Search - Marvin Hamlisch :: The Spy Who Loved Me

Someone HAS To Do It Better Than This....

C. Michael Massey | St. Louis, Missouri | 12/04/2001

(2 out of 5 stars)

"All right, this is definitely NOT the best James Bond film soundtrack I've ever heard. In fact, I have to say it ranks pretty low. First of all, a lot of the songs here are not even the same ones you hear in the film, as clearly evidenced by the weak "Bond 77 (James Bond Theme)" found here and compared to the much funkier (and stronger) version heard in *The Spy Who Loved Me.* The song is a good idea, but executed much better in the film.In reality, the only reason I give this album ANY stars is the beautiful (and gratuitously long) instrumental version of my favorite James Bond film theme--"Nobody Does It Better." It's slow, it's sexy, it's near perfect. Another song that I really appreciate hearing on here is the full version of "Ride to Atlantis," which, although slightly different here than in the film, I think is quite beautiful.Other than that, versions of most all the songs from the film are here with the notable exception of the whimsical military chorus version of "Nobody Does It Better" that you hear at the end of the film, which I was really hoping to hear here. All-in-all, the album's not absolutely terrible. Honestly, if it had the chorus version of "Nobody Does It Better" and the film version of "Bond 77," I might even have given it as many as four stars, but (really) never any more than that."