Favourite Bond Theme Song?

What Are Your Favourite Bond Theme Songs?

Kingston Calypso -Dr No (by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires)
3
1%
From Russia with Love (Matt Monro)
4
2%
Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
21
9%
Thunderball (Tom Jones)
14
6%
You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
12
5%
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry)
17
7%
Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
8
3%
Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings)
15
6%
The Man with the Golden Gun (Lulu)
1
0%
Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
20
8%
Moonraker (Shirley Bassey)
8
3%
For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)
7
3%
All Time High (Rita Coolidge)
9
4%
A View To a Kill (Duran Duran)
12
5%
The Living Daylights (a-ha)
6
3%
Licence to Kill (Gladys Knight)
10
4%
GoldenEye (Tina Turner)
19
8%
Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)
10
4%
The World Is Not Enough (Garbage)
19
8%
Die Another Day (Madonna)
9
4%
You Know My Name (Chris Cornell)
8
3%
Another Way to Die (Jack White, Alicia Keys)
4
2%
 
Total votes: 236

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Cyclone49 wrote:"You Know My Name" is my favourite, it's an awesome rock track that sounds really different from what has come before but is still undeniably Bondian. A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Tommorow Never Dies (I think I'm the only person that likes that one) are also fantastic, and I've always liked the OHMSS theme as well.
Wasn't impressed with YKMN, although it did have Bondian flare.

Another Way to Die is dieing a slow painfully agonizing death. Especially for those who listened to it. :)
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Unfortunately, it's not possible to unhear something..this is especially true of AWTD :P
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I didn't think AWTD was that bad to be honest. It wasn't great by any means, but there's certainly been worse theme songs (Moonraker, You Only Live Twice, the non-instrumental FRWL... IMO of course). I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me at first, and I'm glad they are at least trying to take risks with the theme song instead of just doing another Bassey-pastiche, even if the risk didn't quite pay off.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know why my posts take so long to show up? I posted that last one about a month ago, and it didn't show up until a week or so ago. Same with other posts I've made.
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I was stunned Jack White had the stones to attend the premier
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Mazer Rackham wrote:I was stunned Jack White had the stones to attend the premier
Jack White,a.k.a Grimma Wormtongue :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Cyclone49 wrote:I didn't think AWTD was that bad to be honest. It wasn't great by any means, but there's certainly been worse theme songs (Moonraker, You Only Live Twice, the non-instrumental FRWL... IMO of course). I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me at first, and I'm glad they are at least trying to take risks with the theme song instead of just doing another Bassey-pastiche, even if the risk didn't quite pay off.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know why my posts take so long to show up? I posted that last one about a month ago, and it didn't show up until a week or so ago. Same with other posts I've made.
With the talent willing to commit themselves to a theme song AWTD is unforgivable.
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With the talent willing to commit themselves to a theme song AWTD is unforgivable.
Amen to that! :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:
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Cyclone49 wrote:I didn't think AWTD was that bad to be honest. It wasn't great by any means, but there's certainly been worse theme songs (Moonraker, You Only Live Twice, the non-instrumental FRWL... IMO of course). I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me at first, and I'm glad they are at least trying to take risks with the theme song instead of just doing another Bassey-pastiche, even if the risk didn't quite pay off.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know why my posts take so long to show up? I posted that last one about a month ago, and it didn't show up until a week or so ago. Same with other posts I've made.
I can't believe you did not like You Only Live Twice. Moonraker is an acquired taste. As you say, it would have been easy to do a traditional Bond theme.
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I like YOLT(The theme, yes..the movie...meh :P)
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Cyclone49 wrote:
On an unrelated note, does anyone know why my posts take so long to show up? I posted that last one about a month ago, and it didn't show up until a week or so ago. Same with other posts I've made.
There were a few "technical problems". Your posts should work as normal now.
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My five...

Live And Let Die
A View To A Kill
The World Is Not Enough
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Nobody Does It Better
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AWTD is growing on me.A little.In the context of the titles for QOS it works. :up:
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Eye Of The Tiger wrote:My five...

Live And Let Die
A View To A Kill
The World Is Not Enough
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Nobody Does It Better
Great choices - and Carly has moved into the lead. :cheers:
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Eye Of The Tiger wrote:My five...

Live And Let Die
A View To A Kill
The World Is Not Enough
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Nobody Does It Better
They need to do more like On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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I felt sorry for Lulu and voted for her.
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Sympathy vote for AWTD. It wasn't as bad as DAD, so I gave it a vote.

My top 5:

A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
The Spy Who Loved Me (Nobody Does it Better) - Carley Simon
Licence to Kill - Gladys Knight

My least favorite is Goldeneye, even though I loved the movie. I just thought they were trying to hard to make it like Goldfinger.
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Mazer Rackham wrote:
Eye Of The Tiger wrote:My five...

Live And Let Die
A View To A Kill
The World Is Not Enough
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Nobody Does It Better
They need to do more like On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The music in the On Her Majesty's Secret Service opening titles is Jack White's favourite. It should have inspired him to make a better effort.
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Maybe Jack was just saying that for the press Roger!
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I do love the Lulu lyrics... but my choices were...


Thunderball (Tom Jones)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry)
Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
A View To a Kill (Duran Duran)
Licence to Kill (Gladys Knight)

The first four I simply love and enjoy often. The last one is a fave for Bond drinking games so it had to have a place. :)
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Just going from memory I like the early bond themes and latter ones better, with the exception of the Craig movies.
I really hated CRs theme in the theater and listening to the mp3 of the last one they actually manged to make it worse

I hated DAFs theme but thought LALD was ok. Nobody does it better was nice too,. I guess it s hit and miss and depends on when you grew up, which is probably why i like the latter themes more.
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