What happened to TV show theme songs?

[QueBert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE - Best theme ever, dunno how this hasn't been mentioned. Shouldn't even be debatable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GpxAyM6yc - awesome ass show too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipaV4k2n__I - The Wire season 2 theme. Crazy how they used a totally different version of the same song for all 5 seasons.

 

[Schmide]

Two of the best

Jonny Quest

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Stop the Pigeon

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Jonny Quest Stop The Pigeon by Reverend Horton Heat

 

[gorcorps]

I see no difference in the songs in the OP. It's all just semi-catchy music used to fill up the awkward silence of the into credits. None of them are special.

 

[HendrixFan]

One of the best theme songs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCfn3aY5vUw

Agreed 1000%. This used to come on syndication after Cheers weeknights when I was younger. It was right around time to go to sleep so I would listen to this, turn off the tube tv and go right to bed. Ah memories.

 

[CZroe]

Theme music are still awesome.

I love House MD intro. So so awesome, both music and medical 3D effects.

House theme is Massive Attack - Teardrop.
FWIW, it was only House "M.D." for the first season and it's just been "House" ever since.

 

[Agent11]

Game of thrones them song is pretty awesome.

 

[blankslate]

longer theme songs = less time for that extra commercial

 

[Craig234]

If you're going to put a link up, name the show. Don't make people click to find it. (I didn't click any of the links to find them).

 

[John Connor]

For some reason I have these two theme songs stuck in my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0jKlwE0zI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liFmMcmigsQ

And my three favs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPu4hjfHKg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1XNzPTqO0

 

[John Connor]

USA used to play all my favorites back in the early '90s.In the mornings it was the cartoon express and in the evening when I sat down for dinner it was Macgyver and Quantum Leap. Now they don't. Everything has gone to hell. LOL!

I remember these three gems back in oh '89?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyd0E66i9EQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiZaqhuL6nU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86887s5DIXA

This was a bad ass show on Fox. Only ran for two seasons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zpqxKYPsk I guess people rather see shit like Bones and Glee. Makes me want to puke!

And this on Fox was the show I watched when I was a kid. After that it was Sightings with Tim White. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbBX6aEzEz8 Who can forget that, huh? LOL!

 

[Arcadio]

Thread is incomplete without my favorite show growing up:

The Fall Guy

 

[BrokenVisage]

I'll just list what I consider to be the greatest TV theme songs that I've accumulated into my song library over time. Excuse the formatting, piped output from a dos prompt.

Addams Family.mp3
Alvin And The Chipmunks.mp3
American Dad.mp3
Animaniacs.mp3
Baywatch.mp3
Beverly Hillbillies.mp3
Brady Bunch.mp3
Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show.mp3
Captain Planet And The Planeteers.mp3
Care Bears.mp3
Cheers.mp3
Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers.mp3
Coach.mp3
Darkwing Duck.mp3
Denver The Last Dinosaur.mp3
Dinosaurs.mp3
Doogie Howser.mp3
Dragon Tales.mp3
Duck Tales.mp3
Empty Nest.mp3
Eurekas Castle.mp3
Facts Of Life.mp3
Family Matters.mp3
Family Ties.mp3
Fraggle Rock.mp3
Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
Full House.mp3
Futurama.mp3
Garfield & Friends.mp3
George Of The Jungle.mp3
Gi Joe.mp3
Gilligan's Island 1.mp3
Gilligans Island 2.mp3
Golden Girls.mp3
Good Times.mp3
Growing Pains.mp3
Gumby.mp3
Gummi Bears.mp3
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper.mp3
Happy Days.mp3
Head Of The Class.mp3
Heathcliff.mp3
Hey Dude.mp3
Hogan Family.mp3
In Living Color.mp3
Inspector Gadget.mp3
Jetsons.mp3
Knight Rider.mp3
Land Of The Lost.mp3
Love Boat.mp3
M.A.S.H..mp3
Macgyver.mp3
Malcom In The Middle.mp3
Married With Children.mp3
Martin.mp3
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.mp3
Mighty Mouse.mp3
Mission Impossible.mp3
Mr. Belevedere.mp3
Muppet Babies.mp3
Night Court.mp3
Pee Wees Playhouse.mp3
Perfect Strangers.mp3
Pink Panther.mp3
Pinky And The Brain.mp3
Rocko's Modern Life.mp3
Rocky And Bullwinkle.mp3
Salute Your Shorts.mp3
Saved By The Bell.mp3
Scooby Doo And Scrappy.mp3
Simpsons.mp3
Small Wonder.mp3
Smurfs.mp3
South Park.mp3
Speed Racer.mp3
Spongebob.mp3
Step By Step.mp3
Talespin.mp3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.mp3
Threes Company.mp3
Tiny Toons.mp3
Tranformers.mp3
Unhappily Ever After.mp3
Webster.mp3
Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego.mp3
Wkrp In Cincinnati.mp3
Wonder Years.mp3
World Of David The Gnome.mp3 - The best

 

[ElFenix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2fPgIIB67bw

 

[CZroe]

One of my favorite parody sitcom themes from South Park:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154385/my-robot-friend
Based on the theme from The Courtship Of Eddie's Father.

 

[CZroe]

Some things just stick, even without lyrics.

I remember seeing the Scarecrow and Mrs. King intro when I was 3 or 4 and never forgot it. I didn't even know what the show was about but I pretended to like it just because of the intro.

That said, the intro I remember seeing in the US Virgin Islands had a scene from one of the episodes with Mrs. King standing precariously on a high ledge outside a building, so it was different that the few I see on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nevSPw-ALPI

Oh, and my mother used to dry my clothes in the oven sometimes too, but not because she was an agent incompetently posing as a homemaker.

If you're going to put a link up, name the show. Don't make people click to find it. (I didn't click any of the links to find them).

This. Extremely annoying if you are using Flash block and you don't know if it's worth clicking all the way through.

 

[Craig234]

I'm very impressed with tv theme songs - the good ones.

I'll list a sample of five that seem to be to be great songs really capturing the show.

- Star Trek
- Rockford Files
- Wild Wild West
- Dragnet
- Sanford & Son

I'm not including great picks of songs not made for the series, like the Sopranos.

 

[Doppel]

My favorites were:

Knight Rider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8Qls0HnWo

Airwolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_LR4X-43Y

I also liked Sopranos & Stargate (SG-1 / Atlantis) openings.

Airwolf YES will never forget it.

 

[jimbob200521]

Come on, no Freakazoid?!? I've got the DVD box set to go with it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-hUoeHcz0

Or Wait Till Your Father Gets Home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbsEYoKm9X8

I used to look forward to staying the weekend at my brothers house so we could stay up late and watch that show, ahh best thread in a long time!!

Edit: OMG never seen this, Freakazoid, Wakko, and Brain duke it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NLrjVnMO7k&feature=fvwp

Or the classic Wakko does the capitals, I know a bit off topic but still

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE