History AwesomeMusic / JamesBond

* The car chase between Bond's group and Safin's group in Norway is set to this pounding track, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKtE76nGyvQ "Norway Chase"]]. Every drum, trumpet and ominous chant successfully blend well, culminating in one of the most intense renditions of the Bond theme at 4:02.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPFpUGQ5Yw "I'll Be Right Back"]], which feels fitting for James Bond's FinalBattle due to the steadily rising strings.

* The car chase between Bond's group and Safin's group in Norway is set to this pounding track, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKtE76nGyvQ "Norway Chase"]]. Every drum, trumpet and ominous chant blend well, and it culminates in one of the most intense renditions of the Bond theme.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPFpUGQ5Yw "I'll Be Right Back"]], which feels fitting for James Bond's FinalBattle, due to the steadily rising strings.

%%* "I'll Be Right Back", fitting for James Bond's FinalBattle.

* Music/LouisArmstrong's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZA7NEYCEig "We Have All the Time in the World".]] John Barry's favourite song, both for the song itself and the privilege of working with Satchmo. It's later reused as the end credits theme of ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

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* Music/{{Adele}}'s theme is on its way to becoming a modern classic. It even became the first Bond credits song to win an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI "Let the sky fall..."]] Adele and James Bond just seemed like a match made in Heaven anyway. Even more impressive as she'd just recovered from a vocal chord strain that left her barely able to talk for months.

* "Final Ascent". Aside from being an incredibly beautiful and haunting piece of music, it's paired with {{Tearjerker}}.

* "I'll Be Right Back", fitting for James Bond's FinalBattle.

* Music/LouisArmstrong's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZA7NEYCEig "We Have All the Time in the World".]] John Barry's favourite song, both for the song itself and the privilege of working with Satchmo.

* Music/MarvinHamlisch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQCorevZj4 "Bond '77"]] from the same film. Yes, it's [[DeadHorseGenre disco]], but it still manages to be awesome.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbj2Mx2By8 Lulu's theme]] is fun and energetic. (Even if John Barry himself regarded it as his biggest OldShame among Bond themes.) And there's a possibly even better [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsoyhpBsPus unused theme]] by Music/AliceCooper.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AN5mJF13A unsused theme]] by Music/JohnnyCash. It doesn't quite sound right for a Bond theme, but it's still awesome.

%%* The title theme by Nancy Sinatra ([[SampledUp known by many of the young ones]] through Music/RobbieWilliams' "Millennium").

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbj2Mx2By8 Lulu's theme]] is fun and energetic. (Even if John Barry himself regarded it as his biggest OldShame among Bond themes.)
%%* Then there is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsoyhpBsPus unused theme]] by Music/AliceCooper.

%%* The recurring action theme named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWtGXaRepQ 007]]".

%%* Music/JossStone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqkuOkWe50 theme]] for ''Blood Stone''.

* A fairly obscure (but nonetheless excellent) one--James Bond Jr. for the NES. Not necessarily the best platformer, but dear GOD.

* Music/EricSerra's score is severely underrated, and disliked mainly because it wasn't John Barry-esque OrchestralBombing. It's also pure 90s Bond in music form. Other highlights include:

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKpuuAbaDQ "Matera"]], which actually reprises "We Have All the Time in the World" from ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', in bombastic fasion!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HykiSTg8w84 This will make you cry]]. [[spoiler: Rest in Peace, dear M]].

* For techno lovers, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socp0GpgGWw&ab_channel=DieAnotherDaySoundtrack-Topic Iced, Inc.]]" (aka [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Duel Of The]] {{Cool Car}}s) is an absolute treat.

* For techno lovers, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NacyNTWLZIk Iced, Inc.]]" (aka [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Duel Of The]] {{Cool Car}}s) is an absolute treat.

* The [[TearJerker heartbreakingly beautiful]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qujkMxj1-4 theme]] for ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is the musical equivalent of TookTheBadFilmSeriously.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill'' might not be the best Bond movie, but it has some of John Barry's best cues, like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvM5Ese0EE He's Dangerous]]", which mixes his trademark Bond bombast with an electric guitar.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFNF0V0rpw Wine with Stacey]]" is one of the most beautiful tracks in the franchise. It plays on the scenes where Bond makes love with May Day and Stacey Sutton; in the latter case, it also plays in the couple's romantic scenes, showing a sensitivity rarely seen in the Roger Moore Era.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9p0FJnk2vM The Living Daylights]]" by Music/{{Aha}} marries the pop sensibilities Duran Duran explored in the previous Bond theme with a darker undercurrent that works incredibly well for the first Timothy Dalton film.
* There's a magnificent VillainSong written for Necros -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0WMOywj1Q Where has Everybody Gone?]]" by Music/{{Pretenders}}. Bad. Ass.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqqO6LbKxXk "Licence Revoked"]]includes a ''triumphant'' reprise of the Bond theme as Bond "fishes" Sanchez's plane.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da-RjeCObyA "If You Asked Me To" by Patti LaBelle]] graces the end credits, one of the rare times the title tune isn't reprised for the ending. Later [[https://youtu.be/1bKuXbnGDqI covered]] by Music/CelineDion.

* BrokenBase nonwithstanding, there's no denying that the title song is catchy as hell!

* ''Film/AViewToAKill'' might not be the best Bond movie but it has some of John Barry's best cues like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvM5Ese0EE He's Dangerous]]" which mixes his trademark Bond bombast with an electric guitar.

* [[https://youtu.be/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqqO6LbKxXk "Licence Revoked"]], which includes a ''triumphant'' reprise of the Bond theme as Bond "fishes" Sanchez's plane.

** And the Propellerheads' ''epic'' cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN8GcRGNWe4 On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]", which has been described as "nine minutes of majestic". That's about the size of it.

* The fast paced action level [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3f6RfMuLio Silo]], which was pretty catchy at first, but add a bit of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpmfBm0xPoc remix]] to it, and it goes up to 12!

* [[https://youtu.be/lvBjM7tMi1M "License Revoked"]], which includes a ''triumphant'' reprise of the Bond theme as Bond "fishes" Sanchez's plane.

* The awesome car chase music ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csWbR7VkqE0 Backfire]]) and the last third of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMefz90tXZA Detonation]] both feature awesome, powerful quotations of the Bond theme, until they start reusing ''Skyfall'' music.

* Burt Bacharach's bouncy theme to ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' is a marvelous piece of '60s kitsch, and is probably better known than the film itself.

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* A fairly obscure (but nonetheless excellent) one--James Bond Jr. for the NES. Not necessarily the best platformer, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2EO6WPEmo dear GOD]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adcl87EUMCI Dusk at Piz Gloria]] is just ''wonderful'' to listen to, and it's a shame that more of it isn't heard in the film. It sounds like a song that would play at night in the overworld of a video game, and listening to it can make you vividly imagine sleeping in a cabin in the Swiss alps, with the smell of fresh, alpine wood and the heat of the fire crackling opposite you.