Product Details

* Audio CD (February 11, 2003)
* Original Release Date: 1983
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
* Label: Capitol
* ASIN: B000087DT6
* Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews. (Write a review.)
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1. All Time High Listen Listen
2. Bond Look Alike Listen Listen
3. 009 Gets The Knife And Gorbinda Attacks Listen Listen
4. That's My Little Octopussy Listen Listen
5. Arrival At The Island Of Octopussy Listen Listen
6. Bond At The Monsoon Palace Listen Listen
7. Bond Meets Octopussy Listen Listen
8. Yo Yo Fight And Death Of Vijay Listen Listen
9. The Chase Bond Theme Listen Listen
10. The Palace Fight Listen Listen
11. All Time High Listen Listen
On this CD:

1. Octopussy, film score
Composed by John Barry
with Rita Coolidge
Conducted by John Barry

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Melodramatic Bond Score from John Barry, April 4, 2004
Reviewer: B. King "gobirds2" (New Englnd) - See all my reviews
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The OCTOPUSSY soundtrack seems a bit truncated but it is still a good John Barry - James Bond CD. The soundtrack to OCTOPUSSY seems not so much a mixture of styles but rather the ambiguous culmination of those styles. The suspense, exotic and romantic elements of the score are impressive. "That's My Little Octopussy" and "Bond Meets Octopussy" are very beautiful love pieces based on the main title: "All Time High" that are reminiscent to the true nature of "We Have All the Time In the World" from ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. The character of Octopussy, played against formula, in this film seems like a genuine love interest of James Bond as is reflected in these pieces. Impressive too are "Bond At the Monsoon Palace" and "The Chase-Bomb Theme" reminiscent of Barry's scoring of some of his "cold war" films from the 1960s. In other parts of the score Barry seems to be tiring. His passion and penchant for scoring action scenes seems to be on the wane here. "Yo Yo Fight" and parts of "The Palace Fight" seem unimaginative and lackluster. Still, this soundtrack contains many tracks with elements of "The James Bond Theme" and this is where Barry seems to have compensated himself. "Bond Look-Alike" is a tour de force of the 007 mystique. "Bond Look-Alike" is a rich composition based on "The James Bond Theme" and is one of the best tracks to be found on any of the James Bond soundtracks. It is good to see that the original artwork was restored with Roger Moore in the traditional 007-tuxedo gun pose for this re-issue.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
That's my little Octopussy!, February 21, 2003
Reviewer: "jmichael79" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
I was pleased to get my hands on this reissue of a solid John Barry entery in the 007 series. The remastered cd sounds fantastic, though it does not include any bonus tracks. Also, it drops the qoutes from the film found on the first Rykodisk reissue. The score itself is a fine effort, though not as exciting as Barry's next two efforts ("A View to a Kill" and "The Living Daylights"). The real standout here is the love theme, "That's My Little Octopussy," a nice orchestral arrangement of the pleasent theme song "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge. The best of the action cues is "The Chase Bond Theme," elements of which Barry would incorporate into the next two, more action packed scores. If you're collecting the Bond score reissues, or even just the Barry albums, this is a no-brainer, especially if (like me) you missed the '97 Rykodisk album. Though I would have liked to have seen the score expanded with bonus tracks, "Octopussy" remains a fine album.