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  • The NumberThe Number Posts: 16MI6 Agent
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCrsaet-2Q

    Hands down would be the best Bond Title Song Ever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=PlayList&p=9597876E8DF8EBA1&index=0&playnext=1

    Or this one. It would go well with this GB Remix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MohCW0Qj4E8

    I honestly don't have a serious idea but I though these might get a laugh or smile.
  • Barry NelsonBarry Nelson ChicagoPosts: 1,508MI6 Agent
    Having litened to the clip Moonie attached of Dame Shirley, my vote goes to her, what a great voice. I think anything she would sing would be far superior to the lame songs we have had recently. I am sure she can still deliver a great song, just don't ask her to hold the last note like she had to for GF.

    If Shirley isn't available, I think Chrissie Hynde would be great and I think she would do it.
  • Dmitri MishkinDmitri Mishkin Kansas CityPosts: 333MI6 Agent
    Spoon
    Interpol
    Phoenix
    Mogwai (it would be cool to have an instrumental like OHMSS)
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    I've been waiting for almost 30 years for Annie Lennox to do the title song. If the film was appropriate, Bowie would be another possibility.
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    Gassy Man wrote:
    I've been waiting for almost 30 years for Annie Lennox to do the title song. If the film was appropriate, Bowie would be another possibility.

    I'd love either of those...
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  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    Gassy Man wrote:
    I've been waiting for almost 30 years for Annie Lennox to do the title song. If the film was appropriate, Bowie would be another possibility.

    I'd love either of those...
    I wonder if she was ever approached or did a demo, Loeff . . . her voice is entirely unique, has the "body" that a chanteuse for a good Bond song has to have, she prefers intelligent lyrics (and sings them that way) and also the requisite atmospheric instrumentation, and has had experience working on soundtracks, though The Eurythmics' 1984 was essentially distanced from the film. Bowie in his prime would have been an excellent choice (think: Cat People -- it's odd to me that now that they have a Gen-X Bond, they don't have Gen-X-favored musicians on Bond as well.
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    I've had a crush on Annie Lennox since the early '80s. Not only does she have great range (I loved her Love Theme for a Vampire from Coppola's 'Dracula')...and I still think Bowie could do one. I think it's great that his Cat People made it into Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds B-)
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  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    I've had a crush on Annie Lennox since the early '80s. Not only does she have great range (I loved her Love Theme for a Vampire from Coppola's 'Dracula')...and I still think Bowie could do one. I think it's great that his Cat People made it into Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds B-)
    I haven't heard him in the last year or two, but some of the live performances I've seen from a few years ago suggest he still has the pipes. But he's aged quite a bit recently or at least gotten heavier and puffier than his youthful self.

    I've been pretty enamored with Annie Lennox as well and just don't understand why she isn't talked up more for James Bond.
  • DEFIANT 74205DEFIANT 74205 Perth, AustraliaPosts: 1,881MI6 Agent
    On that one, totally. But crucially, the potential is still there. That song was something fresh and in the Bond tradition, but with a familiar voice. Given the right material, the right song and production, that voice can still work today in 2009 as it did last in 1979.

    I agree. Dame Shirley is the definitive voice of James Bond movies, and it's no coincidence that the best and most fervently remembered Bond themes were sung by Bassey. I haven't seen another artist whose voice can match Bassey's powerful, yet sexy delivery, complementing the big, brassy notes of a typical classic Bond theme.
    Sadly, in recent years, we've had dire performers AND songs.

    Well said.
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  • mrbondmrbond Posts: 296MI6 Agent
    What about KOL or Metrostation. Greenday is a good alternative.
  • SB_DiamondSB_Diamond North Miami Beach, FLPosts: 126MI6 Agent
    I'm going to go in a completely different direction as everyone else here and say Lady Gaga. Now before you go off on a "shocked and appalled" rant hear me out! Firstly, the girl can actually sing (watch and one of her live performances on youtube and you'll see) and her voice has a certain Barbara Streisand/Liza Minnelli quality to it. She is a great songwriter and I think that if given the task, she could write and perform a really great theatrical and powerful Bond song.
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  • deliciousdelicious SydneyPosts: 371MI6 Agent
    I still wish David Bowie would do a Bond theme but he's hated the franchise since Connery left. Sigh...
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    delicious wrote:
    I still wish David Bowie would do a Bond theme

    Seconded... :#
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  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    I think Paloma Faith has a voice that would suit a Bond song


    She does, but for me it's all to retro...i would love to see Lady Ga Ga go overoard with a lush strings laden torch song, a true Bondian epic with a modern twist. Eon have truly made some terrible choices, particualrly in the Craig era so far. 23 needs something special to make up for the last two Turkeys and DC deserves a song that matches his approach. Lady G could give us the right mix of twisted and tuneful. What do you think?
  • HalfMonk HalfHitmanHalfMonk HalfHitman USAPosts: 2,324MI6 Agent
    Morrissey http://www.myspace.com/morrissey (he's english, he's old school, and he's got the lungs to belt it out)

    You can almost HEAR IT now!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4P4VF75yB8
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  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent
    i belive Dame shirley would be top of the charts
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  • ghost1ghost1 Posts: 82MI6 Agent
    How about Scouting for Girls.
  • PDJamesBondPDJamesBond Posts: 180MI6 Agent
    ghost1 wrote:
    How about Scouting for Girls.

    They might be a little too poppy for a Bond theme. But I JUST heard their song "James Bond" and I have since listened to it about 50 times - SO catchy and fun! And it basically sums up my childhod watching Bond films, haha.
  • NF2NF2 Posts: 9MI6 Agent
    Hey Half Hitman, that is a GREAT Bondian tune from Morrissey
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Katie Melua shows some aptitude for making a bpnd title song in "The Flood":

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4-9yKTv_I
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    I would like to see k.d. lang get another shot at a Bond theme - on the front end this time, not the closing credits tune like they gave her for Tomorrow Never Dies ("Surrender"). She has a beautiful, classy voice and having her do the title song would remind me of the classic Shirley Bassey days!
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  • perdoggperdogg Posts: 432MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I think there has been many good suggestions for title song artist for the next Bond. Here are some suggestions I've heard (or would like to have heard):

    Joss Stone
    Duffy
    Muse
    Pixie Lott
    Katie Melua
    The Killers

    After having a male singer in CR and a male/female duo in QoS, perhaps they should go back to a ballad sung by a woman?
    Bond 23 is rumoured to be more traditional, so why not? Or possibly go in the other direction a and use something instrumental?

    Pixie Lott caught my eye before she caught my ear. Being an avid FHM reader I eventually read the words next to the pictures and found out she was compared to Duffy and Amy Winehouse, two artists I like and believe have a bondian style.
    What do you think:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHRUOF0j-8&feature=fvst

    Comments? Suggestions? Screams in horror? Please post!

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  • DaltonFan1DaltonFan1 The West of IrelandPosts: 503MI6 Agent
    Michael Bublé would be perfect and should write and perform the theme tune
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  • whiteknight86whiteknight86 MexicoPosts: 43MI6 Agent
    Hey, talking about Joss Stone, have you heard the theme of the new Bond videogame "Bloodstone?? It´s called "I´ll take it all", the song has all the Bond style recalling a lot of shirley basey and other themes from the movies.

    I hope the theme of the next movie is going to be something as good as this one, also check out the song from the Quantum of solace game, the song is far better than the film´s. The only thing about this intro of the new game it that a plot involving diamonds and genetics is not original any more.

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

    here is the intro movie from the Quantum of solace videogame.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMFIy8nt0co
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  • j.bladesj.blades Currently? You must be joking?Posts: 530MI6 Agent
    Muse 100 percent!
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I honestly wish they'd go back to letting the composer do the main title song,by almeans get a top singer or band in to do it,Lots of great sugestions here. an example would be TND. I'd rather have "surrender" than what was used as it feels part of the film and not just a tacked on pop song.
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  • Number1Number1 Posts: 15MI6 Agent
    I would like MUSE

    but i have to say i agree with number24 in the aspects that it has the james bond song feel to it and the james bond starting feel to it
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