GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A genre in itself. My top 3: Björk - Play Dead Cultured Pearls - Dynamite Spoiler Spoiler And the Brian Song has a big Bond vibe, I think. Other examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChrisAfonso 207 Posted January 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2022 Obligatory mention: And the Björk song is co-written by David Arnold, so no surprise there Raiders of the SoundtrArk, Yavar Moradi, GerateWohl and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 37 minutes ago, ChrisAfonso said: And the Björk song is co-written by David Arnold, so no surprise there I was wondering if the song and the Young Americans soundtrack was part of the reason, that Arnold got actually assigned to Bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 13,896 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, GerateWohl said: And the Brian Song has a big Bond vibe, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,865 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Yes, Play Dead is a very Bondian song. Hmm. Wonder why? I suppose my favourite non-Bond Bond song would be This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,254 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 GerateWohl and Cerebral Cortex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofDestiny 91 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Snake Eater SilverTrumpet and Cerebral Cortex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,399 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,358 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Not perfect 1-to-1s. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,647 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Almost too obligatory a mention, and i probably pitched it like 50 times over the years here: GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterTech 1,354 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I'm not that familiar with much of the Bond sound, so these might more be vague resemblances. But I always thought these two a-ha tracks could've suited the franchise very well. Hell, given the former was made around the time of The Living Daylights, it's possible it was either submitted or inspired by their time doing the film's main song. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,403 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 " The Man With the Golden Gun" By Alice Cooper Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, SteveMc said: The Tom Petry is a good one. I never thought of Wow as a Bond song. But if you imagine it playing to Bond opening credits it actually work pretty well. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 The 60s spy thriller vibes are strong in this one. It's even got a Lalo Schifrin sample in it. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Sweeping Strings said: The 60s spy thriller vibes are strong in this one. It's even got a Lalo Schifrin sample in it. I was also shortly thinking about this one. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,539 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 It was used for the promo of Daredevil I think but it could have perfectly feet as a James Bond song IMO: Tamer - Beautiful Crime Donna Missal Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby from Promising Young Woman And finally another one song for the perfect James Bond singer: Set Fire to the Rain by Adele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 13,896 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 You can't set fire to the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,539 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 It's depend if it's raining oil... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Oh, I almost forgot. Before Golden Eye Bono wrote already a perfect Bond song, but for another movie: Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,675 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 On 10/01/2022 at 10:23 PM, GerateWohl said: I never thought of Wow as a Bond song. But if you imagine it playing to Bond opening credits it actually work pretty well. Bush was actually approached to sing the title track for Moonraker but passed on it, thinking she was not suited for the song. Her sensuous late 70s style would have been perfect for where the franchise was stylistically at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 1,953 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Definitely that one Radiohead song coincidentally named Spectre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,403 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Just about any song off of The Cure albums " Disintegration" or " Wish" would fit the gloom and doom vibe of the current films GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Their Bond song would probably have sounded something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,403 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Good choice, G! One reason I didn't buy the Intrada was I like the Cure and Cocteau Twins songs! 😁 2 hours ago, SteveMc said: Bush was actually approached to sing the title track for Moonraker but passed on it, thinking she was not suited for the song. Her sensuous late 70s style would have been perfect for where the franchise was stylistically at the time. Was she even known in.the Seventies? I discovered her in 80s. USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,667 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Not a favorite but it definitely could have been Bond song: GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 24 minutes ago, bruce marshall said: One reason I didn't buy the Intrada was I like the Cure and Cocteau Twins songs! 😁 Slightly off-topic: Really really looking forward to the new Cure album coming this year. Might be a little far fetched but looking at the Cornel song Billy Talent have a slight Bond Vibe of that kind in some of their songs. To me at least. But as I said, not a classical Bond song. But after the two ballads something like that might have been better for the last movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,403 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Imagine if McCartney performed " Live and Let Die" in the manner Eilish did " NTTD"?!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Maybe he does when he lies in bed tired with fever hoarsly couging singing the sheep to sleep.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,399 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 5 hours ago, GerateWohl said: But as I said, not a classical Bond song. But after the two ballads something like that might have been better for the last movie. More like a Bond song from the Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 5,410 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 I was not aware that the first two Craig Bonds were a different aera than the last three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,877 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I don't think I have any to add to the fine examples people have put so far although for a very left field choice, I always thought that Why Me?, the unused song for Jafar from Aladdin could be a Bond song in places, especially in some of the blowsy brass writing. Still, this entire thread reminded me how much I feel the last few actual Bond songs are someone's idea of what a Bond song should sound like but without really understanding what makes a great Bond song. It's also kinda amusing that Barry got zero recognition for his bone fide classic Bond songs yet the Academy seems content to award the pale imitators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,399 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 5 hours ago, GerateWohl said: I was not aware that the first two Craig Bonds were a different aera than the last three. They were, music-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,865 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 5 hours ago, GerateWohl said: I was not aware that the first two Craig Bonds were a different aera than the last three. Of course they were. Arnold >>>>>>>>>>> Zimmer. I mean...what a comedown. Tom Guernsey and GerateWohl 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 60 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Pretty much the entire album Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp. Not an un-Bondy track on the entire thing. Here's Utopia: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,504 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 It would only take a change in arrangement/production for this to sound like it really is a Bond song. Edwyn Collins would've been a great choice for Bond back in the 90s really. Instead he had a song on the first Austin Powers soundtrack! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 13,896 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I listened to that soundtrack a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserschwert 543 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Obviously: Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 643 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 On 10/01/2022 at 5:25 PM, ManofDestiny said: Snake Eater Disappointed this wasn't the first reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJosh 929 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,675 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 12/01/2022 at 11:06 PM, bruce marshall said: Was she even known in.the Seventies? In the late 70s she became one of the most famous people in the UK. She indeed did not show up on America's radar until Hounds of Love in 1985. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,755 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I see Shirley Bassey has already been mentioned, but this remix from 2000 is pretty spot on. Maybe it’s cheating to bring up Bassey since her overall career is so closely linked to the Bond-franchise? Anyway, here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 11/01/2022 at 2:22 PM, GerateWohl said: Oh, I almost forgot. Before Golden Eye Bono wrote already a perfect Bond song, but for another movie: LOVE this track. Always found it interesting that in 2 consecutive years, we had the 2 halves of U2 contributing to spy action franchises ... Bono and The Edge with Goldeneye's title track in '95, then Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen's take on the Mission Impossible theme in '96. Naïve Old Fart and GerateWohl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,865 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me is a personal top-6 U2 song (sorry, but I can't narrow it down to 5). I suppose you know, Sweep that Schumacher et. al. approached Bono to play his MacPhisto character in B&R? Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Yes, I'd heard something along those lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterTech 1,354 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Given we've skirted the line of stuff that's sort of Bond related, I suppose I can drop what I presume are some Bond pastiches here? This one I discovered from a YouTuber's review of the film, and I adore it in spite of being quite manic and eclectic in energy and spirit to really fit a proper 007 film: On the other hand, this one more stood out in how heavy handed it is as this tribute for Connery's time as the character. How the hell they got him, Bassey, and Patrick Doyle for this atrocity of a film is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 5,483 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 This is possibly cheating, given that it has a sample from the Goldfinger score in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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