Blondie "For Your Eyes Only"

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• j7wild Suspended

  September 2011 Posts: 823

  is there a link to a music audio track or music video?
• PrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur

  September 2011 Posts: 3,262

  Yep. Here it is:
  
  
• KlausHergesheimer

  September 2011 edited September 2011 Posts: 152

  I really don't mean to go off topic, but while we are discussing alternate themes, here are four more that I found on Youtube:
  
  This is Dionne Warwick's theme for Thunderball, that most people here already know I'm sure
  
  
  
  This is Johnny Cash's Thunderball
  
  
  
  This is Alice Cooper's Man With the Golden Gun
  
  
  
  This is Ace of Base's Goldeneye
  
  
• j7wild Suspended

  September 2011 Posts: 823

  I Love Blondie and I even met her in person but I still prefer Sheena Easton's version better
  
  Blondie's version seemed a bit tooo fast
• JamesC

  September 2011 edited November 2020 Posts: 121

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• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  September 2011 edited September 2011 Posts: 8,266

  Wow. With all the films it's easy to understand the choices the producers made. Especially Thunderball. It's not a bad song and I love Johnny Cash, but Cash and Bond? hell no!
  
  by the bye, found this one too:
  
  
  anyone know why we had to listen to Alicia Key's screaming instead of this? I don't think it's good, but it's lightyears better then what we now got!
• Samuel001 Moderator

  September 2011 Posts: 13,355

  Is there any proof of that being a rejected theme? If so I'd like to know what else is out there.
• thelordflasheart

  September 2011 Posts: 1,370

  I've had so many years of hearing the "real" themes as part of the Bond canon that it's hard to hear them as...well, as "just songs". But I don't like Blondie's take on FYEO at all. Even if the production was changed to make it sound more like a film theme than a new wave single I still prefer Easton's version by a huge margin.
• j7wild Suspended

  September 2011 Posts: 823

  Is there any proof of that being a rejected theme? If so I'd like to know what else is out there.

  according to WIKI, Blondie did write a song for FYEO and then they themselves decided not to go thru with it
  
  The producers of the film wanted Blondie to perform the title song: the band wrote a song titled "For Your Eyes Only", but decided to decline the offer when they discovered the producers wanted a recording of Bill Conti's song instead. Blondie's song can be found on their 1982 album, The Hunter.
  
• Samuel001 Moderator

  September 2011 edited September 2011 Posts: 13,355

  Sorry @j7wild, I was more referring to @CommanderRoss' Quantum Of Solace theme he posted. But thank you for the For Your Eyes Only information, I didn't know that, much appreciated.
  
  As for the song in question, it's far too referential to Casino Royale and it's dialogue in my opinion when it in fact needs to be about the current film. I'm very glad it wasn't used.
• Kerim Istanbul Not Constantinople

  September 2011 edited September 2011 Posts: 2,629

  I actually like Blondie's FYEO more than Sheena Easton's. Debbie Harry actually had a good "Bond" voice.
  
  Johnny Cash was embedded.
  
  Alice Cooper version of TMWTGG was good, but I'll stick with Lulu's up tempo version.
  
  Good move on not going with Abba Lite, I mean, Ace of Base on GE. There's no competing with Tina Turner.
• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  September 2011 edited September 2011 Posts: 8,266

  @Samuel001 to be honest I know as much about the background of songs as I do about the inner workings of Jupiter. No, scratch that, I know probably more about Jupiter. I wouldn't know, I seldom end up on YouTube, but that's what it came up with after listening to Blondie.
  
  edit: after some searching I found this: http://www.myspace.com/evaalmer
  seems they did send it to EON, but I don't know if it really was in the running.