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Credits
Music By: David Arnold
Orchestrated & Conducted By: Nicholas Dodd
James Bond Theme: Monty Norman
Song Written By: Jack White & Alicia Keys
Song Performed By: Jack White & Alicia Keys
Album Label: J Records
Single Label: Third Man / J Records / XL
Highest Chart Position:
1 (Finland)
Additional
Cholo Soy (Jaime Cuadra), Regresa (Jaime Cuadra),
El Provinciano (Jaime Cuadra), Puccini's opera Tosca.
History
David
Arnold, who composed the scores
for the previous four Bond films, said that Forster likes
to work very closely with his composers and that, in comparison
to the accelerated schedule he was tied to on Casino Royale,
the intention was to spend a long time scoring the film
to "really work it out". Arnold was confirmed on the 22nd James Bond film in October 2007. He also said
he would be "taking
a different approach" with
the score. Arnold composed the music based on impressions
from
reading
the script, and Forster edited those into the film.
Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse worked on
a demo track for the film, but Ronson explained Winehouse's
well-publicized issues in the preceding weeks made
her "not ready to record any music" at that time.
It was announced
Jack White of The White Stripes and Alicia Keys would collaborate on "Another
Way to Die",
which is the first duet in Bond music history, on 29 July
2008. They had wanted to work together for two years
beforehand.
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Above: Cover artwork for the CD single
release of "Another
Way To Die" (UK)
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The song was recorded at Sputnik Sound Blackbird
Studio in Nashville, Tennessee;
White played the drums while Keys performed on the piano. The
Memphis Horns also contributed to the track. White's favourite
Bond theme is John Barry's instrumental piece for On
Her Majesty's Secret Service, and he watched various opening credit sequences
from the series for inspiration while mixing the track.
The soundtrack was released by J Records, Keys'
record label, though Keys appears on only one track. The track
listing follows the order of the music's use within the film,
with the exception of the title song being moved to the end of
the album (in the film, it appears immediately after track 1).
It is presented in the full-length single-release version, rather
than the shorter mix heard over the film's opening titles. One
notable omission is the fully orchestrated James Bond Theme,
which features, as it did in Casino Royale, only at the film's
conclusion, but this time over the traditional gunbarrel walk-on-and-shoot
as well as the start of the end titles. Another omission is Arnold's
instrumental closing theme that follows it, playing over the
remainder of the credits and entitled Crawl, End Crawl within
them. This track was later made available on iTunes. Other tracks
listed are heard in the film (but not on the album) during scenes
such as Dominic Greene's charity fundraising party Jaime Cuadra
- Cholo Soy, Jaime Cuadra - Regresa, Jaime Cuadra - El Provinciano;
and Puccini's opera Tosca forms the backdrop to a key sequence.
Vesper's Theme from Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack reappears
at key moments in the film; it may be heard on the album in tracks
12, 15, 18 and 23.
"Another Way To Die" was released by White's
label Third Man Records as a limited edition of 6,000 copies
in the U.S. on September 30, 2008,
and on October 20, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It was also
released as a downloadable song for the video game Guitar Hero
World Tour on November 7, 2008. An instrumental version of
the song was also used in a Coca-Cola commercial, as Coca-Cola
Zero was a promotional partner in the film.
Roughly the first two minutes of the song were
first played on September 13, 2008 on the radio show Siglo 21
on Radio 3 in Spain. The song premiered
on British radio on September 18, 2008 on The Jo Whiley Show on BBC Radio 1. Newsbeat
described the reaction from listeners who e-mailed their opinions
as mixed. On October 3, 2008 the music video premiered on
Channel 4 in the UK.
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The pair filmed
a video for the song in
Toronto on September 6, 2008, whilst Keys was at the Toronto
International Film Festival promoting her new film The
Secret Life of Bees while White was there with It Might
Get Loud, a documentary on the electric guitar. The music
video for the song was released on Yahoo! Video on September
29, 2008. The video was announced as a nominee for Best
Short Form Music Video at the 51st Grammy Awards.
On October 5, 2008, the song entered the
UK Singles Chart at number twenty-six on downloads alone,
and peaked at nine. Also, it became Keys' first chart-topper
in Finland, and charted inside the top ten in Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, and Norway. In
Canada on the issue of October 18, 2008 it debuted at number
fifteen on the Canadian Hot 100 based on a large number
of downloads. In the the United States it debuted at number
eighty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue of November
29, 2008. In Australia the song made its way into the top
forty, peaking at number twenty-nine the week of December
1, 2008. "Another Way to Die" was the first James
Bond theme song to feature on a Triple J Hottest 100 playlist,
compiled almost every year since 1989; in 2008 the song
was ranked the eighty-seventh most popular.
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| Chart |
Peak # |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart |
29 |
| Ö3 Austria Top 40 |
2 |
| Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles |
10 |
| Belgian Ultratop 40 Singles |
20 |
| Canadian Hot 100 |
15 |
| Czech IFPI Airplay Chart |
65 |
| Danish Single Chart |
7 |
| European Hot 100 Singles |
12 |
| Finnish Single Chart |
1 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart |
98 |
| German Singles Chart |
8 |
| Greek Singles Chart |
8 |
| Irish Singles Chart |
12 |
| Japan Hot 100 Singles |
49 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart |
4 |
| Portuguese Singles Chart |
2 |
| Slovak IFPI Airplay Chart |
80 |
| Swedish Singles Chart |
12 |
| Swiss Singles Chart |
4 |
| Turkey Top 20 Chart |
14 |
| UK Singles Chart |
9 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
81 |
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The song was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the
2009 Grammy Awards. It was also nominated for Best Song at the
2008 Critics' Choice Awards. The
song won Best Original Song
at the Satellite Awards 2008.
Composer David Arnold's soundtrack was nominated
in the Best Original Film Score category at the 54th edition
of the Ivor Novello Awards, but lost to "There Will Be Blood".
Soundtrack Listing
1. Time To Get Out (03:28)
2. The Palio (04:59)
3. Inside Man (00:38)
4. Bond In Haiti (00:35)
5. Somebody Wants To Kill You (02:17)
6. Greene And Camille (02:13)
7. Pursuit At Port Au Prince (05:58)
8. No Interest In Dominic Greene (02:44)
9. Night At The Opera (03:02)
10. Restrict Bond's Movements (01:31)
11. Talamone (00:34)
12. What's Keeping You Awake (01:40)
13. Bolivian Taxi Ride (00:49)
14. Field Trip (00:41)
15. Forgive Yourself (02:26)
16. DC3 (01:15)
17. Target Terminated (03:53)
18. Camille's Story (03:58)
19. Oil Fields (02:29)
20. Have You Ever Killed Someone? (01:32)
21. Perla De Las Dunas (08:07)
22. The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance (01:14)
23. I Never Left (00:40)
24. Another Way To Die (04:23)
Total Time (Official Album): 61:06
"Another Way To Die" Credits
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Musicians
Alicia Keys – vocals
Jack White – vocals, drums, guitar
Jack Lawrence – baritone guitar, bass
Laura Matula – piano
Wayne Jackson – horns
Jack Hale – horns
Tom McGinley – horns
Lindsay Smith-Trostle – cello
Lyndsay Pruett – violin, five string violin
Michael Rinne – double bass
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Production
Jack White – producer, mixing
Vance Powell – engineer
Mark Petaccia – assistant engineer
Nathan Yarboro – assistant engineer
Josh Smith – assistant engineer
Vlado Meller – mastering
The Third Man – design
Rob Jones – design
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