Favorite soundtracks №9. James Bond

As for me, I always thought that every Bond movie has its soundtrack named by the title of the film. I was mistaken. Not only there`re two movies that doesn`t have an intro song, but three others have nothing to do with the title! What happend to well-known British traditionality? By the way even unofficial "Never say never again" (1983) has a song "Never say never again"!

(I thought I`d have to look for videos of every of the sountracks, but this video saved my life)

There`s not the only non-traditional thing. Some songs such as "Live and let die" or "Living daylights" are not like that classical kind of James Bond song like "Goldfinger" or "GoldenEye" or "Diamonds are forever" made in jazz style. In my opinion even though such intro would sound boring, but viewer will still feel that he watches James Bond, not another action movie. Actually, that`s what they tried to do with Adele. Unfortunatelly it hasn`t saved the movie.

I love Wiki for such kind of tables, where you can see brief information about all of the movies. I higlined my favotite soundtracks are highlined purple. 

Film	Year	Score composer	Title song	Composed by	Performed by
Dr. No (soundtrack)	1962	Monty Norman	"James Bond Theme"	Monty Norman	John Barry & Orchestra;Monty Norman
			"Kingston Calypso"		Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
From Russia with Love (soundtrack)	1963	John Barry	"Opening Titles: James Bond Is Back/From Russia with Love/James Bond Theme"	John Barry Lionel Bart Monty Norman	John Barry (title sequence) Matt Monro (vocal version heard in film proper and during closing credits)
Goldfinger (soundtrack)	1964		"Goldfinger"	Leslie Bricusse Anthony Newley John Barry	Shirley Bassey
Thunderball (soundtrack)	1965		"Thunderball"	John Barry Don Black	Tom Jones
You Only Live Twice (soundtrack)	1967		"You Only Live Twice"	Leslie Bricusse John Barry	Nancy Sinatra (charted single is produced byLee Hazlewood and arranged by Billy Strange and in marked contrast to soundtrack version)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack)	1969		"On Her Majesty's Secret Service"	John Barry Hal David	The John Barry Orchestra
			"We Have All the Time in the World" (secondary theme)		Louis Armstrong
Diamonds Are Forever (soundtrack)	1971		"Diamonds Are Forever"	John Barry Don Black	Shirley Bassey
Live and Let Die (soundtrack)	1973	George Martin	"Live and Let Die"	Paul McCartney Linda McCartney	Paul McCartney & Wings
The Man with the Golden Gun (soundtrack)	1974	John Barry	"The Man with the Golden Gun"	John Barry Don Black	Lulu
The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack)	1977	Marvin Hamlisch	"Nobody Does It Better"	Marvin Hamlisch Carole Bayer Sager	Carly Simon
Moonraker (soundtrack)	1979	John Barry	"Moonraker"	John Barry Hal David	Shirley Bassey
For Your Eyes Only (soundtrack)	1981	Bill Conti	"For Your Eyes Only"	Bill Conti Michael Leeson	Sheena Easton
Octopussy (soundtrack)	1983	John Barry	"All Time High"	John Barry Tim Rice Stephen Short	Rita Coolidge
A View to a Kill (soundtrack)	1985		"A View to a Kill"	John Barry Duran Duran	Duran Duran
The Living Daylights (soundtrack)	1987		"The Living Daylights"	John Barry Pål Waaktaar	A-ha
Licence to Kill (soundtrack)	1989	Michael Kamen	"Licence to Kill"	Narada Michael Walden Jeffrey Cohen Walter Afanasieff	Gladys Knight
GoldenEye (soundtrack)	1995	Éric Serra	"GoldenEye"	Bono The Edge	Tina Turner
Tomorrow Never Dies (soundtrack)	1997	David Arnold	"Tomorrow Never Dies"	Sheryl Crow Mitchell Froom	Sheryl Crow
The World Is Not Enough (soundtrack)	1999		"The World Is Not Enough"	David Arnold Don Black	Garbage
Die Another Day (soundtrack)	2002		"Die Another Day"	Madonna Mirwais Ahmadzaï	Madonna
Casino Royale (soundtrack)	2006		"You Know My Name"	David Arnold Chris Cornell	Chris Cornell
Quantum of Solace (soundtrack)	2008		"Another Way to Die"	Jack White	Jack White Alicia Keys
Skyfall (soundtrack)	2012	Thomas Newman	"Skyfall"	Adele Paul Epworth	Adele
Spectre (soundtrack)	2015		"Writing's on the Wall"	Sam Smith Jimmy Napes	Sam Smith

Speaking about James Bond itself I consider it huge mass entertaining work such as Harry Potter, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes. Many people were "grown" on the show, that`s why they associate it with their childhood, but not me. I... ha... I was "grown" on the Charmed:) Please, don`t think bad of me, I live in Russia!

UPD One guy seriously wanted to persuade me that before Sam Smith there was no male performed soundtracks for James Bond. Seriously? For your consideration, see the male performed highlighted blue - there are at least 8 of them by now!

Once again. THERE IS NO such a tradition as only women to perform OST for James Bond.