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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 313395" data-attributes="member: 8">Bond Song #....(*clicks aaall the way back to page 2*) 20[ATTACH=full]34732[/ATTACH]So You Think You Can Write A Bond Song?And that&#039;s how Sheryl Crow and Madonna happens. Not that there&#039;s anything wrong with these artists, but when they perform their Bond songs in their own style - or at least the style they were selling at that time - then it misses the key element that allows modern-day music to blend with the grandeur of movie music.From my Dutch point of view, Sheryl Crow (the indie Shania Twain/the commercial Tori Amos) had a one-hit wonder with All I Wanna Do&nbsp; but I guess she&#039;s more famous in America.Tomorrow Never Dies&nbsp; is not a bad song at all and I really like the &quot;House Of The Rising Sun&quot; strumming parts. I&#039;m not sure about the title (not Crow&#039;s fault, obviously) because it seems so self-explanatory. Time never stops and even if everything disappears then there&#039;s still going to be a tomorrow, albeit with less relevance.If, for whatever reason, this Bond theme inspired Alanis Morissette to write that other movie theme from 1998 then I&#039;m grateful it happened. Incidentally, this is the last James Bond movie I&#039;ve seen.I checked the whole soundtrack and as always I did a lot of skipping throughout the music videos because I had a Bond song to re-evaluate and that means there was no time for a back-to-back CD experience.Well, I don&#039;t know how I did it but somehow I always ended up listening to absolute silence. That&#039;s only part of the music of course but mysteriously enough I always placed the cursor on those&nbsp; parts.On the upside, there&#039;s k.d. lang who puts the barry back in the Bond score - and how could it not with a voice that has the range for literally everything.Even though k.d. is no stranger to ballads and jazzy themes she&#039;s not the kind of artist one would automatically associate with glamorous spy pulp fiction, which kinda proves my point of &quot;singing outside your box&quot; simply to make it work.[MEDIA=youtube]Arq5mjR0h48[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 313395, member: 8"] Bond Song #....[SIZE=3](*clicks aaall the way back to page 2*)[/SIZE] 20 [ATTACH type="full"]34732[/ATTACH] [I]So You Think You Can Write A Bond Song?[/I] And that's how Sheryl Crow and Madonna happens. Not that there's anything wrong with these artists, but when they perform their Bond songs in their own style - or at least the style they were selling at that time - then it misses the key element that allows modern-day music to blend with the grandeur of movie music. From my Dutch point of view, Sheryl Crow (the indie Shania Twain/the commercial Tori Amos) had a one-hit wonder with [I]All I Wanna Do[/I] but I guess she's more famous in America. [I]Tomorrow Never Dies[/I] is not a bad song at all and I really like the "House Of The Rising Sun" strumming parts. I'm not sure about the title (not Crow's fault, obviously) because it seems so self-explanatory. Time never stops and even if everything disappears then there's still going to be a tomorrow, albeit with less relevance. If, for whatever reason, this Bond theme inspired Alanis Morissette to write that other movie theme from 1998 then I'm grateful it happened. Incidentally, this is the last James Bond movie I've seen. I checked the whole soundtrack and as always I did a lot of skipping throughout the music videos because I had a Bond song to re-evaluate and that means there was no time for a back-to-back CD experience. Well, I don't know how I did it but somehow I always ended up listening to absolute silence. That's only part of the music of course but mysteriously enough I always placed the cursor on [I]those[/I] parts. On the upside, there's k.d. lang who puts the barry back in the Bond score - and how could it not with a voice that has the range for literally everything. Even though k.d. is no stranger to ballads and jazzy themes she's not the kind of artist one would automatically associate with glamorous spy pulp fiction, which kinda proves my point of "singing outside your box" simply to make it [I]work.[/I] [MEDIA=youtube]Arq5mjR0h48[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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