10 Greatest James Bond Themes In The History of the Franchise

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After losing John Barry, Michael Kamen and Eric Serra both stepped in for one off adventures behind the conductor€™s podium, bringing Bond into the 1990€™s. The six year gap between their efforts was not kind, and neither really set fire to the world of Bond. However, once David Arnold started his tenure with Tomorrow Never Dies, things started to heat up once more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM63rhWsz4s While the title track for that film was rather good (especially considering it was a second choice to k.d. Lang€™s superior €œSurrender€, which was used as the End Titles song), the follow up would cement Arnold€™s reign as Bond€™s musical voice. Shirley Manson€™s seductively evil vocals would evoke the previous Shirley (Dame Bassey herself) as Bond stood poised on the edge of the €œNew Millennium€, equally €œready, and yet unprepared€ as the lyrics read. If ever there were a song to be used as a textbook case of the title theme being used as the Villain€™s Anthem, this would be the one.
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