10 Greatest James Bond Movie Opening Title Sequences

Sheryl Crow may not seem like the immediate choice for a Bond theme song, but her titular song Tomorrow Never Dies has just enough grit and grunge in its delivery to match the enhanced drive towards modernity that, for better or worse, defined the Pierce Brosnan era.

Selected by a competitive process, Crow won against The Cardigans, Pulp (whose entry, now entitled Tomorrow Never Lies, sounds totally out of place) and others, and usurped k.d. lang's Surrender, which was moved to the end credits.

But what a set of titles to have her song on! While the look may seem a little at odds with Bond's classic cars and cigars raison d'être, it nonetheless embraces a style that captures the high-tech sensibilities of Brosnan's second 007 outing and the increasing technological sophistication that the Western world was seeing in the late-'90s.

Designed by Daniel Kleinman, the title sequence uses microchip textures and makes exquisite use of X-ray visuals, mirroring the sunglasses Bond sports in the film, with negatives of dancing women and gratuitous piles of ultra-modern looking knives and guns. The floating diamonds and lines of code may be a bit heavy-handed, but what aspect of James Bond isn't?