Most Bondish non-Bond-themes

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Yes, I know, I just posted it. Took me bloody ages to find as well.

Really?!  Took me seconds to find it, what with Shoulders posting it further up the thread.  Was trying to work out if you were using extreme irony, or if had done something a little odd.

[James "End-To-End" Benton]

Excellent suggestions so far! It seems the late-90s lounge revival has a lot to answer for....

Here's a song I haven't even thought about for eight years - Ange Etrange by David Hallyday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsq2F4KBMuE

Yes, it's got a dreary verse-chorus-verse-chorus-middle-8-TRIPLE-CHORUS-BONUS structure. Yes, the stately pace makes the melody line sound rreaaaalllyy sllloowww. No, the rock instrumentation isn't a patch on the skittering beat and burbling synths from 2'55" to 3'23". But dammit, those strings! And it ends on the V chord!

Oh I wish I could talk about music like that.

I wish I could READ about music like that.....

[Phil_A]

Really?!  Took me seconds to find it, what with Shoulders posting it further up the thread.  Was trying to work out if you were using extreme irony, or if had done something a little odd.

Bah, I went through the whole thread and still missed it! I was really proud of myself for finding it as well, as I couldn't even remember the title or the band, except that it was on an advert about ten years ago.

Fucksticks.

[non capisco]

The Man Who Sold The World. Bowie's version, natch.

'Lady Grinning Soul' has a touch of the Bondian about it too.

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Bah, I went through the whole thread and still missed it! I was really proud of myself for finding it as well, as I couldn't even remember the title or the band, except that it was on an advert about ten years ago.

Fucksticks.

:o)

I just thought we were about to have a sort of repeat of the mentions of the Johnny Boy song "You are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve".  In case you didn't know, it puts me in a Christmassy frame of mind.  Don't know why - maybe it's the bells.

[kidsick5000]

A second vote for Bjork's Isobel, as well as Play Dead which is an even-more conscious attempt at a Bond theme to my ears.

But it did the job though, being that Play Dead was written by David Arnold. Could almost call it his audition tape

Joy Nktonga's suggestion of Kashmir - excellent. It'd fit perfectly apart from being umpteen minutes long

[actwithoutwords]

Johnny Boy- You Are the Generation that Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

It may just be the title or the lovely strings in the intro, but I think The Chad Who Loved Me by Mansun would have worked as a Brosnan era theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBU6GU1J1oM

[Ray Le Otter]

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1-QlE-HiQ[/youtube]

This song was actually based on their rejected demo for "The Living Daylights".

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Just saw Audioslave's 'Cochise' on telly, what a great theme that would have made.  Would have probably reduced cinemas to rubble mind, but I can easily imagine it being played over the opening credits.

[Feralkid]

I'll second all the earlier votes for Tindersticks, Goldfrapp and Portishead.  I remember hearing Johnny Cash's mercifully unused theme for Thunderball.  It has whipcracks, strummy guitars and generally sounds like the theme for a forgotten Budd Boeticher Western.  Not terrible per se but so very unBondian he might as well have been singing yiddish in a sqeaky voice and playing the kazoo.   

Though it was obviously an influence on the greatest unused Bond theme

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbiu6P0lcw   

[Johnny Yesno]

Bearing in mind their obvious John Barry influence, Dead Can Dance's In the Wake of Adversity.

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=idTl1NjMfUI[/youtube]

Well, the Bond movies are supposed to have taken a darker turn, aren't they?

[Steve Thompson Dance Mix]

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dvY-y-H6TDg[/youtube]

I thought this would be obvious. I imagine a duet with the velvet voiced Mute label partner Richard Hawley for some reason.

[Johnny Yesno]

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dvY-y-H6TDg[/youtube]

I thought this would be obvious. I imagine a duet with the velvet voiced Mute label partner Richard Hawley for some reason.

Or this:

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qs6F1KwzGwE[/youtube]

[col]

"Tears Run Rings" by Marc Almond anyone?

[koeman]

For stag do purposes (or summat) I found myself in a Soho strip joint recently, and one of the extremely lithe and talented performers was strutting her stuff to Uno by Muse.

There were so many thoughts running through my head at the time, but I remember one of them was 'this would make a cracking Bond theme'.