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When Christina moved from LA to Texas, Christine suggested a weekly challenge to stay in touch: pick a song that fits a chosen theme. This game opened them to new perspectives on each other while deepening their own understanding of the music that shapes their lives. Each week Christina and Christine recreate the magic of their song exchange on a broader scale, deconstructing their thematic picks, providing personal anecdotes and historical insights, and sharing transformative tracks rarely spotlighted on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Shaken & Stirred - James Bond Theme Songs
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October 5 is Global James Bond Day! What better way to celebrate than with pickle juice martinis (the antithesis of 007) and a deep dive with our editor and self proclaimed Bond Enthusiast, Tamas Harangi, to talk about the franchise and the iconic songs that help make it relevant to this day. Please share your favorites with us!
SONGS:
Duran Duran: A View to a Kill (1985)
Nancy Sinatra: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Gladys Knight: License to Kill (1989)
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:
A View to a Kill - Opening Credits Sequence (1985)
Zorin Blimp Scene from A View to a Kill
Zorin Spars with May Day - A View to A Kill
Coming to Terms with James Bond’s Flawed Past—as a fan and a critic (NPR, 2021)
Dr. No Theme Song (Norman and Barry, 1962)
Shirley Bassey & Tom Jones Rockprofile - "I am the voice of Bond, darling!"
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I'm Christine. And I'm Christina. In 2024, I moved to Texas from LA. And to keep in touch, Christine and I started a weekly game where we each pick a song that fits a chosen theme.
SPEAKER_02This game deepened our understanding of each other and the songs that shape us, inspiring the podcast you're listening to now. Each week we share our pics, swap stories, and dig into tracks you might love, and a lot of the time have never heard of.
SPEAKER_03Welcome to Stereothematica, your favorite atypical music podcast.
SPEAKER_02Christina.
SPEAKER_03Christine.
SPEAKER_02Welcome back to LA.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, thank you.
SPEAKER_02How have you been doing that?
SPEAKER_03Living in gratitude. I'm sure. Your best life. Live, laugh, love every day.
SPEAKER_02The last time you were here, it feels like just yesterday, in a way.
SPEAKER_03It was like only three months ago.
SPEAKER_02But you remember we that was the first time we ever recorded life.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. That was huge.
SPEAKER_02And we did a pity party with Harry Nilsson.
SPEAKER_03And some white wine.
SPEAKER_02White wine, because that's what you do.
SPEAKER_03That's what you do if you're Harry Nielsen.
SPEAKER_02But today we are drinking martinis. Shaken and stirred.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_02Which can only mean one thing.
SPEAKER_03Tell me.
SPEAKER_02It's James Bond Day.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_02We are talking James Bond theme songs. And guess what? It is actually James Bond Day. By the time this comes out, October 5th, it will be international James Bond Day, commemorating the release date of the first Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. And to help us unpack the 007 universe through the iconic songs that help make the franchise relevant, our editor, extraordinaire and international man of mystery in his own right, Thomas Harangi is joining us. Yay! Welcome, Thomas. Would you like to say anything about this being your first time on the mic? Anything? Any grievances you want to share that you've been holding back?
SPEAKER_03You expect me to talk. Come, come, Mr. Bond.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So um do you seriously, you have I I know you share your grievances with me whenever you edit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I like to I would like to hear even if I listen to the case. Okay, well I would start by Christina. You should hold the mic straight. What like this? Damn it. Okay. I'm I've been correct.
SPEAKER_02Okay, am I am I doing everything okay?
SPEAKER_03Okay, I was holding it for the listener. I was holding it karaoke style. And now I'm holding it like I feel like I'm a singer. Yeah, that's the default mode. She just always wants to be like you have to hold it rock star style. Rockstar style. This is gonna get old fast.
SPEAKER_02So, okay. Before we get into our picks for favorite Bond theme songs, should we talk a little bit about the franchise? Mainly just to get a sense of like our personal context with it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I want to see how the hell we landed on this theme.
SPEAKER_02I know I can tell you how we landed on it.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I mean, it's a good theme.
SPEAKER_02No, Thomas and I were driving, we're we were on a little road trip and we were just listening to Bond music. Um, I think because it's it all started with Paul McCartney and the Wings and Band on the Rung. Yes, then that turned into Live and Let Die, which I really love, and is actually like was a front runner for my pick today. I did not pick that, but we were listening to all the James Bond songs, and he would know, like I would from the first notes, he would know what the song was. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02So I'm like, oh, this would be a fun theme to get our editor on. And we had talked about maybe one day, not that we would have a guest because we don't do we don't know.
SPEAKER_03We're opening up the world, but Thomas is part of this.
SPEAKER_02He's part of the family, he's the backbone. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Maybe the brain and the heart. Well, maybe he's the backbone in the nervous system.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So Christina, I I know your experience with Bond movies is minimal unless you saw a movie.
SPEAKER_03I don't think I truly actually don't think I've ever seen a James Bond movie. Kids these days. Right? I know. I I I if I have, don't remember. I know I've seen clips and I've watched the movie, like like I've walked in on my dad watching the movie and been like, oh. Because it's like they're so sexist.
SPEAKER_08They yeah, it's it's uh it's a sign of its time for sure. I mean they tried with the with each like incarnation. I feel like they keep trying to they try to get better. Well, they try well in the modern era, yes. In like starting with the Piers Brosnan era, they tried, I mean, they made M a a woman. That was like a big deal at the time.
SPEAKER_03It was like, I think it's okay that women can vote.
SPEAKER_08Yes, it it's the the concept itself is very much uh from a previous time. Yes, antiquated. They they do try to make it. I feel like if you look if you watch the Daniel Craig movies, they do try to make the female characters a little more fleshed out, a little more uh complex and serious. I you know, yeah, not if you if you compare the Daniel Craig James Bond movie to like a Roger Moore or a or a Sean Connery movie, you will see the difference. Now, I'm not saying they're perfect. I mean it's definitely it's definitely a trope as far as the female characters are concerned. So there's no there's no defense of that. Thank you. There's no way of defending it. All it can do is keep doing better and keep hopefully reinventing itself. So there's no I'm I'm definitely not defending that. No, it's I'm glad to hear you say it.
SPEAKER_03Maybe we just erase all the old ones.
SPEAKER_02But okay. So so here's the thing about the old ones there is a certain value, a certain camp value. I think for me as a kid, uh the first experience I had was walking a family affair situation. Um, there was there was a party at my grandma's house, and I walk into the living room, kids are playing, I'm like eight years old playing with my cousins, and I witnessed this horrifying face on the screen with metallic teeth. And I had no idea what this was. I eventually find out this is Moonraker, and that character was called Jaws.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_02And that image of his face and his crazy forehead, and he was so terrifying as a kid. And I'm like, that was the first just image of James Bond that I had. So not even James Bond, the character, but the villain, the henchman. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay. And and this is pre-Draws, the shark movie. I have to look it up.
SPEAKER_02This is actually no, this is post-Draws, and I'm assuming they named him Jaws after Moonwaker came out in 79.
SPEAKER_03I'm into it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, you're tired. Um, but but no, but I think the thing is, like, as I got older, like seeing Bond movies was just a thing you did. Like it was, I feel like they would come out around Thanksgiving or Christmas time. And so it would be a thing, like a Christmas break, Thanksgiving break. You go with the family to see James Bond movies. And it was it was kind of fun. And I never I don't remember any of the plots. Like, I don't care about these movies, sure. But I kind of remember this like oh, this like otherworldliness. It was so so like different from the day-to-day. And especially like we've talked about this feeling we've had as kids, kind of preteens entering like our teenage years, where we're starting to discern what we like and and what why we like it, sure, and and who are adults and what does it mean to be old. Yeah. And I feel like with James Bond, not that like, oh, this is what it means to be old, but there was a lot of like hints, like a lot of sexuality, a lot of like high powered craziness. And it was kind of funny too. Like a character like Pussy Galore. Like, I mean, at whatever age I was when I saw that, I don't necessarily know what galore meant, but pussy, it was you know, it's hilarious.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay, well, I'm curious how Thomas got into the Bond movies.
SPEAKER_08Okay, well, it's a it's like a longer story, but so basically I grew up in Hungary, and when I when I was I was growing up, it was still a communist. So we had a lot of American media and a lot of Western media movies and TV shows come in, but it was selective in in what we were quote unquote allowed to watch. So James Bond was definitely not something that was distributed in Hungary or it was definitely censored. So it was not, it was uh it uh the term they would use is it did not serve the interest of the Hungarian state at the time because it it was, you know, uh he was beating up Russians all the time. So that was not uh not cool at the time. But interestingly enough, so Roger Moore was actually very popular in Hungary and in Europe because he was in a TV show called The Persuaders with Tony Curtis, and it was a British TV show, and it was a very popular, you know, they played two millionaires running around Europe solving crimes when they were like, you know, a lot of uh funny dialogue and back and forth. So it was a very popular show, and then I remember in the 80s people would talk about this thing where oh Roger Moore he plays this character called James Bond, but you can't watch the movies because it was a very much a word of mouth type of thing. And then so early 80s, in the early 80s when is when VCR started showing up in Hungary and people would bring him in from Vienna, you know, from the West, and then we didn't have a uh video distribution service of any kind. So basically, all it was was people would buy VCRs and then they would watch bootleg VHS tapes from from that were smuggled in from West Germany or brought in from West Germany. How crazy. So it was somewhere in the early 80s when I first saw a James Bond movie in German, dubbed into German, which I didn't speak German before. And um so that was the very first James Bond movie I saw on this bootleg VHS, and it was later, years later, that I found out it was uh for your eyes only. Okay, and the German title of it was James Bond in tödlicher Mission, which means James Bond on the Deadly Mission. Yeah, which is gee, thanks. Is it really pretty on the nose? Thanks, German film translator. Anyway, so but it was uh I remember kind of was very impressed with that movie, and to this day I kind of list it as my favorite Bond movie just because of the impression that it made. And if you ever if you ever watch For Your Eyes Only, if you try to think of the 80s, what it was, if you think of it as this is the first James Bond movie you saw, I think that would still hold up on that level of of just the action sequences that were in it and stuff. And again, just you have to understand that we didn't understand the dialogue at all, we just we were just watching it for for the fun of it.
SPEAKER_04I love that.
SPEAKER_08And um, so as things were opening up during like the Glasnus Perestroika times, there was a thing, a film series that someone did in my hometown where they would the film institute in Hungary would have all the prints, they wouldn't distribute them, but they had all the prints. So we would bring down these prints from the film institute and would screen the the Connery James Bond films with uh somebody like kind of live translating it. And some of them were, I think, in the case French dubs that they had.
SPEAKER_03Are you hearing that or is there like an earpiece?
SPEAKER_08So basically, what what happened was I remember this was way back in the day, but somebody would sit be sitting in a projection booth and kind of do do the uh the live translation thing that they would do at the UN or something, you know, or something. Yeah, yeah. And then so and they would come through the speakers along with the audio tracks and uh kind of leveled in. So yeah, so I saw the Connery James Bond films, like kind of late 80s in that in that format. I had one more, one other which I will get into when I when we talk about the song, but that was basically uh my introduction to the to the franchise.
SPEAKER_02Not for the song Machina Eastina Easton song.
SPEAKER_08No for your eyes only. No, I was uh no, when I'm when I'm talking about my pick, I'll tell I'll talk about another experience as well. But but um that was kind of the introduction to to uh the series.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Cool, cool. And I do have to say I looked up the Jaws guy and one of the photos that came out, it looked like he was cheersing with Squeaky from Oh Did you watch this movie? It looks nuts. No, like have you seen it since that horrifying movie? Which movie are you talking about?
SPEAKER_02Oh, Jaws reappears in a couple of really so what was interesting about that, the first movie. Do you know what the first movie was that he appeared in? He okay, so he was in that. They actually showed that to test audiences, and he was supposed to be like eaten by a shark or something.
SPEAKER_03Oh no.
SPEAKER_02And then people loved him so much that they didn't want to kill him.
SPEAKER_03Okay. So then they made an appearance monster.
SPEAKER_02And he was actually gonna be in the next Bond movie, but they just wanted to get more down to earth after that. Because that was too old. After Moonraker after Moonraker, I guess.
SPEAKER_08Well, and the next one was for your eyes only.
SPEAKER_02Yes, exactly. Which was, I guess, more down to earth. Yeah. But this she do you know the Sheena Easton song?
SPEAKER_03For your eyes only, probably because I listened to all of the songs. Okay.
SPEAKER_02It was a big song. I remember that, like independent of Bond movie, like just. Did you sing it? No, I am not I'm not gonna sing it. You do you want to sing it?
SPEAKER_08No, I'm not gonna sing for your eyes only.
SPEAKER_02Never mind. Cut that please.
SPEAKER_08This is my favorite thing.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so this is a good good way to segue into Bond music. So what makes a good Bond song? Let's ask the other because he's the expert.
SPEAKER_08Well, I'm not an expert, I'm just an enthusiast. But I think but the thing, the thing about Bond songs is like I feel like Bond songs is like a genre of uh of itself, and within it, like there's throughout the years, there have been different genres that were introduced as Bond songs, and it's really kind of comes down to either a classic feel or kind of what I would call a flavor of the moment type of type of thing. So you have like aha and Durand Duran during the 80s, who were popular bands that they they asked to perform, and then you have later on Cheryl Crow, Madonna, right? Even Garbage. Yeah, they were really good Bond songs, and the you don't hear about the that band anymore. It was definitely a flavor of the moment band, I feel like. What about Madonna? Am I wrong? What about Madonna? Madonna is Madonna, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, as much as I love.
SPEAKER_08So that my thing with them is I liked I like them all in a way, too, in their own, except for one, which I will I'll get into with.
SPEAKER_03Okay, yeah. So I can't wait for that. Can't wait for that.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, but so I I I like them all because because I when I when I go into a Bond movie, I just want to like it, you know? Yeah, so and some of them I don't, some of them lose me. And I I can get into that too, but but I just want to like it, so I want to give it a chance. I don't want to judge it based on the song. There's songs, various songs that have come out over the years that were controversial at the time where people were panning it, like You Know My Name from Casino Royale. I remember when that song was first introduced, and Daniel Craig himself, when he was first introduced as Bond, there was a lot of criticism of him as Bond or what he would do with it, and this was prior to the movie even coming out. So I always was of the opinion, especially with these relaunches, it's like I just want to give it a chance and want to give the actor a chance and the writers and the directors a chance to make it work with that actor. And I feel like they always do, up until now at least, every actor that has played Bond, they they each kind of brought their own version of it. And the stories and the writers and the directors and the stories that they create, they each kind of mold it to that that type of character that the actor brought. Now, later on, you can argue that they lose lose track of it on some of these cycles with with the actors, but I feel like at least in the launches, they have been very successful in creating a new version of the character that that is interesting. So what was the question? Oh, what makes it the Bon song? Well, I so my my feeling is that number one is does it capture the spirit of the movie that it's accompanying, and does it capture the spirit of the moment that would be one when I think of the top tier bon songs that I feel are top tier among them, like the three criteria that I have for it in deciding what is the best Bon song would be for me, and it's subjective, is I like the ones that where the song itself feels cinematic. Yeah. And to me, cinematic means capturing the spirit of a Bond movie in general and the excitement of it. And in most cases, that would mean like a uh orchestral accompaniment that that is integral to the song, not just a uh flavor of it. And often that song would then becomes woven into the main theme of the movie itself, the soundtrack. So that's kind of my number one. My number two is you know what makes a good Bond song. Honestly, it just has to be from a good Bond movie, you know? Like I feel like if you enjoyed the movie, you're not gonna hate the song.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it can contribute to it, yeah, for sure.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_08And then the third one for me, for the top tier, and there's exceptions for this for the top tier of Bond song. I feel like the title of the song has to be the title of the movie. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, and there's exceptions to it, and there's great songs where the title is not this not the uh movie title, but it's to me, as far as the top tier best for for me to select the best songs, those are like the three things that contribute to it.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02When do you do you have something?
SPEAKER_03Well, I like when they mention the movie title or the villain, too. Oh yeah, like Goldfinger. Okay. That's like a good and it's also it ticks like it's the orchestral, it's like very cinematic. They're almost like musical numbers, you know, like from a Broadway musical. Like they could be supplanted into a Broadway, in my opinion. Like the good ones.
SPEAKER_02This is how what for us, yeah, subjective.
SPEAKER_03It is subjective.
SPEAKER_02I want to feel like I am a spy. Like I want to feel like I'm gonna put on my beret and either be escaping something or like trying to catch someone.
SPEAKER_03Love that.
SPEAKER_02Like in your exact and and maybe this is a good little segue to my pick. So I I mentioned this. This was a toss-up between Paul McCartney's and the wings. Paul McCartney and the Wings Live and Let Die. But I went with a better standalone. And and actually, for I should say that that is kind of a requirement for a good Bond song, is that it it's independent of the movie? Yeah, it's just a good song. Oh, interesting. Yeah. No, you don't have to have the movie. And that's why I chose Duran Duran's A View to a Kill. Is this not a great song, you guys?
SPEAKER_03I did not know this was a Bond song until I listened to the the James Bond song playlist.
SPEAKER_02Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03I knew this song, but did not know it was a Bond song. And I rest my cake.
SPEAKER_08And I mean that's that is a very good uh argument in support of that song for sure. That song slaps. It's good.
SPEAKER_02And also it's the only song, the only Bond song ever to reach like number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
SPEAKER_03Oh, number one. Number one.
SPEAKER_02Wait, the only Bond song.
SPEAKER_03What about like Adele and Sam Smith?
SPEAKER_02No, not number one.
SPEAKER_03Are you sure? Sorry, I'm not trying to contest you.
SPEAKER_02You can go ahead and check.
SPEAKER_03I'll look right now. Yeah. Okay, but let's keep talking.
SPEAKER_02Because those, but but that's the thing, those weren't standalone. And we'll I feel like we'll get to that maybe in a bit.
SPEAKER_03This song for they made the the Durand Ran song was for the movie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So actually, okay. Well I'll I'll get into that in a second about how that came about. But also, it was nominated for a Golden Globe for best original song. It didn't win.
SPEAKER_03Hey, sorry, just to circle back, Christine's right about the one the number one thing. I was looking at the UK number one charts. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02In UK, I think it was only number two.
SPEAKER_03Well, and I didn't, I uh you know, we're in the You are correct, but that why do we love Durand Duran more here? They're British, aren't they? Um, yes, they are.
SPEAKER_08So that song, it was interesting because around the same time we're that I'm talking about, we were huge fans of Duran Duran at the time, with me and my friends. So, and we were aware of Duran Duran singing a song for a Bond movie, but we haven't seen the movie. But the the song was popular. So I do like that song. It's not there's not a just because it doesn't meet two of the requirements. Yeah, two of your yeah, you're two of my requirements. Because View to a Kill is generally regarded as not a good Bond movie.
SPEAKER_02Okay, and honestly, I don't remember.
SPEAKER_08I don't remember it's a good song.
SPEAKER_02But the video?
SPEAKER_03Are we gonna talk about the video?
SPEAKER_02We're gonna talk about the video for sure. But first I want to talk about other Oscar winners, Bond songs that were actually Oscar winners. Christina, this is now in your lifetime.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02Are you aware of the threat? Three best original songs for James Bond. Well, just that won Oscars.
SPEAKER_03I think one of those is Sam Smith. It was all what? Am I right? Sam Smith Adele.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_03I don't know the third one.
SPEAKER_02You know it. Unfortunately.
SPEAKER_03No time to die.
SPEAKER_02Billy Eilish.
SPEAKER_03Oh no. I didn't listen. I'm not gonna lie, I did not listen to that one.
SPEAKER_02You don't need to.
SPEAKER_03I am sorry because like I think she's probably a cool person and everything. But I even thought to myself, that's not gonna be a good Bond song.
SPEAKER_02It's not and Sam Smith, what do you think about that one?
SPEAKER_03Don't care. Don't care. I don't even like the Adele song. Oh my god. Okay, so Skyfall.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Sorry. Skyfall is a great Bond song. That's just for the record, it's a great Bond song.
SPEAKER_03It's not a good standalone. I I do agree with you that it's a good Bond song. I don't want to listen to it. Really? I listen to that song all the time. It's so boring on its own.
SPEAKER_02I tried, I could barely just in preparation for this episode, I wanted to listen to the three Oscar winners and I couldn't. They were excruciating.
SPEAKER_08I agree with you on the last two. I don't like those two. But Skyfall was a good movie. It's a good song. And and I remember the song coming out uh right before the movie, and I was listening to a song, and I was like, oh, this movie's gonna be awesome. Was it was the movie awesome? Yeah, I really liked it. I really like Skyfall. I haven't seen it. I think it's the only Bond movie where like the cinematography takes like center stage because it was shot by Roger Deakins, who's like um who's just one of the best out there, and and it was just it's visually a very interesting movie, and it's it's just it's just something I like to watch just just for the visuals, and I I like that movie a lot.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I just want to acknowledge right now there was one Bond song that I was like, what?
SPEAKER_08Uh huh.
SPEAKER_03Can you guess which one it was?
SPEAKER_08I I'm guessing it's gonna be the one uh one that I consider the worst.
SPEAKER_03Is it the Alicia Keys and Jack Well one? What the hell?
SPEAKER_08Another way to die. Sorry, because we're totally hijacking, but yeah, like instead of so another way to die is the song from the movie Quantum of Solace. It's the different title from the movie, number one. Right. Number two, very little orchestral elements, very little cinematic elements. It's not a good song. The movie was not good. It was that movie suffered from I think it was produced or they were going into pre-production during the writer's strike. And so they had to rush the script to get done before the writer's contract expired because they knew there was going to be a strike. So as they were shooting it, it was already the writers were already striking, so it was only um the people who were allowed to rewrite it were the director and the producers. So if you watch that movie, I mean it's it suffers from many problems, and uh the song did not help. I mean, I just I remember watching the title sequence, and I will I will say that even the fonts they used in the title sequence was more annoying to me. I don't know why. So for that movie, there were at least two other alternate songs that were recorded that were considered, and both of them are way better than the Alicia Keys one, and one of them is actually by Shirley Basley. She recorded a song for Quantum of Solace. Oh my gosh. And it's a really great classic sounding Bond song. Yeah. And the other one is recorded, I believe, by a Spanish artist. I'm not sure, but both of them are Daddy Yankee. Sorry, I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_03I'm just trying to think of who would be the craziest.
SPEAKER_08No, it's a it's a it's a it's a female artist. I I forgot her name, but um the both of those songs, and they're out there, are are great, would have been great Bond songs, but uh the Alicia Keys Jack White was generally considered to be the worst song. Insane, truly.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, but that coupling is insane. It is insane. It's like Mad Libs, and they were like, okay, James Bond's song, Jack White, Alicia Keys, let's go. But I do love your song.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's a great one. Okay, so Duran Duran was actually chosen to do the song after the bassist John Taylor went up to the producer Albert Broccoli at a party and asked, If I give you a fiver, can I write a theme tune, please?
SPEAKER_03Wow, that was good.
SPEAKER_02Anyway, so then they partnered with the longtime Bond composer John Barry to write this masterpiece. Just a quick sidebar on Barry and the iconic Bond sound. That motif that you know you know the motive. I'm not gonna do it. But that famous like James Bond music motif was originated with Monty Norman, who is credited as the composer on Dr. No, but they brought in Barry on that film to arrange and orchestrate Norman's theme, and then Barry went on to score like 11 Bond Bond films and co-wrote five other songs. And Barry has claimed that he is the composer of why not, why not claim it?
SPEAKER_03No, it's complicated.
SPEAKER_02Like anything, it's very complicated because there was just a motif, and then Barry kind of turned it into what we all know and love. Um, okay, so do you guys you you both watched all of the video?
SPEAKER_03Hell yeah. The mullets, the hair. So good. I just was in love with all of them in the video, all of their hair.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And even the beret guy.
SPEAKER_02Wait, even the who guy?
SPEAKER_03The beret. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Simon LeBron.
SPEAKER_03Who is that?
SPEAKER_02Oh, he's the Luigi.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Sorry. I don't know everything. I know everything. Oh, come on. John Lennon. Let's calm down.
SPEAKER_01No, we we forget. She's a young one. 38.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it's not that young, but it's 38. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Calm down.
SPEAKER_02But, anyways, yeah, the video was peak eighties intrigue, and the super spy cosplay really suits their sound perfectly.
SPEAKER_03I want to hear the whole thing. I love that song. It's good.
SPEAKER_02Once you hear it, you can't stop hearing it in your head.
SPEAKER_03Oh, for sure. I've been I've been listening it all day. Good, good, good. In my head.
SPEAKER_02Yes. I like to hear that. And at the end of the Duran Duran video, a woman tugs Simon saying, Aren't you? And then he looks into the camera with his like like the goofiest face.
SPEAKER_03Like it was goofy.
SPEAKER_02He's loving it. And he's just like, Bon, Simon Le Bon. And it's and then he blows up the Eiffel Tower.
SPEAKER_03He blows up the postcard on the rack next to the Eiffel Tower.
SPEAKER_02Not actually the Eiffel Tower.
SPEAKER_03Fucking 80s, dude. I love it. I don't think you could do that video today. No, well, the fact that they're recording on the Eiffel Tower and everything, amazing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and an intercut with scenes from the movie. It's a lot of fun. No, I it's just it's so cool because clearly their fans. I saw some interviews where they're talking about the song and and like what a privilege it was for them to do this.
SPEAKER_03Because like growing up in in London and seeing this if I were able to do a Bond song, I would fucking do it. In a heartbeat. I'd sell my soul. Come on.
SPEAKER_08Just make me money, Penny.
SPEAKER_03I don't care.
SPEAKER_08I don't care about the sexism.
SPEAKER_03Why not?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, why not? Okay, so before I turn it over to Christina, I just want to share one fun fact that's music related. Um, the villain, Max Zorin, who's um planning to destroy Silicon Valley in the movie A View to a Kill, is played by Sereot Thematica, Heart Throb. Chris Christina Walken, yes. Although he's not so much a heartthrob in this. So the fun fact is that David Bowie was slated to play that role. He ended up withdrawing because he thought he'd look too much like a clown.
SPEAKER_03Like, you know what's fucked up? Bowie should have done a fucking Bond song.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he could have done it a good way.
SPEAKER_03I feel like he could have done a really freaky Bond song.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no rip. Well, okay, Christina, I feel like it's your turn.
SPEAKER_03You know, I'm nervous because we have the Bond expertslash enthusiast. And here's the thing entering into this, when Christine suggested that we do the Bond songs, I was like, sure, I know what my favorite Bond song is. I thought, you know, I thought it was gonna be Diamonds Are Forever.
SPEAKER_04I thought so too.
SPEAKER_03Because I think it's like it ticks all your boxes. Yes, right? Yeah, it's a very good song and Shirley kills. Yes, she can really belt it out, which I absolutely love. And that's why I think like Adele, like she's got that big voice, you know. But so I had to go listen to all the Bond songs because I'm like so unaware. I I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to the Bonds. So I had to go, I had to go listen to every single Bond song, and that actually changed my opinion of my favorite Bond song because I love that you thought you knew because I I thought that was it too. The Diamonds are Forever. I must have alluded to it because I was like, Yeah, that's it. Duh. Yeah. Turns out my favorite song is You Only Live Twice. There you go.
SPEAKER_02Such a good song.
SPEAKER_03It is a good song, and I want to share some fun trivia just to tee it up. Okay. So originally, well, originally they had a demo for the song, and it was sung by Julie Rogers. Does anyone know who that is? No. Neither do I. But she recorded a demo with a 50 to 60 piece orchestra, and it was never released. Isn't that a bummer? Imagine you're like an orchestral performer and you're like, Oh yeah, we did this James Bond movie. I mean they didn't do it. The check cleared, so I truly hope so for their sake. Yeah. Yeah. But then they wanted Frank Sinatra to sing. And I think that would actually be a pretty cool, like, even though around this time, 67, what how old is Frank? I don't know. He's kind of aging. He's still he's aging.
SPEAKER_02He's aging, but he could pull it off.
SPEAKER_03He could have pulled it off. But he recommended his daughter, Nancy, which is nice to have a little Nepo situation. Right. Why not? But she was already enjoying a little bit of success from her hit, These Boots Were Made for Walking. So they said, sure, okay, we can we can bring Nancy into the mix. We'll get this. When Nancy records, she's so nervous to do the recording. It took them 30 takes to get enough material to get the song, which is like a little over two minutes of singing. So you know she must have been really fucked up. Like just how scary is that? Like I'm doing a Bond song. But they still had the 60 peak piece orchestra to accompany her. And unfortunately, the song didn't do super well on the US charts compared to some of the other Bond songs. It was in the top 20 for a couple of weeks, but it did end up wait, that doesn't make sense. It peaked, let's go back. It peaked at number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100. So why do I like this song best?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Beautiful orchestral arrangement, and that opening violin is so captivating. Let's listen. Last last.
SPEAKER_02It's this this has been in my head also since you have shared it with me because of that opening, especially.
SPEAKER_03And like so good. It's so memorable. And if I'm being truly honest, I had I listened to it and I was like, that's familiar. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Why was it familiar? Yeah, I know. Because of Robbie Williams. Exactly. I'm a child of the millennium. Yeah, I was 12 years old in 2000. And when that Robbie Williams song came out, it was so like fun and exciting. It's a good song. It's a pretty good song. It's a nice pop song, at least. And it felt very big. Whatever happened to him? He became a monkey in a movie. No, yes.
SPEAKER_08They did a movie based on his life, but it's it's he's played by a monkey. It's a it's a weird, it's a weird movie. Wait, I thought he was in a monkey suit. Okay, no, it's not a monkey. It's a CGI monkey that played. I don't even know. I haven't seen the movie.
SPEAKER_03All right, we're gonna have to link to this. Well, I did listen to the Millennium in Proparation, and I think it's still a good song. It's very funny to think back to the year 2000, though, and just like how we were like, computers are coming for us. They are here, they are coming for us. Sam Maltman, reach out. What also stands out to me about this song is how Nancy sings. It's a lot more delicate than some of the other powerhouse singers. You know, she is almost timid in her delivery, which makes sense if she had to do it 25 or 30 times, however many times. But it's kind of refreshing. It works for it. Yeah, it's it's kind of beautiful. And although I haven't seen the movie, I do know that it's fucked up and racist. Oh well, I've only seen it once. You've only you only see once. Yes. But let's listen to her delicate singing a little bit.
SPEAKER_07Don't think of the danger. Oh, the stranger is gone. It's okay.
SPEAKER_03It's good. Oh it's kind of sweet and beautiful. And um, since I've listened to all the songs, like I think I'm good. I don't need to listen to the Bond songs anymore.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you're good. Like, yeah, but will you be listening to this one?
SPEAKER_03I probably might, but let me tell you who who else's version I might hear. Ooh. Bjork.
SPEAKER_01Wait, Bjork has a version of this?
SPEAKER_03Bjork covered this song and it was for a compilation. I did not know that. And Bjork said, hold on. Bjork said you should not cover songs that you like. Cover bad songs and make them better.
SPEAKER_04Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_03And she did not like her version of the song. It is a little cunty. But the thing is, her version is so good. I actually think her version would have been the better Bond song version because she's got so much like angst and kind of like emotion and whatever. Whereas Nancy's sweetie nice, you know, whatever. Bjork is like, okay, so I do think Nancy is like dreamy and cool where Bjork is like haunting and soulful. Which she would be a good one for a Bond song. She would be so cool.
SPEAKER_08Well, what's interesting about Bjork is, and I don't know whether she has ever submitted any of her songs for as a bon song and stuff, but I always felt ever since I first heard the song Bachelorette, I always thought that that would be an awesome bon song.
SPEAKER_03It sounds I don't know this one.
SPEAKER_08There's a song called Bachelorette that uh Bjork sings that it would just be an amazing bon song. Okay. Just in and of itself.
SPEAKER_03Oh, amazing. All right, so we already know it's got the Thomas vote.
SPEAKER_08I don't know if it was ever um submitted as a bon song or because sometimes these these bands, these artists submit for Bon songs and they don't get picked, and they release them uh in themselves. Sometimes they just change their lyrics. Like Ace of Bass's juvenile was originally submitted as Goldeneye for the silky.
SPEAKER_03No, but you know, but I love that Ace of Bass would do it, and that kind of makes sense.
SPEAKER_08There's um there's uh a Beach Boys song that originally submitted a song for love for uh I believe it was Miami the Golden Gun. I could be wrong.
SPEAKER_02Brian would have smashed on, but it's I think what it is is it's on Pet Sounds. I think it's Pets what it is now is Pet Sounds, the instrumental song.
SPEAKER_03Wait, the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.
SPEAKER_02Yes, it's on Pet Sounds, but it's called Pet Sounds, which is the instrumental version.
SPEAKER_08The instrumental version of it, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But do you see how it's what it was called when it was submitted for submitted as Ron Jimmy Run or something like that?
SPEAKER_08You're right.
SPEAKER_03Ron James Run James Run.
SPEAKER_08And Johnny Cash submitted a Thunderball song, yeah. No, that I Alice Cooper submitted a song for I think it was for Man with a Golden Gonak. And there's there's a bunch of them out there. There's like a whole uh whole study of them out there of different songs that were submitted. That's funny.
SPEAKER_03It is its own genre. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08It is it's a very specific, it's a very specific thing, and and some of the alternate songs are better. Some of them I totally get why they didn't get picked. And sure. Some of them are interesting because um uh movie Tomorrow Never Dies originally was called was going to be called Tomorrow Never Lies. So there's a couple of songs out there, Tomorrow they say Tomorrow Never Lies that were actually originally submitted.
SPEAKER_03Oh, interesting. And they don't have to change for copyright. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Well they don't have to I don't know what the deal is exactly, but I don't think they have to change it. Based on what what I've seen of bands releasing their versions, I don't if you don't get picked, I think you can just release it. I don't know what the deal is. I have zero understanding of it, but I know that some of these alternate songs have been released just the way they are. Okay. Uh there's a radio head song that was released for that was sorry, that was um submitted for Spectre. And a lot of people much prefer it to the Sam.
SPEAKER_03I'm sure anything's better than that one.
SPEAKER_08What's the guy's name? Sam Smith.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Well, truly, I can't wait. Like, I'm ready to hear your pick. Yeah. I don't even know what it is. You don't know what it is? No. Do I know? Actually, I did I did watch the video, but I've already forgotten. Yes.
SPEAKER_08I had a martini. Well, so like I said before, I I listed my three kind of personal preference requisites for a great James Bond song. But also some a lot of it is very, very um personal, so and then there's no uh getting away from that. So what I what I was I was telling you guys is the story of uh watching You Only Live Twice and then seeing the film series the screening series with the the Sean Connery James Bond films. But um so in the during the late 80s, uh obviously things started started changing in Eastern Europe. That was glasnist and perestroika and all that, and so they started opening up towards the West in various ways. So in 1989 was the first time they released a James Bond movie, a new James Bond movie in theaters. It helped that that particular movie had nothing to do with the Cold War. Yeah, so then in 1989, I finally got to sit in a theater and watch a new brand new James Bond film.
SPEAKER_03Damn.
SPEAKER_08And the opening titles came up with this diddy. So that was Gladius Knight singing the title theme song for License to Kill, which was the 16th James Bond movie, starring Timothy Dalton, which was the first one that was actually released in theaters in Hungary, where he is not fighting the Russians, he's fighting uh a drug cartel. Finally. It was a great time. But anyone who first listens to this song definitely gets immediately gets into the mood of a James Bond film and immediately gets into the excitement of what a James Bond film is. So it's always been one of my favorite, favorite James Bond songs.
SPEAKER_02It's a good one. It's a good one, and and uh Gladys Knight being like risen, she's she's rising into like on this this platform, and she's wearing a you're talking about the music video, yeah. But it's very cool. It's uh it's nice that she's wearing a tuxedo.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's something a little edgy about it. Yeah, a little ranking, you know, like gender bending.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, it's it's interesting, it's a very interesting song because um it was also one of the first like kind of soundtrack albums that I owned. So that I would listen to it a lot, and the soundtrack itself. This is back in the day where we would release the soundtrack album with the song. Nowadays the song is released as a single, and the soundtrack album gets released separately. But um, so I used to listen to this a lot, and it wasn't wasn't until like later years that I kind of got a kind of renewed appreciation for it because I felt Like I always felt like there's a weird disconnect in sometimes in Bond songs where they sing about love in a way of they're trying to imply that the relationship the relationships that Bond has with these women are kind of based on genuine love somehow, like in The Spy Who Loved Me or Um For Your Eyes Only or An All-Time High. It's kind of a lot of them kind of imply this kind of very deep, genuine love. And I feel like license to kill, if you listen to the lyrics, it kind of implies a very stocky kind of abusive kind of love affair.
SPEAKER_03I love she'll kill you if you don't love me. Exactly.
SPEAKER_08It's like she says, Please don't bet that you ever escape me once I set my sights on you. And I'm like, girl, we need to talk about like boundaries and consent here because it's but it's interesting in the way, so it that I feel like this song represents Bond better than a lot of other kind of love-themed songs of the Bond movies. That's kind of my take on it.
SPEAKER_03Oh I I like that because you're touching, it's like so sweet, you're touching on the love element, not like the danger or the you know.
SPEAKER_02I know. I never I never would have thought of the love element in any Bond movie. Even though, like, I know I feel like the first time there was sort of this real love connection, which was Casino Royale with Eva Green.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Playing opposite best.
SPEAKER_04West Berlin.
SPEAKER_02And and there's there's it's like a touching, it's it's a touching relationship. It's so that it feels like something substantial.
SPEAKER_08That particular relationship, I think, is is um well, it benefits from the fact that it's a reboot of of the franchise. Yeah. So it allows them to portray this this kind of relationship with her as something that shapes the character of James Bond itself. And in so in that sense, that particular movie I thought it worked very well. I didn't like where they took it. One of my problems with the Danielle Craig's cycle is that it's the only time where a James Bond character is taken through a certain they're trying to take the entire character through a certain arc where the previous relationships kind of play into the next story. And it's the only time they ever try to do that. And in the at I think it's at the end of Spectre where where Blofeld is kind of tormenting Bond with his previous love affairs, and he was kind he's kind of again portraying these love affairs as this like genuine love type of thing that broke him. And I I felt that particular moment in the movie kind of felt this disingenuous for for me, and it felt like it kind of ruined that it ruined that particular movie for me, not because I don't want Bond to have those kind of relationships. I don't.
SPEAKER_03What I said I don't.
SPEAKER_08I'm just yeah, but but but I'm not saying you you cannot build to that, but I feel like the way they were portrayed in the movies was not um, it's not concurrent with what Blofeld was kind of implying in those moments. So I feel like I felt like that's when I was realizing like, wait, where are they going with this? Like, that's not where the story is supposed to be, or that that's not what the character is supposed to be about.
SPEAKER_03But can I just ask a dumb question? Go on. James Bond has been around since like the 60s. Yeah. Is he supposed to be the same guy? Or is it like there's a man who's a spy named James? Like that's his fake name.
SPEAKER_08There's so there's one of the fan tier fan theories about it, is there a lot of it originally is uh supposed to be just a suspension of disbelief of yeah, this character just exists in a timeless kind of manner or in a timeless kind of space. But the one of the most popular fan theories is that James Bond is a code name that is given to whoever is 007 in the range. And so it's gonna be interesting to see whether they dig into that more in with the new incarnation because there's gonna be a new relaunch with a new actor.
SPEAKER_03Who's gonna be the new actor?
SPEAKER_08Well, there's there's a lot of there's a lot of discussions on that, and there's a lot of good choices out there. So a woman.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's funny. I I actually linked to an article that was written in 2021 that kind of talks about this. It's by Eric Deggins for NPR, and he's he's a black journalist. He talks about his experience with Bond as a fan and a critic, and and he's kind of touches on like who will be the next Bond and what does that mean, and how complicated that is because like you know, obviously everyone brings their backstories not just as like the characters, but as who they are, like in real life, and is as whether they're a black man or a black woman. And he he even like talks about Michaela Cole from I Maybe Destroy As a Possible James Bond. So anyway, it's also we'll link it in. I mean ad nauseum. But now he's too old.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02Age, I mean, how actually how old is he? Because the oldest James Bond, I think Roger Moore was 57.
SPEAKER_08Roger Moore was 57 when he did the last movie, which is why the movie doesn't work.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so Craig was 53, I think, in 2021.
SPEAKER_08Okay, so you have to think well, you have to think in terms of a franchise. So Daniel Craig was 37 when he appeared in the first Bond movie. What, really? Roger Moore was 44, which is older, you know, but but so you you have to think in terms of like four movies and like a 10-year span type of thing, though, of who they're gonna pick. But what's interesting about it is that is that the franchise itself keeps managing to reinvent itself. And they did it with uh Piers Brosnan and we did it, they did it with Daniel Craig, but every time they do it, they they face a different kind of geopolitical reality. And it was very true with Piers Brosnan because at the end of the Cold War, people thought that Bond was done. Like there's there's nothing else to it, and then they managed to relaunch it with Piers Brosnan, and then they managed to relaunch it with Daniel Craig and more like pushing more towards that kind of his character in Layer Cake, which was kind of a gangster-y type of character. So he was like a they were trying to portray Bond as this like tougher, not so, not so slick guy.
SPEAKER_03Dude, we're going off the rails.
SPEAKER_08Way off the rails. But but think about it, think about it. The next relaunch of James Bond has to deal with a completely different geopolitical reality where like Bond villains are basically running the world. It's gonna be an interesting thing to see how they relaunch it and what what they can do with it.
SPEAKER_03I just saw that Mads Mickelson is a Bond villain. So maybe I will watch it.
SPEAKER_02I've never seen any. So I do feel like if you're gonna start with one, Casino Royale is the one we're talking about.
SPEAKER_03That's Daniel Craig.
SPEAKER_02It's good.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. I'll watch it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, let's go back to your song, Gladys Knight.
SPEAKER_08My song, Gladys Knight. So it's it's a when you listen to the song, again, this whole idea of the the the Bond film and the cinematic nature of it, at some point they even used the orchestral element to kind of um stimulate gunshot sounds, and it builds to this big emotional moment in the song.
SPEAKER_03I just kill anyone who gets in the way. But even if that's you and she's in love with you, she'll kill you.
SPEAKER_01Priorities.
SPEAKER_08Well, it starts out with her saying, weren't you the one who tried to run away? Damn. Wasn't I the one who made you want to stay? With her gun.
SPEAKER_03It's it's very it's it's it's a problematic song. It is, and I love that it's a woman. Women in male-dominated fields. Yeah, exactly. So it's it it again, it hints at a it a more uh more kind of stocky relationship than uh than your um only live twice or oh god, I love how fluffy you only live twice as compared to Gladys, who is like I'll straight up kill you if you leave me. Exactly if you try to leave your dad.
SPEAKER_08Exactly. It's uh yeah, it's it but again, I feel like it's it's a more fitting song for a bond than uh 100%.
SPEAKER_03Than all-time high or yeah, it's a it's fun the video slaps.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, the other thing to mention about um license to kill is that it features a young Benicio del Toro as as the henchman.
SPEAKER_01I'm looking it up right now.
SPEAKER_08I saw Benicio del Toro, and when I saw the usual suspects, which is one of my favorite movies, like, oh, that's the guy from James Bond.
SPEAKER_02That's funny.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, he looks so hot too.
SPEAKER_02Yep, yeah. Quick fun fact about my movie and cameos Grace Jones plays Mayday, who is the hench person to um Christopher Walken's character. Amazing scene, which I will actually include in the show notes where she is sparring with Christopher Walken. But she was dating it at that time, Dolph Lung.
SPEAKER_08Dolph Lungren. Almost said Ron Griffin.
SPEAKER_02And no, I thank you for stepping in there because I don't remember his name. But he she was dating him, and he ended up just like doing a walk-on extra part because it was like an extra so that was his first role.
SPEAKER_03Wait, really? Yes. Oh, I love them as a couple, as a matter of fact. Okay, fun fact about my movie they made Sean Connery go in yellow face by putting prosthetics on him. Oh, I think I saw that.
SPEAKER_07Incredibly problematic.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yes, that is really not age one. I you know it's funny because I was looking for different screensavers for this episode, and I think I might have seen that for yours. And I'm like, that's not no, no. I'm so glad you brought that up. Thank you. Yeah, anything else to share? I mean, you've shared a lot.
SPEAKER_03Well, we're glad we're finally letting the listeners hear your voice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. They get to know who you are, the man behind the scenes.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, and now they understand why I'm behind the scenes. I'm not as cohesive as you guys are.
SPEAKER_03No, you're very cohesive. You're just extremely passionate about Bond. Yes, I know.
SPEAKER_02Now you're gonna you're gonna get this reputation.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Listeners all over the world are gonna be reaching out saying, let's talk about you're gonna be getting your own podcast. That would be cool. Would love that, truly. What fun. I didn't know that I would have this much fun talking about James Bond music. I know.
SPEAKER_02The martini helps.
SPEAKER_03It does help.
SPEAKER_02And by the way, it wasn't your average martini.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, tell us about it.
SPEAKER_02Pickle juice. Oh and well, what kind of gin?
SPEAKER_03Well gin, first and foremost.
SPEAKER_02It is a very special gin. The Isle of Hair is delicious. Yes. Kelp infused.
SPEAKER_03Nice.
SPEAKER_02So uh do we feel good about where we are with Blonde everyone?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm ready to wrap it up. Okay. Yes. So hi James.
SPEAKER_02I I got a little unsolicited and maybe even self-serving advice for you all. Oh, I can't wait.
SPEAKER_01Okay, please.
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SPEAKER_03Next week we'll feel the pulse of the city.
SPEAKER_02Ooh, yay. Yeah. Looking forward to that one.
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