Skyfall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music by Thomas Newman
Renovatio Records presents the score composed by Thomas Newman for 2012 James Bond adventure: Skyfall. Directed by Sam Mendes and starring once again Daniel Craig as Agent 007, alongside an ensemble cast featuring Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Albert Finney, Naomi Harris, Bérénice Marlohe and Ralph Fiennes, the film is the twenty-third in the franchise and focuses on Bond investigating an attack on MI6, led by an eccentric former agent who intends to fulfill a personal vendetta against M.
Mendes brought Newman, his usual collaborator, for the composing duties, who replaced David Arnold and became the ninth composer in the series. Newman managed to conceive a score that nurtures from classic Bond action techniques, mixed with modern approaches and Newman's own distinctive style. The result is a successful and intriguing score that differentiates from past works of John Barry and David Arnold, the two most regular composers in the franchise. Newman has brought fresh ideas and moody passages as he adheres to the classic theme by Monty Norman and even Adele's original song, which clearly pays tribute to the famous tones of Barry and Shirley Bassey songs.
The score was released by Sony Classical in the form of a messy album which presents the tracks out of chronological order and even fails to include Adele's song. This problem, along with a lengthy unbalanced duration, has made the final album product a terrible disappointment. Therefore, Renovatio Records has rearranged it in a new form that includes the title song (conveniently placed at the beginning) and a selection of the best cues in its original order. Hopefully, this new release will make for a solid album representation that can be easily enjoyed by Newman's fans, as well as anybody willing to take a look at the composer's innovative approach to such a successful film and franchise! Enjoy!
Track Listing:
1. Skyfall (4:48)
Performed by Adele
2. Grand Bazaar Bike Chase (5:12)
3. The Bloody Shot (4:45)
4. Voluntary Retirement (2:21)
5. New Digs (2:32)
6. Shanghai (2:01)
7. Tracking Patrice (6:23)
8. Severine (1:22)
9. Macau Casino (3:19)
10. Dead City (1:58)
11. Silva Escapes (5:15)
12. Tennyson (2:22)
13. Enquiry Shootout (2:54)
14. Drive To Skyfall (3:40)
15. Manor Siege (3:49)
16. The Moors (2:42)
17. Mother (1:47)
18. Adrenaline (2:20)
Total running time: 59:30
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words! Lossless version of this one is coming up!!
DeleteDear sir, Thomas Newman took a lot of flac for Skyfall, and went ahead and totally redeemed himself with the soundtrack he composed to "Spectre", but where were his detractors then (is "detractors" right? You know, the noser-looking-downers that are always too clever by half in their fault-findings, like they did to Brian Tyler's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" because the score revolved around itself by variations on the main-title (which according to the clever critiques was only done by stupid losers such as Brian Tyler and J.S. Bach). Farewell it, I will speak of it no more, and closing in the consequence, I just wanted to say that I see you cut back on the album-lenght on your excellent and choise relase of "Spectre", and thus I began a prologue to my brain, and, I, being in the opposite end of the, uh, spectre of, well, "Spectre" (some spin on the ball there, what!), I just aquired Thomas Newman's "Extended Edition" of "Spectre" tonight, hoping against hope that it will contain a series of variations and extended recordings of "Donna Luca's Theme", but more than that, that soul-searching haunting magic of "Fantasia on a theme: Skyfall", that errie, uncanny haunting variations of track #23, "Skyfall" on Newman's previous James Bond soundtrack album, that plays back throughout the entire "Spectre" score, like the heat-waves dancing in the noon-day sun, a shimmering mysterious something in the light. But I am sad to say that no "Complete Score" edition was ever released, and the "Extended Score" is no more than 15 minutes longer than the official album, filled of course up with 3 different servings of the Devil's diareha, that offensive toad-moaning that the Devil came up with for the "Official James Bond Movie Song", and true to form it was some la-di-dah loser crap that I have made dashed sure never ever to hear once, I held my fingers in my ears in the cinema in 2014, both during the Opening Title as well as when it came back like cancer in the car-chase. "Oh for a muse of fire accending the brightest heaven", what! Then can a demon-possessed loser yoodle the chorus in falsceto, and fool the world to believe that the distinctive difference between Man & Woman is hereby undone.
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