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[cedrics007]

This is the way to sing a Bond song - with everything you've got:



Lola in Gent.

(with my sincere apologies to Chris Cornell for my karaoke version of You Know My Name in Istanbul)

[The Shark]

Better than Sheryl Crow's take, though that's not saying much. Still over-sung.

[seawolfnyy]

Better than Sheryl Crow's take, though that's not saying much. Still over-sung.

Pretty much my thoughts. It's like trying to improve Another Way to Die. It just can't be done.

[Odd Jobbies]

Not as good as Crow's original IMO.

Lola hits the highs in the chorus very well and the extra oomf there does improve the song. But the chorus never was the strongest part of this song, musically or lyrically.

It's strengths are in the understated, noirish versus, with lines such as 'Martini's, girls and guns' and the conceit that it's sung by a dead woman (one of Bond's conquests that he failed to save - Paris Carver), or at least that's how i read the lyrics.

Crow's understated, sad and sardonic delivery of these versus is pretty perfect and far better than Lola's soul diva delivery of the versus which she simply belts out like they're part of an ad campaign. A little tacky and very populist.

Edited by Odd Jobbies, 01 December 2012 - 05:40 PM.

[cedrics007]

I beg to disagree. Although I like Sheryl Crow's original, that version never gave my goose bumbs or made me want to hear it over and over again. Lola's version certainly had that effect on me, and - based of the looks on the faces over several musicians in the orchestra - it had that effect on them as well. I would love to hear her sing the song for Bond 24.

[Hockey Mask]

I'm not sure why everyone always rags on this song. It always hits the right chord with me.

[Shaun Forever]

Very good version this, better than the original in my opinion.


Love the intro to the song as well, on both versions, best bit of the song.