songs that could be bond songs

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,439MI6 Agent
    "Falling" with Julee Cruise from Twin Peaks could work very well in a Bond film. the guitar is just right!
  • ComteComte Posts: 2MI6 Agent
    Hi There
    Has anyone recently visit the Shirley Bassey Web-site?
    Her new single (will be released on 22.01.07) "The Living Tree" sounds very bondish... :007)

    You can listen to it here: http://www.dameshirleybassey.com/Store/Store.asp
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,439MI6 Agent
    I don't know how controvertial this is, but what about "numb/encore" by Jay-Z from the movie Miami Vice? I would have a lot of problems swallowing a rap song for a Bond title song, but perhaps something like that would work? Rap would be totally wrong in any Bond film with the previous Bond actors, but I could actually imagine rap in a Craig Bond movie. I'm not a rap fan, by the way.
  • Napoleon Han SoloNapoleon Han Solo Posts: 78MI6 Agent
    Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen...though I believe it was used in the opening of the non-director's cut of Donnie Darko.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,439MI6 Agent
    Amy Winehouse could do a verygood Bond title song, but I can't reeally pinoint one she has allready done. It's just the style: soul vokals, brass ingtruments etc.
  • batester2005batester2005 Dudley, West Mids, UKPosts: 155MI6 Agent
    hmmmmmmmm........... tough one. good topic, maybe something by alter bridge or bon jovi
  • ohmss1969ohmss1969 EuropePosts: 141MI6 Agent
    "It's a hard days life" by dr Evil fea mini-Me ;)

    LMFAO :)):)):p
  • PendragonPendragon ColoradoPosts: 2,640MI6 Agent
    "Professional Killer" by KMFDM minus the talking bit in the middle...

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  • union_jakunion_jak Posts: 2MI6 Agent
    Underwater Love by Smoke City sounds like it has the Bond theme actually in it!
  • La CuranderaLa Curandera Posts: 52MI6 Agent
    my head would explode if somehow Mike Patton was asked to score a bond film.
  • chris Walkenchris Walken Posts: 85MI6 Agent
    edited March 2007
    Borderline by Madonna maybe for one of the earlier Bond films

    click the link to listen to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCdXCKor6B0
  • chris Walkenchris Walken Posts: 85MI6 Agent
    older by George Michael sounds great for a Bond tune only come across it today here is the link to listen to it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTjZ7mAPAA
  • ZachZach Posts: 51MI6 Agent
    I think "Time is Running Out" by Muse would make a really good Bond song. The lyrics fit a bond movie pretty well imo. I'm not really a Muse fan anymore though but a few of their songs could be Bond songs.
  • TOOTSTOOTS Posts: 114MI6 Agent
    edited May 2007
    A Woman Like Me - Beyonce Knowles

    Bachelorette - Bjork

    Confide In Me - Kylie Minogue

    I Learned From The Best - Witney Houston

    Toxic - Britney Spears

    The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen

    Tour De France - Kraftwerk

    This Is Hardcore - Pulp

    To The End - Blur

    Lullaby - The Cure

    Thursday's Child - David Bowie

    Policy Of Truth - Depeche Mode

    D J Culture - Pet Shop Boys

    To Kill A Dead Man - Portishead

    Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down) - Tears For Fears

    Nothing Has Been Proved - Dusty Springfield

    Playground Love - Air

    No Regrets - Robbie Williams

    Nobody Does It Better - Radiohead Thom Yorke's voice not on best form but imagine the jump in credibility if these guys did a theme. Are they still selling reccuds in the US (the big test de nos jours)?

    You Only Live Twice - Coldplay Chris Martin slaughtering this but like Radiohead, imagine the boost to Bond if these guys got the gig. Again, do they sell reccuds in the States?

    Oh, alright then, give Burly Chassis another go...

    The Rhythm Divine with Yello
    History Repeating with Propellerheads
    The Living Tree with Never The Bride
  • Daltonfan90Daltonfan90 Posts: 11MI6 Agent
    i think Frozen by Madonna is a Perfect bond song

    what do you guys think??
  • SB_DiamondSB_Diamond North Miami Beach, FLPosts: 126MI6 Agent
    I think that if Madonna had used Frozen as a Bond theme instead of DAD it would have been way better and more relevant to the movie (the whole ice palace thing) but I think that the song Hunter by Bjork is way way better. It has a more ominous feel to it and I think it definitely has a modern Bondian feel to it.
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  • Son Of BarbelSon Of Barbel Posts: 227MI6 Agent
    A Ps2 Game called snake eater even the credits sequence is so Bondian
  • Mossy10Mossy10 Posts: 2MI6 Agent
    Check out my band AZBO, who have a song which would be perfect for a Bond film. It called "This is not the end of the world". Go to www.myspace.com/azbo5 to hear it, or www.azboband.com
    Please leave your comments on our website.

    From a huge Bond fan.
    Den.
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    SB_Diamond wrote:
    I think that if Madonna had used Frozen as a Bond theme

    I like Madonna's 'Live to Tell' and think that would have made a great 80's Bond theme.
  • a rogue AIa rogue AI Posts: 128MI6 Agent
    I'll agree with joshua3 and frostbitten.

    Depeche Mode

    Two songs I love and would fit the bill are:

    World in My Eyes - link

    Suffer Well - link
    (from just 2005's Playing the Angel - they could do something similar for 2008's Bond 22, hopefully)

    I'd suggest you not watch the video from these links and simply listen to the music. Loudly.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,439MI6 Agent
    I like this one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMoQYBsaG4g

    By the way, I knew the girl who sings in the background back in high school. Or at least my sister did, but she is so famous in Norway now for me to start lieing about it ....
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,439MI6 Agent
    These are my top 3 Bond songs that weren't:

    U2: "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, thrill me"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3X79WbtEE

    Bjørk: "bachelorette"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5nNfbTS6N4&feature=related

    Madonna: "Frozen"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtYEX9KDwY

    Probably says something about my taste in music and Bond films. Perhaps there are more computerized drums than I like, but they are still good.
  • preshishleypreshishley Posts: 10MI6 Agent
    Agreed about the Edwyn Collins song.It'd be perfect.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,014MI6 Agent
    edited May 2008
    TOOTS wrote:
    The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen

    I was just about to suggest 'The Killing Moon' but then I saw TOOTS had already listed it.

    TOOT's Depeche Mode choice was 'Policy Of Truth', which I'd go along with, although Depeche Mode's 'Barrel Of A Gun' might have been good as a Bond number too (especially from 3.12 to the end):


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40yeIIMbqDY

    Accessible gothic stuff like this would suit the mood of Craig's Bond well - psychologically scarred and brooding.


    Forget Amy Winehouse... someone should definitely ask Siouxsie Sioux to do a Bond title track. Siouxsie and the Banshee's 'Face To Face' was wasted on 'Batman Returns': it would have been a perfect Bond number. And move over Danny Kleinmann: someone please hire whoever directed the 'Face To Face' video to do the next Bond title sequence:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4y6M2AeQ00


    There's no doubt that the Banshees' aesthetic owes something to Barry and Binder. If you ignore the bits with the comedy skeletons, Siouxsie's volcanic video for 'Cities in Dust' (1986) is a clear nod to Binder's montages for YOLT and OPY (with allusions to his LLD and TMWTGG work evident as well, later in the video - as the silhouetted Siouxsie rocks out in the flames, arms above her head.) (It could even be said that the images of the spookily calcified crouching corpses in the 'Cities In Dust' video anticipate the look of Binder's icey, freakish skiers in the titles sequence of TLD, as they face out towards the viewer - "the phoenix in the flame"!)


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


    Shady Tree
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Cynjin SmythCynjin Smyth Rocky MountiansPosts: 98MI6 Agent
    There's a song on the Punisher soundtrack called: The End Has Come by Ben Moody.
    I think this would be an good Bond song.
    Bond: You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
    Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing.
  • abeblackabeblack Posts: 3MI6 Agent
    Very thought provoking indeed, Chris Walken. I must say the lyrics had better be a prophecy that never comes true. Furthermore, you reminded me that Mr. Bond is infact getting old and perhaps extinction is what he may endure for yet a few years to come. However, I am not prepared to let him die. The James Bond 007 legacy has just begun. I'd say David Arnold did a very good job in Casino Royale. The twist in the tune was to me as a foreword for the beginning of a New Chapter in the diaries of a high-tech seductive secret agent. At least for me, every Bond soundtrack creates a unique mark upon the year of its release. If you love Bond you'll like what I composed just for him.
  • abeblackabeblack Posts: 3MI6 Agent
    edited May 2008
    I think Zero Zero Seven, (by Prince of Darkness) would make all the difference in the list that already is. Nothing too great about the band but I must assert that the arrangement is a remarkable masterpiece.

    The song is currently being played here:

    www.myspace.com/abeblack
  • abeblackabeblack Posts: 3MI6 Agent
    I think Zero Zero Seven, (by Prince of Darkness) would make all the difference in the list that already is. Nothing too great about the band but I must assert that the arrangement remarkable masterpiece.

    The song is currently being played here:

    www.myspace.com/abeblack
  • Cynjin SmythCynjin Smyth Rocky MountiansPosts: 98MI6 Agent
    "Something Told Me"
    Found this song by Coal Chamber called Something Told Me and thought Bond song in the frist set of Lyrics:
    Some thing told me to tell you
    Not to tell me what you do
    I am what I f**kin' am
    Many have tried to change this man
    Life's always been an uphill fight
    Some things I do you may not like
    Life's always been an uphill fight
    Some thing I do you may like
    Bond: You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
    Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing.
  • D_SomersetD_Somerset The Direct Orient-ExpressPosts: 20MI6 Agent
    Bond- a quartet of sexy ladies that play string instruments- not extremely well-known, but they did an excellent version of the James Bond Theme a few years ago called "Bond on Bond". I'd say that virtually half of their oeuvre would be excellent Bond music- they could even do an entire score...-{
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