At last count, Silva Screen have released, I dunno, 342,931 James Bond compilations and following hot on the heals of The James Bond Collection is The Ultimate James Bond Film Music Collection. Longer title, more or less the same content. Since there's no point repeating myself, links to the older album reviews are below. The only new material is from Die Another Die and the "Unofficial" Bonds, Casino Royale (soon to be made "officially" starring Daniel Craig) and Never Say Never Again. Funnily enough, the fairly dire Madonna title song to Die Another Day is given an impressively fine orchestral arrangement (apparently by Nic Raine); it even seems to have a decent tune here. Maybe if they'd drafted in someone with a feel for Bond (David Arnold, apparently he's good...) to arrange the song, it might not have been so universally derided. Arnold's finale, Going Down Together was one of the score's better moments and one of his best Barry pastiches. Just a shame the rest was a bit of a washout.

Michel Legrand's Never Say Never Again doesn't have quite the memorable swagger of the Barry scores, but for a 1983 film is pleasingly 60's in sound. Bacharach's Casino Royale is, however, rather more lightweight, but typically tuneful and The Look of Love is a classic Bacharach tune. I must admit that I don't really see the wisdom in releasing such a collection before the remake (or re-imagining, if you only speak Tim Burton) of Casino Royale, surely it would have been better to wait until some of David Arnold's music could feature on the disc alongside Bacharach's. Members of the general public are already spoiled for choice on Bond collections and while this is, in fairness, the most comprehensive collection to date, it's presumably only a matter of a year or two before the Very, Absolutely, Honestly, it really is, the Most Utterly Ultimate, Definite and Definitive James Bond Film Music Collection in the History of all Humanity Ever is released. Probably be Silva Screen. However, if you have none of Silva's previous collections, this is the place to start. For more detailed reviews on the remaining tracks:

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The track listing can be found here at Silva Screen's official site. Sorry for being lazy, but it's 4 CDs and there are only so many hours in the day...