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'You Only Kill For Love' - Theme For An Imaginary Spy Thriller

onlyobjectsonlyobjects Adelaide
in Fan Creations Posts: 2
Greetings, fellow Bond enthusiasts,

Mods, please delete if deemed inappropriate.

I’m the lead singer/synth player in a dark synth pop band called ‘Only Objects’ from Adelaide, South Australia. We’ve just released our latest single ‘You Only Kill For Love’, which was written to evoke the feeling of great spy movie themes, and Bond themes specifically.

Writing this tune, I went and consumed every Bond theme, spy theme and anything related I could find to try and identify the elements that give spy themes that almost indescribable ‘feeling’. Then I took it to the band, and we expanded upon it. We’ve subtitled the end result ‘Theme For An Imaginary Spy Thriller’ and I would love to share it with you all. After all, Bond enthusiasts are the target audience for this song, and I think you’ll really enjoy the tone, the small homages and the general feel.

A lot of this is a reaction to feeling disappointed with ‘Writing’s On The Wall’, and wishing for a return to something bolder, brassier and more... well, ‘Bond’.

Interesting side note: I named the track by finding a ‘James Bond Random Title Generator’ online and hitting refresh until it spit out ‘You Only Kill For Love’.

I would love to hear thoughts from fellow Bond fans! Links to the various streams/downloads are below. Happy to hear criticisms/feedback etc. I’m also just happy to chat – I actually hold a PhD in espionage fiction, so this is very much my playground!

Many thanks!
Patrick Lang

Easiest place to find it:
https://soundcloud.com/onlyobjects/sets/you-only-kill-for-love

Other places:
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2zaWiOx
iTunes: http://apple.co/2hIlCnB
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2mBt85o
Google Play: http://bit.ly/2hI2RAC

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Comments

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,803
    I tried it out on the Soundcloud platform.

    Liked it a lot, Patrick, very slick. Your track seems set up to absorb the Bond sound of strings and horns in good ways, still going with your dark synth pop style. EON should mine songs like this (outside their their film productions) for the end titles, when the shoe fits.

    The graphic also scores--those title generators can surprise.
  • onlyobjectsonlyobjects Adelaide
    Posts: 2
    Thanks for giving it a spin RichardTheBruce! The opinions of other Bond fans really matter to me, as it's obviously a series close to my heart.

    I really wrote it with Bond 25 in my mind's eye. A mere synth-popper can dream, after all...

    The graphics were done by our regular collaborator Jesse Miles, after I sent him a mood board of approximately a million spy movie posters. I think it's absolute gold.

    Who would have thought that random title generators could be so helpful? ;-)
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    Posts: 3,675
    Put this over the credits for B25. Oh, and by the way Patrick: I too was disappointed with Writing's on the Wall.

    Justin Litke
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,582
    Just moved this into Fan Creations.
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