Every Bond Movie Theme Song Ranked Worst To Best
With Billie Eilish announced to sing new James Bond track, we rank 007 themes from best to worst.
The new James Bond film has nearly arrived and with this has come the long awaited announcement of who would sing the title track, and wow what a shock it was. Billie Eilish will not only sing the title song for the the new 007 flick, No Time to Die, but will also write it as well! Presumably it will not be a reworking of her hit Bad Guy to now be Good Guy, but there have been worse ideas.
As Billie sits down and writes the new number, sitting down and looking back at all the Bond themes of the past seemed like the right thing to do. From orchestral brilliance to rap awesomeness, to dreary unmemorable fluff that sounds like it was written while on a bender, Bond theme songs have hit amazing highs and staggering mediocrity.
This list explores each of the official Bond songs, which for the purposes of this list is the tune heard over the opening credits. From living legends like Sir Paul McCartney and Shirley Bassey through to A-ha, this list explores the highs and lows that 007 tunes have served up thus far.
24. An All Time High (Octopussy) By Rita Coolidge
It is hard to come up with a single good thing to say about this ear piercing whaling that is the title track for the thoroughly enjoyable Octopussy. This song proves to be such a disappointment in so many ways that it's hard to fathom that the Bond producers allowed it to pass. The song opens with a Saxophone that sounds like it belongs in an adult film, before the song quickly dissolves into something better suited for a Lifestyle film.
Having a woefully inept song to begin a 007 entity is bad enough, but the fact the song is so ill fitting for the style and themes of the film is unfathomable. There are many films from the Moore era where a slow, over earnest love song would have been not out of place, but the campy fun of Octopussy was the antithesis of this poor excuse of a tune.
While it may be harsh to single the blame on singer Rita Coolidge and the writers of this car crash of a song on what was to follow, it's fair to say that the quality of 007 lead tunes plummeted after this stinker.