My Name Is Cooper... Alice Cooper

To stay topical, I will post a Bond song... or rather, one that never was but should have been.

I'm someone who enjoys the Bond movies and I've seen all of them at least once before. While their quality varies, just about all of them are at least entertaining in some way, but the best ones are a great time.

I saw the midnight showing of Quantum of Solace and I was more than disappointed with it. I mean, it sucked! That's something I rarely say for a Bond movie, but that simply sucked. Let's see, the action (which is plentiful) is done in the God-awful shaky-cam rapid-fire editing bullshit style, which means that you can never make out what's going on and it may even give you a headache. Then, the story is pretty abysmal and is a whole lot of nothing which barely has anything to do with Casino Royale, even though QoS is supposed to be a sequel. Many agree that it's less than CR, but I'm one of the few that had such a bad reaction to it. I don't know how people can give much of any praise to it, but to each their own.

Heck, I didn't even like QoS's title song, but then again I loathe Jack White and think he's totally talentless and tone deaf. At least the last title song was cool enough. These days they are trying to be "hip" with a certain segment by having alternative rockers involved. Back in the day, though, rockers with that kind of edge doing the theme song just wasn't going to happen.

For example, Alice Cooper. Now, Live and Let Die happened as Paul McCartney & Wings are pretty inoffensive. However, Alice Cooper was shocking stuff back during that time period. According to Alice himself, his version of Man With the Golden Gun was going to be used in the movie but then the producers got scared and instead you got Lulu's song of the same title, which is laughably bad and actually more risque than Cooper's track. I didn't even realize Lulu still had a career in 1974; so yeah, they should have gone with Cooper's song, which ended up on his Muscle of Love album. It isn't really what you'd expect from Alice, but it would have worked very well for a Bond theme.

Alice Cooper-Man With the Golden Gun (5.7 MB, 192Kbits/second)

I'll be back around this time next week with another song to spotlight.