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[S K Y F A L L]

I voted 'not to bad', I just think the backup vocals are laughable and its not what I was expecting from Adele. I like her other songs more. 

 

 

I love this bong song, it's very modern and classy.

 

 

You hippie. LOL   Ooohhh to be in college Haha.

[Shrublands]

A simply exquisite rendition this...

 

[Dustin]

What talent, no doubt there is the start of a unique career...

On Adele's song: I've recently listened to some mainstream radio stations and was surprised to hear 'Skyfall' quite often. I can't remember such being the case in recent years. The last Bond song I've heard so often on the radio I think must have been 'Goldeneye'.

[Vauxhall]

I gave that video a whole three seconds before moving on with the rest of my day. I expect even Adele's most ardent critics may well prefer her version to that. As Shrublands said: "exquisite".

[Iceskater101]

I voted 'not to bad', I just think the backup vocals are laughable and its not what I was expecting from Adele. I like her other songs more. 

 

 

I love this bong song, it's very modern and classy.

 

 

You hippie. LOL   Ooohhh to be in college Haha.

 

Oh jeez.... Huge typo. lol..

[seawolfnyy]

 

I voted 'not to bad', I just think the backup vocals are laughable and its not what I was expecting from Adele. I like her other songs more. 

 

 

I love this bong song, it's very modern and classy.

 

 

You hippie. LOL   Ooohhh to be in college Haha.

 

Oh jeez.... Huge typo. lol..

 

Ha, funny! I would agree with S K Y F A L L though that the backup vocals are awful and ruin the chorus.

[Hockey Mask]

GOLDEN GLOBE!

[007jamesbond]

yea..........time to add BAFTA and Oscar to the list 

[Vauxhall]

Fantastic!

[lechero]

We need a gif of that high-five with Daniel Craig.

[Germanlady]

[thecasinoroyale]

What a team!

[Vauxhall]

No real surprise here, but it's been confirmed that Adele will perform "Skyfall" at the Oscars.

[thecasinoroyale]

Cracking news - should be a belter, and good to see the song performed live after these last few months of just hearing the movie version.

[Iceskater101]

Yeah I think it's really cool that the franchise is getting oscar recognition. I think that's really exciting.

[thecasinoroyale]

Well deserved for the last 50 years, and individually for 'Skyfall' too.

[Pussfeller]

This video just appeared on my YouTube homepage. It's a cover of "Skyfall" on the harp.

[thecasinoroyale]

Brit Award for Adele and 'Skyfall' for 'Best British Single', beating a whole host of hot, fresh UK talent.

 

That Oscar is within grasp...

[Iceskater101]

Didn't she win the Oscar?

[thecasinoroyale]

She did indeed...!

[agentjamesbond007]

I think Skyfall did a good job at being different and more action-packed, but I don't think this is how Bond should be portrayed. Him being a drunkard, failing to save a girl (which wasn't even a Bond girl), failing to save M, losing his physical shape as an agent. This is not very Bond-like at all.

[Guy Haines]

I think Skyfall did a good job at being different and more action-packed, but I don't think this is how Bond should be portrayed. Him being a drunkard, failing to save a girl (which wasn't even a Bond girl), failing to save M, losing his physical shape as an agent. This is not very Bond-like at all.

And yet....... Bond was portrayed as a basket-case, a broken man, a failure as an agent, a security risk, hitting the bottle, sorry for himself (for understandable reasons) in the Ian Fleming novel "You Only Live Twice". M sends him on an "impossible mission" - negotiate with the Japanese SIS - which turns into a personal fight for revenge and redemption, at the end of which Bond "dies" - only to return in "The Man With The Golden Gun" as a brainwashed puppet of the Russians, out to assassinate M. None of this sounds "Bond like", yet it was all Fleming's work. And some of those elements can be seen in the film "Skyfall" - including, of course, the obituary of Bond written by M. The text you see M type out, save for the name "Turkey", is almost word-for-word the opening line of the obituary M wrote, which was the penultimate chapter of "You Only Live Twice".

[Fisico]

Skyfall is undoubtedly #1 in the James Bond themes for me. I love Adele so much!

 

(Sorry for the bump)

[Iceskater101]

 

I just saw this GIF and I absolutely adored it.

[thecasinoroyale]

Nothing wrong bumping a worthy thread. This really does grow on me (still) when I hear it without warning.

 

Just great power behind it and that sound is so....Bond! 

 

And YES that is a sweet gif; a perfect British winning combo! Pray she returns for Bond 24...

[Call Billy Bob]

Just great power behind it and that sound is so....Bond! 

Love the brass. Maybe being in band all through school has made me biased, but you can't beat big sounds from trumpet and trombone.

[Guy Haines]

Glad to read there's someone out there who appreciates brass. (Typing as I do as the grandson of a colliery brass band player who also played big band swing - I wonder if that's why I appreciate the jazz/swing elements in the earlier Bond themes?)

[Call Billy Bob]

My grandfather directed school bands for 33 years and I played in a few jazz ensembles in college (I was a drummer, but always next to the trumpets). Love big, strong brass sounds!

[thecasinoroyale]

IMO, brass MAKES a Bond theme.

 

Take all the over-used electric guitar twangs in the Brosnan era as it started to sound like a pastiche of the Bond theme whenever they cropped up with that horrid spy-esque riff EVERY other minute. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' is one of the worst offenders.

 

Brass and strings. Power, depth and a real danger to them, but also beautiful and melodic. You can't beat orchestral over electric any day and that's why I loved the classic sound to 'Skyfall' even more.

[Call Billy Bob]

Couple that with Adele's soulful vocals and you have every reason it's one of the best themes in a VERY long time.