Talk:James Bond music

Video Game Scores
They are worth noting, they are still under the banner of "James Bond Music" >><< 124.181.69.71 (talk) 04:01, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

From Russia with Love primary and secondary themes
The same piece of music is listed as both the primary and the secondary theme for From Russia with Love. Norman314 05:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Discography
This article needs a discography. I have some old James Bond albums from the 60's (mostly scores performed by the Zero Zero Seven Band), and it would be great to see them listed chronologically. ---Alexander 007 04:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * We should stick to recordings made specifically for the movies. Recordings of Bond songs by Zero Zero Seven Band and the Outer Mongolian Kazoo Orchestra ;-) are a dime a dozen. There were dozens if not hundreds made in the 1960s (I have a pile of them myself). I'd rather see detailed information about the official movie recordings, though a lot of this is already covered in the applicable movie articles. 23skidoo 06:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, I suppose. But I want a discography of those Bond records in Wikipedia, perhaps in another article. ---Alexander 007 07:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a pop-culture related article might be a good place for a discography, though you'd need to have a fair amount of information at the start to avoid someone doing a hair-trigger AFD. 23skidoo 05:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Yup. I'm still interested in putting together a discography in another article, and once I get a reference (or better yet, references) at hand, I'll start the thing. Unless someone else comes along and starts it, which I wouldn't mind at all. -Alexander 007 05:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Depeche Mode
Don't you think some of Depeche Mode's songs would fit in a James Bond movie (particularly "Enjoy the Silence" and "Policy of Truth"?)? Silly me, I forgot to sign it again. 71.111.209.99 01:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh, ok. monkeygra (talk) 20:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

James Bond Theme as a closing theme
I think it should be noted which Bond films used the James Bond Theme for the closing music. I know this was the case with Dr. No, OHMSS and TWINE. Are there any other examples? 23skidoo 03:49, 28 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Casino Royale (2006) 4.243.149.137 05:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Expanded soundtrack information
I suggest that all the film's soundtracks be updated with information from that soundtrack, such as various films (such as On Her Majesty's Secret Service or The Living Daylights) getting expanded soundtracks, issues about rereleasing certain soundtracks like Die Another Day or Licence to Kill, and maybe even a controversy with the Octopussy soundtrack (the original version by A&M Records had a printing error and was recalled, later rereleases by Rykodisc and EMI just add three tracks with dialog from the film with no additional music). Your thoughts? -TonicBH 03:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Specific soundtrack information can be found on the film's article. I think that's where the information should really be. Look to expand there. I think the scope of this page is really on the themes (e.g. James Bond Theme - not something like Nobody Does It Better), the composers, and the musicians associated with the series etc. K1Bond007 04:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The theme was heard during the closing credits of the recent remake of Casino Royale. 69.29.6.5 05:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)Lee Ann Campbell

How to edit the infobox at the end of this and other Bond music articles?
I want to edit the infobox at the end of this and other articles devoted to the music of the James Bond series of films, so that the names of each of the tracks points to the relevant Wikipedia article. You know, the one with the tag { { James Bond themes } } (removing the spaces, of course). It's driving me batty -- can someone tell me how to do it? TIA. -- Jalabi99 09:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

James Bond music
Hi. I don't disagree with you enough to revert. However in terms of long term impact Easton's song is a sidenote. Stop anybody in the street and ask them if they remember the theme to Diamonds are Forever or You Only Live Twice and many people will remember the Sinatra/Bassey songs. Ask them to name the theme to For Your Eyes Only and I suspect you would get more blank looks than answers. I don't think chart position is the most important factor - We Have All the Time in the World barely registered when released after OHMSS, but made the top 10 in the 1990s following the Guinness ad. Best regards Mark83 20:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You would have to find citations and not just go by random gut feel. Which might not be easy, given that it's totally subjective. FYI, FYEO is on my iPod, and the other two are not. Wahkeenah 22:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Clarification needed
This article tells me that the film "The World Is Not Enough" contains a song called "Only Myself To Blame" which is "not included in the film". Can that be made a bit clearer? AndyJones 21:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The soundtrack includes the song that was apparently intended for the film, but ultimately not used. monkeygra (talk) 20:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Theme chart
How nice it would be to have a musical jpg of the melody of the musical theme we're talking about. As an encyclopedia, let's not forget to write also for someone who does not know anything about the subject. I'd do it but I don't know how to put pictures in,I've tried several times to no avail.

"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
Is there any connection between the title of this song and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Although it might seem to be a stretch to make such a connection, one must remember that the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie came out only three years after Thunderball. Even though the movies have quite different themes (CCBB is loosely based on a children's fantasy about a flying car), both movies were based on stories written by Ian Fleming. 4.243.149.137 06:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Nope - "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" was a broken English phrase used overseas by people referring to James Bond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Kiss_Bang_Bang_(disambiguation)) Also, from IMDB: "The phrase 'kiss kiss, bang bang' appeared in the 1960s as an overseas slang for spy movies, especially James Bond movies. It was popular in Europe and Japan. It first appeared as a film title for a 1966 spy comedy made in Spain with Italian financing. It was also the title of famed critic Pauline Kael's second published collection of reviews. Kael wrote that she chose the words as her title because they are 'perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.'  So, no, nothing to do with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Esprix (talk) 21:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Though it's certainly not enough to put a connection in the article, it is also inappropriate to completely dismiss any possible connection between Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and this song. In addition to Ian Fleming writing the underlying novel, Albert R. Broccoli produced the film, and its script was co-written by Roald Dahl (who also wrote the script of You Only Live Twice). It is very much possible that Broccoli and/or Dahl were in pre-production on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during the production of Thunderball; that could have influenced the decision to strike this song just as much as the producers' wishes to avoid broken English or have the word "Thunderball" in the theme. --RBBrittain (talk) 12:51, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Pink Floyd James Bond Theme?
I am DAMN certain there was a theme from one of the films done by Pink Floyd, but I do not believe it was any of the MGM ones. But I could be wrong and it could have been a cover of one of the themes. I used to hear it all the time on the radio, but I can't for the life of me remember how it goes.

Necro-File 00:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

The Crystal Method?
The Crystal Method doing a version of the James Bond theme? As a fan of theirs, I've never heard of such a thing, and doing a search only brought up downloads from unofficial and (probably) illegal foreign download sites. I haven't heard this supposed "James Bond Rave Remix", but I'm about 99.99% sure it's got nothing to do with The Crystal Method. monkeygra (talk) 20:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

To Kill Tomorrow
Just bringing the To Kill Tomorrow article to your attention, it seems relevant to here. — Balthazar  (T 03:35, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

The Living Daylights score
Why is'nt Paul Waaktaar listed together with John Barry on this ?

a-ha worked on both song and melody of the Living Daylights.Mortyman (talk) 05:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Separated soundtrack and main title links
In chart in the subsection "Official Main Title Themes," I noticed most of the theme songs linked to the articles for the corresponding soundtrack. I also noticed a bunch of the songs had their own articles. So I decided to be bold (lol unnecessary link) and reconfigure the chart so that there were separate links leading to the soundtrack and the theme song articles.--Lairor (talk) 22:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality
The phrase 'The "Surrender" theme is heard throughout the score while the melody of Sheryl Crow's song is not used again during the film.' is irrelevant information, but more importantly, it is an insinuation that the surrender theme was better than sheryl crow's, and that the choosing was unfair. How many times a song is used is no criteria to establish wich one is better. It could simply mean that "surrender" worked well as background music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.47.69.34 (talk) 08:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Can someone explain this article?
Aside from the many formatting errors (quoting songs, italicising move titles, etc.), almost all of this seems to be WP:OR. For example: the headers... "official"/"non-official", "secondary"... what does that even mean? Who has deemed songs as official or unofficial, the author of this article? Who gets to decide what is an "official foreign song"? Where does the chart information in the peak position come from? There is a lot here about the history of Bond music, who performed what, the stories behind the songs/artists, but there are almost no sources to back any of it up. This article has been tagged for cleanup for 3 years. - eo (talk) 13:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd contend they're fairly self-evident and don't count as OR. Main Themes are those that play at the start of the film, after the intro sequence; given that this is a well-known James Bond tradition, that distinction is well-founded.  The Official/Unofficial distinction is a similarly understood institution when categorising material from the James Bond films, classed by whether the material was sanctioned by EON or not. Asasa64 (talk) 22:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

London Calling
Can anyone explain the basis for having "London Calling" part of the secondary song list? My interpretation of that list was it being a collection of notable songs written or released for the films. The Clash song was definitely not written for any Bond film, especially not the one listed on the page. Dustman15 (talk) 02:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Ranking the Bond themes
Due to the overwhelming discussion among critics regarding the ranking of these songs, and what makes a good "Bond theme" versus just being a good song on its own merits, I really think some sort of article - or subsection of this page - be dedicated to this topic. Some examples:--Coin945 (talk) 20:09, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9591598/Best-and-worst-James-Bond-themes-named-in-new-chart.html
 * http://www.billboard.com/articles/chartbeat/474775/top-10-james-bond-theme-songs-ever
 * http://movieline.com/2012/09/26/james-bond-movie-theme-songs-list-best-worst-007-music/
 * http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-top-10-james-bond-theme-songs-20121005
 * http://grantland.com/features/a-semi-scientific-countdown-determine-best-james-bond-theme-song-all-time/
 * http://www.npr.org/2008/11/14/97027866/ranking-the-bond-theme-songs
 * http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-best-and-worst-james-bond-movies-a-ranked-list
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/in-honor-of-skyfall-a-list-of-the-10-best-james-bond-theme-songs/2012/11/09/95205dbe-2aa2-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_blog.html
 * http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2012/10/25/top-ten-best-james-bond-theme-songs-of-all-time/
 * http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/09/every-james-bond-opening-scene-ranked/
 * http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/an-important-and-definitive-ranking-of-every-james-bond-film#.tadyyVaV79
 * http://www.hitfix.com/news/spectrevision-the-complete-ranking-of-all-james-bond-titles
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/xaque-gruber/james-bond-songs_b_1967912.html
 * http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/the-graded-ranked-and-non-negotiable-guide-to-every-bond-song/264557/
 * http://whatculture.com/film/james-bond-ranking-the-theme-songs-from-worst-to-best.php
 * http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/ranking-james-bond-songs/

Mick Leeson and "For Your Eyes Only"
The list of Bond themes incorrectly credited Michael J. Leeson as the co-writer of "For Your Eyes Only", apparently because IMDb says so; but IMDb is a wiki-like site and often unreliable (see WP:CITEIMDB, also WP:DBTF). The writer's name (more specifically the song's lyricist) is Mick Leeson, not only per the song's Wikipedia article but also confirmed by the official Oscar database (it was the third Bond theme nominated for Best Original Song), his directory entry at the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and a Google-cached copy of his PDF bio formerly posted on the PRS for Music website. He is British; Michael J. Leeson is from the U.S. Also, he and his regular writing partner Peter Vale wrote the Charles & Eddie song "Would I Lie to You?". (IMO it would be appropriate for someone with better Wikipedia skills to write an article about him, as he is an Oscar nominee as well as a Bond theme composer.) --RBBrittain (talk) 12:25, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

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Themes Sheetmusic
Wouldn't it be nice, if the users were to see the sheetmusic to the particular themes, scince there are no pictures about that on this wikipedia Article. RaftaReads