Rejected Bond songs...

Rejected Bond songs...

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Digby

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8,230 posts

245 months

Saturday 15th February 2020
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Interesting list. Some seem quite laughable, others could have worked.

https://www.radiox.co.uk/features/x-lists/10-rejec...

JulianHJ

8,733 posts

261 months

Saturday 15th February 2020
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It's a shame the Radiohead track wasn't used. I much prefer it to the Sam Smith replacement.

Nickp82

3,165 posts

92 months

Saturday 15th February 2020
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Agreed, Radiohead pushed the boundaries and came up with a fantastic song, it seems you have to play safe to score a successful Bond theme though, the current one being a prime example.

catso

14,771 posts

266 months

Sunday 16th February 2020
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JulianHJ said:
It's a shame the Radiohead track wasn't used. I much prefer it to the Sam Smith replacement.
Agreed, but then anything would have been an improvement on the strangled-cat Sam Smith abomination...


Edited by catso on Sunday 16th February 17:18

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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I always thought that The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen sounded like a prospective Bond theme.

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dr_gn

16,140 posts

183 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Randomly heard the latest one on the car radio last night and forgot it before it had even ended.

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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dr_gn said:
Randomly heard the latest one on the car radio last night and forgot it before it had even ended.
unpossible silly - it's been hailed as brave and a 'masterpiece', 'quintessentially Bond'. Surely the music press wouldn't lie to us a talk up a turgid crapfest?

dr_gn

16,140 posts

183 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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irocfan said:
dr_gn said:
Randomly heard the latest one on the car radio last night and forgot it before it had even ended.
unpossible silly - it's been hailed as brave and a 'masterpiece', 'quintessentially Bond'. Surely the music press wouldn't lie to us a talk up a turgid crapfest?
It's st.

ETA:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083qzq6

Riiiight, OK.


Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 18th February 11:12

Walter Sobchak

5,723 posts

223 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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The producers thought it sounded too melancholy? , obviously, if you want cheerful or uplifting you don’t ask Radiohead laugh it was a great song though was it ever A Moon Shaped Pool b side?.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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So we could have had Alice Cooper, Blondie, Muse and Radiohead instead of Lulu, Sheena Easton, Adele and Sam Smith? There ain't no justice.

There are a couple of Bond-ish songs on Goldfrapp's 'Supernature'. I think they were asked but passed it up as the studio wanted too much artistic control - which I suppose is understandable.

I think Bjork's 'Bachelorette' would have made a great Bond theme.

lllnorrislll

146 posts

139 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Placebo did an early b side called miss Moneypenny - they would have made an interesting bond theme.

DanoS4

863 posts

193 months

Wednesday 19th February 2020
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I produced a track with UB40 called "Until My Dying Day"..... I think it was for the film that had Cheryl Crowe instead (and rightly so!). Or Tina Turner's Golden Eye. Forget which now. It was a long time ago.