Adele sounds great on it but that's a seriously stupid song even for the genre of "Bond theme song"
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
also Sheena was robbed in this poll
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Srsly. "For Your Eyes Only" is one of the best of the best.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it is annoying to me that on the John Barry Themependium box set Sheena's is one of the only Bond vocals not included.
Oy she was such a nice girl before that Prince got to her.
― you can kill things and still like them, i don't know (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I can't think of View To A Kill now without remembering *that* note at Live Aid
― Professor Giff (NickB), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Still stand by my repping for kd Lang's 'Surrender'. Happily someone has righted the wrong and replaced Sheryl Crow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zIbOL8SSCY&hd=1
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINh8ZOWSLw
2.50-ish, look away DJP
― Professor Giff (NickB), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
oh this is going to be a treat, I can tell already
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
oh that was awesome
there is nothing more aggravating than when your voice cracks, esp on a note you've hit a bazillion times in a row
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
biggest gig of their career, right in front of a zillion people, so sad
― Professor Giff (NickB), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
I should poll the eighties Bond themes...
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
how the hell did "die another day" not win this or come much higher anyway
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Because it's not really very good?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
it's a perfectly okay song but it placed about right
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's been a long time since I listened to the Sheryl Crow one, but it's really not that good. Especially after seeing the credits redone with k.d. lang's song.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
WHAT THE FUCK AT CHRIS CORNELL BEATING CARLY SIMON
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
shit what the fuck at chris cornell beating a-ha for that matter, was everyone just that high on casino royale fumes?
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
the thing about "Die Another Day" is it was actually the theme song for Analyze This
― some dude, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Just went back and listened to the Chris Cornell one a little bit ago. It's bad. Still better than the Jack White/Alicia Keys monstrosity, though.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
I guess that someone does do it better.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/images/smilies/shrug.gif
― pplains, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
ditto to 'sheena was robbed' sentiments
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R500VKA9-Zo
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxBgCBYQ9U
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
if there ever was a bond that should've had an alice cooper theme it was the one w/ christopher lee
obligatory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpH-iziTho
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
came in, saw "Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings" with 15 votes, literally guffawed
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rqS98seNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y-hCydiXA
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nope. I like Pulp/Jarvis more than I once did, but I still think that track fails the Bond test. xps
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah 'pulp does bond theme' seems a gimme on paper but the actual thing isn't any better than most of the other mediocre themes they've had for the past 25 years. wish they'd had him come in and touch up the lyrics on the otherwise fantastic adele one though. the blondie is disappointing also (not a patch on sheena) but more a statement of how dry the well was for them at that point.
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
whoa – I've never heard Blondie's, and, yes, it sounds enervated.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
I unabashedly love the Skyfall theme, stupid lyrics or no. It has all the qualities that most of the recent (and by recent, I mean the last 20-25 years' worth) themes have disregarded. I had no memory of k.d. lang's "Surrender" before seeing it edited into the Tomorrow Never Dies opening sequence today, but it totally blows away Sheryl Crow's song and is kind of an island in the vast ocean of mediocrity that has plagued Bond since, basically, the end of the Moore era.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
i like 'die another day', if it had more of a spybreak feel it would work perfectly as a bond theme instead of just being a decent second tier madonna single that happened to be a bond theme (of course 'die another day' + spybreak = 'toxic'), as it is it's the best between a-ha and adele.
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I would never go to the bat for it but I didn't mind Tina Turner's
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
<i>"on her majesty's secret service" or gtfo</i>
Totally.
The new Adele is a pastiche of a pastiche. It's barely there.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8cvkn4q8Xs
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
I said on the Jukebox that to me Adele has no talent for emotions, only "emotions" in that Shirley Bassey/Annie Lennox sense: a showbiz belter. So while the song is just okay it's hard to imagine another contemporary singer who knows how to belt these things unashamedly.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the Adele one from another room just yesterday and was thinking it was pretty good. First real listen dispelled that quickly. It's pretty much made to be half-heard while not paying attention, in which case it gets the job done...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 11 October 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Still stand by my repping for kd Lang's 'Surrender'. Happily someone has righted the wrong and replaced Sheryl Crow."
Now Surrender is good. But Sheryl's Tomorrow Never Dies is better. Definitely the most underrated Bond theme and a top 3 contender.
The votes for Cornell here are hilarious, though.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Sheryl's Tomorrow Never Dies is better. Definitely the most underrated Bond theme and a top 3 contender.
*brain explodes*
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
You know what - it hurts me to say this but this is pretty much OTM - never thought I'd ever rep for a 90's bond themes sung by Sheryl friggin Crow.Also, the Garbage one was totally robbed.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 15 October 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
i bet mark ronson's feeling like a dick now for not holding amy's trackmarked hand through what could have been a great final hurrah for her.
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton 0From Russian With Love - Matt Munro 0The Man With The Golden Gun - Lulu 0
?!?!?!?!?!?
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 15 October 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
This poll result is making me legitimately angry. Who votes for Chris Cornell?!? SMH
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Monday, 15 October 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
had no idea 10 of Chris Cornell's cousins and his mom posted to ILX
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Monday, 15 October 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the Cornell song was the only James Bond theme these voters had ever heard.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Monday, 15 October 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
If I'd been around for this poll Matt Munro would have got at least the one vote. I love that song.
The Adele song is really unremarkable in my book, I think it's getting such an easy ride because people still have PTSD from Jack White and Alicia Keys.
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 15 October 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
It's not all that great, but it's more of a traditional Bond theme than the last two travesties have been.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Monday, 15 October 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if "traditional" is necessarily good in the Bond context. McCartney justly topped this poll, cos his theme broke the mould, which was getting a little too easy listening for its own good. He gave us a rock song built of fragments, with that exciting instrumental spliced in that was so good to run over the chase scenes.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
i think the cornell song is pretty legit, even though his voice isnt what it used to be. its not some stupid herky-jerky bond-hating bullshit like the jack white number, it's a pretty traditional sounding bond song except for the guitars - so its got some old bond flavor but it lets you know this is a new take on bond
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 15 October 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
^^^Very catchy chorus as well.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
There are incredible Bondy strings and horns on it.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
incrediblY Bondy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link