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Great find! Thanks. I've never seen this documentary before. The narrator is serious as a heart attack haha. He makes it sound like an episode of unsolved mysteries.
A-Ha had a greatest hits album? Let me guess the album consisted of Take On Me and…….uh…….let me get back to you.
Love Barry's comment:
"They thought they were having a good time wow....what planet were they on"
The Experience of Love is pretty damn dire. Insipid lyrics. So totally, completely unfitting for a Bond film. I usually turn off films right at the credits so I don't have to listen to it.
Another Way to Die is aggressively bad. I read someone once that said it's a song that it's impossible to whistle, that it has no tune. I like Jack White, but he is far to experimental for Bond. Bad, bad choice (particularly when Amy Winehouse was still alive). I get especially annoyed when I compare it to No Good About Goodbye by Arnold and Bassey (apparently it wasn't finished in time). Lyrics that perfectly match the film and it's classic Bond as Bassey always is.
Honorable mention: Do you know how Christmas Trees are Made. When I first heard that one on the 50 years of Bond album I had to wrack my brain to remember what it was from (when Lazenby is at the ice-skating rink on the run from Blowfeld). Totally ruins the mood if you're listening to Bond songs and this stinker comes on.
There's lots of pretty blah songs from Moore and Dalton's tenures. Both of Dalton's themes were placeholders at best. But none of them are as in-your-face bad.
DAD gets a bad rap. As a standalone song it's actually decent. I wouldn't skip it at the gym or anything.
What's even more unbelievable was that there were some terrific songs written for the film.
Whoever was responsible for picking this song for the film, seriously needs there brain examined.
1 (with a difference) - Only Myself To Blame. I only listened to it for aboud half a minute before deciding "never again".
2- Writing's On The Wall still hasn't catched on in me. I guess it will never do.
3- Wedding Party: Three of my fav Bond songs (LTK, If You Asked Me To, Dirty Love) in my fav Bond movie and they had to put this stinker Miami Sound version of Underneath The Mango Tree.
4- The QOS theme. I don't even remember its name. No pun on Chris Cornell intended, mind you.
5- Tomorrow Never Dies. On close competition with TMWTTG, I liked this back then, but like Lulu's song, it has a problem: it's tiresome.
Die Another Day (the worst and then slightly better follow)
Another Way to Die
then a jump up ...
Man with the Golden Gun
The Living Daylights
Writings on the Wall
I listen to it far more often that AWTD, WOTW, TND, TMWTGG and several others. Maybe it's not entirely appropriate as a Bond song, but as a pop song it's not bad.
A very good point, you made there!
There is a difference for me in judging, let's say, YKMN as a Bond song or as a pop/rock song in general.
I like Chris Cornell, I even bought his album back in 2006. I like the pop version of YKMN and I still think the re-done version for the movie was not good enough as a Bond song.
I do like the implementation of the melody into the score, though.
As for Madonna's Die Another Day, I think even for Madonna standards, that was up to that point one of her weakest single releases ever and certainly just wrong for a Bond movie.
Alicia Keys, as much as I adore her, was just bloody wrong for Bond too. And what the hell did they think to book Jack White for a Bond tune?
At least EON got a grip and chose two truly memorable and classic Bond songs for Skyfall and Spectre.
I don't like Adele's Skyfall, but I can see that it was the right choice for the movie.
The best song ever definitely is A View To A Kill, be it for Bond or just in general.
A true classic 80's song from a still going strong band Duran Duran. Just listen to their last two albums (2011, 2015), they are still (again) unbelievably good.
One of the songs that always gets bashed is TMWTGG.
It is actually one of my favourites!
Writings On The Wall, showed perfectly how a classic Bond song can be very successful in the charts (which it was! and even still is in many countries) and how successful it can be fused with the main titles of the movie.
Spectre has by far, the best title sequence ever. Even after seeing it 11 times it still gets me teary-eyed when seeing/hearing it.
@Sark
I believe No Good About Goodbye was never on the books as a theme song, but it certainly is a lot better than AWTD, no competition there. Arnold's themes are pretty good - not classics - but have a very Bondian vibe. Surrender is excellent. TWINE while not a favourite sounds like Bond.
I might be alone in this but AWTD minus lyrics is not bad, and I like how the opening bars mirror YKMN
I genuinely don't think Eric Serra's end song is that bad. It's a nonissue.
I also like it. Don't understand the hate it gets. It is funny and funky and Lulu sings it well. Honestly I like most Bond songs so it's difficult to compare them.
Here is my current list:
23. Die another day
22. Moonraker (very unmemorable and boring)
21. Another way to die
20. Writing's on the wall
19. From Russia with love (not a bad song but it's just a little too slow)
18. Tomorrow never dies (great song, awfull voice)
17. Golden Eye
16. Nobody does it better (great lyrics but too slow IMO)
15. All time high (I like the romantic style of it, especially the intro)
14. License to kill
13. For your eyes only
12. OHMSS theme (great, but difficult to compare it to the other songs)
11. Thunderball
10. You know my name
09. The man with the golden gun
08. Skyfall
07. The wolrd is not enough
06. A view to a kill
05. Goldfinger
04. The living daylights (very underrated IMO, very catchy)
03. You only live twice
02. Diamonds are forever
01. Live and let die
Agreed TMWTGG is a lot of fun