In Episode 19 we continue our ambitious attempt to analyse every James Bond score ever. Having covered the Connery classics in Episode 18, we’re now onto the 1970s, 1980s, and even the early 1990s, covering Moore, Dalton, and a little bit of Brosnan as James Bond goes from funk to disco to acid jazz and even a little early hip-hop. Join us as we look at some of the kitschiest Bond music out there – and, some of the all-time greats.

Episode notes:

3:38 – Roger Moore’s more George (Aston) Martin Bond music

9:11 – The 1970s funk boat chase

12:45 – Nick has a problem with The Man With the Golden Gun’s parallel motion

16:43 – The Spy Who Wrote A Fantastic Opening Song

18:10 – James ‘Disco Stu’ Bond

24:30 – The singing pyramids

28:33 – The Space Who Loved Me

32:45 – Bossa, James Bossa

35:38 – Bill Conti’s For Your Funk Only

43:40 – John Barry’s finale: Octopussy, A View To A Kill, and The Living Daylights

49:12 – Dalton’s daylight drum machine

54:50 – Michael Kamen’s License to Trill

1:01:04 – Bond’s power ballad romance

1:04:50 – Serra’s synth sound for Goldeneye and the sonic reinvention of James Bond

1:13:34 – Acid James

1:17:40 – Escaping the Archives

1:19:04 – Goldeneye’s Tank Chase and John Altman’s replacement music

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