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I will say though my top favorite 6 include
You Only Live Twice
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Die Another Day
License To Kill
The World Is Not Enough
Did I mention Goldfinger, could well be the worst of the Bassey attempts. I know I should hate the Lulu one, but I'll be honest, I find it energetic and vibrant, but there's something, somewhere, that tells me, I really should be hating this song
Sheena Easton's For Your Eyes Only, is another one I have little time for, just never learned to like it, and Gladys Knight's License to Kill does seem to outstay it's welcome the more times you hear it. The same can be said for Turner and her Goldeneye effort
I have extremely mixed feelings about Lulu's 'The Man With the Golden Gun', myself. I find it a bit goofy for a Bond title song, though I guess that it actually fits with the film in that respect. I will admit that it is very lively and catchy, and some of the lyrics are amusing:
Will he bang?
We shall see!
A pattern I've noticed over the years about TMWTGG (the film and the song) is that it seems to have really massive nostalgia appeal for people of a certain age, more so than any other Bond film or song of the 1970s. Thus, I really can't fault it too much, since my own Bond-related opinions are often heavily influenced by nostalgia.
For example, I disagree with the criticisms of Sheena Easton's 'For Your Eyes Only', but I realize that my fondness for it stems in large part from the fact that FYEO was my first Bond film. Also, the song was quite a hit at the time and thus is one of many early-80s pop tunes that take me back to the passenger seat of my mother's '76 Toyota Celica.
On the other hand, 'All Time High' by Rita Coolidge has very little value for me, nostalgic or otherwise. As a kid I found it to be a fairly boring song, and my opinion hasn't changed over the years.
'License to Kill' by Gladys Knight is another relatively dull entry. Nothing particularly terrible about it, just uninspired.
As for 'If You Asked Me To' by Patti LaBelle, I liked it when I first saw LTK and for some time after that. It got too much radio airplay, however, and quickly became played out. Then Celine Dion covered it and it got even more played out. It's not that I dislike the song; I just heard it too many times back in the '90s.
I would definitely rank 'Tomorrow Never Dies' by Sheryl Crow near the bottom of my list. This one and 'The World Is Not Enough' by Garbage were nothing more than slavish efforts to recreate the mythical "Bond Sound", the result being a couple of generic, forgettable entries. TWINE, however, at least benefits from an appropriately powerful vocal performance. TND is further hampered by the strained vocals of Ms. Crow, who should have stuck to light acoustic ballads. I definitely belong to the camp that feels that 'Surrender' should have been the title song.
And then there's 'Die Another Day'. For years, I and many other Bond fans believed that Madonna would be a perfect Bond title artist. Unfortunately, when it finally happened, she had gone into her Techno Phase, and the result was a very poor title song. I admit, however, that at the time I gave her points for trying something different after the generic "Bond Sound" of TND and TWINE. Ideally, Madonna would have done the title song for Dalton III or IV about a decade earlier. It would have turned out much better for everyone concerned.
Actually, I keep thinking of Madonna's turn as a 1930s nightclub singer in Dick Tracy (1990). Now there's a vocalist who could have belted out a killer Bond song.
:P
Worst Bond songs as an update -
#1 Keys and White / QOS
#2 Madonna / DAD
#3 Carly Simon / TSWLM
#4 Shirley Bassey / GF
#5 Sheena Easton / FYEO
I'm glad it's not just me who noticed then.
Thank God for some sanity. I've just come from another thread where people are engaging in debate with this interloper. Good to see you two at least are on the ball.
Posting incoherent drivel and borderline racism for a start.
As Chrisisall says 'you don't fool me'.
I agree on QOS, DAD and FYEO and I can let you have TSWLM as just a case of personal taste but GF?
If you are saying you don't like Bassey's vocals then fair enough but the slamming of the door into the first note of the song is utter perfection and the first 10 seconds define the sound of Bond.
We seem to be the Spambusters here on MI6 Community!
Not sure about that. Replying to a spammer makes a poster a spammer themselves.
Constantly replying to every post is spam.
Try not to forget that. ;)
Not really, if it is well-intentioned. I will endeavour to calm down on the posting, then. It's just there was so much for me to reply to there, but I'm quite finished now. Sorry.
Film version of TWINE
and Bassey was all wrong for Moonraker. YOU LOOOOOOOOOOOVE ME, shut up please ?
Truly DAD and AWTD are nearly tied for very worst.
I'm going with DAD this moment.