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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 312944" data-attributes="member: 8">Bond Song #16[ATTACH=full]34602[/ATTACH]Microchips and an MTV/EON merger, I guess you could call it the perfect eighties reflex response.Or maybe it was Duran Duran&#039;s answer to Live And Let Die, since McCartney &amp; Wings brought a little Top Of The Tops into the Bond universe.And they already danced into the fire in 1973.[ATTACH=full]34604[/ATTACH]The lyics describe clubbin &#039;n shaggin&#039; in a Gothic poetic way (maybe other people read it differently) but it also makes references to the movie itself.&quot;Snowflakes on your body&quot; (the kiss in the intro scene), &quot;whole earth opening wide&quot; (the earthquake plot) and there are other things that could refer to Zorin and May Day&#039;s judo practice.The point being, whatever the lyrics are about, it really feels&nbsp; like A View To A Kill movie song. And maybe that&#039;s more important than being a good Bond franchise song.It sounds as if a lot of thought and fun went into the mixing process and I think most of the elements from the famous Dr. No theme can be heard throughout.Linking it to the movie I&#039;d say it sounds a bit too modern for the aging Roger M and this could have been the perfect opportunity for Timothy Dalton to step into 007&#039;s shoes since the introduction of a new Bond could capitalize on Duran Duran&#039;s smash hit and vice versa.[MEDIA=youtube]di60NYGu03Y[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 312944, member: 8"] Bond Song #16 [ATTACH type="full"]34602[/ATTACH] Microchips and an MTV/EON merger, I guess you could call it the perfect eighties reflex response. Or maybe it was Duran Duran's answer to [I]Live And Let Die[/I], since McCartney & Wings brought a little Top Of The Tops into the Bond universe. And they already danced into the fire in 1973. [ATTACH type="full"]34604[/ATTACH] The lyics describe clubbin 'n shaggin' in a Gothic poetic way (maybe other people read it differently) but it also makes references to the movie itself. "Snowflakes on your body" (the kiss in the intro scene), "whole earth opening wide" (the earthquake plot) and there are other things that could refer to Zorin and May Day's judo practice. The point being, whatever the lyrics are about, it really [I]feels[/I] like A View To A Kill movie song. And maybe that's more important than being a good Bond franchise song. It sounds as if a lot of thought and fun went into the mixing process and I think most of the elements from the famous Dr. No theme can be heard throughout. Linking it to the movie I'd say it sounds a bit too modern for the aging Roger M and this could have been the perfect opportunity for Timothy Dalton to step into 007's shoes since the introduction of a new Bond could capitalize on Duran Duran's smash hit and vice versa. [MEDIA=youtube]di60NYGu03Y[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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