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Both Ellie Goulding and Sam Smith are hinting that they have recorded tracks for the Spectre soundtrack.

 

I will have to wait a bit longer for Sade or Noel Gallagher to do the theme song for a James Bond film.

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No posting the theme song for Spectre when it came out last Friday?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuuXgWhD3E

 

Not doing it for me, doesn't go up a level like they do. Who knows, might grow on me.

 

On the subject of James Bond theme songs, my top five:

 

1. Live and Let Die

2. Goldfinger

3. Nobody Does It Better

4. Skyfall

5. GoldenEye

 

You Know My Name only just missed my top five.

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My fave Bond themes:

 

1. Goldfinger

2. Diamonds Are Forever

3. Skyfall

4. A View To A Kill

5. The Living Daylights

 

The Spy Who Loves Me (Nobody Does It Better) You Know My Name, and Live & Let Die just barely got edged out.  The battle for five was really close.

 

Speaking of The Living Daylights, the more I think about it the more I begin to appreciate Timmy Dalton's Bond.  He tried his best to be Ian Fleming's tortured by personal demons Bond but the beloved camp from Roger Moore's Bond spilled over into something it shouldn't have. 

 

They're finally close to Ian's vision of how Bond should be with the Craig run just In time for him to hang up his Walther.

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Nobody likes the World is Not Enough but me :(

 

I thought Skyfall's theme was bloody terrible myself. Although I can't stand any of Adele's music, so that's why.

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Nobody likes the World is Not Enough but me :(

I do... you're not alone!

...wait, you do mean the SONG, right? Not the movie. Oh dear lord, not the movie. Biggest disappointment in the entire Bond series, considering how many really different and interesting things they did in the story which were very different from the usual formula; but it still ended with a finished product about which the kindest thing you could say is "well, at least it's better than Die Another Day".

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My top 5 themes in no order:

The World is Not Enough

A View to Kill

License to Kill

You Know My Name

Die Another Day

 

To be fair I've only seen so many Bond films in full. They tend be things I catch on tv randomly. Saying that I also have to admit the only theme in my list I've seen the full movie of is Casino Royale. I saw the last two movies in theater, but can't remember their themes at all.

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A lot of the Brosnan Bond movies have that thing where there's enough good-enough-ish bits that you could make a good trailer out of it, but as a whole entire movie.... DUD.

 

The music video to The World is Not Enough is actually better plotted and paced than the actual movie is.

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The Brosnans feel like they wanted the Connery hard boiled stuff AND the Moore silliness, but they also wanted to stay relevant by going darker occasionally. I wonder what kind of Bond Pierce would have been if there weren't so many dramatic tonal shifts for him to have to negotiate. I guess you could say the same for Dalton, but I think he actually fared better.

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I kind of wonder how the Bonds would've turned out of Dalton took the role when he was first offered it (Taking over for Connery after Diamonds are Forever).  And then I wonder how the bonds would've turned out if Brosnan could've gotten out of Remmington Steele.  I'm not sure he could've pulled off Licence to Kill the way Dalton did.

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Dalton owned Licence to Kill so hard. It's a shame he didn't get a longer run at either end of his two movies. He's my favourite of the bunch and by far came the closest to capturing Fleming's character. Such a great actor and one that started ridiculously young (he was 23/24 in The Lion in Winter!).

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A lot of my favorite Bonds are when they got reactionary and made major adjustments (OHMSS, Casino Royale.) Licence is them trying to keep up with the Lethal Weapon/Die Hard set and mostly succeeding. It was also a story about Bond going rogue before every movie was about Bond going rogue.

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As much as I enjoy Licence to Kill (and that theme song! Gladys crushes it), I prefer The Living Daylights as it's the more traditional Bond narrative and has the subtext of the Bond's dissatisfaction without it becoming the central plot point. OHMSS and Casino Royale are up there for me as well (Casino is probably the best of the bunch in my opinion) with of course From Russia With Love. 

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Y'all are sleeping on that Thunderball theme...

1 - Goldeneye

2 - Thunderball

3 - Goldfinger

4 - You Know My Name

4 - The World is Not Enough

I will take that unused Johnny Cash version i posted over the Tom Jones one used in the picture.

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Yeah, the horribleness of The World Is Not Enough movie has made me forget how much Shirley Manson totally crushes that song.

 

And yeah Gladys Knight SLAYS singing License to Kill.

 

You guys are letting the novelty of Take On Me cloud your judgment on how great of a track that The Living Daylights is.  Aha! fucking rules it.

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I listened to the Sam Smith song the other day and hated it. Musically it fits Bond with the big orchestral feel. But Smith ruins the song by trying to sing out of his octave with all of those high notes. We get it. He's the male Adele...but at least she can hit high notes. Honestly I'm amazed they said okay to that. Granted it's not "Die Another Day" bad as Elton John says. But it sounded like he was trying way too hard and was way out of his leauge.

 

i second the notion to get Noel Gallagher to do a Bond theme. It's kinda amazing that during their peak, Oasis didn't do one of Brosnon's films.

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