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Bond

Started by asids, December 28, 2017, 01:05:52 AM

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machotrouts

Quote from: Bad Ambassador on February 14, 2020, 06:00:05 PMTheir new song was supposedly "too melancholy".

Thank god we avoided that. Throwing my hands in the air and popping my pussy to 'Writing's on the Wall'

Glyn

Quote from: popcorn on February 14, 2020, 06:02:19 PM
Yes, but when did Radiohead link to a fan edit? Would be interested to see if they "endorsed" something like that.
Just been fact checking and it appears I was talking bollocks sorry. I honestly thought they had linked to it from their 'public library' on radiohead.com but a)there's no sign of it there and b)they don't link to YouTube off that site. Bit odd as I've only recently come across that video but most likely it was linked to in a news story I read about the public library. Sorry about that.

popcorn

Quote from: Glyn on February 14, 2020, 07:38:02 PM
Just been fact checking and it appears I was talking bollocks sorry. I honestly thought they had linked to it from their 'public library' on radiohead.com but a)there's no sign of it there and b)they don't link to YouTube off that site. Bit odd as I've only recently come across that video but most likely it was linked to in a news story I read about the public library. Sorry about that.

No probs, thanks for checking!

Neomod

Quote from: lipsink on February 14, 2020, 01:40:33 PM
Yeah it was quite refreshing when the Casino Royale theme tune came out as it didn't sound like your typical Bond song.

You Know My Name is one of my favourite latter day Bond themes but it does share a similar bombast to Live and Let Die so not totally without Bond precedent.

Just heard the Billie Eilish theme and it seems to be an anaemic mash up of Adele's Skyfall and Sam Smith's Writing on the Wall. Disliked both originally but eventually came round to them. I can't see it happening with No Time to Die.

Die Another Day is still the worst Bond theme ever by a long way.

Die Another Day is better than the following songs:

Another Way To Die
No Time To Die
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Writing's On The Wall
All Time High

Neomod

Quote from: thecuriousorange on February 16, 2020, 05:11:06 PM
Die Another Day is better than the following songs:

*Eye's EJECT button*

beanheadmcginty

If we take into account ANY of the music used in Bond and not just the themes, what's everyone's favourite? "Space March (Capsule in Space)" tops my list I think, followed by the incredibly funky "Bond '77".

popcorn

Quote from: beanheadmcginty on February 16, 2020, 07:59:24 PM
If we take into account ANY of the music used in Bond and not just the themes, what's everyone's favourite? "Space March (Capsule in Space)" tops my list I think, followed by the incredibly funky "Bond '77".

Easy

kalowski

I hate James Bond. The only thing even slightly related to Bond that's any good is Sock It To 'Em, JB


Neomod

Quote from: beanheadmcginty on February 16, 2020, 07:59:24 PM
If we take into account ANY of the music used in Bond and not just the themes, what's everyone's favourite? "Space March (Capsule in Space)" tops my list I think, followed by the incredibly funky "Bond '77".

From the best Bond soundtrack to (nearly) the best Bond film.

Try

Languid.

Ant Farm Keyboard

The first crap James Bond theme tune was "The Man with the Golden Gun". John Barry had originally been hired because he was a quick writer, but in 1974 he didn't have the same energy, and the whole score is a rushed up job, done in three weeks, with the song being one of the worst examples. Even Barry hated the result.

"Another Way to Die" is another song put out quickly. They tried to get Amy Winehouse for Quantum of Solace, they waited a long time for her to record at least some workable demo with Mick Ronson, David Arnold even gave them a motive from his score as something to work with, but her abilities were already deteriorating. They then called Jack White, who had a very tight deadline to write and record, because the credits had to be designed around it.
A few months later, Arnold produced an album by Shirley Bassey, and he decided to write a song based on the motive he had singled out. It turned out to be "No Good About Goodbye", where he even got "solace" in the lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uNZiWLBdI

Blumf

Quote from: Ant Farm Keyboard on February 16, 2020, 11:51:17 PM
The first crap James Bond theme tune was "The Man with the Golden Gun". John Barry had originally been hired because he was a quick writer, but in 1974 he didn't have the same energy, and the whole score is a rushed up job, done in three weeks, with the song being one of the worst examples. Even Barry hated the result.

I do love the brass on that though, even if the song itself is naff.




Best non-theme bit of music: 007 And Counting

kalowski

Quote from: Ant Farm Keyboard on February 16, 2020, 11:51:17 PM
They tried to get Amy Winehouse for Quantum of Solace, they waited a long time for her to record at least some workable demo with Mick Ronson
They'd have been waiting for a long time. Ronson died in 1993.

Ant Farm Keyboard

Well, huh, Mark Ronson. This one is alive?

Cardenio I

The instrumental theme to OHMSS.

Thomas

Quote from: Cardenio I on February 17, 2020, 10:37:42 AM
The instrumental theme to OHMSS.

I always contend in these threads that the OHMSS score would make a better main theme than the actual Norman/Barry piece.

The former is timeless, whereas the latter is very loudly '60s. It makes a pastiche of the scenes it appears in now. In the Craig films, it appears with a duty-bound reluctance. The Spectre trailer sampled the OHMSS theme, and I'd hoped it might appear in the film proper.

I also like some of the score stuff from A View to a Kill. Here, an orchestra do a bit of a medley between A View to a Kill and OHMSS.

beanheadmcginty

If I was in the job of scoring a new Bond film I think I'd just unashamedly fill it with reworkings of all the classic John Barry tunes. He's the most important element to Bond if you ask me.

Ant Farm Keyboard

Quote from: Thomas on February 23, 2020, 05:05:51 PM
I always contend in these threads that the OHMSS score would make a better main theme than the actual Norman/Barry piece.

The former is timeless, whereas the latter is very loudly '60s. It makes a pastiche of the scenes it appears in now. In the Craig films, it appears with a duty-bound reluctance. The Spectre trailer sampled the OHMSS theme, and I'd hoped it might appear in the film proper.

I also like some of the score stuff from A View to a Kill. Here, an orchestra do a bit of a medley between A View to a Kill and OHMSS.

Barry simply rehashes the OHMSS theme on the pre-title sequence for AVTAK (which is the third part of the medley), just like he did for Game of Death. Between The Man with the Golden Gun and Moonraker, his focus changed and he wasn't as rhythmic as before, but he gained subtlety in the strings arrangements.

Also, don't forget the "007" theme that Barry premiered in From Russia with Love (and used as far as Moonraker), and that people tend to forget, because they often confuse it with the "James Bond Theme".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpciaZzONY

purlieu

James Bond film, 'No Time To Die,' release pushed to November due to coronavirus concerns
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/04/media/no-time-to-die-coronavirus/index.html

Goldfinger couldn't do it, Blofeld fell short, Jaws bit off more than he could chew. But we may have finally found the thing that stop James Bond! A hysterical media after someone sneezed or something.

Kelvin

Hopefully this will give them time to touch up the CGI portal unleashing all the Feld-bots at the end.

kitsofan34

Thanks a lot, coronavirus!!!

Noodle Lizard

Has even the most sensationalist media interpretation of coronavirus warned people not to go out in public at all? Sounds more like it's not fucking finished and this is a convenient excuse. I'd prefer the honesty, mind you.

Bad Ambassador

They have in China, where cinemas are closed.

idunnosomename

I want a Quantum of Solace, but no more than a quantum
I know they do big bags of it, but I don't want 'em

gilbertharding

Quote from: Noodle Lizard on March 05, 2020, 02:50:38 AM
Has even the most sensationalist media interpretation of coronavirus warned people not to go out in public at all? Sounds more like it's not fucking finished and this is a convenient excuse. I'd prefer the honesty, mind you.

Perhaps someone's just realised the 'optics' (ugh) of releasing a film called No Time to Die during what might turn out to be an epidemic in which 10% of the global population might find it *is* time to die.

Butchers Blind

Is this just a Bond thing or are they going to start pulling back on all major cinema releases for the next few months?

I read (speculation) that they might hold back the upcoming Scarlett Johnson Marvel movie because of it.

Cardenio I

Scarlett Johnson!
He's the man,
the man with the BIG RED COCK

YOU MUSTN'T MOCK.