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2 GoldenEye
3 Thunderball
4 From Russia With Love
5 The World Is Not Enough
6 The Spy Who Loved Me
7 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
8 Tomorrow Never Dies
9 For Your Eyes Only
10 Licence To Kill
11 Another Way To Die
12 A View To A Kill
13 Die Another Day
14 Moonraker
15 You Only Live Twice
16 The Living Daylights
17 All Time High
18 Goldfinger
19 Diamonds Are Forever
20 Live And Let Die
21 The Man With The Golden Gun
2 Goldfinger
3 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4 You Know My Name
5 Live And Let Die
6 From Russia With Love
7 Moonraker
8 GoldenEye
9 Licence To Kill
10 Nobody Does It Better
11 Another Way To Die
12 You Only Live Twice
13 Thunderball
14 A View To A Kill
15 The World Is Not Enough
16 Tomorrow Never Dies
17 The Living Daylights
18 For Your Eyes Only
19 The Man With The Golden Gun
20 All Time High
21 Die Another Day
1.Goldfinger
2.Goldeneye
3.Skyfall
4.From Russia With Love
5.Thunderball
6.The Spy Who Loved Me
7.Moonraker
8.Casino Royal (You Know My Name)
9.Tomorrow Never Dies
10.The World is Not Enough
11.Diamonds Are Forever
12.License to Kill
13.The Living Daylights
14.OMSS
15.You Only Live Twice
16.A View to a Kill
17.Octopussy
18.Die Another Day
19.For Your Eyes Only
20.The Man With The Golden Gun
21.Live And Let Die
22.Quantum of Solace
One thing I did notice however, was why omit Skyfall from this ? I can understand that thinking, but it is (another) James Bond theme after all, and most will of heard it to offer an opinion or make a ranking at least
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2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Live and Let Die
4. You Know My Name
5. Nobody Does It Better
6. You Only Live Twice
7. Thunderball
8. GoldenEye
9. Skyfall
10. Diamonds are Forever
11. A View to a Kill
12. From Russia with Love
13. For Your Eyes Only
14. Moonraker
15. The World is Not Enough
16. All Time High
17. Dr. No
18. The Living Daylights
19. The Man with the Golden Gun
20. Another Way to Die
21. Licence to Kill
22. Tomorrow Never Dies
23. Die Another Day
The first and last few are easy, but next thing you know you're converging in the middle and you like all the songs and you can't figure out what goes where.
Yeah you're right it is a bit confusing. You seem to have put Another Way To Die above Licence To Kill by mistake. Good job I spotted it for you!
1. Goldfinger (too incredibly iconic)
2. Nobody Does It Better
3. Live and Let Die
4. Skyfall
5. Diamonds are Forever
6. You Only Live Twice
7. A View to A Kill
8. Moonraker
9. You Know My Name
10. For Your Eyes Only
11. The World is not Enough
12. Thunderball
13. Goldeneye
14. From Russia With Love
15. License to Kill
16. All Time High
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. Dr. No
19. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
20. The Living Daylights
21. The Man With The Golden Gun
22. Another Way to Die
23. Die Another Day
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service Main Theme
3. You Know My Name
4. Skyfall
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Goldfinger
7. Diamonds are Forever
8. Live and Let Die
9. From Russia with Love
10. Thunderball
11. The Man with the Golden Gun
12. Nobody Does it Better
13. GoldenEye
14. The Living Daylights
15. Another Way to Die
16. The World is not Enough
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. All Time High
19. Moonraker
20. For Your Eyes Only
21. Licence to Kill
22. Die Another Day
Here's my list.
I've got a very obvious bias for the '60s themes followed by the '70s and early '80s.
The ones I really love are in the top 14. Garbage and TWINE is the only post-Rog era theme that really grabs me.
I am including SF as it's been 9 months since the OP, and the release of the song.
1. Shirley Bassey, GF
2. Bassey, DAF
3. Lulu, TMWTGG
4. Nancy Sinatra, YOLT
5. Tom Jones, TB
6. Matt Monro, FRWL
7. OHMSS instrumental
8. McCartney & Wings, LALD
9. Sheena Easton, FYEO
10. Bassey, MR
11. Carly Simon, NDIB
12. Rita Coolidge, ATH
13. Duran, AVTAK
14. Garbage, TWINE
==
15. Gladys Knight, LTK
16. Tina Turner, GE
17. Sheryl Crow, TND
18. Aha, TLD
19. Chris Cornell, YKMN
20. Adele, SF
21. White and Keys, AWTD
22. Madonna, DAD
You're too kind.
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Live and Let Die
4.Skyfall
1) Live And Let Die
2) You Know My Name
3) OHMSS
4) A View To A Kill
5) The Living Daylights
20) Tomorrow Never Dies
21) All Time High
22) Die Another Day
23) Another Way To Die
24) Never Say Never Again
1. Diamonds Are Forever
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. You Only Live Twice
4. Nobody Does It Better
5. For Your Eyes Only
6. From Russia With Love
7. Live And Let Die
8. A View To A Kill
9. You Know My Name
10. Skyfall
11. Thunderball
12. Goldfinger
13. GoldenEye
14. All Time High
15. Moonraker
16. The World Is Not Enough
17. Licence To Kill
18. The Living Daylights
19. The Man With The Golden Gun
20. Another Way To Die
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. Die Another Day
I'll do a top 5 and bottom 5 as well. As you said, it's rather hard coming up with rankings for those that fall in the middle.
TOP 5:
1. "For Your Eyes Only" - Sheena Easton
2. "Licence to Kill" - Gladys Knight
3. "A View to a Kill" - Duran Duran
4. "Diamonds are Forever" - Shirley Bassey
5. "GoldenEye" - Tina Turner
BOTTOM 5:
1. "Never Say Never Again" - Lani Hall
2. "Die Another Day" - Madonna
3. "The Man With the Golden Gun" - Lu Lu
4. "Another Way to Die" - Jack White & Alicia Keys
5. "Tomorrow Never Dies" - Sheryl Crow
Top 5:
1.You Know My Name- Chris Cornell
2. Another Way To Die- Jack White & Alicia Keys
3. Skyfall -Adele
4.Original theme if not allowed then Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney
5.Die Another Day - All Time High
Busy right now so I'll do worst another time.
@jaydubya76 and @MrBond All Time High is a great song how can you guys hate it?
1. Live And Let Die
2. A View To A Kill
3. Nobody Does it Better
4. You Only Live Twice
5. GoldenEye
6. You Know My Name
7. The Living Daylights
8. Skyfall
9. Licence To Kill
10. From Russia With Love
11. Goldfinger
12. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13. The Man With The Golden Gun
14. Diamonds Are Forever
15. For Your Eyes Only
16. Moonraker
17. Thunderball
18. Another Way To Die
19. Tomorrow Never Dies
20. The World Is Not Enough
21. All Time High
22. Die Another Day
1. You Know My Name (One of my favourite songs of all time really, it has helpen me out sometimes)
2. Skyfall
3. Thunderball
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
5. From Russia With Love (Main theme)
6. Goldeneye
7. Diamonds Are Forever
8. The Living Daylights
9. A View To A Kill
10. Tomorrow Never Dies
11. The Man With The Golden Gun
12. Nobody Does It Better
13. Another Way To Die
14. You Only Live Twice
15. The World Is Not Enough
16. Live And Let Die
17. Goldfinger
18. Moonraker
19. For Your Eyes Only
20. Licence To Kill
21. All Time High
22. Die Another Day
So many with AWTD outside of the bottom 5.
I must be dreaming.
To be fair, I don't hate any of the themes, but I am and always have been rather ambivalent about All Time High. Never been sure if it's the tune, the vocals or the lyrics that don't particularly work for me (probably a combination of all 3) but the track has never grabbed me and isn't one I generally go out of my way to listen to.
Thunderball is just bad though.
1) A View to a Kill
2) Live and Let Die
3) Nobody Does it Better
4) Diamonds Are Forever
5) Thunderball
6) You Know My Name
7) Goldfinger
8) You Only Live Twice
9) Skyfall
10) Goldeneye
11) The World is Not Enough
12) The Living Daylights
13) Tomorrow Never Dies
14) The Man with the Golden Gun
15) Licence to Kill
16) For Your Eyes Only
17) All Time High
18) Moonraker
19) Another Way to Die
20) Never Say Never Again
21) Die Another Day
1. Skyfall
2. You Know My Name
3. A View to a Kill
4. Nobody Does It Better
5. Live and Let Die
6. Goldfinger
7. GoldenEye
The only two I really don't listen to at all are Die Another Day (yikes) and All Time High (just boring and blah). The rest of them I enjoy to various extents.
1. You Know My Name
2. Skyfall
3. We Have All The Time In The World
4. Tomorrow Never Dies: Surrender
5. GoldenEye
6. The World Is Not Enough
7. Goldfinger
8. From Russia With Love
9. Thunderball
10. A View To A Kill
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Skyfall
4. Goldfinger
5. Licence to Kill
6. The Living Daylights
7. A View To a Kill
8. From Russia With Love
9. Thunderball
10. Live and Let Die
For my purposes, I limited my Top Ten to the main title theme, thus disqualifying "We Have All the Time In the World" (which I like) and the song version of "From Russia With Love" (which I don't like very much). I probably only rank "The Living Daylights" so high because it has a very Eighties sound and reminds me of my youth. I also enjoy the "Casino Royale" theme by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - disqualified as a non-EON Bond film for this list.
I am a big Johnny Cash fan and I actually have his version of "Thunderball" in my iTunes library. It isn't a bad song but they were right to go with Tom Jones instead. Cash's "Thunderball" would be a good theme song for a Western, not James Bond!
Don't worry I'm with you on the TND song too! :D ;)
2. The Living Daylights (a-ha)
3. GoldenEye (Tina Turner)
4. The World is not Enough (Garbage)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry Orchestra)
6. Casino Royale (Chris Cornell)
7. Live and Let Die (Wings)
8. The Man with the Golden Gun (Lulu)
9. License to Kill (Gladys Knight)
10. From Russia with Love (Matt Munro)
11. Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
12. Moonraker (Shirley Bassey)
13. Thunderball (Tom Jones)
14. Nobody Does it Better (Carly Simon)
15. All Time High (Rita Coolidge)
16. Die Another Day (Madonna)
17. Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)
18. SkyFall (Adele)
19. For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)
20. Another Way to Die (Jack White and Alicia Keys)
21. Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
22. You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
YOLT as the worst? Please explain.
No time to rank in full, but OHMSS is the best, YOLT is the best non-instrumental, DAD and AWTD are tied for worst with ATH close behind.
1) GoldenEye
2) Goldfinger
3) Thunderball/Surrender (TND end credits)
4) You Only Live Twice
5) The World Is Not Enough
6) Live And Let Die
7) Skyfall
8) Tomorrow Never Dies
9) A View To A Kill
10) Nobody Does It Better
11) From Russia With Love
12) For Your Eyes Only
13) Diamonds Are Forever
14) The Living Daylights/ OHMSS
15) Licence To Kill/ You Know My Name
16) Moonraker
17) All Time High
18) The Man With The Golden Gun
19) Die Another Day
20) Another Way To Die