Major bumpage!


Oh, yes.

"Easy, miss, I've got you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qHDWdGPomw


"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCgJACYsOSo


"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ZTTsiJupo

I can't believe I haven't posted in this thread until now!

Best TV themes:

- Miami Vice
- Hardball
- WCW Thunder
- Simon & Simon
- Battlestar Galactica (original)
- Benny Hill

EDIT:
Although it's never been the official theme for any wrestling show, I have to include the original nWo theme. That's if it counts.


Best movie themes:

- Top Gun
- Back to the Future
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Over the Top
- Smokie and the Bandit
- Cannonball Run
- Star Wars
- Indiana Jones
EDIT:
- Neverending Story (although it's not to be heard in the movie)

I just noticed this. That theme was mostly overdubbing, what with the 'Look up in the sky!' and all that great stuff. Not a whole lot going on theme-wise. The Kirk Aylin serials though had a great theme - and was a better live action production of Superman. Ayln played the part better, too.

My absolute favorite as well!!

Together with OO7 and Secret Agent Man


When it comes to movies, I really like (the original version!) the themesong to DAS BOOT. The kraftwerk version is kind of cool too, but the one from the movie is really sweet!!

Top Gear's original music. I think it's by Dire Straits.

And also the original Snooker music by Hank Marvin.

The theme music from the "Twilight Zone" TV show is instantly recognizable by zillions. How many times have you used, or heard someone else use, that riff when describing a unusual situation!?

For me, i think the best theme-song was the one used in shaft. It's really funky and it hasn't lost it's identity over the years.

Bump!

I do believe this correct answer is the theme for the 1934 French film L'Atalante. Usually a soundtrack for an oldie like that comes across as painfully old-fashoined and only enjoyable as a novelty but this theme is both vintage, classy and catchy. That little song puts you on a cloud and just lets you float away in total peace.

Sadly, I could only find this scratchy song sample of it. Doesn't quite capture the majesty but fine nonetheless.

Ok, anyone 16-years-old and not only knows L'Atalante but is down with the film gets promoted to Grasshoppa status. 2nd fastest promotion in RM history.


Of course, I am disregarding the comments about older music for the time being. That normally would have resulted in The Squirrels being sent.











P.S. You will find we have a thread for films and literature. The literature threads are split for fiction one for non-fiction.

Wow. Don't know quite what that means but hey, thanks! I got L'Atalante in the mail about a week ago and have watched it twice since then. The film has the warmth of a musical yet without the corniness of one. The one musical number with the salesman was a ball and did not feel forced in the very least. The director was so commited to this project that sicne he was dying suring the filming, he shot some scenes from a stretcher. And yeah, Michel Simon gives one of the best perfs of any movie. God, I love the film so. Wow, way off-topic. My bad


Don't get me wrong, dude. I love "42nd Street" (<- another great movie theme, though originally it was a play) and "Moonlight Serenade" as much as the next guy, and only a fool would not but "Rhapsody in Blue" in his/her Top Ten Songs of All Fucking Time list. It's just that much of the music back-in-the-day comes across to me as one-dimensional and fogettable. It has the heart but none of the soul. Do you get what I am saying? There is a reason why jazz has lived on but the whole Ziegfield culture is a thing of the past. A lot of the music of the pre-WWII world was very faddish, and fads don't last.

Don't hurt me!