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Chris Cornell...is that You? It's Me, Mogger

Posted over 2 years ago
I finally got around to watching Casino Royale the other night and barring a wiggy-ass chase scene in the pre-theme song intro segment, it wasn't really anything to write home about...man, that franchise just doesn't have a place in the post-Cold War world...I should've known it was going to be a pointless exercise when I heard the movie's theme song ("You Know My Name"?) being performed by Chris Cornell, the artist formerly known as the front man for Soundgarden...guess dude's got bills to pay too, I'll raise my cup to the good old days, when bands that are now considered grungy, rock 'n roll dinosaurs were riding tall in the saddle...wasn't even that long ago, either...I think this SG tune sums up how it felt the other night while I winced my way through Cornell's recording...and thought of another time...Brace yourself: if you don't know the Bond theme...here's that video......see what I mean?...ouch...I hope he can get some of that Bad Motorfinger Mojo going again...if you need to excise the remnants of that last one from memory, check this...
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  1. lemontwist
    lemontwist says I'm a huge James Bond fan, and I tried to think of Casino Royale as just a different attempt at the same thing. It's certainly not a continuation, it's just different. I was highly skeptical at first, and prepared to hate it. But I loved it. The original James Bond movies are fun and light with all the great spy scenes, car chases, women, 1952 Dom Perignon, etc. But Casino Royale was dark, deep and modern. I'm really interested in where they go with this, especially as the last few JB movies had started to suck (the last one was almost unwatchable).
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  2. sekout
    sekout says Well its no Shirley Bassey...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  3. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says ...you mean the one before this one, I take it...I used to be all about the Connery era...this one had it's moments: the one chase scene through the construction site...the first dinner conversation with Vesper...the bar sequence when he trounces the old "shaken, not stirred" line but that car defibrillator stuff was a gimme and the poker game part (which, I know was the fulcrum of the whole plot) got a little long in the tooth for my tastes (I'm not a card player, though)...the consensus from those I know who reviewed/ covered the film for publications is about 60/40 (pro/ con)...I'll take another look in a few days...but that song just rubbed me the wrong way...or maybe my tastes are fixed on Kim Thayill's riffage from back in the day, they really complemented Cornell's voicing...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  4. Nixne Svix
    Nixne Svix says yeah , they lost me right around Superunknown , the other guys are great , Audioslave might of been tolerable if it was sans Vocals. I practically worshipped him betwixt the Loud Love and Badmotorfinger days...It was all over after I saw them open for GnR on New Years 1990. Only Cornell and Axl have the prettiest , strongest and gifted vocal power; yet still some how I just want them to shut the fuck up.....Let Cornell run his little Restaurant in Paris and stop fucking up the airwaves.......I hope his ex got a ton of money , because her manager skills helped get Soundgarden to the top of the Grunge heap...maybe they would still be great if the world hadnt payed him so close attention.....oui Cornell, ill take the Foie Gras please.......
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  5. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says @ Sekout: yeah, Shirley's the queen of all those Bond themes..."Gold Finger" classic..that jam's in the iPod @Nixne: Yeah son, ToTD were nice but "Slaves and Bulldozers" really put the hook in me in respect to his vocals...he sort of fell off after the Superunknown LP for me too..so much so that the Parisian culinary foray that you mentioned above was totally new to me..
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  6. Nixne Svix
    Nixne Svix says i just read about it today, he he.....i wouldnt piss on the guy if he were on fire , but i was hoping in this recent news , that there would be a snippet about RATM , but all so far is that the Coachella show is a one off. Although RATM getting back together may not be the most fruitfull of outings anyhow.....Thayill over Morello any day, but its a tuff tuff choice.
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  7. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says ...not a tough one for me to decide...Thayill's great for CC...Morello works best with Zach D...thank you, pleasedrivearound...I never cottoned to Audioslave at any point so Cornell's departure from the group leaves me non-plussed...wasn't surprised when I heard about it...he's like their uncle and shite...been around the block but doesn't get the dap because...he's older...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  8. Nixne Svix
    Nixne Svix says yep. you got it. hey where the fuck is Zach? i thought after that Saul Williams jam , he was fixin" ta bring it back around again......." that cut was tits crazy man...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  9. jsguntzel
    jsguntzel says Great post. All sentiments seconded. Rusty Cage...perfection really. It's been a long time. Thanks!
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  10. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says ...you can't dis the moto-mojo...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  11. Truth
    Truth says speaking of Shirley Basey...have you ever head her version of Light My Fire? Good stuff.
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  12. mickimicki
    mickimicki says God. I've seen the Bond months ago (yeah Europe does get these earlier), I saw it, and quickly forgot about it, and I DID NOT EVEN REALISE the theme was sung by CC... that's a lapse my imagination just failed to make I guess... damn... The only permanent impressions that movie left me with were a) that "romance" thread with Vesper had the worst dialogues I have seen in a long time, as in PAINFUL to watch, b) I had to leave the room for that torture scene. Were they always so dark? I don't see Bond as that kind of thriller thing... I think the last one I really enjoyed was actually the one with Grace Jones and the Eiffel Tower... I'm old... oh well...
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  13. Sturgell
    Sturgell says it's hard to believe that this stuff is already considered old school
    Permalink posted 02/16/2007
  14. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says Wow, micki! The one with Grace Jones, "A View to a Kill," is widely considered one of the three worst films in the Bond franchise (if not THE worst). The update/reboot "Casino Royale" is the closest to the original source material, and (to my mind) the best Bond film since the first three with Sean Connery - "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love," and "Goldfinger." And Crash, I totally agree with you on the horrible Cornell theme, but I want to get some stats straight: Rotten Tomatoes, which does a bang-up job of gathering the reviews and ratings of most significant film critics in the U.S. and U.K. (a little under 200 of them), shows "Casino Royale" receiving a remarkable 94 percent positive reviews. In fact, it was one of the most favorably reviewed films of 2006.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  15. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says @Mike:...yeah, I've worked alongside some of the cats who live and work in LA and contribute reviews to Rotten Tomatoes (as you might have), so I'm aware of that site and it's %-tages...but I can't say that this newer one compelled me and the "most favorably reviewed films of 2006" ain't saying a whole lot (I've heard a grip of professionals griping about the dearth of films worth covering....last year) so that tag strikes me a loaded one...still, you already know my cookie/cake philosophy (what's the former to one man may be the latter for another)...I think the best thing that A View to a Kill had going for it was the Duran Duran theme song which I think is better that CC's thing (cookie/cake, man)...I think I'll revisit it but as it stands, I'm sticking with: didn't like the whole movie, just segments...
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  16. Anonymous says Louder than Love was the album that hooked me on Soundgarden, but it and Badmotorfinger are really the only two albums of theirs I like all the way through -- I like parts of Superunknown but not all. If you listen, though, you can hear Chris getting tired of the high-adrenaline stuff. His first solo album, which came out in the late 1990s, was gorgeous but mellower than the SG stuff (even his song "Seasons" on the Singles soundtrack is acoustic and pretty). (I got to hear him perform "Fell on Black Days" during his solo tour and it's one of my favorite live-music memories.) I'm looking forward to the new solo record... I'm not crazy about his take on the Bond song but I'm not at all a Bond fan, so that's OK. Just let him keep singing and writing songs, please, world. He's good at it.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  17. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says D'accord, Crash. Not a lost of feasts at the cinema last year, but there seldom are. Loved a few of the snacks though.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007

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