Best theme song...

22-12-2005 10:47am #1

...of all time? Cheers.

Of the current batch? Head to Toe. That's a pretty nifty dance number. Or CSI Miami, with the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again...

limerick_man · 22-12-2005 11:45am

King of Queens
Scrubs

MrJoeSoap · 22-12-2005 11:49am

The Office,
Cheers,
Pugwall,
Father Ted.

Vokes · 22-12-2005 12:55pm

Old 'Dr Who' tune is pretty good.

But 'Star Trek: TNG' wins hands down

And out of the new shows, Prison Break's theme is a pretty catchy number.

Stompbox · 22-12-2005 4:14pm

Father Ted

marshmallow · 22-12-2005 4:17pm

Father Ted

Rantorama · 22-12-2005 4:40pm

More tunes than songs but anyway...Magnum,PI The Fall Guy ,Hawaii 5-0 and Bottom (the closing credits tune)

eljono · 22-12-2005 4:55pm

The Simpsons or The A-Team

eggshapedfred · 22-12-2005 5:27pm

MacGyver. had that great build-up towards the end just to get you in the mood for some mulleted action hero with a swiss army knife and an unfathomable knowledge of science....

byte · 22-12-2005 8:10pm

eggshapedfred wrote:

MacGyver. had that great build-up towards the end just to get you in the mood for some mulleted action hero with a swiss army knife and an unfathomable knowledge of science....

ROFL!

Yes, as somebody mentioned Dr Who (original) had a good theme tune.

And old classics like The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31, Great American Hero (I think that's what it was called) and of course, The Littlest Hobo!

Vokes · 22-12-2005 8:19pm

byte wrote:

Ulysses 31

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/ulysses.mp3

"Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies, in search of Earth, flying in to the night....la la la la laaaa"

**Timbuk2** · 22-12-2005 8:21pm

Fair City has the best theme song

Only joking btw....

BopNiblets · 23-12-2005 12:23am

FOOLS!
ALL OF YOU!

"Some people stand in the darkness
Afraid to step into the light"....

Followed closely by A-Team, Nightrider, Superman (movie & TV show starring Dean Cain

), Stargate SG-1 most of the Star Treks, etc.

Jaysus, nearly forgot Duck Tales, Celebrity Deathmatch, Sanford And Son, Secret Agent Man (whatever that show was, Spy something...)

homah_7ft · 23-12-2005 12:34am

SofaKing wrote:

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/ulysses.mp3

"Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies, in search of Earth, flying in to the night....la la la la laaaa"

Thanks man. Class stuff.

p~b · 23-12-2005 12:41am

happy days

friends

sopranos

that 70's show

eerie indiana

buck rogers

the wonder years

teenage mutant hero turtles

KerranJast · 23-12-2005 12:52am

Rescue Me
Firefly

John R · 23-12-2005 2:17am

The Prisoner

Trip Hazard · 23-12-2005 5:27am

Teh 80 were the best for theme tunes by far

The A team

for Cartoons M.A.S.K or Jayce and the wheeled warriors with lyrics and music so cheesy it makes you wanna pretend your either matt tracker or Jayce and save the world or universe

By the way i was in a night club once, and the last song they played was the A team song. the dance floor emptied but Me and my mate stayed there and took it all in, it was Cool.

SprostonGreen · 23-12-2005 10:15am

Nightrider

Malcolm in the middle.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience.

Or CSI Miami, with the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again...

Without wishing to be pedantic, I think its a cover of the Who classic, great song nonetheless.

fade2black · 23-12-2005 10:27am

Baywatch, Quantam Leap, incredible hulk, Batman, The music CSI had in the first series, not a fan of the who cover

23-12-2005 10:27am

Trip Hazard wrote:

By the way i was in a night club once, and the last song they played was the A team song. the dance floor emptied but Me and my mate stayed there and took it all in, it was Cool.

Local deejay here usually ends with that 'believe it or not I'm walking on air' from the Greatest American Hero. Or the Cheers one...

homah_7ft · 23-12-2005 4:17pm

I quite like the theme tune to Law and Order but that's probably just because I like the show so much.

mickymg2003 · 23-12-2005 7:42pm

The original spiderman cartoon had a good theme tune-reall catchy.

Also the batman cartoon.

The twilight zone but thats an obvious one.

_Kaiser_ · 25-12-2005 4:37pm

The Professionals

Blue Thunder (the very short lived series - much preferred it to Airwolf)

Knight Rider

The A-Team

ando · 25-12-2005 7:02pm

nightrider by far and away the best! I have this as my ringtone:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~monza1999/misc/Nightrider.mp3

godtabh · 25-12-2005 11:40pm

Dr Who as mixed by orbital. Best version!

A-Team. Classic

Knight Rider wasnt bad either

Nightwish · 25-12-2005 11:59pm

Law and Order
CSI Miami and NY
Greatest American Hero

Lump Basher · 26-12-2005 11:38am

Alf
Thundercats
MacGyver

Bodhidharma · 26-12-2005 4:49pm

Clearly the California Dreams singing the title track. What a song "Dont wake me up if i'm dreamin, California Dreams". You can just imagine the sun beating down on top of you.Nice!

Moe79 · 27-12-2005 8:45pm

Thunder Thunder Thunder Thundercats!

And basically any theme tune from the 1980s.. what was it about that decade and theme tunes?

To name but a few of the best:

The A-Team
Duck Tales
Magnum
Cagney & Lacey
Dallas
Falcon Crest
Dynasty
Murder, She Wrote
Inspector Gadget
McGyver
North and South
Even Glenroe's original tune was amazing..
the list goes on...

Of today's crop, I'd say The OC has to win.. One Tree Hill's is ok too, although I don't actually watch the show.

homah_7ft · 27-12-2005 8:49pm

I just thought of another theme tune that really drew me into the program. Funny because it's some ad for Janurary sales that has reminded me. Earth Final Conflict. The instrument seemed to merge into a voice and back again. I always enjoyed listening to that.

Nightwish · 28-12-2005 12:47am

I left out Baywatch and Diagnosis Murder

OMcGovern · 28-12-2005 12:58am

Top theme songs... that haven't necessarily been listed already...

"The Equaliser", auld Ed Woodward as the vigil-ante in the 'Jag
( I even sought out that theme song as an mp3 once... found it too )

Airwolf
Ski-Sunday
BBC Snooker
The Angelus

YeatsCounty · 28-12-2005 6:28am

Moe79 wrote:

The A-Team
Magnum
Dallas
Murder, She Wrote
Inspector Gadget
McGyver

My favourites would have to be the Red Dwarf end theme (as well as the opening theme from the first two series), The Office, The Original Doctor Who theme, South Park (especially the Fourth Grade one :-p), Batman - The Animated Series, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Happy Days, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Wonder Years and the ones listed above, of course.

Jazzy · 28-12-2005 12:00pm

Jayce and the Wheel Warriors start and ending tunes... top stuff

29-12-2005 12:26am

captain planet
baywatch

DMC · 29-12-2005 11:04am

The Prisoner... or the old BBC cricket theme

(Soul Limbo by Booker T and the MG's)
Any of the old BBC Sport themes are class.

KevIRL · 29-12-2005 11:08am

Fraggle Rock or The Littlest Hobo

DMC · 29-12-2005 11:36am

Now why didnt I think of the Littlest hobo

aidan_dunne · 29-12-2005 7:55pm

DMC wrote:

Any of the old BBC Sport themes are class.

Damn straight! Say what you like about the BBC, love it or hate it, but when it comes to theme tunes for their sports programmes they get it right nearly every time.

Apart from the 'Ski Sunday' and 'Cricket' tunes, there's also good old 'Match Of The Day', that cool guitary tune they use for the snooker (prefer the older version from about 10 or 12 years ago to the updated version they started using a few years back, but it's still good), the old 'Grandstand' theme tune...... God, I could go on and on. Classics, each and every one of them, and used to such good effect by the Beeb that each tune becomes completely synonimous with their particular sports. As soon as you hear the first few bars of one of those tunes, you instantly think of that sport.

But, for me, the all-time classic has got to be the old BBC 'Grand Prix' theme tune. That deep, bass guitar bit leading into the drums and electric guitar segment taken from 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac. I was watching some old Grand Prix races there recently and hearing that music playing over the opening titles still sends a shiver down my spine. Never was a tune so perfectly matched with a particular sport than that one, in my opinion. If you ever listen to it, you'll see (hear?

) what I mean. It's like a musical representation of the beginning of a Grand Prix.

Just try this: close your eyes and picture this in your mind in time with the music.

It starts out quiet, just the rumbling bass guitar playing those famous notes (chords?

Sorry, I don't know much about music!

) the first time around - the drivers strapped into their cars, ready for the off.

The bass guitar comes in again, playing the same notes again - engines started, the grid is cleared, the tension begins to rise.

Then, for a third time, the bass guitar comes in, but in the background the drum beats are rising, getting louder and louder - the engines are revving hard, the lights come on........

Then the music rises to a crescendo, in comes the electric guitars and all hell breaks loose - lights out, engines screaming, tyre smoke everywhere and the race is on!

Try it for yourself. I'm telling you, no tune was ever more perfectly matched to a sport than that one!

aidan_dunne · 29-12-2005 8:09pm

Oh, by the way, if you want to check out for yourself what I'm talking about, this link here http://www.f1archives.com/intro.htm has downloadable video clips of some of the old BBC 'Grand Prix' opening title sequences. Think one of my favourites would be the 1994/1995 one where the black-and-white car gets "painted" in colour as the camera pans across it, all the while showing various shots from races past on the bodywork. Great title sequence, in my opinion!

J.R.HARTLEY · 29-12-2005 8:55pm

agree on Star trek TNG, but it is a lift from Star trek The motion picture, and the who are on all the CSI's
LV-Who are you
Miami-Won't get fooled Again
NY-Baba O'Reilly,
they are just remixed to suit the credits.
love scrubs as well,

all excellent themes mentioned,
but i have to opt for my ringtone,
"Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats HOoooooooooooooooooo!
Thundercats are on the move
Thundercats are loose...............":D