Favorite TV Show Theme Music

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Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 1:59 pm

I've always appreciated the themes used for certain shows over the years, sometimes to the point of tears (don't laugh you fuckers).

My all time favorite:

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 2:02 pm

High on my list would be the theme used in Reilly: Ace of Spies, which was taken from Shostakovitch's The Gadfly Suite:

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 2:06 pm

Homicide: Life on the Street

Not a pretty theme, but good nonetheless

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 2:08 pm

Very high for me is Oz (how could I forget!?)

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 2:12 pm

Couldn't find just the theme (they have episodes of this on utube in theur entirety!) but this one always gave me tingles (probably from knowing how fucking great the production was, having seen it at least six times)

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 12th, 2013, 2:15 pm

Sometimes themes are clever, fitting in perfectly with the show. The whimsical sound of the piano as the theme to Doc Martin starts puts a smile on my face

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby mjb » October 12th, 2013, 3:44 pm

Deadwood was pretty evocative



Which almost reminded me of Firefly end credits

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby LennyH » October 13th, 2013, 7:44 am

Amazing how the theme for a show you love can give you a Pavlov's dog-like reaction and get you excited and pumped. I remember The Saprano's theme doing that. The short theme for Peep Show works for me too.

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby steve(thelil) » October 13th, 2013, 8:00 am

The whole theme was very good, but the line "they're altogether ooky" is one of my favorites of all time.



AND as a special bonus, a google search of "they're altogether ooky" brought the following!

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 13th, 2013, 8:03 am

Deadwood and Firefly, two shows that ended prematurely.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby stonemonkts » October 13th, 2013, 8:07 am

Continuing with my loving all things decades old and British...



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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby bluenoter » October 13th, 2013, 10:48 am

steve(thelil), in #9, wrote:The whole theme was very good, but the line "they're altogether oozy" is one of my favorites of all time. . . .

AND as a special bonus, a google search of "they're altogether oozy" brought the following!

That's probably just a persistent typo, but in the original, as in the Palin parody, the word is "ooky," to rhyme with "kooky" and "spooky."
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Mike Schwartz » October 13th, 2013, 11:42 am

I think this is the all time best version of this theme music!

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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Jazzooo » October 13th, 2013, 1:49 pm

From the '60s--so many! I Love Lucy, DICK VAN DYKE, Get Smart...

More recently--The Sopranos, Mad Men--my current favorite theme, what there is of it--and the wonderful Six Feet Under, by Thomas Newman.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby A. Kingstone » October 13th, 2013, 4:53 pm

Monty Python's Flying Circus

As TV theme music - A1

As music - eh.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby steve(thelil) » October 13th, 2013, 5:05 pm

bluenoter wrote:
steve(thelil), in #9, wrote:The whole theme was very good, but the line "they're altogether oozy" is one of my favorites of all time. . . .

AND as a special bonus, a google search of "they're altogether oozy" brought the following!

That's probably just a persistent typo, but in the original, as in the Palin parody, the word is "ooky," to rhyme with "kooky" and "spooky."


Thanks for noticing. It was a damned autocorrect mistake I didn't notice.


OOKY it is!
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » October 14th, 2013, 4:54 am

I always liked the theme from M*A*S*H. For those of you who aren't aware, the tune has lyrics written by Mash director Robert Altman's son Mike. I found it interesting that the kid wrote the lyrics when he was 14 years old. I have a cd with Sue Raney singing those lyrics. It was the only version of the song that I was able to find. Here's a little background on the song.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_is_Painless
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » October 14th, 2013, 5:03 am

Holy shit, I just clicked on "other versions" on the Wikipedia write-up and saw a bunch of covers of the song including Sue Raney's. She's in good company. I didn't realize there were so many.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Jazzooo » October 14th, 2013, 6:06 am

Bill Evans did a mighty fine version--instrumental, of course--of the theme from MASH.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » October 14th, 2013, 6:20 am

Jazzooo wrote:Bill Evans did a mighty fine version--instrumental, of course--of the theme from MASH.


Yes, I noticed that on the Wikipedia site. It also listed covers by Grady Tate (singing, of course) and Ahmad Jamal among many others.
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Re: Favorite TV Show Theme Music

Postby walto » October 14th, 2013, 8:41 am

Speaking of old and British, I liked the music (as well as everything else) in Brideshead Revisited. Not spectacular, but nice. Same guy (Geoffrey Turgeon?) did the music to one of my favorite movies, Turtle Diary.

The theme to House of Cards is kind of catchy.
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