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Are you ready for our TWO PART James Bond Theme Special? You’d better be! Part One of The Cacophony Sessions Season 4 Episode 4 is here and features Dan Whitell with Alex, Dan B, Tom and Martyn as they chronologically rate each of the main themes from every James Bond movie. This part begins with the original 007 film Dr No from 1962 and takes us up to the end of the seventies, ending with 1979’s Moonraker.


Part Two of this episode will be coming shortly containing the remaining movies. The only way to cover it comprehensively was to record two full-length episodes so consider that a bonus!


If you think this means we are going to rush through without our usual brand of subjective butt-hurt ranting, we’re glad to disappoint as in this part we take some time to respond to YouTube comments, bang on about Run-DMC for a bit, contemplate becoming Den with ven and use the Factchecker 3000’s blindspots to spout questionable facts about football. As always, the language is very sweary and this time, Dan has a wonky green screen which will undoubtedly ruin his bid to be the next Bond.


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I can't wait to talk about James Bond cuz he's so cool and sexy and he just reminds me of Martin.

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But 10 years older.

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What Martin's

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one is 10 years older?

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I.

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Daniel Craig looks like a fucking Ballsack

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I wish my ball sack looked that good.

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had

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Yeah.

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That's what he looks like.

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You'd have some good looking poles especially if they come out of the water in those Speedos.

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you can be as ripped as you want, but you can't get rid of that.

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Just Irish pasty a bit Freckly skin.

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That's the same I've got, you can't get rid of that in a gym can you?

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And he never

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Well, it's what South Park refers to as a a

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a superior bond.

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Oh, fair to start that shit.

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I've only seen two James Bond movies.

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I've seen Casino Royale and I've

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The best one

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The Man with the Golden Gun.

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Yeah.

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You haven't seen any Piercen ones

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I tried to watch World is not Enough and Is that the one with the Speedboat

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Oh, I love the stealth speed.

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That's my

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Oh

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is that The Eden Project one.

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woman

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I didn't get that far.

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I turned it off after about 20 minutes.

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It was rubbish.

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The name's Pump Golden Epu, also known as Dan Whittle.

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And this is season four, episode four of the Cacophony Sessions podcast.

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I've been expecting you.

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Today we are ranking the themes from all 25 James Bond movies.

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So grab a dry martini as we separate the rump shakers from the rump stairs for your ears only.

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Which songs leave us thinking nobody does it better and which ones leave us supplying for a license to kill.

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we'll be scoring them all outta 10 to find out we don't have all the time in the world.

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So let's meet the rest of tonight's cast.

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Joining me for this one.

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Tom.

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I'm just a normal functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

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Actually's.

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Probably the best one you've done actually sums you up better as well,

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I know.

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I thought that was quite good.

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All right.

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I thought that and I was like, yep, that will do.

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Alex,

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right?

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I'm here.

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Where were your other two?

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ROEs

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you've used that one before.

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I thought actually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You've

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It's a classic.

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I'm, It's a cool back, it's a comedy thing.

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It's cool on purpose.

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Dan B

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Pub quiz didn't go well.

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The Quizmaster asked me Name a bond villain.

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He just wouldn't take no for an answer.

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Oh God.

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I enjoyed that.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, that's a bond related joke.

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That was so good.

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You gotta theme these things.

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and returning it is Martin.

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Hi, I'm Martin and my favorite band is to Beastie Boys cuz I'm licensed to Ill.

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See what I did there.

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Bond license to kill Ill, oh fuck

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I think, wasn't that the point in their joke in the first place?

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Maybe.

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I

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cringe and Dan's, but I wasn't sure it was on purpose.

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I put work into that one man.

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Maybe you should go back to the approach of not putting any effort in.

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We should send him away for another podcast or two.

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He isn't right yet.

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It sounds like we need a bit of a warmup.

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So as usual, we're gonna kick things off with a game that takes a song off the top of someone's head and asks, does it slap?

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who's up?

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Oh, I'll go then.

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Cuz no one else is I've been listening to a lot of gold frat lately because she's got a new solo album coming out and Ride White Horse by Gold Frap is a undeniable banger.

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which one's that one?

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How's that one go?

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This their disco beat with a sexy woman singing on it.

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That's all you need to know.

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Is that the one that goes?

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Yeah.

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Now I, it was Silver Something Machine.

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Strict

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that's strip machine,

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the only song by golf wrap.

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I know.

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that could have been a, that could

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that's a, that's also a bang

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No.

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Fuck.

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I don't, I hate that song.

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Oh, if you don't like that, you're probably not gonna like ride a white horse.

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It doesn't sound like it's an undeniable banger by Alan Dan standards.

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Alright.

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I'll choose another one.

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Smoke code by the chats that's going

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Oh,

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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that's easy.

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A hundred percent.

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paste.

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Both albums

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I'm on Smoke Ho Libby alone.

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I fucking love that song so much.

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Yeah.

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I love that band.

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They're a great band.

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Yeah.

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Fantastic band.

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I'm enjoying ride a white horse, if that helps.

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Have just listened to it and I personally think it's a bit bad, but I don't like gold.

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Fra, I'm kind, doing what Tom did with I have Tiger.

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If you don't like it, don't.

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Yeah.

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So it's a no on that one then.

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But I think Smoke Ho by the chats did make it in

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that, that should

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and that should probably have been in there already.

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by the way I watched a Run DMC documentary last night.

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It's on YouTube.

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I feel like we should put Run DMC song on the Bang a can't remember the song.

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I like what it's called now song actually ruining.

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it's like that.

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No, not like that.

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That's not them.

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and that's the way it is.

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Imagine Know It is.

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I prefer hard times off.

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The first album is

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hard times is good.

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It's tricky.

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Oh, that's a good one.

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I think

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I,

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likes, it's

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like that song.

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tougher than leather.

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The track off of Tougher than Leather.

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I think Tricky is the one that most people would've heard

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What about Walk This Way with There Smith?

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There you go.

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I

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I love that song.

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But it's an Aerosmith song, isn't it?

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It is an Aerosmith song.

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They brought it back into the public consciousness.

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versions

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we should put that cuz that essentially I'm not sure what people are happy with it or not.

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Nowadays it seems everyone seems to be happy with it, but that kind of created new metal.

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So

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It's the first rap

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Yeah.

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yeah.

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How's Not Me?

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This Rat Metal song.

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Really?

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Yeah, I think, we'll, I think we, we will have walked this way.

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It's tricky as

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It is tricky.

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I'll go for that.

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but it's tricky.

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It's pretty weak.

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I mean it's like that.

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It's my favorite, but

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weirdly, I'd go, it's tricky.

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Or it's like that over a

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I think it's like that.

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Yeah.

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We've done the we've discussed

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Time is a flat circle or something.

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I did see Todd in the Shadows, did a video the other day actually,

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what I watched.

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Yeah that's exactly what I watched.

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yeah,

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his review of their train record, which is Crown Loyal, which came out in 2001.

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And that was the end of their career Darryl didn't do anything on the album,

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It was really sad to see the demise of D M C, he was powerful, but it was due to his ill health

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it was also the fact that he didn't wanna record crossover stuff like, Steven Jenkins from Third Eye Blind was the

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I know, right?

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Not great.

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I like

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Blind seems like one of those that Martin would like

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fuck off.

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No, I would not like them.

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Why would I

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no, but no, I'm not saying like we'd think you'd like those band that you'd weirdly love and we would have to then just tell you off in the next six months.

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Semi Child Life is an undeniable banger.

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I'm just putting out

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No.

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Third eye blind for me.

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anyway, Let's find out briefly what everyone's been up to since we last recorded.

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Martin, let's start with you.

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We're released our ep foreign Voices.

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Yeah.

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We're a indie rock band from the Southwest.

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Check us out.

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We're on Spotify, YouTube, music, and Apple Music.

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We're on all across the platforms.

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Check us out.

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Yeah.

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so much better than this, than I was.

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is this count as a paid ad.

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sounded so weird coming from someone on the podcast.

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That's not me.

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half expecting you to say like, and subscribe as well.

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I do that as well.

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yeah,

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So,

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about cardigans.

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that's what's been going on with me.

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I had a bit of a battle with myself thinking, am I being a narcissist by listening to it constantly?

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And I'm like no, I'm fucking proud of it.

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It's fucking amazing.

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And I don't just listen to my guitar parts, which are excellent, but I listen to the whole thing,

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I imagine you've got your EQ set up so that you take all the bait out all the drums and it's just your guitar.

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Yeah.

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But you are at the starting phase, even if it's like a rehearsal video just on your play, not video, but on your phone, and you go, oh, this sounds wicked.

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Everyone in the band over listens to it, to the point they think the song shit.

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You haven't got the point where you think stuff's shit yet, but you will get there.

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No, we won't.

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We won't.

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I'll tell you why.

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Because our stuff is not shit.

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It's fucking brilliant

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Yeah.

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I guarantee you at some point after your hundredth, you'll think goes

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Yeah,

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all you,

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mate.

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I'm already there.

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I listened to it I hear a little bit and I'm like, oh, I could have done that different, oh, I missed a note.

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On one of my last band's eps, one of my drumsticks hit the rim slightly on a fill and that's all I can hear is the fucking rim shot on that mid fill and it just ugh,

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How are you not still in prison?

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Drives me nuts.

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fortunately we're back in the studio again the first week in August.

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We'll have some new stuff to listen to then we won't get too bored with this one.

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We finally found our feet with the writing process.

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I won't go into it, but it just works for us.

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And it's very challenging as well especially for me because it's usually Tom and Ian, they do the groundwork and then I have to come in and fit stuff over it.

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And then I've even Ian standing over my shoulder going, oh, maybe you should try that different me.

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yeah,

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sound like that.

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He's from Blackpool

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Yeah, no.

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The weird thing is that Radiohead have always been one of my favorite bands of all time when I got into them.

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And I found myself not intentionally being like a mix between Ed O'Brien and Johnny Greenwood whenever I pick up the guitar now.

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And, which is really nice because I've just felt recently my playing has just transcended what I ever thought I could ever do.

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I'm looking forward to going back in the studio again and making some new music.

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Sounds

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Oh,

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Annoyingly, I've listened to more music this month than I ever have, and I feel the light of me cannot remember one album, album I bloody listened to because this happened to me.

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One thing I do remember listening to is the New Drain album, you remember it was one of my, it was my favorite album of my last trip of the year before.

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Yeah.

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And you and I are the only ones who liked it.

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oh God.

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Yeah.

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But they got a new album out.

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They've had it recorded since like January.

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But cuz they've signed to eta, they're doing it properly.

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So they're waiting to, for a good release window or something.

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But they finally released it.

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And I've been listening to Phil.

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I've only got, it was what I was doing before this, after the research we were doing, not research, listened to themes.

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is research.

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it is research.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, I'm only about six songs deep into it, but so far it sounded pretty wicked.

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And it'll probably be in my other year list cuz.

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Yeah.

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Bad.

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they're a Swedish punk band.

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I've listened to the newest album and it's wicked.

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I basically I went on a YouTube journey and it basically lined up all the bands and like for all of them gave you like a 32nd slice of each band.

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And it was one band that really stuck out to me cause it was pop punk with a bit of s squeakiness into it.

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It was really good.

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And I listened to the album recently sort thing.

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I should have looked up before, but yes, check out the band.

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They're very good.

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Did you have a chance to listen to the new Enter Sari album yet?

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no I haven't because Andy, what I like about in Shakara was that they were a bit emo in Sri with a lot of the electronics and they've gone into kind of weird

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They've got good, basically

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yeah, they've got full.

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Yeah.

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No, yeah.

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Fair enough.

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I'll give you that.

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They have got good and people, they've gone to the point where people like them now.

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I don't like their newer stuff, so I do listen.

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I've seen them live like four times.

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I thought you might say that

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cuz they just, they play lot so I've just seen them a lot.

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never liked them, but I really liked the new album.

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I thought it was quite good.

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I like a couple of tracks on it, but I, the couple of tracks I like are the ones that sound like they're older stuff, whereas they're probably the two tracks that Dan's like, nah,

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Yeah.

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I haven't got my notes on that to hand, but this, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it says.

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think it's like track two and three the two that I was like, yeah, I'm into this.

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And they're

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Yeah.

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I remember liking the first track and then going, oh, no, I think they're falling into the same traps.

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And then I was like, oh, nope.

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No.

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Okay.

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They've recovered.

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so sorry.

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The band was the good, the bad, and the Ugly Research destroy fucking awesome album.

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Really recommend giving it a go.

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You interrupt your line of thought there, but I also listened to to New Velo, is it Villa Velo of him?

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Marger loved him.

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yeah.

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Viva, I said, Yeah.

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I listened to his solo album actually I've been listening to it in the car on the way working that and that's quite good as well.

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I've never been a massive hymn fan, but I've never disliked him either.

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So I, but when I saw he had a solo album, I thought I'd give him a go, cuz yeah, I'm really recording anything like 10 years or whatever and yeah, it's quite good.

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Have you like, chilled out himm style rock music and which is quite inoffensive?

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It's, yeah, it's quite good.

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I quite enjoyed it.

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I've fought, I soon see the Hoosier at a festival recently and I end up not doing it cause it was pissing and down we went home, so I listened to their music and I actually quite enjoyed their unpopular albums.

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And oh actually no bands news for me actually.

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We found a singer that's cool.

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we now have a final lineup.

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We've got about five songs musically written.

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We need lyrics and we do it this weekend and look forward to it.

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So we'll see how it goes.

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We'll see.

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Done.

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I've not been doing a lot as always cuz you know, that's my life.

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but I am wearing my aral jumper, which is cuz today the season finished and

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it took you this long to mention them.

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Come on.

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We're just such a good team.

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I don't need to bring it up all the time.

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Uh, Plymouth Aga won the league.

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itself.

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We we won the league again for the first time in 19 years.

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101 points.

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First team in history to ever win more than a hundred points.

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Twice.

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That could be true.

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It could not be,

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a, a fact checker doesn't check football so

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Oh good.

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I can say anything.

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I want them.

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They're the greatest team in the world.

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They were out drinking on the barbecue with all the fans and apparently the police shut it down at 10 o'clock cuz the police are annoying.

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got to take my son to the game.

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Fuck the police.

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Exactly.

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should

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the Jana song should go on there.

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If anybody hasn't heard the Janna song or how, what a song that

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I, don't think I could do that and n

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by the Barnett Brothers.

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I think it needs to go on the description below, it's just beautiful.

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It's about the loveliest city in the world, Plymouth and the fine folk that live here.

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Yeah I've also really cleverly sadly, whatever you wanna call it, terribly getting old.

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I've started making sourdough.

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Oh, you

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I am that person now.

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I've start I've got a starter.

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I've named it, I've been feeding it.

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I've made at

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you've got to the bread making phase of your life.

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It's such good bread.

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God, that's so horrific.

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I feel sad for you.

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Yeah, I feel good.

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the gluten is no good for you, Dan, but it's delicious.

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I apologize in

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why don't me laugh so much, dad in this stupid gluten intolerant body.

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Why are you a pussy?

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Fuck it.

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Hey.

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I prefer the term gluten freak.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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It's a disability.

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Actually, sometimes I have a pass off shit myself for three days.

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Call that a treat.

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Tom.

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Move on quickly.

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I haven't been listening to much new release stuff.

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Because obviously our band EP came out on Friday and we did an interview on Jan Radio Friday evening.

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The show's called, where are we Going?

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It wasn't recorded, but I think we might be going back on at some point.

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Jan Radio, owned by Omnium Radio, which is a community interest project in Plymouth.

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That's definitely worth checking out.

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But I also bought possibly the most Dan Whittle bass guitar that anyone has ever seen.

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That is hideous.

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Why'd you own that?

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I quite like it.

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like it.

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You've

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so

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diagonal threats.

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yeah, diagonal threats.

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It's

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Oh yeah.

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Oh, weird.

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It's a Strandberg Bowen Original.

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It's limited 10th anniversary, one of only five made in this particular finish.

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The reason I wanted it is because the fan threats give you perfect intonation, which is really useful when you're playing low end.

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And also if I turn it over the neck has a really weird pro.

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You won't see it cause it's too dark.

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But the neck has a really weird profile that encourages better thumb position, which is gonna be better for technical playing.

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Also, it weighs nothing and cuz it has no headstock, it fits in the boot of a car, which, if you are a bass player, you will realize that is one of life's constant problems is that your bloody bass guitar will not fit in the boot of a car.

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You have to put the backseats down or across the backseat.

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Not

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the pickups not in line.

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That upsets me.

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they're in line with the bridge.

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I don't like your bass, Tom.

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Sorry.

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I knew you wouldn't, but I knew Dan would love it.

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I bet.

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Dan's like, that's a cool bass guitar.

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It, It's a cool bass guitar.

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it's way more in line with the Bootsy Collins space base that kind of look to an instrument, which I'm down with.

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I do like silly instruments as well, like princess symbol guitar and just outrageous personal icons being the instruments themselves.

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As much as I don't like Brian May the guitar that he's made himself and added to over years is cool.

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Yeah.

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It's a cool bass.

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The other thing actually is that I decided to sell my record collection which I've been building up over a 30 year period.

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Cause I just came to this conclusion that I was sat looking at on a shelf.

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And you go through and you realize that you've got stuff that people would probably kill to listen to.

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So for example a friend of mine's listing it off for me on eBay because I am technologically incompetent.

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For example, I have the original 1989 light into dark Chicago compilation LP on vinyl in mint condition.

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That's the first time Smashing Pumpkins wherever on re released on record.

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I have their very first seven inch single, I have churches very first 10 inch single, and all of it is going to be being listed on eBay.

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so yeah, go and check that out.

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We'll put the link in the description below.

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But yes, please help me buy a van so my band can go to recording studios and gigs please.

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Thank you.

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My plan was I want to buy a van for gigging, but I work for theater companies playing piano.

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But cause I'm self-employed another job and I have income protection and things like that, I can't take any money from that.

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So I support some other charities.

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Because I can't get paid for playing the piano for theater companies because it would invalidate my income protection from my other job.

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all the money I receive from that goes to charity.

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So once I've sold my record collection, I will buy a van.

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I'll probably buy a base six and anything that's left because an Eastwood TB 64, cuz everyone needs one.

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Peter Hook had one, everyone needs one.

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Once I've done that, anything that's left over that I don't need will probably go to Cry, which is a charity called Cardiovascular Risk in the Young, cuz all my income from playing piano goes to that.

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And they're a charity that go into schools to do ECGs, to look for like undiagnosed heart problems.

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So they can be caught early which is a really good thing to do.

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Anything left over will probably go to them, if I'm honest, because they're a good charity, they're worth supporting.

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please give me money to buy a van.

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Once I support a van, give me money to give to charity.

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Tom, you're gonna be a man with a van.

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Hang on a second, Dan.

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If we buy that, if we buy Ven, does that make us den with Ven?

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maybe, Maybe not.

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By the sounds of it, we'll have lots of links below for various causes.

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One of which, is the Patreon.

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Couple of things from me in terms of news.

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We wa we are gonna do a cat news again.

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We'll be rolling that out every six weeks or so to give you a more in-depth flow down on new releases.

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I absolutely love Jesse Wears new album.

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That feels good.

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I think by far and away I can't see anything being released that's gonna come even close to that.

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I've scored it like a 9.6, it's an incredible record.

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good.

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It's a beauty.

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It's a beauty.

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I loved it.

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did, I slate Jesse Ware Tom said, I hated on Jesse Ware in one of our previous

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To be fair, you hate on most new music in every episode.

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I feel like you have a, I can't be bothered to do research mode and then you just hate,

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Of course I do.

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Jesse where was nominated on the album of the year?

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Two years ago.

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Three years ago.

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2020.

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So yeah.

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Two, two and a half years ago.

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And I think most people hated on it.

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Did it even make the top 10?

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I think it.

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scraped.

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Yeah,

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yeah, I think it was number 10

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I think it scraped in at 10 cuz everyone stated it and Dan scored it really high.

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Martin was round here, was round at mine the other night for writing.

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And you post about Jesse Ware and he was like, oh, I really excited.

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I really liked Jesse Ware.

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And I was like, do you, cuz you didn't come out like you did two years ago.

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You weren't very kind about that album.

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Mine.

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I was down on it.

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But man, like the new album's amazing.

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It's got that whole modern disco.

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a

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Female vocals thing.

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Yeah, it's fucking beautiful.

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I like it.

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I think it's about when you listen to something, sometimes something hits and sometimes it misses and I think at the time it missed, but now I'm in a better place.

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It, It fits better.

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Couple of people to mention that have died in the music industry recently Harry Belafonte who is a Calypso legend, everybody knows Jump in the line from Beetlejuice and deo the Banana Boat song.

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Some absolute classics.

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And also Gordon Lightfoot as well, Canadian singer songwriter who's a very influential folk musician as well.

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We're also doing an interview with the scribes who are playing Cosmic Kitchen in Plymouth on the 26th of May.

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Are we backstage with them doing an interview about their appearance at Glastonbury as well, so there's that to look forward to.

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By the way, I'm sure the venue's very good, but I've been there to eat, cosmic Kitchen, you should never charge.

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12 pound For a fucking wrap.

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Continue on.

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Continue.

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Yep, they do.

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Speaking of which, it's time to rank the I would say the top 25 bond themes, but they're only 25 bond themes.

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So it's all the bond themes, chronologically discussed and then ranked just for you,

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nobody does it better than the Coffy sessions.

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well, maybe, Tonight we're gonna go through all 25 James Bond movie, starting with 1960 twos, Dr.

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No through to the most recent movie being No Time to Die.

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To give you a little bit of context before we start going through the list, I can't say that I'm a James Bond fan at all.

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This is purely about the songs themselves.

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I don't have any particular memories of any of the films.

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I've seen Casino Royale, which I think is an excellent film, and I've seen The Man with the Golden Gun, which I don't think is an excellent film.

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And that's it.

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Is anybody else, a particular iono when it comes to James Bond that we we can count on as the expert when it comes to the movies or anything?

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I saw them all up to Skyfall

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I've seen every single one, but other than Casino Royale, which I've seen 50 times, I think I've only seen the others about

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can we just be clear which casino?

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Craig one.

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All right, cool.

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Because, because when Dan goes, I've only seen Casino Royal and my instant assumption with it being Dan is that it's not the Daniel Craig.

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The original casino rail it was based on the book, but it wasn't in it with the series.

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So it, I

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it's not in, the official cannon of James Bond.

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It's more of a parody.

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Yeah.

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it's non Marvel universe.

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You guys got me beat because I think everyone's favorite bond is the one they grew up with.

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So a lot of people were like, Sean Connery or they thought Roger

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Timothy Dalton for me.

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But for me it was Pierce Bron.

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I started with Golden Eye and just loved them all so well, except for that last one he did.

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That was shit.

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as someone that was born in 1974 my whole childhood was basically Christmas time bond movies always on.

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And yeah, they were fun and they were okay, but because I was more into sci-fi and I was more into Star Trek and stuff it was always something that would be on, I'd watch it and I'd watch the cool stunts and stuff and then completely forget about absolutely no meaning, no substance whatsoever for me.

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I'm not a Bond fan, although my favorite James Bond is Roger Moore, which is problematic because he's the most problematic bond, if any of them, actually probably, it's not Sean Connery in it.

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Sean Connery is the wife beat, isn't he?

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like the Beatles episode?

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I always go for the problematic people.

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just go for the domestic abuse angle every time.

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What was the quote about John Lennon last time?

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Do you know why I love The Beatles?

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John Allen was not a nice person.

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In fact, he was a domestic abuser.

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I think that's the exact quote.

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Let's see if we could try and get through these 25 songs without any combinations of domestic abuse.

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We'll see.

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in a departure from our usual way of doing this, I don't actually know what people have scored this.

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We're not doing it in the order in which they've been ranked.

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I'm gonna go through it in chronological order, and I'll find out everybody's shit opinions at the same time as you, the audience.

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We'll start with the first one, which is the obvious place to start.

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In 1962, this is actually a little bit different from the rest of them.

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It is not a vocal theme.

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The original Dr No Movie, the theme tune is the James Bond theme which is the famous piece of music by John Barry was actually written by Monty Norman and arranged by John Barry in his orchestra.

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Norman has actually successfully litigated a couple of times.

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The Sunday Times in 2001 being one of the cases when newspapers have implied that.

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It's actually written by John Barry.

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So let's make that clear.

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It was written by Monty Norman and arranged by John Barry.

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It's the James Bond thing.

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Everybody knows this, right?

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I scored it a nine.

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I can't score it a 10, but it's an iconic piece of music.

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I have two strong opinions on this.

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Firstly, it's a 10.

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Secondly, it probably shouldn't be on the list because it's different to all the others, and it's the theme for the entire series rather than just for this film.

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It's just the iconic bond music.

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And I don't think

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Yeah, but it sets the benchmark for what we are essentially going to be judging it against.

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Cause we can all agree that the bond theme's fantastic.

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And even though when you listen to this version, it's yeah, that is the James Bond theme.

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That is good.

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Everyone can recognize it, no one can dislike it.

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I gave it a seven.

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And the reasons.

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That's actually one of my highest scores I gave to be fair.

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And that's because I needed to set it.

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There are a lot of things on this list I like more than it, and there are a lot of things I like less than it.

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So I was like, seven is a good score.

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It's a good piece of music, but very much of its time.

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You think that this song with, what John Barry's done with the Brass orchestration is very much in the vein of what people like Henry Mancini was doing with the Pink Panther.

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There are several James Bond themes.

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Actually most of them in the early days are encapsulating what's going on in music at the time.

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That sort of big band sound is, yeah, Henry Mancini is the perfect example, was the big thing.

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The Pink Panther was recorded in 1963 and this probably influenced it.

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What's interesting with this particular piece is that the reason why Monty Norman is credited as the writer of the piece is actually from the guitar line because he wrote the guitar line for a musical before based on a book about an Indian family living in Trinidad.

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So he wrote the original score for the film Dr No, based on Caribbean rhythms.

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And that's why that guitar line really stands out is because it's built around a sort of a Caribbean meats South Asian rhythm, which is why it sticks in our heads because it wasn't really anything else at the same time.

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The Brass all comes from John Barry really.

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And and that brass carries on for.

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A long time in the films and actually John Barry who did what, 11 of the James Bond films.

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gradually, if you listen to how that the theme evolves throughout the series, the guitar gets less prominent and the brass start taking over the themes that the

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Yeah.

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being played on the brass later on and less on the guitar.

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Just out of interest.

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I was gonna say yes.

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Fuck you Graham.

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I did, I know this stuff already.

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I don't need to do research or look at my notes and learn what a cardigan is.

00:29:01.913 --> 00:29:02.243
Okay.

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Should we acknowledge this because we are probably referencing it.

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Okay.

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Because we're getting not me.

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Cause I wasn't on the one that was actually got views.

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The YouTube video got over 13,000 views as of recording this.

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And we've had two comments by the same person.

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Is it Graham, is it described as wearing a bad cardigan and probably listening to

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I dunno if he was describing me, just firstly, I wasn't wearing a cardigan.

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Secondly, I don't like

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he also couldn't have been describing me because I was wearing a cardigan, but it certainly wasn't a

00:29:32.189 --> 00:29:40.169
we, are kind of new to online criticism and Fry has maybe been a bit but hurt by it.

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So please keep commenting Graham, because you will,

00:29:44.419 --> 00:29:45.499
about our cardigans.

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you'll get reported on it.

00:29:47.433 --> 00:29:48.473
I don't own a cardigan.

00:29:48.473 --> 00:29:49.314
This is a jumper

00:29:50.074 --> 00:29:57.088
I have noticed that Fry isn't wearing his knot cardigan today, so maybe it works, maybe we're getting better now cuz of Graham,

00:29:57.449 --> 00:29:58.469
it's warm enough.

00:29:58.499 --> 00:30:00.078
I don't need to wear a jumper anymore.

00:30:00.693 --> 00:30:03.064
I don't own a cardigan, so I don't know what one is.

00:30:03.273 --> 00:30:07.534
A cardigan is a jumper that opens at the front and I don't own a single one.

00:30:07.723 --> 00:30:13.213
I Think it's ironic that the fact that I both own and proudly wear a cardigan.

00:30:13.993 --> 00:30:16.574
I don't like the Beatles at all.

00:30:16.844 --> 00:30:22.394
And I also am a massive blur fan, which is that whole comment thing was quite hilarious to me.

00:30:22.663 --> 00:30:27.753
But, God bless him, and I welcome, I absolutely welcome people commenting on our stuff.

00:30:27.753 --> 00:30:30.618
And Graham, whoever you are, you know, good bless you, man.

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I already like the guy, he is, he's a dude.

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But no as for the theme tune yeah, I like big band music.

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I like how it's arranged and it's very complex, extremely complex music.

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And I give it a 10, not because I like it, but because I appreciate how it was made, how it was put together.

00:30:47.436 --> 00:30:50.787
And also that guitar part is almost like surf guitar.

00:30:50.846 --> 00:30:51.807
You know, the dick thing.

00:30:52.497 --> 00:30:52.977
yeah.

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And if you're a guitar player and you're learning, it's one of the first things you'd learn on the one string thing.

00:30:58.176 --> 00:31:00.902
I never did myself, but it is something that you do.

00:31:01.231 --> 00:31:04.311
So yeah, I'll give it a 10 and only because I don't like it.

00:31:04.311 --> 00:31:05.362
I'll never listen to it.

00:31:05.362 --> 00:31:08.481
But when it comes on, you know what it is, you know what it's about.

00:31:08.481 --> 00:31:18.739
And I appreciate more than anything, the whole artistry that went into the whole big band arrangement thing is there's fewer things, more difficult to arrange than big band.

00:31:18.919 --> 00:31:20.209
There's a lot of noise going on.

00:31:20.689 --> 00:31:25.249
How do you make so many massive instruments sound totally in tune?

00:31:25.548 --> 00:31:26.598
Totally in time.

00:31:26.868 --> 00:31:29.500
Totally fucking the whole dynamics, just, great.

00:31:29.500 --> 00:31:36.510
Scoring for orchestra is a skill in and of itself, but it is something that is most of the great composers and conductors taught.

00:31:36.790 --> 00:31:42.931
The guitar line is Vic Flick and he's playing some sort of weird 1939 electroacoustic

00:31:42.986 --> 00:31:44.336
It's this surf rock man.

00:31:44.336 --> 00:31:48.670
He's probably playing a e s 3 35 that probably costs more than your house.

00:31:48.670 --> 00:31:51.369
he is doing his thing and it is perfect session musicianship.

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.220
But for me, it's just it's a theme tune.

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:59.585
There's business, there is soul to it, but I, it's, I wouldn't listen to it as a standalone piece.

00:31:59.644 --> 00:32:03.855
right now we're essentially trying to score it's almost like it's trying to score a national anthem.

00:32:04.045 --> 00:32:05.575
It's just okay, yeah.

00:32:05.575 --> 00:32:08.575
It's good because that's how you represent this and

00:32:08.597 --> 00:32:13.316
when you hear it, it's James Bond and it's it is a perfect piece of music in a lot of ways.

00:32:13.645 --> 00:32:20.310
And if it was something that wasn't associated with a film franchise, you'd listen to it and go, my God, that is good,

00:32:20.545 --> 00:32:23.654
it's instantly recognizable and I don't care who the fuck you are.

00:32:24.045 --> 00:32:25.275
No one doesn't just like,

00:32:27.050 --> 00:32:27.560
Yeah.

00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:30.806
And also it fits the theme of the franchise as well.

00:32:30.806 --> 00:32:35.576
The spy who's a little bit damaged and he is going out and doing his thing and killing lots of people and stuff.

00:32:35.895 --> 00:32:40.760
It fits the whole like, idea of what James Bond was so perfectly.

00:32:41.060 --> 00:32:46.010
I think it's one of the most perfect theme tunes you could possibly ever create.

00:32:46.131 --> 00:32:47.570
I, I would agree, but actually, yeah.

00:32:48.096 --> 00:32:49.145
Yeah, I agree.

00:32:49.151 --> 00:32:55.490
And I think there's parts of it you listen to and you're like, oh, you can hear where used this to make similar themes.

00:32:55.490 --> 00:32:57.681
I, one that springs to mind is police squad.

00:32:58.143 --> 00:33:02.244
can tell that there's certain, almost like leap motifs that are taken from this.

00:33:02.875 --> 00:33:07.825
when you listen to the tune, it's almost like you can hear the narrative of the film.

00:33:07.825 --> 00:33:13.865
It starts off all like mysterious and then it goes all dramatic, and then it goes into the bit where there's some false peril.

00:33:13.869 --> 00:33:21.105
And then at the end you get the bit where the older man Seduces, the vulnerable young woman and he grooms her and stuff.

00:33:21.105 --> 00:33:22.815
You get all that stuff in there as well.

00:33:23.285 --> 00:33:26.355
And it's just, it's the narrative of a film,

00:33:26.404 --> 00:33:26.970
I like it a

00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:27.599
Bond film.

00:33:27.845 --> 00:33:28.529
now that you've said that.

00:33:29.876 --> 00:33:30.119
Yeah,

00:33:30.269 --> 00:33:30.630
it's true.

00:33:30.869 --> 00:33:31.289
That's what happens.

00:33:31.874 --> 00:33:32.500
my seventh.

00:33:32.530 --> 00:33:33.820
Looking a lot better now.

00:33:34.736 --> 00:33:35.026
Yeah.

00:33:35.286 --> 00:33:35.945
It's great.

00:33:35.945 --> 00:33:40.895
I still don't know if we should count it because it's the theme for all of the films.

00:33:40.921 --> 00:33:42.201
We have to count it.

00:33:42.384 --> 00:33:45.421
if that's number one, it doesn't matter because Fair enough.

00:33:45.425 --> 00:33:47.310
That's the benchmark is the bond theme.

00:33:47.490 --> 00:33:48.211
How close do we

00:33:48.226 --> 00:33:48.675
True.

00:33:48.736 --> 00:33:49.215
Okay.

00:33:49.336 --> 00:33:50.026
I'd be fine with it.

00:33:50.026 --> 00:33:50.655
It's amazing.

00:33:50.685 --> 00:33:51.790
It's just, different.

00:33:52.230 --> 00:33:53.520
In the film, if you've seen Dr.

00:33:53.526 --> 00:33:54.631
No, it's quite good.

00:33:55.171 --> 00:33:59.996
There's underneath the mango tree playing constantly throughout it, which is another track from the thing.

00:33:59.996 --> 00:34:04.346
And that is like your classic Calypso kind of song.

00:34:04.346 --> 00:34:09.826
It's not very good, but I almost feel like if you watch the film that's more the specific Dr.

00:34:09.831 --> 00:34:12.675
Noe theme, whereas this is just, it's James Bond music.

00:34:13.596 --> 00:34:14.775
I look, I've given it a

00:34:15.030 --> 00:34:16.351
But there was no such James

00:34:16.365 --> 00:34:21.315
I sort of have, yeah, I know, but I just feel like it's it almost wins by default.

00:34:21.855 --> 00:34:23.295
And then we should discuss the others.

00:34:23.355 --> 00:34:23.775
I dunno.

00:34:23.894 --> 00:34:25.110
see what comes out of the scores.

00:34:25.510 --> 00:34:28.181
next up was the film from Russia with Love.

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:33.871
The theme to that is Matt Monroe from Russia With Love from 1963.

00:34:34.021 --> 00:34:37.771
I personally have this Downness Tesco value.

00:34:37.858 --> 00:34:41.938
Andy Williams sings potentially the most boring bond theme that there is.

00:34:42.697 --> 00:34:43.777
I'm not a fan of this one.

00:34:44.320 --> 00:35:01.505
I gave it a seven because I just felt like it was really well sung and it was really well made and it was really well put together and it followed the theme of the James Bond thing of that whole grandiose casino the, of that era, wearing sharp suits, doing the whole Ocean's 11th thing.

00:35:02.105 --> 00:35:10.275
And I like the guy's voice and yeah, it was, the Pound shop, Frank Sinatra, but I scored it high because I really enjoyed listening to it.

00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:11.380
Let's be clear.

00:35:11.380 --> 00:35:12.909
Frank Sinatra is my way.

00:35:12.909 --> 00:35:14.539
Comes out in 69, right?

00:35:14.860 --> 00:35:16.606
So is early era.

00:35:16.826 --> 00:35:18.206
I'll be up front right now.

00:35:18.210 --> 00:35:19.525
I gave this a five.

00:35:19.596 --> 00:35:22.056
Matt Monroe is known as the Man with the Golden Voice.

00:35:22.596 --> 00:35:24.306
That was what he was called at the time.

00:35:24.425 --> 00:35:26.856
His voice is impeccable.

00:35:27.856 --> 00:35:29.505
It just sounds like Andy Williams to me.

00:35:29.974 --> 00:35:30.623
That's not a bad thing

00:35:31.208 --> 00:35:33.309
No, it's not but he's just not quite as good.

00:35:33.663 --> 00:35:37.202
see, I think he's better, but not got the songs that Andy Williams has got.

00:35:37.251 --> 00:35:39.561
Every song that he's been given, he's done really well.

00:35:39.561 --> 00:35:44.271
And this song reflects the fact that sort of bra pack crooner thing was really big at the time.

00:35:44.532 --> 00:35:55.791
However, my problem with this song is whenever you had like a sixties or seventies sitcom that had something set in a Greek taverna that's what the backing track for this sounds like.

00:35:55.972 --> 00:36:03.621
And you read the stories about how John Barry went to Turkey to discover Turkish music because they had Caribbean music in Dr.

00:36:03.621 --> 00:36:05.652
No, and they wanted to use something slightly different.

00:36:05.961 --> 00:36:13.132
They wanted to go Turkish and it just sounds like Greek tover music from a shit 60 sitcom.

00:36:13.391 --> 00:36:18.101
And Matt Monroe vocal cannot rescue that no matter how good it is.

00:36:18.987 --> 00:36:20.697
Yeah, Yeah, I got it.

00:36:20.697 --> 00:36:24.077
A 5.4, so I actually liked it slightly more than you did, but

00:36:24.521 --> 00:36:29.389
My scores are a bit as almost my scores are relative so if I give something a five, it's okay.

00:36:29.458 --> 00:36:29.668
Yeah.

00:36:29.668 --> 00:36:34.018
It's not the lowest score that I've given something on this list, but we'll get to that later.

00:36:34.048 --> 00:36:36.059
I personally give this one a nine.

00:36:36.809 --> 00:36:41.338
Cause I'm very much in the opinion that he's got a great voice and his great song.

00:36:41.369 --> 00:36:50.639
And I think when I was scoring this, I think it was what I perceive a bond theme should be to whether it's a good song or not.

00:36:50.682 --> 00:36:53.472
I haven't really scored whether I like it as a song or not.

00:36:53.478 --> 00:36:55.932
I've scored it whether it's a good bond theme or not.

00:36:56.563 --> 00:36:58.083
Cuz how else can you is theme music.

00:36:58.713 --> 00:37:03.487
And look, he managed to get a really catchy lines Z with the, title of the film.

00:37:04.327 --> 00:37:05.228
The music's great.

00:37:05.228 --> 00:37:08.347
His voice is just like melting butter.

00:37:08.347 --> 00:37:09.398
It's incredible.

00:37:09.487 --> 00:37:10.688
It's like Silk Man.

00:37:10.688 --> 00:37:11.318
It's still, yeah.

00:37:11.414 --> 00:37:15.144
If we're not talking going, we're not doing that stuff.

00:37:15.664 --> 00:37:21.534
This is the first, it's got a bit, for me personally, a Bon Film's gonna be a bit sexy sounding, a bit mysterious.

00:37:22.090 --> 00:37:22.380
Yeah.

00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:31.059
And just not too full on, but it's gotta sound a bit big Bandy, and I dunno, forgive me, this nails what a bond film should be.

00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:35.019
It should name the title a lot, but in a catchy, not douchey way.

00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:37.739
I think this is absolutely perfect like nine.

00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:40.789
Cuz everything can be improved upon except the original one film.

00:37:41.449 --> 00:37:41.929
It's great.

00:37:41.929 --> 00:37:54.224
As a bond theme, that's what we should think about this as and I think this is good when I listen to it, just in general, not really no, but as a bond theme, if I listen to that in when the credits coming up, it'd be perfect.

00:37:54.224 --> 00:37:55.394
So that's my opinion.

00:37:56.201 --> 00:37:56.501
yeah.

00:37:56.601 --> 00:37:57.811
I see your point with that.

00:37:57.815 --> 00:38:04.184
And I think maybe the reason I don't really like this one, is because I don't think I'd ever actually heard it before.

00:38:04.184 --> 00:38:10.184
I've definitely not seen the film, it doesn't seem particularly bondy to me.

00:38:10.434 --> 00:38:11.864
But what would Bondy be?

00:38:12.164 --> 00:38:12.795
I don't know.

00:38:12.864 --> 00:38:17.215
It's very difficult because you've got that melodrama and the brooding horns and all that kind of thing.

00:38:17.219 --> 00:38:25.762
And a lot of the later themes, and this does have it, it's just, maybe because I haven't heard it before, the melody doesn't seem so iconic, so it just seems maybe a bit forgettable.

00:38:25.972 --> 00:38:27.333
Maybe if I'd heard it a hundred times.

00:38:27.663 --> 00:38:42.420
I've never heard of film, but I've, I think we should really put into concrete what we think a bond film should be before we really talk about, I mean, for me it'd be slightly somber, but catchy a lot of horns to crescendos and fucking even gong, it's cinematic.

00:38:42.420 --> 00:38:42.780
Yeah.

00:38:42.831 --> 00:38:43.101
Yep.

00:38:43.431 --> 00:38:45.501
so that for me that's a bond theme.

00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:47.181
Even if it's even the newer ones,

00:38:47.190 --> 00:38:51.496
I wouldn't say that it doesn't sound like a James Bond thing because it certainly is.

00:38:51.826 --> 00:38:59.335
It's just that lack of familiarity with me means that I'm not ranking it as highly cuz it's not so ingrained in my brain, so it's not as catchy.

00:38:59.385 --> 00:39:07.465
I'm in the unfortunate position where I've actually been listening to quite a lot of Andy Williams recently, and I just think their voices sound very similar.

00:39:08.155 --> 00:39:12.675
I just think because Andy Williams has more songs that I know I prefer Andy Williams.

00:39:12.795 --> 00:39:15.007
I think I've just done Matt Mo some dirty there.

00:39:15.306 --> 00:39:16.565
And, It's not a bad song.

00:39:16.596 --> 00:39:19.956
It's just not one that strikes me as particularly memorable.

00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.420
All my scores are based to a event.

00:39:22.451 --> 00:39:24.400
Is it a good bond theme compared to you?

00:39:25.161 --> 00:39:25.521
know what I mean?

00:39:25.701 --> 00:39:27.885
Has played into my scoring in a lot of songs.

00:39:27.936 --> 00:39:33.925
There are certain songs which I have given higher scores because I think they fit the brief a little bit better.

00:39:34.286 --> 00:39:35.695
It depends how you define the brief.

00:39:35.695 --> 00:39:37.865
So for me the thing with Dr.

00:39:37.885 --> 00:39:49.275
No in 1962 and this one to a degree, Is that my favorite bond themes are the ones that reflect the music of the time that the bond film is released.

00:39:49.365 --> 00:39:58.155
Now, the thing is, there are several bond themes that you're gonna see that are come up later, that you will say, they reference the horn sections from the bond theme.

00:39:58.155 --> 00:40:01.425
They have the big band sound, which I'll mark really low.

00:40:01.905 --> 00:40:07.695
Cause for me, a bond theme reflects the time that the film was made.

00:40:08.085 --> 00:40:12.556
Not this ideal that was created with Dr.

00:40:12.556 --> 00:40:17.320
Noe because what I'm looking for in a film, that's not to say that either one is right or wrong.

00:40:17.601 --> 00:40:18.621
I'm not suggesting that.

00:40:18.650 --> 00:40:30.951
So when I look at James Bond, I look at, particularly through the sixties, the sound of the themes, apart from, there's one exception to this in the sixties and seventies, which is gonna come up very soon.

00:40:31.431 --> 00:40:36.590
The sound of the themes changes through the sixties and seventies.

00:40:36.657 --> 00:40:40.092
the sound of the bond theme is reflecting the music of the time.

00:40:40.693 --> 00:40:46.302
Whereas now the music that we are creating for bond themes now is reflecting the music.

00:40:46.302 --> 00:40:46.862
That was

00:40:47.610 --> 00:40:54.134
I disagree to a point because your turn is, are reflective of the, of sound of time, but it's also gotta sound a bit spy.

00:40:54.134 --> 00:40:56.768
It doesn't matter if it's up and coming music at a time.

00:40:56.768 --> 00:40:58.358
It sounds cool when everyone likes it.

00:40:58.659 --> 00:41:00.318
If it doesn't sound like a spy theme.

00:41:00.474 --> 00:41:04.833
everyone knows in the head what a spy theme should sound like, and is the

00:41:05.148 --> 00:41:05.778
the first song

00:41:05.914 --> 00:41:07.173
unfortunate Doctor know.

00:41:07.173 --> 00:41:07.384
Yeah.

00:41:07.384 --> 00:41:08.733
That's the spy theme.

00:41:09.003 --> 00:41:25.286
So I don't care what you'll listen to now, anything that's involves, international espionage or anything like that, even it listens to, it sounds a bit spy like, or they just, cave in and just make a house like fem where it's ding ding, just remix a I know remix a, um,

00:41:25.362 --> 00:41:25.572
Well,

00:41:25.661 --> 00:41:25.811
afex

00:41:26.516 --> 00:41:27.177
yeah, exactly.

00:41:27.297 --> 00:41:27.987
Yeah, just do that.

00:41:27.987 --> 00:41:36.317
They'll remix some shit, but it's got sound a bit like a spy film and some of these new songs, I just don't think it will, even if it's a new sound, you might go, that's quite a good song.

00:41:36.317 --> 00:41:38.481
It doesn't sound like a Bond theme.

00:41:39.056 --> 00:41:42.634
gave it a 6.5 kind of in the middle of you guys, really, I like his voice.

00:41:42.634 --> 00:41:49.233
I think it does have bond elements, but it doesn't really go to quite the same heights that a lot of the others do

00:41:49.293 --> 00:41:51.259
Yeah, I agree with that completely.

00:41:51.978 --> 00:41:56.239
So we'll move on to the next 1, 19 60 four's Goldfinger soundtrack.

00:41:56.489 --> 00:41:59.639
And of course, the song is Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey.

00:41:59.748 --> 00:42:03.465
It is one of the most famous of the Bond themes.

00:42:03.684 --> 00:42:10.253
I've not seen the film, but I've heard this a million times, and it's one of the definitive James Bond themes.

00:42:10.259 --> 00:42:11.063
I've scored it at eight.

00:42:11.634 --> 00:42:19.804
I don't think it's particularly spectacular and I don't think it's the best Shirley Bassy Bond theme but I think it's a very strong song.

00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:23.599
I scored it in eight because exactly the same reasons that you just said.

00:42:23.900 --> 00:42:30.849
I think it was fucking fantastic in the sense they carried on the theme of what Al was saying about that whole spy thing.

00:42:31.389 --> 00:42:39.079
And also it was the first one that had a female vocalist and a very strong female vocalist where.

00:42:39.465 --> 00:42:45.230
James Bond is not just about the spies, the guns, and the, fucking doing his stunts and stuff.

00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:46.730
It's also about the femininity.

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:55.190
And I think this is where that strong female presence in the theme team, hopefully I would think carried over into the films a little bit.

00:42:55.739 --> 00:43:06.244
Probably not, but, I think it's the juxtaposition between the very macho Sean Connery I'm a man, I'm fucking doing all this stuff, but with the very and it is sexy.

00:43:06.275 --> 00:43:09.574
Like it is, her vocals are fucking sexual as hell.

00:43:09.864 --> 00:43:17.724
But also very powerful and strong and be that being involved in a bond theme was probably a bold move when they first did it.

00:43:18.215 --> 00:43:18.934
I don't know.

00:43:19.025 --> 00:43:20.690
But it just, it worked for me.

00:43:20.739 --> 00:43:21.670
I gave it a strong eight.

00:43:21.972 --> 00:43:23.652
I just wanna say ba,

00:43:25.606 --> 00:43:25.827
Yes.

00:43:26.101 --> 00:43:26.391
that.

00:43:27.501 --> 00:43:28.612
Amazing.

00:43:28.972 --> 00:43:33.081
Like I've gone 8.5, Shirley Bass's voice is really powerful too.

00:43:33.081 --> 00:43:37.836
But the instrumental parts for me are just like, you hear that and you, it just brings me back to my childhood.

00:43:37.956 --> 00:43:43.806
And I think I did like this Shirley Bassy out of the trilogy best, but yeah.

00:43:43.856 --> 00:43:44.976
I like this one a lot.

00:43:45.030 --> 00:43:47.521
It's one of those ones where it's very iconic and everyone knows it.

00:43:48.570 --> 00:43:55.891
But I think I remember liking it more than when I actually listened to it it's actually not that good a song.

00:43:55.891 --> 00:43:56.672
It's all right.

00:43:57.362 --> 00:43:58.711
The vocals are pretty good.

00:43:58.711 --> 00:43:59.762
The chorus is good.

00:43:59.762 --> 00:44:05.541
I, but lyrically it's a bit like, yeah, the spider does this and it's just a bit rubbish.

00:44:05.661 --> 00:44:06.411
It's a little

00:44:06.730 --> 00:44:11.692
I, think you have to get over that with a lot of these songs because they're written about a movie.

00:44:11.976 --> 00:44:13.387
Yeah, but there are degrees of it.

00:44:13.476 --> 00:44:13.836
And

00:44:14.121 --> 00:44:15.442
Some, of them are nonsense, and

00:44:15.442 --> 00:44:21.722
get, I gave this a seven because I do think it's a good bond theme and it's iconic for a reason and all that stuff.

00:44:21.722 --> 00:44:26.947
But I, as I said, I'm scoring amongst bond films, so I'm not scoring my personal opinions.

00:44:26.947 --> 00:44:30.757
But it wasn't quite as good as I remember it being.

00:44:30.757 --> 00:44:33.206
And I was like yeah, I'll give it a seven.

00:44:33.206 --> 00:44:35.217
Cuz it is a good bond theme.

00:44:35.217 --> 00:44:37.652
But I prefer the last one, from Russia with Love.

00:44:37.652 --> 00:44:38.612
I thought it was way better.

00:44:38.882 --> 00:44:40.621
I preferred the last one as well.

00:44:40.992 --> 00:44:56.141
The only reason this song is in the film is cuz they presented it to Harry Saltzman, the Producer, too Late to get a Replacement Cuz Harry Salzmann's first response on hearing this Was, that's the worst fucking song I've ever heard in my fucking life.

00:44:56.617 --> 00:44:56.737
Hmm.

00:44:56.936 --> 00:44:59.666
he obviously hasn't listened to Insane Clown Posse, but

00:44:59.922 --> 00:45:01.572
but that, that didn't exist in 19

00:45:01.626 --> 00:45:02.137
Pausing.

00:45:02.137 --> 00:45:05.617
We're pausing your rant for That That is not a flippant comment you can make.

00:45:06.106 --> 00:45:08.027
Hocus Pocus is a good song.

00:45:08.027 --> 00:45:08.777
Continue.

00:45:09.206 --> 00:45:12.657
that is the actual response from the producer of the film.

00:45:13.045 --> 00:45:18.114
lyrics written by Anthony Newly and Leslie Brickers, who's done far better things.

00:45:18.414 --> 00:45:21.625
I'm not sure an Anthony newly has, particularly with John Barry.

00:45:21.630 --> 00:45:27.894
So John Barry's horn parts are in it, which is great, but that's pretty much the only thing that, that I'd like about this song.

00:45:28.284 --> 00:45:41.445
An Anthony newly recorded the original demo vocals and then refused to allow his vocals to be used in the film because he thought the lyrics for the song were too weird in inverted commerce.

00:45:41.625 --> 00:45:44.565
So that tells you when Al goes, the lyrics for the song aren't very good.

00:45:44.744 --> 00:45:48.766
The lyrics for the song, even the guy who wrote them thought they weren't very good.

00:45:49.755 --> 00:45:56.744
My other problem with this song is that Shirley Bassey made her name in musical theater in the 1950s.

00:45:57.675 --> 00:46:02.954
And so the way she performs this song already sounded dated when she did it.

00:46:03.164 --> 00:46:08.445
She does do one of the three her, one of her three Bond film bond themes.

00:46:08.505 --> 00:46:10.784
I do really like this, isn't it?

00:46:10.994 --> 00:46:13.574
She just fucking belts it the whole way through,

00:46:14.150 --> 00:46:17.068
I did write, actually, this reminds me of a musical.

00:46:17.487 --> 00:46:20.818
Yeah, but that's how, that's what she's, that's what she's famous for.

00:46:20.818 --> 00:46:22.498
And there's only one bond theme.

00:46:22.498 --> 00:46:25.137
She doesn't do that on, and she does it on this one.

00:46:25.407 --> 00:46:30.693
She made her name doing musicals and yeah, this, she just belts it the whole way through.

00:46:30.782 --> 00:46:50.393
And the other interesting bit of bit of trivia about this particular song is that Jimmy Page played acoustic guitar on the soundtrack for this particular film, just out of interest, although he doesn't play guitar on this track because the guy who played the lead guitar on the film before or was took precedence.

00:46:50.393 --> 00:46:54.563
So it is Vic Flick, who was the guy who did the two previous films.

00:46:55.023 --> 00:46:55.233
Yeah.

00:46:55.233 --> 00:46:56.389
So I gave it a four.

00:46:56.835 --> 00:46:57.574
That's pretty rough.

00:46:57.664 --> 00:46:58.385
That's pretty rough.

00:46:58.550 --> 00:47:01.429
Still the first bond theme that had a female vocalist.

00:47:01.539 --> 00:47:08.619
It's still the first where it was like, hang on, the female protagonist of the film is important here, and that was what it was alluding to.

00:47:08.980 --> 00:47:11.469
you're sent out to Tom, but he's pretty much thinking.

00:47:11.469 --> 00:47:11.800
Yeah.

00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:14.690
Like it's like I was the first person to The beds not good.

00:47:16.257 --> 00:47:16.547
Okay.

00:47:16.773 --> 00:47:17.063
Yeah,

00:47:17.237 --> 00:47:17.597
point.

00:47:18.045 --> 00:47:20.036
Another iconic James Bond theme.

00:47:20.036 --> 00:47:22.556
At least by measure of the fact that I knew it before.

00:47:22.775 --> 00:47:24.126
From 1965.

00:47:24.155 --> 00:47:28.706
It is the title track from Thunderball called Thunderball, and it's by Tom Jones.

00:47:29.326 --> 00:47:30.195
I think it's brilliant.

00:47:30.266 --> 00:47:31.722
Say whatever you like about Tom Jones.

00:47:31.722 --> 00:47:33.342
I think he sounds fantastic here.

00:47:33.682 --> 00:47:35.422
that last note is so powerful.

00:47:35.422 --> 00:47:37.913
He actually fainted after recording it.

00:47:37.956 --> 00:47:39.943
According to his own story.

00:47:40.222 --> 00:47:45.563
Those opening horns are just, as familiar as the horns from the previous track.

00:47:45.822 --> 00:47:49.273
I can't quite get the Austin Powers use out of my head though.

00:47:49.273 --> 00:47:55.963
I always associate the Thunderball opening with Austin Powers because they use a lot of Thunderball music in that film.

00:47:56.112 --> 00:47:57.313
I think it may be the second one.

00:47:57.652 --> 00:47:59.628
I scored this 8.3.

00:47:59.757 --> 00:48:01.164
Again, I think the lyrics are nonsense.

00:48:01.594 --> 00:48:04.715
Because I don't know the film but to me it sounds good.

00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:05.690
I agree with you.

00:48:05.730 --> 00:48:08.280
I scored it in eight just because it sounds amazing.

00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:13.289
And his voice, he is belt in it out and you can't replicate that really.

00:48:13.809 --> 00:48:14.920
it's just really cool.

00:48:14.980 --> 00:48:23.889
I thought actually I don't really have much more to say other than, again, the same with all of these tracks in the early stages of James Bond.

00:48:23.936 --> 00:48:26.931
it's a lot of instrumentation, it's a lot of orchestration.

00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.650
Done really well with an extremely strong vocalist.

00:48:31.115 --> 00:48:31.416
Yeah.

00:48:31.568 --> 00:48:33.677
For me it's like the same from Russia with love.

00:48:33.728 --> 00:48:38.208
When you want a bond film, you want song to sound a bit sexy, a little bit mysterious.

00:48:38.568 --> 00:48:41.938
And it has spy vibes all the way through the song, doesn't it?

00:48:41.994 --> 00:48:46.434
We all know what a horror soundtrack sounds like, even if there's about a thousand different artists doing it.

00:48:46.855 --> 00:48:47.605
It's one of those things.

00:48:47.605 --> 00:48:50.840
Spy does have his own genre in his zip great vocals.

00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:52.909
Lyrics are a bit lacking as usual cause it's

00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:53.420
Yeah.

00:48:53.929 --> 00:48:56.420
you haven't seen the film, you're like, what is this about?

00:48:56.539 --> 00:48:57.019
yeah.

00:48:57.289 --> 00:48:58.940
But I, yeah, I think that's really good.

00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:01.190
I gave this one an eight.

00:49:01.195 --> 00:49:02.090
Yeah, no, I didn't give an eight.

00:49:02.210 --> 00:49:03.110
Can I have a look on my phone?

00:49:03.139 --> 00:49:03.559
It's Nate.

00:49:03.590 --> 00:49:04.250
I gave this one.

00:49:04.335 --> 00:49:06.155
as far as bond film themes go.

00:49:06.155 --> 00:49:08.076
This is top tier.

00:49:08.135 --> 00:49:10.085
Tom will agree cause he is rubbing his head a lot.

00:49:10.085 --> 00:49:13.206
Oh, no, I'm gonna sound like such an asshole

00:49:13.266 --> 00:49:14.016
Yes, you will.

00:49:14.016 --> 00:49:14.795
Yes you will.

00:49:15.126 --> 00:49:17.976
I don't think you know what a bond theme is supposed to sound

00:49:18.005 --> 00:49:18.713
Oh, hang on.

00:49:18.713 --> 00:49:21.101
I've seen more bond films than you have.

00:49:21.217 --> 00:49:22.358
Yeah, but you don't get the tone.

00:49:22.358 --> 00:49:25.088
Apparently tone is a big deal when it comes to theme.

00:49:25.394 --> 00:49:27.679
my favorite bond themes come up later.

00:49:28.269 --> 00:49:29.320
These are not them.

00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:31.079
This one's not getting any better.

00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:34.588
In fact, it gets worse.

00:49:34.644 --> 00:49:37.125
Can we all disagree Tom's wrong for this discussion?

00:49:37.125 --> 00:49:39.144
And just take and just get rid of his scores

00:49:39.367 --> 00:49:40.507
think he's just missed the memo.

00:49:40.748 --> 00:49:44.297
These are bomb themes, not songs should write as songs on their own.

00:49:44.469 --> 00:49:50.980
my problem with this song right, is that this song was originally sung by Dionne Warwick, which would've sounded fantastic.

00:49:51.389 --> 00:49:55.289
But because her and Shirley Bassey fell out.

00:49:55.349 --> 00:49:56.101
They sued each other.

00:49:56.639 --> 00:50:00.630
So neither song got released, and then they called Tom Jones in at the last minute.

00:50:00.989 --> 00:50:02.730
It's so cobbled together.

00:50:02.909 --> 00:50:08.849
Originally Leslie Brickers wrote the lyrics to a song that was going to be the theme tune called Mr.

00:50:08.849 --> 00:50:11.695
Kiss Kiss Bang, which got rejected by the producers.

00:50:11.815 --> 00:50:14.304
Hardly surprising really, with a title like that.

00:50:14.844 --> 00:50:18.474
And they parachuted Don Blacken with a couple of days to write the lyrics.

00:50:18.894 --> 00:50:22.947
and then they threw Tom Jones in with a day to go and.

00:50:23.748 --> 00:50:25.907
I will never like Tom Jones' vocal.

00:50:25.907 --> 00:50:26.688
I just won't.

00:50:26.748 --> 00:50:29.057
It's that sort of semio operatic style.

00:50:29.057 --> 00:50:32.288
He's not perfect throughout it, but the tone of his voice just turns me off.

00:50:32.617 --> 00:50:35.018
I much prefer Matt Monroe vocal.

00:50:35.297 --> 00:50:37.628
this style of music was already dated when this track came out.

00:50:37.887 --> 00:50:49.318
The Beatles had just released Rubber Soul when this track came out, and the other thing that annoys me is that Johnny Cash submitted a song to be the theme song for this, where the lyrics actually make sense.

00:50:49.318 --> 00:50:54.088
He sings through the plot of the film, and you can actually hear it on some of his live bootlegs.

00:50:54.387 --> 00:50:57.467
So I'd much rather have Johnny Cash's song 2.5.

00:50:57.972 --> 00:51:01.815
All of it doesn't make a difference to whether the song's good or not for a bond film.

00:51:02.143 --> 00:51:04.242
Does it matter who originally would've sang on it?

00:51:04.293 --> 00:51:08.978
I also think, that Tom Jones is more suitable for James bonding than Dion Warwick.

00:51:09.041 --> 00:51:12.190
She sound walk on by and heartbreaker.

00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.951
and I, she's got a lovely

00:51:15.101 --> 00:51:15.610
doesn't,

00:51:15.701 --> 00:51:17.195
it is not as powerful as Tom

00:51:17.402 --> 00:51:20.132
I did quite a lot of research for this one, having gone through it.

00:51:20.132 --> 00:51:24.643
Dion Warwick has been in the running for the most Bond themes without ever singing one.

00:51:24.972 --> 00:51:29.893
Cuz the producers have wanted her on, like all of the films in the sixties, in the early seventies.

00:51:29.893 --> 00:51:33.012
Dion Warwick's always like the number one they want, who's never done it.

00:51:33.512 --> 00:51:34.623
I'm with Al on this.

00:51:34.623 --> 00:51:41.612
I've done no research and I'm literally just listened to the songs based on the fact that they are just bond themes.

00:51:41.668 --> 00:51:46.588
They're not songs that were released to be listened to as a part on their own.

00:51:46.648 --> 00:51:56.248
They were literally made to be played over the opening credits with the circle and the guy with the gun and the dancing girl silhouettes and stuff.

00:51:56.697 --> 00:51:58.047
And that's how I listen to them.

00:51:58.047 --> 00:52:06.657
It'd be like judging Bonjovi that if they did the Simpsons theme, you'd be like, you can't really put it against their other catalogs or who may or may not have been put

00:52:06.740 --> 00:52:06.952
Is

00:52:07.083 --> 00:52:07.373
Yeah.

00:52:07.463 --> 00:52:08.632
bond theme or is it not?

00:52:08.668 --> 00:52:16.284
I don't like it I started watching with the eighties bond films, so I didn't start at the beginning.

00:52:16.844 --> 00:52:19.393
I started with some films that are gonna come up later.

00:52:19.664 --> 00:52:25.784
And because I started with the films that come up later, the films that come up later for me are better bond themes than this.

00:52:26.023 --> 00:52:27.434
And I stand by my score.

00:52:27.653 --> 00:52:32.143
Totally respect your score, but I literally have only listened to these songs today.

00:52:33.353 --> 00:52:35.539
Based on the fact that they are bond themes.

00:52:35.539 --> 00:52:41.179
I've not listened to them as standalone songs, which may be wrong on my part,

00:52:41.346 --> 00:52:43.175
I didn't love it either.

00:52:43.175 --> 00:52:48.036
I'm not a big fan of Tom Jones' voice which I yeah, I probably knocked it down a little bit for that.

00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.610
I didn't go 2.5, but I,

00:52:50.871 --> 00:52:51.201
That was

00:52:51.306 --> 00:52:53.135
I, I like I like the horns.

00:52:53.135 --> 00:52:54.659
I like the bit of the beginning.

00:52:54.710 --> 00:52:57.074
It's similar to the original soundtrack, isn't it?

00:52:57.074 --> 00:52:59.902
The original so, but it doesn't quite go there.

00:53:00.202 --> 00:53:05.041
And like you said, it's like Austin Powers, which, let's be honest, the Austin Powers movies are better than the bond movies.

00:53:05.146 --> 00:53:06.197
Let's just throw that out there.

00:53:06.197 --> 00:53:07.067
So everyone hates me.

00:53:07.496 --> 00:53:08.726
I went 5.5,

00:53:09.302 --> 00:53:09.592
Okay.

00:53:09.907 --> 00:53:10.447
in the middle.

00:53:10.882 --> 00:53:14.822
Next is the 1967 James Bond movie.

00:53:14.822 --> 00:53:15.931
You only lived twice.

00:53:15.931 --> 00:53:21.521
And the theme tuned to that was Frank Sinatra's daughter, Nancy with the song you only lived twice.

00:53:21.581 --> 00:53:22.842
I'd not heard this before.

00:53:24.237 --> 00:53:24.896
Yes.

00:53:24.896 --> 00:53:32.376
The first thing I noted is that Robbie Williams sampled the strings for the Hit Millennium, which is not a song I like, but I actually like this.

00:53:32.436 --> 00:53:38.204
It's the highest one I've scored other than the James Bond theme I think it's quite a nice slice of sixties pop.

00:53:38.545 --> 00:53:40.456
It brings in that fuzz guitar tone.

00:53:40.815 --> 00:53:42.081
And I think it's a good song.

00:53:42.130 --> 00:53:50.112
It's not my favorite of the whole bunch, but it's the first one that sounds like a contemporary pop song as opposed to a show tunes or a, a major ballad.

00:53:51.061 --> 00:53:55.492
It's more, like a contemporary song that's fitting in with the sixties.

00:53:55.802 --> 00:53:57.061
I like it because of that.

00:53:57.302 --> 00:54:02.222
Again, lyrics, I can't really understand what it's getting at and I haven't seen the film.

00:54:02.472 --> 00:54:04.822
But Nancy Sinatra seems to do a good job.

00:54:05.092 --> 00:54:07.251
Yeah, it definitely fits the bill.

00:54:07.251 --> 00:54:08.391
I've scored it at 8.4.

00:54:08.579 --> 00:54:09.333
Dan I gave it.

00:54:09.994 --> 00:54:40.907
Simply because of all the things you just said, it went away from that whole big band, classic thirties thing to like contemporary sixties music of the swinging sixties I like Nancy Sinatra anyway, but it was totally that whole like flowery shirt, Mary Quant mini skirt thing going on, the whole like Soho London bullshit or whatever was going on back then, the hipsters of their day maybe, but it was it's totally swinging sixties London sound, and I fucking loved it.

00:54:41.005 --> 00:54:46.105
It's very retro and, but at the time would've been extremely contemporary.

00:54:46.284 --> 00:54:51.574
They would've been influenced by the likes of the psychedelia that, the Rolling Stones we're playing around with.

00:54:51.574 --> 00:54:52.974
And Uni Velvet Underground were

00:54:53.215 --> 00:54:53.505
Yeah.

00:54:53.625 --> 00:54:54.224
It's a little bit more.

00:54:54.375 --> 00:55:05.175
So the reason why this song exists as it does, is because John Barry, who is still one of the lead writers on it he did all the other scores.

00:55:05.235 --> 00:55:14.445
There's a really big shift between the last film, this film, and there is one really important film that John Barry did between the last film and this one.

00:55:14.985 --> 00:55:18.125
And that's that he did the score to Born Free, which is

00:55:18.150 --> 00:55:18.369
Oh,

00:55:18.675 --> 00:55:20.534
he, which is where he moves away.

00:55:20.670 --> 00:55:21.719
Matt Monroe, I

00:55:21.764 --> 00:55:22.005
Yeah.

00:55:22.005 --> 00:55:34.605
It is also sung by Mc Monroe, but he does the whole soundtrack and he moves away from horns being his predominant instrument to strings being the predominant instrument, which is why you see the massive difference in sound

00:55:34.780 --> 00:55:35.070
Yeah.

00:55:35.534 --> 00:55:38.269
the last Thunderball and this film is because

00:55:38.500 --> 00:55:39.539
you actually like this one?

00:55:40.244 --> 00:55:40.514
Yeah.

00:55:40.514 --> 00:55:42.494
This is my fourth favorite of all of them.

00:55:42.768 --> 00:55:43.759
I, gave this an age.

00:55:43.949 --> 00:55:47.949
And what I love about it is Nancy Sinatra's vocal on this is perfect.

00:55:48.778 --> 00:55:54.063
It's understated compared to the sort of open throated belting we had to deal with Goldfinger.

00:55:54.313 --> 00:55:57.403
Leslie Briers did the lyrics, having watched the film.

00:55:57.614 --> 00:55:58.753
The lyrics are really good.

00:55:59.014 --> 00:56:01.893
Although he had more than one attempt at the lyrics.

00:56:02.043 --> 00:56:13.653
So the reason why the lyrics are quite good is he wrote the lyrics once and they recorded a version with Judy Rogers, who's the one who did the song of the wedding, and then they scrapped it to make this version instead.

00:56:13.994 --> 00:56:15.518
And they originally offered it to Frank

00:56:15.833 --> 00:56:16.614
Frank Sinatra.

00:56:16.614 --> 00:56:16.824
Yeah.

00:56:16.989 --> 00:56:18.639
Yeah, Frank Sinatra Te

00:56:18.878 --> 00:56:19.809
Broccoli, a

00:56:19.929 --> 00:56:21.159
yeah, yeah.

00:56:21.938 --> 00:56:22.179
yeah.

00:56:22.268 --> 00:56:24.849
And he, his actual name's Albert, I believe.

00:56:25.128 --> 00:56:28.393
And he turned it down and said, you should give it to my daughter.

00:56:28.664 --> 00:56:31.813
And the producers went, oh, we want to get Aretha Franklin to do it.

00:56:32.233 --> 00:56:39.373
And I'm so glad that they stuck with Nancy Sinatra because she is perfect on this.

00:56:39.693 --> 00:56:43.083
The string parts, that string rundown is beautiful.

00:56:43.233 --> 00:56:46.833
The actual, the song I think is the most covered James Bond theme.

00:56:46.943 --> 00:56:47.724
Overall,

00:56:47.724 --> 00:56:49.224
it's weird cuz I've never heard it.

00:56:49.431 --> 00:56:49.731
but,

00:56:49.731 --> 00:56:50.780
living under a rock?

00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.280
I've been living under a James Bond free rock.

00:56:53.391 --> 00:56:53.610
And

00:56:54.420 --> 00:56:55.081
I don't know.

00:56:55.315 --> 00:56:55.615
Yeah,

00:56:55.626 --> 00:56:57.235
heard Millennium in the sample a

00:56:57.235 --> 00:57:02.192
yeah, yeah, yeah, It's beautiful and it's really well done.

00:57:02.521 --> 00:57:07.711
The only really disappointing is Mark Lanigan covered this on his covers album in 2013.

00:57:07.811 --> 00:57:15.612
And he covers it beautifully cuz his voice suits it perfectly, but he doesn't have the string rundown, so instantly it loses something.

00:57:15.612 --> 00:57:16.722
He does it on an acoustic guitar.

00:57:16.842 --> 00:57:18.282
But yeah, I love this eight outta 10.

00:57:18.708 --> 00:57:21.739
I didn't go as high, but I really enjoyed it.

00:57:21.744 --> 00:57:36.778
I pretty much, as a general rule with a lot of these, if it mentions the film's name, I'll bump it up a little bit anyway, cuz I like that it's like the family guy thing where Peter Griffin gets really excited when the actors mentioned the name of the film in the film,

00:57:37.168 --> 00:57:37.679
Yeah,

00:57:37.949 --> 00:57:39.268
I'm always a, you know, I

00:57:39.298 --> 00:57:39.748
thing

00:57:40.708 --> 00:57:41.518
they said the thing.

00:57:41.518 --> 00:57:41.998
Exactly.

00:57:41.998 --> 00:57:46.443
So I went for a seven, which I dunno, might be a bit harsh, but I really enjoyed it.

00:57:46.443 --> 00:57:48.244
It's a good song without being incredible

00:57:48.711 --> 00:57:53.121
I like the violin hook, but other than that it's forgettable six outta 10.

00:57:54.097 --> 00:57:54.606
Okay.

00:57:54.922 --> 00:57:55.911
That's kind It really?

00:57:56.155 --> 00:58:02.934
that is currently scoring a total of 38.4 points, so that's currently in second position.

00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:19.367
We'll move on to the next one.

00:58:19.416 --> 00:58:23.250
The film is on Her Majesty Secret Service from 1969.

00:58:23.250 --> 00:58:31.344
The song that was released as the vocal theme for it is we have all the time in the world by Louie Armstrong and I love this song.

00:58:31.715 --> 00:58:36.934
It's one of the only ones that I would listen to, and it works as a non bond theme.

00:58:36.994 --> 00:58:39.070
I think it's actually quite popular at weddings.

00:58:39.380 --> 00:58:42.699
And you can hear why it's a bit more subtle than a lot of the other ones.

00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:43.960
haven't seen the film.

00:58:43.965 --> 00:58:44.679
have you, Dan?

00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:45.969
No.

00:58:46.090 --> 00:58:49.963
Having not seen the film, You shouldn't recommend that people play this at weddings.

00:58:50.277 --> 00:58:51.507
Isn't it played at funerals?

00:58:51.949 --> 00:59:02.114
If you are thinking about playing this at your wedding, Don't watch the film and then realize what it's about and don't, can we give a spoiler for a film that was released?

00:59:02.114 --> 00:59:02.355
Like,

00:59:02.355 --> 00:59:02.775
of course.

00:59:02.775 --> 00:59:03.675
You can give a spoiler.

00:59:04.411 --> 00:59:10.311
this song plays, he gets married, he's driving down the road, his wife gets caught in crossfire, and then this song plays,

00:59:11.282 --> 00:59:13.813
Oh have much time then, I guess.

00:59:13.862 --> 00:59:14.043
no.

00:59:14.492 --> 00:59:17.393
So it should not be played at weddings.

00:59:17.483 --> 00:59:18.862
No, but what do you think of the song though?

00:59:19.614 --> 00:59:20.664
I actually really like it.

00:59:20.670 --> 00:59:23.065
So I love Louie Armstrong's voice.

00:59:23.135 --> 00:59:23.824
I love his voice.

00:59:24.184 --> 00:59:36.934
The thing that really upsets me about this song, there's only one the main thing that marks it down for me is that he, by the time they recorded this song, he was too ill to play the trumpet.

00:59:36.934 --> 00:59:38.585
So it's not him playing the trumpet on it.

00:59:38.824 --> 00:59:44.855
And you can tell cuz his trumpet playing's just so much more brash and I wanted that.

00:59:45.244 --> 00:59:57.820
So this is where John Barry reckons this is his favorite of his bond themes in an inter, And Hal David wrote the lyrics for this, and he's a lot more subtle at lyric writing than Leslie Brickers.

00:59:57.920 --> 00:59:58.369
Oh, how old?

00:59:58.375 --> 01:00:00.530
David's one of the greatest lyric writers of all time

01:00:00.579 --> 01:00:02.882
he's had a few misses let's be fair.

01:00:03.132 --> 01:00:05.454
Yes, he's made some of the greatest lyrics,

01:00:05.766 --> 01:00:09.007
It usually requires, but backer act to make it complete.

01:00:09.068 --> 01:00:10.942
But I mean, you can't take anything away from

01:00:11.001 --> 01:00:11.782
he, yeah.

01:00:11.847 --> 01:00:13.431
He's also one of the most prolific.

01:00:13.431 --> 01:00:17.541
So there is a bit of a monkeys and typewriter effect, but when he gets it right, he's very right.

01:00:17.842 --> 01:00:19.072
And so the lyrics are better.

01:00:19.492 --> 01:00:22.672
I think there are a couple of problems I have for this track.

01:00:23.722 --> 01:00:27.411
One is obviously sat mo not playing the trumpet two.

01:00:27.561 --> 01:00:33.001
This song is very much an homage to what a wonderful world that came out two years earlier.

01:00:33.786 --> 01:00:35.617
And you can hear that they've done that.

01:00:36.126 --> 01:00:43.166
Three is that john Barry's following on from the orchestral tone that he had in Uon of twice it's following on the same thing.

01:00:43.556 --> 01:00:46.016
And I don't think he does it quite as well here.

01:00:46.077 --> 01:00:50.996
I think the orchestra's a little bit more understated in a way that I don't enjoy so much.

01:00:51.027 --> 01:00:56.757
And the last one is cuz the, my Bloody Valentine cover from 1994 is fantastic.

01:00:56.981 --> 01:00:57.661
Oh, I've not heard that.

01:00:58.891 --> 01:00:59.099
that.

01:00:59.099 --> 01:01:01.110
wasn't really around when it first came out to be fair.

01:01:01.190 --> 01:01:02.420
no no it wasn't.

01:01:02.510 --> 01:01:10.789
But I, the 1994, my Bloody Valentine cover was on a Guinness advert, which used to be on between films at the only times I ever watched TV at my grandparents' house.

01:01:10.789 --> 01:01:15.469
So I remember the, my Bloody Valentine version before I remember this cuz I was seven.

01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:17.190
Yeah, exactly.

01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:17.760
Sy nostalgia.

01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:22.230
So I gave this a 7.5, which is still one of the highest scores I gave any of them.

01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:26.929
So I, I do really like this one still cuz Louie Armstrong could sing the phone book and I'd listen to it.

01:01:27.420 --> 01:01:32.250
And I think he's probably my second fav, second or third favorite singer on this list.

01:01:32.829 --> 01:01:35.829
Not necessarily because it's not all about hitting all the notes.

01:01:35.835 --> 01:01:38.949
It's having a tom bra to your voice that makes me want to listen to it.

01:01:39.309 --> 01:01:40.389
I gave it a five.

01:01:40.630 --> 01:01:49.130
The reason I gave it a five was because go either side of the five, there's the fact that everything Tom's just said.

01:01:49.489 --> 01:01:49.849
Okay.

01:01:50.449 --> 01:01:53.030
And there's the other five where it's it's just been overplayed.

01:01:53.030 --> 01:01:55.210
And I can't be asked to be honest with you.

01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:59.380
I like, I hear it and I'm like, I've heard it before so many times.

01:01:59.429 --> 01:02:05.849
It has no emotional weight to me whatsoever, anymore because I've just heard it too many times.

01:02:05.855 --> 01:02:09.969
Wedding disco, it's, oh my God, it this fucking song.

01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:13.329
I listened to it today and I was like, it's fucking amazing.

01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:15.340
It's really well made.

01:02:15.344 --> 01:02:20.969
And the vocals are incredible, but I could not connect in any way because I've just heard it too many times.

01:02:21.130 --> 01:02:24.594
It is literally the equivalent of creep by Radiohead.

01:02:24.684 --> 01:02:24.865
For me.

01:02:25.114 --> 01:02:26.262
Another really good song.

01:02:26.262 --> 01:02:26.592
Yeah.

01:02:26.722 --> 01:02:36.913
yeah after hearing it a million times, it's like all of the stuff that was good about it has been stripped away to it being almost like a musical cliche for me.

01:02:37.282 --> 01:02:38.333
That's why I gave it five,

01:02:38.402 --> 01:02:42.273
I think his voice is one of the best voices in the world let alone on this list.

01:02:42.273 --> 01:02:45.003
I absolutely adore Louie Armstrong's voice.

01:02:45.112 --> 01:02:48.242
I think it's a really beautiful song.

01:02:48.302 --> 01:02:55.443
I don't know if it's really the most bond theme, but like Tom says, having seen the film, it really does fit what happens in the film.

01:02:56.422 --> 01:02:59.273
Unlike the other ones on this list though, it's not the title theme.

01:02:59.302 --> 01:03:01.362
It's not played at the beginning of the film.

01:03:01.362 --> 01:03:08.867
It's right at the end when something happens and I've called it an eight because I just really enjoy the sound.

01:03:08.867 --> 01:03:15.057
It just makes me chill and feel things, which not every song on this list does at all, because they're all ridiculous.

01:03:15.327 --> 01:03:20.938
I didn't realize that it was actually from this film, cuz I've seen this film years and years ago and I forgot it was on here.

01:03:21.338 --> 01:03:23.557
I also knew it from the Guinness advert like Tom

01:03:24.197 --> 01:03:31.472
It's a weird one cause most of the bond films, the intro track and the sort of outro track are the same.

01:03:32.143 --> 01:03:39.068
This film is an example where the intro is an instrumental, that's almost a bit like a riff on the early James Bond theme.

01:03:39.072 --> 01:03:44.827
But John, it proves that John Barry needed Monty Norman's guitar line cuz it's not as good.

01:03:45.248 --> 01:03:45.467
And.

01:03:46.467 --> 01:03:53.248
There's a few, there's another one later that's coming up that very famously have, has a different intro and outro track.

01:03:53.708 --> 01:03:57.697
This is another one where the intro, yeah, the intro's, the orchestral piece.

01:03:57.697 --> 01:04:00.657
And actually this is, I think my second favorite bond film.

01:04:00.728 --> 01:04:03.188
This is from, on Her Majesty Secret Service.

01:04:03.188 --> 01:04:08.588
And I think George Lazenby is my second favorite bond after Timothy Dalton,

01:04:09.353 --> 01:04:15.963
I think those, that is the most controversial thing you've said is those are the two best bonds, like the two that everybody thinks are the worst.

01:04:16.702 --> 01:04:17.333
That's fine.

01:04:17.382 --> 01:04:20.077
Timothy Dalton is the best bond by a mile.

01:04:20.108 --> 01:04:21.938
And he's in the best bond films as

01:04:22.148 --> 01:04:22.387
What?

01:04:22.717 --> 01:04:22.958
Hot?

01:04:22.958 --> 01:04:23.378
fuzz.

01:04:23.378 --> 01:04:23.737
Yeah.

01:04:24.032 --> 01:04:25.733
I like the way you say films plural.

01:04:25.737 --> 01:04:26.663
He was only one.

01:04:26.947 --> 01:04:28.268
oh, Tim Timothy Dalton

01:04:28.302 --> 01:04:28.523
Lak

01:04:28.572 --> 01:04:29.137
several.

01:04:29.228 --> 01:04:30.637
Naby was, yeah.

01:04:31.228 --> 01:04:33.838
yeah, Timothy Dalton is the best, who was in several.

01:04:33.838 --> 01:04:35.487
And George Lazenby is my

01:04:35.652 --> 01:04:37.833
Nah, Bron's.

01:04:37.838 --> 01:04:38.413
The best bond.

01:04:38.983 --> 01:04:39.432
We all know

01:04:39.527 --> 01:04:47.958
It's who you grew up with, is whoever you, who, whoever you, identify as Bond is who you genuinely have grown up with.

01:04:48.018 --> 01:04:54.032
I think that most people were, like, our parents would be more like, have the argument of Roger Moore or Sean Connery.

01:04:54.032 --> 01:04:57.152
But for us it's just, oh, we have Pierce Pron.

01:04:58.063 --> 01:04:59.713
I have no favorite bond.

01:04:59.813 --> 01:05:01.273
have no opinions on that matter.

01:05:01.543 --> 01:05:01.572
I,

01:05:02.221 --> 01:05:02.523
the best.

01:05:02.536 --> 01:05:05.733
I think he's summed up the sophistication and comedy the best.

01:05:05.733 --> 01:05:06.512
I dunno, I think.

01:05:06.603 --> 01:05:06.963
But,

01:05:07.802 --> 01:05:14.429
I like the darkness of Dalton, I think Dalton did darkness better than Craig did, despite what popular opinion dictates.

01:05:15.179 --> 01:05:16.914
Yeah, I actually, I'm I'm

01:05:17.065 --> 01:05:18.710
anyway, can we go back to the song?

01:05:18.811 --> 01:05:20.940
I'm going to give this song four.

01:05:21.240 --> 01:05:28.650
It's, it sounds quite bondy, but it just seems a bit off as a theme tune.

01:05:28.650 --> 01:05:30.755
It doesn't sound like a theme tune for a film.

01:05:30.755 --> 01:05:32.076
It sounds just like a song,

01:05:32.311 --> 01:05:34.090
it wasn't the theme that's the problem.

01:05:34.090 --> 01:05:34.420
It was the

01:05:34.501 --> 01:05:38.000
just, you can tell and yeah.

01:05:38.148 --> 01:05:41.478
I was scoring this based on how good of a bond theme it was, it wouldn't do very well.

01:05:41.478 --> 01:05:44.117
But I've scored it in 8.8 because I think it's a brilliant song.

01:05:44.538 --> 01:05:44.802
a good song.

01:05:44.932 --> 01:05:47.706
His, yeah, his vocal was incredible, but no.

01:05:48.219 --> 01:05:50.949
We'll go into the seventies now, so get your flares on.

01:05:51.250 --> 01:06:00.090
There, I dunno if there were many flares in James Bond movies, actually ne next one is 1970 ones Diamonds of Forever with the song Diamonds Are Forever by Shirley Bassey.

01:06:00.090 --> 01:06:01.619
Returning to the vocal booth.

01:06:02.010 --> 01:06:02.730
I love this one.

01:06:02.730 --> 01:06:03.960
I think it's the best one she did.

01:06:04.030 --> 01:06:11.730
It shows how great it is when you can take that song 30 years later and Kanye West can make a great single from it.

01:06:12.010 --> 01:06:18.369
That doesn't sound like it's anything to do with James Bond, but yet uses the chorus of the song.

01:06:18.789 --> 01:06:19.929
It sounds fantastic.

01:06:19.985 --> 01:06:21.485
The production is amazing.

01:06:21.695 --> 01:06:22.715
Her voice is great.

01:06:23.105 --> 01:06:27.405
She certainly deserves to be the first person to record two Bond themes.

01:06:28.237 --> 01:06:33.666
it's far less cheesy than Goldfinger in terms of the fact that, it's not called Goldfinger.

01:06:33.947 --> 01:06:35.641
It is not quite as good as the last one for me.

01:06:35.646 --> 01:06:37.831
It's an 8.5, but I think it's a strong song.

01:06:38.161 --> 01:06:43.411
I gave it a six, but I wanna refer back to something you just said about production.

01:06:44.132 --> 01:06:50.882
If you're gonna record a bond theme, you are gonna have the best production team you could ever possibly have.

01:06:51.211 --> 01:06:55.802
So every single song on this list is gonna be produced fucking perfect.

01:06:56.356 --> 01:06:57.476
No, not, No,

01:06:57.686 --> 01:06:58.766
No, there's one in

01:06:58.856 --> 01:07:01.682
one, yeah, there is one that, We'll get

01:07:01.697 --> 01:07:10.047
Yeah, we'll get there in a bit, but my point is with this song, yeah, it's great and yeah, production's great and stuff but no, it is, it's fair to middling, isn't it, really?

01:07:10.597 --> 01:07:12.847
It's just a bond theme.

01:07:13.202 --> 01:07:14.123
I disagreed.

01:07:14.123 --> 01:07:15.112
I really like the hook

01:07:15.242 --> 01:07:15.532
Yeah,

01:07:15.802 --> 01:07:18.264
And like I, I like the

01:07:18.585 --> 01:07:18.836
yeah.

01:07:18.836 --> 01:07:22.376
I get Golding seven, so I'm gonna give this one a cause I think it's better from Shirley.

01:07:22.677 --> 01:07:24.336
And it's it's just it's cool.

01:07:24.336 --> 01:07:29.016
It's af when you first start listening to me, it doesn't sound like it should quite be a bond film.

01:07:29.317 --> 01:07:34.021
But then as soon as it starts and once it kicks in, you go, actually notice this is bond was stuck, which is nice.

01:07:34.021 --> 01:07:41.606
It's slightly different to the usual, what I would consider a bond theme, but still close enough where I'm pretty happy and it's catchy, man.

01:07:41.606 --> 01:07:45.237
John Barry's really trying really hard to mix it up with this one.

01:07:45.536 --> 01:07:49.617
So he's throwing in that sort of almost funk breakdown about halfway through.

01:07:50.036 --> 01:07:57.947
The synth intro actually sounds really ahead of its time, but the problem for me is that the vocal performance is still 1950s musical theater.

01:07:58.186 --> 01:08:02.637
It is Shirley Bass's second best vocal performance for me.

01:08:03.056 --> 01:08:08.547
But it's really important to note before I give my score, it's not my lowest by a long way.

01:08:08.726 --> 01:08:19.827
But Harry Saltzman, the producer, also hated this one cuz once again, John Barry and Don Black submitted it so late that he couldn't change it cuz he also didn't wanna put this one in either.

01:08:20.197 --> 01:08:20.976
4.5.

01:08:21.170 --> 01:08:24.654
I Had to preface the fact that I was giving it a 4.5 it's not bad.

01:08:24.835 --> 01:08:28.255
Four is not a bad, four is four to six is okay.

01:08:28.305 --> 01:08:28.664
No.

01:08:28.725 --> 01:08:29.414
I'm sorry.

01:08:29.524 --> 01:08:31.654
When you said earlier, five is average.

01:08:31.715 --> 01:08:33.454
I was borderline not agreeing there.

01:08:33.454 --> 01:08:36.725
But when you're saying four is okay, four is non Okay.

01:08:36.725 --> 01:08:40.685
Realm four is in the middling at best, but not that good.

01:08:41.795 --> 01:08:42.274
Yeah.

01:08:42.274 --> 01:08:44.744
That's what I mean by, it's like just, okay.

01:08:45.314 --> 01:08:46.604
It's a 4.5 for me.

01:08:46.659 --> 01:08:50.829
I really hate that fucking belting vocal.

01:08:50.835 --> 01:08:52.635
I've worked in musical theater for years.

01:08:52.635 --> 01:08:53.385
I hate it.

01:08:53.864 --> 01:08:55.215
And Shirley Brassey does it.

01:08:55.545 --> 01:08:56.534
I just hate it.

01:08:56.715 --> 01:09:01.005
And it's like she does one vocal performance coming up later where she fucking nails it.

01:09:01.335 --> 01:09:02.625
And this is not that.

01:09:02.835 --> 01:09:05.864
This is the Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey.

01:09:06.045 --> 01:09:12.074
We are Welsh musical theater from the fifties and we're gonna fucking belt it and just, no, I hate it.

01:09:12.074 --> 01:09:14.295
but I think that has its place in the bond cannon.

01:09:14.324 --> 01:09:14.795
It does.

01:09:14.795 --> 01:09:16.685
Just hearing, it makes my toes curl.

01:09:17.225 --> 01:09:20.914
why would you work in musical theater but not like musical theater vocals?

01:09:20.914 --> 01:09:22.175
That seems ridiculous to

01:09:22.707 --> 01:09:25.528
Modern musical theater has a degree of subtlety.

01:09:25.717 --> 01:09:26.438
This doesn't

01:09:26.750 --> 01:09:28.159
I really like this song.

01:09:28.260 --> 01:09:31.710
It's just funny when you hear people go, oh, this is shit.

01:09:31.710 --> 01:09:33.199
And then you're thinking, I'm to say I like it.

01:09:33.539 --> 01:09:33.930
Oh, you're

01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:35.824
I, I, I was, no, I know.

01:09:35.954 --> 01:09:39.524
I was listening to it at the beginning and going, do you know what I prefer the Kanye song.

01:09:40.274 --> 01:09:44.954
And I do, I think I do prefer the Kanye song, which is not something that I, normally would say of anything.

01:09:44.954 --> 01:09:46.875
But the ka song's a fucking great tune.

01:09:47.074 --> 01:09:47.375
But,

01:09:48.125 --> 01:09:49.045
is a great, it's a, it

01:09:49.055 --> 01:09:50.614
but I still really like this.

01:09:51.335 --> 01:09:53.465
The ending to it also was phenomenal.

01:09:53.465 --> 01:09:54.940
It ends in a really exciting way.

01:09:55.511 --> 01:09:58.180
I think I agree a bit with Tom on the vocals.

01:09:58.511 --> 01:10:00.490
I, that's not the strength of the song for me.

01:10:00.581 --> 01:10:04.600
I really enjoy the instrumental stuff, though it's iconic.

01:10:04.661 --> 01:10:09.631
It's just like you hear it and you go to good places and I went for an 8.5.

01:10:10.411 --> 01:10:10.770
Nice.

01:10:11.480 --> 01:10:12.100
strong man.

01:10:12.751 --> 01:10:15.900
So that scores it a total of 35.5.

01:10:16.690 --> 01:10:19.911
This one is good old Cacophony session's.

01:10:19.911 --> 01:10:27.083
Favorite Paul McCartney with his 1973 Single which is the theme song from the movie, Live and Let Die.

01:10:27.476 --> 01:10:31.774
And this one is for me, it's a classic.

01:10:31.833 --> 01:10:35.224
I actually scored it higher than the actual James Bond theme itself.

01:10:35.503 --> 01:10:40.283
Because I think it's just a fraction better because it actually has lyrics

01:10:40.610 --> 01:10:41.690
That's words and stuff.

01:10:42.046 --> 01:10:59.206
their lyrics are not, I think the song gets a bad rap because a lot of people think that the line is in this ever-changing world in which we live in, which obviously is a grammatical nightmare, but the lyrics are actually if this ever-changing world in which we are living, which is actually grammatically correct.

01:10:59.466 --> 01:11:05.626
So all the people that are saying, oh no, I don't like that bit because it doesn't make any sense, fuck you, the grammar's fine.

01:11:05.815 --> 01:11:09.416
It's the first theme with no involvement from John Barry.

01:11:09.695 --> 01:11:14.685
And bomb producer Harry Salzman, who Tom's made reference to a few times.

01:11:14.690 --> 01:11:16.485
He actually wanted Thelma Houston.

01:11:16.796 --> 01:11:22.555
But George Martin who produced the song he backed his boy Paul

01:11:22.775 --> 01:11:23.570
Well, yeah.

01:11:24.166 --> 01:11:24.345
Yeah.

01:11:24.345 --> 01:11:28.095
Paul McCartney only signed on to write it if he could be the one to sing it.

01:11:28.110 --> 01:11:28.400
Yeah.

01:11:28.546 --> 01:11:30.279
That was in the small print of his contract.

01:11:30.783 --> 01:11:32.884
It wouldn't have sounded better with Thelma Houston.

01:11:33.283 --> 01:11:39.804
We, and we've said many times on this podcast that sometimes Paul McCartney can be hit or miss with his vocal performances, but not on this one.

01:11:39.838 --> 01:11:39.963
No.

01:11:39.963 --> 01:11:40.474
I'm with you.

01:11:40.690 --> 01:11:46.121
one of the problems I have with this song is I first heard this song through the Guns and Roses version in the 1990s.

01:11:47.110 --> 01:11:47.560
and

01:11:47.676 --> 01:11:47.895
me.

01:11:48.850 --> 01:11:49.211
yeah.

01:11:49.211 --> 01:11:49.661
Not

01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:52.490
Well, the was fo when this came out

01:11:52.551 --> 01:11:53.121
exactly.

01:11:55.137 --> 01:11:57.405
and roses were just a twinkle in their mum's eye.

01:11:57.456 --> 01:12:08.381
On the Beatles episode, I talked about how Paul McCartney, when he wrote songs post the Beatles, it's almost as if he wrote three different songs and mashed them all together.

01:12:08.801 --> 01:12:12.011
But because with this song, he's back in the studio with George Martin.

01:12:12.011 --> 01:12:20.230
Again, this is the one time where more than anything else, I think this is his best post Beatles song by a long way.

01:12:20.530 --> 01:12:28.060
It goes between this sort of piano ballad to this orchestral interlude where they're taking on, where George Martin is Aing John Barry.

01:12:28.060 --> 01:12:35.051
But I think George Martin is actually as accomplished an orchestrator as John Farian is able to make it quite interesting.

01:12:35.381 --> 01:12:36.761
And then he is going back again.

01:12:37.030 --> 01:12:40.207
Yeah, for me I think this is my fifth highest score.

01:12:40.207 --> 01:12:43.627
Again, it's 7.5 for me, which is a good, which is good.

01:12:43.987 --> 01:12:45.317
I including that is good.

01:12:45.417 --> 01:12:57.966
Incidentally, okay the tuning that they use for this recording while I was listening to it, a car alarm on a Range Rover went off outside and this song is in the key of Range Rover car alarm.

01:13:00.447 --> 01:13:00.796
There

01:13:00.827 --> 01:13:01.146
absolutely,

01:13:01.421 --> 01:13:01.527
is.

01:13:02.440 --> 01:13:09.006
I got blown away when someone said to me, if you ever want to tune a guitar, a D is the first note of the Star Wars fame.

01:13:09.806 --> 01:13:12.367
Yeah I absolutely agree with that.

01:13:12.367 --> 01:13:16.176
I tune my guitar to D all the time, every time.

01:13:16.537 --> 01:13:21.056
If I'm tuning by ear what that is I always get the D right first anyway.

01:13:21.117 --> 01:13:34.407
That, that aside thi this for me is a 10, how a 10, simply because it's the first bond theme where it is a standalone song where you can listen to it without it being attached to a bond film and

01:13:34.466 --> 01:13:36.287
that way about Louie Armstrong, but yeah.

01:13:36.296 --> 01:13:36.567
good.

01:13:36.686 --> 01:13:38.247
the one before that as well, to be

01:13:38.287 --> 01:13:45.997
Man I love this song and I listened to I, when I was a little kid, I listened to it so much because it had so many, it was like a suite.

01:13:46.002 --> 01:13:51.306
It was like before I knew what a suite was, lots of different parts in a musical performance.

01:13:51.311 --> 01:13:52.976
I was like, this is fucking cool.

01:13:53.466 --> 01:13:58.476
It's it, you go got this heavy riff and then you've got this like your slow section, and then you've got this.

01:13:58.987 --> 01:14:00.787
I loved every second of it.

01:14:00.817 --> 01:14:05.426
So it is a 10 outta 10 because it's just a great song on its own terms.

01:14:05.426 --> 01:14:08.462
And I wasn't, I didn't even know who Paul McCartney was.

01:14:08.551 --> 01:14:13.292
When I have first heard this, I had no musical knowledge whatsoever.

01:14:13.452 --> 01:14:14.801
I'm no Tom Fried, right?

01:14:14.801 --> 01:14:17.827
But I just heard it and was like, this is amazing.

01:14:17.886 --> 01:14:19.412
This blew my mind.

01:14:19.442 --> 01:14:21.862
I like, this is what music sounds like to me.

01:14:21.912 --> 01:14:24.521
But I didn't know it was part of a bond theme.

01:14:24.521 --> 01:14:26.317
I didn't know it was attached to a film.

01:14:26.317 --> 01:14:36.726
I heard it isolated and it was on one of those, now what you call music tapes that I had in the Wartman, and I'm like listening to it over and over again and rewinding it.

01:14:37.016 --> 01:14:37.306
Yeah.

01:14:37.506 --> 01:14:40.447
It was, this is a fucking great song on its own right.

01:14:40.497 --> 01:14:41.277
It's brilliant.

01:14:41.389 --> 01:14:44.537
It's better than anything the Beatles have ever done.

01:14:45.177 --> 01:14:46.557
Oh, no, I don't think so.

01:14:46.778 --> 01:14:47.422
But not

01:14:47.478 --> 01:14:48.587
I dunno, I dunno.

01:14:48.587 --> 01:14:48.738
It

01:14:48.752 --> 01:14:49.382
joking,

01:14:49.682 --> 01:14:50.162
we're done.

01:14:50.162 --> 01:14:50.342
with that.

01:14:51.342 --> 01:14:52.903
I gave this one a 6.5.

01:14:53.533 --> 01:14:56.162
I actually do really like this song and I do think it's generally.

01:14:56.818 --> 01:14:57.387
Pretty sweet.

01:14:57.454 --> 01:15:00.954
Da, that is iconic.

01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:10.104
That if it was just, if it was as I, as we said at the start how I'm scoring these if it was just me as a guy listening to it, I'd probably give you an eight as a bond theme.

01:15:10.104 --> 01:15:11.104
I'll give you a 6.5.

01:15:11.364 --> 01:15:12.385
Cuz it is pretty cool.

01:15:12.715 --> 01:15:13.494
It's pretty upbeat.

01:15:13.505 --> 01:15:15.807
It's a good tune, but it's not very spy.

01:15:15.807 --> 01:15:18.597
Like for me it doesn't seem, doesn't

01:15:18.743 --> 01:15:19.063
I see.

01:15:19.143 --> 01:15:23.743
I, I think the doo do doo bit makes it I can imagine somebody pouncing pouncing around.

01:15:23.743 --> 01:15:26.671
Yeah, but it's just a little bit too uptempo for me.

01:15:26.779 --> 01:15:28.211
And I'm not as a bond theme.

01:15:28.216 --> 01:15:30.640
It doesn't, it's not sexy enough for me.

01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:31.856
It's gotta sound a bit sexy.

01:15:31.881 --> 01:15:32.631
I think you're right.

01:15:32.631 --> 01:15:35.631
It loses some of the sultry mystery.

01:15:35.872 --> 01:15:36.952
There's no mystery to it.

01:15:36.952 --> 01:15:45.011
Is there is this straight in your face we're doing the action bit now and, oh, now I'm gonna smooch you girl, and now I'm gonna do an action bit again.

01:15:45.537 --> 01:15:50.987
for me it, loses most bond themes say within it, you know what you're gonna get no bond f a bond film.

01:15:51.787 --> 01:15:55.756
But for this one, I feel like you are like we could all for good or for worse.

01:15:55.787 --> 01:15:58.457
A big part of James's bond's womanizing, isn't it?

01:15:59.146 --> 01:15:59.686
We all agree.

01:15:59.737 --> 01:16:00.756
Seduction.

01:16:00.817 --> 01:16:04.476
Seductions a big part of his, a big part of James's Bond character

01:16:04.618 --> 01:16:05.637
that's totally lost in

01:16:05.762 --> 01:16:07.747
there's there's no subduction in this song.

01:16:07.752 --> 01:16:12.073
It's got like an upbeat, like shit's getting real theme, like spy theme tune.

01:16:12.073 --> 01:16:22.033
But, and yeah, it's, it is good and I do like it and I would give it a higher score, but as a bond theme for me it's a 6.5 cuz it's a little too missing

01:16:22.047 --> 01:16:23.127
I can understand.

01:16:23.167 --> 01:16:27.427
It is not always associated with Bond because you've got the Guns and Roses cover as well.

01:16:27.653 --> 01:16:28.613
it's a great song.

01:16:28.613 --> 01:16:29.302
There's no way around it.

01:16:29.302 --> 01:16:30.292
It's a brilliant song.

01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:32.750
the Guns N Roses version is better.

01:16:32.750 --> 01:16:40.909
Maybe, I'll give extra points for having a reggae breakdown and Paul McCartney avoiding the temptation to do a called reggae accent.

01:16:41.090 --> 01:16:44.970
So I think he, he deserves it, like a point at least for resisting that temptation.

01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:47.234
fair, he's not above doing it, is He

01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:48.420
it all the time.

01:16:48.420 --> 01:16:56.029
So to not do it in this song is that you actually go, okay, Paul you didn't come up as complete cringe on that record, so can actually have a point.

01:16:56.345 --> 01:16:58.265
everyone who's listening douche chills.

01:16:58.295 --> 01:16:59.164
He's not above it.

01:16:59.164 --> 01:17:00.095
He can do it.

01:17:00.505 --> 01:17:04.534
he he's not above white guy rapping, he's that guy.

01:17:05.539 --> 01:17:05.869
Done.

01:17:07.185 --> 01:17:11.645
I professed my love for Paul McCartney on the last episode as my favorite Beatle.

01:17:11.885 --> 01:17:14.015
Not the coolest Beatle, but my favorite Beatle.

01:17:14.435 --> 01:17:18.864
And I love this as well because I find his lyrics incredible.

01:17:18.864 --> 01:17:23.425
I, as we've already talked about the way this song goes, it goes places.

01:17:23.904 --> 01:17:26.545
It's not just, here's a bit of music.

01:17:26.574 --> 01:17:28.095
It's, it takes you on a journey.

01:17:28.335 --> 01:17:29.835
And that sounds really Ponty, but I don't care.

01:17:30.555 --> 01:17:31.395
That's how I feel with it.

01:17:32.204 --> 01:17:33.524
It's just cool.

01:17:33.524 --> 01:17:36.734
It listen, you listen to it and you go, fuck Yeah.

01:17:36.734 --> 01:17:37.335
As a song.

01:17:37.335 --> 01:17:39.284
And I think as a bond theme too, I disagree.

01:17:39.385 --> 01:17:41.784
I think that part makes it sound quite mysterious.

01:17:41.795 --> 01:17:42.814
The doo do doo do.

01:17:42.814 --> 01:17:45.635
But I went 10 out 10 Can't get

01:17:45.725 --> 01:17:46.585
Mm, okay.

01:17:46.654 --> 01:17:46.944
Yeah.

01:17:47.345 --> 01:17:47.824
Sorry.

01:17:47.954 --> 01:17:48.164
No.

01:17:48.164 --> 01:17:48.494
Sorry.

01:17:48.494 --> 01:17:51.850
I see why, I totally see why you give 10.

01:17:51.899 --> 01:17:55.106
as I said, I love the song, but there's no seduction.

01:17:55.197 --> 01:17:56.306
Where's the seduction?

01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:56.949
it a

01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:00.279
It can't be on a bond theme if you can't put it on a sex mix.

01:18:00.632 --> 01:18:00.842
Oh,

01:18:00.903 --> 01:18:01.802
on a sex mix.

01:18:01.983 --> 01:18:03.332
This couldn't be on a sex mix.

01:18:03.332 --> 01:18:05.943
It might be the the crescendo maybe, but that's about it.

01:18:05.993 --> 01:18:07.493
You can't have sex to this song.

01:18:07.493 --> 01:18:07.943
I'm sorry.

01:18:08.278 --> 01:18:08.658
strokes.

01:18:08.882 --> 01:18:11.497
don't wanna be thinking about Al's crescendos, man.

01:18:11.603 --> 01:18:16.462
Or Poor McCartney or James Bond or Wings.

01:18:17.542 --> 01:18:17.903
No.

01:18:18.143 --> 01:18:24.002
That 10 outta 10 takes it to 43.1, which puts it second on the list only to the initial James Bond theme.

01:18:24.283 --> 01:18:26.108
The next song from 1974.

01:18:26.398 --> 01:18:34.068
And is another song with the name of the film in the title the song is The Man With a Golden Gun and it's Lulu.

01:18:35.007 --> 01:18:38.037
I think this one's a massive step down, I think.

01:18:38.655 --> 01:18:41.926
Tom, you've mentioned several times that you think that some of these are like show tunes.

01:18:42.296 --> 01:18:47.381
And I think that this one sounds like show tunes, but she doesn't have the voice for it.

01:18:48.011 --> 01:18:50.440
I think she's by far, the weakest singer that we've had.

01:18:50.621 --> 01:18:54.850
I think the song is by far and away the weakest song.

01:18:55.041 --> 01:18:59.820
I've seen this film I thought the film was one of the cheapest action movies I've ever seen.

01:18:59.820 --> 01:19:03.390
I thought it was a terrible film with a terrible song.

01:19:03.591 --> 01:19:09.530
It should have been the theme tune to not Miss World, but like Miss World's Ripoff or something like that.

01:19:09.586 --> 01:19:15.876
like the company that run like a knockoff version of Miss World doing a knockoff bond theme with a knockoff.

01:19:16.115 --> 01:19:18.095
I just think this is absolutely terrible.

01:19:18.671 --> 01:19:20.496
I scored it a 3.8.

01:19:21.426 --> 01:19:23.765
Ah, you and I are very close on this.

01:19:23.945 --> 01:19:31.655
So John Barry, the composer, says this, the score for this entire film is his least favorite score that he did.

01:19:31.742 --> 01:19:34.051
I'm not listening to the whole score, so I can't comment on

01:19:34.082 --> 01:19:46.237
But having seen the film the thing with this one is the mu musically, it's a, it almost sounds like a really lazy attempt to update the formula of his sixties scores into the seventies.

01:19:46.567 --> 01:19:52.747
And you'd think after having a break, after having a break with Li Vanette die, he'd come back and be like up for it.

01:19:53.016 --> 01:19:59.976
But I think the reason he didn't come back to the UK to film live that day is cuz he was gonna get done for tax evasion if he came back.

01:20:00.846 --> 01:20:05.046
So he skipped a film and he came back again and he's just cashed this one in.

01:20:05.197 --> 01:20:09.697
It's basically the gold finger score with added cheesy, distorted guitar.

01:20:10.188 --> 01:20:19.217
And Lulu's doing her best Shirley Bassett impression, she's doesn't have the voice to carry it, but Don Black's lyrics do not really give her a lot to work with.

01:20:19.427 --> 01:20:24.377
When we go through the list up to this point, I think this is the last Don Black lyric on this list.

01:20:24.377 --> 01:20:27.377
He might have won a lot later, but like this is one of the last ones.

01:20:27.858 --> 01:20:38.028
And it's, yeah, and it's not really surprising that this is the last one he does for a while because the innuendos he throws in, in this are not well done or subtle.

01:20:38.358 --> 01:20:58.046
They're pretty badly done that lyrically he doesn't give her a lot to work with Orchestrally I don't think Lulu's a dreadful singer but but what they gave her to work with here, she does her best, but she is not the sexy version of Shirley Bassey, which is what they essentially wanted to hire to do this track.

01:20:58.377 --> 01:20:59.367
Yeah it's.

01:20:59.667 --> 01:21:03.327
It's the third worst on this list and it's a 3.5.

01:21:03.806 --> 01:21:07.947
For me personally, this is the first song of our list where I've actively disliked.

01:21:08.152 --> 01:21:08.442
Yeah.

01:21:08.997 --> 01:21:15.356
I think it's shit I gave it a free because there's still redeeming factors even in shit songs sometimes.

01:21:15.851 --> 01:21:20.712
her vocals are okay in it, but quite frankly, like the lyrics are terrible.

01:21:20.771 --> 01:21:23.981
It's, I dunno how do you describe shit?

01:21:24.341 --> 01:21:25.601
It's just a rubbish.

01:21:25.692 --> 01:21:27.631
Smelly usually brown.

01:21:28.389 --> 01:21:29.889
It misses the tone.

01:21:30.429 --> 01:21:34.838
That's why I think it misses the tone of what a bond thing should, it's a crap song anyway.

01:21:34.838 --> 01:21:43.708
Everyone, we can all agree it's a shit song, we can all deal with a crap song of it matches the tone of a bond film and it completely misses the tone of a bond film.

01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:45.118
There's no mystery.

01:21:45.118 --> 01:21:49.408
It's just, and there's a weird middle bit, which is weirdly Ah, yes.

01:21:49.618 --> 01:21:51.179
It's just, this is rubbish.

01:21:51.179 --> 01:21:52.859
I'll give it a bit more than you guys, Bernie.

01:21:52.863 --> 01:21:54.689
Cuz I think I'm generally being a bit more kind.

01:21:54.689 --> 01:21:55.139
Probably.

01:21:55.708 --> 01:21:56.668
I didn't hate this.

01:21:56.668 --> 01:21:58.948
I it doesn't have a lot going for it, but there's a bit.

01:21:58.948 --> 01:22:03.889
It's a bit it's a little more, it's at least a little bit more fun than a lot of the stuff that comes a lot later than this.

01:22:04.309 --> 01:22:06.679
Some of the other things are a bit depressing and a bit boring at least.

01:22:06.679 --> 01:22:08.439
This is and upbeat.

01:22:08.618 --> 01:22:08.948
I,

01:22:09.019 --> 01:22:09.899
you don't want that

01:22:09.913 --> 01:22:10.599
for it for me.

01:22:11.293 --> 01:22:12.404
the man with a God gun.

01:22:12.404 --> 01:22:13.154
It's like bond.

01:22:13.154 --> 01:22:13.694
He's Cooley.

01:22:14.024 --> 01:22:16.213
He's against the man with a god gun that he's the baddy.

01:22:16.213 --> 01:22:17.854
But it's I don't know.

01:22:18.363 --> 01:22:21.333
I gave it a six because it's me.

01:22:21.514 --> 01:22:21.804
Fine.

01:22:22.144 --> 01:22:22.594
Whatever.

01:22:22.713 --> 01:22:25.503
I didn't like it, but I'm meet, I'm nicer than you guys

01:22:26.354 --> 01:22:26.884
Fair enough?

01:22:28.009 --> 01:22:31.163
You're just wanting to avoid having people call you out in the comments.

01:22:31.253 --> 01:22:31.644
Fuck it.

01:22:31.764 --> 01:22:32.423
Yeah being too nice.

01:22:32.423 --> 01:22:33.264
Let's smash him.

01:22:33.412 --> 01:22:34.492
that's a wonderful, this is rubbish.

01:22:34.551 --> 01:22:36.231
No mystery, no sex appeal.

01:22:36.231 --> 01:22:36.771
There's no,

01:22:37.756 --> 01:22:39.046
Plastic bond, isn't it?

01:22:39.079 --> 01:22:49.039
I give it a six as well because a bit like what's been alluded to, it's all about the surface level of sixties counterculture kind of thing going on.

01:22:49.069 --> 01:22:51.890
It is very swinging sixties stuff,

01:22:52.497 --> 01:22:53.292
In the mid in the

01:22:53.407 --> 01:22:54.087
1974.

01:22:54.162 --> 01:22:54.703
There we go.

01:22:54.762 --> 01:22:55.827
They're going from

01:22:55.932 --> 01:22:56.552
No, you're right.

01:22:56.573 --> 01:22:57.872
It is very sweet.

01:22:57.983 --> 01:22:58.472
Sixties

01:22:58.637 --> 01:23:01.667
Swing 60 has got nothing to do with bond bonder.

01:23:02.238 --> 01:23:04.488
No point ever has been swinging sixties in tone.

01:23:04.847 --> 01:23:05.568
Never.

01:23:05.898 --> 01:23:09.337
He like if everyone was think of Bond, there's no way you'd think he was like a liberal.

01:23:09.398 --> 01:23:10.387
You'd think he's a Tori.

01:23:10.480 --> 01:23:11.621
he'd probably be Yuki,

01:23:11.783 --> 01:23:13.073
it's just out of time.

01:23:13.166 --> 01:23:14.935
it's way too retro.

01:23:15.115 --> 01:23:18.685
Like the way that Dandy Warhols did retro was really great.

01:23:19.301 --> 01:23:22.060
They looked back and they were like, this was a cool time.

01:23:22.060 --> 01:23:25.240
And they fucking did their music in a sense.

01:23:25.240 --> 01:23:31.871
It was like, look back in the past and look at all the cool stuff that was going on, and that's what this song is doing.

01:23:31.871 --> 01:23:41.916
It's look at all the cool stuff that was going on with James Bond, but without any of the mystery, without any of the fucking deeper, darker, meaningness that, whatever that means.

01:23:42.337 --> 01:23:47.648
I'll give it a six because it was energetic and it was upbeat and everything, but yeah.

01:23:48.153 --> 01:23:50.868
man it is meaningless at the end of the day.

01:23:50.917 --> 01:23:51.122
it?

01:23:51.122 --> 01:23:55.453
doesn't exactly, it's very shallow, but it's still fun.

01:23:55.483 --> 01:24:03.078
I still enjoyed listening to it above some of the stuff that came earlier which is a bit more deep and dark.

01:24:03.387 --> 01:24:04.595
I just thought it was a good laugh,

01:24:04.965 --> 01:24:08.505
Everything you've just said isn't what a bond theme should be.

01:24:08.595 --> 01:24:10.739
Maybe I'm too, I'm too much vests, stickler for this.

01:24:10.930 --> 01:24:11.050
saying.

01:24:11.229 --> 01:24:12.385
that's exactly what I'm

01:24:12.385 --> 01:24:13.954
there needs to be the light in the dark.

01:24:14.005 --> 01:24:15.895
this song is all about the light.

01:24:15.895 --> 01:24:22.284
It's all about the, like James Bond walk walking into a casino with a suit on having a good time and all stuff.

01:24:22.289 --> 01:24:25.385
And there was none of the like tortured spy

01:24:25.729 --> 01:24:27.750
I mean, we've said, I said what I said.

01:24:27.750 --> 01:24:29.164
We, I said this before.

01:24:30.814 --> 01:24:35.045
Spy theme is as strong as a music tone as you go to horror theme.

01:24:35.225 --> 01:24:45.635
There are certain scales, there are certain tones, there are a certain heart that it is that, like bigger genre in FE when it comes to theme music that you could tell instantly it is or isn't, and it's

01:24:45.739 --> 01:24:46.250
Yeah.

01:24:46.835 --> 01:24:47.585
the spy theme

01:24:47.779 --> 01:24:49.670
No, This is basically, I'm a spy.

01:24:49.670 --> 01:24:56.630
I've got unlimited amount of, like disposable cash to spend that the government had given me and enjoying life.

01:24:56.675 --> 01:24:58.475
just be closer to a comedy spy film.

01:24:58.475 --> 01:24:58.729
there's,

01:24:58.895 --> 01:24:59.375
a bit kooky.

01:24:59.375 --> 01:25:00.064
It's almost Austin

01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:00.619
yeah.

01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:02.829
Yeah, it is actually dead on.

01:25:03.130 --> 01:25:04.720
It is very Austin Powers.

01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:07.300
It's the Austin Powers of the Bond themes.

01:25:07.329 --> 01:25:07.449
It

01:25:07.539 --> 01:25:11.380
I I don't think it's clever enough to be an Austin Powers theme.

01:25:11.539 --> 01:25:11.880
I,

01:25:12.164 --> 01:25:13.274
lyrics are shy.

01:25:13.380 --> 01:25:13.680
yeah.

01:25:13.680 --> 01:25:14.880
It's ju it is.

01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:17.319
The way I would describe this is clunky.

01:25:17.525 --> 01:25:21.155
it makes princes innuendos look really clever.

01:25:21.291 --> 01:25:22.070
oh, thanks Tom.

01:25:22.650 --> 01:25:23.541
To be fed out.

01:25:23.595 --> 01:25:24.645
I delete that from my notes.

01:25:25.006 --> 01:25:25.305
Actually.

01:25:25.305 --> 01:25:26.485
It sounds like Prince wrote it.

01:25:26.746 --> 01:25:28.206
IG fought that, but it song

01:25:29.280 --> 01:25:31.501
you've clearly never heard a Prince song.

01:25:31.725 --> 01:25:33.345
I couldn't, I didn't wanna discuss it.

01:25:34.006 --> 01:25:35.055
Cause an argument,

01:25:35.408 --> 01:25:42.878
So that, that song scored in total then 22.3 making it the lowest scoring so far by at least 10 points.

01:25:43.269 --> 01:25:47.529
yeah, that's the definitively the worst bond theme so far.

01:25:47.747 --> 01:25:48.466
we'll move on.

01:25:49.277 --> 01:25:49.997
According to us.

01:25:49.997 --> 01:25:50.176
Yeah.

01:25:50.176 --> 01:25:50.806
But we are the,

01:25:50.976 --> 01:25:55.216
I believe it's the only one that never tried in the US or UK as well.

01:25:55.734 --> 01:25:56.395
So we're right.

01:25:56.454 --> 01:25:56.904
We're right then.

01:25:56.965 --> 01:25:57.204
We're right.

01:25:57.265 --> 01:25:58.194
No one else liked to either.

01:25:58.470 --> 01:26:06.375
though I've seen the film, I didn't remember the song and I've listened to it, what, maybe five times in the last week for for this show.

01:26:06.795 --> 01:26:08.590
And I can barely remember it now.

01:26:08.770 --> 01:26:09.699
It's fading.

01:26:09.750 --> 01:26:10.829
It's not a good song.

01:26:11.289 --> 01:26:15.670
But we'll move on to the next song is from 1977.

01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:18.399
And it's from The Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack.

01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:25.221
One that doesn't feature the name of the film in the title, but it is, nobody Does It Better by Kylie Simon.

01:26:25.695 --> 01:26:31.136
Clang Clang Lang Lang Clang Lang.

01:26:31.845 --> 01:26:34.345
Nobody does it better.

01:26:35.695 --> 01:26:37.905
Makes me feel sad for the rest.

01:26:39.802 --> 01:26:40.342
Didn't know.

01:26:40.342 --> 01:26:41.262
We'd been tuning into radio

01:26:41.342 --> 01:26:49.948
Fast Good As You that's one of my favorite Alan Partridge moments in any of the series or movies or.

01:26:50.113 --> 01:26:52.033
Podcast or whatever it is that he's done.

01:26:52.543 --> 01:26:54.163
and that's how I know this song.

01:26:54.493 --> 01:26:56.413
That's how I was introduced to Nobody Does It Better.

01:26:56.418 --> 01:26:58.484
However, I love this song.

01:26:58.488 --> 01:26:59.293
I think it's brilliant.

01:26:59.384 --> 01:27:06.378
I think that Carly Simon the way she sings it, she's not like the other vocalist in that she doesn't have a belting voice.

01:27:06.509 --> 01:27:11.934
So you could put her in the same category as maybe Nancy Sinatra or Lulu before her.

01:27:12.503 --> 01:27:25.506
But what I would say is that she has this earnestness to her voice and the way that she writes her songs is the only person on this list to take a bond, woman and make her sound like a main character of the film.

01:27:25.756 --> 01:27:27.940
The main character of this song is not James Bond.

01:27:27.940 --> 01:27:29.711
It's the person he has jilted.

01:27:29.801 --> 01:27:36.381
And I love that because it's a very big departure from what the other songs have tried to be about.

01:27:37.011 --> 01:27:43.786
And at the same time, it still feels like a bond thing because it, it is got that kind of romance to it.

01:27:43.820 --> 01:27:44.466
it's mysterious

01:27:45.453 --> 01:27:49.873
I feel like if a female was to sing from Russia of Love, that's what it got for me.

01:27:49.908 --> 01:27:51.485
it's a way better song than that for me.

01:27:51.546 --> 01:27:51.966
But

01:27:52.180 --> 01:27:53.291
no, but the tone wise,

01:27:53.341 --> 01:27:53.560
Uh,

01:27:53.671 --> 01:27:54.490
tone wise, you're right.

01:27:54.570 --> 01:27:55.591
You're, yeah, you're right on that.

01:27:55.591 --> 01:27:55.801
Yeah.

01:27:55.976 --> 01:28:00.386
this song is fantastic, but you would expect it to be, when you look at who the two writers are.

01:28:00.646 --> 01:28:09.777
You've got Marvin Hamish, who is one of only two composers in history to win a Pego, which is a Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

01:28:10.567 --> 01:28:10.926
Wow.

01:28:10.987 --> 01:28:13.567
He's won all of those, and he wrote it.

01:28:13.907 --> 01:28:17.896
He wrote the music with his, then girlfriend wrote the lyrics.

01:28:17.896 --> 01:28:19.817
Who was Carol Sager?

01:28:20.056 --> 01:28:21.436
Who was then Mrs.

01:28:21.436 --> 01:28:22.277
Burt Baac.

01:28:22.527 --> 01:28:26.487
You've got some like pretty big chops there, right?

01:28:26.487 --> 01:28:27.327
In that music.

01:28:27.806 --> 01:28:32.317
And then apparently they got Kylie Simon in to sing it.

01:28:32.417 --> 01:28:43.726
And this is one of the few occasions where James Bond team gets their first choice vocalist in and they got their first choice vocalist in, cuz Carol Seger listens to your So vain, which is an absolute banger, by the way.

01:28:44.671 --> 01:28:45.032
yeah.

01:28:45.372 --> 01:28:46.091
Undeniable banger.

01:28:46.662 --> 01:28:47.112
Yeah.

01:28:47.171 --> 01:28:47.801
You are so vain.

01:28:48.176 --> 01:28:48.567
Yeah.

01:28:48.596 --> 01:28:49.226
That's got

01:28:49.617 --> 01:28:50.216
I hate that

01:28:50.296 --> 01:28:50.712
on.

01:28:51.002 --> 01:28:51.872
cuz you are so vain.

01:28:52.112 --> 01:28:52.681
That's cuz you

01:28:52.756 --> 01:28:53.087
your,

01:28:53.181 --> 01:28:54.122
is about you.

01:28:54.766 --> 01:28:56.056
yeah, it's a banger.

01:28:56.237 --> 01:28:56.447
But

01:28:56.537 --> 01:28:57.077
about me?

01:28:57.646 --> 01:29:02.997
But anyway, the a f I voted it like 67th greatest film song of all time.

01:29:03.516 --> 01:29:04.447
It's fantastic.

01:29:04.447 --> 01:29:06.877
Kylie Simon's vocal delivery is perfect.

01:29:07.337 --> 01:29:12.453
She doesn't, she tud belt it, but doesn't, it's one of the best vocal deliveries on here.

01:29:12.458 --> 01:29:14.194
The melody of the song's nicer.

01:29:14.474 --> 01:29:18.613
Marvin Hamish references James Barry without being overt about it.

01:29:18.613 --> 01:29:26.250
Like some of the other composers on this particularly who are gonna come up a lot later, they overdo the reference, whereas this time he references it just enough.

01:29:26.250 --> 01:29:31.725
So it still sounds like a James Bond theme, but yeah, 8.5, second best on this list.

01:29:32.385 --> 01:29:33.524
gave this one on nine.

01:29:33.954 --> 01:29:39.555
it is very hard to still be within James Bond theme for me, but still be different.

01:29:39.694 --> 01:29:44.364
And I think this did just enough to stay in the James Bond for me.

01:29:44.574 --> 01:29:44.694
I

01:29:44.710 --> 01:29:44.979
Yeah.

01:29:45.114 --> 01:29:45.744
the piano.

01:29:45.845 --> 01:29:58.204
when it goes up, it is not bond, but when it goes back down the scale, that's when it sounds somber and it sounds a bit more, that's when, for me it sounds bondy and the vocal performance is incredible and it's just so good.

01:29:58.255 --> 01:30:04.135
It's a great song driven emotion with emotion, but also just as enough to be new, but still stay

01:30:04.270 --> 01:30:04.569
yeah.

01:30:04.944 --> 01:30:06.385
of what a bond theme should be.

01:30:06.563 --> 01:30:23.673
What Lulu didn't do, and I'd say it's not Lulu's fault in that the bond themes that I've liked You will notice that I've liked because they're reflecting the music that was popular at the time and doing a good pop song of what was popular at the time.

01:30:23.673 --> 01:30:27.514
So this song from the year it was released sounded current.

01:30:27.814 --> 01:30:30.373
It must have done, it stayed in the chart for fucking months.

01:30:31.069 --> 01:30:31.429
Yeah, it was

01:30:31.444 --> 01:30:33.154
Um, it was a big hit.

01:30:33.453 --> 01:30:44.134
And so it stayed in the chart for months because it sounded current and it was a pop song that worked really well with the modern music at the time,

01:30:44.288 --> 01:30:46.969
This finished the year end charts.

01:30:46.969 --> 01:30:49.514
It was the 49th biggest selling single in the uk.

01:30:49.823 --> 01:30:55.904
And it finished 83rd on US billboard Hot 100 for the year, but number one on the adult contemporary chart for the year.

01:30:55.963 --> 01:30:56.243
Yeah.

01:30:56.243 --> 01:30:57.783
So it's, it did big numbers

01:30:58.024 --> 01:30:58.264
Yeah.

01:30:58.676 --> 01:31:01.306
It's the first one for me since Nancy Sinatra.

01:31:01.306 --> 01:31:07.466
That sounds like it's just a song that sounds like a contemporary song from the time that happens to be a bond theme.

01:31:07.676 --> 01:31:08.846
And it's also very good.

01:31:09.067 --> 01:31:11.037
So yeah, I, I love the, I've scored it.

01:31:11.127 --> 01:31:11.697
What do I score it?

01:31:11.697 --> 01:31:12.926
I've scored an 8.9,

01:31:13.243 --> 01:31:14.264
I can't improve on that.

01:31:14.293 --> 01:31:15.493
I've gone 7.5.

01:31:15.974 --> 01:31:16.753
I like it.

01:31:16.844 --> 01:31:18.134
I think it's a really good song.

01:31:18.139 --> 01:31:21.288
It's a love song in a way, like a jilted love song.

01:31:21.293 --> 01:31:24.408
Like a hate, like a love to hate I've been Broken Love song.

01:31:24.413 --> 01:31:24.703
yeah.

01:31:25.349 --> 01:31:31.092
I It's just slightly off the line of being bondy for me, which is why I knocked it a little bit.

01:31:31.872 --> 01:31:36.313
It's a good song, but 7.5, that's what said Yeah.

01:31:37.078 --> 01:31:40.108
feel like you should have swore at the end about like 7.5 bitch.

01:31:41.182 --> 01:31:49.162
It's a difficult song for me to write because like I cannot get past the misogyny of James Bond.

01:31:49.342 --> 01:31:50.603
I cannot get past it.

01:31:51.052 --> 01:31:53.752
It will not leave me alone and I cannot get past it.

01:31:54.502 --> 01:31:56.903
And this song encapsulates everything.

01:31:57.203 --> 01:32:01.752
I think about the misogyny of James Bond, where he is a groomer basically.

01:32:01.752 --> 01:32:02.023
And he,

01:32:02.385 --> 01:32:04.104
song's written from the female perspective.

01:32:04.309 --> 01:32:11.015
Yeah, that's why I like it because it's actually the only time I think in the whole of the like law of James Bond music.

01:32:11.015 --> 01:32:16.265
This is the only time I think we hear from the perspective of the woman that he's fucked over.

01:32:16.505 --> 01:32:17.435
I think so.

01:32:17.484 --> 01:32:18.859
I'm not a hundred percent sure.

01:32:19.079 --> 01:32:21.210
But I think it's the only theme told from that perspective.

01:32:21.210 --> 01:32:23.250
It certainly feels like it, and that's why I love it.

01:32:23.970 --> 01:32:25.140
That's my problem with it.

01:32:25.229 --> 01:32:45.774
It's like it's, it seemed from the perspective of a woman who's been groomed by James Bond, who's gonna fuck her over and then fuck off, and I tried get past that, he's gone seduced her and everything, and then I'm off doing my spy thing and she's left bereft and heartbroken and stuff and I just can't get over it.

01:32:45.875 --> 01:32:49.895
That's why I gave it a five because like song wise it's beautiful.

01:32:49.925 --> 01:32:50.795
It's amazing.

01:32:51.545 --> 01:32:56.494
But like lyrically, it's like there's a heartbroken woman totally heartbroken.

01:32:56.744 --> 01:33:02.354
She's fallen in love with this guy who's basically charmed her in his like weird life or whatever.

01:33:02.895 --> 01:33:08.706
And now he's just gone and she's left picking up the broken pieces and I don't like it.

01:33:09.064 --> 01:33:09.784
I really don't.

01:33:10.060 --> 01:33:12.130
This is a woman who has been totally Andrew.

01:33:12.744 --> 01:33:15.045
Oh, come on, this is like your fucking theme.

01:33:15.284 --> 01:33:17.505
I bet you better than many of misses in your time.

01:33:18.074 --> 01:33:19.335
This is a lay theme.

01:33:20.505 --> 01:33:24.074
There are girls who stricken around Cornwall who have been laid down with lay seed

01:33:24.425 --> 01:33:27.645
I love the fact you use the Stricken, they're all stricken.

01:33:28.506 --> 01:33:29.204
been stricken.

01:33:29.204 --> 01:33:31.385
They have been stricken down with your mighty fallas.

01:33:31.801 --> 01:33:35.730
thinks that he is better than James Bond, and therefore the title is incorrect.

01:33:35.851 --> 01:33:39.902
The whole song is about nobody does it better and everything, and then he just disappears.

01:33:39.902 --> 01:33:45.806
He's just gone off from his spy world and she's left to pick up the pieces and get on with her life somehow.

01:33:45.948 --> 01:33:48.708
You realize you've marked that down by victim shaming.

01:33:49.128 --> 01:33:53.359
You're basically going, I'm marking this down cuz I'm victim shaming this woman.

01:33:53.604 --> 01:33:53.984
Not at all.

01:33:54.423 --> 01:33:54.863
Survivors.

01:33:55.037 --> 01:33:56.207
we don't call them victims.

01:33:56.212 --> 01:33:57.527
We call'em survivors, man.

01:33:57.685 --> 01:34:00.207
It's one of the most toxic songs I've ever heard

01:34:00.506 --> 01:34:01.286
I don't

01:34:01.860 --> 01:34:04.621
that point would stand if it was sung by somebody else.

01:34:05.131 --> 01:34:13.131
I think if you had just a, either one of the show tunes, bellowy voices that isn't really personalized on it, it would be like that.

01:34:13.251 --> 01:34:17.261
But because it's Carly Simon and she's not very happy.

01:34:17.291 --> 01:34:18.940
She's cynical of the whole thing.

01:34:19.280 --> 01:34:21.201
And she doesn't just take it lying down.

01:34:21.305 --> 01:34:27.695
I think when she says nobody does it better, she is basically saying, James Bond, you're a fucking asshole.

01:34:28.416 --> 01:34:30.631
Uh, and I, that's how I read this song.

01:34:30.636 --> 01:34:35.190
Maybe it's because it's coming from Carly Simon and she did, you are so vain and songs like that.

01:34:35.430 --> 01:34:41.310
But I think the way she sings it is so deliberate that she's being sarcastic and she's calling out James Bond.

01:34:41.371 --> 01:34:53.090
And that's why I love this song cuz it's the only song that calls James Bond out for being an asshole in the most wonderfully sarcastic way without it being a girl power feminist anthem or anything like that.

01:34:53.090 --> 01:34:54.590
This is years before any of that.

01:34:55.060 --> 01:34:57.310
It's what they could get away with in, in those days.

01:34:57.310 --> 01:35:02.125
She didn't write the song, but the way she delivers it, it's not coming from a genuine place.

01:35:02.385 --> 01:35:06.220
I don't think Carly Simon is meant to be singing this saying, James Bond.

01:35:06.220 --> 01:35:07.239
Nobody does it better.

01:35:07.359 --> 01:35:10.750
I think she's saying, James Bond, what a fucking hero.

01:35:11.020 --> 01:35:11.319
What?

01:35:11.319 --> 01:35:13.300
Nobody does it better than James Bond.

01:35:13.659 --> 01:35:14.770
What a wonderful man.

01:35:14.770 --> 01:35:16.911
The spy who loved me That's how I read that song.

01:35:16.961 --> 01:35:18.490
and that's why I score it so highly.

01:35:18.581 --> 01:35:20.328
Whereas I think you're taking it at face value.

01:35:21.042 --> 01:35:23.863
in the film they end up together at the end.

01:35:23.863 --> 01:35:25.243
So I dunno,

01:35:25.243 --> 01:35:25.483
Okay.

01:35:25.483 --> 01:35:28.177
I haven't seen the film, so may, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong.

01:35:28.228 --> 01:35:33.148
The film was a script, but I think Dan has made me look at it a little bit differently, actually.

01:35:33.417 --> 01:35:34.467
Yeah, thank you for that.

01:35:34.467 --> 01:35:38.988
But I still find it just a misogynist I can't do any better.

01:35:39.198 --> 01:35:40.608
This man is better than me.

01:35:40.847 --> 01:35:42.108
Look at how great he is thing.

01:35:42.167 --> 01:35:45.788
And I, it sits really badly with me, and I don't like it.

01:35:45.978 --> 01:35:54.320
Especially in the con in the context of Bond films, where it is literally like, bond is an older man who grooms young women.

01:35:54.951 --> 01:35:56.331
That's what happens in Bond

01:35:56.740 --> 01:35:56.905
Yeah.

01:35:57.140 --> 01:35:58.220
not that much older.

01:35:58.225 --> 01:36:01.405
you're talking like, it's like Sean coloring his seventies to getting a 14 year old.

01:36:01.405 --> 01:36:02.905
No, it's year old, a 24 year

01:36:03.030 --> 01:36:05.185
an age because he is multiple people.

01:36:05.336 --> 01:36:05.636
So

01:36:05.815 --> 01:36:06.685
yeah, that is true.

01:36:07.204 --> 01:36:07.534
no, no.

01:36:07.685 --> 01:36:08.345
your point, Martin.

01:36:08.661 --> 01:36:11.060
this song sits really uncomfortably with me.

01:36:11.110 --> 01:36:11.331
which

01:36:11.355 --> 01:36:12.131
it really does.

01:36:12.345 --> 01:36:12.690
observation.

01:36:13.190 --> 01:36:15.621
if it does, you can't score past that, can you?

01:36:16.046 --> 01:36:18.867
Roger Moore was 50 when this came out out out of interest.

01:36:19.317 --> 01:36:20.646
and the lady was,

01:36:20.896 --> 01:36:22.476
is now married to Ringo Star.

01:36:22.957 --> 01:36:24.136
was 30, so it's,

01:36:24.226 --> 01:36:25.216
exactly.

01:36:40.181 --> 01:36:45.891
We're going to move on to the last song of the seventies and the last song for part one of this evening's podcast.

01:36:46.112 --> 01:36:49.912
And we're more appropriate to end up on than another Shirley Bassi track.

01:36:50.162 --> 01:36:54.891
The third one making her the only person to have done three James Bond themes.

01:36:55.112 --> 01:36:58.082
And also unusually, this one was recorded in Paris.

01:36:58.301 --> 01:37:00.542
it is moon maker from Moon maker.

01:37:00.841 --> 01:37:12.636
And I think this one is a 6.5, I think it's nonsense with a more subtle performance from Shirley Bassey.

01:37:12.997 --> 01:37:14.761
But that's not what I want from Shirley

01:37:14.971 --> 01:37:15.942
I, I'm sorry,

01:37:17.112 --> 01:37:17.351
go

01:37:17.511 --> 01:37:20.087
I'm just laughing at the fact you said the first person to do three.

01:37:20.091 --> 01:37:21.827
She's also like the only one to do two.

01:37:22.436 --> 01:37:23.817
Yeah, but it goes without saying.

01:37:23.817 --> 01:37:26.527
She's expanded on her on a legend by doing three.

01:37:26.737 --> 01:37:33.277
And nobody else's, no, nobody does it better than Shirley Bassey maybe, but yeah, it, this one's average.

01:37:33.577 --> 01:37:40.252
It's not really a very good I think for me, the reason why I don't like this song is cuz I haven't seen Moon Maker and.

01:37:41.432 --> 01:37:45.863
The idea of somebody raking the moon does not seem like a James Bond film.

01:37:45.863 --> 01:37:48.233
To me, that sounds more like a Wallace and Grommet film.

01:37:48.541 --> 01:37:53.360
all I can picture is Shirley Bassey being told don't sing it like the other ones.

01:37:53.461 --> 01:37:54.421
it's not about the same things.

01:37:54.581 --> 01:38:05.060
This one is about a guy who goes to the moon and makes like pretty shapes on it and therefore the song's a little bit more boring and nonsense lacking in direction.

01:38:05.060 --> 01:38:06.770
And I just don't think it's very good.

01:38:06.770 --> 01:38:06.980
It's a

01:38:07.350 --> 01:38:17.390
I I gave this one a six purely because this is a good example of something that ticks all the boxes, but it's just too generic to be good.

01:38:18.270 --> 01:38:20.371
It does everything you want from a Bond film.

01:38:20.371 --> 01:38:28.831
It's opposite of a lot of the other points I've been making, but it does everything right, but not as good as before or no, nothing makes us good.

01:38:29.400 --> 01:38:30.541
It's very derivative.

01:38:30.541 --> 01:38:31.850
It's just, it's all right.

01:38:32.041 --> 01:38:37.632
It's not bad, it's just, I'd be bummed out if I watch Start of a Bond film and just came on.

01:38:37.649 --> 01:38:38.810
The film is a good one.

01:38:38.869 --> 01:38:39.920
It's a really good film,

01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:40.800
is a good film.

01:38:41.015 --> 01:38:46.354
If you asked me to sing it now, I would say it goes Moon and it doesn't

01:38:46.654 --> 01:38:46.994
Yeah, exactly.

01:38:47.119 --> 01:38:47.340
no,

01:38:47.345 --> 01:38:48.454
That's exactly what I'd think.

01:38:48.454 --> 01:38:49.435
Yeah, I

01:38:49.627 --> 01:38:52.987
Tom's gonna say it's the best, Shirley Bassy one, and he's completely

01:38:53.036 --> 01:38:53.399
I know.

01:38:53.490 --> 01:38:58.775
He is been, he's been building to it all episode as soon as he said there, there's one that's a lot better.

01:38:58.775 --> 01:39:00.605
I'm like, he's gonna say moon maker, and I'm like, what?

01:39:01.041 --> 01:39:01.520
Yeah.

01:39:01.734 --> 01:39:02.826
Oh, come on.

01:39:02.826 --> 01:39:05.166
It's so derivative of every other bond theme.

01:39:05.418 --> 01:39:06.469
you give me a backstory.

01:39:06.469 --> 01:39:08.509
It's got nothing to do with the sound of the actual song.

01:39:08.854 --> 01:39:10.684
the writer is X or Y,

01:39:10.809 --> 01:39:10.944
no.

01:39:10.963 --> 01:39:11.184
no.

01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:15.498
if you tell me the songwriter wants to rewrote happy birthday for something I'm, I

01:39:15.948 --> 01:39:25.921
No Sh Shirley Bass's vocal performance on this is better than her vocal performance on either Diamonds of Forever or on, on Goldfinger.

01:39:25.922 --> 01:39:27.393
from a subtlety perspective.

01:39:27.557 --> 01:39:29.297
from a technical perspective.

01:39:29.297 --> 01:39:31.728
Not even subtlety from a technical perspective.

01:39:32.837 --> 01:39:34.097
Absolutely.

01:39:34.247 --> 01:39:36.257
I work in musical theater with singers.

01:39:36.488 --> 01:39:38.677
She's using multiple facets of her voice.

01:39:38.677 --> 01:39:40.507
She's very in between chest and head voice.

01:39:40.507 --> 01:39:42.608
She's manipulating the point of which she's breaking.

01:39:42.847 --> 01:39:47.394
She's not just belting the fuck out of it, she rescues this song.

01:39:48.054 --> 01:39:51.083
So this song was a shit song.

01:39:51.213 --> 01:39:52.503
Paul Williams wrote the lyrics.

01:39:52.503 --> 01:39:54.873
They all hated, they brought Hal David in instead.

01:39:55.323 --> 01:40:04.694
John Barry's given up the brass heavy sound because he's to decided to go into his eighties phase where, which he used in somewhere in Time, which is really somewhere in time.

01:40:04.698 --> 01:40:05.804
The soundtrack's really good.

01:40:05.873 --> 01:40:06.594
about the 80 Era.

01:40:06.899 --> 01:40:07.408
Yeah.

01:40:07.458 --> 01:40:14.418
John Barry ruins this song, not Shirley Bassey, John Barry's decided he's not gonna do brass heavy stuff anymore.

01:40:14.658 --> 01:40:17.958
But he's not really learnt how to orchestrate anything else.

01:40:18.009 --> 01:40:22.088
The change bond theme, it's all about the brass section, right?

01:40:22.538 --> 01:40:27.189
You listen to Goldfinger, the best bits of it as a brass section.

01:40:27.519 --> 01:40:37.588
So he's still got John Barry doing it, and he's decided that after having done the Man with a Golden Gun where, which the, was absolute shit.

01:40:38.189 --> 01:40:40.048
He's not gonna do brass anymore.

01:40:40.168 --> 01:40:43.974
It is basically the orchestra equivalent of cutting off his nose despite your face.

01:40:44.314 --> 01:40:48.814
Admittedly, when he goes on to do films in the eighties, like somewhere in time, he doesn't have the brass section.

01:40:48.814 --> 01:40:49.894
It works perfectly well.

01:40:49.894 --> 01:40:52.055
And he did really born free, came out pretty well.

01:40:52.613 --> 01:41:00.944
The thing that I, the thing that upsets me about this is that they tried to get Kate Bush to sing it, and I would've loved to have had Kate Bush do this.

01:41:00.944 --> 01:41:04.243
That's a weird one because that's not a name I expected you to say.

01:41:04.463 --> 01:41:14.730
But this is one that I did earmark I think if they had got somebody else to sing it, I could have been more on board with it, because it's more an r and Someone like a Marvin Gay or something like that would've done a better job.

01:41:14.801 --> 01:41:21.126
It could, if they had gone in with this like sensuality vibe to it, it would've been good, but it's just not,

01:41:21.422 --> 01:41:23.496
Shirley Bassey was like fourth choice.

01:41:23.496 --> 01:41:26.076
There were a few other people, but Kate Bush was in the running.

01:41:26.525 --> 01:41:32.015
Shirley Bass's vocal on this, the way she controls it is the most impressive.

01:41:32.105 --> 01:41:34.265
So for me, this is a six

01:41:34.265 --> 01:41:34.956
about the control.

01:41:34.956 --> 01:41:35.256
Yeah.

01:41:35.435 --> 01:41:35.855
Yeah.

01:41:35.905 --> 01:41:38.155
This is a 6.5 for me as well.

01:41:38.466 --> 01:41:48.367
What's funny is it her in interviews when she talks about it, she's like, I don't feel like this is my James Bond theme, and she's barely performed it when she performed the other two loads.

01:41:48.503 --> 01:41:49.554
Because they're better

01:41:50.364 --> 01:41:53.185
I like this song better than either of the other two that she did.

01:41:53.215 --> 01:42:04.795
I think lyrically how David came in and has managed to make a decent song with the title Moonraker, the lyrics in this are better than the lyrics in Goldfinger.

01:42:05.195 --> 01:42:07.524
Can somebody explain to me what a moon maker is

01:42:07.698 --> 01:42:09.018
It's a big ship, isn't it?

01:42:09.448 --> 01:42:09.797
Right.

01:42:09.858 --> 01:42:10.037
Okay.

01:42:10.087 --> 01:42:15.162
So it's not a man whose plan was to write fuck you on the moon with a rake, that would've been great.

01:42:15.335 --> 01:42:17.045
I've certainly got an idea for a script.

01:42:17.050 --> 01:42:17.465
Guys.

01:42:19.135 --> 01:42:19.425
okay.

01:42:19.545 --> 01:42:21.314
So it, it means, so,

01:42:21.319 --> 01:42:22.095
It's on the moon.

01:42:23.060 --> 01:42:24.770
A moon raker is a moon sail.

01:42:25.430 --> 01:42:25.819
Oh, okay.

01:42:25.939 --> 01:42:27.529
I know nothing about sailing either.

01:42:28.970 --> 01:42:29.279
There you go.

01:42:29.479 --> 01:42:33.140
I could, I can Google really quick while still looking at the camera.

01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:35.930
For me, it's the worst of the Shirley Bassy songs.

01:42:35.930 --> 01:42:44.329
I get what you're saying about her vocal performance being alright, and Yeah, I, that's probably true, but weren't the strength of the other songs anyway.

01:42:44.335 --> 01:42:47.510
They were just really good pieces of music, really good songs.

01:42:47.569 --> 01:42:49.789
it was about the melodrama, I think.

01:42:50.029 --> 01:42:52.340
it was, this one to me is bland.

01:42:52.430 --> 01:42:53.119
It's boring.

01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:54.439
It doesn't really do anything

01:42:54.680 --> 01:43:02.659
The fact it's got some dynamic range, even if it's not as stronger song, if they put some dynamic range in the other songs, I'll probably like them more.

01:43:02.659 --> 01:43:15.369
As a sci-fi kid, like I, I love sci-fi and it's probably one of my favorite James Bond films as a kid, because it had space in it didn't it, had like rock rocket ships and stuff, you know?

01:43:15.418 --> 01:43:22.529
It was Nice for you because they thought the world was flat up until that point, then they looked up and there's a big fucking James Bond weapon in the sky's.

01:43:22.529 --> 01:43:23.738
Like, how'd they, how'd that get there?

01:43:24.529 --> 01:43:27.274
It was James Bond that proved the world was round, know?

01:43:27.684 --> 01:43:38.054
Um, but no I was into sci-fi, so this was my favorite, like of all the Bond films, this was my favorite because it had spaceships and it had jaws in it as well know, the

01:43:38.064 --> 01:43:39.144
this the one with yours in it?

01:43:39.373 --> 01:43:39.884
Yes.

01:43:40.146 --> 01:43:41.466
It was fucking crazy.

01:43:41.481 --> 01:43:44.152
Back in the eighties that we lived in back in those days.

01:43:44.851 --> 01:43:47.992
But as far as yeah, the theme tune.

01:43:48.662 --> 01:43:50.402
Absolutely forgettable

01:43:50.612 --> 01:43:51.032
Yeah.

01:43:51.481 --> 01:43:51.782
Yeah.

01:43:52.511 --> 01:43:56.612
Moon raker wider than a moon.

01:43:56.942 --> 01:43:59.641
We're crossing the moon in style.

01:44:00.162 --> 01:44:02.198
Dan's right every time in my head, I think what's

01:44:05.481 --> 01:44:05.771
Yeah.

01:44:06.056 --> 01:44:09.567
The music had no bearing on any part of the film.

01:44:09.567 --> 01:44:17.226
For me, it was all about space shuttles going to space and stuff, and space shuttles were new back then, yeah, just a forgettable theme gene.

01:44:18.027 --> 01:44:23.037
But a fucking absolutely memorable period of James Bond.

01:44:23.197 --> 01:44:25.146
It was Roger Moore, doing his thing,

01:44:25.197 --> 01:44:31.402
I'm just hearing that that Roger Moore has pulled in to the service station but he won't be here for another hour or two.

01:44:31.402 --> 01:44:34.492
So we're gonna have to do a part two to this video before he gets here.

01:44:34.521 --> 01:44:42.082
Cuz that was the surprise is that Mo Roger Moore is coming despite having been dead for a few years I couldn't get any of the bonds to appear.

01:44:42.332 --> 01:44:44.296
And we don't have all the time in the world.

01:44:44.556 --> 01:44:49.067
So we are gonna have to end this one at for part one only.

01:44:49.337 --> 01:44:55.938
But this gives me the, my favorite opportunity, cuz now I get to use the words to be continued at the bottom and there's a sequel coming.

01:44:56.207 --> 01:44:58.578
Jay's Bond movies don't get sequels, really.

01:44:58.627 --> 01:45:00.667
They technically, they are all sequels.

01:45:00.938 --> 01:45:01.417
They, yeah.

01:45:01.417 --> 01:45:02.707
But they don't actually,

01:45:02.962 --> 01:45:04.403
No, it's a little bit like Zelda.

01:45:04.403 --> 01:45:06.743
It starts from day dot every film, doesn't it

01:45:07.252 --> 01:45:10.193
This is gonna be a direct continuity sequel.

01:45:10.342 --> 01:45:13.533
So part two will be the eighties and onwards.

01:45:13.563 --> 01:45:16.715
In the lead by 46 points is Dr.

01:45:16.715 --> 01:45:18.215
No with the James Bond theme.

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And then after that is Paul McCartney and Wings' Liver Let Die with 43.1.

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Wins anything.

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We have Jack White.

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We have Chris Cornell coming up Adele and Sam Smith.

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Quite a lot to discuss in the next episode.

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This will be a two-parter but it won't be long until part two is out so look forward to that in your ears.

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In the meantime, make sure you follow us on Twitter at Access Pod on the pat on, pay five pound a month or listen for free on any given platform that, that you want any one of them?

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some.

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It's not, but

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I'm certainly opinion just pronounced Patreon.

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But continue

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I was listening to a podcast the other day and I found a 50% of them say Paton and 50% say Patreon.

01:45:58.280 --> 01:45:58.490
And I was

01:45:58.551 --> 01:46:03.261
It's like, the difference between people who sit down to wipe and stand up to wipe it's staggeringly equal.

01:46:03.990 --> 01:46:04.234
Wait.

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People stand up to white.

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I'm saying this now because most people who have heard that for the first time get blown away.

01:46:09.347 --> 01:46:13.757
Like you just have Dan, I guarantee you go to work and ask.

01:46:14.177 --> 01:46:15.707
It's weirdly about half.

01:46:15.858 --> 01:46:16.247
Yeah.

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49% are women.

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And 51% are men all the other way round.

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So

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ask at work.

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are we talking about the male population or the general

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with nails cuz I

01:46:26.502 --> 01:46:31.243
Oh, I was gonna say, cuz it's probably about a 50 50 split if you're just talking men and women.

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Just make sure you wip in front to back,

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now I go back to back all the time.

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I live life dangerously

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And on that bombshell Stay wipey.

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They clean.

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