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[Harry Fawkes]

I love the song and I know I've said it before but I also think it is ten times better than YKTN

[Daddy Bond]

By lookin at the poll, nearly 60% LESS than like this song. That's pretty bad. Nearly 38% seem like they are leaning toward DIS-liking it.

Can the producers of Bond change their minds at this point in the game and go with another song???

[Bondian]

Can the producers of Bond change their minds at this point in the game and go with another song???

They could play it in the restrooms/lavatory's when the film is screening.

Unfortunately. It's been passed by the powers that be, so it doesn't matter what we really think.

Would be interesting on how well this sells.

[David_M]

I don't know, I like Daddy Bond's idea.

There may not be time to commission a new song, but EON could go with one they've already got in the can. Something less annoying, like maybe Lulu's TMWTGG track, or "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Born".

Heck, at this point, I'd settle for a placard that reads, "Hum To Yourselves."

[Bondian]

I don't know, I like Daddy Bond's idea.

There may not be time to commission a new song, but EON could go with one they've already got in the can. Something less annoying, like maybe Lulu's TMWTGG track, or "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Born".

Heck, at this point, I'd settle for a placard that reads, "Hum To Yourselves."

Maybe it would sound better if they played it in reverse. Actually, perhaps they already have.

[Daddy Bond]

I don't know, I like Daddy Bond's idea.

There may not be time to commission a new song, but EON could go with one they've already got in the can. Something less annoying, like maybe Lulu's TMWTGG track, or "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Born".

Heck, at this point, I'd settle for a placard that reads, "Hum To Yourselves."

Maybe it would sound better if they played it in reverse. Actually, perhaps they already have.

Funny!

[Gri007]

I like to know what Amy Winehouse's song would have sounded like. Could it be better or worst. IMO AWTD isn't that bad. It just needs shortning and rearranging. Just have to see what the final film version will bring.

[Bondian]

I like to know what Amy Winehouse's song would have sounded like. Could it be better or worst. IMO AWTD isn't that bad. It just needs shortning and rearranging. Just have to see what the final film version will bring.

I'd like to hear it, warts 'n all.

[David_M]

IMO AWTD isn't that bad. It just needs shortning and rearranging.

Umm, wasn't that part of Jack and Alicia's job? Aren't they both described as some sort of geniuses?

I won't deny there's probably a good song here among all the false starts and dead ends. Their job was to find it and polish it into something listenable, not paste together a random mishmash of tape loops from aborted takes.

[byline]

Given all the negative responses (some of them extremely so), I fully expected to hate this song. My initial reaction was one of feeling a bit underwhelmed, much as I did with "You Know My Name." However, similar to that song, I find this one growing on me.

I think part of the reason why I don't dislike this song as strongly as many others may have to do with the fact that I don't listen to Top 40 radio (or whatever it's called these days) at all. I listen to NPR and CBC, and that's about it. So I don't suffer from the same overexposure to the same old thing that many people do. As a result, this sounds -- if not original -- at least fresh and exciting to my ears. (The arrangement also seems to lend itself well to visual imagery, which presumably is one of the main objectives with any Bond song, seeing how it's to be placed in the opening titles sequence.)

But I can see how this song would fail to impress if I listened to what passes for pop radio these days. It's probably more of the same, and judging from many of the replies here, that's not what folks are looking for in a Bond song.

I do like the throwback to "Live and Let Die" in the arrangement, and I enjoy the instrumental track (especially the piano hook). The singing? I can take it or leave it, but I do think it meshes well with the arrangement. If it were a cleanly rendered vocal track, then I don't think it would have the edge that I'm presuming the powers that be were looking for.

Edited by byline, 02 October 2008 - 04:15 PM.

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

Reading over my previous posts, I feel I've overlooked the positive areas of this song, namely the music itself. I find myself humming/whistling along to it a lot, and it's actually quite brilliant musically. However Jack White's dulcet tones really ruin the sing for me. Alicia Keys' vocals are OK and if it was her on her own it would probably be bearable. But unfortunately, this is the result...

[David_M]

I think part of the reason why I don't dislike this song as strongly as many others may have to do with the fact that I don't listen to Top 40 radio (or whatever it's called these days) at all. I listen to NPR and CBC, and that's about it. So I don't suffer from the same overexposure to the same old thing that many people do.

I don't listen to Top 40 radio, either, but in my case that creates the opposite reaction. I imagine at least part of my distaste for the song likely comes from my being out of step with modern songwriting, which apparently has rules and practices totally alien to what I used to think of as "music."

I can't say it sounds too much like White's other stuff as I've never heard anything he's ever done, to my knowledge. I just know him from photos I've seen of him at red carpet events with his...wife, or sister, or possibly both, I'm not sure what she is. Alicia Keys I know from one song and her appearances on Sesame Street. So I could never accuse them of recycling their usual stuff. On the other hand, they don't earn any points with me based on familiarity/affection.

I like to think this gives me a certain objectivity in the matter, but it also might make my opinion irrelevant as I'm not the target audience. As usual, EON is aiming to bring the young crowd to the movie by offering them a "hip" title song. They already know we old-timers will show up out of loyalty no matter how what manner of racket they attach to the opening credits.

[double o ego]

Well, I hated this song with a passion at first but now, I actually think it's alright. It could have been better but I think it'll work with the visuals of the title sequence and I find myself humming and singing along to it.

[sharpshooter]

I find myself humming and singing along to it.

The humming is fine, but please, lay off the singing.

[double o ego]

Well, it's just the chorus I sort of sing along to because those are the only words I can just about make out lol.

[Publius]

By lookin at the poll, nearly 60% LESS than like this song. That's pretty bad. Nearly 38% seem like they are leaning toward DIS-liking it.

You should be a pollster if you managed to spin it that way. How about this: OVER 60% think the song is okay, good, or even great! That'd be a landslide in any election.

If you do a weighted average (assigning values of 4 to Love it, 3 to Like it, etc.), you'll see that the consensus puts it somewhere between "okay" and "like." I don't see what's so bad about that, or why it'd be worth the chaos of making a last-minute change in the hopes that they could do the impossible and get a song that more than 60% of people can agree on. Good luck with that. Music is even more divisive than politics.

IMO AWTD isn't that bad. It just needs shortning and rearranging.

Umm, wasn't that part of Jack and Alicia's job?

Not necessarily. Cornell's original YKMN was thankfully shortened for the titles, with the "spin of the wheel!" echo in particular dropped (as the "bang, bang" line and probably the mid-song yodeling will be for AWTD). I'm sure the other Bond songs received the same treatment. I'd be surprised if DAD didn't cut out the "Sigmund Freud" line, among others, although I haven't watched that movie in a while so I can't remember.

[TheREAL008]

It's not a bad song, but yet it's not great either.

The mood of the song and some of the bits where it slightly referenced You Know My Name were spot on perfect, but all in all I would take Alicia Keys over Jack White any day.

Edited by TheREAL008, 04 October 2008 - 02:13 AM.

[double o ego]

You mean Jack White.

[TheREAL008]

INDEED I do. That will teach me to post here and watch The Pick of Destiny at the same time.

[Hockey Mask]

[/quote]If you do a weighted average (assigning values of 4 to Love it, 3 to Like it, etc.), you'll see that the consensus puts it somewhere between "okay" and "like." [/quote]
I'd put it somewhere between warm turd and flaming turd.

[Daddy Bond]

Except I would view "Okay" as being a negative statement. I rarely spend much if any time listening to "okay" songs. Those are the songs I skip over. So, if you tip "okay" onto the negative side of things, FAR more dislike it than don't.

[Mister E]

INDEED I do. That will teach me to post here and watch The Pick of Destiny at the same time.

I have the album. Awesome-ness.