The Natural Posted September 3, 2015 Author Share Posted September 3, 2015 Cool poster alert: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 Sam Smith will be singing the theme song for Spectre. Announced today by Sam on his Twitter page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I like Sam's voice but seriously GET SADE OR NOEL GALLAGHER TO SING A FUCKING BOND THEME~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I keep wanting to make Michael Jordan jokes whenever i see Sam Smith's name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 1. Casino Royale 67 2. OHMSS 3. goldfinger 4. Man w golden gun 5. Spy who loved me Hon mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Not a theme song, but I love that License to Kill randomly ends with If You Ask Me To. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Noel is the obvious candidate to do a Bond track. Dude is tortured by more demons than Bond is and can probably belt out a classic. Shows how far Oasis has fallen out of favor since their debut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 2, 2015 Author Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. When editing my last post, I removed two of my three honourable mentions with You Know My Name. The two: The World Is Not Enough and The Living Daylights. Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall has made history by becoming the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK. The previous highest placement was shared by Duran Duran's View To A Kill and Adele's Skyfall which both reached number two. Shame Smith's is the first to do so. Released today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I don't know enough of them, but you could probably make a pretty good list of "unofficial" Bond songs, e.g. the Johnny Cash cover, or Muse's Supremacy. 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. Ugh. Just heard it. He'd have been better off pairing with an actual soprano and letting her hit the highs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 The guys on the James Bonding podcast have played quite a few of the unofficial theme songs. There's definitely enough for an album. I think Tomorrow Never Dies was the bake off one where they had like five groups submit songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 And they picked fucking Sheryl Crow? 17 years later and that film is still disappointing me. Tomorrow Never Dies was the movie that made it clear that all the unrealized potential that Goldeneye hinted at would remain just that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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