Casino Royale by Original Soundtrack (CD, Oct-2002, Varese Sarabande USA)

This soundtrack has one very good song, the rest are a complete disaster. They are a bit like trying to figure out a movie from the sixties, which, by its own admission, was a confused mess to begin with. Regreshingly, the insert to the CD admits this, admiting the rift between the principal actor Peter Sellers, fresh out of his hit AFTER THE FOX, and steping into this monstruosity. It also admits the mess that the rights to the books by Ian Fleming are. Although a valiant attempt at an apparently good idea, the soundtrack to this idea is simply terrible. The one and only song worthy of the name is the title theme, by all accounts a chirpy melody, the rest are like unfinished track by a music student, simply put it, badly done.