HeyJaredKiss Kiss Bang Bang: A James Bond Music Podcast
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a podcast where we’ll be discussing and dissecting some of our favourite theme songs from across six decades of James Bond movies.From the brassy brilliance of Thunderball to the rock reinvention of Casino Royale’s You Know My Name, we’ll be unpacking…
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The Living Daylights (opens the original)
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Enter Timothy Dalton. In the season two finale, Morgan and Tom crack open The Living Daylights (1987) — the film that reset 007 for the Cold War and, in our book, gave us the most underrated Bond of them all. On the music side it's the end of an era: John Barry's final Bond score, a sequenced-synth theme co-written with Pål Waaktaar and performed by a-ha at the absolute peak of their fame… and one of the most gloriously fractious artist relationships in Bond history. Hitler Youth jibes, a boycot
From Russia with Love (opens the original)
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang continues its mission to unpack the James Bond musical canon with 1963's From Russia with Love — the film that gave us the very first Bond theme song. Tom and Morgan dive into Sean Connery's second outing as 007, a Cold War thriller packed with franchise firsts: the pre-title sequence, Blofeld, Desmond Llewelyn's Q, and the promise that "James Bond will return". But famously, this is a music podcast — so we're here for John Barry's first full Bond score, the debut of the perc
Another Way to Die (Quantum of Solace) (opens the original)
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Shoot 'em up, bang bang! Tom and Morgan unlock 'Another Way to Die', Jack White and Alicia Keys' theme for Quantum of Solace (2008) – and the only duet in James Bond theme history. We dig into the film's troubled production during the Writers Guild strike, Daniel Craig's second outing as 007, and why this direct sequel to Casino Royale left so many fans underwhelmed. Then it's on to the song: David Arnold's fifth Bond score, the Nashville sessions with the Memphis Horns, the Amy Winehouse and Ma
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