# Your favoriate James Bond theme song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133 "2013-05-23T16:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/61 "2017-05-18T21:33:06Z")
IMO, “Goldfinger” is the \*perfect \*James Bond theme song, but “You Only Live Twice” is the most beautiful song to be a Bond theme. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/62 "2017-05-19T01:27:00Z")
Spectre’s song didn’t really grab me, but I loved the ones for the other three Daniel Craig films. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/63 "2017-05-19T01:34:11Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > …“You Only Live Twice” is the most beautiful song to be a Bond theme. YOLT is my favorite of all the Bond themes. As you said, it’s a beautiful song, wistful, melancholy and a bit sad. I guess the tone of the song is appropriate…Aki’s death is one of the saddest Bond moments for me. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/64 "2017-05-19T02:18:03Z")
1. “Goldfinger” 2. “Live and Let Die” 3. “Nobody Does it Better” Best song **in** a James Bond movie that’s not its theme: “The Look of Love.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/65 "2017-05-19T04:26:39Z")
Incredibly, Chris Cornell is the first person to pass away who sang a song featured in the opening credits of a James Bond film. RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/66 "2017-05-19T06:51:51Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > 1. Live and Let Die > 2. Nobody Does it Better > 3. Goldfinger > > [LALD @ the 2005 Superbowl](http://youtu.be/s9CgEMt7TJg) (nice firework display) Updated link: [https://youtu.be/PRv6GvDRx9k](https://youtu.be/PRv6GvDRx9k) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/67 "2017-05-20T14:22:34Z")
My favourite Bond songs are “Moonraker”, which doesn’t usually feature high on these lists but which I think is a beautiful song with uncharacteristically intimate lyrics for a Bond song, and “You Only Live Twice”, of which I prefer the glorious strings of the [instrumental version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Eflz8ebYE) to the familiar vocal version. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/68 "2017-05-22T03:24:51Z")
[Henry Mancini Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWjGLpeGb_8) [Fight on Kobe Docks](https://youtu.be/awJrLlplIYs?t=48) from ‘You Only Live Twice’ Boat Chase (remastered) from ‘Live and Let Die’ (no link available) Yes, Mr. Bleeker… I KNOW you “can’t just glue the wings back on…” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133/69 "2017-05-26T19:10:11Z")
Ooh, if we’re going into the instrumentals: [Koskov Escapes and Hercules Launch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGIFVVPfMSU) from my favorite film, _The Living Daylights._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133.md?page=3)