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"The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby GoogaMooga » 14 Jan 2019, 17:57

Played "Stay on These Roads", the 1988 album by Norwegian popsters a-ha, and "Living Daylights" came on. Wow! Much better than I remember it. Wonder why it isn't held in the same high regard as the Barry-penned themes. Got me thinking, could it be top three?

Here's my shortlist:

1. Nancy at the very top, "You Only Live Twice". Robbie Williams knew to mine that one!

2. One that is remembered better than the theme song, "We Have All the Time in the World", by Louis Armstrong.

3. Third place is difficult. Should it be a Shirley Bassey, then "Goldfinger".

Or should it be a-ha?

Or even a David Arnold-penned song off the "Tomorrow Never Dies" OST, sung by k.d. Lang: "Surrender".
Far better than the title song, it's known among cognoscenti as "THE Great Lost Bond Theme".

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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby Muskrat » 14 Jan 2019, 18:59

Pretennding the James Bond theme isn't eligible:

1) Goldfinger
2) Live and Let Die
3) Thunderball

Here's a reminder.

Plus this:


And this:
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Postby Rayge » 14 Jan 2019, 20:43

No film or piece of music or indeed piece of literature about James Bond is anything other than an excrescense on the face of culture.
An utterly loathsome encapsulation of the worst of British.
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Postby Quaco » 14 Jan 2019, 20:47

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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby GoogaMooga » 14 Jan 2019, 20:48

Rayge wrote:No film or piece of music or indeed piece of literature about James Bond is anything other than an excrescense on the face of culture.
An utterly loathsome encapsulation of the worst of British.


What's the best of British, then?
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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby Minnie the Minx » 14 Jan 2019, 20:53

GoogaMooga wrote:
Rayge wrote:No film or piece of music or indeed piece of literature about James Bond is anything other than an excrescense on the face of culture.
An utterly loathsome encapsulation of the worst of British.


What's the best of British, then?


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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby GoogaMooga » 14 Jan 2019, 21:00

Minnie Mincepie wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:
Rayge wrote:No film or piece of music or indeed piece of literature about James Bond is anything other than an excrescense on the face of culture.
An utterly loathsome encapsulation of the worst of British.


What's the best of British, then?


Warm hearted acceptance of the interests of others?


Nice. Yeah, I can see that. :) For better or worse, the whole world looks to 007 as some kind of archetype. If we just stick to pop culture, though, the world thinks of two things with regard to UK - Beatles and Bond.
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Postby Darkness_Fish » 14 Jan 2019, 21:32

Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.

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Postby Darkness_Fish » 14 Jan 2019, 21:35

GoogaMooga wrote:If we just stick to pop culture, though, the world thinks of two things with regard to UK - Beatles and Bond.

Well, I guess Bond doesn't seem too bad, in that company.
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Postby Goat Boy » 14 Jan 2019, 21:38



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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby Brickyard Jack » 14 Jan 2019, 22:23

OHMSS is by far the best.

But the great lost Bond theme is Sledgehammer by Rhianna, used for some Star Trek movie - but it should have been a Bond theme.

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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby GoogaMooga » 14 Jan 2019, 22:26

Positive Passion wrote:OHMSS is by far the best.

But the great lost Bond theme is Sledgehammer by Rhianna, used for some Star Trek movie - but it should have been a Bond theme.


You mean the title song for OHMSS or "We have all the time in the world"?
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Postby Mike Boom » 14 Jan 2019, 23:17



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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby pcqgod » 14 Jan 2019, 23:49

Although I've enjoyed plenty of Bond movies that have come out since then, if you put a gun to head I don't think I could hum a single theme since "A View to a Kill."
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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby Ghost of Harry Smith » 15 Jan 2019, 01:02

pcqgod wrote:Although I've enjoyed plenty of Bond movies that have come out since then, if you put a gun to head I don't think I could hum a single theme since "A View to a Kill."


That’s because none of them are remotely hummable. ‘Skyfall’ is the most melodically memorable and that’s so overwrought it’s unbearable.

Gimme Nancy, Shirley, Louis and John Barry any day.

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Re: "The name's Bond, James Bond."

Postby trans-chigley express » 15 Jan 2019, 04:38

pcqgod wrote:Although I've enjoyed plenty of Bond movies that have come out since then, if you put a gun to head I don't think I could hum a single theme since "A View to a Kill."

Same here.

Live and Let Die is still my favourite. Nobody Does It Better and OHMSS are next.


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