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What theme tune absolutely positivelt makes your heart go boom? What theme tune fills you with an inexplicable sensation of elation and an overwhelming feeling of joy?

For me it was Banana Splits, because it always signified the onset of summer, carefree timeless days in the sun, going round friends' houses, riding on me chopper etc.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

all I can think of is Wheres Your Head At by Basement Jaxx. Superstylin by Groove Armada is a bit of a belter aswell actually, shame bout the album (s).

and..........oh go on then.....anything really really cheesey if I'm really out of it. Ultrasonik I'm looking in your direction.

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oops. sorry.

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Don't worry, Ronan. They SHOULD be theme tunes. And perhaps one day, they will be.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Knight Rider cos it's just ACE! i am convinced that it is this theme that led to my becoming a bass player. Tina Weymouth could've been playing it man! it's so funky! and that thing Busta Rhymes did with it was also ace.

― katie, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Get the fuck outta my house bitch, bu 2LiveCrew - too black, too strong, 2 live Crew - it sayz so on my shirt.

― Geoff, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

quincy.

― gareth, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes, it just goes to show that truly great bass playing isn't about complexity, it's all about the timing.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whilst I wouldn't say it fills me with a sense of BOOM, the theme to BERGERAC is some kind of ART. And it has a CONTINENTAL BIT!!! Cos in Jersey they have RUES instead of STREETS but yet Jim Bergerac is obviously more at home in BLIGHTY than the land of the frogZoR.

― Sarah, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Rockford Files.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oh yes, i had quite forgotten. mike post i believe?

― gareth, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If we're talking kids shows, The Bugaloos, Lidsville, Stop The Pigeon (?), Superchicken, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and Electric Company.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Apart from Match of the Day I'd go for Chorlton and the Wheelies and Airwolf.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mike Post = Creat0r of THE A TEAM theme! now there's a stirring theme if i ever heard one.

― katie, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Doctor Who!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bloody Hell! Mike Post is prolific!

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/composerdiscography.php? composerid=523

― Jonnie, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That's unbelievable. Mike Post = God. Because Blossom kicked ASS.

― Sam, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, thematically it's a 'doom tune,' but John Williams' Emperor's March. It fills with a very explicable sense of elation, because when it's in my head motherfuckers best know they will be positively CRUSHED

― Dare, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

wonder woman. mission impossible. space 1999.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

dynasty is top: the basslines in dallas and the waltons ditto
also world at war

― mark s, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Looney Tunes for god sake. utter breakneck madness in musical form.

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Trevor's post betrays the fact that the 70s are to him what the 50s used to be to the Daily Mail.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Space: 1999", Alan? First series I hope.

"The Persuaders", "Taxi".

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Addams Family! Fame! A-team! Dallas! Baywatch!

― james, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Theme from 'The Rockford Files'

― stevo, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Was there a TV show with "Surfing Bird" by the Trashmen as its theme tune? Or am I thinking of Chicken Tonight?

Banana Splits, absolutely. Also The Simpsons - it represents the end of a hard day at work (usually) and you know for absolute certain that even if you've already seen the episode, you can crash in front of it knowing all's right with the world.

― Mark C, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Funny two people mentioned The Rockford Files. I just heard it for possibly the first time yesterday and I couldn't believe how blaring and high pitched it was. Perhaps its the precursor to Aphex's Ventolin.

― bnw, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sanford and Son theme. Them's good music!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Josie and the Pussycats (the TV show, not the movie, although that soundtrack's great), The Pussycats in Outer Space, The Wild Wild West (definitely NOT the movie version), Good Times, the Jeffersons, Maude. And Lidsville-it's an epic!

― Arthur, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Miami Vice theme tune is actually magnifique, though I never really watched the programme itself.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(PS / The 80s are to me what the 60s used to be to the Guardian... or something.)

― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

night of the living base heads by Public Enemy gets me going.

― Brock K., Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I used to have a soft spot for the music used for BBC TV Golf tournaments - bit of a (pleasantly moronic) Gary Glitter beat and some nice synth. Unfortunately they've now done what they always do: re-record the piece in nasty modern corporate-electronic style.

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

now that you mention it, all the bbc sport music I can think of is great. the skiing had that whole antique road snow feel to it, hoho. And don't get me started on the Snooker. do they still have that loose funk type thing for the snooker?

― Ronan, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the old-skool themes to the cricket, snooker AND racing! i think the racing was Layla by Clapton so of course i don't like it anymore. the cricket i think was Sergio Mendes? anyway i loved all the themes and hated all the sports that went with them.

― katie, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Racing = THE CHAIN by Fleetwood Mac!! Diddidee-diddi-diddi-dee-DUMM!!
Theme to THE FAMILY = awesome slow ,moody rawk guitar solo
Theme to WHAT THE PAPERS SAY = English Folk Dance No.2 by William Walton

All these are top, tho none in the sense the thread requires.

― mark s, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

cricket was booker t and the mgs wasn't it?

― gareth, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

bah, mark S is korrekt, racing = the Chain by the 'Mac. i do always get that mixed up with Layla for some reason, there's no SENSE to it!

well what one did Sergio Mendes do then? and Ronan you are agreeing with me AGAIN. it is most unlike you.

― katie, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am now off to mcdonalds to eat meat, so if the agreement was getting scary then that can defuse it. ha and I just have to add to this post that I just saw some girl walk past a computer another (slightly large) girl was leaning over, look at her ass, and snigger bitchily. god thats funny.

― Ronan, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm scared too.

― Ronan, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

and not just by that story.

― Ronan, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't see how anyone could confuse "Chain, you got me on my knees" with "Layla, keep us together". One's by Fleetwood Macton and the other's by Eric McVie.

― Trevor, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Snooker theme ("Drag Racer") got the same kind of horrible remix as the golf theme. Same thing happened with Alan Hawkshaw's theme to Channel 4 Racing.

I rather like Zack Laurence's "Forcefield", off the Crystal Maze, partially because it reminds me of my closest friend in childhood.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Floyd on Food..... he had Peaches by the Stranglers as the theme tune, but it was years before I realised it wasn't just him being gagged and beaten. A favourite from my teens was The Garry Shandlings Show, I was the only person I knew who'd ever seen it, so for years it seemed like a joke I was playing on myself.

― K-reg, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"night of the living base heads" was a theme song?? i want to see that show whatever it is.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"What's Happening!!", "Fat Albert," the Roadrunner song (Roadrunner, the Coyote's after you/Roadrunner, if he catches you you're through!), "Star Trek," "The Twilight Zone"

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

3-2-1 Contact!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Theme to Robinson Crusoe (the french b & w one), one of the saddest pieces of music recorded....but who's it by?

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bewitched.

― suzy, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Robinson Crusoe

Sampled by Gedge on a Cinerama track, too.

And what about White Horses, then?

― David, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Zipped .mp3 of Robinson Crusoe theme

.mp3 of White Horses theme

Sorry. Getting high on the fumes from the blue pen.

― David, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David you are a gentleman and a scholar.

You've taken me back to sitting on my grannies floor age 6 eating fig rolls and drinking diluted orange juice.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

that damaged goods sampler has the adventure of parsley (feat. Morwenna Banks) doing WHite Horses. >blush<

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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