Your Favorite Rejected Bond theme

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  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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    I admit that Radiohead's song is growing on me, but I'm still glad we got Writing's on the Wall.
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    Walecs wrote: »
    I admit that Radiohead's song is growing on me, but I'm still glad we got Writing's on the Wall.

    It just seems boring to me and un-Bondian, and I am a massive Radiohead fan. In fact Radiohead is more akin to my musical taste than Sam Smith. But his song is more 'Bondian', although wish it had been sung by someone else. Radiohead just really don't strike me as who you'd go to to do a Bond song.
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    For me Surrender should have been the theme song for TND.
  • MinionMinion Don't Hassle the Bond
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    Any evidence to this being a rejected song from Casino Royale?

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  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    HASEROT wrote: »
    @ Haserot- No mention of Dame Shirley Bassey's song for QOS that was rejected? You can hear it in the soundtrack. That's the one I'd pick.

    Anything submitted for DAD beats what we got.

    Dame Shirley's "No Good About Goodbye" was never officially submitted, nor considered for the theme to QOS - the fact that there are similarities is coincidental... at the same time that this song was being written, Arnold was doing the score to QOS - so he admits that some elements bled over, but it was never written to be a Bond theme..... fact.

    Except she sings the word "solace" about six times!

    They really need to ask Bassey back one more time while they still can. Give her the end titles even, to sing Craig out!
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    Although it was used in film, it was originally going to be used for the title theme, but I love Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Shirley Bassey!

    I prefer the Dionne Warwick version.... :D

    Wasn't the Dionne Warwick song used in the Italian version of Thunderball, great theme song but so is Thunderball.
  • EiragornEiragorn Hessia
    edited March 2019 Posts: 108
    echo wrote: »
    HASEROT wrote: »
    @ Haserot- No mention of Dame Shirley Bassey's song for QOS that was rejected? You can hear it in the soundtrack. That's the one I'd pick.

    Anything submitted for DAD beats what we got.

    Dame Shirley's "No Good About Goodbye" was never officially submitted, nor considered for the theme to QOS - the fact that there are similarities is coincidental... at the same time that this song was being written, Arnold was doing the score to QOS - so he admits that some elements bled over, but it was never written to be a Bond theme..... fact.

    Except she sings the word "solace" about six times!

    They really need to ask Bassey back one more time while they still can. Give her the end titles even, to sing Craig out!

    Just to clear things up a bit I tried to gather some intel via interviews and even contacted Arnold himself to make some sense of the choice of the Quantum theme. Long story short: Although NGAG was only written long after the release of Quantum its genesis is far more convoluted than expected ;)

    Arnold did prepare his score for Quantum early on and had some cues ready to be used as the basis of a theme song. Amy Winehouse was chosen and so there were sessions of Winehouse, Arnold and her producer Mark Ronson. The latter then turned Arnold's suggested cue into a full fledged instrumental demo for Winehouse to work out melody and lyrics. But this never came to pass as these specifications clashed with how she usually writes songs.

    They then ran out of time and wrote to music publishers all over the world for possible songs. Almer and White are among the submissions that came quite far. Here the total no-name obviously took the backseat to the far better marketable White who is among the most revered musicians of his generation.

    Still Arnold sticked with the cue that never was picked up by Winehouse. When he had the opportunity to produce an album for Shirley Bassey he went back to the cue and himself finished a song. The lyrics were written by Bond veteran Don Black of Diamonds are Forever fame. Both had already worked on an equally unfinished DAD theme and so they also picked up some leftover lines from there, namely “Before you make your move, think of the consequences…” The result was then "No Good About Goodbye".

    So tl;dr: No Good About Goodbye was built from the remnants of Winehouse's Quantum attempt long after the release of Quantum. In fact it may be the only finished bit of music out of the sessions for Winehouse never recorded anything.
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