History AwesomeMusic / JamesBond

* The UrExample: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSpoKZWb2Y opening]] to ''Film/DrNo'', with the iconic theme composed by Monty Norman and rearranged by Music/JohnBarry.

* The first thing they had to tackle when modernizing Bond between Creator/TimothyDalton and Creator/PierceBrosnan? Hand the theme over to Music/{{Moby}}, who came up with this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDTgaEIi-Q techno-remix]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTpVVrI5Sfw Company Car]]" from ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' is three glorious minutes of pure 007 swagger, mixed with the dirty trumpet fanfare from "Surrender".

'''Bond:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuwWA159Hc The name's Bond. James Bond.]]\\

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-PxzKxJjBg James Bond Is Back]]". Yes he is. [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/from-russia-with-love/ Now with more sexy dancing girls!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpciaZzONY John Barry's "007"]], featured in several other films in the series, and it's easy to see why!

* The prototype for [[MoodMotif all spy music]] to come -- GOOOOOLLD-''FING-'''GAHH!!''''' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2WlDM3tEA Wah-Waaaahhh-ah-WAAH!!]]) No wonder Music/ShirleyBassey would return twice. The long held vibrato note at the end is incredible as well. "HE LOVES '''GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!'''"
* The ''spectacular'' instrumental version of the main theme, called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajOAfKVWD7s Oddjob's Pressing Engagement]]"
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnW-8YpQpgQ Dawn Raid on Fort Knox]]". Goldfinger's very own ThemeMusicPowerUp.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKV8d6Chvlw Into Miami]]", complete with sizzling sax solo. It oozes with the swanky cool, a perfect mood-setting piece conveying luxury, allure, and just a hint of danger.

* And nothing quite "strikes like THUNDERRRRRRRR.....'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0x7QiJI1g BAALLLL!!!!]]'''" Music/TomJones reportedly fainted while recording this song.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AN5mJF13A unused theme]] by Music/JohnnyCash. It doesn't quite sound right for a Bond theme, but it's still awesome.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8uYxTJ530 The title theme]] by Music/NancySinatra, which goes the opposite way of the previous two and yet is still a knockout with its pretty and calm approach. The violins were even SampledUp by Music/RobbieWilliams' "Millennium"!
* "Fight at Kobe Docks": an incredible instrumental version of its title theme blaring triumphantly as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7hzHwETyk James Bond fights against thugs several dozen times his number]]...and ''[[Awesome/JamesBond wins]]''. Well, almost.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczHADTsIec Capsule in Space]]". Best ''eeeevil'' music since [[Series/DoctorWho Voodoo Child]]. Auralnauts did an ''awesome'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNeaJZKm7ww remix]] to end their Bond Kill Count.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfoYeDPKB2g A Drop in the Ocean]]" starts out with some solid action music, but when the GunshipRescue with the Big Damn Electromagnet happens, the music changes abruptly to this absolutely ''gorgeous'', [[BuffySpeak swoop-y, waltz-y]] theme.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdOMgJ4reM "Countdown for Blofeld"]] is Blofeld's {{Leitmotif}}.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaJWqVcv8k On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]" is both awesome title music and even better chase music. It is sufficiently awesome that perhaps a ''third'' of the James Bond discs use this theme as the menu music. Also its great use in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumGGxvSrHo Over and Out]]" and in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWX5Wo-Xao Battle at Piz Gloria]]".
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adcl87EUMCI Dusk at Piz Gloria]]" is just ''wonderful'', 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 wood and the heat of the fire crackling opposite you.
* 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. The strings in this one are downright ''iconic''.

* Music/ShirleyBassey's opening title has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPeSPB68i2c so much Double Entendre, it's awesome]]. Famously, the songwriter was told, "Write about diamonds like she's talking about a penis."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avAeh9L3Txw 007 and Counting]], the jazzy {{Leitmotif}} for Blofeld's KillSat.
* Wint and Kidd's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-NrhVI4mO0 theme]] is a dark, low-key piece that fits perfectly as a {{Leitmotif}} for a pair of assassins.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVT-HTrw99I Airport Source]]." Never before has landing in an airport felt so fancy and jazzy.

* The Oscar-nominated Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings}} "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8alMYSu44 Live and Let Die]]" a fine piece of OrchestralBombing (courtesy of Sir George Martin) that was the highest-charting ''Bond'' theme of the time, a strong introduction to the Creator/RogerMoore era and in contention for one of the series' most beloved theme songs.

* [[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.

* Music/CarlySimon's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oenIY_EksGw Nobody Does It Better]]" is world famous, even to those who haven't seen the film. It even earned a Best Song Oscar nomination. It's easy to see why, and ever since, the song's title has been used to describe Bond.
* Music/MarvinHamlisch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQCorevZj4 "Bond '77"]] and [[https://youtu.be/mnZc42HaB6Q "Underwater Lotus"]]. Yes, it's [[DeadHorseGenre disco]], but it still manages to be awesome.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKdj0zkaRM The music]] playing when Bond meets Anya at the Mojave Club.

* The [[TearJerker heartbreakingly beautiful]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qujkMxj1-4 theme]] is the musical equivalent of TookTheBadFilmSeriously.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IKahbz75xo Flight into Space]]" is just magnificent.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5d0S930hc Corinne Put Down"]] is the perfect musical accompaniment to one of the most genuinely unsettling deaths in the whole series.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id08vsWjT2c For Your Eyes Only]]" by Music/SheenaEaston, while unusually mellow for Bond, became a top 40 hit ''and'' Oscar nominee ''after'' the film came out.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt52EcIRo1s This instrumental version]] of the above is pretty nice, too. Notably, the two scenes it's used - Bond and Melina scuba diving, and Bond and Melina meeting up in Corfu - are both examples of SceneryPorn.
** Music/{{Blondie}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y-hCydiXA version]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been]] ''awesome.''
* Music/BillConti's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5scn5KhOY music]] for the ski chase. So [[TheEighties Eighties]], so [[NarmCharm cheesy]], so ''[[GuiltyPleasure good.]]''
* Most of the soundtrack is pure Eighties NarmCharm, but "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLjTnG16rk Submarine]]" is a genuinely cool and atmospheric remix of the ever-awesome Bond theme.

* Rita Coolidge's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LfiEyybCZA All Time High]]", penned by Creator/TimRice, is considered one of the best Bond songs, and a popular love song on its own, partly because it was the first song in the Bond series not to include a TitleDrop within its lyrics.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVbVT3igdw A View to a Kill]]" by Music/DuranDuran, to date, the only Bond theme to make it to #1 on the Billboard charts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bLaQloeg0 This cover]] of "A View to a Kill" by the Northern Kings has to be heard to be believed.
* It 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 Creator/RogerMoore 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 Creator/TimothyDalton film.
* There's a magnificent VillainSong written for Necros that is heard playing in his headphones during his first appearance (the ones he then proceeds to strangle a milkman with) -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1Hw-L96-4 Where has Everybody Gone?]]" by Music/ThePretenders. Bad. Ass.
* The film has some incredible music for its major [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW4d_BEZCcY action]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEwkcIJkgf8 sequences]].
* The action scene with the freakin' Bond theme in smooth, cool synths. So cool, in fact, that the track name, "Ice Chase", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARR51SFcm5Y was very appropriate]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5L1_NAKy1o "If There Was a Man"]] by Music/ThePretenders, which not only is the [[EndingTheme song on the ending credits]], but is heard as a beautiful instrumental [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxlhwxMVbE love theme]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju_by-sC79c The breathtaking theme by]] Music/GladysKnight, an 80s SpiritualSuccessor to Music/ShirleyBassey's iconic theme to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
* Music/MichaelKamen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqqO6LbKxXk "Licence Revoked"]] includes a rousing TriumphantReprise of the Bond theme as Bond "fishes" Sanchez's plane.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da-RjeCObyA "If You Asked Me To"]] by Music/PattiLaBelle 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.

* Music/TinaTurner's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11P2FmC6-A theme]], one of many throwbacks to Shirley Bassey's themes, is fantastic, helped in no small part by having [[Music/{{U2}} Bono and The Edge]] write it for her. To this day, it remains a concert staple of hers. Bonus points for being the only Bond theme that's actually about spying.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGbMaEDamgY The Overture]] with [[OminousLatinChanting ominous Soviet choirs]].
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12nF0Bgcp4M The Preobrajensky March]], heard during a handful of the scenes in Russia.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA85wvlPm_A Run, Shoot, Jump.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcYVq0DHnWY Whispering Statues.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxGM6KI758Q Fatal Weakness]], the incredibly tense theme leading up to Bond's final confrontation with Xenia.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhg1cLihRTc The Severnaya Suite.]]
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_mRqoleUVA The Experience of Love]], the ending theme.

* Music/SherylCrow's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDe1xi4tGUA theme]] may not be very "Bond like", but it is nevertheless an enjoyable song.
* k.d. lang's closing song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r40I3TxFM3c Surrender]]" is just over-the-top ''spectacular.'' In fact, it was supposed to be the title song.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WgVUzVxUkM White. Knight.]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9XKEykVixE Backseat Driver]]" is a slice of high-octane win.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZo16xpW6Y All in a Day's Work]]".

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvNDR5OrqM The World is Not Enough]]" by Music/{{Garbage}} is not as fast-paced as your average ''Bond'' theme, but is still a hypnotic and mellow ballad and a fitting theme for the film's villain.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQelK4z1yPM Ice Bandits]]". And this awesome, yet chilled-out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSeyngjkCk remix]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KY8bBdVh4 Come in 007, Your Time is Up]]", aka the amazing boat chase music. Around the 1:00 mark, it's like a glorious, joyful shot of adrenaline.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPM2NLRdtOg Welcome to Baku]]".

* The outrageously fun "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVysBMQRncs Welcome To Cuba]]".
* For techno lovers, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socp0GpgGWw Iced, Inc.]]" (aka [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Duel Of The]] {{Cool Car}}s) is an absolute treat.
* BrokenBase nonwithstanding, there's no denying that Music/{{Madonna}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbaJA7aO9M title song]] is catchy as hell!

* The pure WIN that is Music/ChrisCornell's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD0uP25yxl8 You Know My Name]]". Yep, Bond is badass again.
* The Bond theme mixed with "You Know My Name" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNNZ4Z7AY-Q Trip Aces]] (around 1:26) and at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqpBV01qww Bond wins it all]], as both tracks accompany Bond's cards matches.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhcHZUqDBE Aston Montenegro]]".
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ravZojvBVc African Rundown]]" is the perfect music to have a [[LeParkour parkour]] chase to, especially at 2:25, the cue for [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome the part where Bond and Mollaka are on the crane]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjZEJkP_Ys Death of Vesper]] is probably the saddest track in Bond film history.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvVr5CzXfI "Night at the Opera"]], a low-key, but utterly brilliant bit of spy music and quite possibly better than the actual theme song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMsuC8U21c "Time to Get Out"]], the music for the opening car chase, starts off slowly and build into an insanely badass version of the ''Bond'' theme. But it ''really'' kicks into high gear at 2:15, where, according to the music, Bond has joined forces with ''The Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' in the cause of awesome.
* The ''absolutely beautiful'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcpsy3vt7pc Talamone]]".
* Bond + [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWSkvBouXQ Tosca]] = Awesome Sauce.
* The unused title song by Music/ShirleyBassey and Music/DavidArnold, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCX4SxhpPwE "No Good About Goodbye"]], perfectly underscoring Bond as a HeartbrokenBadass.

* Music/{{Adele}}'s glorious 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, and she got the most comparisons to the legendary Music/ShirleyBassey for a reason. Even more impressive as she'd just recovered from a vocal chord strain that left her barely able to talk for months.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVcYlYXR0 This will make you cry]]. Rest in Peace, dear M.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGrmh29ZHA "We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM1B9G_Z-VI "Boom Boom"]] by Music/TheAnimals. Silva, being a BunnyEarsLawyer extraordinaire, ''naturally'' had to customize his gunship with a wall of huge loudspeakers to play the song as he attacked Skyfall manor.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jzDnsjYv9A Writing's on the Wall]]", by Music/SamSmith, is both epic and melancholic. Also won an Academy Award, and also the first Bond theme to hit #1 on the UK charts—in fact, ''debuting'' at #1.

* The awesome car chase music ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGoB0JYUJ0 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAAlssVwEw The title song by]] Music/BillieEilish really does come into its own, with her style complementing Music/HansZimmer's solemn instrumentals. It's now the third consecutive Bond theme to win the Oscar for Best Song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKpuuAbaDQ "Matera"]], which actually reprises [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Im_d-0_EU "We Have All the Time in the World"]] from ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' after Bond drops the song's name. It also plays a semitone higher than the original, making it feel like a TruckDriversGearChange ''between versions!''

* You can ''definitely'' hear the extra power of the horns in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ky-qScLYs "Square Escape"]], which makes the typical Bond theme feel epic!
* While on reappropriation of ''OHMSS'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPO-EsnEvwI "Good to Have You Back"]] is an amazing slower-paced rendition of that movie's title theme.
* The car chase between Bond's group and Safin's group in Norway is set to the pounding [[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"]] feels fitting for James Bond's FinalBattle due to the steadily rising strings.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv_z2obBFd0 "Final Ascent"]]. Aside from being an incredibly beautiful and haunting piece of music, it's paired with {{Tearjerker}}, since it plays over the last moments of Creator/DanielCraig's James Bond.

* Any of the opening [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IdDl-pHeDw gunbarrels]] [[note]]well, ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' were closing[[/note]] has its own interpretation of the classic Bond theme (apart from ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', which has the opening bars to "You Know My Name" instead), and they are all ''kickass''. Especially the ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JvbcTRc-wE version]]. It's even got ''[[MemeticMutation cowbell]]'', fer Chrissakes!

** A fabulously {{Camp}}, GenderBender version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=preOypgOwgw Diamonds are Forever]]".
** A ferocious "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimRnv9wMKk Thunderball]]".
** And the Propellerheads' ''epic'' cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN8GcRGNWe4 On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]" has been described as "nine minutes of majestic". That's about the size of it.
** Chrissie Hynde's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t98bsf9kRW4 cover]] of ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' is pretty good.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwm1H0dxAKY Never Say Never Again]] by Lani Hall proves that a non-EON theme song can still be awesome.

* The Latin flavoured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgLK2KxI9I Aztec]].
* The pulse-pounding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6hsdWGF0no Cradle]].
* The creepy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKKG5MriCU Statue Park]].
* The ''epic'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PZqy4ewk8 Depot]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4mspiIxmW8 Train]] themes.
* The fast paced action level [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3f6RfMuLio Silo]] was catchy at first, but add a bit of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpmfBm0xPoc remix]] to it, and it goes up to 12!
* The one in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_DUjZEEoGs Byelomorye Dam]]. Seriously, don't say ''that'' doesn't tense up your nerves!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws4efU6CC4o Runway]] sets the tone for a thrilling escape nicely, as well as getting you for the next level... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5e2KbfYa_I Severnaya]] [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Surface]]. Actually one of the most famous tracks. It's very beautiful.

* 'Nightfire'' had the amazing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcvjlmlvldY Nearly Civilised]]", set to a great [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_kf5pFnoDU title sequence]].

* ''Everything or Nothing'' had a soundtrack composed by [[Series/TwentyFour Sean Callery]], which should tell you all you need to know. But if that isn't enough, it also features a truly sexy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDxO-1FLpc jazz version]] of the main theme by Mya. ''Hot.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KvfAh4oZs "If You're Gonna Jump"]]. Natasha Bedingfield + Paul Oakenfield = win. An energetic and dramatic techno song that pretty much encourages you to get off your butt and do something.

* Music/JossStone's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMNYc9PonVg I'll Take It All]]", a fist-pumping theme that could easily be used in some of the movies.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO1_0OGG7Tc Athens Harbor Chase]]. And played ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqKUTOVsAWM live?]]'' Mother of GOD.

* Music/NicoleScherzinger's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_EvA49Zg4 GoldenEye]]" updates the original Music/TinaTurner song for a modern era and could easily be Tina singing it herself.

* A fairly obscure (but nonetheless excellent) one--James Bond Jr. for the NES and SNES. Not necessarily the best platformer, but dear GOD [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZH2aL0cXYM the music makes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmiP5BZWb6c up for it]].

-->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KMMxAQp8I It's the theme from]] ''Spy'' '''HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDD!!!!'''" ''([[YourHeadAsplode splat]])''
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzDAQaDQzY "Evil"]], a VillainSong done in the style of Shirley Bassey from ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe''.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaJWqVcv8k On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]" is both awesome title music and even better chase music. It is sufficiently awesome that perhaps a ''third'' of the James Bond DVDs use this theme as the menu music. Also its great use in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumGGxvSrHo Over and Out]]" and in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWX5Wo-Xao Battle at Piz Gloria]]".

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaJWqVcv8k On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]" is both awesome title music and even better chase music. Also its great use in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumGGxvSrHo Over and Out]]" and in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWX5Wo-Xao Battle at Piz Gloria]]".

* And nothing quite "strikes like THUNDERRRRRRRR.....'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0x7QiJI1g BAALLLL!!!!]]'''" (Music/TomJones reportedly fainted)

* And nothing quite "strikes like THUNDERRRRRRRR.....'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0x7QiJI1g BAALLLL!!!!]]'''" ''[faint]''

* "[[https://youtu.be/PpUsUN2RzCg Gumbold's Safe]]" plays during the safe-cracking is a masterclass in ratcheting up the tension in an already nerve-shredding scene.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KvfAh4oZs If You're Gonna Jump]]''. Natasha Bedingfield + Paul Oakenfield = win. An energetic and dramatic techno song that pretty much encourages you to get off your butt and do something.

[[folder: Non-EON films]]

* There's a magnificent VillainSong written for Necros that is heard playing in his headphones during his first appearance (the ones he then proceeds to strangle a milkman with) -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0WMOywj1Q Where has Everybody Gone?]]" by Music/ThePretenders. Bad. Ass.

* There's a magnificent VillainSong written for Necros -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0WMOywj1Q Where has Everybody Gone?]]" by Music/ThePretenders. Bad. Ass.

!! Timothy Dalton and Peirce Brosnan

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

* While on reappropriation of ''OHMSS'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPO-EsnEvwI "Good to Have You Back"]] is a great remix of that movie's title theme.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKpuuAbaDQ "Matera"]], which actually reprises [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Im_d-0_EU "We Have All the Time in the World"]] from ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', in bombastic fashion!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdOMgJ4reM "Countdown for Blofeld", which is Blofeld's {{Leitmotif}}.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdOMgJ4reM "Countdown for Blofeld", which is Blofeld's {{Leitmotif.}}

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAAlssVwEw The title song by]] Music/BillieEilish really does come into its own, with her style complementing Music/HansZimmer's solemn instrumentals.

* Music/CarlySimon's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oenIY_EksGw Nobody Does It Better]]" is world famous, even to those who haven't seen the film. It even earned a Best Song Oscar nomination. It's easy to see why.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8uYxTJ530 The title theme]] by Nancy Sinatra, which goes the opposite way of the previous two and yet is still a knockout with its pretty and calm approach. The violins were even SampledUp by Music/RobbieWilliams' "Millennium"!

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id08vsWjT2c For Your Eyes Only]]", while unusually mellow for Bond, became a top 40 hit ''and'' Oscar nominee ''after'' the film came out.

* 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVcYlYXR0 This will make you cry]]. [[spoiler: Rest in Peace, dear M]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv_z2obBFd0 "Final Ascent"]]. Aside from being an incredibly beautiful and haunting piece of music, it's paired with {{Tearjerker}}, since it plays over [[spoiler:the last moments of Creator/DanielCraig's James Bond]].

* [[https://youtu.be/lo3BsLwOtnI "Cuba Chase"]] features two variations on the Bond theme, including a neat [[RegionalRiff salsa-flavored]] one to accompany Paloma's kickassery.