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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 25, 2022 5:10:16 GMT -5
Any theme, any company, any time period, just so long as it's about someone's theme song, throw it out there.
Kind of trying to decide if I prefer the theme for Apollo Crews with or without the drums. It's not a great theme in either case but on one hand the drums feel kind of lazy and definitely lean hard into his terrible gimmick, on the other they do kind of give the song a much-needed pulse that the original version of it doesn't really have. I think I maybe lean toward preferring them but kind of uncertain of it.
Still trying to work out why the Bellas of all people had separate entrance and victory themes.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 25, 2022 5:28:00 GMT -5
On the note of separate entrance or exit themes, Miz having the beta version of his theme song as his outro theme has always been a weird choice for me.
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 25, 2022 5:32:14 GMT -5
You think Sheamus ever decided to make limeade with all the limes he was getting?
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Mar 25, 2022 5:37:26 GMT -5
The Sultan's theme song was a banger and far more deserving of a better character/gimmick. I like to imagine Jim Johnston alone in the studio at 3AM on acid and coke just rocking out coming up with shit like that. (I'm sure he never did that But I do know he did them alone and played all the instruments himself) Edit: Remembered it was passed on to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down I think? So yeah didn't get a better gimmick!
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Post by msc on Mar 25, 2022 5:55:56 GMT -5
You can say Crush wasn't the best wrestler in the world, but his face 90s theme and his evil convict theme are both bangers.
Adam Bomb's theme everyone remembers is one of the greatest of all time too.
I also really liked the APA theme no one remembers because they only used it for like 3 weeks before getting their famous one.
Ditto some of Austin's heel ones in 2001. The really slow sinister one, and the ludicrously fast one, for example.
On the same line of famous wrestlers with famous themes and obscure early themes, the Rock's face theme for 2 months in 1998, I remain nostalgic for - as it got on one of the CDs so I heard it a lot. "The Rock's laying the Smackdown..."
WWE have vasted many great themes on wrestlers they didn't want to push as well as the theme deserved - Raven for example. Amazing theme tune. Jobber. Justin Hawk Bradshaws. Paul Londons.
WCW, best was Goldberg, Sting's crow theme, The Outsiders, nWo - all the obvious ones. Buff Bagwell's always put a smile on my face. Curt Hennig's 99 theme, but then, bias, probably. A lot of them were rip offs of famous songs, so if you liked the source, you'd like DDPs or Berlyns themes. Or Ravens, again.
ECW - Come out and Play. Did Raven ever have a bad theme tune, between "We're not the Mounties", Come out and Play, the Come as you are riff and his Jim Johnston intro? Man in the Box. Balls, Enter Sandman and In The Ghetto made the crowds lose their shit. Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck sticks in the memory too, as did Taz's.
TNA? Abyss's is great.
ROH? ole, ole ole ole, ole, ole. No idea.
AEW - Well, I suppose Judas. Orange Cassidy's fits him to a T. Derby's got a good one.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 25, 2022 6:05:58 GMT -5
Loch Ness and Rey Mysterio Jr. had the same theme in WCW, was it possible to get two wrestlers any different?
(Zodiac had it too I believe)
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Post by jason1980s on Mar 25, 2022 8:34:32 GMT -5
The Sultan's theme song was a banger and far more deserving of a better character/gimmick. I like to imagine Jim Johnston alone in the studio at 3AM on acid and coke just rocking out coming up with shit like that. (I'm sure he never did that But I do know he did them alone and played all the instruments himself) Edit: Remembered it was passed on to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down I think? So yeah didn't get a better gimmick! Iron Sheik used it coming to the ring for Wrestlemania X-7/38 and I thought the Sultan theme was awesome. I feel like Lo Down didn't use it. I feel like they used a more generic theme though I could be wrong. I think if they used the Sultan theme they would have come off as cooler. No way anyone can dislike someone and that theme. Also, APA was mentioned. They had a much slower version of Demolition's original pre lyrics theme. One variant of a theme that I like is the Bossman theme where it was a few hard beats before the main portion and lyrics. I'm thinking this was a version was in the works but never made it to TV or PPVs because I've only heard it on youtube. Also Greg Valentine's theme is a freaking rock anthem but maybe better suited to more of a gimmick guy. Valentine was pretty plain and bland.
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Post by Nosnorb on Mar 25, 2022 8:36:27 GMT -5
It's funny seeing entire crowds singing Judas, a song about alienating all of your friends and hitting rock bottom.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Mar 25, 2022 9:28:44 GMT -5
The Sultan's theme song was a banger and far more deserving of a better character/gimmick. I like to imagine Jim Johnston alone in the studio at 3AM on acid and coke just rocking out coming up with shit like that. (I'm sure he never did that But I do know he did them alone and played all the instruments himself) Edit: Remembered it was passed on to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down I think? So yeah didn't get a better gimmick! Iron Sheik used it coming to the ring for Wrestlemania X-7/38 and I thought the Sultan theme was awesome. I feel like Lo Down didn't use it. I feel like they used a more generic theme though I could be wrong. I think if they used the Sultan theme they would have come off as cooler. No way anyone can dislike someone and that theme. Just did a quick check and they did come out to it, here at least on Heat on January 28th, 2001: youtu.be/wyhLpsbM6oA (Tazz casual racism warning on commentary from the start >.<) The week before on the Heat of the Royal Rumble, their music hit starting with the older D'Lo based Lo Down theme but then switched to the Sultan/Tiger theme.
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Post by James Fabiano on Mar 25, 2022 9:35:27 GMT -5
The Sultan's theme song was a banger and far more deserving of a better character/gimmick. I like to imagine Jim Johnston alone in the studio at 3AM on acid and coke just rocking out coming up with shit like that. (I'm sure he never did that But I do know he did them alone and played all the instruments himself) Edit: Remembered it was passed on to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down I think? So yeah didn't get a better gimmick! Iron Sheik got it so it all worked out.
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Post by jason1980s on Mar 25, 2022 9:41:59 GMT -5
Iron Sheik got it so it all worked out. It would have been awesome to see Sheik come out to it in the 1980s. It really surprised me to see Kamala having a theme in 1987. It was his 1992/1993 theme. I guess it surprises me because most heels didn't have themes back then.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Mar 25, 2022 9:43:58 GMT -5
Dan Severn’s WWE theme is one of the greatest ever and I’m surprised it hasn’t been brought back for another wrestler.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Mar 25, 2022 9:50:56 GMT -5
On the note of separate entrance or exit themes, Miz having the beta version of his theme song as his outro theme has always been a weird choice for me. I remember Daniel Bryan had a faster version of Ride of the Valkyries as his exit theme when he was using the original version as his entrance.
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Post by tafkaga on Mar 25, 2022 10:00:33 GMT -5
I find myself humming that generic theme from Halloween Havoc '91 all the time, the one that sounds like a knockoff of "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins.
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Post by James Fabiano on Mar 25, 2022 10:01:35 GMT -5
The aforementioned Valentine theme? Begins with the sound effect from the Mark VII Limited closing logo. (later to be used on the Ghost Planet/Williams Street logo)
Agreed on Adam Bomb's (heel) music.
I liked the original original Undertaker theme the best, pre gongs. As in, Kane the Undertaker.
Remembers the 1-2 times the Rockers theme had lyrics.
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 25, 2022 10:09:37 GMT -5
The Sultan's theme song was a banger and far more deserving of a better character/gimmick. I like to imagine Jim Johnston alone in the studio at 3AM on acid and coke just rocking out coming up with shit like that. (I'm sure he never did that But I do know he did them alone and played all the instruments himself) Edit: Remembered it was passed on to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down I think? So yeah didn't get a better gimmick! This theme was the cousin of the Orient Express theme that got reused for every Japanese wrestler until like 1996.
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Post by Derk! on Mar 25, 2022 10:15:40 GMT -5
Robert Evans' use of Journey's "Any Way you want it" as his intro and "Don't Stop Believing" as his victory song was epic.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Mar 25, 2022 11:40:54 GMT -5
WCW Slam Jam is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Even though WCW used it for numerous midcarders toward the company’s end, I loved The Hollywood Blonds’ theme.
I remember being so excited when Full Metal: The Album came out because it contained the full-length versions of WWE theme songs. I was a member of the WWE Fan Club in ‘92/‘93, and received a cassette tape with clipped versions of songs lasting thirty seconds to a minute. Now I could hear these themes in their entirety.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2022 11:41:01 GMT -5
Dan Severn’s WWE theme is one of the greatest ever and I’m surprised it hasn’t been brought back for another wrestler. Seconded!!! "Simply Ravishing" is a top 10 all time theme for me.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 25, 2022 14:14:42 GMT -5
I want a complete list of wrestlers who came out at least once to "Crank It Up" by Jimmy Hart in the late '80s/early '90s.
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