What a great thread! I've been a Bond-lover since I was a child and have fond memories of playing with my brother's Corgi DB5 with the ejector seat! On a recent trip to the Gulf Islands we stopped in at a second hand store and scored a CD of Bond theme songs. This has led to an in-car game with my passengers we call "Name The Singer". You'd be surprised at some of the people who have done Bond themes (aha and Louis Armstrong?). The most common wrong guesses are Nancy Sinatra and Shirley Bassey. Bassey kinda makes sense since she did three of them. Unfortunately the CD only goes up to 1991. My Bond actor picks are, in order: 1a) Connery - because he created the role and is the standard against whom all others are judged 1b) Daniel Craig - because he's AWESOME! Fleming's Bond from the books has been described as "a savage in a Saville Row suit". Nobody does the Bond "don't even think of f**king with me" look like Craig. He has the air of someone who knows he can kill you without spilling his drink. That scene of him walking down the hall in Buckingham Palace with the Queen during the Olympics said it all. Craig doesn't play Bond, Craig is Bond. 2) Pierce Brosnan - he was a great Bond IMO and I really liked all of his films. 3) Timothy Dalton - he was really good but I wasn't watching Bond films much in the late 80's so I don't have much attachment to him. 4) Roger Moore - Live And Let Die was the first Bond film I ever went to the theatre to see without adult supervision. Roger Moore brought the cachet he'd earned playing The Saint (cool theme on that show too). Looking back his performances were, at times, laughable but aren't they all really? 5) I even liked Lazenby! The film, not so much. The James Bond Theme by Monty Norman (Arr. John Barry) is my all-time favourite big band tune. 50 years on and that chart swings like a wrecking ball! After that my favourite Bond theme song is Live And Let Die although there are some other great tunes in the Bond canon. PS - If you want a wonderful score that borrows (ok, steals) heavily from the Bond style check out Pixar's The Incredibles.