Bond’ has been used for official compilation albums of music from EON Productions’ James Bond films since 1992. The original ‘The Best of James Bond’ CD was a one-disc compilation with music from each of the 16 Bond films released at the time. A two-disc 30th Anniversary Limited Edition compilation was also released in the US only, and added songs that had not been released to the public at that point, including tracks from the UK version of the Goldfinger soundtrack, the original version of ‘Goldfinger’ sung by Anthony Newley, Shirley Bassey’s version of ‘Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,’ the Thunderball suite, and some vintage radio spots.
The one-disc compilation later saw updated versions released in 1999 and 2002 that included music from some of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films. A 2008 release of the album was enhanced by the inclusion of a DVD featuring music videos and a ‘The Music of James Bond’ documentary.
In 2012, another two-disc version of the album was released, this time containing 50 tracks to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. While a single CD version contained main themes from all 23 Bond films at the time, the two-disc version added 27 more tracks of additional Bond music to complement the title songs.
An updated version of the album with music from all the Daniel Craig Bond films was originally planned for a 2020 release to coincide with the theatrical release of No Time to Die. Though the NTTD single came out in February of 2020, the full soundtrack was delayed with the film until October of 2021. The latest version of this album was also delayed until October of 2021 and features a gun barrel design on the cover, arriving on both a 2-disc CD and, for the first time, this 3-disc vinyl version. There have now been more than 100 versions of this album released in the past 35 years, when you include international variants, and it sure is great that it keeps getting updated when the latest music is released. The latest rendition features 26 tracks on both the CD and vinyl, one from all 25 EON-produced Bond films, with an extra track for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. I’m so glad to have this one in the collection. 🍸
153. The Best Of Bond… James Bond
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