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December 03, 2004
I want theme music
(Category: Snooze Button Dreams )
UPDATE: The current Blogosphere Theme Soundtrack is in the extended entry. Add your theme music in the comments and I'll add you to the Soundtrack! This post will be stickified for a bit whilst I collect the songs.


I was thinking about this on the way into work today. I could really use some theme music. You know what I mean, right? The sound sample that plays whenever the hero walks into the scene. Shaft had that bow-chicka-bow-wow thing and James Bond has that snippet that's been around for 40 years and just says "BOND IS HERE". Theme music. That's what I need.

I was thinking a good one for me would be that part of Won't Get Fooled Again where Townshend Daltrey cuts loose with that "Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!" that so inspired Howard Dean. That would be perfect for me. When you walk into the conference room along with an energetic antiestablishmentarianist "Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!" along with that kick ass bass line you get people's attention. But then I got to thinking. Who songs are popping all over products these days and I'd hate to end up with my theme music being associated with a Kia wagon or marshmallows some day.

So I tried to think of music that would never have a chance of ever being adopted as a corporate jingle but the sad fact is that anything decent had a decent chance of being sold to pimp toothpaste eventually. I figured I'd have to take a chance that my theme music would eventually be co-opted else I'd end up with something from the B52s or Oasis and we just can't have that.

After much hemming and hawing, deliberation and debate (hey, if you can't debate with yourself then who can you debate with?) I settled on this one.

Now I've just got to find a decent boom box.


The Blogosphere Theme Soundtrack

  Theme Music By
Jim I’m Too Sexy Right Said Fred
Kenny Sway Dean Martin
diamond dave Voodoo Child Stevie Ray Vaughan
Boudicca Devil Inside INXS
Mitzi People Are Strange The Doors
Jennifer Lay Your Hands On Me Bon Jovi
Harvey Mr. Bad Example Warren Zevon
Eric Way-Too-White Boy Blues Harvey
Lynn Canon in D Major Pachelbel
Jack Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel
Rachel Ann These Dreams Heart
Madfish Willie God's Own Drunk Jimmy Buffet
Pylorns Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears
Jeremy I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2
LeeAnn House of Fun Madness
Trey 4th Movement, 9th Symphony Dvorak
Random Penseur The River of Dreams Billy Joel
Tig Flight of the Valkyries Wagner
Victor Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Bach
Ilyka Sweet Jane (short version) Velvet Underground
Caltechgirl Weird Science Oingo Boingo
Ith The Pearl Silly Wizard
Sharon Behind the Waterfall Paul Spears/David Lanz
Elizabeth Waiting on a Friend Rolling Stones
Rammer Russian Easter Overture Rimsky Korsakov
Flibbertigibbet Mississippi Sheryl Crow
Mike the Marine Hells Bells AC/DC
Rob Going Home Mark Knopfler
Ninjababe The Imperial March London Symphony Orchestra
Kim Space Needle 2.0 Raspbery Silk
Margi Couldn't Get it Right Climax Blues Band
LDH Heaven On Their Minds Jesus Christ Superstar
Rob Save the People Godspell

Entries in italics are suggestions that haven't been confirmed yet.

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Comments

Which begs the question: Why is Led Zepplin shilling Cadillac these days? As I write that Should I Stay or Should I Go comes on for Pontiac ... yeesh.

What about Are You Jimmy Ray? Catchy little ditty.

Today's theme song: Dean Martin's Sway

Posted by: Kenny at November 24, 2004 12:32 PM

LOL! That cracks me up.

Hmm. I have to think. There must be some theme song for a woman who appears to be an asexual Mom person, ignored by society as such... but inside she is NOT! :) Gotta think on this one!

Posted by: Boudicca at November 24, 2004 02:31 PM

How about Devil Inside? ;-)

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2004 03:10 PM

"Voodoo Child". The Stevie Ray Vaughan version.

Live.

(Jimi Hendrix was great, but Stevie enhanced his music beautifully.)

Don't care about the lyrics, just that kick-ass, in-your-face guitar would work nicely for my theme.

Posted by: diamond dave at November 24, 2004 05:35 PM

Jim, I do believe you have found me a theme song. Damn if I can't get that song out of my head now. I've been humming it for the last 2 hours.

Posted by: Boudicca at November 24, 2004 09:05 PM

Devil Inside it is then.

Hey, I really nailed that. Hmmm...maybe there's a future here? Professional theme song coordinator? I'll have to check with my Hollywood contacts.

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2004 11:04 PM

Hmm...I don't think there is a song STRANGE enough to be "my" theme song...what does LW think about yours, Jim?

Posted by: Mitzi at November 26, 2004 05:02 PM

Well, as long as you are helping other people out, what's my theme song? Slightly nutty mom of five who is a bit of a child on the inside, tends to giggle and laugh a lot, but also has an intellectual side?

Posted by: Rachel Ann at November 27, 2004 02:03 PM

I'll bypass the obvious (867-5309) and go for wishful thinking: Bon Jovi's "Lay Your Hands on Me". Not, you know, YOUR hands, Jim...just in general. ;-)

Posted by: Jennifer at November 29, 2004 12:12 AM

Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon: God's Own Drunk by Jimmy Buffet [check it out in my radio.blog thingy]

Posted by: Madfish Willie at November 29, 2004 01:45 PM

Pylorns - Tears for Fears "Everybody wants to rule the World."
or Beatles "Rocky Racoon"

Posted by: pylorns at November 30, 2004 10:51 AM

I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR - U2.

Posted by: Jeremy C. Wright at November 30, 2004 11:32 AM

Mine is probably "House of Fun" by Madness.
However, if you think of a better one I am totally open to suggestion...

Posted by: LeeAnn at November 30, 2004 06:31 PM

I may be asking for trouble here, leading with my chin, etc., but I'd be curious to see your suggestion for my blog theme song.

Posted by: RP at December 1, 2004 12:57 PM

Mine is the fourth movement of Dvorak's 9th symphony.

Posted by: Trey Givens at December 1, 2004 01:25 PM

I am thinkin' somethin' by Wagner, what is that Valykrie one?

Posted by: Tig at December 1, 2004 06:55 PM

Going by your choice of theme song for me, I think you know me better than you should!!!

Posted by: mitzi at December 1, 2004 10:26 PM

I think I've got everybody included so far. 18 tracks that make quite an eclectic mix.

So far, so good! :-)

Posted by: Jim at December 2, 2004 08:44 AM

I always thought MF Willies would be "What's the use of gettin' sober (if you're gonna get drunk again)?" by Louis Jordan. Of course, it's very possible that song was before his time...or not.

I think my theme music would be Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (JS Bach)--you know, that classical piece the Mad Scientist is always playing on an organ the size of the Bronx.

Posted by: Victor at December 2, 2004 09:20 AM

JIM! It's DALTREY who cuts loose with the greatest scream in rock-n-roll history! NOT TOWNSHEND! Sheesh!

BTW, there are some great Bach midi's here.

Posted by: Victor at December 2, 2004 09:25 AM

Doh! Manifestly retarded rock gaff has been corrected.

Posted by: Jim at December 2, 2004 09:36 AM

I call "Sweet Jane" by VU. The short version, not the one they went back and added Reed's missing wonky parts too.

But if I hadn't thought of that then I would have to say Trey, you're such a dick for taking that 4th movement. I love that piece.

But I admit it is very Trey. Tres Trey? Okay, I"ll shut up.

Posted by: ilyka at December 2, 2004 01:19 PM

Mine has got to be Weird Science, or perhaps She Blinded Me with Science.....

Posted by: caltechgirl at December 2, 2004 01:40 PM

Hmmm.... it has to be depressing Scottish music :) I'd have to got with "The Pearl" by Silly Wizard.

Posted by: Ith at December 2, 2004 03:22 PM

For Tributaries :

Behind the Waterfall
Paul Spears/David Lanz

Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at December 2, 2004 04:49 PM

The orgy theme from Conan.

Tig: It's called "Kill The Wabbit", or "Ride of the Valkyries", if you're a phillistine.

Posted by: Dave Munger at December 2, 2004 08:47 PM

In keeping with the "no, I've not had a psychotic break" theme, I'll say that I actually have several theme songs including:

Mississippi cover by Sheryl Crow
Stayin' Alive by Wyclef Jean
I Do by Toya

WOO!

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at December 2, 2004 09:47 PM

Hell's Bells, by AC/DC

It's just the Marine thing comin' out in me...

"I'm rollin' thunder, power and rain..."

Posted by: Mike the Marine at December 2, 2004 10:05 PM

Russian Easter Overture, (Rimsky Korsakov) is like a spring rain on your brain and we all know that the stuff that piles up in there ought get a regular rinse.

Posted by: rammer at December 2, 2004 11:44 PM

No. No Right Said Fred. No No No.
Bad. No.

Theme from Sopranos, if you like a bass line. Imminence Front.

Right now, for me, it would be "Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Aerosmith. For obvious reasons.

Usually? Rolling Stones "Waiting on a Friend".

There is too much good and wonderful music in the world for me to actually stick with one song....

But you - YOU? I mean, why don't you just finish the job and pick Gerardo for your "B" side?!?!

aiaiaiaieeeeeeeeeee

:p

Posted by: Elizabeth at December 3, 2004 02:02 AM

Make mine "Going Home, the Theme from Local Hero" although Going Home from Alvin Lee aint bad, either.

Posted by: Rob at December 3, 2004 05:44 AM

Wow, great responses! Looks like we'll need a multi-CD set.

Posted by: Jim at December 3, 2004 08:16 AM

Not trying to shamelessly pimp my own song or anything, but I'd be a liar if I didn't use it as my theme song:

Space Needle 2.0 by Raspberry Silk

Posted by: kim at December 3, 2004 11:12 PM

Well, my theme music for my life is the Imperial March.

But, for my blog? Hmmm... I'd say Swords Crossed from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. Or, Reels on Fire by Tempest.

I keep wavering between the two.

Interesting concept!

Posted by: Ninjababe at December 4, 2004 12:39 AM

I'm torn between "Green Eyed Lady" (Sugarloaf's LONG version, thankyewverymuch) and The Stones' "Saint of Me."

Decisions, decisions.

HEH.

Posted by: Margi at December 4, 2004 06:00 PM

Waitaminit --

"Couldn't Get it Right" by Climax Blues Band

One of my all-time favorites and, really, the story of my life. ;o)

Posted by: Margi at December 4, 2004 06:05 PM

Pachelbel's Canon? What does that mean? That I'm sweet but common and a little dull? Well.... not what I would pick for myself but I suppose it's somewhat appropriate.

Posted by: Lynn S at December 5, 2004 05:58 PM

I just saw where it says that italics means the suggestions are not confirmed yet. Let me think about it for a day.

Posted by: Lynn S at December 5, 2004 06:02 PM

Lynn, that was a suggestion from Harvey. I doubt he was thinking as deep as all that - I think he mentioned something about "big guns".

Posted by: Jim at December 5, 2004 06:07 PM

Ah ha! Harvey. I should have known. :-) I might stick with that anyway if I can't decide on anything better. It's not bad.

Posted by: Lynn S at December 6, 2004 08:32 AM

I'm inclined to go with 'Heaven On Their Minds' from Jesus Christ Superstar for meself...

Posted by: LDH at December 6, 2004 04:46 PM

I give up. I can't decide on one. I've considered Mozart's String Quartet in D minor; I've considered "Summer" from Vivaldi's 4 Seasons; I've considered "O Fortuna"; I've considered Dvorak's American String Quartet, plus several more. I've even considered that song by Aerosmith that they keep playing on that commercial but I can't make up my mind. Anyway, I get several search engine referrals every day of people searching for Pachelbel's Canon so I guess there's no point in fighting it. :-)

Posted by: Lynn S at December 6, 2004 08:52 PM

The Soundtrack is up to date. Wow, look at the participation here. Does this qualify as a meme now? Hmmm...might have to put this on the sidebar...

Posted by: Jim at December 7, 2004 07:04 AM

The theme song for UnSpace would be "Save the People" from Godspell.

Posted by: Rob at December 7, 2004 08:24 AM

Does anyone know the title of Led Zepplin's Cadillac theme song ?

Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2004 10:47 AM
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