a-ha does TLD
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Piz Gloria 1969
, Nov 13 2007 10:14 AM
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:14 AM
Live in Kiel , Germany...just 2 months ago.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 01:12 PM
Very cool performance. Glad that they're still performing it!
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 03:18 PM
I'm glad too! 
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 04:29 PM
I thought using Duran Duran and A-Ha for Bondage theme music was a mistake. I didn't feel that way when Sir. Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die came out, but I think that was a mistake too.
I know Chris Cornell was a mistake for Casino Royale.
I know Chris Cornell was a mistake for Casino Royale.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 01:31 PM
It wasn't a mistake, maybe you didn't agree with it? Duran Duran's song sounds like a Bond song, it's perfect for the film.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 01:51 PM
It wasn't a mistake, maybe you didn't agree with it? Duran Duran's song sounds like a Bond song, it's perfect for the film.
I agree.
It is not written on stone that every Bond song has to some trapped-bird torch song... that era of Bond is long over as Daniel Craig has shown and will show.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 07:46 PM
Pretty cool. One of the Bond songs I seem to never, ever hear about being performed live.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 11:10 PM
Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 11:40 PM
Awesome
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Posted 08 January 2008 - 12:44 AM
I am glad they are still performing it. I also heard the song on a plane I was on to England in July 2006.
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Posted 08 January 2008 - 08:11 PM
Good find. I'm suprised to see that they perform that song and I'm very pleased that they do. One of the best Bond title tracks IMO.
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Posted 08 January 2008 - 08:19 PM
Cool. One of my favorite all time Bond themes (even though it's totally 80's 
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Posted 10 January 2008 - 01:10 AM
I will third that and add good riddance to that era and long live the new one.It wasn't a mistake, maybe you didn't agree with it? Duran Duran's song sounds like a Bond song, it's perfect for the film.
I agree.
It is not written on stone that every Bond song has to some trapped-bird torch song... that era of Bond is long over as Daniel Craig has shown and will show.
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Posted 28 January 2008 - 07:14 PM
Duran Duran and A-ha created the perfect Bond themes of the eighties, despite their profile as cheesy popstars...and without a doubt both songs have aged extremely well. Play both songs to a complete stranger and they'd immediately know they are Bond songs. Especially TLD, because it fit Dalton's Bond like a glove. Its his theme, just like Goldfinger was Connery's( even though Monty Norman's theme would be more appropriate, I chose the movie theme), LALD was Moore'as and GE was Brosnan's. GE was the last 'in your face' Bond song but I honestly have a feeling that DAD and YKMN will age extremely well. DAD, even though some hate it, I think was genius from Madonna. A song ahead of its time that i'm sure the next generation of Bond fans will really love. YKMN suffers only vocally. If they had Bono, even Robbie williams singing instead of Cornell, then it would have sounded a lot sharper, other than that its great Bond song but very different as well as being strangely traditional.