Who would you pick?

How about Gaelic Storm aka the "steerage band" from "Titanic." It'd be a bit of a departure for them though.

Loreena McKennitt is good too.

Others: Clannad, Niamh Parsons, The Waterboys

And I had forgotten about Clannad. They would be a good choice as well.

Must you use every opportunity you have to trash David Arnold? There's some people out there who think that both Garbage and Arnold created a wonderful song for TWINE and that his score was nothing less than fantastic.

I think we need a male vocalist to do a theme very soon...but that doesn't put Annie Lennox away from my top choice.

NP - Sting (Brand New Days) track 4/"After The Rain Has Fallen" ****/***** One of the best CD's I've bought last year. Very original sound and nice and mellow after a long 3hr intermediate algebra course.

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Originally posted by dantoris:
If he'd just use is head and think straight, he could compose a really great Bond score.

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I'd say "If the company would let him use his head..." Remember, the (fabulous) song he had originally written for the opening of TND was rejected and bumped to the end because they wanted something more modern. That's just my take on it, though, I might be totally misinformed.

As to the opening of the next movie (which is probably the only part I'll be looking forward to), I have no idea. But I have no problem with Clannad, Lenox, or Sting. I'm not too familiar with the others so I don't know.

Occasionally, though, they've picked older, more established singers -- wouldn't it be a kick to hear Shirley Bassey's pipes again? And I liked Tina Turner's rendition of "Goldeneye" (Bono's production and arrangement was very slick and likably Barryish in a way the Eric Serra score was not.) Annie Lennox, mentioned above, is a superb choice; I seem to be one of the few people who loved her contribution to BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (not to mention her hypnotic vocals for James Horner's APOLLO 13, certainly the best parts of that score.) And let me float a slightly more oddball name: Marianne Faithfull. I'd (probably) buy that album, David Arnold or no.

Do any of you have the Arnold-produced SHAKEN & STIRRED, and what's it like? I'm curious enough to want to pick that up, but I've never seen it for SALE -- I don't mean for sale cheap, I mean for sale PERIOD. Very strange. Probably I'm looking in the wrong section of the stores.

Her swooping sultry coice is about the closest thing to veteran Shirley Bassey!

Male: Definitely STING!

They'll be coming out with a new album shortly, and doing a tour shortly thereafter.
Why not?

In regards to Quentin Tarantino directing: I was really disappointed with the last two Bonds. But stick Tarantino behind the lens and I'd be more than willing to plunk down the 8 bucks to see it. Not that I'd think it'd be really great or anything. I just think it'd be really interesting to see what he'd do with it. He directed an episode of "E.R." some years back, and I thought he did quite well with it. Besides, he can't do too much worse than the last couple.

I can almost gaurantee that if the decision were to be made today FAITH HILL or CHRISTINA AGUILERA would do the title and end title songs.

But for the first time ever, i would boycott the purchase of the next Bond soundtrack if Tom Jones were brought back- he has the kind of voice you could compare with nails scraping against a chalk board. I've always hated his voice and the songs he sings. He's destroyed a Prince song, and that damn song Delilah is one of my most hated songs ever. I've heard it done Karaoke, and that's almost worse than hearing the original!

I'm just a little bit bitter about Mr. jones, aren't I?

Arnold's score was much more coherent than one's usual John Williams score or, frankly, John Barry score either. While I love Barry's musicality over Arnold's, with the way Arnold has crafted the last two Bond scores, even his mentor could learn from the apprentice.

Title Song: Here's a novel idea--try a duet!

Personally, my choice would be...METALLICA, with "I Dissapear". Wait, wasn't that already for a Bond movi--Oh yeah...

Also, I'd like to add that in some obscure online poll, a film site asked who the next bond villain should be...the winner, by an enormous majority, was...SEAN CONNERY!! Wouldn't that be fantastic...bringing back old bond as an evil supervillain!?

--Ted