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Definitely agreed on "Surrender" and "Tomorrow Never Dies". Those definitely should have been switched around.
As for my favorite "rendition" of any of the pieces, the instrumental of CR's You Know My Name is absolutely breathtaking.
I particularly enjoy the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra's take on it. It adds just a bit of that classic flair:
But there is Somme thing very "moving" in "License to Kill" theme.
Makes you want PUMP UP THE VOLUME.
:-c
As for the song License to Kill I think it's okay/good but not great. I agree that it seemed like an attempt to make a "Bond-ish" song, especially in the introduction. I was surprised that so few people noticed the similarity to the opening of Goldfinger, but when LTK came out few of my friends had seen a Bond film made before MR. Here's an example of what I mean:
I think one thing that can cause problems for the Bond series is when the filmmakers decide that something is so "Bond-y" that they should include it as if it somehow lends more credibilty to the film being a Bond film! So there have been a few songs such as LTK that attempt to sound like a "traditional Bond song", which I guess a lot of people would think means Shirley Bassey. GoldenEye and The World is not Enough would be two more examples. I'd rather have a really good song that works for the film than trying to make another Bassey-style song. For example, I'm not a huge proponent of rock songs for Bond films because that goes slightly against the classy, exotic aura of Bond films. Yet You Know My Name is one of my favourite Bond title songs of all time because it's a great, propulsive song on its own merits.