.com The James Bond film franchise has had more than one overarching cultural icon to surmount. While Sean Connery s Bond may forever be the standard by which all others are judged John Barry set an equally high musical standard with his elegantly sophisticated Bond scores. But by the time Pierce Brosnan took his belated fifth-generation shot at Bondom the producers of the series felt the need to modernize its music. That daunting task fell to modern musical synthesist Eric Serra the accomplished longtime collaborator of French director Luc Besson (Le Femme Nikita The Professional The Fifth Element and particularly The Big Blue). And the French musician tackled it with his adventurous spirit of genre-hopping only slightly muted. If anything the incorporation of an orchestra into Serra s trademark blend of tense electronica industrial dance beats and exotic music samples seems like an effort (foisted upon him by the producers?) to move Bond into the 21st century yet retain some semblance of his 1960s roots. It s a game effort of genre reinvention that s been unfairly trashed by many of the Bond overfaithful but it s one that Serra admirers will find instantly inviting. --Jerry McCulley Product description W/TINA TURNER / MUSIC BY ERIC SERRADISC 11. GOLDENEYE2. THE GOLDENEYE OVERTURE3. PART 1: HALF OF EVRYTHING IS LUCK4. PART 2: HALF OF EVERYTHING IS FATE5. PART 3: FOR ENGLAND JAMES6. LADIES FIRST7. WE SHARE THE SAME PASSIONS8. PART 1: THE TRIP TO CUBA9. PART 2: THE SAME PASSION10. A LITTLE SURPRISE FOR YOU11. PART 1: XENYA12. PART 2: D.M. MYCHKINE13. THE SEVERNAYA SUITE14. PART 1: AMONG THE DEAD15. PART 2: OUT OF HELL16. PART 3: THE HUSKY TRIBE17. OUR LADY OF SMOLENSK18. WHISPERING STATUES19. PART 1: WHISPERS20. PART 2: TWO FACED21. RUN SHOOT AND JUMP22. A PLEASANT DRIVE IN ST. PETERSBURG23. FATAL WEAKNESS24. THATand# S WHAT KEEPS YOU ALONE25. DISH OUT OF WATER26. PART 1: A GOOD SQUEEZE27. PART 2: THE ANTENNA28. THE SCALE TO HELL29. PART 1: BORIS AND THE LETHAL PEN30. PART 2: I AM INVINCIBLE31. FOR EVER JAMES