Which Bond theme is best?

[Kelvin Mace]

I have omitted the lame ones.

[jpgray]

1. It's not the best, but View to a Kill may be my favorite Duran Duran song

[iamjoy]

2. Yeah, I Was A Duranie

but I also liked

"Live And Let Die"
"Spy Who Loved Me"
"For Your Eyes Only"

[jpgray]

6. I never really liked them

But doing a John Barry (I think he was credited for that one) Bond tune their 80sish "decadent" atmosphere was just right.

[MN ChimpH8R]

20. Yep - AVTOK was a Barry composition

Duran Duran arranged it and presumably Simon LeBon wrote the lyrics. It was credited to Barry/Duran Duran. Great over-the-top performance by Le Bon and very 1980s decadent. Not to mention Nick Rhodes really eerie and chilling keyboards.

[WeRQ4U]

9. This actually is my favorite Bond Theme.

I love the slow, instrumental portions of that song that play during the movie.

[jpgray]

10. One of my fave Bond films, though I think Moore was only okayish as Bond

But Christopher Walken playing a Franco-German industrialist (!) and some delightfully weird sequences make up for it.

[WeRQ4U]

12. I was a child of the 80's so the first few Bond films I saw were w/ Moore.

I really didn't know any different at the time, so it didn't bother me at the time.

Christopher Walken makes a GREAT Bond villian. As a genetically engineered genius sociopath, there's no better fit.

[4_Legs_Good]

28. Better than "Rio"???

I think not!

david

[mikehiggins]

3. The best is the 007 theme

that's the one that plays in the background when Bond is in real action, at least in the earliest movies with Connery. If you watch a couple of the movies in a row you'll quickly pick up on what I'm talking about.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Yes, it is the epitome of cool

but was disqualified since it appeared in all the Bond films.

The best steel guitar riff ever.

[Aristus]

5. Other: Tomorrow Never Dies, by Sheryl Crowe.

Love that song!

[elshiva]

7. Goldfinger! Wah-Wah-Wah-WAAAAAAAAAH!

[kodi]

11. that set the standard for all subsequent Bond films. instantly recognized

live and let die? oh geeze, Paul McCartney at his most saccharine.

[Kelvin Mace]

14. L&LD is Paul McCartney at his "Most Saccharine?"

Surely you mispelled "Ebony & Ivory" or "The Girl Is Mine"

In this ever changing world in which we live in
makes you give in and cry...

The doggone girl is mine!




Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[kodi]

15. well, how else to account for a song that makes death sweet?

although you are correct about ebony and iv-or-ee, but the chasm between subject matter and song is wider with Live and let die.

geeze, what a waste...i am unable to even listen to any post-beatle mccartney because of the schmaltz.

[Blue_Tires]

8. for your eyes only

which also has my FAVORITE chase scene (good music for that scene as well)

[Montauk6]

13. Diamonds: La Shirley at her best

[Parrcrow]

16. I have to put in a good word for Rita

Coolidge!

All Time High from what was probably the worst Bond film, 'Octopussy'

[Kelvin Mace]

17. The song was OK

but it didn't fit the subject matter.

[MN ChimpH8R]

21. Octopussy was bad, but Moonraker is the stinkage standard

for Bond movies. A villain who acts like a statue full of Thorazine isn't my idea of scary. And Lois Chiles was the chilliest Bond girl ever. Ugh.

[Hugin]

18. My step-son gave me the theme music collection on CD a few years ago...

It's among my most cherished possessions.

[Borgnine]

19. While I vote for Live and Let Die...

...I actually think the Goldeneye theme is pretty damn good, and feels more Bondish than anything since Goldfinger.

[MN ChimpH8R]

22. "View" of those listed, but

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the best Bond theme.

[terrya]

23. "You Only Live Twice" is the best, IMO.

John Barry, the composer, at his best. Complimented nicely by Nancy Sinatra's singing.

[jakpalmer]

24. OHMSS

John Barry, of course.

[Kelvin Mace]

27. Good theme,

but I was picking the ones with vocal tracks.

[seemunkee]

25. Thunderball - Tom Jones singing

[Kelvin Mace]

26. Great song

silly lyrics.

[seemunkee]

30. Exactly so cheesy it's great

[AllegroRondo]

29. Thunderball was a last minute song

John Barry originally wrote a tune called "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" as the theme for the movie, sung by Dionne Warwick. The song title was taken from the popular nickname for James Bond in Italy.
The movie studio thought the film's main song should also have the same name as the movie, and made him write another.
The original song is still on the movie soundtrack.

[Kelvin Mace]

31. I heard an interview

with Tom Jones who discussed recording the song. He said he read the lyrics and wanted to know if they were joking.