What's the best Bond theme
What's the best Bond theme
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irocfan

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48,799 posts

219 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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Just watching Live and Let Die which has a great theme song - which is the best Bond theme?

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

215 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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Goldfinger.

Silver awards to:

Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Diamonds are Forever
The Spy who Loved Me

Being a Soundgarden fan, the Chris Cornell one is the only one worth listening to after about 1983.

Europa1

10,923 posts

217 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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I think The World Is Not Enough is underrated.

HTP99

25,103 posts

169 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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irocfan said:
Just watching Live and Let Die which has a great theme song - which is the best Bond theme?
That one!

Raddors

539 posts

177 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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Licence to Kill every time. Top of my "singing alone in the car" playlist, alongside neneh cherry 7 seconds.

2 GKC

2,305 posts

134 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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All time high

cherryowen

12,548 posts

233 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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Personally?

Goldfinger edges into first place, followed by (and in order):-

You Only Live Twice John Barry pre-dating his theme to Midnight Cowboy

Live and Let Die Clever, clever chords and songwriting

I'll have The Spy Who Loved Me on the subs bench






rog007

5,828 posts

253 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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For Your Eyes Only...

Nothing to do with my crush on Ms Easton.

anonymous-user

83 months

Saturday 11th April 2020
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Lemon Piping

languagetimothy

1,774 posts

191 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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Diamonds are forever is probably my favourite though I like many others.
Crows tomorrow never dies is imho outstanding

Worst is definitely man with the golden gun...appalling

Nimby

5,677 posts

179 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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OHMSS

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

192 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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languagetimothy said:
Worst is definitely man with the golden gun...appalling
I quite like that ,Lulu banging out the lyrics.

Agree about Chris Cornell ,one of only 2 single CDs I bought.

The Live and let die cover version by Guns n Roses is even better than Wings version.

robsco

7,875 posts

205 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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Nobody Does It Better.

anonymous-user

83 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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Nimby said:
OHMSS
The David Arnold /Propellerheads version of that is not bad either.

NMNeil

5,860 posts

79 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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Casino Royal, The 1967 version by Burt Bacharach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEiJHojcDLw

V1nce Fox

5,508 posts

97 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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Johnnytheboy said:
Goldfinger.

Silver awards to:

Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Diamonds are Forever
The Spy who Loved Me

Being a Soundgarden fan, the Chris Cornell one is the only one worth listening to after about 1983.
Not sure about best, but favourite for me is the Chris Cornell one. Massive fan.

rover 623gsi

5,230 posts

190 months

Sunday 12th April 2020
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i know it's many people's favourite, but my I can't stand Live and Let Die. The only one worse was the recent piss poor effort by Sam Smith.

but there's been some great ones over the years - Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, We Have all the time in the World, View to a Kill...

I also like the Jack White / Alicia Keys track for Quantum of Solace (although I was disappointed they didn't somehow manage to get the film title in the song lyrics!)

droopsnoot

14,611 posts

271 months

Monday 13th April 2020
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I remember one of my often-borrowed records from the library was the Bond themes compilation LP, until we acquired the technology to tape it. And I still have "Thunderball" on the player in the car, having removed most of the rest that I put on.

I quite like the Sam Smith tune. There, I've said it. I didn't like the way he told us all so smugly about how he'd written it in five minutes, and I think I've read that the latest one (which I don't really like, I don't think it's a patch on the SS one, or the Adele one for that matter) was also rattled off in a similar time. When I hear the new one on the radio, I can hear bits of the Sam Smith tune in there, but that might just be that these last few have got a lot of classic Bond theme components in them.


Edited by droopsnoot on Monday 13th April 10:43

AllTorque

2,646 posts

298 months

Monday 13th April 2020
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Anyone heard Radiohead's version of Spectre? It's pretty cool! My favourite is From Russia With Love though

Zarco

20,905 posts

238 months

Monday 13th April 2020
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Live and Let Die