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I love WOTW but let's be honest, Oscars are never given to the best.
To quote a character from Bojack, "Awards aren't about who's best".
I think my least favourite Bond song is Die Another Day, unless we're including secondary themes as well, in that case I think Experience of love is the one I like the least. NSNA if we're counting unofficial Bond themes as well.
That is very true, my friend. Very true.
I like that one, a lot, surprisingly. I might even prefer it to ‘Nobody Does It Better’, though both are vastly inferior to ‘Live and Let Die’.
For me, my least favorites are ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’, ‘Die Another Day’, ‘Another Way To Die’ and ‘All Time High’.
‘Writing’s On The Wall’ I don’t entirely hate, I like the melody and the times that melody is used in the score in SP (like when Bond and Madeline are kissing in their room on the train), it works then. What ends up sinking the song is the painfully overwrought singing. In the hands of someone else it might’ve been pretty good.
WOTW is bad when Smyth is whining, but the music is good!
I agree and made a similar post before. I believe it was because Adele was the hottest singer on the planet at the time that got it the attention it did. When I went to my first screening of SF there was a teen girl there who was singing it waiting for the film to start and I'd be surprised if she had any idea about James Bond or anything about the film but just came because she knew the song.
AWTD is pretty lame but serviceable. SF decent but may be not as brilliant as some make out. TWOTW is again underwhelming.
For worst I might actually go for TB though. Really can't stand it.
1. Another Way to Die - I really want to like this one - I absolutely love the intro and the use of drums, guitar, and brass are on point. I find it rather inventive that they used a different part of the Bond theme than the other title songs to make it Bond sounding. But it goes oh so wrong with its torturous chorus. The screechy dissonant singing that just ruins any potential it has. Then there's the absolutely unforgivable "bang bang" lyric - the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.
2. Writing's on the Wall - I so despise this song for its post-millenial drawn out narcissism and want put it as my leading loser, but I can't only in that the song itself is okay. Put in a different singer and it's satisfactory. The whining and crybaby lyric is hardly Bond though... 😳😳😳
3. All Time High - Completely a cheap copy of a recent previous success, not unlike the two above. Each time it's mentioned I have to re-listen to it to remember how it goes and then I'm reminded about grating the song is. Kind of like WOTW - Weak lyric, not particularly memorable or likable melody, but has the instrumentation that makes it feel like Bond, at least enough.
Now I also see the following on here, and while not great (except TWINE), I dont know agree with people rating them at the worst with the above in existence:
The Man with the Golden Gun - Weak melody, weak lyrics, a LALD 2.0 wannabe, but it passes. As cheesy as the lyrics are, I feel like it works for this one. Certainly not nails on a chalkboard like the above 3.
Moonraker - Yes, I agree, it's boring and its lyrics are questionable (granted how else do you fit "Moonraker" into a lyric), but there's nothing really grating about it.
Die Another Day - I personally like what it tries to do (mash Bond with techno dance track) and honestly it fits well with the movie's OTT style and its techno soundtrack (probably a genius thing Arnold did to make it all fit). I can see why it is grating to people with its unintelligent, repetitive lyric, but as a song on its own, it's certainly passable. Not particularly Bondian, but I'd argue LALD probably didnt sound very Bondian when it first came out either. Not going to die on the sword with this one, but I feel like it's getting more hate than warranted. Definitely bottom tier though.
The World is Not Enough - What the hell is this even being mentioned here? Yes it's pastiche, but what Bond song isn't? I like the perspective of the song. It's one of the few coming from the villain's perspective (and probably the one that most directly does it). Plus that guitar riff...simple, but unmistakably Bond and very memorable.
Writing's on the wall
Die another day
Another way to die
All time high
The man with the golden gun
Tomorrow never dies
About TND: why they didn't choose KD Lang's Surrender is something I'll never understand.
Agree re SKYFALL, never liked it, moany and boring!
Skyfall is an okay Adele track, nothing great, nothing bad.
As a fan of hers I can say this: she has much better songs.
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I like it too.
It's grown on me a little over time but it's definitley not as good as some make out.
I agree with the majority of what you say bar the three paragraphs above. TMWTGG doesn’t sound remotely anything like a LALD 2.0 wannabe, nor does it pretend to be. Sure, Barry only had one shot at writing the song rather than his customary 3 attempts due to him being completely committed to Day of the Locust, but there’s no echoes of McCartney in his jazzy composition.
TWINE certainly has its fans, but it does deserve to be on this list as it wasn’t a particularly memorable song. It’s a slight improvement over Sheryl Crow‘s dreary number, but only just.
It's funny because I was listening to her a few days ago and I skipped Skyfall and most of her first album.
It's at least a year since I last listened to it...
About TWINE: It's of course not in their usual style and I love bands who dare to experiment so to speak. But her voice suits their "normal" material better.
I never hated it though.
The kd Lang / Arnold collaboration is the best song of the Brosnan era by a long stretch.
I remember hearing it at the end in the cinema and thinking "damn why wasn't this at the beginning"?
Indeed. The "Tomorrow never dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees" at the end is beyond incredible.
Regarding TWINE, I was a fan of the band Garbage at the time, and thought they were a great choice, but the song didn't really suit them, and I think they could of produced something better!
You mean the only instance?
Same with SF.
That is when it segues into the titles, so that hardly counts. All title themes are in the title sequences.