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[James Page]

OK, so it's not exactly a fair fight as Garbage only *performed* the title track (David Arnold & Don Black wrote it)...

But as big a Garbage fan as I am, I can't help but prefer Straw's original shot at the title song.

The lyrics are a lot more intelligent than the Don Black effort (why he keeps getting picked to write lyrics for Bond I'll never know). See if you can spot the links to previous Bond films: TB, OHMSS, LALD, TSWLM, GE

Sing along at home with the MP3 from the Alternative Music Project on MI6:
http://www.mi6.co.uk/index2.html
Follow the article links

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Take my hand and decide
You've learnt to live
But do you choose how to die?
Everybody's wanted dead or alive
Kiss the world and everything you know goodbye

Let's pretend we will survive
Killing a friend and loving a spy
Reading your obituary I smile
I shall use my time

The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough
A motto for the man with everything
But a gun in his hand

Blow me a kiss but don't ask why
I have lived and loved and surely let die
You know that you've alive
When looking death in the eye
And on your epitaph I'll write

The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough
A motto for the man with everything
But a gun in his hand

I can recall the petals on your white dress fall out
The engine stops
The crimson kiss of death still forming
A melancholy song so we've got all the time in the world

(kiss kiss bang bang)
It's not enough, it's not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough
A motto for the man with everything
But a gun in his hand

The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough (kiss kiss bang bang)
The world is not enough
A motto for the man with everything
But a gun in his hand
But a gun in his hand
The world is not enough
The world is not enough
The world is not enough

[level007]

HI

yeah like you i like the straw version of TWINE
it s very good, and the lyrics are made for Bond unlike those for garbage song's.

If you look at the lyrics you ll see that there is a lot of reference to the old bond movie;
like
"a melancholy song so we've got all the time in the world"

"surely let die"

"i shall use my time" is part of one of ian fleming's motto which was :"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. i shall use my time"


this to say that i dont know who write the lyrics but the personn is very ingenius.

[zencat]

These are great, James! Thanks.

[James Page]

Trevelyan (25 Sep, 2001 11:02 a.m.):
I cant dowload it grom the site :-(
Something about Acitve X, it says I dont have it installed I click donw load now but it still wont work.

I've verified the MP3 can be downloaded AOK.

Try right-clicking the link and "Save As" and then play it afterwards - it sounds like your browser/stream player config has been tricked into thinking it's something else.

[mkkbb]

I think they should have used that song for the credits as well, although then we wouldn't have got Arnolds brilliant disco version of the Bond theme.

It was best that they used Garbage's version as Arnold used his theme from the film's score in it (that was what was missing badly from Sheryl Crow's Tomorrow Never Dies). All of Barry's themes were played throughout the film. That's the way it should be.

But let's hope Straw are allowed to do Bond 20, with a song just as good, and Arnold uses the orchestration in the film.

[jnDoubleshot]

Arnold composed Tomorrow Never Dies with K.D. Ling's "Surrender" lined up for the title song, so that is why you hear it used throughout the film. I guess EON decided that they wanted more star power, so the song was pushed back to the end credits.

[Blue Eyes]

James Page (23 Sep, 2001 07:15 p.m.):
I can recall the petals on your white dress fall out
The engine stops
The crimson kiss of death still forming
A melancholy song so we've got all the time in the world

Good Lord James, what a fantastic song! Move over Garbage, sorry to them but I find this a much better song. I still like Don Black, he's done some great work in the past. TWINE was not his greatest.

But the lyrics in this are awesome. Look at the bridge above. Awesome stuff. It's pure Bond.

Anymore details on the band James? I've never heard of them.

[James Page]

Yes! Probably my best find of the year!

A bit about the band...
British pop band Straw was formed by Bristol university mates Mattie Bennett (vocals/guitar) and Roger Power (bass); expanding to a trio with the addition of keyboardist Duck, the group -- originally dubbed Please -- quickly signed to Arista, only to be dropped by the label even before issuing their first single. Adding former Kings of Infinite Space drummer Andy Nixon and rechristening themselves Straw, the group landed at WEA and issued its debut single "Weird Superman" in the summer of 1998; three more singles -- "The Aeroplane Song," "Moving to California" and "Soundtrack of the Summer" -- followed in 1999 before Straw released its first full-length effort, Shoplifting; upon completion of the album, Power was dismissed from the lineup.

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They've been compared to Embrace, Mansun and The Stereophonics

They've got a new album due out soon:
http://www.straw.co.uk

"I shall use my time..."

[Evil Doctor Cheese]

This is definitely one of my favourite Bond songs! Wow! But Garbage song suits the film more... the straw one is too fun!

It's really really loud yet still haunting... it takes a bit of listening too before you love it. If this was chosen it would be my No 1 Bond song.

Actually I could image Robbie Williams singing it... Straw aren't famous enough to be chosen for the title song. It would've made a good ending titles song.

[James Page]

Bloody hell! I am *so* glad afficinado's have backed the "Straw" version of "The World Is not Enough" I have unleashed upon the Bond community....

It rocks! although it's only been a short while that I've been listening to the track compared to past entries, I think I am on firm ground when saying that it's one of my favourite 007 songs of all time.

[jnDoubleshot]

This song is incredible. If EON had any sense, they'd buy the rights to the lyrics and use them for Bond 20.

[The Admiral]

I love this song, however, it isn't my favourite Backseat driver remains as my favourite.

[Icephoenix]

I cant dowload it grom the site :-(
Something about Acitve X, it says I dont have it installed I click donw load now but it still wont work.

[Icephoenix]

A minute after I posted I remembered to do that, Thanx anyway ;-)