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Bond (Musical Act): Bond Theme
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Both reviled and revered for their unorthodox take on classical music, the string quartet Bond is composed of classically trained former session musicians Tania Davis, Gay-Yee Westeroff, Haylie Ecker and Eos. While Gay-Yee and Eos had played for artists as diverse as the Cocteau Twins, the Spice Girls and Talvin Singh, they were jaded about the backseat role classical musicians play in pop music. Teaming up with Ecker and Davis, the quartet decided to put the strings front and center -- and to liven things up by involving electronica and world influences. The resulting fusion has infuriated classical music purists but has raged across Europe, where people don't mind a little booty-shaking with their Brahms. It doesn't hurt that the players are eye-catchingly cute. "Explosive," off the 2004 release Classified, was selected as the theme song for Australia's 2004 Olympic games coverage.
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A famous singer is often used to sing the title music from the James Bond films. Madonna sings the theme to "Die Another Day" (she ... appears in the film, in the sword-fighting (fencing) scene). The song "London Calling" by The Clash (a song made in the 1970s) is also heard. Below are CDs containing the music to this film, and a CD containing some of the most famous songs from previous films.
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A number of Bond films include one (or more) additional songs in the soundtrack. As noted above, some of these pieces of music, such as "We Have All the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong, have gone on to become as well-known as the main themes, while other songs remain exclusively linked to the movie in which they appear.
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Comments: In a mild departure from his traditional style, John Barry updates Bond (now Timothy Dalton) with a different percussive style. Most of the action tracks feature electronic percussion, giving a remarkable pace and energy to the film. Examples worthy of mention are the fight between Bond and Necros in the Hercules cargo plane and the Aston Martin "Ice Chase." Though Barry did the orchestrations for the title song, "Living Daylights" by a-ha, he decides to use themes from The Pretenders ("Where Has Everybody Gone?" and "If I Had a Man") for his orchestral arrangements. The first piece is used for a number of action sequences, and the second for a nice romance theme, "Kara."
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The originally intended theme song for Thunderball was entitled "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" a reference to a nickname given to Bond by an Italian journalist in 1962. Halfway through the scoring process, it was decided that having a title song that wasn't the name of the film would not work, so "Thunderball" was commissioned. "Mr. Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang" still plays a prominent role in the score... the actual track sang by Dionne Warwick was not released till the 1990s. There was also a version of Thunderball originally recorded by Johnny Cash intended for use in the film, but was dismissed in favor of Tom Jones. Cash's version of the song can be found on some compilation cds of Cash's music.
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Much of the credit for that sound must go to John Barry, the man behind the music of Bond. He started with the series as the arranger of the original Bond Theme. Monty Norman supplied the notes, but Barry supplied the attitude, making those notes sing in a way that no one else has been able to replicate or even approach, with Vic Flick providing the signature guitar playing.
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