"Have Your Say" tackles the new Bond theme

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That song rolls and rolls deep. It's about time a Bond theme reflected the hip hop, from the streets roots of the J to the Bizzle, Double OH SIZZLE! Man, he's gonna blap those bad boys up with his slick WPPK and they won't have no say. HEAR ME! Oh wait, Bond isn't a behoodied thug, toting fedacious drugs on a Harlesden Street corner. He's a Tux wearing uber-spy with a wit drier than his Martinis and highly polished shoes. Know your audience. Bring back Bassey (or Winehouse). Idiots.

Jon, London
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Absolute disaster! I know its important to move with the times but in the process we have gone from world headlines to page 8 news. This in no way should carry the bond brand and I am pretty sure Barbara B is really asking questions about this and wondering where the big epic score got dropped and more importantly why its being downgraded to a chart song. No one will rememeber this track for more than an hour, compare with the likes of Paul Mcartney etc and think about it. Moan over

Dave

Hate it. The lyrics are dreadful. I can't imagine anyone singing it.

Mr J Rossi, Birmingham
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Whoever wrote this song must have the brain power of a Cheesecake! A Bond song should excite and lead you into the movie, this makes me cover my ears. Let us hope the film is better than the song.

Martin Leonard, Brighton
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This theme sucks. Chris Cornell did a much better job last time. "Slick trigger finger for her majesty"? So horribly blatent. Alicia Keys just makes it sound like the Sugababes or something. A bond theme needs either punch or class, and this has neither.

James, Bristol
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Added: Thursday, 18 September, 2008, 13:55 GMT 14:55 UK
I did not like it on first hearing. The soundtrack is not very clear over the internet. It does not have the elegance and immortality of previous Bond theme songs. I found it harsh and too common.

catherine kingswood, london
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Oh dear god. Sounds terrible. Muse should have done it.

max, london
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John Barry will always be the Sean Connery of Bond music.

If you think that is old-fashioned, well: so are the works of Plato.

rens weiz

My teenage daughter could come up with such chord progressions and she's only 13!
Says alot about the "composer"

Alex Gache, Netherlands

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Not only do I dislike the new Bond theme, I dislike the way Bond films are going now. They used to be fun for all the family action films, with the likes of Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Now the songs are being made to sound like modern day rubbish. Bring back the classic Bond theme now, or forever loose the essence which Fleming worked so tire sly to perfect.

Connor

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If it reflects the plot then I'm sure we're in for a great film

Wes from Wolverhampton

Not good.

And I would like to know how the BBC censors can reject a comment consisting of "Oh, dear" repeated 3 times. Do these unbridled rottweilers have any sense of proportion at all?

Wan Nago

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I do not like the new Bond song by Jack White & Alicia Keys at all
considering we have again a remarkable Bond in Daniel Craig. Surely somebody with some musical talent could have been approached, a la "Cold Play" - When you take into account the writing talents of John Barry & Paul Mc Cartney this new song falls into a very pale comparison.

Rgds
Alan also a Musician

Alan, London

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Hongro pseudonym if I ever heard one.

A rubbish Bond theme for a rubbish Bond film for a rubbish Britain under rubbish Brown. Surely I can't be the only person who has noticed the parallel decline of Bond and our society in the last ten years? Frankly I'm amazed Bond is still British and not being played by an immigrant.

Popsy Purvy, Fuckface-de-la-Zouch

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absolute c//p . why do you have to 'panda' to the young masses? Is this where you are focusing the film? Are these the 'people' who are going to pay to see this film? Do you think that by using this intro it will draw younger audiences? James Bond films, in the cinema, only attract the 'James Bond nerds'.
carol jones, cardiff

Unoriginal aimed at getting those that listen to the mindless POP music to pay to see a film, the same people are the P2P generation who will watch it for free and save money to pay fuel bills!

Louis Cannell, Northampton, United Kingdom

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panda to the masses.

Some of this at least must surely be people trolling.

I do not like the new Bond song by Jack White & Alicia Keys at all
considering we have again a remarkable Bond in Daniel Craig. Surely somebody with some musical talent could have been approached, a la "Cold Play" - When you take into account the writing talents of John Barry & Paul Mc Cartney this new song falls into a very pale comparison.

Rgds
Alan also a Musician

Alan, London

^^^Marcello this is you, right?

Given the decrepitude of the franchise and its anachronistic premises, wouldn't something by Gracie Fields have been more appropriate?

Jim McDermott, Daventry, United Kingdom

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That one's actually pretty good!

Dire, awful; only two of the words that describe this. Another reason to decry the Craig version of Bond. If this is the best they could come up with then I think I will not be going to see this film in the cinema. Does not live up to the likes of Bassey, Sinatra, Duran Duran etc.

Sean, New York

Oh... dear. That really is atrocious! What a sad reflection of our talentless gene pool of insta-stars (just add hot water and a tacky "reality" TV appearance) if this is really the best they could come up with.

Rachel, Brighton

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I well remember Alicia Keys getting voted off in 2002 in favour of Darius.

I would love to hear Whitney Houston have a go. Okay, she overcooked it on the Bodyguard soundtrack, but that girl can shout in tune. Just listen to "Didn't We Almost Have It All". She was shouting all the way through that track, but still managed to pull off the last note like a Song thrush on honey.

(Dazzissimo), Leicester

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I would love to hear Whitney Houston have a go. Okay, she overcooked it on the Bodyguard soundtrack, but that girl can shout in tune. Just listen to "Didn't We Almost Have It All". She was shouting all the way through that track, but still managed to pull off the last note like a Song thrush on honey.

Dazzissimo, Leicester

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omg xp

frankly i always suspected bond fans were like this.

Jack White, reality TV insta-star...

when u hear the old bond film tunes on the radio or elsewhere (cd,md) u think of bond but this one is jst rubbish the start of the song is the best out of the snippet, then the singing comes in.thats like wearing a fred perry top and not having the logo on it, the ususal taditonal songs are the best not this modern junk...btw im 17 and i hate it. i normaly like alica keys

ashley

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Actually I think that "InstaStar" was the name of a Ferguson TV my parents had.

The consensus so far seems to be:

- bring back Shirley Bassey
- not as good as the Chris Cornell one
- the Adam and Joe one was better (two posts, one apiece from Adam and Joe I suspect)
- Politically Correct Broken Britn
- Americans Taking It Over What's Wrong With Robbie
- Cubby Broccoli turning in his grave
- worse than the Madonna one
- recorded in a garage
- bland
- tuneless din call that music bond fan since 1828
- they won't use Amy 'cos they're Anti-Britain
- they won't use Amy 'cos they're POLITICALLY CORRECT
- the song makes Steve from Wellingborough want to vomit, cry and hibernate
- then it makes him want to vomit, cry & KILL police be aware

lol @ ur country

No I don't like it at all. I suggested a theme tune to producer Michael G Wilson during the early stages of production, once I knew what the plot was going to be. For one reason or another they ignored my choice of Goethe's Mignon : ' Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn..', in a setting by Hugo Wolf.
They may have considered it for all I know, but they didn't respond to my emails, and now I can only think that they will regret their blunder. Indeed, I hope they regret it.

L A Odicean, London

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haha fantastic

That song rolls and rolls deep. It's about time a Bond theme reflected the hip hop, from the streets roots of the J to the Bizzle, Double OH SIZZLE! Man, he's gonna blap those bad boys up with his slick WPPK and they won't have no say. HEAR ME! Oh wait, Bond isn't a behoodied thug, toting fedacious drugs on a Harlesden Street corner. He's a Tux wearing uber-spy with a wit drier than his Martinis and highly polished shoes. Know your audience. Bring back Bassey (or Winehouse). Idiots.

Jon, London
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Oh feck, with this one we've got a "comedian":

I think Gordon Brown should have done better, he did promise to change his tune, and his word is his bond, but he got it wrong again. The dole Q figures will again get shaken, if not stirred. He could change to blue, but tomorrow never dyes.

Rigthy Rigthwing

L A Odicean, London

okay, this one's you, right?

Guilty, m'lud...

You Britishers make me sick. Jack White and Alicia Keys are two of the finest artists the good ol US of A can boast. I would expect better from a nation that gave us The Beatles, Boy George and Peter Frampton. This is the best Bond theme since our great Gladys Knight's 'Licence To Kill'. For me tho it should be Vin Diesel as Bond, not this blonde dude. Peace out douchetards.

Chip Howitzer, Buicktown, LAND OF THE FREE

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max you really shouldn't

I was going to say! The internet comment box moron knows no national boundaries.

I think "I can't imagine anyone singing it" is my favourite.

Unfortunately, this is what I would have expected when you hire musicians that trade rhythm for melody. When Oasis saved British music by bringing back to life the music of The Beatles, and bringing melodic qualities back to fore, they could never have expected such a betrayal as this.

This would have been much better if they'd asked somebody who could actually sing, like Paul Young or Chris Martin.

Geir, Norway

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Does it matter when the financial world is collapsing around our ears, and soon nobody will have the money to go to the cinema and hear the new theme whatever it is.

For goodness sake this is the BBC, not Talk Sport, show a bit more intelligence can you?

europhile, Northampton

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OK, hands up, which one of you wrote this:

Another example of Britain in the gutter! Two Americans doing the job instead of a Brit. I remember when you could kick a ball in the street and Paul from The Beatles would do the Bond Theme. Not any more!

Icy Cold, London

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/me puts up hand...

Double potato peeling tonight, Pike!

Never mind me, who wrote this?

Now, I don't want to sound like an old fuddy duddy. I like everything from Bonnie Tyler to Bryan Adams and all points in between. So I was willing to give this a chance, but I have to say Alicia Keys, more like Alicia off-Keys and as for Mr White, well let's just say kiddies might be reading this.

What they need is the excitement of U2, the wit of Mariah Carey and the glamour of Randy Newman. We need Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South to come up with something. Anyone have his number?

Neville Crumpley, Northallerton

Paul Heaton, probably.

well let's just say kiddies might be reading this.

wow this guy is a fucking nutcase

So it is Paul Heaton then...

which Beautiful South song is the most Bond-like? '36D' right?

We need Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South to come up with something. Anyone have his number?

Yes, he's been trading on deeply diminishing returns for well over a decade and I doubt even his own record label remember his solo album from earlier this year

Radcliffe and Maconie do, though - always at the forefront of the musical envelope.

That's more like a musical Jiffy bag

which Beautiful South song is the most Bond-like?

I am seriously debating this in my head. Currently leaning towards "I'll Sail This Ship Alone".

Heaton's voice isn't Bond-like is the prob, lots of the earlier songs wd probly work if they were being done by somebody more brassy.

Possibly not "Domino Man".

Anyway, who'd've thought a bunch of "Have Your Say" posters would turn out to be borderline racist Little-Englander twatbastards?

I like everything from Bonnie Tyler to Bryan Adams = I'm white, btw

which Beautiful South song is the most Bond-like?

I am seriously debating this in my head. Currently leaning towards "I'll Sail This Ship Alone".

Yeah. Nothing fits though. "One Last Love Song"? "Good as Gold"?. "Dumb" is overegged enough, I suppose.

Heaton's voice isn't Bond-like is the prob

I really don't think White's cartoonish yelp is either. I don't mind the song though.

the wit of mariah carey?

i sort of appreciate what a fuckin' mess this song is...total gonzo overproduced garage rock version of those awkward breakdown sections of live and let die, sorta

sometimes i wonder if this is like an obscure parody joke on "live and let die", it's like the most awkward weird breakdown bits of that song writ large

Mr J Rossi, Birmingham

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it's as if somebody took the really awkward bits out of LOLD and tried them into a big epic

like some kind of broccoli family inside joke