{"id":13072,"date":"2008-07-30T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/30\/the-man-with-the-golden-gun.html"},"modified":"2008-07-30T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T18:31:26","slug":"the_man_with_the_golden_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/the_man_with_the_golden_g.html","title":{"rendered":"The Man with the Golden Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

BD<\/a> pointed at this BBC test of “How well do you know the Bond themes?<\/a>” — which, given that I have many, many CDs of same, and listen to them a lot, I thought would be a slam-dunk.<\/p>\n

Hrm. Given that the majority of the questions are along the lines of “who did this cover of this theme” and other non-musical things (well, at least not bearing on the actual themes themselves), and a lot focused on the most recent movies’ pop stylings, I’m fairly pleased I managed a 6 out of 10. Still in the top tier (“Golden Gun”), though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BD pointed at this BBC test of “How well do you know the Bond themes?” — which, given that I have many, many CDs of same, and listen to them a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies","category-media-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10710,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/bond_music_james_bond_mus.html","url_meta":{"origin":13072,"position":0},"title":"Bond music … James Bond music","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Nov-06 7:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fun article on NPR (via BD) on James Bond movie title music over the decades. 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