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Here's a-ha's Paul Waaktaar-Savoy's account of what happened between them and Barry, from a 2018 interview:
Also worth linking to this video, showing how good the song is unplugged! :-)
Where’s that coming from? If it was built from the Winehouse sessions surely it would have a credit for Mark Ronson?
In the 'Some Kind of Hero' book Arnold describes that he proposed a specific cue from the QoS score for Winehouse and Ronson to base their song upon. Then they unsuccessfully tried to do a demo proper. When nothing came from it the producers went looking for last minute replacements. It's not hard to guess the cue if you know the score ;) For Basseys album Arnold then resurrected the cue. Arnold himself confirmed they are one and the same via Twitter.
As far as I know (someone back me up, please), Arnold has said in interviews that he likes to start out scoring his films by looking for a melody, as if he was writing as song. (Discussed in this podcast episode, if I'm not mistaken). He composed the string melody for the Quantum of Solace score (heard here, for example), then decided he liked the melody so much that he developed it into a song with Shirley Bassey. It was never intended to be the title theme for Quantum Of Solace (source). And (again, as far as I know) lyricist Don Black did not use any abandoned Winehouse lyrics for No Good About Goodbye. But I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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Very, very interesting! Thank you for clearing that up!
Sounds great. I always liked the song. Brings back good memories.
It's a good one, that's for sure. A-ha still performs the song brilliantly live.
Hence White had nowhere the time other artists have had in the past. If he had he would have come up with something infinitely better than what he did. He did the best he could in the time he had.
She's an immensely talented cellist. I've seen her live twice and she's outstanding.
I suppose, you're referring to this?
Unfortunately they did this before by some bad typo "lies" became "dies".
But then EON or MGM or both (I am only guessing) wanted Sheryl Crow.
And they've of course praised the Barry arrangement in interviews since. Just a shame it didn't go so well between Barry and them at the time.
Does it include breakfast?
I've mentioned it. The Wheat and Now We Are Free send shivers down my spine. Absolutely fantastic soundtrack. We're so lucky to have him, yet so many folk seem ungrateful.
It's an epic score....The track 'Strength & Honor,'gives me goosebumps as well....the whole score does actually.
Yeah, they're so generic. That must be why all Spider-Man mash up on YouTube usually play Elfman and Giacchino's themes and always ignore Zimmer's.
I'm not really sure what's generic about Elfman's theme, either. That's possibly the first time I've ever seen it described as such. I love the Horner score too, for what it's worth. Highly underrated Lots of gorgeous stuff in there, though the action material pales in comparison with Elfman's. Giacchino's I'm indifferent to. I find his Spidey music to be a weaklink in his catalogue.
Zimmer though, did great work with Electro's motif in his score, I felt. Almost as good as his stuff for Heath's Joker.
But she is cute :(
Damn wish i could have seen that, what an amazing experience it must have been.
It made me want to learn the cello, for starters! ;)
I have not doubt he's dreamed of doing Bond his whole professional life.
It’s not surprising, given that Zimmer’s only score is attached to the film that is consistently ranked as the worst of the Spidy films (though I’d say the first ASM deserves that rep). Elfman and Giacchino have done more scores, so it’s no surprise that gets more recognition. No different than how Eric Serra often gets overlooked.
It’s just how I always felt about Elfman after a certain period of his career, perhaps the late 90s when his sound became more and more the same as the years rolled on. Whatever made him distinctive to my ears in the 80s and early 90s seemed to have vanished. Spider-Man at the time was most disappointing to me, considering what we saw him do with Batman.
I dont have much doubt of that either. Lets hope that translates to his best effort in years. I was looking forward to Romer as I was not going to be able to predict the score. My reservation with Zimmer is that it becomes a generic score.
Fair enough, @MakeshiftPython!