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[timetokill]

...a love ballad ?

Really ?

"Nobody Does It Better" is a love ballad and it's one of the best Bond themes ever.

 

[Vazduh]

Man that made Duran Duran seem straight up straight. The song makes me imagine Bond crying over his favorite broken ceramic garden gnome. It makes me think off Bond scraping the gold off of that girl in Goldfinger, and wearing her gold paint under his toenails from her dead body in memory for years. It makes me imagine that Bond replaced his pelvic bones with the teeth of the enemies he was most sexually attracted to. I am just thinking that the likes of Carly Simon are tougher bad ass spies then Sam Smith.

This post...

#dead

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Well....It's better than the QoS one?

 

[taranatar]

So bored of this man and his voice. Everything he does sounds so dull and the same.

Big meh from me!

 

[Maengun1]

I like Sam Smith about half the time, and the other half of the time I find him super boring.

This one is boring.

 

[Zombine]

I would have rather had Ellie Goulding. The music is great, but if you don't listen well it sounds like he isn't saying anything at all.

 

[Robot Pants]

Is it a snoozefest?

 

[Exterminieren]

That orchestra is writing cheques that Smith's voice was never going to be able to cash. I really like the overall tone of the song, but the vocals just don't keep the side up, I'm afraid.

 

[weekev]

So much hate for Another Way to Die.

I liked it, a good mix of innovation and classic Bond tropes, just like the movie. But also just like the movie, most people just want the same thing over and over instead.

Also dat Woolly Mammoth guitar pedal sound.

I loved Another Way to Die, dunno why it gets so much hate.

 

[SJRB]

Waiting for a Youtube link, iTunes is such a piece of garbage.

Well....It's better than the QoS one?

Good lord, that bad huh?

 

[Ben Morales]

Should have let Lana Del Rey do it.

24

And I will also echo that A View To A Kill is one of my favorite Bond themes. Those vocals near the end! Made me a Duran Duran fan.

 

[Dynedom]

It's amazing how far ahead Cornell's track is from every Craig-era Bong theme song.

 

[thefro]

This isn't what they'll use for the title sequence... it'll be edited to be about 2 1/2 min and probably will be a different mix.

Not the worst Bond theme but it's in the lowest tier. It never gets to a hook and feels very slow because of it.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

This is horrendous.
I will continue to listen to Lana Del Rey's 24.

 

[Vampirolol]

It's a good song but I prefer catchy/memorable Bond themes.

 

[Loomba]

It's amazing how far ahead Cornell's track is from every Craig-era Bong theme song.

Casino Royale was pretty much 10/10 in everything though.

Music, story, characters, action, Eva Green.

Perfect movie imo

 

[brandonh83]

Think it's fine.

 

[demisec]

Boring.

 

[Korey]

I like BowieZ's lyrics better:

Chorus lyrics are out!

Writing's on the wall,
When it crumbles,
We will stand tall,
Face it all together

Writing's on the wall,
When it crumbles,
We will stand tall,
Face it all together
At wordwall,
At wordwall

 

[sploatee]

It's ok. I preferred Skyfall and You Know My Name. He's gonna regret saying he wrote it in 20 mins.

 

[immortal-joe]

Is anyone besides Chris Cornell going to attempt to put some effort into the lyrics so they better fit the theme and mood of their respective movie?

 

[FaceTurn]

It started off great but then he started singing

 

[A-V-B]

all build up and pretty much no pay off at all

why do I feel like people will be coming back and saying "man, this was actually a review of the film"

 

[brandonh83]

Is anyone besides Chris Cornell going to attempt to put some effort into the lyrics so they better fit the theme and mood of their respective movie?

Yeah. IMO it goes like this: You Know My Name has the best lyrics and Skyfall has the best theme but also with decent to good lyrics. This song only has passable lyrics but I think the actual music is pretty good. It isn't as good as the other two mentioned, but I like it a lot more than the Quantum song. I don't really mind that it never really "takes off" as I see it as more of a serenade type like the earlier romantic themes, but I'm okay with that.

 

[xandaca]

Derivative, forgettable and sung like he had his balls trapped in a door the entire time. Nope.

 

[jufonuk]

I liked it , reminds me of the old style bond themes..

 

[Reedirect]

I normally like Smith's vocals, but he's overly whiny here. Not a good theme.

 

[kharma45]

I don't like it

 

[Messypandas]

Is there a youtube?

 

[Matt_]

Shirley Bassey trending on twitter
the people have spoken

 

[brandonh83]

I normally like Smith's vocals, but he's overly whiny here. Not a good theme.

I don't really care a lot for the high pitched measures but I gotta say he pulls it off anyway.

 

[SCReuter]

Here's a working BBC link, but it's only the first two minutes of the song:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033gs7c

 

[A-V-B]

This song would be really nice without vocals. Great orchestration. Though maybe not for a theme song.

 

[Sanjuro]

 

[BluenoseGames]

Bloody Awful.

 

[ascii42]

I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as most of the later Roger Moore themes or the Brosnan theme's sans Goldeneye.

I'd take The World is Not Enough and both Tomorrow Never Dies songs over this.

 

[Famassu]

Bland McBlanderson

His high-pitched voice sounds dreadful. Doesn't fit a Bond theme AT ALL.

 

[Tadaima]

Well, I think it's quite nice. The writing is a bit shit, but everything else about it is quite pleasing. A bit softer than most Bond tracks, but I imagine it's setting the tone for the movie. Weird how it suddenly cuts out, though.

 

[A-V-B]

But really, what's up with the falsetto? Kills the tone.

 

[BertramCooper]

What a horribly disjointed chorus.

The chorus starts off very strong ('If I risk it all/could you break my fall?') - and I was like, okay, I could get into this - and then that dreadful falsetto kicks in and it completely ruins the whole thing.

Blah.

 

[NumberTwo]

Just bring back Adele please.

 

[BertramCooper]

Seriously, that chorus is GARBAGE.

 

[Messypandas]

Seriously, that chorus is GARBAGE.

 

[Alienous]

Yuck

"How do I live, how to I breathe"

The lyrics and singing suck.

 

[Chopper]

Sounds like Earth Song, without the epic chorus.

Meh. It's alright, I guess.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Just bring back Adele please.

I mean, it's not like they didn't try. They offered her £5 million.

 

[You Know Nothing]

Yuck

"How do I live, how to I breathe"

The lyrics and singing suck.

Sam Smith, a shrill whine made corporeal.

 

[brandonh83]

I mean, it's not like they didn't try. They offered her £5 million.

I like this song fine enough but damn why didn't she take it lol

 

[Chopper]

I mean, it's not like they didn't try. They offered her £5 million.

Really?!

 

[BertramCooper]

It's saved from being the worst Craig Bond theme thanks to the generosity of Jack White, who wrote one of the most epically bad Bond themes ever.

This is too boring to reach that level of awfulness.