Rejected Bond songs...

[Digby]

Interesting list. Some seem quite laughable, others could have worked.

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

[JulianHJ]

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

[Nickp82]

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]

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]

I always thought that The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen sounded like a prospective Bond theme.

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[dr_gn]

Randomly heard the latest one on the car radio last night and forgot it before it had even ended.

[irocfan]

dr_gn said:

Randomly heard the latest one on the car radio last night and forgot it before it had even ended.

unpossible - 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]

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 - 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]

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

[Halmyre]

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]

Placebo did an early b side called miss Moneypenny - they would have made an interesting bond theme.

[DanoS4]

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.