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[Jim]

Obviously there's something in the air in Oxfordshire today, for taking a lead from Mr Malcolm's thunderously deep "What's Bond's ringtone?" thread, another cerebellum-raper:-

Would Bond actually listen to any of the Bond songs?

Single man, nice clothes, overelaborate drinks, listens to Shirley Bassey, Lulu and Madonna...

...hmmm.

...hmmm

OK, so maybe that gives out a big gay vibe but given that they're usually about him or his friends/foes, would he be an appreciative audience or not? Would you think less of him if he did have some Rita Coolidge in his collection of 78s?

Speculating about the musical interests of a fictional character... the internet; bless.

[Tarl_Cabot]

He would like the first 16 songs give or take a couple...then they get [censored]ty.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]I have reason to believe he wouldn

[Tarl_Cabot]

Jim,Did you have to close Luciousgore's CGI-hair thread? I was about to hand him his lunch-or better yet, propose an intervention. Darn.

[Jim]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' post='545380' date='19 April 2006 - 19:52']
[mra]I have reason to believe he wouldn

[spynovelfan]

His favourite group is The Ink Spots, so I think he'd probably like some of the more r'n'b numbers. Gladys Knight would probably be his favourite. He might also find Three Blind Mice fun.

[Jim]

His favourite group is The Ink Spots, so I think he'd probably like some of the more r'n'b numbers. Gladys Knight would probably be his favourite. He might also find Three Blind Mice fun.

Whilst all very true, there's something very pleasing to me about the image of James Bond sashaying around his flat to Lulu.

Or maybe that's just me.

[Mister Asterix]

My guesses:

• Dr. No themes – No/Yes
• From Russia With Love – Yes
• Goldfinger – Yes
• Thunderball – Yes
• You Only Live Twice – Yes
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Yes
• Diamonds Are Forever – Yes
• Live And Let Die – No
• The Man With The Golden Gun – No
• The Spy Who Loved Me – Yes
• Moonraker – Yes
• For Your Eyes Only – Yes
• All Time High – Yes
• A View To A Kill – No
• The Living Daylights – ??
• Licence To Kill – Yes
• GoldenEye – Yes
• Tomorrow Never Dies – No (Surrender – Maybe)
• The World Is Not Enough – Yes
• Die Another Day – Not a chance in hell
• The Look Of Love – Yes

[Bon-san]

I don't think James Bond would go for any of the Bond theme songs. Perhaps some of the more trad jazzy bits of the scores.

Not a very "fun" answer, mind, but there you are.

[spynovelfan]

I think he'd also like Satchmo's ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD and Scott Walker's ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME.

[Mister Asterix]

I think he'd also like Satchmo's ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD and Scott Walker's ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME.

Definitely.

[marktmurphy]

Whereas I'd love a Bond who campily listens to Lulu and Dame Shirl, possibly singing in a nice falsetto as he drove his great big, manly sportscar around; I imagine actual James BonddoubleOseven might only like a bit of Louis Armstrong (although All the Time in the World ain't no man's man song)and Gladys Knight out of all the choices.

God, it's all so gay, isn't it? Scott Walker; Tom Jones; Miss Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Nancy Sinatra (Bond might have had a bit of time for her dad- but Miss Boots ain't made for walking?); a-bleedin-ha; Madonna; Dusty Springfield... Not just a bit wimpy Carly Simon and Rita Coolidge gay, either- great big feather boa-wearing campery!

I do like to imagine a world where Bond had a little space on his shelf for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, however.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Bond actually heard his own Bond Theme in Octopussy because it was the recognition signal from Vejay.

[Mr Malcolm]

Whilst all very true, there's something very pleasing to me about the image of James Bond sashaying around his flat to Lulu.

Or maybe that's just me.

No, it's me too. If only for the thought of May's face at the sight of Bond prancing about whilst singing into a loofah.

[Jim]

God, it's all so gay, isn't it? Scott Walker; Tom Jones; Miss Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Nancy Sinatra (Bond might have had a bit of time for her dad- but Miss Boots ain't made for walking?); a-bleedin-ha; Madonna; Dusty Springfield... Not just a bit wimpy Carly Simon and Rita Coolidge gay, either- great big feather boa-wearing campery!

Quite.

[Lancaster]

Why have I just had the image of Bond standing naked in front of a full length mirror singing along to For Your Eyes Only!!

[MarcAngeDraco]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' post='545380' date='19 April 2006 - 14:52']
[mra]I have reason to believe he wouldn

[Skudor]

Why have I just had the image of Bond standing naked in front of a full length mirror singing along to For Your Eyes Only!!

You thoroughly disturbed person. I'll have nightmares of Roger Moore naked and singing from now on!

[Qwerty]

Why have I just had the image of Bond standing naked in front of a full length mirror singing along to For Your Eyes Only!!

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Why have I just had the image of Bond standing naked in front of a full length mirror singing along to For Your Eyes Only!!

You thoroughly disturbed person. I'll have nightmares of Roger Moore naked and singing from now on!

So the lambs haven't stopped screaming yet, Clarice?

Hmmm...Roger Moore as Buffalo Bill

A shoe-in for Best Supporting Actor, surely. Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure how audiences would have reacted to Moore, naked in front of a mirror in drag, doing "the tuck." Worth the admission price alone, that.

Anyway, aside from maybe (capital "M" there) a few Bassey tracks here and there, on the whole, no.

Although it is a rather...quaint...idea to imagine Bond air-guitaring to Alice Cooper's version of TMWTGG or dancing around to the Bob Fosse-esque end credits version of Nobody Does it Better.

[Jim]

Why have I just had the image of Bond standing naked in front of a full length mirror singing along to For Your Eyes Only!!

You thoroughly disturbed person. I'll have nightmares of Roger Moore naked and singing from now on!

So the lambs haven't stopped screaming yet, Clarice?

Hmmm...Roger Moore as Buffalo Bill

A shoe-in for Best Supporting Actor, surely. Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure how audiences would have reacted to Moore, naked in front of a mirror in drag, doing "the tuck." Worth the admission price alone, that.

Anyway, aside from maybe (capital "M" there) a few Bassey tracks here and there, on the whole, no.

Although it is a rather...quaint...idea to imagine Bond air-guitaring to Alice Cooper's version of TMWTGG or dancing around to the Bob Fosse-esque end credits version of Nobody Does it Better.

Oh God. Brain hurts with the image.

Hurts more when I think of him performing a flouncy roller-boogie to the end credits gay-as-a-window rendition of Moonraker.

[stromberg]

Hurts more when I think of him performing a flouncy roller-boogie to the end credits gay-as-a-window rendition of Moonraker.

Or a 'Travolta' on "Bond '77"

[Mr Malcolm]

Or even the thought of Bond in tracky-b's, making cardboard boxes with his hands to Die Another Day!

M's good
M's good
She's M-enezer good...

[Dunph]

How's about Make It Last All Night from For Your Eyes Only? Dangerously gay.

I think Bond'd get a bit of groin strain from dancing to that all oiled-up.

[Loomis]

Whereas I'd love a Bond who campily listens to Lulu and Dame Shirl, possibly singing in a nice falsetto as he drove his great big, manly sportscar around; I imagine actual James BonddoubleOseven might only like a bit of Louis Armstrong (although All the Time in the World ain't no man's man song)and Gladys Knight out of all the choices.

God, it's all so gay, isn't it? Scott Walker; Tom Jones; Miss Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Nancy Sinatra (Bond might have had a bit of time for her dad- but Miss Boots ain't made for walking?); a-bleedin-ha; Madonna; Dusty Springfield... Not just a bit wimpy Carly Simon and Rita Coolidge gay, either- great big feather boa-wearing campery!

So you wouldn't count "Licence to Kill" among those songs giving out what Jim calls "a big gay vibe", then? I think it's more than a little "I Will Survive"-ish, myself, and Gladys Knight surely qualifies as a "diva" (which makes her automatically a "gay icon", apparently).

[Jim]

Whereas I'd love a Bond who campily listens to Lulu and Dame Shirl, possibly singing in a nice falsetto as he drove his great big, manly sportscar around; I imagine actual James BonddoubleOseven might only like a bit of Louis Armstrong (although All the Time in the World ain't no man's man song)and Gladys Knight out of all the choices.

God, it's all so gay, isn't it? Scott Walker; Tom Jones; Miss Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Nancy Sinatra (Bond might have had a bit of time for her dad- but Miss Boots ain't made for walking?); a-bleedin-ha; Madonna; Dusty Springfield... Not just a bit wimpy Carly Simon and Rita Coolidge gay, either- great big feather boa-wearing campery!

So you wouldn't count "Licence to Kill" among those songs giving out what Jim calls "a big gay vibe", then? I think it's more than a little "I Will Survive"-ish, myself, and Gladys Knight surely qualifies as a "diva" (which makes her automatically a "gay icon", apparently).

Huge gay vibes off of Glad.

"Apparently"

[spynovelfan]

All this stuff is a little too effeminate for James Bond.

I think he would love Tom Jones' THUNDERBALL. That's big, brassy Tom of Finland/Freddie Mercury/stroke my handlebar moustache gay. Bond in chaps and a bow tie. "And he STRIKES like THUN-DER-BALL!"

That's what Bond's into.

[Pussfeller]

Tom of Finland indeed! You realize, of course, that from now on every time I ever watch TB, I'm going to collapse in a fit of laughter? And he STRIKES--! Oh, you bastard, Spynovelfan. You're absolutely right, of course.

[Mr Malcolm]

All this stuff is a little too effeminate for James Bond.

I think he would love Tom Jones' THUNDERBALL. That's big, brassy Tom of Finland/Freddie Mercury/stroke my handlebar moustache gay. Bond in chaps and a bow tie. "And he STRIKES like THUN-DER-BALL!"

That's what Bond's into.

LOL!

While we're on the rock(s) theme, do you think he'd like the Guns n' Roses cover version of LALD? Are there any other cover versions of the songs he might like?