September 16, 2012
TWINE voted the 6th best Bond theme
BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 2 listeners in the UK have voted Garbage’s James Bond theme inside the top 10 of the best sound tracks for the long running film series. The vote was carried out as part of Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night special “Bond and Beyond” where the the World famous BBC Philharmonic played music from the vote.
The top 10 is as follows
- Live and Let Die: Paul McCartney and Wings, 1973
- Nobody Does It Better: (The Spy Who Loved Me), Carly Simon, 1977
- Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey, 1964
- A View to a Kill: Duran Duran, 1985
- Another Way to Die: (Quantum of Solace), Alicia Keys and Jack White, 2008
- The World Is Not Enough: Garbage, 1999
- Diamonds Are Forever: Shirley Bassey, 1971
- You Only Live Twice: Nancy Sinatra, 1967
- For Your Eyes Only: Sheena Easton, 1981
- You Know My Name (Casino Royale), Chris Cornell, 2006
The World Is Not Enough was issued in 1999 for the film of the same name and was written by David Arnold with Don Black.
You can listen to the show on BBC iPlayer for the next few days. (The World Is Not Enough isn’t featured within the program).
Cheers Paul for the heads up.