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#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Main Title-The Living Daylights (Performed By A-ha) John Barry, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy	4:12	332
02	Necros Attacks John Barry	2:01	76
03	The Sniper Was A Woman John Barry	2:26	26
04	Ice Chase John Barry	4:01	81
05	Kara Meets Bond John Barry	2:44	57
06	Koskov Escapes John Barry	2:20	14
07	Where Has Every Body Gone John Barry, Chrissie Hynde	3:34	130
08	Into Vienna John Barry	2:46	41
09	Hercules Takes Off John Barry	2:14	61
10	Mujahadin And Opium John Barry	3:10	35
11	Inflight Fight John Barry	3:09	70
12	If There Was A Man John Barry, Chrissie Hynde	2:47	108
13	Exercise At Gibraltar John Barry	6:17	228
14	Approaching Kara John Barry	2:17	15
15	Murder At The Fair John Barry	2:17	19
16	"Assassin" and Drugged John Barry	2:39	23
17	Airbase Jailbreak John Barry	4:33	30
18	Afghanistan Plan John Barry	3:30	21
19	Air Bond John Barry	1:41	15
20	Final Confrontation John Barry	1:54	13
21	Alternate End Titles John Barry	3:17	114

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A review by James southall found on movie-wave.net

By:	Angel
Date:	4 Jul 2010
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Unusually, there are three original songs here. The title song is performed by a-Ha, and written by them too - John Barry shares the writing credit, but seems to have only written the instrumental hook which opens the track and arranged the orchestral accompaniment. It's a daft song, but good fun. Barry had far more involvement in the other two songs, which he wrote with Chrissie Hynde and which she performs - "Where Has Everybody Gone?" is the closest Barry got to doing a classic-style Bond song (rather than the ballads he favoured in most of his later movies) in a long while, and is a great, over-the-top one; and "If There Was a Man", used over the end titles, is a lovely love song given an edge thanks to Hynde's typically-classy delivery.

The first thing to note about the score is that Barry incorporated electronics into the action music far more than in any other score that he's ever done - it's only a drum loop and some synth bass for the most part, but it's very surprising to hear it from this composer, and - while occasionally it's undeniably dated - it's good stuff for the most part. He introduces the style in the pre-title sequence, "Exercise at Gibraltar", adding the electronics to his classic Bond Theme; and later offers up orchestral versions of both "The Living Daylights" and "Where Has Everybody Gone?" in the style, serving as dynamic action music. The latter works best, in the terrific "Necros Attacks" and "Inflight Fight", the pick of the score's action; the former, not so well (the melody really is a bit inane) in the strangely-titled "Assassin and Drugged", but a little better later on in "Hercules Takes Off". There's another great action track based on the Bond theme in "Ice Chase" where Barry cleverly weaves it around the electronics.

"Airbase Jailbreak" is a more traditional Barry/Bond action track, driven on in far more considered style than the synth-accompanied tracks - the bass flute is here, the snare drum's here, if the xylophone appeared we'd be back in 1962! It's actually probably the standout action cue on the whole album, vintage stuff. Late on, there's even some more exotic stuff for the scenes in Afghanistan, with some sweeping desert music and some pounding ethnic percussion in "Mujahadin and Opium" and "Afghanistan Plan".

Being a John Barry score composed after 1980, there is no shortage of romance here; most of the material is based around the "If There Was a Man" melody. "Approaching Kara" very subtly suggests the melody in a slightly darker piece, but then "Kara Meets Bond" expands upon it, there's a pop instrumental style arrangement in "Into Vienna" (which is a bit cheesy) and an absolutely lovely orchestral arrangement in the alternate end title, which is vintage Barry romance music.

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