Listen to all of TND
Listen to all of QOS…
…we’ll wait.
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I’ve heard them; I’m not really seeing the point? He’s toned down the wah-wah stuff but it’s still recognisably in his style. And two of them being slightly different doesn’t equal ‘none of them sounding the same’: these are two different statements.
I’ll wait for you to ponder that.
You would be able to tell which film his music is for with just a small sample - something you couldn’t say for John Williams or John Barry when scoring the same version of a character (it’s virtually impossible to differentiate William’s Star Wars scores outside very specific themes, much like it is Barry’s scores for Moore’s films outside of the use of that films song), and those are two of the most acclaimed film composers in history.
That’s pretty debatable in itself (there’s a strong chance that many people would be able to spot those differences) but it’s not exactly a fault in those two composers: they’d be going for consistency in those you mention. A small sample of TWINE versus TND wouldn’t exactly be a revelatory difference: especially when he’s reusing his action theme 
It didn’t say it was a fault, unlike some on this forum I don’t have any issue with a film series reusing pieces of music, I was just pointing to DA’s Bond scores not being that, he re-uses occasional motif’s, but not large section of music cues as both John Barry and Thomas Newman, the only other composers to do more than one Bond film, did.
Hilariously, Arnold’s QOS is the only film in Craig’s run not to reuse DA’s “The Name’s Bond James Bond” over it’s final scene.
I’d never (knowingly) heard Dan Romer’s work before bingeing it this weekend… Have to say I’m not very impressed. His work is good, but it’s little better than the thousands of AudioNetworks tracks I’ve used for work. I hope he (and Fukunaga) break out of their musical comfort zone to pursue a classic, classy Bond sound.
Then again I’m not a big fan of Newman’s work for Bond, which most people seem to love, so maybe I’m wrong.
Newman seems, by most accounts, to have one great Bond score and one mediocre Bond score. The interesting thing, from what I’ve gathered is that people, like myself, either love the SF score and don’t like the SP score, or vice versa.
I use them at work a lot too and I’ve gotta say I think they get a bad wrap. There’s definitely a lot of stinkers on there, but there’s also plenty of gems. For what they are I’m often impressed by the tracks.
Or maybe l’m just showing my bad taste 
And having said that of course I’d expect farrrrr better from someone hired to do Bond. I’ll muster up an opinion when I’ve listened to some more Romer, but I do recall enjoying Maniac’s score.
Oh I’m actually a big fan of a lot of them (although there are stinkers, inevitably). My point is that AudioNetworks tracks are generally designed to fulfil a deliberately generic purpose - a ‘one size fits all’ approach to providing unobtrusive genre music that can be used in low budget documentaries and TV ads.
That doesn’t make the music bad but I think it illustrates how unremarkable I find Dan Romer’s work to date. In fact you summed up my feelings perfectly when you said
BUT I always keep an open mind; it’s just that sometimes it’s hard to be optimistic.
Looks like Kleinman is officially back, and these guys even have a quote from him
“I have started having ideas for B25, and met with @cary_fukunaga who is a very nice talented man. It’s very early days for my process, there is no title or song as yet, but I’m already excited to be thinking about visuals for the main titles.”
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Awesome! I love Kleinman’s work.
Controversial opinion: I prefer Kleinman even to Binder. While Binder’s work may have technically been more impressive simply due to the technological limitations of the time, I like that Kleinman incorporates themes from the film itself into his titles (my three favorite title sequences of the whole series are GE, DAD, and CR). Binder, on the other hand, relied too heavily on generic floating female silhouettes, and many of his designs from the 70s and 80s are basically indistinguishable from one another.
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Fantastic news indeed!! 
I can’t wait to see what Mr. Kleinman comes up with this time! 
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As a kid growing up wanting to get in the movie business, Maurice Binder was an out an out inspiration. Unfortunately, I didn’t live that dream. The joy today is seeing the work of Daniel Kleinman, who obviously was inspired as well and did.
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Excellent news. My personal favorite is Skyfall, with its fever-dream-like qualities.
Boooo! Bring back MK12!
Joking
Expel them!
Yeah, he’s better; Binder got some great images but I think Kleinman’s inspiration levels are higher- he has great concepts for the titles. And by LTK Binder was definitely all out of ideas (casinos and cameras? Er… okay).
He’s also just three years off doing it for as long as Binder did!
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While not technically news I’d like to take this opportunity to wish a happy birthday to Cary Joji Fukunaga. Hopefully can have a few martinis with the cast and crew to celebrate.
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Kleinman has always delivered visually striking and relevant imagery in his title sequences. A real modern legend of the Bond family and I’m glad he’s back.
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At after 24 years, I don’t think modern is the word 
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