Good to have "You Know My Name" on a real Bond album
gobirds2 | New England | 10/29/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"It was good to see Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" from CASINO ROYALE finally show up on an official James Bond CD album of the soundtrack themes and songs. However, that's was about all I really liked here. Missing is the GoldenEye trailer music that was on the last compilation of official James Bond soundtrack themes on CD. David Arnold's bonus track of the James Bond Theme is somewhat a huge disappointment. It is totally unmoving and truly lackluster. The DVD selections are okay but the visuals could have been digitally restored much better. The A VIEW TO A KILL video looked rather faded. There was a short documentary on the music of James Bond but you can find this on one of the James Bond movie DVDs. I do not remember exactly which one, but this documentary video had been previously released. If you like to have all the theme music from DR NO through CASINO ROYALE for the first time this is a good CD to get. However, you you have been around a while you get the picture. Well, that's just my opinion."
Biased Toward Bond, But Still A Winner
Steve | Houston | 12/23/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I agree with the sentiments expressed in the first two reviews (the only two reviews at the time). Chris Cornell's song is a welcome addition to the Bond compilations and this track is superb. I also agree that the so-called Bonus Track is anything but, Moby's creation on the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack was much better. Madonna's song really stands out on this disc for me as the craziest of all the songs with the techno/digital beats, but we've all seen the movie and heard the song.
The Living Daylights and License To Kill were horrible movies, mostly because of Timothy Dalton, partly because they were sandwiched between A View To A Kill, which I thought was a great plot, and Goldeneye, which was Brosnan's first Bond movie. Anyway, for as bad as the movies were, the title songs were pretty good and they are well done on this disc.
The DVD with the 6 videos is great and it's a perfect addition to the Bond set. This package is well worth the money, I highly recommend it for all the Bond fans."