I’ve seen diamonds cut through harder men If you come inside things will not be the same You can’t deny the prize it may never fulfill you I’ve seen angels fall from blinding heightsĪrm yourself because no-one else here will save you When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me? If you take a life do you know what you’ll give? Just one listen to this song and it’ll be stuck in one’s head for the rest of the day. The official music video created for the song also does a great job of paralleling the job of James Bond as a spy and Cornell as a rock star as being similar in some ways. I will say that this song is definitely better than most of the Pierce Brosnan Bond film intro songs which ranged from the great one sung by Shirley Manson and her band Garbage for the forgetful The World Is Not Enough right up to the very awful one by Madonna for Die Another Day. “You Know My Name” sounds better than “Casino Royale” and the lyrics, as written by Chris Cornell (w/ some minor help from film composer David Arnold), really matches the grittier and more aggressive personality of the film and it’s main character of James Bond. I could only remember and name three who have and they were Tom Jones doing the one for Thunderball, Paul McCartney for Live And Let Die and the Euro band Duran Duran for A View To A Kill.Ĭornell sings the hell out of this song and I like the fact that the song’s title doesn’t match the film’s. Not to mention an even more rarefied group of male singers who have sung the intro songs to Bond films. With “You Know My Name” he has joined a very exclusive club of Bond film intro singers. He’s the longtime frontman for the alternative rock band Suoundgarden and then later on for the supergroup Audioslave. Anyone who has even listened to 90’s hard rock and alternative rock has to know who Chris Cornell is. “You Know My Name” is the latest song of the day and one played and sung by one of my favorite rock vocalists ever in Chris Cornell.
Inspiration hit like a JSOW from high above and I decided to pick this Bond reboot’s title theme as the latest “Song of the Day”.
So, I’m at home flipping channels when I saw that Casino Royale was about to start on one channel I kept going back to.
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