# What's your favorite James Bond theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612 "2007-01-11T21:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/41 "2007-01-14T18:27:54Z")
Live and let die ,but just to be controversial ,my favourite Bond movie is You only live twice . ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/42 "2007-01-14T18:39:19Z")
The only good thing about _Swept Away_ is the making-of on the DVD where M and G spend half an hour making fun of each other. “I only work with really well-hung directors,” “If you turn an M upside-down, it looks just like a G!” “You gave me a plastic f-ing flower? I am SO OVER this low-budget f-ing film!” Anyway, even though DAD is one of my favourite M songs, I like **Nobody Does It Better**. Shirley Bassey makes me break out in hives. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/43 "2007-01-14T21:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Chris Cornell’s song “You Know My Name,” the theme song to the newest _Casino Royale_, didn’t do much for me the first time I heard it. But I liked it just enough to get it from iTunes, and now I like it a little more every time I hear it. Good bass line, and lyrics that allude to the movie without hitting you over the head. [/QUOTE] I agree! I hated the video opening montage in the movie, and the song didn’t do a lot for me the first time I heard it. But I heard Audioslave perform it on some talk show rerun recently and was pleasantly surprised. I’ve only ever heard the song twice and it’s growing on me. I can’t really put them in order, but the top tier for me is: **The World is Not Enough We’ve Got All the Time in the World Goldfinger You Know My Name** I do find myself absentmindedly humming **Live and Let Die** , but that’s not necessarily an endorsement. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/44 "2007-01-14T21:32:17Z")
Goldfinger/Diamonds Are Forever/Moonraker (they’re really all the same tune with different words to my untrained ear) For Your Eyes Only Nobody Does It Better A View To A Kill All Time High (Octopussy) Live and Let Die Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/45 "2007-01-14T22:01:06Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Nancy Sinatra almost redeemed herself with “You Only Lived Twice”, though I doubt royalties paid for what it cost her father to set up her recording career. [/QUOTE] It didn’t hurt that it was a great song – the best of the Bond songs, IMO. Yoko Ono probably could have redeemed herself with that song. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/46 "2007-01-14T23:06:04Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] I really like “A View to a Kill” But that’s probably because I am an 80s child. [/QUOTE] Same here. I also like the _Living Daylights_. After that, I turn the movie off. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/47 "2007-01-15T00:56:29Z")
I like “View to a Kill,” but only the instrumental versions used in the score. “We Have All the Time in the World”—that’s definately a favorite, instrumental or vocal. (Depressing, but good.) ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/48 "2007-01-15T04:01:13Z")
Another vote here for _GoldenEye_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/49 "2007-01-15T04:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Six words: Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. Appropriate for a Broken Lizard jokefest, asinine in a Bond movie. That film was such a self-parody of Bond movies that it kicked the feet out from under Mike Myers. It’s like Kevin Federline: such a absurd parody of what it’s trying to be that there’s really no way to exaggerate it’s most bizarre qualities. Still, it’s head and shoulders above _Die Another Day_, though. And Denise Richards could kick Halle Barry’s ass all over a stage any day of the week, thespian-wise, which is no complement to either party. Berry really needs to give back her Oscar and collect the “Lifetime Misachievement Award” from the Razzies. Stranger [/QUOTE] I think the parts with Sophie Marceau more than make up for the parts with Denise Richards. _Tomorrow Never Dies_ is still my favorit eBrosnan Bond, mainly because of Michelle Yeoh. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/50 "2007-01-15T04:21:27Z")
Any way, the worst Bond song has to be the execrable campfest that is Madonna’s Die Another Day. “Hey, Sigmud Freud, analyze this” WTF? “All Time High” is mysecond least favorite, but it’s still way better than “DAD”. “You KNow My Name” has grown on me, but Cornell still sounds like he’s singing after a shot of novacaine. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/51 "2007-01-15T17:38:09Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] I think the parts with Sophie Marceau more than make up for the parts with Denise Richards. [/quote] She deserved to be in a much better movie. [QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] _Tomorrow Never Dies_ is still my favorit eBrosnan Bond, mainly because of Michelle Yeoh. [/QUOTE] I totally agree. Teri Hatcher, though, was embarassingly bland, and Jonathon Pryce just humiliated himself as a grotesque parody of a villian. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/52 "2007-01-15T19:29:32Z")
Live and Let Die because it’s just an awesome song. Also, if you can find the lyrics for the never-recorded Weird Al version (“Chicken Pot Pie”), it’s quite amusing. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/53 "2007-01-15T23:04:55Z")
I’m surprised there are so few mentions of _From Russia With Love_, sung by the sublime Matt Monro. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/54 "2007-01-15T23:11:16Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Her best movie was _Vision Quest._ [/QUOTE] Actually her best movie was probably “Desperately Seeking Susan” followed by “Dick Tracy.” She was too old to play Eva Peron when she finally got the chance but she did a decent job. She’s a decent actor in a limited range, but the same can be said for a lot of movie stars who take far less heat than Madonna does. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/55 "2007-01-16T00:03:34Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually her best movie was probably “Desperately Seeking Susan” followed by “Dick Tracy.” [/QUOTE] IMO the #2 spot is “Dangerous Game”, which wasn’t really a movie so much as a performance/conceptual art piece by Abel Ferrara. The principle was the same as DSS: it was impossible to tell when M had to “act”, and when she just had to be herself. Back on topic, it should probably be noted that Die Another Day was written before Madonna signed on to do the theme, and they just kind of shoehorned it in there. It was one of the only survivors of Madonna’s sessions with Mirwais for the _American Life_ album. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612/56 "2007-01-16T00:08:12Z")
Sorry, I meant Michel Colombier, not Mirwais. My bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-james-bond-theme-song/387612.md?page=2)