Tom Jones is ready to drop a muthafuckin Thunderball right on your heads.
I’m with Sphinx on this one and it’s not a difficult choice.
Apparently nothing serious for Pena either:
Also, the straight orchestral theme from Dr. No deserves a mention.
I didn’t know any of this until I just looked on wikipedia:
Thunderball was the third James Bond score composed by John Barry, after From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. The original title song was entitled “Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”, taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.[30] The title theme was written by Barry and Leslie Bricusse; the song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey, but it was realized late in the day that the track was too short for the needed titles. As Bassey was unavailable, it was later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick with a longer instrumental introduction. Her version was not released until the 1990s. The song was removed from the title credits after producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were worried that a theme song to a James Bond film would not work well if the song did not have the title of the film in its lyrics.[4] Barry then teamed up with lyricist Don Black and wrote “Thunderball”, which was sung by Tom Jones, who according to Bond production legend, fainted in the recording booth when singing the song’s final note. Jones said of it, “I closed my eyes and I held the note for so long when I opened my eyes the room was spinning.”[31]
Country musician Johnny Cash also submitted a song to Eon productions titled “Thunderball”, but it went unused.
- Goldfinger
- Skyfall
- Live and Let Die
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I love both Goldfinger and Skyfall. Live and Let Die is kinda…meh, as a Bond theme. And I’ll go ahead and say it…I don’t absolutely loathe Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name” from Casino Royale. That last one probably puts me under the Bond jail, but there, I said it.
I was prepared to put it at the bottom, but this whole thing led me to pull up Casino and… it’s not nearly as bad as I remember.
And good lord, Daniel Craig looks so much younger in this.
I started watching the most recent one on a plane and my first thought was “good grief he looks old”.
I didn’t bother finishing it. I don’t care if a character ages, but that movie was terrible.
It wasn’t Spectre level bad, but it was not good.
Live and Let Die, as a Bond theme (or even just a jam in the car) is kind of meh.
But seeing McCartney perform Live and Let Die on stage a few years ago, with the fireworks and the light show and theatrics and all that…that’s a Top 5 concert experience for me.
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This is a nice song by the great British band, Pulp, that was rejected by the Bond franchise in the 90’s. The fools.
You’re right on all counts. You Know My Name is one of the better Bond songs and it’s a perfect fit for the movie.
In other news, Cole got spotted a 5-0 lead in the top of the 3rd and it’s now 6-5 NYY at Boston through 6.
Devers, who is really good, has a 2R HR and a 3R HR (and a BB) in his 2 ABs so far.
Per twitter, 6 of Devers’ 7 career hits off Cole (23 AB) have been home runs.
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I hope Cole keeps pitching to him in the future.
Middle 8, still 6-5. Yankee bullpen is pretty good, unfortunately.
Legend has it Amy Winehouse was meant to sing the theme song on one Bond film or another - and that would have been a perfect fit - but sadly she was nowhere near together enough to make it happen.
I like Paul McCartney as much as just about anyone but I have never liked LALD. In fact, I actively dislike it. GNR’s cover certainly doesn’t help me warm to it, but even McCartney’s version I find impossibly cloying and annoying. And he’s a dude who has any number of annoying songs that I actually like.
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He should have submitted “Bond on the Run” instead.
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I like the orchestration of LALD. The lyrics…no.
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See, there’s an annoying song I like.
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