'Goldfinger' still glitters as a James Bond movie soundtrack

Zap 2it.com ^ | 03.24.10

[Perdogg]

My Favorites are:

Bond Back In Action

Main Theme

Into Miami

Apline Drive/Auric’s Factory

[oyez]

That double naught spy music really delivered that sense of tension and urgency. The sound track to “”Thunderball” has to be classic.

[Parley Baer]

I liked Odd Jobs hat. The other thing that stuck me was when they crushed Auric’s gold car into a square and put it in the back of the Falcon. That thing would have done a wheel stand with all that weight.

[EveningStar]

ping

[Inyo-Mono]

Who can forget (I was 15 when Goldfinger came out), Shirley Bassey (spelling?) belting out the theme song "GOLDFINGER, duh duh, duhhh..."

[Frantzie]

I think my favorites are The World Is Not Enough by Garbage. It had a good video too.

Suprisingly, Nancy Sinatra’s You Only Live Twice was another good one because it was a very pretty song.

[bigbob]

I’m with you. Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger” *is* the sound of Bond.

[wita]

Funny, saw the movie just last week and didn’t remember the falcon scene until the magnet drops a two ton block into the back, and the Falcon drives off perfectly level. I had the same thought you did.

[freebilly]

Pussy: My name is Pussy Galore.

James Bond: I must be dreaming....

[JoeProBono]

[pankot]

Soundtrack to “Thief” by Tangerine Dream.

[dfwgator]

:#2: Her name is Alotta. Alotta Fagina.
Austin: Come again?
Alotta: Alotta Fagina.
Austin: I’m sorry. I’m just not getting it. I thought you said your name was a lot of... um nevermind.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Top 15 list in chronological order:

KING KONG (1933)

ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938)

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955)

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1955)

PSYCHO (1960)

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964)

GOLDFINGER (1964)

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966)

THE GRADUATE (1967)

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

SHAFT (1971)

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)

STAR WARS (1977)

[re_nortex]

Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger” *is* the sound of Bond.

On Frazier, there was an amusing episode where Frasier, Niles and Martin Crane sing Goldfinger (from `` Shutout In Seattle'' in season 6).

[re_nortex]

Top 15 list in chronological order: [...]

Maybe just because it's top-of-mind since it was on last weekend but I'd add Lawrence of Arabia to the list as a personal favorite for the music which still lingers. On the other, considering the the metric is ``influential'', perhaps not.

[dfwgator]

Maybe just because it's top-of-mind since it was on last weekend but I'd add Lawrence of Arabia to the list as a personal favorite for the music which still lingers

Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

I will second Nino Rota as a great film composer! He has the ability to create hauntingly beautiful music based on simple themes. La Strada just might be the best movie ever made. Of course, I am biased, since Anthony Quinn is my favorite actor.

I am wondering how Henry Mancini got left out of the list. Doesn't anyone remember Breakfast At Tiffany's?

[IdeeFixe]

Did Rota write anything for Cinema Paradiso? I’ve always thought it was Morricone alone. The kiss scene in the rain in CP with the fully-orchestrated theme = heaven.