Rank main theme songs

JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,234MI6 Agent
Here's mine:

1 Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)
2 If You Asked Me To (LTK)
3 Live And Let Die
4 A View To A Kill
5 Where Has Everybody Gone? (TLD)
6 If There Was A Man (TLD)
7 James Bond Theme (Dr No)
8 You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
9 The Living Daylights
10 Licence To Kill
11 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
12 Moonraker
13 All Time High (Octopussy)
14 For Your Eyes Only
15 Never Say Never Again
16 Casino Royale (Original)
17 Diamonds Are Forever
18 You Only Live Twice
19 Goldfinger
20 Thunderball
21 From Russia With Love
22 We Have All The Time In The World (OHMSS)
23 Goldeneye
24 Tomorrow Never Dies
25 The World Is Not Enough
26 Die Another Day
1 - LALD, 2 - AVTAK, 3 - LTK, 4 - OP, 5 - NTTD, 6 - FYEO, 7 - SF, 8 - DN, 9 - DAF, 10 - TSWLM, 11 - OHMSS, 12 - TMWTGG, 13 - GE, 14 - MR, 15 - TLD, 16 - YOLT, 17 - GF, 18 - DAD, 19 - TWINE, 20 - SP, 21 - TND, 22 - FRWL, 23 - TB, 24 - CR, 25 - QOS

1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
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  • JennyFlexFanJennyFlexFan Posts: 1,497MI6 Agent
    1 A View To A Kill
    2 Casino Royale '67
    3 Goldeneye
    4 For Your Eyes Only
    5 OHMSS Theme
    6 The World Is Not Enough
    7 The Look of Love
    8 Live and Let Die
    9 All Time High
    10 Surrender
    10 Nobody Does It Better
    11 If You Asked Me To
    12 Never Say Never Again
    13 Diamonds Are Forever
    14 If There Was A Man
    15 Die Another Day
    16 Goldfinger
    17 We Have All The Time In The World
    18 Une Chanson D'Amour (NSNA)
    19 Where Has Everybody Gone?
    20 You Only Live Twice
    __________
    AT THIS POINT THE SONGS BECOME GODAWFULLY BAD.

    21 From Russia With Love (Could it get any sappier and loveyer? I mean, the first part of Sir James's Trip To Find Mata (Deborah Kerr's theme) is less overly-romanticized as this!

    22 You Know My Name (Film Version), probably one of the most abhorrently mixed songs in the history of abhorrently mixed songs! The pop mix is pretty good, but the movie got off on a bad foot with me when I heard this song.

    23 The Man With The Golden Gun, aka, fit as many double entendres in a song as you possibly can. Even John Barry and LuLu admit it was crap!

    24 License To Kill, Huh? Wait? It's over? I fell asleep. Like Kamen's score, this is one of the most boring songs created for Bond and turns the Goldfinger beat into some sort of synthy lounge beat. Ugh! Not even the very talented Gladys Knight could save this one.

    25 Thunderball, I'm just going to go out on a whim and say that the movies shouldn't rip off the Goldfinger song, because the end result is always bad. This song is very Goldfingeresque, but it's also overly-dramatic and too bombastic. A pain to listen to.

    26 Tomorrow Never Dies, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Sheryl Crow's whiny voice, inspid lyrics, and that idiotic airplane noise it starts with make for one of the most unpleasant songs to listen to of ALL TIME! I can't contain my hatred for this song! IT'S SO TERRIBLE!!!!
  • 72897289 Beau DesertPosts: 1,691MI6 Agent
    I go with what I listen to:

    Goldfinger - Perfection

    The oo7 Theme by John Barry - Not a theme but it is perfection repeated!

    Casino Royale '06 - Main Title some of the lyrics are pretty neat! Some of the incidental music is very John Barryish.

    Casino Royale '67 - Fantastic Soundtrack! Could listern to it all day long!!

    From Russia with Love - It's a real song! I can remember when it was played on the radio. This was back in the days when you could understand all the song lyrics! How can you not like the British Frank Sinatra?

    From a View to a Kill - Great use of the movie Title.

    The Songs by Madonna and "garbage" should be removed from all copies of their respective films. If they were replaced with static or electronic feedback, it would be an improvement.

    Question? What kind of idiot hires a band called "garbage"? What kind of music would you expect from a group named "garbage" - talk about "daft"!

    Madonna = insufficently frozen fish bait.
  • JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,234MI6 Agent
    To me, the songs from the Brosnan era were the worst.

    I agree with JFF about the TND song being awful, but I also agree with 7289 about TWINE and DAD songs being awful.

    When I first heard the GE theme, I thought it was awful. Still do. But the other theme songs, from the next Brosnan films were even worse. And got worse with each film IMO. For me, the DAD theme song is the absolute rock-bottom point in Bond music.
    1 - LALD, 2 - AVTAK, 3 - LTK, 4 - OP, 5 - NTTD, 6 - FYEO, 7 - SF, 8 - DN, 9 - DAF, 10 - TSWLM, 11 - OHMSS, 12 - TMWTGG, 13 - GE, 14 - MR, 15 - TLD, 16 - YOLT, 17 - GF, 18 - DAD, 19 - TWINE, 20 - SP, 21 - TND, 22 - FRWL, 23 - TB, 24 - CR, 25 - QOS

    1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
  • 3rbrown3rbrown MI6 Top Secret - Scotland, GlaPosts: 100MI6 Agent
    edited July 2007
    1. Nobody Does It Better
    2. Licence To Kill
    3. You Know My Name
    4. Goldfinger
    5. You Only Live Twice
    6. Dr. No
    7. For Your Eyes Only
    8. A View To A Kill
    9. The Living Daylights
    10.Diamonds Are Forever
    11.Moonraker
    12.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    13.The World Is Not Enough
    14.From Russia With Love
    15.Live And Let Die
    16.If You Asked Me To
    17.All Time High
    18.We Have All The Time In The World
    19.Never Say Never Again
    20.Goldeneye
    21.The Man With The Golden Gun
    22.Tomorrow Never Dies
    23.Die Another Day
    24.Surrender
    25.Thunderball
  • Smoke_13Smoke_13 Kitchener Ont CanadaPosts: 285MI6 Agent
    I'll be lazy and just give my top 5...

    1) You know my name
    2) Live and Let Die
    3) Tomorrow Never Dies
    4) Goldfinger
    5) Diamonds are Forever

    ...Special mention to "A View to a Kill" and "Moonraker" who didn't make my top 5 but certainly didn't miss by much.
  • LazenbyLazenby The upper reaches of the AmazoPosts: 606MI6 Agent
    1) OHMSS
    2) YOLT
    3) FRWL
    4) AVTAK
    5) TLD
    6) GF
    7) DAF
    8) CR
    9) TSWLM
    10)LALD
  • Kirk James KirkKirk James Kirk Posts: 190MI6 Agent
    You people are out of your heads, Goldeneye and TWINE's theme songs are about the only good things about the movies.

    Here's a list:
    Live and Let Die
    Nobody Does It Better
    Goldfinger
    OHMSS
    A View to a Kill (one of the few good things about that movie)
    Goldeneye
    Diamonds Are Forever
    Moonraker
    We Have All the Time in the World
    Licence to Kill
    Thunderball
    The Living Daylights
    You Know My Name
    The World is Not Enough
    Tomorrow Never Dies

    Here's the poopy ones:
    You Only Live Twice
    From Russia with Love
    The Man With the Golden Gun
    For Your Eyes Only
    All Time High

    Here's the "I'd rather put a bullet in my brain than listen to" list:
    Never Say Never Again
    Die Another Day
  • forgottenbondforgottenbond Posts: 8MI6 Agent
    Personally I think your all mistaken for me and maybe this is because of my age the newer songs are getting better and better with the exception of LTK all of the songs of the from AVTAK and beyond are fantastic and a special tip of the cap to TLD for not one but two of my top five theme songs with 'the living daylights' obviously and 'If there was a man' and the orchestral score throughout the film was simply beautiful at times especially at more tender parts of the movie (magic)but it has to be said the Brosnan years were sensational not one bad song and chris cornell in my opinion has really hit the mark for craigs portrail of the character with 'You know my name'. You only live twice is beautifully elegant and theres a few others worth a mention but that is about it IMO as for the pre late moore/early dalton years.
  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    edited March 2008
    Its hard to rank them all, because I just dont like some of them, and Im not sure I am ranking them because they suit the movie or because they are good songs in their own right. Ive excluded theme tunes.

    1. We Have All The Time In The World
    2. The Look Of Love
    3. Diamonds Are Forever
    4. Nobody Does It Better
    5. Thunderball
    6. Moonraker
    7. You Only Live Twice
    8. Goldfinger
    9. A View To A Kill
    10. From Russia With Love
    11. Die Another Day
    12. For Your Eyes Only
    13. All Time High

    I dont really care for the rest
  • maddogmaciasmaddogmacias Posts: 10MI6 Agent
    1 Nobody Does It Better
    2 moonraker
    3 for your eyes only
    4 if there waS a man
    5 if you asked me to
    6 all time high

    worst
    AVTAK
    TLD
    GE
    TND
    TWINE
    DAD
  • A7ceA7ce Birmingham, EnglandPosts: 655MI6 Agent
    Taking the title post literaly

    Die Another Day
    Quantum of Solace
  • Mister BiswasMister Biswas TokyoPosts: 78MI6 Agent
    A7ce wrote:
    Taking the title post literaly

    Die Another Day
    Quantum of Solace

    lol :))
  • heartbroken_mr_draxheartbroken_mr_drax New Zealand Posts: 2,073MI6 Agent
    Top 5:

    1. AVTAK
    2. TLD
    3. Another Way to Die
    4. LTK
    5. If You asked me to.

    Worst few:

    FRWL (Mat Monroe version) and Sheryl Crows crowing.
    1. TWINE 2. FYEO 3. MR 4. TLD 5. TSWLM 6. OHMSS 7. DN 8. OP 9. AVTAK 10. TMWTGG 11. QoS 12. GE 13. CR 14. TB 15. FRWL 16. TND 17. LTK 18. GF 19. SF 20. LaLD 21. YOLT 22. NTTD 23. DAD 24. DAF. 25. SP

    "Better make that two."
  • PanachePanache xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPosts: 89MI6 Agent
    edited February 2009
    1. Goldfinger
    2. You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
    3. Nobody Does it Better (SWLM)
    4. You Only Live Twice
    5. Thunderball

    I don't count James Bond theme and OHMSS as theme songs or they would be in there.

    It seems to me that most peoples choices here seem to reflect what is in my view the poor quality of the theme songs over the past decade(+)
  • Sweepy the CatSweepy the Cat Halifax, West Yorkshire, EnglaPosts: 986MI6 Agent
    I think that the 'Shirley Bassey Ballads' are overrated, the lyrics don't make sense & they all sound the same.

    My fave is:
    You Know My Name - Chris Cornell

    Runner-ups are:
    You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
    Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings
    Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
    For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
    A View To A Kill - Duran Duran
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  • TripleXXXTripleXXX Posts: 23MI6 Agent
    Top 7, all excellent
    From Russia with Love
    Thunderball
    Goldfinger
    Nobody Does it Better
    The World is Not Enough (get over it)
    Live and Let Die
    YOLT

    DAD is the worst, most disgusting, horrid piece of trash ever, what on earth were they thinking?
  • TripleXXXTripleXXX Posts: 23MI6 Agent
    Top 7, all excellent
    From Russia with Love
    Thunderball
    Goldfinger
    Nobody Does it Better
    The World is Not Enough (get over it)
    Live and Let Die
    YOLT

    DAD is the worst, most disgusting, horrid piece of trash ever, what on earth were they thinking?
  • jrayman1010jrayman1010 New YorkPosts: 7MI6 Agent
    This is tough, but...

    1. Nobody Does it Better
    2. For Your Eyes Only
    3. Moonraker
    4. All Time High (Octopussy)
    5. Diamonds Are Forever
    6. Live and Let Die
    7. We Have All the Time in the World

    The other day I was driving, and all of a sudden, Nobody Does it Better comes on the radio - I could not withhold the goosebumps! :)
  • agent 00agent 00 Univex Station L Netherlands Posts: 340MI6 Agent
    My personnel Top 5
    1.Bond 77
    2.Goldfinger
    3.Nobody Does It Better
    4.Surrender(K.D. Lang)
    5.Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang(Shirley Bassey)
    Jan

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  • agent 00agent 00 Univex Station L Netherlands Posts: 340MI6 Agent
    My personnel Top 5
    1.Bond 77
    2.Goldfinger
    3.Nobody Does It Better
    4.Surrender(K.D. Lang)
    5.Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang(Shirley Bassey)
    Jan

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  • Ilya KuryakinIlya Kuryakin Posts: 24MI6 Agent
    OHMSS - Absolutely brilliant stuff. -{ Only Ennio does it as good. :)

    DAF
    ALL TIME HIGH [Octopussy]
    MOONRAKER
    LIVE AND LET DIE
    GOLDFINGER

    Post OHMSS all the five are interchangable. I love them all.
    "If God had wanted man to fly..."
    "He would have given him wings, Mr. Kidd"
  • Gothic ZMGothic ZM VA, USAPosts: 110MI6 Agent
    22.) Die Another Day
    21.) Another Way to Die
    20.) The Man With the Golden Gun
    19.) Live and Let Die
    18.) Thunderball
    17.) You Only Live Twice
    16.) License to Kill
    15.) Living Daylights
    14.) A View to a Kill
    13.) Goldeneye
    12.) All Time High
    11.) Diamonds are Forever
    10.) You Know My Name
    9.) Goldfinger
    8.) Tomorrow Never Dies
    7.) The World is Not Enough
    6.) For Your Eyes Only
    5.) Moonraker
    4.) Nobody Does it Better
    3.) Dr. No Opening Credits (James Bond Theme)
    2.) From Russia With Love (intstrumental)
    1.) On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    The top 10 are certain, as well as the final 5.... The ones in the middle do change pretty much with how I feel at the moment.
    "A dry martini, in a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of Vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until its ice cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?" - Ian Fleming's 'Casino Royale'

    "We're just too different... I mean, you're dead...." - Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'
  • Barry NelsonBarry Nelson ChicagoPosts: 1,508MI6 Agent
    Before I start my ranking of the Bond theme songs, let me just say I have a CD in my car with all the theme songs from the first 21 Bond films, but the highlight of the CD is the best Bond song of all time Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as song by Dionne Warwick. I love that song. Now on with the rankings.

    1 - Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey belts out the greatest Bond theme ever.
    2 - Nobody Does It Better (TSWLM)- Fitting title for a Bond song, with fitting lyrics.
    3 - Live and Let Die - A rock Bond song that works.
    4 - OHMSS - The soaring title song fits the film.
    5 - Diamonds are Forever - Shirley Bassey does it again.
    6 - From Russia WIth Love - I prefer female vocalists for my Bond themes, but this was good.
    7 - You Only Live Twice - Best song Nancy Sinatra ever did.
    8 - A View to a Kill - Best thing about the film.
    9 - Goldeneye - Tina Turner belts out a good one.
    10 - Thunderball - Tom Jone's big voice for a big film
    11 - For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton singing and in the title sequence
    12 - Dr No - I place this here because I am not sure what song should be the title song
    13 - License to Kill - Good song. although it sounds like she says kilt
    14 - Tomorrow Never Dies - Some good lyrics "martinis girls and guns"
    15 - TWINE - Pacing is a little too slow.
    16 -The Living Daylights - Just never cared for it.
    17 - Moonraker - Melody OK, lyrics are odd.
    18 - All Time High (OP) - Just never liked this song.
    19 - Die Another Day - Thought it kind of work during titles, but as a song, didn't care for it.
    20 - You Know My Name (CR) - Didn't like the changing tempo
    21 - Man WIth the Golden Gun - The worst lyrics ever.
    22 - Another Way to Die (QOS) - I wanted to die after hearing this.

    I have listed only the main title songs, from the "official" Bond films. If I included closing thme songs, If You Asked Me To by Patti Labelle would be way up there. Tough list to put together, many songs in the middle I feel about the same about.
  • KissyLoverKissyLover AustraliaPosts: 139MI6 Agent
    1 James Bond Theme
    2 You Only Live Twice
    3 Goldfinger
    4 Thunderball
    5 From Russia With Love
    6 Diamonds Are Forever
    7 Casino Royale (Original)
    8 You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
    9 Live And Let Die
    10 All Time High (Octopussy)

    The top 3 are all interchangeable and are really equal No. 1...
  • petrsvorenpetrsvoren Posts: 11MI6 Agent
    Top 5

    DN
    CR
    QOS
    LALD
    GF
    "Come in 007"said M."It's good to see you back."

    Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
  • petrsvorenpetrsvoren Posts: 11MI6 Agent
    Least fav
    FRWL
    TWINE
    AVTAK
    "Come in 007"said M."It's good to see you back."

    Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
  • mystic mr bumpmystic mr bump AustraliaPosts: 1MI6 Agent
    I have to say the top 5 for me would be...

    A view to a Kill
    Goldeneye
    The man with the golden gun
    The living Daylights
    Casino Royale

    I have odd tastes though Ive been told... my least liked Bond theme is easily "Live and let die"
  • pcrosspcross Posts: 1MI6 Agent
    Here's mine


    1. Nobody Does It Better
    2. Live and Let Die
    3. Goldfinger
    4. You Only Live Twice
    5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    6. A View To Kill
    7. The Living Daylights
    8. You Know My Name
    9. Licence To Kill
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. Diamonds Are Forever
    12. All Time High
    13. From Russia With Love
    14. Tomorrow Never Dies
    15. Thunderball
    16. Goldeneye
    17. Another Way To Die
    18. The World Is Not Enough
    19. Moonraker
    20. Die Another Day
    21. The Man With The Golden Gun
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service - the perfect Bond theme song
    You Only Live Twice - beautiful vocal theme song
    Goldfinger - classic theme song
    Surrender - end theme song that should have been the main theme song
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • hegottheboothegottheboot USAPosts: 327MI6 Agent
    The JB Theme and OHMSS theme are tied forever. At no.1!

    As for the other songs...
    1.LALD
    2.FRWL main titles
    3.YOLT-just unbelievably beautiful.
    4.Goldfinger
    5.Thunderball
    6.AVTAK
    7.We Have all the Time in the World-what a phenomenal moment.
    8.Moonraker-the most underrated of Bond songs. Simple, understated and mournful.
    9.Nobody Does it Better
    10.Diamonds are Forever-THAT BASSLINE!
    11.TLD
    12.FRWL
    13.TMWTGG

    I've never really held the newer songs up to the same standards as the originals. Music in films just isn't what it used to be.
    14.TWINE. I love Garbage.
    15.GE-not the album mix! Awful!
    16. TND-would be higher if there were no vocal. It's a great melody, great production, but unbelievably horrid vocal performance and some cringe-worthy lyrics.
    17.DAD. It's not really bad, but it's not really that good either...doesn't fit much...
    18.All Time High-Yay! 1983 lounge music! Weeee! Really nothing worth remembering or ever listening to. I'd rather have a song called Octopussy.
    19.LTK. I'll admit, late 80's R&B really isn't my thing but this is a bit of the mark even for Bond. As a kid I used to make fun of it all the time, but it does have a nice intro and reference to the GF melody. Not really bad, and it has kinda grownm on me because of its dark feel.

    But there is one I hate. One I loathe, one that made me fast forward through the titles every time even as a 5 year old.
    That is the abomination of FYEO. What were they thinking???? Ugh! (Ok, it's not really that bad of a song, and I don't hate it quite that much anymore. But who thought this was a good fit? It's bad enough to slap the Bill Conti score onto a "serious return", but then have this as your title song? It's as if they wanted people to forget about FYEO afterwards!)
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