I was a musician once upon a time and have always had a special appreciation for instrumental music,mostly progressive rock,but there is a subgenre of music that gets overlooked a lot...themesongs.
I think part of the reason is we only get about 1 and a half minutes and then the show starts...or a commercial blares in.But if you ever get to hear the extended versions,some of them are incredible.It dosnt hurt if just hearing the first few note conjures up warm fuzzies from the past or lets you know something good is about to happen.
Some of my favorites are...
Voyage to the bottom of the sea...moody,dramatic and really fit the show.
Space 1999...wow,mega jumping bass,pseudo porn track guitar alternating with blaring horns and strings...too freakin' cool.
Mission Impossible...inyer face bassline,jazzy flute,big horns...KAT cool man.
Monty Pythons flying circus...wth!?...this is some countries national anthem,they played it every morning while my flight marched by in the morning(EARLY in the morning) while I was in bootcamp.We got in trouble EVERY morning for laughing as we went by...guess the DI wasnt a PBS viewer.
Peter Gunn...many a stripper twirled her tassles to this one...its just plain raunchy.
Red Dwarf...hard to picture this song with a scifi show...til you know the story about Lister's plans for life after the space corp."goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes"
Lost in Space...spectacular John Williams.There were 2 of them and both were great.
Dr. Who...weeeeiiiiiiiirrrrrrrd man.
Buck Rogers in the 25th century...show was silly but the theme was terrific.(WILMA DEARING! oh my!)SouthPark did a hilarious take on the whole opening montage with Cartman...you gotta see it if you were even a minor Buck Rogers fan.
James Bond...the main theme is truly iconic and 2 of the movie title themes were among my favs...You only live twice,and Tomorrow never dies.
So what are some of you favorites?
a free place to hear some...quality fair but I bet you could find much better...mine are from cd's. http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php
Eric Coates did the Dambusters Theme .. from the film of the same name ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001IY57ZU/ref=dm_dp_trk18
Movie-wise I love the theme from Star Wars. Gives me goosebumps.
From TV, I agree with Psych, and The Rockford Files, but my fav is the theme from Newhart-the one where he had the inn. It's a really mellow piece by Henry Mancini.
I used to get revenge on my neighbor with the 1812 Overture, too! Then one day during our music war, he had the nerve to come to MY door and yell about the loud music! I just said "How do you like it?" and shut the door! I moved after that because someone that ballsy scares me!
Starkers ... Just got this for ya ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJun5ziotfw
Thanks for that, Mike... it has been a while since I heard it, still a great piece of music.
BTW, it's great to see you... haven't seen your around much of late.
Nah, I'm just an old man, but you know your stuff girl!
I wouldn't mind being your team mate anytime!
If anybody puts this up as a fave theme I'm gonna seek to have men in white coats go around to their place with strait jackets and the appropriate meds... not to mention start up a petition which moves to have that person set to visitor status to protect the majority from minority lunacy
mine would have to be , welcomback kotter .... here
and prisoner .....here
and country practice... here
just too many to mention....... ooops looks like im going to cop this but i have broad shoulders
a country practice?...never seen it but from that opening clip it looked like a parody of tv...man was that schmaltzy.
hahaha, as i said to starkers every1 to their own lol
I knew somebody had to post it... should have guessed it'd be you. Oh well, looks like those nice young men in their clean white coats 'll be here shortly... just hope they put the strait jacket on the right person.
I'll say... I'd rather listen to rap crap or chalk being dragged down the blackboard.
Shoot, even Wacko Jacko doing the theme song to The Beverley Hillbillies in E-Flat would be more bearable... just.
Dr. Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Green Berets
and for contrast
The Three Stooges Theme
Oh damn. Maurice Jarre, best known for composing the song Lara's Theme (Somewhere my love) from Dr. Zhivago, just died today at the age of 84.
Read it here
Well it's no wonder MouseGoddess. John Williams has been composing most music associated with our life time more than anyone.
Spanning from the 50's to today with new releases already for 2010-11 check out his list of film scores, it'll dawn on you that there aren't too many songs you've heard by him that doesn't give you chills!
John Williams' Film Scores
RIP to Maurice but the music and the family talent live on; Jean-Paul's music Oxygene is superb too.
The Young ones. (British Sitcom \ Cliff Richard song)
Titanic.
Schindlers List.
Cold Mountain.
Bond.
Hannah Montana
those great Clint Eastwood spaghetti western themes...
Hmm this could be fun !
Dallas, CHiPs, Battlestar Galactica (1979), Greatest American Hero, Cheers, Knight Rider (1983), Fantasy Island, The Love Boat.....
Hehe, im stuck in the 80's I know
GigaByte69
Oh yeah! The Good the Bad and the Ugly... now there's a classic movie theme if ever I heard one.
No Beverly Hillbillies yet?
The Goodbye Girl ... movie
The Exorcist ... still creeps me out when I hear it.
To Sir With Love ... one of my favorites as a child
Romeo and Juliet ... What is a youth... all time favorite from childhood
Casino Royale ... the 1967 movie, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, really got me hopping
Boy, I could really go on and on if I thought about it but these were just off the top of my head.
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield Keila!
An extremely haunting sound.
John...for you...this one brings tears every time....
Yitzhak Pearlman playing "Schindler's List" theme.
It's official, 3 new programs have been made and are set to air early April in Europe on the satellite channel Dave. The 3 new episodes are set to premiere over the Easter weekend in fact, the Eps are named Back to Earth, Parts 1, 2 and 3 !! Watch out for the brand new plush sleeping 1/4ers.
Dave Red Dwarf details here.
Red Dwarf website here.
oh yeah!
Fresh Prince of Bel-air
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