1. Nobody Does It Better
2. Licence To Kill
3. You Know My Name
4. Goldfinger
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Dr. No
7. For Your Eyes Only
8. A View To A Kill
9. The Living Daylights
10.Diamonds Are Forever
11.Moonraker
12.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13.The World Is Not Enough
14.From Russia With Love
15.Live And Let Die
16.If You Asked Me To
17.All Time High
18.We Have All The Time In The World
19.Never Say Never Again
20.Goldeneye
21.The Man With The Golden Gun
22.Tomorrow Never Dies
23.Die Another Day
24.Surrender
25.Thunderball
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Live And Let Die
4. The Living Daylights
5. Thunderball
The top four can swap places but it will take a very special theme song to seperate them. Thunderball is my current number five but on another day it may be Goldeneye, the underrated Moonraker or You Know My Name (Casino Royale).
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1. Nobody Does It Better
2. Licence To Kill
3. You Know My Name
4. Goldfinger
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Dr. No
7. For Your Eyes Only
8. A View To A Kill
9. The Living Daylights
10.Diamonds Are Forever
11.Moonraker
12.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13.The World Is Not Enough
14.From Russia With Love
15.Live And Let Die
16.If You Asked Me To
17.All Time High
18.We Have All The Time In The World
19.Never Say Never Again
20.Goldeneye
21.The Man With The Golden Gun
22.Tomorrow Never Dies
23.Die Another Day
24.Surrender
25.Thunderball
1. OHMSS
2. Goldfinger
3. James Bond Theme
4. You Know My Name
5. Another Way to Die
6. A View to a Kill
7. The Living Daylights
8. Licence to Kill
9. The Man with the Golden Gun
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are Forever
12. You Only Live Twice
13. Nobody Does it Better
14 .All Time High
15. For Your Eyes Only
16. Live and Let Die
17. Thunderball
18. The World is Not Enough
19. From Russia with Love
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Goldeneye
22. Die Another Day
23. Moonraker
1. OHMSS
2. Goldfinger
3. Goldeneye
4. The Living Daylights
5. A View to a Kill
6. Live and let die
7. Licence to Kill
8. You Know My Name (CR)
9. For Your Eyes Only
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are forever
12. The Man with the Golden Gun
13. Moonraker
14. James Bond Theme "Mix" (Dr.No)
15. Nobody Does it Better
16. Thunderball
17. From Russia with Love
18. The Spy Who Loved Me
19. You Only Live Twice
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. All time high (OP)
22. The World is Not Enough
22. Another way to die (QoS)
23. Die Another Day
1. You know my name- great lyrics and amazing orchestral accompaniment
2. A view to a kill- such a fun and catchy song
3. Skyfall- well suited to the movie
4. The living daylights
5. Nobody does it better
6. Diamonds are forever- just pure class
7. Tomorrow never dies- it grew on me
8. Goldfinger
9. The world is not enough
10. You only live twice
11. Licence to kill
12. Goldeneye
13. From russia with love- a smooth and sexy song
14. For your eyes only
15. Die another day- again, it grew on me!
Behind every sound ever heard in any Bond movie: Another way to die. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this song. It makes me want to punch Alecia keys and Jack White.
"You were fantastic! We're free!"
"Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan."
The odd thing is both Keys and White had done things that have sound Bondian. Seven Nation Army is basically OHMSS by an indie band and is a mammoth song taken up by footie fans... Keys' New York would sound great over the credits, both opening and closing (for the film 007 in New York even?) as well as her song about getting dumped, not sure of the name, this year anyhow...
Technically their song wasn't bad - decent lyrics in a way, a recognisable tune of sorts, but awful production and just jarring.
Incidentally, Bassey's Goldfinger needs to be looked up on youtube for the vinyl version, like most of the soundtrack it is much better in analogue and really suffers in digital, sounds thin and grating when it should be rich and sassy.
1. You Know My Name
2. Nobody Does It Better
3. You Only Live Twice
4. From Russia With Love (instrumental)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6. A View To A Kill
7. The Man With The Golden Gun
8. Live And Let Die
9. The Living Daylights
10. Diamonds Are Forever
11. Goldeneye
12. Goldfinger
13. All Time High
14. Moonraker
15. Licence To Kill
16. Thunderball
17. Another Way To Die
18. The World Is Not Enough
19. For Your Eyes Only
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Skyfall
22. Die Another Day
Nice to see that my thread from 2007 was bumped. Here is my updated list, which is probably very different now (Including main themes from EON films only):
1 - AVTAK
2 - Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
3 - OHMSS
4 - DN (Main James Bond Theme)
5 - LALD
6 - LTK
7 - MR
8 - TLD
9 - You Know My Name (CR)
10 - SF
11 - GE
12 - FYEO
13 - YOLT
14 - GF
15 - TB
16 - OP
17 - TWINE
18 - FRWL
19 - DAD
20 - TND
21 - TMWTGG
22 - DAF
23 - Another Way To Die (QOS)
1 dr no
2 ohmss
3 goldeneye
4 licence to kill
5 skyfall
6 casino royal
7 the world is not enough
8 QOS
9 view to a kill
10 the spy who loved me
11 live and let die
12 the living daylights
I can't really rate the rest as I don't really enjoy them.
Worst for me by a considerable margin are Nobody Does It Better and All Time High
These are typical 70s pop love songs which contain absolutely no references to the movies and none of the musical motifs we usually associate with the Bond series (BTW I hate the term "franchise", it remind me of fast-food joints)
1. Licence To Kill
2. Live and Let Die
3. You Know My Name
4. OHMMS
5. The Living Daylights
6. A View To A Kill
7. Nobody Does It Better
8. Goldeneye
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
10. Another Way To Die
11. Moonraker
12. The Man With The Golden Gun
13. Skyfall
14. Die Another Day
15. Dr No
16. You Only Live Twice
17. For Your Eyes Only
18. Goldfinger
19. Thunderball
20. From Russia With Love
21. Diamonds Are Forever
22. All Time High
As you can see, I don't care for the Connery era songs very much. Not my sort of thing at all.
Honourable mentions to other great songs in the Bond series that weren't main title songs - If I Asked You To, We Have All The Time In The World and Alice Cooper's version of TMWTGG. Much better than the one we ended up with.
16, Another Way to Die (QoS) Bland song for a bland movie.
15, James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
14, Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
13, All Time High (Op)
12, For Your Eyes Only
11, Moonraker
10, Living Daylights
9, License to Kill
8, Tomorrow Never Dies
7, The World is Not Enough
6, The Man With the Golden Gun
5, GoldenEye
4, A View to a Kill
3, Live and Let Die
2, You Know My Name (Casino Royale '06)
1, Skyfall
I don't have any end theme song favorites, the ones I know of I felt were boring, at the end of GE, TnD, both Dalton films etc. Just use the James Bond theme or do like the older movies and use a reprise version of the main theme, lol.
1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.
1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
16, Another Way to Die (QoS) Bland song for a bland movie.
15, James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
14, Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
13, All Time High (Op)
12, For Your Eyes Only
11, Moonraker
10, Living Daylights
9, License to Kill
8, Tomorrow Never Dies
7, The World is Not Enough
6, The Man With the Golden Gun
5, GoldenEye
4, A View to a Kill
3, Live and Let Die
2, You Know My Name (Casino Royale '06)
1, Skyfall
I don't have any end theme song favorites, the ones I know of I felt were boring, at the end of GE, TnD, both Dalton films etc. Just use the James Bond theme or do like the older movies and use a reprise version of the main theme, lol.
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Worst for me by a considerable margin are Nobody Does It Better and All Time High
These are typical 70s pop love songs which contain absolutely no references to the movies and none of the musical motifs we usually associate with the Bond series (BTW I hate the term "franchise", it remind me of fast-food joints)
I agree with yo on All Time High here, but not on Nobody Does It Better - that song is clearly about James Bond and TSWLM even gets a mention in the lyrics. Someone once said that James Bond had been around long enough to have a song of his own written about him, without it being considered as hubristic.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
I can't believe there's so few theme song lists. Here's my preliminary list, taking into account how good I think the song is, and how much I listen to it. I like the ones with variations of the Bond theme in it which most of the top 2 tiers have
Tier 1 (best)
1. GF (would rather listen to the two below but you can't beat this one's iconic trumpet sounds)
2. SF
3. YKMN
4. TB
Tier 2 (not in order)
GE
FRWL
TWINE
TMWTGG
TLD
Tier 3 (I'm quite neutral about these, not in order)
TSWLM
MR
FYEO
AVTAK
DAF
LALD
Tier 4 (worst)
Lyrically AWTD and DAD are the worst.
16. AWTD
17. DAD
18. TND
19. LTK
20. YOLT
21. OP
1. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Goldfinger
6. Thunderball
7. The World Is Not Enough
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Nobody Does It Better
10. The Living Daylights
11. Live And Let Die
12. Moonraker
13. From Russia With Love
14. A View To A Kill
15. All Time High
16. The Man With The Golden Gun
17. You Know My Name
18. Goldeneye
19. Skyfall
20. Licence To Kill
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. Die Another Day
23. Another Way to Die
I have to decide my individual rankings but basically there are the rest of the songs and Another Way To Die ranked right at the very very bottom. By far the worst Bond song; it might have worked if they'd picked one vocalist but the two voices are clashing against each other. There's a reason why none of the other Bond songs are duets; you need that one voice, whether it's male or female. It needs that clear direction.
I forgot to add TB to my list on the previous page. I suppose it ranks at 4. Bondian sound, not as glamourous as GF, which mirrors the film as well. Lyrics are mysterious and vague.
I think it's time to update our lists with Writing's on the Wall. Here's mine:
1. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Goldfinger
6. Thunderball
7. The World Is Not Enough
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Nobody Does It Better
10. The Living Daylights
11. Live And Let Die
12. Moonraker
13. From Russia With Love
14. A View To A Kill
15. All Time High
16. The Man With The Golden Gun
17. You Know My Name
18. Goldeneye
19. Skyfall
20. Writing's on the Wall
21. Licence To Kill
22. Tomorrow Never Dies
23. Die Another Day
24. Another Way to Die
So I've placed it at number 20. This is just main themes as the thread title says, though the OP included a few others.
1. Goldfinger
2. Nobody Does it Better
3. Thunderball
4. OHMSS
5. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
6. Live and Let Die
7. Diamonds are Forever
8. Skyfall
9. You Only Kive Twice
10. The Living Daylights
11. A View to a Kill
12. For Your Eyes Only
13. The World Is Not Enough
14. All Time High
15. You Know My Name
16. Moonraker
17. From Russia with Love
18. Writings On the Wall
19. Another Way to Die
20. Goldeneye
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. License to Kill
23. The Man With the Golden Gun
24. Die Another Day
1. Live and Let Die
2. A View to a Kill
3. From Russia with Love
4. You Know My Name
5. Living Daylights
6. Goldfinger
7. James Bond Theme
8. OHMSS
9. Goldeneye
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are Forever
12. Nobody Does it Better
13. License to Kill
14. The World is Not Enough
15. For Your Eyes Only
16. You Only Live Twice
17. Thunderball
18. Die Another Day
19. Moonraker
20. All Time High
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. The Man with the Golden Gun
23. Writings On the Wall
24. Another Way to Die
I'm a huge 80's new wave fan, so naturally A View to a Kill is up there )
1.....OHMSS
2.....GOLDFINGER
3.....YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
4.....THUNDERBALL
5.....THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
6.....DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
7.....LIVE AND LET DIE
8.....YOU KNOW MY NAME
9.....LICENCE TO KILL
10...THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Rest all the same IMO.
End credits
IF THERE WAS A MAN........FANTASTIC
The end credits song to Tommorow Never Dies would have been awesome as the proper track, can't remember who sung it now.
1.....OHMSS
2.....GOLDFINGER
3.....YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
4.....THUNDERBALL
5.....THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
6.....DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
7.....LIVE AND LET DIE
8.....YOU KNOW MY NAME
9.....LICENCE TO KILL
10...THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Rest all the same IMO.
It was kd lang. Such a shame it was relegated to the end. It would be one of my top themes. SHERYL CROW'S song is my absolute bottom feeder. I hate it even more than WOTW
End credits
IF THERE WAS A MAN........FANTASTIC
The end credits song to Tommorow Never Dies would have been awesome as the proper track, can't remember who sung it now.
1 - License to Kill (Gladys Knight)
2 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry)
3 - For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)
4 - The Living Daylights (A-Ha)
5 - Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith)
6 - The World Is Not Enough (Garbage)
7 - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
8 - You Know My Name (Chris Cornel)
9 - Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
10 - Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)
11 - A View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
12 - All Time High (Rita Coolidge)
13 - Skyfall (Adele)
14 - Another Way to Die (Jack White)
15 - You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
16 - From Russia With Love (Matt Morno)
17 - Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
18 - Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)
19 - Thunderball (Tom Jones)
20 - Goldeneye (Tina Turner)
21 - Die Another Day (Madonna)
22 - The Man with the Golden Gun (Lulu)
23 - Moonraker (Shirley Bassey)
Unfortunately can't put in 'Under The Mango Tree, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or We Have All The Time In The World'.
1. Diamonds are Forever (especially on the soundtrack – longer intro)
2. From Russia with Love
3. Nobody Does it Better
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Thunderball (not so much the song - albeit excellent, but the best soundtrack)
6. Skyfall
7. Goldfinger
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
10. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
11. Moonraker
12. Live And Let Die
13. A View To A Kill
After this I’ll have to give the rest a few more listens but so far nothing stands out. And as much as I love Alicia Keys music, ‘Another Way to Die’ ranks in the bottom fringes if not the worst. As for ‘Writing’s On the Wall’, Sam Smith tries too hard and I’ll swear he’s lost one of his nuts
"Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974; It's a scientific fact". - Homer J Simpson
1. - You Know My Name - CR - Chris Cornell
2. - From Russia With Love - Matt Monro
3. - Nobody Does It Better - TSWLM - Carly Simon
4. - GoldenEye - Tina Turner
5. - The Man With The Golden Gun - Lulu 5,5 - We Have The Time In The World - OHMSS - Louis Amstrong
6. - Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
7. - License to Kill - Gladys Knight
8. - Writings On The Wall - SP - Sam Smith
9. - Skyfall - Adele
10. - Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney
11. - A View To A Kill - Duran Duran
12. - For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
13. - You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
14. - The Living Daylights - a-Ha
15. - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry
16. - All Time High - OP - Rita Coolidge
17. - Die Another Day - Madonna
18. - Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow
19. - The World Is Not Enough - Garbage
20. - Thunderball - Tom Jones
21. - Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
22. - Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
23. - Another Way to Die - QoS - Jack White & Alicia Keys
Although 21 and 22 are both Shirley Bassey, I really liked her song for QoS. I'd love it to see her make a new Bondsong for Bond 25.
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2. Licence To Kill
3. You Know My Name
4. Goldfinger
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Dr. No
7. For Your Eyes Only
8. A View To A Kill
9. The Living Daylights
10.Diamonds Are Forever
11.Moonraker
12.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13.The World Is Not Enough
14.From Russia With Love
15.Live And Let Die
16.If You Asked Me To
17.All Time High
18.We Have All The Time In The World
19.Never Say Never Again
20.Goldeneye
21.The Man With The Golden Gun
22.Tomorrow Never Dies
23.Die Another Day
24.Surrender
25.Thunderball
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Live And Let Die
4. The Living Daylights
5. Thunderball
The top four can swap places but it will take a very special theme song to seperate them. Thunderball is my current number five but on another day it may be Goldeneye, the underrated Moonraker or You Know My Name (Casino Royale).
2. Goldfinger
3. James Bond Theme
4. You Know My Name
5. Another Way to Die
6. A View to a Kill
7. The Living Daylights
8. Licence to Kill
9. The Man with the Golden Gun
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are Forever
12. You Only Live Twice
13. Nobody Does it Better
14 .All Time High
15. For Your Eyes Only
16. Live and Let Die
17. Thunderball
18. The World is Not Enough
19. From Russia with Love
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Goldeneye
22. Die Another Day
23. Moonraker
2. Goldfinger
3. Goldeneye
4. The Living Daylights
5. A View to a Kill
6. Live and let die
7. Licence to Kill
8. You Know My Name (CR)
9. For Your Eyes Only
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are forever
12. The Man with the Golden Gun
13. Moonraker
14. James Bond Theme "Mix" (Dr.No)
15. Nobody Does it Better
16. Thunderball
17. From Russia with Love
18. The Spy Who Loved Me
19. You Only Live Twice
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. All time high (OP)
22. The World is Not Enough
22. Another way to die (QoS)
23. Die Another Day
1. You know my name- great lyrics and amazing orchestral accompaniment
2. A view to a kill- such a fun and catchy song
3. Skyfall- well suited to the movie
4. The living daylights
5. Nobody does it better
6. Diamonds are forever- just pure class
7. Tomorrow never dies- it grew on me
8. Goldfinger
9. The world is not enough
10. You only live twice
11. Licence to kill
12. Goldeneye
13. From russia with love- a smooth and sexy song
14. For your eyes only
15. Die another day- again, it grew on me!
Behind every sound ever heard in any Bond movie: Another way to die. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this song. It makes me want to punch Alecia keys and Jack White.
"Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan."
Technically their song wasn't bad - decent lyrics in a way, a recognisable tune of sorts, but awful production and just jarring.
Incidentally, Bassey's Goldfinger needs to be looked up on youtube for the vinyl version, like most of the soundtrack it is much better in analogue and really suffers in digital, sounds thin and grating when it should be rich and sassy.
Goldfinger on vinyl
Roger Moore 1927-2017
2. Nobody Does It Better
3. You Only Live Twice
4. From Russia With Love (instrumental)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6. A View To A Kill
7. The Man With The Golden Gun
8. Live And Let Die
9. The Living Daylights
10. Diamonds Are Forever
11. Goldeneye
12. Goldfinger
13. All Time High
14. Moonraker
15. Licence To Kill
16. Thunderball
17. Another Way To Die
18. The World Is Not Enough
19. For Your Eyes Only
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Skyfall
22. Die Another Day
1 - AVTAK
2 - Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
3 - OHMSS
4 - DN (Main James Bond Theme)
5 - LALD
6 - LTK
7 - MR
8 - TLD
9 - You Know My Name (CR)
10 - SF
11 - GE
12 - FYEO
13 - YOLT
14 - GF
15 - TB
16 - OP
17 - TWINE
18 - FRWL
19 - DAD
20 - TND
21 - TMWTGG
22 - DAF
23 - Another Way To Die (QOS)
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
1 dr no
2 ohmss
3 goldeneye
4 licence to kill
5 skyfall
6 casino royal
7 the world is not enough
8 QOS
9 view to a kill
10 the spy who loved me
11 live and let die
12 the living daylights
I can't really rate the rest as I don't really enjoy them.
1.SF 2.CR 3.OHMSS 4.DN 5.YOLT
Then LALD, Skyfall, Licence To Kill, DAD
I like MWTGG - it has a certain campy appeal
Worst for me by a considerable margin are Nobody Does It Better and All Time High
These are typical 70s pop love songs which contain absolutely no references to the movies and none of the musical motifs we usually associate with the Bond series (BTW I hate the term "franchise", it remind me of fast-food joints)
2. Live and Let Die
3. You Know My Name
4. OHMMS
5. The Living Daylights
6. A View To A Kill
7. Nobody Does It Better
8. Goldeneye
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
10. Another Way To Die
11. Moonraker
12. The Man With The Golden Gun
13. Skyfall
14. Die Another Day
15. Dr No
16. You Only Live Twice
17. For Your Eyes Only
18. Goldfinger
19. Thunderball
20. From Russia With Love
21. Diamonds Are Forever
22. All Time High
As you can see, I don't care for the Connery era songs very much. Not my sort of thing at all.
Honourable mentions to other great songs in the Bond series that weren't main title songs - If I Asked You To, We Have All The Time In The World and Alice Cooper's version of TMWTGG. Much better than the one we ended up with.
23, You Only Live Twice
22, Thunderball
21, Diamonds Are Forever
20, Goldfinder
19, From Russia with Love
18, OHMSS
17, Die Another Day
16, Another Way to Die (QoS) Bland song for a bland movie.
15, James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
14, Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
13, All Time High (Op)
12, For Your Eyes Only
11, Moonraker
10, Living Daylights
9, License to Kill
8, Tomorrow Never Dies
7, The World is Not Enough
6, The Man With the Golden Gun
5, GoldenEye
4, A View to a Kill
3, Live and Let Die
2, You Know My Name (Casino Royale '06)
1, Skyfall
I don't have any end theme song favorites, the ones I know of I felt were boring, at the end of GE, TnD, both Dalton films etc. Just use the James Bond theme or do like the older movies and use a reprise version of the main theme, lol.
1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
I agree with yo on All Time High here, but not on Nobody Does It Better - that song is clearly about James Bond and TSWLM even gets a mention in the lyrics. Someone once said that James Bond had been around long enough to have a song of his own written about him, without it being considered as hubristic.
Tier 1 (best)
1. GF (would rather listen to the two below but you can't beat this one's iconic trumpet sounds)
2. SF
3. YKMN
4. TB
Tier 2 (not in order)
GE
FRWL
TWINE
TMWTGG
TLD
Tier 3 (I'm quite neutral about these, not in order)
TSWLM
MR
FYEO
AVTAK
DAF
LALD
Tier 4 (worst)
Lyrically AWTD and DAD are the worst.
16. AWTD
17. DAD
18. TND
19. LTK
20. YOLT
21. OP
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Goldfinger
6. Thunderball
7. The World Is Not Enough
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Nobody Does It Better
10. The Living Daylights
11. Live And Let Die
12. Moonraker
13. From Russia With Love
14. A View To A Kill
15. All Time High
16. The Man With The Golden Gun
17. You Know My Name
18. Goldeneye
19. Skyfall
20. Licence To Kill
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. Die Another Day
23. Another Way to Die
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Pros and Cons Compendium (50 Years)
1. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Goldfinger
6. Thunderball
7. The World Is Not Enough
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Nobody Does It Better
10. The Living Daylights
11. Live And Let Die
12. Moonraker
13. From Russia With Love
14. A View To A Kill
15. All Time High
16. The Man With The Golden Gun
17. You Know My Name
18. Goldeneye
19. Skyfall
20. Writing's on the Wall
21. Licence To Kill
22. Tomorrow Never Dies
23. Die Another Day
24. Another Way to Die
So I've placed it at number 20. This is just main themes as the thread title says, though the OP included a few others.
2. Nobody Does it Better
3. Thunderball
4. OHMSS
5. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
6. Live and Let Die
7. Diamonds are Forever
8. Skyfall
9. You Only Kive Twice
10. The Living Daylights
11. A View to a Kill
12. For Your Eyes Only
13. The World Is Not Enough
14. All Time High
15. You Know My Name
16. Moonraker
17. From Russia with Love
18. Writings On the Wall
19. Another Way to Die
20. Goldeneye
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. License to Kill
23. The Man With the Golden Gun
24. Die Another Day
The Brosnan years had the worst themes by far.
2. A View to a Kill
3. From Russia with Love
4. You Know My Name
5. Living Daylights
6. Goldfinger
7. James Bond Theme
8. OHMSS
9. Goldeneye
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds are Forever
12. Nobody Does it Better
13. License to Kill
14. The World is Not Enough
15. For Your Eyes Only
16. You Only Live Twice
17. Thunderball
18. Die Another Day
19. Moonraker
20. All Time High
21. Tomorrow Never Dies
22. The Man with the Golden Gun
23. Writings On the Wall
24. Another Way to Die
I'm a huge 80's new wave fan, so naturally A View to a Kill is up there
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Pros and Cons Compendium (50 Years)
2.....GOLDFINGER
3.....YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
4.....THUNDERBALL
5.....THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
6.....DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
7.....LIVE AND LET DIE
8.....YOU KNOW MY NAME
9.....LICENCE TO KILL
10...THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Rest all the same IMO.
End credits
IF THERE WAS A MAN........FANTASTIC
The end credits song to Tommorow Never Dies would have been awesome as the proper track, can't remember who sung it now.
1 - License to Kill (Gladys Knight)
2 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry)
3 - For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)
4 - The Living Daylights (A-Ha)
5 - Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith)
6 - The World Is Not Enough (Garbage)
7 - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
8 - You Know My Name (Chris Cornel)
9 - Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
10 - Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)
11 - A View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
12 - All Time High (Rita Coolidge)
13 - Skyfall (Adele)
14 - Another Way to Die (Jack White)
15 - You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
16 - From Russia With Love (Matt Morno)
17 - Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
18 - Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)
19 - Thunderball (Tom Jones)
20 - Goldeneye (Tina Turner)
21 - Die Another Day (Madonna)
22 - The Man with the Golden Gun (Lulu)
23 - Moonraker (Shirley Bassey)
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Pros and Cons Compendium (50 Years)
Unfortunately can't put in 'Under The Mango Tree, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or We Have All The Time In The World'.
1. Diamonds are Forever (especially on the soundtrack – longer intro)
2. From Russia with Love
3. Nobody Does it Better
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Thunderball (not so much the song - albeit excellent, but the best soundtrack)
6. Skyfall
7. Goldfinger
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
10. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
11. Moonraker
12. Live And Let Die
13. A View To A Kill
After this I’ll have to give the rest a few more listens but so far nothing stands out. And as much as I love Alicia Keys music, ‘Another Way to Die’ ranks in the bottom fringes if not the worst. As for ‘Writing’s On the Wall’, Sam Smith tries too hard and I’ll swear he’s lost one of his nuts
2. - From Russia With Love - Matt Monro
3. - Nobody Does It Better - TSWLM - Carly Simon
4. - GoldenEye - Tina Turner
5. - The Man With The Golden Gun - Lulu
5,5 - We Have The Time In The World - OHMSS - Louis Amstrong
6. - Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
7. - License to Kill - Gladys Knight
8. - Writings On The Wall - SP - Sam Smith
9. - Skyfall - Adele
10. - Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney
11. - A View To A Kill - Duran Duran
12. - For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
13. - You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
14. - The Living Daylights - a-Ha
15. - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry
16. - All Time High - OP - Rita Coolidge
17. - Die Another Day - Madonna
18. - Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow
19. - The World Is Not Enough - Garbage
20. - Thunderball - Tom Jones
21. - Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
22. - Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
23. - Another Way to Die - QoS - Jack White & Alicia Keys
Although 21 and 22 are both Shirley Bassey, I really liked her song for QoS. I'd love it to see her make a new Bondsong for Bond 25.