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[AMC Hornet]

Alanis Morissette.

 

Oh wait - I already said Yoko Ono. Same thing.

[Bond of Steele]

Alanis Morissette.

 

Oh wait - I already said Yoko Ono. Same thing.

LOL

 

Backstreet Boys

NKOTB

 

As tdalton said, these could have made great marketing connections to targeted audiences, but this would have been nasty.

 

Oh, and same goes to Black Eyed Peas.  

[tdalton]

I actually wouldn't have minded Alanis Morisette, so long as it was something in the vein of "Uninvited".  Overall, though, outside of that one song, I would agree that she's probably not a great fit for Bond, although I do like her music a great deal.

 

I think that everyone has already spoken up for the most obvious of artists that would have been ill-suited for a Bond title track.  My list would also end up including the vast majority of current artists, as I can only think of a small handful of artists who began their careers in this millennium that I like enough to want them to get to do a Bond title track. 

[Guy Haines]

I too would struggle to think of a current artiste who could do a Bond theme.  Last time around Adele seemed obvious, and had she lived Amy Winehouse might have been on a list. Maybe its me being an old fogie and out of touch with modern music, but right now I wouldn't know who in the current music scene might be suitable.

 

All I would say is it wouldn't surprise me if, after all the names bandied about in the media in the coming months, the artiste chosen is someone or some band we had never even considered. Take, for example Chris Cornell. Did anyone see him coming as the performer of the CR theme tune? Yet he performed and co-wrote one of my favourite Bond themes.

[S K Y F A L L]

I'm glad Bono from U2 didn't do GE. 

Whoopee Goldberg (sometime after Sister Act)

Randy Newman (even though he is alright)

[Call Billy Bob]

I'm torn on Prince... could go either way with him.

[David_M]

I'm torn on Prince... could go either way with him.

 

 

That would work.  I think he goes either way, too.

[OHMSS Fan]

Queen

Rick Astley

Anyone who has ever been on Xfactor Pop Idol or American Idol

 

[Call Billy Bob]

I could actually see Queen doing a good Bond theme back in the day. Their work on Highlander and Flash Gordon was excellent.

[Guy Haines]

Rick Astley was another one the red tops touted as a Bond theme artiste - I think it was after TLD so they would of course be pointing him at what became LTK. It's the last thing I remember reading about him - by gum, that's going back 25 years!

 

Queen - yes, I can see them doing a Bond theme too. The problem for me is, though, being an "old fogie" I can think of acts in days gone by that ought, or ought not to have done Bond, but I'm blowed if I can picture or even think of ones from today, with the exception of Adele of course.

 

(Hold on - is there a group called "One Direction"? Well, if there is - they'de better not do a Bond theme either!)

 

Bit like the old cliché about the British judiciary in the 1960s - when The Beatles were mentioned in court a crusty old judge would remark "Tell me, who are The Beatles?"

 

(Ah well, better put my teeth in the glass and polish the zimmer frame!)

[Call Billy Bob]

Guy, you may be an "old fogie," but I'm one at heart! I'm 25, but I have the musical tastes of a 50 year old - namely my father (thanks dad)!

[Guy Haines]

Hi Call Billy Bob,

 

I've got my late mum and dad - and my dance band playing late granddad to thank for my musical tastes. I was brought up in a family where the music of the swing era was never far away.

 

Having said that, I became a fan of John Barry's music through no prompting from anyone - I just liked his style. Odd when you were a teenager growing up in the UK in the 1970s, yet today there are reputedly acts who often quote him as an influence (Give me a week and I might think of their names!)

 

In fact my first Barry tunes were ones I heard on TV. The theme from a long forgotten 1960s BBC crime series called "Vendetta" - if you ever get to hear it, it sounds very Bondian - and the background music from the "Sunsilk" shampoo advert. Both were on the first Barry LP I bought, aged 11. Vendetta was as titled, but the advert music was called "The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair" Imagine my surprise when the needle got to that track! It had been on the telly for years, but I never knew John Barry had written it!

 

All of which has absolutely nothing to do with who shouldn't do a Bond theme and I am now going away to wrack my brains as to who to say no to next!

[dtuba]

...Nickelback...

[Call Billy Bob]

Aerosmith - can you imagine a Bond song like "I Don't want to Miss a Thing?" <shudders>

[S K Y F A L L]

...Nickelback...

Hate them too.

[AMC Hornet]

The Village People.

[Call Billy Bob]

Hank Williams Jr.

[Guy Haines]

Although I'm an admirer and I've got lots of his stuff, and enjoyed his prison concert recordings - Johnny Cash. Hold on a moment though, he did record something called "Thunderball" didn't he? And I've heard it, and it doesn't really sound like a Bond theme - more like one of those "ride that train" songs Johnny Cash recorded a lot in the 1960s. Can't helping thinking The Man In Black had the wrong kind of movie in mind when he wrote and performed it!

[Call Billy Bob]

I, too, am a Cash fan and have heard that song... not very Bondian indeed.

Edited by Call Billy Bob, 26 October 2014 - 09:00 PM.

[Goodnight]

Lorde

[Grard Bond]

Milli vanilly

Vanilla Ice

Tone Loc

Bob Dylan

Marilyn Manson

Edited by Grard Bond, 31 October 2014 - 03:02 PM.

[S K Y F A L L]

I'm not sure who was ever really in contention but I'm glad we didn't get:

 

Mariah Carey

Whitney Houston

Britney Spears

Janet Jackson

Cher

Berry White

[AMC Hornet]

No Barry White?!

 

If he'd done one, it would have been TMWTGG, when he was at the height of his powers. I hear little enough love here for Lulu - could the Love Unlimited Orchestra really have done any worse?

 

Barry could have given a whole new meaning to 'Golden Gun'.

[dtuba]

Barry White, no.

 

Isaac Hayes, on the other hand....

I think they shoud have asked him to do LALD.

[Iceskater101]

...Nickelback...

 

 

 

...Nickelback...

Hate them too.

 

 

Doesn't everyone not like Nickelback lol

[thecasinoroyale]

One f*****g Direction

[Guy Haines]

Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band. Really doesn't bear thinking about. Another one from my dim and distant past!

[The Krynoid man]

Fleetwood Mac

[Call Billy Bob]

The 5.6.7.8's... Woohoo...

[AMC Hornet]

B52s.

 

With just the girls, maybe, but that guy who sounds like Jim Carrey doing Jerry Lewis - augh!