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[ChickenStu]

You know, if they want to make this new film a bit harder and grittier then one thing they do have to change is the music. Get David Arnold back to do the score by all means, but I'm fed up with these divas doing dirgy Bond tunes.
I'd love to hear a Bond tune done by a rock/metal band. Here are a few bands who I think could pull it off.

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Audioslave
Foo Fighters
Incubus
Korn
Linkin Park
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Slipknot
The Darkness

If they want to change things then why not? What do you guys think? One more Garbage style TWINE tune, I think I'll shoot myself...

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Of that list I think the Red Hot Chili Peppers could do a good title song. I'd rather not have someone like Linkin Park do it - their style of music just wouldn't fit, imho.

I'm all for someone like Michael Buble, so I guess that would be the classic style that would make you kill yourself.....er....sorry...uhm....don't kill yourself! (I rule at suicide advice, don't I? )

But another personal favorite of mine would be U2...they'd give it more of a rock sound.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]I championed Metallica until they did M:I2, but I

[spynovelfan]

Of course it can be done - LIVE AND LET DIE was a killer rock song with a reggae-influenced interlude.

I think the Afghan Whigs would have been able to do a kick- Bond theme. Most of GENTLEMEN fits pretty well, especially the song 'Debonair'. Greg Dulli writes almost exclusively from the point of view of a semi-psychotic ladies' man, and the rock is balanced by the Motown influences. His lyrics are spot on:

'Blame, deny, betray, divide
A lie, the truth.. which one shall I use?'

Or:

'You think I'm scared of girls
Well maybe, but I'm not afraid of you
You want to scare me then you'll cling to me no matter what I do...'

I can also imagine the Jesus Lizard doing a very scary opening song for CASINO ROYALE. I have a song by them where the singer repeatedly screams the phrase 'Six inches of cold water!'. Can well imagine that working.

Guns 'N' Roses back in the day. Smashing Pumpkins. Foo Fighters now. I'd go more for hard rock than rock-rap or the metal guys. And The Darkness are British and very amusing (and can write a decent song), but I don't really want a pastiche. I'd quite like to see someone like Hard-Fi or The Futureheads do it.

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Yeah, I don't know that Casino Royale is the right film for a rock song, but I certainly wouldn't be against the likes of U2 performing for the new film.

That said, some of the bands you list would be interesting for a ballad kind of song; the Foo Fighters did a great slow rock song for The X-Files Movie, and Linkin Park might work. Wouldn't want to see anything as heavy as Slipknot or Korn, though.

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[spynovelfan]

One more Garbage style TWINE tune, I think I'll shoot myself...

This is all personal preference, of course - you clearly just don't like Garbage, or their song for TWINE. But that *was* a rock band doing a Bond tune. A very well known rock-dance act, but then you've listed Limp Bizkit. Butch Vig is about as rock as you get, surely.

Shirley Manson's old band Goodbye Mr Mackenzie did a great tune called BLACKER THAN BLACK which would have been perfect for the closing titles of CR:

'You know the way I feel
It's blacker than black...'

Great song.

I expect we'll see someone like Norah Jones.

[Loomis]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' date='25 October 2005 - 14:14'][mra]I championed Metallica until they did M:I2, but I

[spynovelfan]

I'd love to see a full-on hip-hop number by Puff Diddlemedoo.

Loomis, I think Fleming would have been spinning in his little plot a while ago. Probably at Shirley Bassey.

[marktmurphy]

I'd quite like to see someone like Hard-Fi or The Futureheads do it.

That'd be quite fun. I suppose Muse are the logical choice with their slightly grander, more angsty sound.

[Mister Asterix]

Too right. Not wishing to be too Blimpish, but an act like Oasis is as "rock" as I think the Bond people should go...

Oasis is rock?

Okay, but point taken.

[Loomis]

Too right. Not wishing to be too Blimpish, but an act like Oasis is as "rock" as I think the Bond people should go...

Oasis is rock?

I think so. They're not the hardest-rocking bunch of axe-wankers on the planet, I grant you, but I think they qualify as a rock group. They're not Motorhead, but, still, they're rock.

Aren't they?

[spynovelfan]

Yes, Oasis are rock. Pop-rock, perhaps, but still. Much as I love the oeuvre of The Anti-Nowhere League, they're not likely to do a Bond song anytime soon.

I'd like to see the Stones have a bash at it. They may be octogenarians, but they still know how to make great rock songs. I can just hear Jagger getting his Cockney-Texan sneer round 'Caseeno Royahrle'.

Things were lookin' pretty sweet
Until you couldn't take the heat
You knew that you were beat
Down at Caseeno Royahrle

When you saw the girl M sent over
From those white white cliffs of Dover
You knew that everyfink was over
Down at Caseeno Royahrle...

[Mister Asterix]

Too right. Not wishing to be too Blimpish, but an act like Oasis is as "rock" as I think the Bond people should go...

Oasis is rock?

I think so. They're not the hardest-rocking bunch of axe-wankers on the planet, I grant you, but I think they qualify as a rock group. They're not Motorhead, but, still, they're rock.

Aren't they?

[mra]Having only heard maybe two minutes of their songs in my life, I

[Loomis]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' date='25 October 2005 - 15:29'][quote name='Loomis' date='25 October 2005 - 09:49'][quote name='Mister Asterix' date='25 October 2005 - 14:47'][quote name='Loomis' date='25 October 2005 - 09:41']Too right. Not wishing to be too Blimpish, but an act like Oasis is as "rock" as I think the Bond people should go...

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Oasis is rock?

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I think so. They're not the hardest-rocking bunch of axe-wankers on the planet, I grant you, but I think they qualify as a rock group. They're not Motorhead, but, still, they're rock.

Aren't they?

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[mra]Having only heard maybe two minutes of their songs in my life, I

[Kronsteen]

A rock/metal band would be really cool for the title song, but you've just listed bad bands. Linkin Park? Korn? Nu-metal crap if you ask me.

But maybe one of these bands:

Uriah Heep
Judas Priest
Metallica
At Vance
Bon Jovi

[marktmurphy]

Who are Air Supply?

Weren't the Stones approached for GOLDENEYE? Seriously, though, are they still any good?

I heard of Air Supply in China- they seem to be a terrible soft rock outfit who are actually British but don't release any songs in Britain. Weird.

And Oasis are surely more Indie? Used to be Britpop, of course. But the problem with Brits and Yanks talking about this is that music is called different things on either side of the Atlantic. The term 'Dance music' means two totally different things depending on whether you're in europe or the states for example.

[Mr_Wint]

One more Garbage style TWINE tune, I think I'll shoot myself...

Ok, I vote for one more Garbage tune then

[Mister Asterix]

Weren't the Stones approached for GOLDENEYE? Seriously, though, are they still any good?

I have heard that.

And Mick and Keith can still do great song on occassion, but yes the fantasy Rolling Stones/James Bond song would probably well beat out any actual Rolling Stones/James Bond song.

[spynovelfan]

They could just adapt SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. Bond has hung around St Petesburg. driven a tank, taken a general's rank, I'm sure. 'Pleased to meet you... the name's Bond, James Bond.'

[Mister Asterix]

They could just adapt SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. Bond has hung around St Petesburg. driven a tank, taken a general's rank, I'm sure. 'Pleased to meet you... the name's Bond, James Bond.'

Funny.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

They could just adapt SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. Bond has hung around St Petesburg. driven a tank, taken a general's rank, I'm sure. 'Pleased to meet you... the name's Bond, James Bond.'

*begins rattling out the percussion to sympathy for the devil with two pens on his desk and singing that*

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Spinal Tap.

Bitch School would be rather fitting for CR.

Although I'm beginning to think that Purvis and Wade used some of the lyrics from Big Bottom in DAD.

[DanMan]

Nickelback. Listen to their song "Hero" from Spider-Man. They would be perfect.

[ChickenStu]

Okay. Well, that's a serious NO to Nickleback for starters. That song for Spiderman sucked.
There's an album "Issues" by Korn, and a track called "Falling Away From Me".
I think that would be quite a good fit for a Bond movie. I can just imagine a bunch of scantily clad girls writhing around to it in neon.
Also, they did a good track for the second Tomb Raider movie (which I have no intention of watching by the way) called "Did My Time" which I could also see.
Nu-Metal is just a label given to this music by a bunch of over zealous music gurus. It's rock music plain and simple.
Slipknot, ok. Maybe that particular suggestion of mine was a little too outlandish - but I think that just indicates how desperate I am to see the makers do something a little different with the title song.
As for Foo Fighters check out the album "One By One". The tracks "All My Life" and "Low" could sound Bond-ish, if you use your imagination a little, and Dave Grohl is an excellent songwriter, and a team up between him and David Arnold could be a tantalising possibility.
However, to be honest the bands probably wouldn't do it anyway. I think one thing every hard rock band fears is to be accused of "selling out" so to speak. I personally don't think that doing a song for a Bond film would necessarily be selling out, but the other, more hardcore fans wouldn't see it that way.
Still. I'd like to see it happen.
As for "Red Hot Chili Peppers" hmmm. Thinking of thier back catalogue, nothing springs to my mind as "Bond-ian" particularly, but saying that I think that if they were asked to do it, they WOULD be up to the task.
And finally, "The Darkness". Now these guys could certainly pull it off, no question. I have no doubt in my mind that they could do an absolutely BELTING Bond tune, remniscent of "Live And Let Die", catchy, rocky and most of all huge fun to listen too. Out of all the bands I've suggested, I think these guys are certainly the most qualified.
And I bet the music video would be great. Justin Hawkins and the guys all wearing suits, standing in the famous Bond iris and just belting it out - fantastic. Bring it on I say.

Edited by ChickenStu, 28 October 2005 - 04:08 PM.

[Johnboy007]

I would enjoy a good one, but I don't really think there are many out there that are up to the challenge. I have fears that we'll get another TWINE like song (I don't hate it, but it doesn't have that feel). I also fear any grungy or emo/punk bands getting near James Bond.

[Qwerty]

Really not keen on the idea, none of the groups out there are really jumping out at me.

[pgram]

How about Whitesnake? I thought Coverdale could actually play Bond (not really, but you know what I mean). Great voice and an acoustic, blues approach, maybe...

[Genrewriter]

I wouldn't mind a tune from Bon Jovi or Van Halen. Heck, a solo song from Sammy Hagar would be cool.

[Carver]

Weren't the Stones approached for GOLDENEYE? Seriously, though, are they still any good?

Of course they are! The Stones would be great! Heh, I'm guessing you're not the biggest rock fan, am I right?
Myself, I'm a huge rock fan-the long hair says it all. However, I'm not so sure about a heavy band doing a Bond theme. Sure, I'm getting sick of all these diva women doing Bond themes, it's a tad over done now, but I don't think the likes of Linkin Park could do it. If I did have a choice, it would be the softer rock bands, such as The Darkness. Van Halen I doubt would do it, I mean, have they done anything recently? Their most recent tracks were 3 new ones of their 'Best Of Both Worlds' greatest hits, and they sucked. Audioslave are perhaps a tad too heavy, and the '80s era that Bon Jovi belonged to has sadly died . My thoughts were
The Darkness
AC/DC (if they can still hack it)
Aerosmith
Lenny Kravitz
The Rolling Stones
The Music
Velvet Revolver (if they stop being so big headed)
If only Led Zep could come back, they'd make a great Bond theme IMO. Otherwise, Tenacious D or Rage Against The Machine could do one
If we don't have a rock band for CR, I'd still like to hear a male voice singing the title theme, as we haven't heard one since TLD. How about James Brown? I'm not sure if he's still alive, but if he is, then he'd be a good choice.

[mcsearg]

Id love to hear Disturbed during the opening titles....