I read yesterday that Quantum of Solace’s theme song will be performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys. This makes me very happy, as I loved Chris Cornell’s performance of the Casino Royale theme, especially in conjunction with the visual effects, which, would sound terrible on paper — “It’s a war between these different card suits, and this one gets shot with a spade and then spills out all these hearts” — but on the screen looked amazing. And I don’t even like Chris Cornell.
However, thinking of Jack White and Alicia Keys singing the Quantum of Solace theme, I’m amused by the difficulties of rhyming the word “solace” with anything. I tried making a short list of possible rhymes and came up with this:
- ball us
- brawl us
- maul us
- call us
- Gonzales
- Paul, us
- stall us
- thawless
- Cialis (as a stretch)
Here, by the way, is that Casino Royale intro:
See, I really liked the animated opening of Casino Royale but hated the song by Chris Cornell that went with it... and I even liked his solo stuff awhile back. I just thought it was completely subpar to the other Bond film themes. Many of which are hard to beat.
ReplyDeleteHey Drew,
ReplyDeleteYou're half right. But I agree with euphoria -- the animated opening of Casino Royale was pretty sweet but the Chris Cornell song was weak. I LOVED that movie. Perhaps my favorite Bond film ever (until the new one comes out). But that song sucked. Bring back Shirley Bassey!
I was going to follow up with "...from the dead?" but then I realized that Shirley Bassey is actually still alive and not nearly as old as I thought she was. And also more Welsh than I thought she was.
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