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It just seems boring to me and un-Bondian, and I am a massive Radiohead fan. In fact Radiohead is more akin to my musical taste than Sam Smith. But his song is more 'Bondian', although wish it had been sung by someone else. Radiohead just really don't strike me as who you'd go to to do a Bond song.
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Except she sings the word "solace" about six times!
They really need to ask Bassey back one more time while they still can. Give her the end titles even, to sing Craig out!
Wasn't the Dionne Warwick song used in the Italian version of Thunderball, great theme song but so is Thunderball.
Just to clear things up a bit I tried to gather some intel via interviews and even contacted Arnold himself to make some sense of the choice of the Quantum theme. Long story short: Although NGAG was only written long after the release of Quantum its genesis is far more convoluted than expected ;)
Arnold did prepare his score for Quantum early on and had some cues ready to be used as the basis of a theme song. Amy Winehouse was chosen and so there were sessions of Winehouse, Arnold and her producer Mark Ronson. The latter then turned Arnold's suggested cue into a full fledged instrumental demo for Winehouse to work out melody and lyrics. But this never came to pass as these specifications clashed with how she usually writes songs.
They then ran out of time and wrote to music publishers all over the world for possible songs. Almer and White are among the submissions that came quite far. Here the total no-name obviously took the backseat to the far better marketable White who is among the most revered musicians of his generation.
Still Arnold sticked with the cue that never was picked up by Winehouse. When he had the opportunity to produce an album for Shirley Bassey he went back to the cue and himself finished a song. The lyrics were written by Bond veteran Don Black of Diamonds are Forever fame. Both had already worked on an equally unfinished DAD theme and so they also picked up some leftover lines from there, namely “Before you make your move, think of the consequences…” The result was then "No Good About Goodbye".
So tl;dr: No Good About Goodbye was built from the remnants of Winehouse's Quantum attempt long after the release of Quantum. In fact it may be the only finished bit of music out of the sessions for Winehouse never recorded anything.