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[marktmurphy]

here is an honest question will this be a front page bond 23 story or not?

Financial crisis.... swine flu....global warming.... Muse wouldn't mind singing a Bond song...

Let me think...

how is global warming Finacial Crisis and Swine ful big bond stories? Unless all 3 are parts of the first draft by purvis and wade I fail to see why any of thos would be on the main page.


I can see why u got confused i meant the front page of THIS site. I assumed everyone would logically see what i'm talking about i see now that somepoeple need to be told explicitly what is meant.

Yes. There appears to be some confusion. I find using the phrase "home page" instead of "front page" might deter any confusion in times to come.

It's pretty obvious what he meant.

[dee-bee-five]

To be fair, any band touting their names about now will probably not get a look in and THE KILLERS and MUSE are maybe there in ANOTHER WAY TO DIE and YOU KNOW MY NAME so wouldn't necessarily be that progressive to the Bond sound that is progressing at the moment and leaving all the die-hard fans WAY behind.

I'm sorry The living daylights a view to a kill You know my name and Another way to die are brassy and big and dramatic?

Yes, they are. Very much so. By the way, when I use the word "brassy" I'm not necessarily talking about using brass instruments - I'm using it more in the sense of "shamelessly bold" or "tastelessly showy or loud" (to cite a coupla dictionary definitions I've just looked at). Similarly, when I use the word "campy", I mean "overly theatrical" rather than "gay".

Mind you, it's hard not to think of camp - in its gayest sense - when you talk of Shirley Brassy...

I'll get me coat...

Is it a mock-leopard print knee-length effort with a faint smell of pubs about it...?

More like Canal Street on a Wednesday night. You've never seen so many size tens wedged inappropriately into high heels tottering on cobbles... I mean, I know one shouldn't laugh, but...

[Harmsway]

And people are assuming that BOND 23 will either need a title tune or indeed have a title sequence....(?!).

Isn't it only natural to do so?

[Loomis]

And people are assuming that BOND 23 will either need a title tune or indeed have a title sequence....(?!).

I know, I know. Those silly fans, eh?

[Quantumofsolace007]

Zorin is clearly being zorin that is all.

[DaveBond21]

Blimey, they channeled Queen a bit there didn't they?

[Quantumofsolace007]

indeed they did

I'm curios to see when we get something substantial and and when on earth are we gonna get a title rumour It's been 5 months since we got the news that Peter morgan Neal purvis and robert wade would write the next film.

[Tybre]

Blimey, they channeled Queen a bit there didn't they?

Indeed.

[Captain Tightpants]

There was a time when I would hav been totally on-board with this.

Then came THE RESISTANCE. And it sucked.

Matthew Bellamy seems to be losing his grip on reality. Most of the songs seem to be about a giant right-wing conspiracy that will suck your mind dry if you're not careful. He's seen black helicopters in every shadow; I wouldn't be surprised if he ran himself into the group in his paranoia and his delusion.

[Tybre]

There was a time when I would hav been totally on-board with this.

Then came THE RESISTANCE. And it sucked.

Matthew Bellamy seems to be losing his grip on reality. Most of the songs seem to be about a giant right-wing conspiracy that will suck your mind dry if you're not careful. He's seen black helicopters in every shadow; I wouldn't be surprised if he ran himself into the group in his paranoia and his delusion.

Indeed. While I quite like Muse's work, my attitude towards the whole of their latest stuff is a bit...well frankly I don't give much of a damn. It's all a bit the same-old, same-old tired nonsense, isn't it? Absolution and Black Holes were full of better material by far.

[Captain Tightpants]

Indeed. While I quite like Muse's work, my attitude towards the whole of their latest stuff is a bit...well frankly I don't give much of a damn. It's all a bit the same-old, same-old tired nonsense, isn't it? Absolution and Black Holes were full of better material by far.

It's funny: ABSOLUTION is easily their best effort, even though there was the whole conspiracy theory vibe running through it. I guess the difference was that it felt like Bellamy was an outsider looking in on that subject, whereas with THE RESISTANCE, he's dived headlong into it. I don't care much for BLACK HOLES AND SUPERNOVAS, either. It's a bit too pop-rock, even if it was a marked change from ABSOLUTION. I'd probably like it more if it came after THE RESISTANCE instead of before it.

And the band's reputation was tarnished when Supermassve Black Hole was used for the stupid vampire baseball scene in TWILIGHT.

[Harmsway]

THE RESISTANCE has four or five songs that make the album worthwhile, but it's certainly a disappointment.

[JimmyBond]

I'm curios to see when we get something substantial and and when on earth are we gonna get a title rumour It's been 5 months since we got the news that Peter morgan Neal purvis and robert wade would write the next film.

And? Once upon a time there was no interwebs and people didnt know anything about a new Bond film till it came out. Heck some poor souls didnt even know a new Bond film was coming out till it came out. We're lucky to have the interwebs now, and we're lucky to know what we know so far about Bond 23...isnt that enough?

[Qwerty]

Muse: 'we'd probably say yes' to recording a James Bond song

'Certainly some of our music fits with the James Bond vibe...'

[DaveBond21]

I'm curios to see when we get something substantial and and when on earth are we gonna get a title rumour It's been 5 months since we got the news that Peter morgan Neal purvis and robert wade would write the next film.

And? Once upon a time there was no interwebs and people didnt know anything about a new Bond film till it came out. Heck some poor souls didnt even know a new Bond film was coming out till it came out. We're lucky to have the interwebs now, and we're lucky to know what we know so far about Bond 23...isnt that enough?

Yeah, especially when we are fairly sure that it won't be released until Novemnber 2011, I think we have enough news for now. I'd like Bond 23 to come sooner but it doesn't look like it, at the moment.

[dinovelvet]

So to summarize the thread so far, a band wouldn't mind doing a Bond song. Did I miss anything?

[Trident]

So to summarize the thread so far, a band wouldn't mind doing a Bond song. Did I miss anything?

No, that's about it. And what the band thinks is their closest to Bond sound, but apart from that there is really not much more to it.

(Btw, what would happen if this should, against enormous odds, really work out and Muse would indeed get the gig for Bond 23? Hm, suppose the entertainment desks of any halfway decent newspaper, radio and tv station would disappear under tons similar 'applications', i.e. Thingummywhatsournamefcuk? WOULD LIKE TO DO BOND!
Brr, horrific image, hope it won't come to that...)

[JimmyBond]

i.e. Thingummywhatsournamefcuk? WOULD LIKE TO DO BOND!
Brr, horrific image, hope it won't come to that...)

Good band. Though their earlier work is better than their later stuff.

[Trident]

i.e. Thingummywhatsournamefcuk? WOULD LIKE TO DO BOND!
Brr, horrific image, hope it won't come to that...)

Good band. Though their earlier work is better than their later stuff.

Am a BIG fan myself...

[JimmyBond]

Wasnt a fan of their self titled album though. The mere fact that the name didnt fit on on CD case necessitated the purchase of two CDs.

[Trident]

That's why they don't do pub gigs any more. Name generally doesn't leave enough space for an audience. Shame, their live performance is rumoured to be fantastic.

[The Ghost Who Walks]

Blimey, they channeled Queen a bit there didn't they?

Indeed.

Muse are Queen on stereoids. I really like them, though they take themselves much too seriously, unlike Queen. They seem to be under the impression that their music really has something important to say, which it hasn't.

Wouldn't mind them doing a Bond song. What are the chances of getting Chris Cornell back, though? I'm sure he'd be happy to do it, looking how his career has gone downhill with his latest Timbaland-produced album (I like some of those songs. Don't shoot!).

[JimmyBond]

I love Muse, but if they were to do a Bond song I wouldnt want them to alter their sound to be more "Bondish." I'd want a full on Muse song, complete with synth and all.

Something like Bliss is a song I'd love to hear for Bond.

[stromberg]

So to summarize the thread so far, a band wouldn't mind doing a Bond song. Did I miss anything?

No, that's about it. And what the band thinks is their closest to Bond sound, but apart from that there is really not much more to it.

(Btw, what would happen if this should, against enormous odds, really work out and Muse would indeed get the gig for Bond 23? Hm, suppose the entertainment desks of any halfway decent newspaper, radio and tv station would disappear under tons similar 'applications', i.e. Thingummywhatsournamefcuk? WOULD LIKE TO DO BOND!
Brr, horrific image, hope it won't come to that...)

Generic 'XXX Wants To Do Bond Theme' Thread™
We're going through some rather slow Bond news times, currently. Sorry.

[Tybre]

Anyone else for inventing a fictional tabloid just so we can stir up some new Bond "news" every couple of weeks?

[Athena007]

I could really see Muse creating a brilliant sound for the next 007 title song. I'm recently convinced of this only cause of their new song "Uprising" which incorporates a very Doctor Who sounding base track. Love it! So yes... I think they would ROCK a title sequence song.

[agentjamesbond007]

I don't really like the Muse. To me, their music sounds kind of depressing.

[Athena007]

Bond movies can be depressing. BAM!

[ckharrison]

I just discovered Muse a few months ago with the whole Watchmen thing, and I would LOVE to see them perform a title song. They could do an absolutely bang-up job, and I am sure it would be not only one of their best songs, but they are also capable of making one of the top Bond title songs in the entire series.

I can't possibly explain how excited I was when I read the article and saw that they'd be interested in recording a song for them. I can already start to imagine what they'd do.

What I'm most excited about is the score that it would lead to. All of Muse's music is so perfect for full orchestra that it would almost writes itself. They do a lot with full strings and piano, especially Matt, that David Arnold would be able to write some amazing cues that would play off of the main theme.

[jrcjohnny99]

MUSE do nothing for me;
I couldn't be less excited about this news, I'd rather bring back Jack White....