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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? Barefoot Dance Of The Sea - Beneath Closed Eyes By the looks of the cover only one of them could be bothered to be barefoot and close her eyes, at least she was committed. The others are just standing around looking like they're waiting for a bus. Actually this albums isn't that bad. It's exactly what you would expect it to sound like. a really lo-fi recording of 3 women playing ukuleles & singing. 'The Build-A-House Song' is quite catchy and 'The Murder Song' is a decent acappella song with a bit of a beat to it (Well as much as a beat you'll get on this.) The other songs all sound the same but if I was in the right mood for this sort of thing I would listen to it properly even though the whole thing is more twee than the entire roster of Sarah Records standing in a field full of buttercups playing Belle & Sebastian songs on harps.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? Some Albums I May Or May Not Have Bought This Week But More Than Likely Didn't

Urban's Chart Rundown of all 24 + 1 Bond Themes

I've always been a fan of Bond films ever since I was allowed to see Moonraker as a very young child when I was really far too young to see it, I have also been a fan of Bond themes no matter what my musical taste happened to be at the time. So I have decided to list my top 25 Bond themes here.
I will be using the themes from 22 of the official 23 Bond movies. I won't be including the James Bond theme itself from Dr. No (and every subsequent Bond movie) simply because it's kind of unratable being the most iconic pieces of music of the 20th century. I will also be including 1967's Casino Royale & 1983's Never Say Never Again and an extra bonus song of which I will explain my reasons for including later, which rounds things up to a nice round number of 25.
So let's begin the countdown.

(Click on the images to be taken to the song)


25. Casino Royale - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (1967)
This is from the 1967 version of Casino Royale which is a comedy and it has a theme song to match. I can see why they chose it given the nature of the movie but a jolly uptempo jazzy mariache style theme shouldn't be anywhere near a Bond movie, even if it was written by Burt Bacharach.
That's not to say I hate the song, it just totally sucks as a Bond theme.
Thankfully most people have forgotten it exists, but the even bigger crime of having this as the theme song?
Well, I'll get to that later.
Oh, and the version at the end of the movie with lyrics somehow manages to be even worse.


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24. Die Another Day - Madonna (2002)
Starts off OK for about 30 seconds then turns into a horrible badly conceived electroclash style mess with Madonna's over autotuned vocals making her sound like a dying Cyberman in agony. While I'm not against Madonna making a Bond song why they chose this awful rubbish I'll never know. I guess they wanted to update the franchise a little, the fact they never went that way again suggests to me it didn't work.


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23. Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow (1997)
Sorry but I fucking hate Sheryl Crow, I will however do my best not to hold any bias or prejudice against her for this song.
There's nothing actually wrong with this song, it's just there's nothing new here, it's basically a collection of stuff people have done before a lot better than Sheryl. There's just nothing memorable about this at all.
But the real crime here is that K.D. Lang's far superior song 'Surrender' was originally intended to be the theme song to this movie but was pulled at the last minute to make way for this crap. I guess they thought Sheryl Crow was a bigger name. Thankfully with the advent of YouTube one Bond fan has taken it upon himself to put the world to rights and show the titles with K.D. Lang's song over them instead of Sheryl's.




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22. You Know My Name (From Casino Royale) - Chris Cornell (2006)
I never thought I would see anyone from a grunge band doing a Bond theme but here's Chris Cornell doing his. I gotta say I was hugely disappointed hearing this. It's a little more rock n roll than your average Bond theme but I was just expecting something BIGGER, it's like Cornell doesn't have to make any effort at all to sing this. At least test the guys range a little.
But the one thing that makes this song as low as this is in this rundown is that I can't listen to this song without thinking it sounds like the kind of song Bryan Adams should be singing. And if there's one thing that should sound warning bells ringing it's something that makes you think of Bryan Adams songs.


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21. Another Way To Die (From Quantum Of Solace) - Alicia Keys & Jack White (2008)
This is an OK song but the problem with it is it sounds like it was thrown together at the last minute.I can just imagine them writing it....

'Right we got to get Jack's guitar playing in it, we have to get Alicia's piano playing in it, we have to get them both singing, we need slow bits and fast bits.'
'OK, let's hear what we've got.'
'Not bad but it needs something else'
'I know, lets crowbar in tiny snippets of the John Barry theme into totally random places even though they don't mix at all with the song whatsoever'
'Cool, we'll do that'
And that is exactly what was churned out.

20-16 coming soon.

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20. Never Say Never Again - Lani Hall (1983)
Before today I had no idea what the title song was for this film given that it's not an official Bond movie. I've never seen the film, never heard the song, don't own the soundtrack album or had any idea who Lani Hall was either. A quick look on YouTube and most of the videos seem to date from the early 80s and nothing else suggesting she was enjoying her 5 minutes of fame at the time she was asked to do this song.
As for the song itself, it kind of suffers from the same problems as Sheryl Crow's song, there's just very little to get excited about and it's not in the remotest part memorable at all. I noticed in the YouTube comments (Yes I went there) one guy suggested that Sade should have sung this and would have been perfect for it.
I can't help agreeing with him on that.


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19. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey (1979)
I hate to dis Shirl but she's kind of on autopilot for this one. This is the least memorable of her 3 Bond performances and I can prove it right now.
Go on, hum it to yourself right now.
See.... you can't remember it can you.
Bit of a shame that a Bond movie so important to me should have such a forgettable lame ballad as a theme song, oh well.


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18. The Living Daylights - A-ha (1987)
Not a big fan of this song, although it is a little more uptempo than I remember it being. It kind of floats along in an inoffensive way, but considering it was the mid 80s just think of what horrors we could have had instead of this. Phil Collins? Bonnie Tyler? Cher? Mister Mister? Huey Lewis & The News? KENNY FUCKING LOGGINS!!!!! AGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
This could have been much much worse.


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17. The World Is Not Enough - Garbage (1999)
OK now we're getting to the good stuff.
When I first heard Garbage were doing the theme for this I was intrigued. I was a big fan of them at the time and I knew Shirley Manson had a good set of pipes on her, what I wondered what kind of Garbage would we get?
Would we get Garbage rockin' out?
Garbage doing their kinda electro thing ?
Or would it just a straight ballad?
Funnily enough it turned out to be none of those things. When it finally arrived it turned out to be a rather traditional Bond theme in the style of the 1960s John Barry penned ones with some 90s balls and attitude added to it to give it a bit of Oomph!!!
A really solid effort.


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16. We Have All The Time In The World (From On Her Majesty's Secret Service) - Louis Armstrong (1969)
For some reason I was under the impression that this song existed long before the movie, but no it was written by John Barry (With Hal David) for the movie. I wasn't alive in 1969, that's my excuse. Barry also said that this was his personal favourite of all the Bond songs he wrote because of the song itself and because he got to work with Louis Armstrong who he was a fan of. Although this isn't actually the theme tune to the movie, that being an instrumental piece written by John Barry which is still excellent and one of the finest scores he ever did.
Everybody has heard this song and it fits the movie perfectly with Bond getting married at the climax of the movie and see his wife gunned down straight after. I think it's the first Bond movie ever to end on a downer but one question.
WHY DID YOU NOT HAVE IT PLAY OVER THE END CREDITS??????
Hearing the James Bond theme after his wife's just been shot just feels wrong & too upbeat, this song would have set the mood perfectly.

Oh and check out Iggy Pop's version of this on David Arnold's Shaken & Stirred Bond theme tribute album, he does a cracking job of it. Apparently My Bloody Valentine & Tindersticks have covered it too but I've never heard it.
A UK survey said this was the 3rd most popular song played at weddings.
The song never charted when it was released originally but got to No 3 in the charts in the 1990s when used on a Guinness ad. It was the last single Armstrong ever recorded 2 years before his death in 1971.

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