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    Favorite Bond themes

    in honor of 007's 50th anniversary, what are your favorite Bond themes?

    here's a Youtube to help you out..



    mine are (by movie title)..

    Goldfinger
    You Only Live Twice
    The Spy Who Loved Me
    For Your Eyes Only (one of my fave movies as well)
    The World is Not Enough
    "She said you are the air I breathe
    The life I love, the dream I weave."


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    Well, apart from the actual "James Bond Theme", ya know, the one with the cool guitar riff that gets played at the start of every (or almost every) Bond film, I like Live And Let Die the best. Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me) and For Your Eyes Only weren't bad either. That Duran Duran song, I think it was for A View To A Kill, that one was good too.

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    Live and Let Die
    Goldfinger (though I really don't care for Shirley Bassey otherwise)
    A View to a Kill
    Die Another Day (no idea why I like this one, as I don't like Madonna and don't like this kinda music, but I love this song)
    Skyfall

    And, as Chris mentioned, the original "Secret Agent Man"-type theme.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Bails View Post
    Goldfinger (though I really don't care for Shirley Bassey otherwise)
    she does have a booming kind of voice - kind of Ethel Merman-ish in a way.
    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Bails View Post
    And, as Chris mentioned, the original "Secret Agent Man"-type theme.
    which was for Dr No (the first film) though i at first thought it might have been 'Three Blind Mice' until i saw the video. but since the main theme appears in every Bond film, i didn't consider it.
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    I would have to go with "Live And Let Die"

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    Live and Let Die
    no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone

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    The best Bond theme never used was Alice Cooper's The Man With The Golden Gun. Lulu`s song was probably the worst Bond song ever

    Traci Hitchins from Landmarq also recorded a song that was quite good but never used. Just forget for which movie.
    I`d have to go with Duran Duran ¡

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    1.Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
    2.The Spy Who Loved Me
    3.Thunderball - Tom Jones
    4.OHMSS
    5.A View to a Kill

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    Lulu`s song was probably the worst Bond song ever
    Hardly. Madonna's "Die another day" (apologies to the above poster who likes it, but I just can't bear it) and one or two others rank below it (or does anyone really think "Underneath the mango tree" from Dr. No is better than "The Man with the Golden Gun"?). Much as though I love the new film, Adele's "Skyfawww" is hardly a great Bond song, imho.

    My favourites are 'From Russia with Love', 'Goldfinger', 'You only live twice', 'On her majesty's secret service' (not technically a song, of course, but awesome nonetheless), 'Live and Let Die', 'Nobody does it better', 'The living daylights' (a couple of songs by The Pretenders used in that film were pretty good too), 'Licence to kill', 'Surrender' (the closing title-song of 'Tomorrow Never Dies' by KD Lang) and 'You know my name'.

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    world is not enough
    skyfall
    you know my name
    for your eyes only
    living daylights

    I believe the classic JB theme (such as being played at the beginning of the above video under the movie name "Dr. No") is only a theme -- rather than a song with lyrics -- but of course count that in too.

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    Goldfinger
    Thunderball

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    A View To A Kill..... actually it's the only song by DD that i like.

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    Goldfinger trumps them all.

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    "For your eyes only" is tops in my book, but for reasons I shan't go into here.
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    What was her name?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikhael View Post
    "For your eyes only" is tops in my book, but for reasons I shan't go into here.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sean View Post
    What was her name?
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    Thunderballlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

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    I like most of them, particularly:

    Tom Jones's Thunderball
    Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever
    Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die
    Carly Simon's Nobody Does it Better
    Chris Cornell's You Know My Name
    Shani Hall's Never Say Never Again
    Herb Alpert's Casino Royale
    and of course Alice Cooper's unused Man With the Golden Gun

    Actually I could go on and on - I like them all.
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    I like many of them, but faves go to any of the Shirley Bassey tunes, Tom Jones' Thunderball, Nancy SInatra's You Only Live Twice and also the one by Garbage "The World is Not Enough".

    I also quite like the new one by Adele
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    Goldfinger, closely followed by Casino Royale...which also has 'The Look of Love' in it, of course, soundtracking Ursula Andress in slow motion behind the fish tank: hard to beat. Shame they lost so much of the coherence of the original 1967 film when they remade it with Daniel Craig ...

    'Skyfall' sounded like a very knowing cut-and-paste reassembly of hooks from several classic Bond themes ('From Russia with Love', 'Goldfinger', Thunderball') mixed with a small dash of early Noel Gallagher and some sub-Bassey vocals. Which suited the self-referential content of the film perfectly...but also seemed to be about 10 years too late...

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    Goldfinger
    Dr No
    Diamonds Are Forever
    View To A Kill

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    Besides Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice has always stayed in my head. Maybe it is because I saw the film on its day of release in 1967 at Grumann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The movie and the music made quite an impression to me at 13 years old. I'll always love the twangy James Bond Theme too. 007 forever!
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    Herb Albert/Burt Bacharach for sure.

    Man With the Golden Gun includes the line, "He comes just before the kill." ANyone who read the book will know what that means.

    I used the theme to the Avengers in my wedding- It was our exit music down the aisle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Ears View Post
    I like most of them, particularly:

    and of course Alice Cooper's unused Man With the Golden Gun

    Actually I could go on and on - I like them all.
    Actually, I'm kind of the opposite... I don't like those type of diva-sangstress songs, whether Bond-related or not (didn't know of Alice Cooper's failed attempt, though)

    If I have to choose one, I'd say Live and Let Die, because it's a rockier song.... But even for Wings/Macca standards, it's not that good a song either...
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Actual

    If I have to choose one, I'd say Live and Let Die, because it's a rockier song.... But even for Wings/Macca standards, it's not that good a song either...
    i don't know man, he sure rocked the hell out of it last november when i saw him, i'd say it stood up very well compared to the rest of the set that night.

    out of curiosity, why do people call him Macca anyway? is he cool with it or is it one of those stupid media/press generated things like J-Lo or Bradjolina?

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