![]() ![]() ![]() And while Duran Duran’s “A View to a Kill” is great, all it takes is a few bars to pin down the era it hails from. Adele’s “Skyfall” is a conscious recreation of those early Bond ballads. It helps that “You Don’t Know My Name” feels like it’s from the 2000s without being constricted by a time period. “Casino Royale” needed an reinvention that attracted a newer, fiercer Bond for the post-9/11 age, but one that was still conversant with the iconography of the character. (“The mericless eyes of deceit,” if you will, as Cornell rumbles in the opening.) ![]() It’s something that Sam Smith echoed less effectively in his “SPECTRE” song, an attempt to recreate, in song form, the endless tug-of-war between Bond’s personal and professional entanglements. Switching back and forth between octaves, “You Know My Name” is a man effectively in a duet with himself, plumbing the lower, sultry half of the melody (“when you return to the night”) just before hopping up into a full-voiced falsetto (“the game that we have been playing”). The song is also an impressive showcase for Cornell’s four-octave vocal range. ![]()
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