Spectre Full Song
Vinnie Frevert
Radiohead recorded "Spectre", an orchestral ballad, for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre after another song they had submitted, "Man of War", was rejected. However, the producers instead used "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith, and "Spectre" went unused.
Radiohead released "Spectre" as a free download, their first release since 2011. It was also included as a B-side on the 2016 single "Burn the Witch" and the special edition of A Moon Shaped Pool. It received positive reviews.
Radiohead were approached by the Bond production team to write the theme for the upcoming James Bond film Spectre (2015).[1] The director, Sam Mendes, and the James Bond actor, Daniel Craig, were both Radiohead fans.[2] In July 2015, the bookmaker William Hill suspended bets after a customer placed 15,000 at ten-to-one odds on Radiohead, suspecting insider knowledge.[3]
Radiohead first submitted "Man of War", an unreleased song written in the 1990s, which the singer, Thom Yorke, had once described as an homage to Bond themes.[4][5] The Spectre team liked "Man of War", but rejected it when they discovered it had not been written for the film and was therefore ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[6]
Radiohead suspended work on their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), to record another song for the film, "Spectre".[7] However, the production team instead used "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith.[8] The lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, said the production team felt "Spectre" was "too dark".[9] Yorke said the decision not to use the song was "just politics as far as I can tell".[10] The Bond producer Barbara Broccoli said it arrived too late to be used, and that the team had already created the title sequence using "Writing's on the Wall".[2] Mendes attempted to use "Spectre" elsewhere in the film, but decided its lyrics made it distracting. He described the situation as "an utter nightmare ... We had this beautiful song and we weren't able to use it. But it's somehow cooler for Radiohead to have written a song that wasn't used."[6]
Radiohead's producer, Nigel Godrich, described the experience as a "real waste of energy", and said it disrupted work on A Moon Shaped Pool.[7] Greenwood said that Radiohead were free to finish and release "Spectre" as they wanted, and so "that side of it was really positive ... We get to have it back and it's ours and we got to put it out. We're really, really proud of it."[9]
"Spectre" is an orchestral ballad[11] that features Yorke's falsetto, strings, "jerky" piano chords and jazz-like drums.[12] Pitchfork likened it to Radiohead's 2001 single "Pyramid Song",[12] and said it had the "melodrama" of a Bond theme with "only a hint of the kitsch".[12] Variety wrote that "Spectre" had "Radiohead's signature moody sound, with a somber sweeping grandeur".[13]
Radiohead released "Spectre" on the audio platform SoundCloud on Christmas Day 2015. Yorke announced the song on Twitter, writing: "Last year we were asked to write a tune for Bond movie Spectre. Yes we were. It didn't work out ... but became something of our own which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas."[14] It was the first Radiohead release since the 2011 single "The Daily Mail" / "Staircase".[14]
"Spectre" was included as the B-side on Radiohead's 2016 vinyl single "Burn the Witch".[15] It was also included as a bonus track on the special edition of Radiohead's 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.[16]
P.S. Funny story from my research: not only was Smith unaware that Radiohead had been asked to do the theme song before them, they were also apparently unaware of who Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke even was.
Spectre is an album that every hardcore fan should listen to in 2022 and it once again shows that Stick To Your Guns are still one of the best songwriters in the genre. The record is full of variety and every song has a meaning stuck behind it.
First we see her shows her car arriving (around 30:56 into the film) and switching on the light in her classically decorated house. She turns on some music and pours and drink, walking through the house to the rear garden.
Behind her in the shadows is first one and then a second of the assassins she expected. They follow her into the garden, and while initially she seems to be unaware of them it becomes clear from her face that she expects to be shot dead at any moment.
I loved the scene on first viewing and it is greatly helped by the classical music playing in the background. In intended to find out what it was after attending the SPECTRE premiere and then an IMAX viewing the following day, but it slipped my mind. Even a couple more screenings failed to jog my memory.
This is the fantastically atmospheric music used in the villa scene mentioned at the start. Although I initially thought it was sung by a woman, believe it or not it is a man, Andreas Scholl, singing. This is the one song heard clearly heard in the film without being drowned out by Thomas Newman and really used well.
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"This is one of the highlights of my career," Smith wrote. "I am honored to finally announce that I will be singing the next Bond theme song. I am so excited to be a part of this iconic British legacy and join an incredible line up of some of my biggest musical inspirations."
The SPECTRE theme song starts with a hauntingly dark, droning hum and escalates into an electronic melody with arpeggiated chords that drive the tempo forward. The action rises dramatically until it reaches its zenith, punctuated by a high-tone chord that reverberates into silence.
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Enough time has passed to make it painfully clear: Spectre was not a good Bond film. While it's definitely not Die Another Day bad, it definitely creeps uncomfortably close to Quantum of Solace bad. However, like both of those movies, it signals the disappointment to come with its theme song.
Spectre is a song by Radiohead released as a free download on SoundCloud on the 25th December 2015. On 13 May 2016, it was released as a B-side on the 7" vinyl single Burn The Witch. It was written for the James Bond film of the same name, but went unused; the film instead features the song Writing's on the Wall by Sam Smith. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who also composes the band's string arrangements, said in a BBC interview that the song was rejected for being "too dark":
"It wasn't right for the film, what we did. So we thought, "Great! Then it's ours. We can finish it how it's meant to be and we can release it." So that side of it was really positive, you know? But I guess there's lots of people interested in who does it [the Bond theme]. There's a lot riding on it and the song we did was just too dark or whatever, so that's fine. [It] means we get to have it back and it's ours and we got to put it out. We're really, really proud of it."
The Spectre is a song by Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker, incorporating uncredited vocals provided by Norwegian songwriter and producer Jesper Borgen. It was composed by Jesper Borgen, Alan Walker, Marcus Arnbekk, Mood Melodies and Lars Kristian Rosness, with production handled by the latter four, and lyrics written by all composers as well as Tommy La Verdi and Gunnar Greve. The song was released via Mer Musikk on 15 September 2017.
"The Spectre" is a vocal remake of Alan's 2015 single "Spectre", which was released through NoCopyrightSounds on 6 January 2015. On 22 December 2016, Alan debuted the song during the live show "Alan Walker is Heading Home", in his hometown Bergen, Norway. He has included the song in his live sets months ahead of the song's release, as well as playing a revised version of the song on the main stage at Tomorrowland Belgium 2017. In an interview with Dance Music Northwest, Alan described the song as "a newer version of my old song Spectre", similar to "what I did with 'Fade' to 'Faded'". Alan said of the song in a press release: "The reactions and feedback from people have been truly amazing, I'm very excited that's it's now being released officially. It's a song that I specifically want to dedicate to my core fans who've been following me since the start."
Your EDM felt the song "contains all of the common Alan Walker elements that international EDM fans have come to find and love", including "the sound design, faint dreamy vocals, the anthemic drop, and the patented Alan Walker lead". Comparing to Faded, they deemed it "a sleeker, more refined record".
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