I dropped in on Movie Mayhem with Calum this morning - the clue was a James Bond clip, and I couldn't resist asking a bonus trivia question to the woman who called in.

That got me thinking about the huge number of Bond theme songs over the years.

Simply ranking the songs has been done a thousand times, so I won't waste your time with that.

Instead, let's focus on what makes some of these tunes interesting.

The Longest 8 Seconds in Music History - Thunderball, Tom Jones

One of music's most famous crooners caps off the song for a movie where Bond fights a shark with a full-force "Thunder-BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLL" that lasts eight seconds. 

Those are some impressive lungs, edging out Shirley Bassey's six-second blast of "He loves GOOOOOOOOOOLD" from the prior Bond film Goldfinger.

The Music Video You Totally Couldn't Make In 2018 - From Russia With Love, John Barry Orchestra

The Bond films have had - and this is putting it charitably - questionable attitudes towards women over the decades.

But the opening credits sequences rarely sank to quite literal objectification seen in "From Russia With Love." 

Using an early (arguably sexist and racist!) scene in the film as inspiration, the video is comprised entirely of close-ups of a belly dancer's hips, arms and legs.

Sex appeal in a Bond film is all well and good, but watching this makes me feel icky.

Most Pointless Cover Of A James Bond Theme Song - Live and Let Die, Guns N' Roses

Live and Let Die was released in 1973, with a theme song recorded by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Guns N' Roses released a cover of that song in 1991 and for the life of me I don't know why they bothered.

Their version is a complete carbon copy of the original, aside from Slash sleepwalking his way through a guitar solo.

If you're going to cover a song, at least make it your own. (See: Johnny Cash's rendition of "Hurt.")

Otherwise, you're just lazy.

Weakest Performance - Casino Royale, Chris Cornell

Soundgarden's grunge magnum opus Superunknown was released in 1994, with Chris Cornell's performance cementing his place as one of the great singers in music history.

By 2006 his uneven follow-up project, Audioslave, had collapsed and his voice was becoming a shadow of its former self. Aside from some die-hard fans, he was no longer relevant to pop music culture.

And yet some producer thought that was the time to bring him onboard for a Bond theme?

Casino Royale isn't an outright bad song, but given what Cornell might have sounded like a decade earlier it is disappointing.

Best Song - Skyfall, Adele

Many critics might tell you one of the older Bond theme songs, likely Goldfinger, is the greatest of them all.

But they just haven't aged well, particularly given how much music production has improved since the 60s. You can appreciate them, but you likely wouldn't choose to listen to it.

With Skyfall, Adele gives a performance worthy of Shirley Bassey's legacy that also shames most contemporary pop songs.