Quantum of Solace | 
 enlarge | Creator: David Arnold
Label: J-Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 300
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 737089
UPC: 886973708927
EAN: 0886973708927
ASIN: B001ESYAJY
Release Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Time To Get Out- David Arnold | | • | The Palio - David Arnold | | • | Inside Man- David Arnold | | • | Bond In Haiti - David Arnold | | • | Somebody Wants To Kill You- David Arnold | | • | Greene & Camille- David Arnold | | • | Pursuit At Port Au Prince- David Arnold | | • | No Interest In Dominic Greene - David Arnold | | • | Night At The Opera- David Arnold | | • | Restrict Bond's Movement - David Arnold | | • | Talamone - David Arnold | | • | What's Keeping You Awake - David Arnold | | • | Bolivian Taxi Ride - David Arnold | | • | Field Trip - David Arnold | | • | Forgive Yourself- David Arnold | | • | DC3 - David Arnold | | • | Target Terminated- David Arnold | | • | Camille's Story - David Arnold | | • | Oil Fields - David Arnold | | • | Have You Ever Killed Someone? - David Arnold | | • | Perla De Las Dunas- David Arnold | | • | The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance - David Arnold | | • | I Never Left - David Arnold | | • | Another Way To Die-Jack White & Alicia Keys |
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Album Description
Quantum of Solace continues the high octane adventures of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Directed by Marc Fisher, this 22nd installation in the 007 franchise hits theaters on October 31st, 2008 in Europe and November 14th in the US. This film features music by composer David Arnold and the new single 'Another Way To Die' by Jack White (White Stripes) and Alicia Keys, a first ever duet for a James Bond flick. The Quantum of Solace soundtrack will include the movie score and this new single. David Arnold is a Grammy-winning English film composer, best known for scoring five James Bond films including the score for Casino Royale and the blockbuster Independence Day.
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 This Soundtrack is No Solace November 20, 2008
Kendrik Lau (New York City)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The soundtrack to "Quantum of Solace" carry on the tradition of how the music of the James Bond films is becoming more and more irrelevant.
When David Arnold scored Pierce Brosnan's final Bond film, he declared that he didn't incorporate any of Madonna's title song into his score. Well, he shouldn't be talking because ultimately, her song turned out to be more interesting than his score for the movie. I do not understand why the people who run the Bond empire continue with David Arnold. Past non-John Barry composers like Bill Conti, George Martin and Marvin Hamlisch managed to leave their own indelible mark on the Bond movies music-wise, their scores are considered classics. Songs by Hamlisch and Conti had even been nominated for Oscars. Time will tell if Arnold's scores will be held in such high esteem but I sincerely doubt it.
The big problem with the music for the Bond movies is that after "The Living Daylights" and with the departure of John Barry, it seems the people who run the Bond empire no longer care about the soundtracks of the films. They want the songs to be sung or composed by the current big name artists regardless whether if it is any good or appropriate. As for the music, for the most part, you can't hear them anymore. All the action sequences are so inundated with loud crashes and explosions that the music is totally drowned out. For example, Arnold's "Backseat Driver" for "Tomorrow Never Dies". I think that is one of his best compositions but watching the movie you wouldn't know. So, music no longer sets and complements the movies, it has become filler.
So it is little wonder that David Arnold's most recent work is so bone-dry dull. Granted that Arnold does have his moments. This man can compose songs that can give John Barry a run for his money, but unlike Barry, he never seems to hit the mark.
The weakness of "Quantum of Solace" soundtrack is the fact the film itself is one action set piece after another, and from past experience, Arnold's action cues are generic and interchangeable. Given that he didn't write the theme song to the movie, there is really no central theme that runs through the soundtrack to give it a unified whole. The more interesting tracks of "Quantum of Solace" are actually some of the shorter ones such as "Inside Man" and "The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance". "Talamone" opens up with shades of "You Know My Name" from "Casino Royale". "Field Trip" teases us with hints of the James Bond theme.
I noticed a lot of people are complaining about the lack of use of the James Bond theme. I for one glad Arnold avoids it, for he often runs out of ideas and just stick it in there.
The music "Run Crawl Run", which is the end titles for the film was omitted from the soundtrack. That proves to be one of Arnold's more interesting compositions, so I wonder why it was left out.
Finally, the song by Jack White and Alicia Keys: "Another Way to Die". It ranks as one of the worst Bond songs ever written. The title sequence (which feature the return of nude female silhouettes) edited out most of the crappy parts of the song and the imagery of Bond in a desert comprise of naked women actually made it palatable.
As a Bond fan, I got this soundtrack because I am a completist. Although I like Arnold's "Casino Royale", "Quantum of Solace" made me realized that "Royale" was just a fluke. As the old saying goes, if you throw enough mud on the wall, some is bound to stick.
 Best Bond Theme in Decades November 15, 2008
L. Mulvihill (Orange County, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This song is Bond worthy. Not since Live and Let Die, has there been such a well orchestrated, rock theme for Bond.
 Soundtrack deserves better ratings... November 12, 2008
M. IMRAN (Singapore, Asia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm surprised to see how the soundtrack for Quantum of Solace (QOS) is rated very low by some here at Amazon. For those who have already seen the movie, I'm sure you would have heard how brilliant the score was for QOS during certain scenes in the movie. It deserves better ratings. I have the soundtrack, and after hearing it play on my player, it just brings me back to the scenes from the movie. There are subtle tunes of the James Bond theme in some of the score and that's what I like about the soundtrack this time around which was lacking in the excellent Casino Royale soundtrack. A couple of my favorites score on the soundtrack is Time To Get Out and Night At The Opera.. A must have for those who enjoyed the movie and a must have for James Bond fans, naturally..
Better November 10, 2008
Tarquin Linkoeping (Sweden)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really crackingly good James Bond score. On his fifth outing as composer, David Arnold has created a work that is both listenable and catchy.
I'll admit right away, I am firmly in the camp that has cringed through Arnold's work on three out of the five previous, John-Barryless films. Arnold's love of sequenced layers of percussive turmoil drowned out any semblance of melody and the James Bond theme was plastered on with a trowel at various moments when other ideas had obviously run out.
Thankfully, all this seems to be changing now. Casino Royale began a return to proper Bond form and Quantum of Solace has taken it still further. Even the wierd, faux Live and Let Die title song is properly referenced and included throughout, albeit as a variation.
It's really nice to see David Arnold getting more melody into the dramatic passages of his Bond scores. Not that it was totally absent before, but he did have a tendency not to stick with any one idea long enough for it to remain memorable. This may beslightly true of some portions of the action music in Quantum of Solace but it has to be said, this work stands head and shoulders above his previous efforts.
Bond is starting to like Bond once more.
Footnote: If I were David Arnold, given Eon Productions' erratic hiring rendencies, I'd now be worried for my job. Main title designer, Danny Kleinman did some of his best work on Casino Royale and was rewarded by getting dumped from this outing.
Grows On You November 9, 2008
H TERESA K
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Quantum of Solace grows on you. It is a fairly good continuation of Where Casino Royale left off. This is Arnold's sound and interpretation of James Bond all the way.
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