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[marktmurphy]

Listen To 'Another Way To Die'

Jack White and Alicia Keys' 'Quantum of Solace' theme song airs on BBC Radio 1

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Apparently Jo Whiley will have the first official play of Another Way to Die on her BBC Radio 1 show from 10am this morning.

[Shrublands]

Thanks for this!

I have the show on now, she just said she will play it sometime in the next hour.

[HellIsHere]

Is it possibly to listen online?

[Zorin Industries]

Is it possibly to listen online?

Should be. She's not played it yet.

Watch Whiley though. She's a miserable mare when it comes to music so she'll hate it.

[marktmurphy]

Watch Whiley though. She's a miserable mare when it comes to music so she'll hate it.

Hardly; she practically worships Jack White - she'll love it.

You can listen live here- just click on the listen button at the top:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

[HellIsHere]

I'l already listening let's see what's the FINAL result

[Shrublands]

Is it possibly to listen online?

Should be. She's not played it yet.

Watch Whiley though. She's a miserable mare when it comes to music so she'll hate it.

Well, she said to Chris Moyles earlier that she was already a fan of it.

[marktmurphy]

Yeah, I'm trying to think of when she's ever been negative about any new music to be honest. She said The Living Daylights was a bit pants when she played a bit earlier, but that's hardly a controversial point of view!
She'll say it's amazing and probably use the word 'goosebumps'. People who like the song probably shouldn't use her praise as back up for their own opinions!

[dinovelvet]

Coming up in about 15 minutes, so she says

[HellIsHere]

10 minutes!

Another song and that's it!

[NATO Sub]

Just starting now...

[dinovelvet]

So, its like, on right now then

[Vauxhall]

Got it on online player. Nice to hear her reel off all the past tunes before playing it. Sounding good!

[stamper]

It's on ! ultra compressed thought

[Trident]

Not too bad. Think it will grow on me.

[marktmurphy]

Okay; so a bit more hollering over the end bit and it carries on beyond the piano at the end.

[HellIsHere]

ABSOLUTELLY FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
CLASSIC BOND!

[Vauxhall]

Okay; so a bit more hollering over the end bit and it carries on beyond the piano at the end.

I actually quite like the ending like this, and feel it dramatically improves the energy of the entire tune.

[dinovelvet]

LOL @ comments from Brits - "it wuz roobish!"

[marktmurphy]

Good heavens; I stand corrected: Whiley's not sure about it.

[stamper]

After listening to it in it's entirety, I think it's rubbish too. It's some sort of dated hybrid rap-heavy rock in the spirit of Walk this way only wasted. Oasis would have done a much better job, I agree with Noel Gallagher. Not that it matters, it's only 3mn of film and the visuals will make up for it's awfulness. They should have taken a White Stripes song instead, they are way better than this.

[Vauxhall]

Good heavens; I stand corrected: Whiley's not sure about it.

She seemed much more enthusiastic about the idea of a possible collaboration between Ronson and Winehouse. She has only heard the track twice though, so I guess it could be a grower for her too.

[HellIsHere]

This song deserves a place on par with Live and Let Die...

[JADSTERSDAD]

Well....there we are!

Official. Complete. Let the new discussion begin here. As for me, I haven't changed my opinion one iota. Despite really wanting to be pleasantly surprised in the last half. I'm massively disappointed. This will really divide people.

Jo Whiley is 'undecided' but her intial response from listeners seems to have been pretty negative. Although there were some who said they 'loved' it and thought it was how it should be. Pretty much reflects the other thread. Lovers and haters. I think the haters have it, though.....

Sad.

[dinovelvet]

OK, now I've got it... its halfway between the TMWTGG theme song, and LALD as sung in the film by the New Orleans Fillet of Soul singer.

Wow - listen to it with headphones on. MUCH improvement.

After several further listens, I've decided that this would have been a GREAT theme for a 1978 missing Roger Moore Bond film.

[avl]

OK, now I've got it... its halfway between the TMWTGG theme song, and LALD as sung in the film by the New Orleans Fillet of Soul singer.

Wow - listen to it with headphones on. MUCH improvement.

I like it. Good guitar riff and horns - it sticks in my head.

[spynovelfan]

I really like the swampy bravado of it. It's got silly, very over-the-top lyrics that sound more like they're from an Austin Powers or Spy Hard-style parody than from a Bond film proper, but there is some disarming substance to them, and the title - awful as it sounded - does make a kind of sense with Craig's portrayal of the character and what we saw in Casino Royale. I like the double vocal effect, and I like the edginess of some of it - I enjoyed that spurting frayed non-guitar solo.

The thing that I didn't like at all was the drop-ins of little trills that recall 'Bond themes' very heavy-handedly. The song itself is fine - stick to it! I hate all that pandering to 'sounding like Bond'. It's the aural equivalent of a piece of fan fiction that has James Bond, with a cruel smile and a comma of black hair, wearing a midnight blue, Brioni one-button, single breasted wool barathea tuxedo with peaked silk grosgrain lapels that perfectly conceals his Walther PPK, ordering a vodka martini - shaken not stirred - while flirting in a casino with a woman called Jessica Lovescock. While humming an old Ink Spots tune. It's like an old Casio keyboard where instead of pressing a button that gives you a naff 'hip-hop' style 'Yo!', you get a bombastic Bond riff, or tinkly Bassey-theme-ish piano, or horn sound. Terrible.

The rest of the song is fine. I just wish they'd get rid of this sort of thing. That's what I liked about Chris Cornell's song, minus a couple of dodgy moments: it was a Bond song, but not extremely predictably and obviously trying to be that. It fitted the spirit of the new direction: no Moneypenny or Q if they're not necessary. No horns if you don't need them. You can be Bond without the obvious. This so nearly did that, but someone - White, I suppose - has gone over it all and sprinkled 'Bond' stuff over it. Only it's not Bond stuff, it's Jessica Lovescock video-game soundtrack Casio keyboard MIDI file by-numbers Bond stuff that the song does not need.

[Vauxhall]

From BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat:

James Bond theme gets first play

[zwerkosh]

is there some way to listen to it on the internet?

[Simon]

It's linked somewhere over at ajb007 - all 4 minutes of it.