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Rank the Bond Themes

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  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    edited September 2013 Posts: 2,483
    Sorry, but I had to include Skyfall. Terrific tune.

    This was a difficult task. Numbers seven through fourteen are practically interchangeable. The top fourteen are all excellent songs, which is a mighty impressive track record for Bond. Numbers fifteen through eighteen are mediocrities, while the bottom four are atrocities.

    1. Thunderball
    2. Goldeneye
    3. Goldfinger
    4. Skyfall
    5. The Living Daylights
    6. Moonraker
    7.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    8. You Only Live Twice
    9. Nobody Does It Better
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. You Know My Name
    12. Live and Let Die
    13. A View to a Kill
    14. Diamonds Are Forever
    15. The World Is Not Enough
    16. From Russia with Love
    17. All Time High
    18. License to Kill
    19. The Man with the Golden Gun
    20. Tomorrow Never Dies
    21. Die Another Day
    22. Another Way to Die
  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    1: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    2: The James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
    3: You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
    4: Nobody Does it Better (TSWLM)
    5: You Only Live Twice
    6: A View to a Kill
    7: The Living Daylights
    8: Thunderball
    9: The World is Not Enough
    10: Goldfinger
    11: Licence to Kill
    12: GoldenEye
    13: Live and Let Die
    14: From Russia With Love
    15: Diamonds Are Forever
    16: For Your Eyes Only
    17: All Time High (Octopussy)
    18: Skyfall
    19: Moonraker
    20: The Man with The Golden Gun
    21: Tomorrow Never Dies
    22: Die Another Day
    23: Another Way to Die

    Other Popular Themes/Recurring Pieces of Music:

    007 Theme: Between #2 and #3
    Capsule in Space: Between #5 and #6
    Surrender: Between #6 and #7
    Vesper's Theme: Between #4 and #5
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited September 2013 Posts: 987
    1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    2. Skyfall
    3. You Know My Name
    4. Nobody Does It Better
    5. Goldfinger
    6. You Only Live Twice
    7. Diamonds Are Forever
    8. Thunderball
    9. Moonraker
    10.The James Bond Theme
    11. The World Is Not Enough
    12. The living Daylights
    13. Tomorrow Never Dies
    14. For Your Eyes Only
    15. All Time High
    16. Licence To Kill
    17. Another Way To Die
    18. From Russia With Love
    19. The Man With The Golden Gun
    20. Live And Let Die
    21. Goldeneye
    22. Die Another Day

    Number 20 might be a little controversial, but I genuinely do not like the song or think it works as a Bond theme.
  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    edited September 2013 Posts: 2,402
    I agree that it doesn't work. The lyrics have nothing to do with Bond and the title is very much shoehorned in. But it is a kickass song in its' own right. Besides, All Time High is much more guilty of not feeling like a Bond song.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    I agree that it doesn't work. The lyrics have nothing to do with Bond and the title is very much shoehorned in. But it is a kickass song in its' own right. Besides, All Time High is much more guilty of not feeling like a Bond song.

    That's a fair point, and yet I rather like All Time High and couldn't imagine OP without it!

  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    It's a beautiful song and the way it's used in the score is one of the best leitmotifs in the series. But it just doesn't work as a Bond theme. It doesn't have the epic sound that a Bond theme should have and it sounds way too upbeat. Also, you're missing AVTAK, saunders.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    edited September 2013 Posts: 5,634
    Do a quick update as a last thing for this night. Doubt there's been much change since a last opinion

    #1 Live and Let Die
    #2 You Only Live Twice
    #3 Tomorrow Never Dies
    #4 The World is not Enough
    #5 Octopussy
    #6 Casino Royale
    #7 Moonraker
    #8 The Living Daylights
    #9 The Man with the Golden Gun
    #10 Skyfall
    #11 From Russia With Love
    #12 Thunderball
    #13 Diamonds are Forever
    #14 A View to a Kill
    #15 License to Kill
    #16 Goldfinger
    #17 For Your Eyes Only
    #18 Die Another Day
    #19 The Spy Who Loved Me
    #20 Quantum of Garbage
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    It's a beautiful song and the way it's used in the score is one of the best leitmotifs in the series. But it just doesn't work as a Bond theme. It doesn't have the epic sound that a Bond theme should have and it sounds way too upbeat. Also, you're missing AVTAK, saunders.

    Damn I forgot about that one!

    18. A View To A Kill
    19. From Russia With Love
    20, The Man With The Golden Gun
    21.Live And Let Die
    22. Goldeneye
    23. Another Way To Die
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 814
    1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    2. Skyfall
    3. You Know My Name
    4. Live And Let Die
    5. Thunderball
    6. From Russia With Love
    7. You Only Live Twice
    8. Goldfinger
    9. Diamonds Are Forever
    10. James Bond Theme/Kingston Calypso
    11. The World Is Not Enough
    12. Goldeneye
    13. The Living Daylights
    14. Nobody Does It Better
    15. Another Way To Die
    16. License To Kill
    17. For Your Eyes Only
    18. Tomorrow Never Dies
    19. Moonraker
    20. The Man With The Golden Gun
    21. A View To A Kill
    22. All Time High
    23. Die Another Day
  • EspritEsprit
    Posts: 37
    Hmm...

    1. Licence To Kill
    2. Nobody Does It Better
    3. Live And Let Die
    4. Goldfinger
    5. Diamonds Are Forever
    6. A View To A Kill
    7. From Russia With Love
    8. You Only Live Twice
    9. Thunderball
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    12. The World Is Not Enough
    13. You Know My Name
    14. The Living Daylights
    15. GoldenEye
    16. Moonraker
    17. Tomorrow Never Dies
    18. Die Another Day
    19. The Man With The Golden Gun
    20. Another Way To Die
    21. All Time High
  • Zorin61Zorin61
    Posts: 418
    1. You Only Live Twice
    2. Goldfinger
    3. Moonraker
    4. For Your Eye's Only
    5. Diamonds Are Forever
    6. From Russia with Love
    7. We Have All The Time In The World
    8. The World Is Not Enough
    9. You Know My Name
    10. Licence To Kill
    11. Skyfall
    12. Nobody Does It Better
    13. All Time High
    14. Thunderball
    15. Goldeneye
    16. Live And Let Die
    17. A View To A Kill
    18. The Living Daylights
    19. Tomorrow Never Dies
    20. The Man with the Golden Gun
    21. Another Way To Die
    22. Die Another Day
  • RWIG45RWIG45
    Posts: 5
    1. never say never again
    2. a view To A kill
    3. Nobody Does It Better
    4. Goldeneye
    5. Live And Let Die
    6. Diamonds Are Forever
    7. For Your Eyes Only
    8. Moonraker
    9. All Time High
    10. Die Another Day
    11. The Living Daylights
    12. The World Is Not Enough
    13. Goldfinger
    14. The Man With The Golden Gun
    15. License To Kill
    16. Thunderball
    17. You Only Live Twice

    Those are the ones I can think of that I really liked.

    Randy
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    RWIG45 wrote:
    1. never say never again

    What a joke. Serra's Experience of Love is number one surely RWIG45?

    Life really is unfair when there are deaf people in this world yet you are allowed to own a functioning pair of ears.

    Flagged for bad taste.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
    edited October 2013 Posts: 6,396
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    RWIG45 wrote:
    1. never say never again

    What a joke. Serra's Experience of Love is number one surely RWIG45?

    Life really is unfair when there are deaf people in this world yet you are allowed to own a functioning pair of ears.

    Flagged for bad taste.


    Another epic post from @TheWiz =))

    Fifty years of Bond themes from Monty Norman to John Barry. From Paul McCartney to Shirley Bassey. From Tom Jones to Carly Simon. And some numpty thinks Lani Hall/Michael Legrand is the pick of the bunch!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    This defies even the validity of the old "we're all entitled to our own opinion" logic. NSNA, I must admit, isn't the abysmal song in my book that it appears to be other people's books, but to rank it higher than - say - GF or YOLT, is like saying that dog urine tastes better than champagne. >:P Wow!
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    DarthDimi wrote:
    This defies even the validity of the old "we're all entitled to our own opinion" logic.

    I've been saying that for years. If you're a Nazi or a paedo our society says your 'opinion' is so out there that you should be locked up. Shouldn't it be the same for cases like this?
  • socaljon3socaljon3
    Posts: 27
    1. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
    2. Skyfall
    3. For Your Eyes Only
    4. You Know My Name
    5. Goldfinger
    6. Surrender (*not the main theme from TND, yet needs to be mentioned)
    7. Diamonds Are Forever
    8. Tomorrow Never Dies
    9. From Russia With Love
    10. All Time High
    11. Moonraker
    12. A View To A Kill
    13. Goldeneye
    14. Thunderball
    15. Live And Let Die
    16. The World Is Not Enough
    17. Nobody Does It Better
    18. Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry Orch.)
    19. Die Another Day
    20. We Have All The Time In The World (not sure if this or #18 is considered the theme, yet they are both worth mentioning)
    21. License To Kill
    22. Another Way To Die
    23. the Living Daylights
    24. You Only Live Twice
    25. The Man With The Golden Gun
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,800
    DarthDimi wrote:
    This defies even the validity of the old "we're all entitled to our own opinion" logic. NSNA, I must admit, isn't the abysmal song in my book that it appears to be other people's books, but to rank it higher than - say - GF or YOLT, is like saying that dog urine tastes better than champagne. >:P Wow!
    Wow, such intensity here! :))
    I have to say the song NSNA is about my favourite part of that sketchy film.
    In NO WAY better than most Bond (EON) songs, except for maybe AWTD or FYEO...
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I feel indifferent to the Never Say Never Again theme. I don't dislike it, I don't think it's anything special or to get excited about. I didn't include it in an above list as it's not part of the official franchise. I think the other release of '83, Octopussy (All Time High) is a much better theme though, if you were to do a quick comparison
  • socaljon3socaljon3
    Posts: 27
    Looking at others lists I realized that I didn't mention "Never Say Never Again", so I think it belongs at #22 between "License To Kill" and "Another Way To Die".
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Posts: 3,157
    1. We Have All The Time In The World
    2. You Know My Name
    3. Skyfall
    4. Tomorrow Never Dies (Surrender)
    5. GoldenEye
    6. The World is Not Enough
    7. Goldfinger
    8. Nobody Does It Better
    9. Tomorrow Never Dies
    10. From Russia With Love
    11. Moonraker
    12. All Time High
    13. A View to a Kill
    14. The Living Daylights
    15. Thunderball
    16. Licence to Kill
    17. Die Another Day
    18. For Your Eyes Only
    19. The Man with the Golden Gun
    20. Diamonds are Forever
    21. Live And Let Die
    22. Never Say Never Again
    23. Another Way To Die
  • quarrel7quarrel7
    Posts: 8
    1.goldfinger
    2.thunderball
    3.skyfall
    4.the spy who loved me
    5.for your eyes only
    6.live and let die
    7. diamonds are forever
    8.a view to a kill
    9.license to kill "if you asked me"
    10. moonraker
    top ten
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited February 2014 Posts: 1,009
    19 nice ones:

    1- License To Kill
    2- Live And Let Die
    3- Nobody Does It Better
    4- For Your Eyes Only
    5- You Know My Name
    6- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    7- Skyfall
    8- Goldfinger
    9- Thunderball
    10- The Living Daylights
    11- A View To A Kill
    12- Die Another Day
    13- Goldeneye
    14- Diamonds Are Forever
    15- All Time High
    16- From Russia With Love (Instrumental Version)
    17- Moonraker
    18- The World Is Not Enough
    19- You Only Live Twice

    3 terrible ones

    1- Another Way To Die
    2- The Man With The Golden Gun (what a tiresome song!)
    3- TOMORROW NEVER DIES

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    Ending and not-credits music:

    Nice ones

    1- Make It Last Night (Yup, this one's my fav)
    2- Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?
    3- We Have All The Time In The World
    4- If You Asked Me Too
    5- Live And Let Die (B.J. Arnau)
    6- Surrender
    7- Dirty Love
    8- Where Has Everybody Gone
    9- From Russia With Love (Matt Monro)
    10- Moonraker Disco Remix
    11- If There Was A Man
    12- The Experience Of Love
    13- 3 Blind Mice
    14- Jump Up
    15- Underneath The Mango Tree

    An awfurl one

    1- Wedding Party


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    Unreleased, rumoured,not appearing on film or alternative (as far as I know)

    1- This Must Be The Place I've Waited Years To Leave (Pet Shop Boys, TLD)
    2- You Only Live Twice (Lorraine Chandler)
    3- The Man With The Golden Gun (Alice Cooper)
    4- For Your Eyes Only (Blondie)
    5- Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Dionne Warwick/Shirley Bassey, TB)
    6- Thunderball (Johnny Cash, not a bad C&W tune; just not Bond)
    7- You Only Live Twice (Julie Rogers, barely made the cut, but I guess is not that bad)

    AWFUL ONE: AVOID AT ALL COSTS

    Only Myself To Blame %-(

    ________________________________

    Others:

    The Bond Theme and its versions deserve their own thread. I'd love to hear the version Eric Clapton did for LTK.

    My fav BGM is A Drive In The Country minus for its mariachi (not Spanish at all) start, closely followed by Q's Trick.
  • SuperheroSithSuperheroSith SE London
    edited February 2014 Posts: 578
    Including all lyric themes and NSNA

    Awful

    22. Never Say Never Again

    Listenable

    21. Die Another Day
    20. Another Way To Die
    19. Moonraker
    18. For Your Eyes Only
    17. All Time High
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies

    Good

    15. Diamonds Are Forever
    14. From Russia With Love
    13. Licence To Kill
    12. You Only Live Twice
    11. Goldfinger
    10. Nobody Does It Better

    On my iPod Playlist

    9. GoldeneEye
    8. The Man With The Golden Gun
    7. Thunderball
    6. The World Is Not Enough

    In my 100 favourite songs

    5. Skyfall
    4. The Living Daylights
    3. Live And Let Die
    2. You Know My Name
    1. A View To A Kill
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
    edited February 2014 Posts: 5,080
    Ranking as of 24/2/14

    1. Live and Let Die/ A View to a Kill (two amazing tunes that both deserve the #1 spot)
    2. The Living Daylights
    3. For Your Eyes Only
    4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    5. Licence to Kill
    6. Nobody Does it Better
    7. All Time High (A nice song, beautifully used in the film by John Barry. Underrated, IMO)
    8. The Man With the Golden Gun
    9. Diamonds Are Forever/ You Only Live Twice
    10. Goldfinger/ Thunderball
    11. Skyfall
    12. GoldenEye
    13. From Russia With Love
    14. The World is Not Enough
    15. Dr. No Bond theme/ Kingston Calypso
    16. Die Another Day
    17. Moonraker
    18. You Know My Name
    19. Tomorrow Never Dies
    20. Another Way to Die


    Other Songs-
    1. We Have All the Time in the World (if this was included in the above list, it would happily sit in fourth place)
    2. If You Asked Me To (another one that would score highly in the above list)
    3. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? (Gotta love it!)
    4. Where Has Everybody Gone?
    5. Make it Last All Night
    6. If There Was a Man
    7.Underneath the Mango Tree
    8. From Russia With Love (Matt Monroe)
    9. Jump Up
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    10. The Experience of Love

    Non- EON-
    1. Casino Royale instrumental (1967)
    2. Never Say Never Again
  • delticminerdelticminer
    Posts: 115
    Main Themes

    Amazing
    1. Live and Let Die
    2. A View to a Kill
    3. The Living Daylights
    4. You Know My Name
    5. OHMSS
    6. Licence to Kill
    7. Thunderball
    8. Goldeneye
    9. Skyfall

    Pretty Great
    10. Diamonds are Forever
    11. From Russia with Love
    12. Nobody Does it Better
    13. For Your Eyes Only
    14. Moonraker
    15. The World is not Enough

    Okay
    16. All Time High
    17. You Only Live Twice
    18. Tomorrow Never Dies
    19. Goldfinger (so sue me, I put it this low. There are only three Bond themes I don't like)

    Bad
    20/21. Die Another Day/Another Way to Die (never really know which I dislike more)
    22. The Man with the Golden Gun

    Other Themes
    1. All The Time In The World (Just an amazing song)
    2. Surrender
    3. Where Has Everybody Gone?
    4. If There Was a Man
    5. If You Asked Me To
    6. All the ones I haven't heard enough of
    7. Every other song ever
    8. Unranked
    9. Unranked
    (Few ranks later)
    112381238. The Experience of Love
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    This is hard, but I will give it a go.

    1 YOLT
    2 GE
    3 GF
    4 DAF
    5 FRWL
    6 OHMSS
    7 MR
    8 LALD
    9 FYEO
    10TLD
    11CR
    12TWINE
    13AVTAK

    14LTK
    15TB
    16TND
    17OP
    18QOS
    19DAD

    20TSWLM
    21TMWTGG

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,582
    1. AVTAK
    2. The Look of Love
    3. GF
    4. LALD
    5. YOLT
    6. FRWL (Matt Monro)
    7. FRWL (instrumental)
    8. LTK
    9. If There Was A Man
    10. If You Asked Me To
    11. DAF
    12. GE
    13. Surrender
    14. You Know My Name
    15. OHMSS
    16. NSNA
    17. Make It Last All Night
    18. FYEO
    19. All Time High
    20. LALD (B.J. Arnau)
    21. TND
    22. Where Has Everybody Gone
    23. TB
    24. TMWTGG
    25. SF
    26. Nobody Does It Better
    27. TLD
    28. We have All the Time in the World
    29. DAD (Dirty Vegas Remix)
    30. MR End Credits (disco remix)
    31. MR
    32. TWINE
    33. DAD
    34. QOS
    35. The Experience of Love
    36. Stand By Your Man (Minnie Driver)
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Berry
    2. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
    3. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
    4. Skyfall - Adele
    5. You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
    6. A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
    7. The Spy Who Loved Me - Carly Simon
    8. The Living Daylights - A-ha
    9. Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
    10. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
    11. GoldenEye - Tina Turner
    12. Thunderball - Tom Jones
    13. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
    14. From Russia With Love - Frank Munro
    15. You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow
    17. License To Kill - Gladys Knight
    18. All Time High - Rita Coolidge
    19. The World is Not Enough - Garbage
    20. The Man With the Golden Gun - Lulu
    21. Another Way to Die - Jack White-Alicia Keys
    22. Die Another Die - Madonna
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
    Posts: 5,080
    Kerim wrote:
    1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Berry
    2. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
    3. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
    4. Skyfall - Adele
    5. You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
    6. A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
    7. The Spy Who Loved Me - Carly Simon
    8. The Living Daylights - A-ha
    9. Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
    10. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
    11. GoldenEye - Tina Turner
    12. Thunderball - Tom Jones
    13. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
    14. From Russia With Love - Frank Munro
    15. You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow
    17. License To Kill - Gladys Knight
    18. All Time High - Rita Coolidge
    19. The World is Not Enough - Garbage
    20. The Man With the Golden Gun - Lulu
    21. Another Way to Die - Jack White-Alicia Keys
    22. Die Another Die - Madonna

    John Berry, related to Mary Berry perhaps? ;)
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