... with a frosty electronic veneer. I'm thinking stuff like Goldfrapp's "Pilots", most of Ladytron's 'Witching Hour'. Some italo works too. Any ideas?
― baaderonixx, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Shouldn't that be Escada-ish torch songs now?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, "At The Edge Of The World" by Billy MacKenzie.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't get the Escada ref.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
What Dingbod just said. (Been on a MAJOR Associates/Billy kick lately -- ever heard the B-sides to "Ice Cream Factory," M? Those might even be better than the main single!)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, not AS electronic at all but seek out Billy's own version of "You Only Live Twice," only done once on a Jonathan Ross show from 1987 or so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Excursion Ecosse en Route Koblenz via Hawkhill ahoy!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
will do. I never got around checking out the Associates, which for some reason I imagined sounding completely different.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
A-ha's "The Blood That Moves The Body" is a better Bond-song than "The Living Daylights".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
This is true, actually.
:-D Love that one.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"The World is Not Enough" obviously, but of course it's more than Bond-ISH.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Orbital to thread. "The Box" as their only Bond-ish original, but they also did excellent versions of "The Saint" and not least "Dr. Who".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"Bachelorette" by Björk is the first thing that comes to mind.
― Turangalila, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes and no. There was always an incredibly rich/dramatic vein to them -- search out "No" from Sulk -- but also look for the song that Billy wrote with Yello for Shirley Bassey, "The Rhythm Divine." VERY much a lost Bond theme, self-consciously so.
"At the Edge of the World" is even more serenely calm on this front, but keep in mind there are several versions -- the one I think Marcello is talking about is from 1993 as a demo done with Alan Rankine in the one-off reunion, and can be found on the Transmission Impossible disc under Mackenzie's name. There's another one where he took the lyrics/melody and applied to an instrumental by the German act Loom, called "Anacostia Bay (At the Edge of the World)" that was released as a 1996 single -- a nine-minute version is on the Mackenzie collection Auchtermatic, but the original twelve-minute one is well-worth looking for, while the demi-ambient Berlioz mix from the original single is *VERY* good.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 June 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
What about the Propellerheads/Shirley Bassey collabo?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Can I be unbelievably obvious and say Roads by Portishead?
― chap, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Abba's "Day before you came" somehow fits too
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yaK90jRNE
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
kinda crazy Bryan Ferry has never been tapped for a Bond theme
― Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 22 October 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link