Great price if all you want is the music. If you are looking for the actual songs from the movies, you do NOT want this CD.


Stay Away!   March 30, 2004
Eagle Green (Philadelphia, PA United States)
59 out of 60 found this review helpful

Caveat Emptor. It was only $3.97 when bundled with the "Best of Bond...James Bond, 40th Anniversary Edition" but that's $3.97 too much when you consider what this disk is. I took a chance thinking that it might contain some of the soundtrack theme's from the movies (i.e. chase scenes, seconday themes) rather than renditions of the theme songs but that isn't the case. When the disk arrived, I read "Performed by the United Studio Orchestra" and still had hope that some of the music might be salvagable in spite of the "Made in Holland" stamp. From the opening notes I realized that the "United Studio Orchestra" was some Dutch clown with a computer and a MIDI card (and a bad one at that).
Put your $3.97 towards the purchase of The Best of Bond disk with the songs from the original artists and steer clear of this disk unless you want to help fund Jorgen's new MIDI card.


Don't buy if you are looking for original tunes   August 5, 2005
Cherri
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

Beware of deals that are too good. I bought the CD thinking it was some of the original theme songs from the Bond movies. The title of the CD is, afterall, "40 Years of James Bond: 20 Themes" It SHOULD have been named: "20 songs BASED UPON 40 years of James Bond." I was highly disappointed that this is just all orchestral music and synthesizers. And not even great quality at that. Oh well, live and learn.


Not what I thought it was   September 17, 2005
Michael W. Hardy
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

I bought this product thinking and believing it was vocals of the James Bond themes. Instead, it was instrumentals and while they are nice, they are not themes that are tremendously well done.


Second Choice   July 26, 2006
Decal Studio (Klamath Falls, Oregon United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This set was purchased along with "The Best of Bond . . . James Bond" which is a single CD. Given the opportunity to preview both of them before purchase, I would have passed on this one in favor of the other. Disc two contains three radio spots and one demo version of "You Only Live Twice". Space between songs doesn't exist which is a big minus for me.