Casino Royale Soundtrack - Bond, James

A new Bond, a new direction. Daniel Craig takes over as 007. This is probably the closest James Bond has looked on screen to the original Fleming written word. Sean Connery was close, and I thought Timothy Dalton was as well. But Craig's performance has nailed it. This IS James Bond.

Yeah, I know this is more about the movie than the music. This soundtrack is odd in that the theme song is not here. That track is "You Know My Name", by former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell. That is available independently as an iTunes download. In fact, the version of this album I bought was through iTunes. The standard CD version has about 15 tracks less than the digital iTunes version does. Not sure why that is, other than as a purchase incentive. But I loved the movie, it has some great music, so I picked it up on iTunes.

If you're a movie soundtrack fan, you'll probably like this. If you're not, I would pass on this, despite the quality of the movie.