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Oh! Wow! Were they?....can't say I've heard about that.
If you are adding Robbie Williams because of the YOLT sample, then you might like Six Underground by Sneaker Pimps as it has the Golden Girl riff in it. Nina also recorded a song which was first choice for OHMSS - The More Things Change. Plus Phylis Hyman was first choice for NSNA.
Yeah, Six Underground by Sneaker Pimps is also very cool. Nina's The More Things Change is subtly good, since she did it with Barry. And Phyllis Hyman's NSNA in a way I can't quite describe, reminds me of Gladys Knight's LTK....probably something to do with Hyman's style of singing. There are other Bond sounding songs as well.....we can imagine the list is endless.
How funny, this has completely passed me by. It's nice but not earth-shattering, and possibly more late-60s than anything else Barry did for Bond!
I've always wondered about Who Will Buy My Yesterdays- I know it's on his Ready When You Are JB album but was it a song at some point too?
From the sublime to the ridiculous, that NSNA song above isn't bad and better than what we got...I wonder if it got deep-sixed because of the use of the Bond theme?
Actually, they should have stuck to that title, too. Die Another Day really is a paint by numbers name for a Bond film.
Yeah, I think Red Flag's 'Beyond The Ice' might have been rejected due to its very melancholic and dark style....probably too dark-sounding for Bond and especially for that era. But like you pointed out, it's not exactly impressive on its own, the song didn't seem to take itself further, after a promising Bondian opening.
Yeah, I think your right. Once they changed the title of the film, it was dead in the water, regardless.
Exactly.
Was the film ever called that? I always took that as a press invention. I think it's a pretty dreadful name.
That was the working title, I believe. It's not brilliant, but it's better than Die Another Day..
No, it's worse. Was it actually the working title though? I've not seen any evidence for that, it just got called that in the press, much like how folks like Baz Bamigoyme said TND was going to be called 'Avatar'.
Good lord, was that really the rumoured title for TND? I think Bad was making mischief. The original title for TND was Tomorrow Never Lies...
Based on what though?
Yeah, Bond 18 was called Avatar in the press for ages, then I think they even tried to suggest the next one would be called that as well. There was an awful lot of tot spoken about Bond films in the press at that time, which is why I tend to lump 'Beyond The Ice' in with them: it sounds just as unimaginative and, frankly, made up.
Mind you, I guess we had the 'Shatterhand' rumour for this one, but that at least has some sort of basis in Bond.
https://dancingastronaut.com/2020/10/mark-ronson-shares-unreleased-bond-demo-as-part-of-voting-advocacy-compilation/
Speaking of rejected songs, David Arnold did speak a little bit about I Will Return on Twitter today.
Any chance you could share the song? I'd very much like to hear it.
EDIT: Never mind, it's been uploaded to Youtube:
I don't understand : "the bond song that never was for the bond film" say it's Tweet. It was for the movie or not ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n4rw
Nice! This will play today in the background while I am working.
Very cool, great job. I still prefer the Bassey version.