Songs Deserving Of Having a TV Programme Created Solely So That They Can Be Used As The Theme Tune

Come to think of it, I think the Dandy Warhols would be a far finer sitcom than they would be a band. ;-)

(80s belgian sitcom w/ lots of hilarious facial gymnastics and slapstick)

How about "Hi, We're the Replacements"?

i'd watch this!

“The Boys Are Back In Town” by The Gap Band would have a been a great theme song for a late 70s / early 80s sitcom involving a musician losing popularity and moving back to his home town to work at the family tow truck business or something

Geoffrey Ingram by The Television Personalities

I always heard The Jam song as something that would be a good theme for a TV show called "Industry Today"

The Official Colourbox World Cup theme. If football ever comes back, this would be the ideal theme song for a murkily-lit TV programme in which a nervy Bob Wilson and Elton Welsby apologise continually for not having the rights to show any footage of the matches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SLOWo3hCGk

Two songs I like a lot but they are totally like music from a crap sitcom, even the titles sound like sitcoms:

Kevin Ayers - Blaming It All On Love
Think Wendy Craig, Richard Briers, Geoffrey Palmer, Esmonde & Larbey etc. Think quietistic, late 70s, middle class suburbia, twitching curtains, everyone calling each other "darling" etc.

The Raspberries - Starting Over
... a Mary Tyler Moore production

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada),Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Blaming It All On Love

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

Starting Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXk6TBQwxcc

That Raspberries song is so perfect, that is some prime 70s TV theme music piano playing right there!

... the last few bars almost convince me that Eric Carmen wrote it as a theme tune.

Every time I hear 'We'll Have It Made' by the Spinners, there's at least a second or two where my brain is absolutely convinced it's the theme to an early-'70s sitcom of the same title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcTU6gzcb0

Like I can picture those opening credits way too vividly.

Kevin Ayers - Blaming It All On Love
Think Wendy Craig, Richard Briers, Geoffrey Palmer, Esmonde & Larbey etc. Think quietistic, late 70s, middle class suburbia, twitching curtains, everyone calling each other "darling" etc.

this is amazing and perfect

Fox, "Only You Can" (could be Harrison Marks soft porn, could be Thames sitcom)
― robin carmody (robin carmody)

Heard this for the first time today. What a fucking weird song.

Most of the songs on 10cc's Bloody Tourists, but that's not a compliment. They don't just sound like late 70s UK TV theme songs, they share the same plotlines and aura of airless anomie.

The Ayers song mentioned above has this same feel, but it's got an emotional melody and a Gilbert O'Sullivan suburban pathos that helps lift it up.

I have long tbought that I’d watch a TV show whose theme was The Sea and Cake’s “Sporting Life”

Well, I see I killed the revive a year ago--

OK, having just heard "Native New Yorker" for the first time in years, I had to Google to convince myself that it WASN'T a TV theme....

Farewell Transmission - Songs:Ohia

Perhaps one of the later seasons of Rhoda could’ve used “Native New Yorker.” Although given that that song was written by a member of the ‘70s era Four Seasons I suppose an earlier rendition sung by Frankie Valli could have been used at an earlier point.

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How about "Hi, We're the Replacements"?

Minimum Wage! (Hyah!)