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For me, it's a tie between "Surrender" and "No Good About Goodbye" (NGAG is not an officially rejected theme, but we all know the deal with this one.) Both would have added something to their respected films if they'd opened them up.
I also rather like Muse's recent "Supremacy" for Skyfall, but I don't know if we can count that as a "rejected" theme.
As to the rest, there are some good ones in there, but you can see why they never made the cut.
I'm not sure about the veracity of this claim, but it is certainly very Bondian. So much so that I have it in my Bond music playlist, along with The Living Tree, by Shirley Bassey.
I think this would have made a great Bond song and I have a lot of time for Duffy. Duffs, Winehouse and Adele have been/were always high on my list for Bond theme artists. Shame we missed Amy's attempt. I mean, that could have been great if she could have just held her stuff together long enough to record it.
Just wondering if Duffy will ever get a chance or that time has passed.....
@nobodydoesitbetter
No Good About Goodbye WAS NOT a rejected theme... this is the MI6 article about it back when the song debuted...
A track on Dame Shirley Bassey's new album "The Performance" has caused a bit of a stir in the James Bond fan community. The song "No Good About Goodbye", written by 007 composer David Arnold and lyricist Don Black, had some fan sites speculating it was a rejected theme song for the last movie "Quantum of Solace". The rumour was solely hooked on the familiarity of the opening string line compared to the movie's score.
Mr Arnold confirmed to MI6 that the song was not a 'rejected theme' for "Quantum of Solace". Apart from the opening string line, there was no material from the movie soundtrack. Only a few lines of the song were written and it was far from complete by the time Jack White and Alicia Keys were chosen to perform "Another Way To Die", said Mr Arnold.
When he was asked to produce Shirley Bassey's new album, Mr Arnold teamed up with Don Black if to finish the song for her specifically.
Arnold has gone on record to say that similarities may have bled over - but it's all coincidence.... it's 6 notes - the rest of the song shares no similarities with the rest of the score at all..
Bassey also did a song called "The Living Tree" which clearly uses the James Bond Theme note progression during the chorus - is that also a rejected Bond theme??????
Until i hear otherwise - the only confirming authority on this matter is Arnold, Black, and Bassey - and if Arnold has gone on record as to saying it wasn't written for QOS, then (call me crazy) i tend to believe him, and will continue to do so over anyone else's opinion... he has spoken openly about "Surrender" before - which was originally planned to be TND's title theme, until the producers opted to go with Sheryl Crow instead - they still used KD Lang's song in the film, and on the soundtrack... same thing with "Only Myself To Blame" - both Black and Arnold wrote that one as well, was never meant to be the opening theme, but it still appeared on the soundtrack.... i tend to think if No Good About Goodbye was written by Arnold and Black for QOS, it would've still appeared on the soundtrack (or film) somewhere.....
Some intros such as Sheryl Crow, McCartney and Wings, Cornell or even Garbage, I wouldn't swap with anything
You kidding me?
Agree. Have you also heard Alice Coopers TMWTGG? The man who made the awesome hit Poison doing a Bond song? Great.
Easily, I couldn't agree more.
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I find Don't Leave Me Now to me more "Bond-esque"
Wasn't Pet Shop Boys' This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave supposed to be a main theme for TLD?
I prefer the Dionne Warwick version.... :D
Pulp's song for B18 was also a missed opportunity. If greenlit, DA would have fleshed it out and we might have gotten a little classic.