This has the first 22 007 themes - not including Skyfall, which I predict will be one of the best. I attempted to list all the 007 themes, only to belatedly find out 10 is the limit. To the point - Adele's performance of Skyfall may go down as one of the very best...personally I'll probably make it second to Bassey's expansive Goldfinger. I also like: Live and Let Die - McCartney Nobody Does it Better - Carly Simon Tommorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow Adele’s “SkyFall” + The Ten Greatest James Bond Theme Songs | List Of The Day (NEW) - Yahoo! Music
Live and Let Die. BTW, the franchise is "50" years old: Interview: Neil deGrasse Tyson On James Bond's Gadgets : NPR
Matt Monroe passed away at the age of only 54. He had a great voice, R.I.P. Matt From Russia With Love....
That summer was just before my first birthday. So it didn't really grow on me. This might be a bit crap, but as a teen in the 80s, I liked The Living Daylights and A View To A Kill (as theme tunes, not films: I was (and remain) terribly uncomfortable with The Living Daylights as a film. Supporting the Taleban never seemed like the best of ideas). Anyway, BBC Radio 5 Live's very good weekly film review did a Bond Theme Special a couple of weeks ago with the BBC Philharmonic. You can download it from BBC - Podcasts - Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews - scroll down to find the Bond Theme Special. Unfortunately, as it's a podcast, they've had to cut out all but the beginning and end of the songs. And for legal reasons I couldn't possibly recommend that you find the full version with the tunes by googling kermode bond special torrent. But if you were to do so, against my advice, you'd find it very good indeed. And the regular Mayo-Kermode film podcasts (which you can get through the link above) are excellent, and take up about 90 minutes of my Prius-driving time every week.
Skyfall sounds like most of the other themes. Live and Let Die, on the other hand, is so unique it convinced me that I have no musical imagination.
Enough people have said Live and Let Die is the best/one of the best Bond themes that it stands as an example of McCartney has put out some really good stuff - it was not just John Lennon doing it when they were The Beatles.
I always liked Nancy Sinatra singing You Only Live Twice. Lets not forget, the movie also had this in it.
Here's a little bit of nostalgia. If you listen to the Goldfinger theme in the movie or on the album, you have one version. If you bought the 45, you got a slightly different version from Shirley Bassey and John Barry. Here's the 45 version.
