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Has your Bond fandom influenced your taste in music?
I don't mean music directly from the Bond movies. I simply mean genre.
For me, it certainly has. I'm not sure if liking Bond has directly influenced the music I listen to but they're definitely correlated. I'm 19 years-old and some of my favorite artists include Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and the much more modern Michael Bublé. I'm not doing this for any sort of ironic or hipster reason, either. My roommates regularly poke fun at my taste in music and my dad doesn't know "where I got it from". It's just an appreciation I have. I also have a huge, huge thing about suits and tuxedos. I think I'm just into that kind of culture.
Basically what I'm asking is, could anyone reasonably surmise that you're a James Bond fan simply by the type of music you listen to?
For me, it certainly has. I'm not sure if liking Bond has directly influenced the music I listen to but they're definitely correlated. I'm 19 years-old and some of my favorite artists include Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and the much more modern Michael Bublé. I'm not doing this for any sort of ironic or hipster reason, either. My roommates regularly poke fun at my taste in music and my dad doesn't know "where I got it from". It's just an appreciation I have. I also have a huge, huge thing about suits and tuxedos. I think I'm just into that kind of culture.
Basically what I'm asking is, could anyone reasonably surmise that you're a James Bond fan simply by the type of music you listen to?
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I like The Who, Jimi, Led Zepp, Small Faces, Black Sabbath, Oasis, The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Bowie ect......... What does that tell you?
Of course, my collection of Bond music CD's are never far out of the rotation. The music in the series is why my tastes are not just limited to metal and can be rather eclectic in my appreciation. I can go from Mozart to 60's classics to smooth jazz, I like what I like and have always loved music in general. One of my first memories was listening to my Dad playing his trumpet. In other words, being a musician and having that talent runs in my family.
Having already learned to actually pay attention to film scores from my repeated viewings of the Bonds, I began doing the exact same thing with other scores in other films and by other composers. While others could name every band member of Metallica, U2 or Nirvana, I knew John Williams, Jerry Godsmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Miklos Rosza, Hans Zimmer, David Arnold, Eric Serra... and many more. In music class, I was the only one whose paper did NOT involve Madonna or Aerosmith, but Morricone, Horner and Young instead.
Don't get me wrong. I did listen to pop, metal, rock and dance music occasionally but 90 % of my musical time was nevertheless spent on film music. And it has remained this way.
Would my love for film music have been non-existing were it not for Bond? I doubt it. In the end, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Rambo, the Kubrick films, the Hitchcock films, Ben-Hur, ... they all shaped my appreciation for good scores. But it happens so that in this life in this universe, it all started with Bond for me.
I am EXACTLY the same way! I think in part it has to do with the type of man you idealize and aspire to be. I don't think that there's one among us ho don't want to be like bond in one way or another, be it the sexyness, the physical strength, the purpose of life, or the luxurious lifestile. Bond's life leaves much to be desired by all kinds of people, and we all idealize him for diffrent reasons.
I'm guessing that you, @007_Matt, probably think Sean was the best Bond, or was your favorite actor in the role, as he is to me, and I guess that because Connery's Bond is about being an old-school cool that you get from big band crooners like Frand and Dean and Nat. Thay represent a classic level of coolness that doesn't go out of stile like Sean's parted haircut. However their are always those who need to be a bit more rebelious or hipsterish or just diffrent, and they gravitate to the newer types of music.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that your idea of good music is a reflection on what your interpritation of the Bond charector is as it relates to your own life and your own tastes. If your basic vision of Bond is as a well dressed man gliding through a casino to meet a gorgeous woman like it's the 1950's, you'll probaby enjoy crooners like Frank and Dean. But if you imagine Bond as a guy who's driving a car fast, guns blazing, wind in his hair and an evil woman shooting at him from a helacoptor, than you may tend to like rock or metal. Your taste in music reflects on what you like about the Bond charector.
@DarthDimi, I couldn't agree more. Two years ago I saw Star Wars in Concert and I even have a shirt that says "John Williams is the man!"
I think this picture pretty much sums up my taste in clothes and music.
http://funstoo.blogspot.com/2012/03/swag-is-for-boys-class-is-for-men.html
Yes very much so....
For me at the age of 8-ish I found Bond and in doing so the Music and from there on in I was hooked and sold on the whole Film Score listening bug!!
Since then (and I'm now Approaching 40 :-((...) I have followed and bought just about all of the John Barry stuff along with the likes of Goldsmith, Williams, Horner, Kamen, Schiffrin, Morricone, Fenton, Mancini, Glass, Young, Shore, Jarre, Zimmer, Powell, Nyman, Arnold...and just about any one who's Film scores catch my ear!! In all I am a Film Score listener only with the mix-in of Queen, Eric Clapton, Portishead, Goldfrapp etc, many of the songs I play are nearly always of a Film Score type, where they could lend themselves to a Movie I suppose!? Eric Clapton I saw in Concert about "91 I think, when he was performing with the late great Micheal Kamen and the National Philharmonic orchestra at the Albert hall. He performed Kamens Concecto for Electric Guitar & Orchestra along with tracks from the Score to Brazil and Edge of Darkness, and it was one of the best concerts I've gone too, Kamen was Brilliant a real pro and full of energy, really lovely man!!
John Barry I've seen 4 times and he was the Governor, I also met him twice and he really was a gent, totally unassuming and keen to chat... ^:)^ .
Jerry Goldsmith I've seen twice, both at the Barbican in London and like Barry he owned the Stage, Morricone was outstanding and utterly Professional, Henry Mancini was a good laugh and again a real old pro....! George Fenton has done two Concerts recently and both were very very good indeed, shame his never got the call to do Bond I feel!? I've seen just about all the old pros and many of the new lot as well, along with having the pleasure?, to hang out with a few of them too which is always fun!?
...Anyhow I'm waffling now, sorry!!
So Yes my Music Choice is all responsible to Bond and in-particular, The Late & Greatest Of Them All....John Barry!!
Over and out!.... :-B
P.S... I too Love good suits/clothes shoes, and My mates/girlfrends at school never understood what I was listing to on my "Walkman"...remember those!!? My now wife has always understood!? :-?
Just for whenever I'm at work or for ambient sounds etc.
Does this coincide with why I love Bond? Well, next to the adventure (many of my friends tell me I'm adventurous, but I don't think I am) there's one main thing: I'm a loner, like Bond. I love travelling, but don't need company to feel good. On the contrary, I like the smaller, unassuming hotels, the walking around or going out alone, that sort of thing. Just like the book-Bond does (the one in the films obviously prefers the expensive hotels). And like Bond I am a cameleon. I can walk with the rich and highly educated, but also with the lesser fortunate and lesser mannered.
So, you decide if my reasons to like Bond coincide with my musical taste.
Oh, and for one song I think sounds very Bondian though it isn't a Bond-song: Nina Simone
The absolute only thing I would have to change here is the 19 to 18. Therefore, I salute you! ^:)^
Prior to Bond, the only film scores that stood out to me were Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and The Godfather.
Hell yeah, that is exactly me! Frank Sinatra is my favorite entertainer of all time and my days no matter how blue are always cheered up when I tune out and escape for this world with Frank's wonderful voice. Don't let anyone poke fun at you @007_Matt, you have fantastic taste. And Michael Bublé is naturally a big favorite of mine because he has kept alive the music of the golden days and does it justice.
Spot on my friend....but he couldn't help it!! :-B .