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Title: New Bond Theme
Post by: Ian Price on October 04, 2008, 09:50:58 AM
Really not sure if I like it. It has the classic bond hallmarks but also sounds like a White Stripes/Raconteurs song. It may well grow on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKSrAYZnzcM
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: gwEm on October 04, 2008, 10:45:17 AM
i like it in a sort of weird way
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: _tom_ on October 04, 2008, 11:14:04 AM
I like it, then again I like most White Stripes and Raconteurs stuff as well :) That video has pretty much the dullest sound ever though :\
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: Twinfan on October 04, 2008, 11:59:54 AM
Great track!
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: Ratrod on October 04, 2008, 12:57:01 PM
Not my favorite Bond tune but Jack White has an excellent taste in guitars.

(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p312/JERMDADDY/Gretsch/billybowhiteblk069.jpg)
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: sgmypod on October 04, 2008, 02:25:49 PM
Like it..overblown as a bond theme should be is that the billy gibbons model
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Post by: dave_mc on October 04, 2008, 02:58:35 PM
heard it last night, didn't like it. then i hate the white stripes so that's probably not so suprising.
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: Oli on October 04, 2008, 04:00:06 PM
I like the track, but it's not a Bond theme!
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: horsehead on October 04, 2008, 05:07:41 PM
The riff is pure Bond, but the song itself isn't
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Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 04, 2008, 06:55:02 PM
Miss Winehouse should have made the song... I don't care how hard guys would have to work to get her in "decent condition" to compose and sing it... she would brake it in million parts PERIOD
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: AJDS on October 04, 2008, 08:11:32 PM
Miss Winehouse should have made the song... I don't care how hard guys would have to work to get her in "decent condition" to compose and sing it... she would brake it in million parts PERIOD

I absolutely agree. I can't think of a better person to do a bond theme than her. With that said I do like the track, and its forced me to buy an Alicia Keys album, something I never thought my CD rack would see.
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: dave_mc on October 04, 2008, 10:25:57 PM
Miss Winehouse should have made the song... I don't care how hard guys would have to work to get her in "decent condition" to compose and sing it... she would brake it in million parts PERIOD

agreed.
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: horsehead on October 05, 2008, 08:53:13 AM
I love Amy Winehouses voice & think she has a great amount of talent, however if she isn't in any kind of state to have done the song, then don't get here to do it. Personally Duffy could have done just as well.


I like Duffy
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 05, 2008, 08:59:57 AM
I like her too  :wink:
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Post by: Plexi Ken on October 05, 2008, 11:36:57 AM
Sounds good to me but I do like the White Stripes  :)
Lovin' that Gretsch  8)
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: hunter on October 05, 2008, 12:20:54 PM

Agree with Amy Winehouse.

Dislike the song at a first glance, but then I am sure they'll penetrate us so much with it up and down the radio and TV that even I'll warm up towards it.

CJ
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: AndyR on October 05, 2008, 01:56:03 PM
I like it, even on only half a listen - though I do agree with the Amy Winehouse comments.

For me though, for a pure song, nothing has come close to "Nobody Does It Better" - when that first came out, it wasn't even obvious it was the theme to the new film, and it was stunning in its own right. (Possibly the Shirley Bassey ones were the same, but they're just a spot too early for me to have come across them like that).

Close second to "Nobody..." (sorry all you Paul McCartney "fans" :lol:) is Live and Let Die by Wings...

However, this new one does the job for me though. It's up there with Duran Duran and good ole Sheena... (and that's not a put down :lol:)
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: Ratrod on October 06, 2008, 11:57:30 AM
Rant on.

Sorry, I can't stand Amy (Wino) Winehouse anymore.

Too much attitude, too much record company induced drug-using-rockstar imagery. Too much faked pain, sorrow and mysery.

Yes, it's nice to see some jazzy stuff return to the charts but it is such a 'product'.

Winehouse, Duffy and such can't hold a candle to:

Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone

Listen to those three. There's something in their voices these teenagers don't have. I guess they call that mileage.

Rant over.
Title: Re: New Bond Theme
Post by: horsehead on October 06, 2008, 12:47:27 PM
Agreed on Billie holiday etc, but seeing as we can't get them to sing the Bond tune...
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Post by: dave_mc on October 06, 2008, 04:16:47 PM
i'm not a major fan of amy, just considering that anyone who's going to be picked to do the theme is likely to be a famous modern popstar, winehouse would seem to be the least worst option...