Recently started watching old 90s and 80s shows just for the fun of it, because I’m bored with all of the new stuff that’s coming out, and I fell into Knight Rider.
My review of the show so far aside, it’s got straight up the most banger theme music I have heard in a TV show in a very long time.
It got me wondering what other TV shows have really great theme songs?
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Umm the duck tales theme song reigns supreme
Have you seen the beat-matched version of the DuckTales theme song where Beyonce is dancing to it from the video Single Ladies?
It’s amazingly on point.
I need more!
Really good, but it doesn’t have high adventure that’s beyond compare.
Gummi Bears must be up there too.
The extended version is a fucking banger. Guy makes duck sounds with his guitar. Hendrix might have been able to make a guitar sing, but I never heard him make it quack.
Lolz make that guitar quack 🤣
The YMND translation of the Finnish Ducktales theme is forever ingrained into my mind.
“It cannot avail you taco Nazi
look alive and count on Lassie
knit and dance and bake a cake, oh
UNCA OOOOOOooooo”
Game of Thrones has got to be up there. Very catchy and fairly unique, but it really captures the essence of (the best parts of) the show.
The themes to Foundation and Severance are also both really in tune with their respective shows.
But for me, the theme to The Expanse is my favorite. Again, it captures the essence of the show, and also like the show it’s pretty underrated.
Did you guys sing along?
Thrones yeah, game of thrones yeah, game of fucking thrones!
My college professor gave me the first book of the Game of Thrones series, and I hated it so much.
And because of that, I just, I’ve never watched the series. Some friends of mine had it on midway through the first episode, and the only time that it caught my attention was when there were titties on the screen. Like, I do not give the first fuck about Game of Thrones.
I have yet to see either the Expanse or Foundation.
I have them both in my to watch list, but I can’t really comment on their themes yet.
But Severance? I’ve watched every episode of Severance, I could not tell you what the theme song is from that show. Even if it’s really good, it’s also very, very forgettable, which, admittedly, probably fits with the theme of the show very well.
I feel like GoT wins, both for the theme and the intro itself. It’s instantly recognizable.
I like the Expanse theme, but I don’t think I would know it if I heard it out of context.
Got was very intense and visceral.
Has to be X-Men Animated Series
This is the theme song that plays for an ADHD person the first time the Adderall kicks in.
banger
My god, it’s a crying shame I had to come down this far to find this one.
It’s really really good.
I never really watched it, but the theme from Airwolf is just amazing.
80s kid here. Have my upvote.
I’ll keep it a buck with you. I’m having a tough time visualizing any scenario in my life that would justify playing this music.
Maybe it’s something just for helicopter pilots? I don’t know.
The time I can justify watching it is when I am watching Airwolf
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Damn, okay, so when it comes to classic legendary anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion is definitely high up there, but I feel like there’s a really strong contender in serial experiments Lains “Duvet” by Boa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8RufZr5lw
If they were to duke it out to the death, I don’t know which one would win.
Which one would win is the intro to Gurren Lagann, coming in from stage right swinging a folding chair. (Also from Gainax, for whatever it’s worth.)
Propane Genesis Evangelion
Star Trek: Enterprise. The first theme song. “it’s been a long rooaaad…”
Leave your hate here, please. 👇
I could not make it through this song.
I love TOS and the next generation, but that theme song would stop me in my tracks every single time. I kind of understand why you’re saying people would leave hate for it.
Like going from the soaring orchestral, grand, majestic themes from the next generation, and even the 60s space-optimistic Mahler-esque theme songs from T.O.S. to that sad sap Bon Jovi knockoff acoustic ballad is such a letdown.
I generally agree about the song, jokes aside. Though I have to admit: it grew on me over time.
I actually really liked that it wasn’t instrumental. It was like Star fleet, rough and new and not established and elegant.
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My actual response: Magnum PI. It’s a banger.
Edit: just realized earlier season of Magnum has a different theme. I mean the later one.
Fresh Prince
I feel like if you had said this before the Oscar Slap, I would have said hell yes. It’s like quintessential 90s TV show theme song.
And it definitely stands on its own, but I feel like it’s lost some of its luster. I can’t listen to this and differentiate the Fresh Prince from Will Smith the Person.
Still a damn good song, though.
Mission impossible https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTCOLbLWxM
and Peter Gunn. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Emg_6ANjWzo
Okay, I feel like Mission Impossible is cheating because everyone’s heard it and it’s obviously a banger.
And apparently Peter Gunn is one of those things that, at the very least, I’ve heard it, just never in its original context.
Both very solid contenders.
Highlander https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPWpP6w8AA although that’s also cheating
Yeah, Queen is definitely cheating.
Whatever the film company paid Freddie Mercury and Co. to do the music to the original Highlander movie was not enough.
But I don’t think I can say the same about SWAT Kats.
If you take out the zwoops and the fwooms and other sound effects that they used to match it to the animation, it’s just a really middling 80s guitar track.
Best is not cheating. Is best.
I just remembered some more. MASH, Twin Peaks and X-files.
Gummi bears, ducktales, airwolf
Golden girls of course!
Thank you…
…for being a friend.
I know the theme of the Golden Girls by heart only because it was on so many late night reruns.
I can’t say I would ever jam out to it outside of the show itself, and the most negative I can say about it is It’s a good song for what it is.
Easy. Firefly
Buffy.
You cant take the sky from me.
Tank! by the Seatbelts for Cowboy Bebop is probably one of the best openers of all time for anything.
British edition:
The Prisoner
Doctor Who
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Benny HillDr. Who has to be best of the 60s at least, surely
I would say the Doctor Who theme song is the Knight Rider theme song’s dad.
There’s a lot of similarity, but it’s different enough you can see the mom’s influence on the kid.
Cowboy Bebop. TANK! by The Seatbelts is peak.
The really old spider man cartoon is a straight up banger.
“Is he strong? Listen bud,
He’s got radioactive blood”
