The All That She Wants and The Sign singers were at the peak of their fame and you can hear the outline of an epic trashy Euro Pop song here. Out of all the alternative Bond theme universes, Swedish group Ace of Bass provide perhaps the strangest detour. Instead the producers hooked in Crow, and Lang’s version was relegated to the closing credits. Many artists fought for the right to claim the theme song for Tomorrow Never Dies – The Cardigans, Swan Lee and St Etienne joined Pulp in the unlucky loser category with Canadian crooner KD Lang.Ĭhannelling her best Shirley Bassey, Lang’s version was originally composed by the film’s scorer David Arnold and traces of it can be found throughout the entire movie. KD Lang – Surrender ( Tomorrow Never Dies) Instead country singer Sheryl Crow got the gig and Pulp’s song went through the slightest of name changes (‘Dies’ became ‘Lies’) and popped up on their next record This is Hardcore.
Their 1996 album Different Class was hailed as the crowning achievement of Brit-Pop and the world seemed to be at the feet of Jarvis Cocker and co.
The producers for their part remained tight-lipped, and while refusing to confirm the submission, said that they always has someone else in mind – a singer-songwriter known as Adele.Īfter GoldenEye had reinvigorated the franchise with aplomb, the race was on to snag the title theme credit for the subsequent instalment, 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.Īt that time Pulp were riding the crest of an all-time career high. It certainly has the cinematic strings and grand flourish that the franchise is synonymous with. The band intimated that they thought it would be a perfect Bond theme song and hinted that they submitted it for consideration. Radiohead’s Spectre is dark it’s fresh, it’s thrilling, it’s pretty much everything you wanted the film to be (and hence why it makes so much retrospective sense it was passed over).Īccounts differ slightly over how close Muse’s bombastic Supremacy really came to landing the slot for Skyfall. It wasn’t a complete surprise - they had shot to the top of bookmaker’s markets last year, covered Carly Simon’s Bond theme Nobody Does it Better live and have previously contributed key sonic elements to films (perhaps most notably Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet).īut there’s something staggeringly wasteful about snaring one of the world’s most revered bands to record a song specifically for you – and then throw it away. Gleaning music out of Radiohead in latter days feels akin to drawing novels from George RR Martin their increasing rarity only whips fans into greater bouts of anticipation.Īs a holiday gift to placate followers, Radiohead dropped the song they had written for Spectre on Christmas Day. There are many iconic Bond theme songs, but there are many others that could have been … To write and perform a Bond theme is an honour and it’s no surprise that some of the industry’s biggest names have found their best efforts falling short of the mark.
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Being in the cinema for the opening strains of Writing’s On the Wall was to hear the fevered anticipation of collective movie goers dissipate like a drowsy helium balloon. Writing’s On the Wall is a decent enough tune, but with a heavy handed swamp of instruments squirting out a fairly nondescript tune as Smith’s sole accompaniment it falls completely flat on its face. The mere sound of it should conjure martinis, Aston Martins and bodacious women emerging from the swell of tropical island surf.ĭaily Review’s very own Luke Buckmaster described the film Spectre as “ caught between homage and parody” and while Smith’s Bond theme song wasn’t completely terrible, it strays far into the territory of a dour Bond theme facsimile. It should be epic, orchestral, slightly ridiculous and suave like all hell. Paul McCartney, Madonna, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Tina Turner and the queen of the Bond theme Shirley Bassey are a few of the iconic legends who have been joined recently by the likes of Jack White, Alicia Keys, Adele and most recently for last year’s 24 th instalment, Spectre, the debonair Grammy-hog Sam Smith.Ī Bond theme song should summon up all the core elements of the franchise into a three to four minute barrage of sound, seamlessly transitioning from the pre-credit action sequence into the hallucinatory lava-lamp ghost worlds of the opening credits. While the tag of the James Bond franchise hangs like a millstone across the careers of the majority of actors and actresses to appear in the films, the same cannot be said of those who have contributed the accompanying theme songs.
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