How Radiohead Wrote the Perfect Bond Theme
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Published 2021-06-28
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All Comments (21)
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What's your favourite Bond theme? Also, if you'd like to purchase a PDF of the score for my transcription of Radiohead's 'Spectre', visit my new Musicnotes page: www.musicnotes.com/l/CD5JW
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Imagine asking for Radiohead, then complaining when you get Radiohead
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Me who knows absolutely no musical theory: "wow...sure sounds nice"
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As a Radiohead fan it’s super depressing that the song didn’t get used. As a Radiohead fan, I don’t have much more room For more depression.
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I will never forgive them for rejecting this song. It is so perfect.
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The fact that they took time off of recording one of their best albums to make this incredible theme only for it to be scrapped is just atrocious.
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And they thought Radiohead's song was "too dark" for a bond movie. What a shame.
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Radiohead songs are never understood or appreciated until you hear multiple times and realize the genius and beauty behind it. Spectre is a classic example of why Radiohead were never mainstream and still so revered.
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I really love how much Spectre points towards Moon Shaped Pool, the album they were working on while making this. The strings, especially in the climax, sound exactly like something you'd hear on that album. It really would've fit on it quite well.
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In addition to all the sonic qualities, Radiohead gets bonus points for using the word "spectre" in the lyrics, and having it make sense!
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I do not hate Writing's on the Wall -- in fact, I think it's a pretty solid Bond theme. But man, Radiohead's Spectre truly is a mesmerizing wonder of a theme. It fits Craig's Bond perfectly, talks about the character's internal struggle throughout the movies, and still has the flavour of the greatest Radiohead songs. I really hope they get another chance at Bond
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Casino Royales theme by Chris Cornell, You Know My Name is more what I prefer in a Bond theme. The playing card animation opening sequence is one of the best too. One can hardly go wrong with any 007 theme, we all have our favorites.
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"The World is Not Enough" is one of the best villain themes out there, and remains my favorite Bond theme.
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Jesus the editing on this. This video must have taken forever! Mad respect!
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Imagine choosing the Sam Smith song over Radiohead. Edit: 90% of the responses to this comment have been made by literal monkeys.
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I genuinely think that the best bond song of all time is sky fall. It’s just as iconic as the bond theme music and the films themselves
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When you remember that Jonny Greenwood the guitarist is a multi-instrumentalist and wrote the entire scores for films like there will be blood and phantom thread its easy to see how they would come up with such an amazing piece of music. I cannot for the life of me understand why they went with sam smith.
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Radiohead's Spectre just makes me want to move. So beautiful
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I'd read somewhere that they pulled the Radiohead version as late as after the animated opening credit sequence had been made, that's why the two fit together perfectly. You can find it on YouTube lined up with the exisiting title credits. What a waste!
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Spectre by Radiohead is a masterpiece
