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Jack White & Alicia Keys: 'Another Way To Die' (theme from QUANTUM OF SOLACE)

post #1 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:18pm
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Well, it's out to the masses.

Thumbs up from me. Jack White can just about make anything sound cooler than it has any right to be.
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post #2 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:22pm
For a whole bunch of dissenting opinions, see the last page of the Best of Bond thread.

Yeah, we're not in love with it.
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post #3 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:33pm
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I wouldn't say that I'm in love with it, but I like the vocal interplay on the track between White and Keys. Not surprisingly, the White Stripes influence rears its head, but it works to give the tune a much-needed edge.
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post #4 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:34pm
The music during the actual verses is actually kinda growing on me. Unfortunately, everything else just kinda hurts my ears. Especially the horns.
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post #5 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:36pm
Don't hate it, don't love it. Far from the worst the series has given us, but that's not saying much. A smoother re-edit attached to a really killer old-school title sequence would help a great deal. And let's have babes in the titles this time. Lots of babes.
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post #6 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by Ray Abed View Post
I wouldn't say that I'm in love with it, but I like the vocal interplay on the track between White and Keys. Not surprisingly, the White Stripes influence rears its head, but it works to give the tune a much-needed edge.
Actually, it's the vocals that I think really don't work. As an instrumental, it would be just fine.
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post #7 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:54pm
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Actually, it's the vocals that I think really don't work. As an instrumental, it would be just fine.
Agreed. Then again I hated "You know my Name" but now think it's one of the best.
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post #8 of 17
9/18/08 at 11:59pm
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Actually, it's the vocals that I think really don't work. As an instrumental, it would be just fine.
You won't see me joining the Alicia Keys Official Fanclub or anything, but I've always enjoyed her vocals on a purely technical level. It's an odd and unexpected pairing to be sure, but in the context of the orchestrated, epic music backing them up, their vocal delivery works. It's sorta sexy and funky.
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post #9 of 17
9/19/08 at 12:27am
I find that I like the songs more when they're paired with the opening credits. It's weird, I know, but they just seem to work better.* Right now, "Another Way to Die" is resting at "mediocre".

*Except "Die Another Day". That song continues to summon demons.
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post #10 of 17
9/19/08 at 12:39am
Good GOD, this is abyssmal.

The opening title sequence had better have full frontal nudity of Megan Fox clones to make up for this piece of absolute shit.
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post #11 of 17
9/19/08 at 12:41am
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*Except "Die Another Day". That song continues to summon demons.
The irony, of course, being that it's paired with the one of the slickest opening sequences in the series.
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post #12 of 17
9/19/08 at 1:12am
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Good GOD, this is abyssmal.
Pretty much. I guess I was too hard on "Die Another Day"...
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post #13 of 17
9/19/08 at 1:50am
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Actually, it's the vocals that I think really don't work. As an instrumental, it would be just fine.
This.

Thing is, either of their vocals alone might actually be a huge improvement. Their voices just don't work together here. The instrumentation sounds good, though.
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post #14 of 17
9/19/08 at 2:00am
the song is ok, i was just expecting more out of a team up with Keys and White.
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post #15 of 17
9/19/08 at 3:21am
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The music during the actual verses is actually kinda growing on me. Unfortunately, everything else just kinda hurts my ears. Especially the horns.
I'm with Justin here.

And I'll echo Goldberg and others about liking the songs when they're paired with the credit sequences. Probably because I'm reading the credits and only half-paying attention to the lyrics.

I don't hate this song, but I'm not in love with it either.
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post #16 of 17
9/19/08 at 7:59am
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You've got to figure Jack White was pretty confined artistically when he wrote the music to this song having to put something out that's both in the tradition of the series and not too abstract that it'd limit the target audience.

My expectations weren't exactly through the roof.

That said, my love for Jack White (and the White Stripes) has waned over the last year. The last Raconteurs album (a huge, disorienting disappointment) had something to do with that, no doubt, but also I've realized the way he incorporates his blues-rock influences has reached an apex.
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post #17 of 17
9/19/08 at 12:04pm
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That said, my love for Jack White (and the White Stripes) has waned over the last year. The last Raconteurs album (a huge, disorienting disappointment) had something to do with that, no doubt, but also I've realized the way he incorporates his blues-rock influences has reached an apex.
Yeah, maybe he's exhausted where he can take things with Meg White in The White Stripes. I like all of their albums, but I believe they peaked with Elephant. They're still one of the best bands out there today, so I feel like a jaded, complainy jerk for making this post.

Even though I'm not crazy about this theme, I hope Jack White continues trying other things outside of the confines of The White Stripes.
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