You Know My Name
I'm going to be on a 007 kick for a while. Forgive me.
A few months ago, I purchased an anthology of the James Bond theme songs. It's a great album, featuring not only John Barry's original 007 theme, but also the theme song to every Bond film except for Madonna's theme from Die Another Day; I hate Madonna, and I hated Die Another Day, so this worked out pretty well for me. At any rate, I was obviously curious to see what form the latest theme would take.
As it turns out, the song is titled "You Know My Name", and it's written and performed by Chris Cornell (formerly of Soundgarden, currently of Audioslave). I looked for this track on the Casino Royale soundtrack, as I was particularly impressed with it. "You Know My Name" is notably absent, so I did some looking and found out that Cornell refused to allow the song to be included on the soundtrack; instead, it will be released on his upcoming solo album, to be released in February of 2007.
First and foremost, I think that this was a stupid move on the part of all parties. Eon Productions should never have allowed this kind of right-of-refusal - they're losing my money, and probably the money of others, because the most engaging piece of music from the movie isn't even on the soundtrack. It's also stupid for Cornell to have made the call in the first place, because any album sales he might pick up from being the exclusive source for the track will be negligible compared to the money he would have made from having it on the actual soundtrack. I was ready to buy the official soundtrack before I left the theater, but I'll definitely think twice about buying his album (since I'm not a Soundgarden or Audioslave fan). I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Second, I think this is precisely the kind of situation that encouraged music piracy in the first place. I can guarantee you that even if I happened to enjoy a couple of songs on Cornell's album, I'd be buying an entire album for only one song; whereas if it was incorporated into the Casino Royale soundtrack, I'd be far more likely to actually fork over the money. Right now, I wish that my system had the capability of pirating an mp3 version of the song and burning it to CD; and let's face it, there are a lot of folks out there who are bigger cheapskates than me, have better computer systems than me, and are less scrupulous than me.
Speaking of which, if you're interested in actually hearing the song, the opening title sequence (with a preceding style change on the classic gun barrel-eye view of Bond's defensive shot) can be seen here.
UPDATE: There's an outstanding review of Casino Royale over at Dark Horizons. Save for their disappointing review of the aforementioned theme song (which I truly to believe to be one of the best in the series), I agree almost completely with the reviewer's take on the film.
A few months ago, I purchased an anthology of the James Bond theme songs. It's a great album, featuring not only John Barry's original 007 theme, but also the theme song to every Bond film except for Madonna's theme from Die Another Day; I hate Madonna, and I hated Die Another Day, so this worked out pretty well for me. At any rate, I was obviously curious to see what form the latest theme would take.
As it turns out, the song is titled "You Know My Name", and it's written and performed by Chris Cornell (formerly of Soundgarden, currently of Audioslave). I looked for this track on the Casino Royale soundtrack, as I was particularly impressed with it. "You Know My Name" is notably absent, so I did some looking and found out that Cornell refused to allow the song to be included on the soundtrack; instead, it will be released on his upcoming solo album, to be released in February of 2007.
First and foremost, I think that this was a stupid move on the part of all parties. Eon Productions should never have allowed this kind of right-of-refusal - they're losing my money, and probably the money of others, because the most engaging piece of music from the movie isn't even on the soundtrack. It's also stupid for Cornell to have made the call in the first place, because any album sales he might pick up from being the exclusive source for the track will be negligible compared to the money he would have made from having it on the actual soundtrack. I was ready to buy the official soundtrack before I left the theater, but I'll definitely think twice about buying his album (since I'm not a Soundgarden or Audioslave fan). I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Second, I think this is precisely the kind of situation that encouraged music piracy in the first place. I can guarantee you that even if I happened to enjoy a couple of songs on Cornell's album, I'd be buying an entire album for only one song; whereas if it was incorporated into the Casino Royale soundtrack, I'd be far more likely to actually fork over the money. Right now, I wish that my system had the capability of pirating an mp3 version of the song and burning it to CD; and let's face it, there are a lot of folks out there who are bigger cheapskates than me, have better computer systems than me, and are less scrupulous than me.
Speaking of which, if you're interested in actually hearing the song, the opening title sequence (with a preceding style change on the classic gun barrel-eye view of Bond's defensive shot) can be seen here.
UPDATE: There's an outstanding review of Casino Royale over at Dark Horizons. Save for their disappointing review of the aforementioned theme song (which I truly to believe to be one of the best in the series), I agree almost completely with the reviewer's take on the film.
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