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Another Way to Die is the best Bond song

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LifeIsAMotorway · 24/06/2021 18:33

No question. It’s the best. Going to need a good explanation as to why I’m wrong.

(World is Not Enough a strong contender).

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L0bstersLass · 24/06/2021 20:50

The best Bond song is anything involving Burly Chassis - as she's fondly known in our house.

Goldfinger
Diamond are Forever

1happyhippie · 24/06/2021 20:51

Live and let die and nobody does it better for me too

CurlyhairedAssassin · 24/06/2021 20:51

And the one that SHOULD have been a Bond theme tune but wasn't.

Tal45 · 24/06/2021 20:52

Live and Let Die then Nobody Does it Better.

CosyAcorn · 24/06/2021 20:52

I think I agree with OP, Another Way to Die is very Bond. Dramatic, on the edge, little bit sexy.

Other favourites for me are: Goldeneye, Thunderball, You Know My Name and Live and Let Die

MichelleScarn · 24/06/2021 20:52

You Know My Name followed by Tomorrow Never Dies.
Not a fan of Sam Smith or Billie Eilish, both too warbly for me.

CalloftheHaunted · 24/06/2021 20:52

Casino Royale
The World is not enough
View to a Kill
Tomorrow never dies

HyggeTygge · 24/06/2021 20:53

[quote AntiWorkBrigade]Peter Serafinowicz’s Ringo Starr Bond theme gets a mention too. “Bloody Bond. I bloody love ‘im.”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8fOouKiLc[/quote]
Haha, this gets sung/quoted all the time in our house!

phlebasconsidered · 24/06/2021 20:56

The Shaken Not Stirred cover album. Pulp's "An All Time High" and Aimme Mann's "Nobody Does it Better" are great.

kaytola · 24/06/2021 20:56

You know my name is the best Bond song by a country mile.

Sparklingbrook · 24/06/2021 20:58

I have never heard 'You Know my name' I thought it was 'That's not my Name' Grin But AVTAK is still better anyway.

LifeIsAMotorway · 24/06/2021 20:59

@CurlyhairedAssassin Muse should been called for a Bond theme for years, and I totally get this. Supremacy feels very Bond!

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thecognoscenti · 24/06/2021 21:03

Golden Eye, and the Sheryl Crow one, and A View to a Kill. And actually Die Another Day (theme better than film in that case). Oh and Nobody Does It Better (esp when covered by Radiohead)

LifeIsAMotorway · 24/06/2021 21:03

@kaytola

You know my name is the best Bond song by a country mile.
I literally read this as ‘you know that my name (I.e kaytola) is the best Bond song’ and have had a hard time trying to figure it out 😂
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OhWhyNot · 24/06/2021 21:11

I like You Only Live Twice

Die Another Day isn’t a great song Bond songs should be big over the top songs it’s sounds like a bad remix of an ok song

Love and Let Die is brilliant

We have the Bond CD and Monopoly Bond you get £50 if you can sing the theme tune

Winniewonka · 24/06/2021 21:43

From Russia with Love - excellent song, excellent singer in Matt Monro. Also responsible for another 60s film theme 'Born Free'.

Licence to Kill - Gladys Knight, under rated gem.

MaryJosephJesusAndTheWeeDonkey · 24/06/2021 21:44

@Metheven

Wrong. Live and Let Die is.
Yes!!! Totally agree! Wish we could have a poll!!! And a graph!
burblish · 24/06/2021 21:55

For me, the best are the ones that immediately make you think “James Bond!” In no particular order, they are: A View to a Kill, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Nobody Does it Better

xsquared · 24/06/2021 22:20

A View to a Kill
You Know My Name
For Your Eyes Only

No time to do is okay but I wish she would vary her dynamics more instead of whispering the whole way through.

ButYouJustPointedToAIIOfMe · 24/06/2021 22:20

Very impressed with the Muse song assassin
Very Bondesque.

I always think of Bond when I hear the openings to Rise Like a phoenix Conchita Wurst and also Make Time Puressence has a similar vibe.

ButYouJustPointedToAIIOfMe · 24/06/2021 22:21

So good I posted it twice!

ButYouJustPointedToAIIOfMe · 24/06/2021 22:27

I love Carly Simon and Louis Armstrong (secondary theme in OHMSS) but they don't feel Bond to me. Trying to think which female artists haven't had a crack yet - Bey, Blondie (too late now?), Rihanna, Gaga, Taytay, Pink, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks, Gwen, Miley... their normal output might be different stylistically but surely they could pull one out the bag?

AngeloMysterioso · 24/06/2021 22:32

Errr Gladys fucking Knight?! Hello?!

Also Muse - Supremacy. The best Bond-theme-that-isn’t-actually-a-Bond-theme ever.

Crockof · 24/06/2021 22:35

Pulp and tomorrow never lies would have been the best.

Goldfinger /diamonds are forever have everything needed to make it a bond song.

Love Carly Simon

AngeloMysterioso · 24/06/2021 22:44

I see several people beat me to my Muse point. This is what comes of not R’ing TFT.

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