Eric Serra's GoldenEye Soundtrack
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I have seen GoldenEye on the big screen quite recently and I never truly disliked Eric Serra's musical score, even if it was a slightly odd fit for what had come before in the previous decades, and was as similarly experimental as Marvin Hamlisch's and Bill Conti's musical scores (all quite synth heavy and very much of their eras too).
And a lot of folks (including even the GE director, Martin Campbell, supposedly) disliked Eric Serra's track "The Experience Of Love" used in the end credits. I personally found the vocals mawkish and stilted, but the wispy vibes and instruments of the song poignant enough (fitting the tone of Natalya finally getting over her recent ordeal and Bond coping with his best friend dying all over again), and it actually fitted into the general trend of having soft pop ballads for the end credits of movies from the mid 80s to mid 90s (alongside TLD's "If There Was A Man" and LTK's "If You Asked Me Too").
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Yeah Eric’s vocal is not great but I must admit I quite like the song.
If you like Experience of Love, then you should like this track from Léon as it has some… similarities 😉
I did recognised the musical motives in Leon decades ago.
Also Eric Serra's end credits for '97's The Fifth Element was more of a fit for less grounded fantasy space opera than relatively more grounded sci-fi spy thriller (arguably proto-cyberpunk) James Bond:
Tina Turner said she thought the soundtrack version of the song GoldenEye was better than the one in the movie, an opinion shared by Sinclair Mackay who wrote a Bond bio when CR came out.
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Why and how is that? Was it amped down a bit to match the pacing of the PTS? It was not noticeable enough to ruin the PTS for me (also I think it was a wise choice to have Sheryl Crow's "Tomorrow Never Dies" as the PTS soundtrack for TND; KD Lang's more bombastic "Surrender" veers too much into self-parody).