^^^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
Just watched Octopussy the other night and my main takeaway was how baaaaaaaaad the theme song was. Sounded like a karaoke performance of a demo of the world's most generic early-80s TV show theme ballad. Just awful. You'd think with a name like "Octopussy," you'd get something interesting going.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 August 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
Disagree - I dig it, but I tend to also enjoy themes for being unintentionally funny and at odds with its movie in interestings ways. Well let's face it I love 99% of the Bond themes.
It's not a stunner on first listen but it has a weird charm. Your description isn't wrong, but doesn't make it less good. It's hilarious to me how serious-faced it is in its cheesy balladry, set up against the movie and its title. "I'm in so strong and so deep, and so are you". Sneaky melody when you sit through it many times as well.
Another funny is how the 'Moonraker' theme might be the series most elegant.
― abcfsk, Friday, 30 August 2013 06:44 (ten years ago) link
There's a question that hasn't been discussed here, except briefly by chap with "bondy strings and horns" : what makes a song Bondy ? Just the use of the strings and horns in a way that reminds Barry's theme ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 30 August 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
From Russia With Love underrated here
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 9 November 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
Had a dream last night where one of the early Bond themes was to the tune of the song Smokey the Bear, but instead of "a-prowlin' and a-growlin'" the lyric was "a-rakin' and a-rapin'".
― how's life, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
"Another Way to Die" is so so fucking bad, oh my gooooooooood. I forgot how much I hated this pile of shit.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
It's truly dire.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
yeah it’s bad. its a pity because i really love the imagery in the credit sequence, so now i just watch w the sound off lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link
From Russia With Love is good, bummed that it got no votes. And I have a soft spot for All Time High
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 03:56 (two years ago) link
I will always love "All Time High" just because there was no way in hell that a Bond theme song would ever be called "Octopussy," though I'm imagining what would have happened if Rudy Ray Moore had ever done a Bond theme for whatever reason.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
How the heck did Portishead never do one of these?
Chuckles on the Rudy Ray Moore doing a Bond theme...
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
Joe Tex & the Sexolets wouldve crushed the Octospussy theme
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
...or the B-52's.
Fred Schneider: "...and they called her Oct-O-Pussy!"
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
i think the one area in which the craig-era almost totally struck out on was bond themes. brosnan had four excellent ones. the best craig theme is "you know my name," which is AWESOME. "skyfall" and "no time to die" are ok-to-good approximations of what a bond theme feels like. "another way to die" and "the writing's on the wall" are just godawful
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
there's an instrumental version of "another way".... which still isn't that good. jack white's guitar riffs are too basic, and there's too many different song sections.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain),
SAH-PRIIIIZZZE!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
I want this world to exist. Especially the tie-in video on the lines of Duran's "View to a Kill" video. (Or imagine Fred in the opening credits a la Sheena Easton for For Your Eyes Only.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Of the modern-era (Dalton/Brosnan/Craig) I mostly have time for these ten:1. Propellerheads2. Garbage3. A-Ha4. kd Lang5. Scott Walker6. Moby7. Billie Eilish8. Adele9. Sheryl Crow10. Tina Turner
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
Xp real lolz thinking of a B52 theme although Planet Claire is already a pretty close approximation
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
He came from Planet BondAlmost drowned in a pondHe drove an Aston MartinA-wants vodka martinis, not gin!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Metallica is going to do the next bond theme.
Bond will be played by Tom Hardy
The first film will be called
"To Live is to Die"
Inexplicably, the song will be titled
"Ruin Nation"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
i really hope they gender flip bond with the next casting but otherwise i wish all of those sentences were true
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
yeah i’d love Bond to be a womanhard pass on Tom Hardy
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
tom hanks is james bond in... no dying in baseball
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Not saying I *want* Tom Hardy, just guessing the predictable way they will go
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
if metallica does the bond theme then john woo better direct because 90’s mission impossible is what we all clearly want here
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
Siegbran’s list is especially good bcz there are two guesses for #1.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
Haha yeah, but their Goldfinger remix is pretty unremarkable.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
The Propheads OHMSS version is one of the very few Bond tunes that capture the kinetic energy of the movies - I like dramatic orchestral ballads as much as the next guy/gal but in the end these movies are 90% hyperactive chase scenes.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
I honestly thought History Repeating was the most likely reference!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
ah yeah but that was never a Bond tune. It's also funny to read about the rejected bond themes:
Ace Of Base were supposed to do Goldeneye, which was reworked into this - surprisingly it's not cod-reggae europop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_s1GuSjl-I
Pet Shop Boys reworked their rejected The Living Daylights song into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKW6BcTcRJ8
Saint Etienne Tomorrow Never Dies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLsyuMYYb3A
Straw The World Is Not Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRrL3d4qrMo
Johnny Cash Thunderball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AN5mJF13A
Radiohead Spectre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiDemXYSLc
― Siegbran, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
Wasn't there an Alice Cooper version of the Man With the Golden Gun as well?
― chap, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah, mentioned upthread, but I guess the link is gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R500VKA9-Zo
Also, the Blondie one is also a dead link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3anh2SV-7s
And here's Natacha Atlas & David Arnold doing a very serviceable You Only Live Twice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0dkXSGNzZE
― Siegbran, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
ah yeah but that was never a Bond tune.Yah but you listed several not-Bond-themes from the reject pile. (Pulp didn’t even have to change their rejected theme’s name to disguise it, as the movie helpfully changed their own instead)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrlFYg2QkI
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link