UPDATED: Listen to ALL of Adele's Bond Theme SKYFALL

This blinkered appreciation even extends as far as the series' theme songs. While nobody is going to argue with Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" or Wings' "Live And Let Die" being championed as classics, I will happily sit through - hell, even sing along to - less appreciated entries like Rita Coolidge's "All Time High" or even Jack White and Alicia Keyes' much-maligned duet (to-date the only one of the series) "Another Way To Die".

While I'm sure I wasn't the only person hoping that Amy Winehouse was still around and in a fit state to get back into the recording studio and lay down the theme song for Sam Mendes' forthcoming Skyfall, I'm more than happy with Adele being handed the duties for the 23rd official Bond movie. Her title track, also entitled "Skyfall", is scheduled for release this coming Friday, 5 October, but if you can't wait that long to give it a listen, a 90-second snippet of the song has popped up online. And, goddamn, if it doesn't sound like a cracking addition to the canon. Certainly more power ballad that out-and-out rock track, this little taster only makes me even more giddy and excited for the release of Skyfall in just a few weeks time.

Have a listen below and let us know what you think.