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[Diamondfire]

I'm surprised by the low showing for FYEO, which I think is a great song, which is my favorite only by a slight lead over DAF and AVTAK.

Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems I'm the only one on the planet who thought DAD was pretty nifty. Everybody else I know hated it. I used to hate LALD, but it grew on me eventually and now I find it pretty cool. The one that grates on my nerves is TMWTGG.

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

[pieffra]

Carly Simon's Nobody does it better of course...

Second place, but very close to first, We have all the time in the world

[Qwerty]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

[Diamondfire]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

Interesting. I didn't even realize there was a Bassey version. I'll have to find it and give a listen.

[Double-Oh Agent]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

I agree Qwerty. In this instance at least, Warwick trumps Bassey.

[Qwerty]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

Interesting. I didn't even realize there was a Bassey version. I'll have to find it and give a listen.

Both are available on the The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary Limited Edition 2-Disc set. I highly recommend picking this set up for the two alternate Thunderball songs, Anthony Newley's version of Goldfinger, and Julie Christie's version of You Only Live Twice (labeled a "Demo Track" on this CD).

[Double-Oh Agent]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

Interesting. I didn't even realize there was a Bassey version. I'll have to find it and give a listen.

Both are available on the The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary Limited Edition 2-Disc set. I highly recommend picking this set up for the two alternate Thunderball songs, Anthony Newley's version of Goldfinger, and Julie Christie's version of You Only Live Twice (labeled a "Demo Track" on this CD).

Qwerty, do you have Doctor Zhivago on the brain? I'm sure you know this fact and just mis-typed it, but the singer of the You Only Live Twice demo track is actually Julie Rogers, not Julie Christie. But you are correct that the CD is worth getting for the reasons you suggested--and also for the two radio teaser spots.

[Blonde Bond]

The James Bond Theme
Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry Orchestra
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
The Living Daylights - a-ha
GoldenEye - Tina Turner

Those come to mind, when I have to pick the best soundtracks from a Bond movie.

[Qwerty]

I'm just glad they ditched that Dionne Warwick tune "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

I personally prefer it to the Shirley Bassey version though.

Interesting. I didn't even realize there was a Bassey version. I'll have to find it and give a listen.

Both are available on the The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary Limited Edition 2-Disc set. I highly recommend picking this set up for the two alternate Thunderball songs, Anthony Newley's version of Goldfinger, and Julie Christie's version of You Only Live Twice (labeled a "Demo Track" on this CD).

Qwerty, do you have Doctor Zhivago on the brain? I'm sure you know this fact and just mis-typed it, but the singer of the You Only Live Twice demo track is actually Julie Rogers, not Julie Christie. But you are correct that the CD is worth getting for the reasons you suggested--and also for the two radio teaser spots.

LOL. You're correct. I don't know why I always seem to confuse Rogers with Christie as her last name, but I...well, do.

[Slightly Shaken]

I voted for Shirley Basseys "Goldfinger".

[Qwerty]

Welcome to CBn, Slightly Shaken.

[Quartermaster007]

Listening to For Your Eyes Only now and it's starting to grow on me.

My favourites as of now are Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Diamonds are Forever.

[Slightly Shaken]

Welcome to CBn, Slightly Shaken.

Thanks, it seems to be a very good site

[Qwerty]

Hope you enjoy it here.

[elvira]

The way that Shirley Bassey almost spits out some of the lyrics in "Goldfinger" do it for me. She is fabulous, and it's such a great song. Cheesy, but great. I had to vote for it!

[Qwerty]

Welcome to CBn, elvira!

[elvira]

Thanks Qwerty!

I really am happy to see that this board gives such attention to the film music of these movies. Too often movie fans ignore the soundtracks. I'm a big soundtrack enthusiast, so I think it's great that this board gives the scores their proper credit and attention.

[Qwerty]

Thanks Qwerty!

I really am happy to see that this board gives such attention to the film music of these movies. Too often movie fans ignore the soundtracks. I'm a big soundtrack enthusiast, so I think it's great that this board gives the scores their proper credit and attention.

CBn is the best place around for all things James Bond! Hope you enjoy it here.

[Harmonica]

You Only Live Twice for me - it's the most beautiful, ethereal of the songs, but unfortunately, it's the best part of the movie! I also love GoldenEye, Nobody Does It Better, From Russia with Love, Moonraker, The World Is Not Enough, and the OHMSS title music.

I can't stand The Man with the Golden Gun and Tomorrow Never Dies, and Goldfinger and Thunderball are a bit too bombastic for my tastes. Live and Let Die is good but overrated - it annoys me that only about a third of the song is actual lyrics, as if McCartney was lazy and coasted on the music rather than come up with some extra words. I'm not too keen either about For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, or Licence to Kill either, though they're not horrible.

I at first hated All Time High, but it's since grown on me, as has the film Octopussy itself. I think Die Anothery Day gets a bad rap - sure it's not too great and the "Sigmund Freud" part is best forgotten, but I think TMWTGG and TND are much worse.

Sorry for this long post, but I just wanted to vent my feelings about all the Bonds songs.

Edited by Harmonica, 17 June 2006 - 11:50 PM.

[DaveBond21]

I like them all in their own little ways. I eventually voted for Carly Simon.

All Time High is a nice one, but it is a love song, and suited more to a musical - its writers are British musical stalwarts.

I like Gladys Knight's Licence to Kill - but the full version - not the highly edited song we get during the titles.

[Forward Look]

I love OHMSS but the other main titles from the Barry scored movies are excellent too. With FRWL's Matt Monroe as favorite singin'while taking a shower.

Wasn't the FRWL opening title song an instrumental? Matt Munro, sounding like a poor man's Sinatra, sings over the closing credits of this film.

[Jericho_One]

OHMSS, always.

[gadgetfusion]

Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, Goldeneye, and The World Is Not Enough are my favorites.

Along with the James Bond theme of course.

But I voted for Diamonds Are Forever, since I like it the most out of the six.

[dee-bee-five]

I love OHMSS but the other main titles from the Barry scored movies are excellent too. With FRWL's Matt Monroe as favorite singin'while taking a shower.

Wasn't the FRWL opening title song an instrumental? Matt Munro, sounding like a poor man's Sinatra, sings over the closing credits of this film.

What? What?!? Matt Monroe was no man's poor anything - as Sinatra himself was the first to say.

Has to be a toss up between YOLT or OHMSS for me. But then if k.d Lang's "Surrender" had been a title song...

Edited by dee-bee-five, 14 August 2006 - 12:01 PM.

[Sunny_on_SM]

I loved mostly all of them during Sean and Roger's eras. But as much as I love Tom Jones, I can't stand the title song to Thunderball. Can't say I'm partial to OHMSS either.

Favourite themes from Sean's era for me would be "From Russia With Love" and "You Only Live Twice". And Roger's - "For Your Eyes Only" and "Nobody Does It Better".

[Skudor]

Nice to see a poll with the results fairly spread out for once. I personally went for Goldfinger. Not because it's necessarily the "best" but because it's so hugely iconic. It's a great lead up to the movie as well.

[DamnCoffee]

I wish you could vote fro more than one i chose DAF but i love the Bond theme aswell

[Cody]

Of those currently on the poll, my top five songs would probably be -

"Live and Let Die"
"Goldfinger"
"Thunderball"
"The World is Not Enough"
"Nobody Does It Better"

But right now I think "You Know My Name" is fighting to take over the fifth spot.

Edited by Cody, 21 September 2006 - 03:25 AM.

[Qwerty]

UPDATE: You Know My Name - Chris Cornell added to the poll choices.

[JimmyBond]

UPDATE: You Know My Name - Chris Cornell added to the poll choices.

Might need to fix it or something. When I vote for it and hit the vote button. I get an error message saying I didnt click on a button.