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[deth]

I remember Renard using it for his "Feeling Good" video.... it was SO perfect for Bond... but yeah, they'll never use it.

[Trident]

Of course Goldfrapp's fantastic 'Felt Mountain' has been mentioned already. I recently found two more by Goldfrapp that really are extremely Bondish in almost every respect. So much so that you start to wonder if you've missed any films. Check them out.


Little Death

Sartorius

I've long been of the opinion that Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men would make an excellent Bond song.

That's an opinion that has become remarkably popular lately, hasn't it?

Edited by Trident, 05 March 2008 - 07:21 AM.

[Zorin Industries]

F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown

Great song. Just needs changing to S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

I think the Stone Roses would have been good for The Living Daylights, especially as their name comes from the spy thriller by Sarah Gainham, aka Sarah Terry, who Fleming tried to seduce while he was in Berlin researching that short story. Fact fans!

The Strangest Thing - George Michael

I like this most of your picks, Mark - great song. And you can tell he was high when he wrote it.

THE POWER OF GOODBYE by Madonna

Yes, love this - I think Frozen is another one that would have worked. But they'd never get someone like Madonna to do a Bond tra... oh.

Both by Duran Duran (who really should've been the 80s/90s equivalent of Shirley Bassey):

Save a Prayer - Would have made a far better theme for Octopussy.
Come Undone - Could have worked great for a '93 Dalton film.

Yes, both great songs.

No Regrets - Robbie Williams(no, not the obvious one from the Robster!)

Cool song - Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys on backing vocals, of course. I think the PSB could have done a great Bond song back in the day: something with the mood of their B-side Violence, perhaps.

They nearly did THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS apparently.

[Santa]

Kasabian. They can do anthemic but modern rock. They have a song called I.D., I could see something similar working for Bond.

[hilly]

Knights of Cydonia by Muse. The first time I heard it, I thought it would be great over some fast-paced Bond credits.

[spynovelfan]

F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown

Great song. Just needs changing to S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

I think the Stone Roses would have been good for The Living Daylights, especially as their name comes from the spy thriller by Sarah Gainham, aka Sarah Terry, who Fleming tried to seduce while he was in Berlin researching that short story. Fact fans!

The Strangest Thing - George Michael

I like this most of your picks, Mark - great song. And you can tell he was high when he wrote it.

THE POWER OF GOODBYE by Madonna

Yes, love this - I think Frozen is another one that would have worked. But they'd never get someone like Madonna to do a Bond tra... oh.

Both by Duran Duran (who really should've been the 80s/90s equivalent of Shirley Bassey):

Save a Prayer - Would have made a far better theme for Octopussy.
Come Undone - Could have worked great for a '93 Dalton film.

Yes, both great songs.

No Regrets - Robbie Williams(no, not the obvious one from the Robster!)

Cool song - Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys on backing vocals, of course. I think the PSB could have done a great Bond song back in the day: something with the mood of their B-side Violence, perhaps.

They nearly did THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS apparently.

Yes, it's discussed in the posts just after that.

[Joey Bond]

Free me- Emma Bunton

[DaveBond21]

Yes, Duran Duran - Come undone would have made a good Bond theme.

[d21089]

The Way It Is by Nicole Atkins is Bond from go to o- amazing singer too, she could pull off a great Bond theme imo

[dogmanstar]

Either Octopussy, AVTAK, any of the Dalton films--

Murderess by Power Station

Also would be good for "For Special Services" if they ever made that into a film.

[marktmurphy]

There's a track on Elbow's new album called Audience with the Pope which has a Bondy 60's-spy feel. And the chorus even has a line about saving the world!

[OO4]

Always On Your Side by Sheryl Crow always struck me as the perfect end title song for a movie that has Gala Brand or a similar Bond girl...

EDIT: Hey, this is my hundreth post!

Edited by OO4, 20 April 2008 - 08:20 PM.

[Popcrawl]

Hi everyone,

I wish I had read this thread two or three days earlier - I just finished recording this weeks Popcrawl, a show on a local radio station here in Hildesheim/Germany, with the very same topic.
Here's the playlist I came up with - seems like some of the songs have already been mentioned in this thread.

Manhattan Transfer - Spies In The Night
007 medley (all the songs to date in fast-forward)
Savalas - Ball Of More
Cinerama - Superman
Firewater - Dropping Like Flies
Bee And Flower - This Time
Noa - Nothing
Dredg - Ode To The Sun
Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin'
Goldfrapp - Human
Greg Garing - My Love Is Real
Ian Brown - Sister Rose
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Ferry 'Cross The Mersey
Adamantium Studios - Ironsky Trailer
Patty Moon - Second Winter
Bj

Edited by Popcrawl, 02 June 2008 - 06:21 PM.

[ImTheMoneypenny]

"You Have Killed Me" by Morrissey. I was not big on Morrissey until I heard this song.

[Satorious]

Not sure if it's been mentioned already but:

Deacon Blue - I was right and you were wrong (the instrumental part in the middle sounds Bondian to me).

[tdalton]

"Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z.

I had never thought about this one as being a Bond-ish sounding song, but upon further review of it I think you're right. I think that Rihanna's got a great and very unique sounding voice, and it would be great if EON signed her up to do a title track in the future, either solo or in collaboration with Maroon 5, with whom she just released a stellar track "If I Never See Your Face Again".

[Agent 76]

Smoke City - Underwater love

[Johnboy007]

With a tiny bit of reworking

"All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan

[ChickenStu]

This one always sounded like a Bond tune to me.

[DamnCoffee]

I've always considered this to be quite Bondish.

[DaveBond21]

a-ha - The Sun always shines on TV


Especially the strings instrumental section towards the end.




Oh, and don't be fooled by the sign saying The End near the beginning of the video. It was the end of the continuation of the video from their hit "Take on me".

[Publius]

Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down) - Tears For Fears

Wow, possibly the best suggestion in this thread so far! Can't believe I never got around to suggesting a TFF song myself.

Anyway, surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet:

Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that they're tapped for Bond 23. Oh, and I just ran across this:

Kiss from a Rose - Seal (set to the GoldenEye titles)

Why was this used for Batman Forever and not Bond??? I think Seal just leaped to the top of my wish list for future Bond song artists.

[Kristian]

I've always felt that ENIGMA or DELERIUM could do a Bond song. DELERIUM'S "Remembrance" and "Metaphor" are not traditionally Bondian, but are compelling and elegant enough to break the mold without straying too far afield.

I agree heartily with the genius that said DURAN DURAN's "Save A Prayer" and "Come Undone" would be awesome Bond songs.

Another one that is strangely Bondian to me is COREY HART'S "Eurasian Eyes". That would've been ideal for a Bond film with a Eurasian Bond Girl.

[Trident]

For all those, who are not exactly happy with 'Another Way To Die', here is an alternative. Have you ever wondered what Arctic Monkeys would make of Bond? Or the Rascals (no, not the US version; I'm talking about Liverpool's version here)?

Well, now finally you can listen to what Alex Turner of the Monkeys and Miles Kane of the Rascals make of the 60's. And some of it really sounds quite Bond. Perhaps more to the liking of some more traditional fans. Check out 'The Age of the Understatement', particularly 'My Mistakes Were Made For You'( http://de.youtube.co...h?v=23PkA3G6NL8 ), 'Black Plant' and 'In My Room'(unfortunately, both not on youtube). The samples on amazone are not really very characteristic and the full version from the cd is far more distinctive.

[Ravenstone]

Three Deep Purple tracks, all from the same album, always make me think of Bond.

Perfect Strangers
Under The Gun (which has a little Land of Hope and Glory riff in the middle!)
Knocking At Your Back Door
(with the lyric:
So we put her on the hitlist of a common cunning linguist
A master of many tongues
Now she eases gently from her Austin [Aston?] to her Bentley
Suddenly she feels so young.....)

Can't help it. Reminds me of Bond every time.

[Joey Bond]

Lyrics aside, the following otherwise-really-pop songs would have made good title songs
"Are you happy now" by Michelle Branch
"Apologize" by One Republic (not the Timbaland remix)
"Insatiable" by Darren Hayes
"Bring me to life" by Evanescence feat. Paul McCoy
"Not gonna get us" by TATU
"Zombie" by the Cranberries

I remember someone saying "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Bizkit fitted DC's Bond pretty well

Then there are the obvious ones
"Land of a thousand words" by Scissor Sisters
"Extreme ways" by Moby

[Jose]

Hmm. I'd say Muse's cover of "Feeling Good". It's always sounded like a Bond song of sorts to me.

[tim partridge]

I cannot believe that the PET SHOP BOYS fans here neglected to mention the ultimate Bond soundalike

LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES- PET SHOP BOYS
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=ZfanwfSaG-w

The song was produced by Trevor Horn by the way, who also produced these Bondalike songs (which have already been mentioned here), many of which Barry and co borrowed from in terms of orchestral arrangement and high tech production (AVTAK, TLD especially):

ABC- THE LOOK OF LOVE (Actually, the whole of the groundbreaking LEXICON OF LOVE album is forty minutes of Bondalike cuts)
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=ZkwEK9AYQHg

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - POWER OF LOVE
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=ShN8UIk5-mw

GRACE JONES - SLAVE TO THE RHTHYM
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=QPgnmmqUym0

SEAL- KISS FROM A ROSE

TINA TURNER feat Barry White- WILDEST DREAMS (Horn overseen title song to the same album that GOLDENEYE was on, and it kicks the stuffing out of that song)
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=oQx6fkr9U1Y

It really beats me to understand why EON haven't brought in Horn to oversee the current Bond title songs. He's British, orchestrally geared and world class, plus he made Jerry Bruckheimer a HUGE heap of money, proving he can mix a composer's movie theme with a pop song to perfection (PEARL HARBOR, COYOTE UGLY, KING ARTHUR).

Horn oversaw this song for the movie SUM OF ALL FEARS, cowritten by Jerry Goldsmith, which is very Bond when it gets going, but also great pop:
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=ijFR0JRT8ts

Imagine a title sequence at the 02.48 swell point...

Horn's time on Bond is SO overdue it's not funny. Imagine what he could have done with YOU KNOW MY NAME, ANOTHER WAY TO DIE or any of the Brozza era songs. Painfully obvious waste.

Also

TAYLOR DAYNE- ORIGINAL SIN (Tina Turner's GOLDENEYE done right for the SHADOW movie, even if it's a cover)
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=ZUHJLcnh8nc

U2 - HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME

MADONNA- BEAUTIFUL STRANGER

I would also like to add that both THE POWER OF GOODBYE and FROZEN have been mentioned here as Bondalikes, and these were producedand or written by Madonna's best collaborator, Patrick Leonard. It makes it all the more physically painful that Madonna didn't reteam with Leonard for DIE ANOTHER DAY.

WHITNEY HOUSTON- I HAVE NOTHING (yes another LTK retread, but it's still Bassey apingly good)
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=L0KzvN-2gaE


And then these from that Whitney thread, although they all sound very similar to LICENCE TO KILL (being Walden and Afanasieff productions)

WHITNEY- WHERE DO BROKEN HEARTS GO
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=8yvsU4SNWPA

WHITNEY- ONE MOMENT IN TIME
http://uk.youtube.co...feature=related

WHITNEY- ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=AXIWOg6rYHY


MARIAH CAREY- I DON'T WANNA CRY
http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=_sKphEqypjg

MARIAH CAREY- LOVE TAKES TIME
http://uk.youtube.co...feature=related

[Agent 76]

Sting - Mad about you

[levitator]

Hi,

here's a great song of a-ha "The Blood That Moves The Body".

Would fit to the late 80s.

Video

In case if already posted before... sorry !