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Off to a good start too..
AWTD is just awful. Jack White is talented but he dropped the ball here. Shame because the music is pretty catchy I think, it's just the lyrics n the singing.
Apparently Jack White had written "Seven Nation Army" during a soundcheck with the thought that he was writing a James Bond theme. This would have been a much better Bond song IMO:
I did the same thing for AWTD but it was just kind of... meh. Although, I will say, I do like the instrumental version of AWTD. It could've worked as background music or an end theme.
I don't mind "Another Way To Die", it's certainly not as horrible as Madonna's "Die Another Day", or LuLu's "The Man With The Golden Gun"... but it's not among the best - it's about middle of the road for my tastes... my problem with it, is that White and Keys vocals sound too similar.. would've preferred to have just Alicia Keys sing it.
It's about time we had another great Bond theme, they have been in short supply the last 30 years I feel, we don't know what Skyfall has in store, I'm a little apprehensive about what we're going to get, but must remain hopeful
:-S
Oh indeed, the shattering playing cards with the shadowed 007, and then the desert background both make for awesome main title sequences. Certainly two of the easier to watch without getting bored.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I stated before, that the lyrics made little sense either, or I just found it too much of a job to listen carefully enough to what was being "sung" :-<
The respective screen intros aren't too bad though, but with QOS there are some equilibrium issues to be had, a sign of things to come with the actual film itself no less
I dunno, It's just catchy to me. :D
have you ever listened to Alicia Keys outside of Another Way To Die? She has an excellent voice.. the problem i believe was all on Jack White's end - as he wrote, sang, and produced the song... had the song just been Alicia Keys and a piano, it would've been miles better than what 'flash in the pan' White came up with... i'll go a step further and say, had David Arnold been allowed to work on the song with Ms. Keys, and the lyricist Don Black, we could've gotten another song as good as You Know My Name... note that every time Arnold and Black collaborated on a song in recent years, it turned out to be good - every time the artist did it all themselves, it blew.
Which brings me to that awful piece of musical garbage called Die Another Day.... had the producers just bought the rights to use the other Madonna song Frozen, they would've been better off... the theme for DAD is uninspired pop/dance/club trash... the only thing it does right is hit hard on the subwoofers in my car, thats it..
Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about.
[no, no bullets, I'm still alive]
... and as such I'm okay with hearing it in an obscure position in the film.
As for the opening titles, it did what vampires do with blood. Plus, it didn't benefit, like DAD back in the day, from great opening titles. If anything, those terrible whirls and endless sand dunes make me focus on the song more and that isn't a good thing.
Bottom line, I will not stigmatize the song itself, even if it isn't a great song altogether IMO, but it was part of something even worse which, unfortunately, was put in the very wrong place in the Bond film. It was put in a sacred place. And that was a mistake. A disaster I dare say.
A few years ago i went to see Aerosmith in hyde park and Chris Cornell supported them and he played You know my name and David Arnold come on stage with him and played keyboards for the performance so that was cool. IMO It is the best Bond Theme since AVTAK but i liked GE too.
For Jack White fans, it's Jack White song that happens to have Alicia Keyes doing back-up vocals. For Alicia Keyes fans, it's an Alicia Keyes song that happens to have Jack Whie doing back-up vocals. A dark, mysterious tune and lyrics that perfectly reflect Craig's Bond and the central theme of the movie: knowing who to trust. (Another man who stands right behind you looking in the mirror . . . Someone who you think that you can trust is just/Another way to die.)