Sheena Easton "For Your Eyes Only"

[FrontPage22]

Whilst reading the liner notes on the Best of James Bond collection, they reffered to this song as a "celebration of the discomusic of the time"...I asked myself, does anyone really consider this downtempo r'n'b ish number disco? The previous James Bond theme, Moonraker has more disco in it I'd say. Sheena's song, whilst sleazy and actually dated sounding for 1981, is not really disco. Anyone have differing opinion???

[K-Bee]

I agree totally. this really is a smaltzy soundtrak ballad. Only disco stuff I remember about Bond is the 1977 version of the main theme (Bond '77) from "The Spy Who Loved Me" sadly omitted from most compilations.

[Voyage]

Yeah Bond 77 is the only Disco sounding 007 song that I remember too. Well there's also Moonraker, the disco remix featured in the end of the film. In the Man With The Golden Gun as well in Live And Let Die I remember listening to some funky tunes played during the movie.

I remember reading in the FYEO Sdtrk CD that they say Bill Conti tried to put a bit of Disco in the film with songs such as: Gonzalez Takes A Dive (not a drive, as quoted on the CD because that song is played when Melina (Carole Bouquet) kills Hector Gonzalez), Runaway, Drive In The Country, and Melina's Revenge (second part of the song). On those songs ya can listen to some funky sounds and funkish renditions of the Bond Theme.

I don't consider FYEO Disco, but I do consider it one of the best songs from all time and one of my favorites :D

Voyage :P

[Nano]

I think the guilt goes for Mr. Albert Broccoli, don't you think? Probably all stars picked up for singing a Bond tune were forced by the franchise producers to leave the "final cut rights" to the movie orchestra guys, like Bill Conti. This led to people being picked up to "modernize" the franchise giving paradoxically old-sounding mimicks of their work. Happened with Sheena, Duran Duran, Tina Turner... Even Paul McCartney had to put some strings.