Adele sings "Skyfall" (Let the Sky Fall)

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• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  October 2012

  Sounds GREAT.

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• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff

  October 2012

  Very happy with this one!
• Le Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent

  October 2012

  I'm not going to listen. I would prefer to hear it for the first time during the film. It just adds something to the experience for me.

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• Shady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent

  October 2012 edited October 2012

  I've listened to the whole track on Adele's site. As someone who prefers a respectable pastiche of John Barry's classics to more experimental tracks, I think this is the most Bondian Bond song since Arnold's 'Surrender' and 'The World Is Not Enough', though not as complex as either of those. (Having said that, 'You Know My Name' nailed it as CR's opener and I've recently grown to appreciate 'Another Way To Die' in a way I wouldn't have thought possible when I first heard it.)
  
  In the tradition of Barryesque ballads, Adele is a perfect choice as co-writer/vocalist - though on the down side I think that in this piece there's perhaps an overdependence on an arrangement of The James Bond Theme bass line. I'm not too sold, either, on the choral echoes which come in later (they're a little too cheesey in a light entertainment, 'X Factor' sort of a way). The sign-off, a final brass note of mounting menace, is pure 'Scaramanga's Fun House', and that's enough to make me very happy!
  
  Adele gives more than a nod to Shirley Bassey, of course - as at 0.40/0.41, where she races to and draws out the consonant "n" in the "count" of "and count to ten". But also, perhaps, her affectation of a catch in her voice at 1.13/1.14, as she enunciates the 'e' vowel sound of "them" in "So overdue I owe them", is a passing homage to Amy Winehouse's trademark vocal style. Adele's performance and the essential melancholy of the song made me think again, actually, how unlucky we are that Amy Winehouse never did do a Bond song, as at one point was the intention. But it's great that we have Adele.

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• HalfMonk HalfHitman USAPosts: 2,353MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  Oof.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUhDEMjMBI
• Sir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,749Chief of Staff

  November 2012

  HalfHitman HalfMonk wrote:

  Oof.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUhDEMjMBI

  
  Awful X-(

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• james362001 Lancaster, California USAPosts: 338MI6 Agent

  December 2012

  After hearing Chris Mann sing on the Kathie Lee and Hoda program and then the NBC Rockefeller Christmas (tree lighting) yesterday, I think he has the voice to sing a James Bond theme song.
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  December 2012

  I come to like it very much after initially not caring for it.

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• Moore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent

  December 2012

  Adele has been named Billboard's top artist of 2012, while her hit record 21 was named top album of the year in the music magazine's annual review. She is the first to receive both accolades two years in a row. Adele was also named top female artist.
  
  Adele named Billboard top artist of 2012
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20747039

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