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Post by theghostofalwilson on Sept 6, 2023 16:55:40 GMT -5
Aretha Franklin's Respect being used to hype Bret Hart's title match at Wrestlemania 9. I suppose you can say it's a timeless classic but I still found it odd to use a 60's song to hype this match in 1993.
ZZ Top being guest hosts for RAW in 2009.
Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer from the mid 80's being randomly used as theme for Wrestlemania 22 (2006).
What other examples are there?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Sept 6, 2023 17:11:44 GMT -5
They named a PPV 'Great Balls of Fire' to the enduring bafflement of audiences the world over.
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Post by Nosnorb on Sept 6, 2023 17:17:41 GMT -5
They named a PPV 'Great Balls of Fire' to the enduring bafflement of audiences the world over. It wasn't that baffling when you remember who runs WWE. Kurt Angle has said that Vince chose the name of that PPV for the sole reason he thought it was funny. |
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 6, 2023 17:18:29 GMT -5
Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer from the mid 80's being randomly used as theme for Wrestlemania 22 (2006). What other examples are there? Actually, it was Big Time (still an odd choice, but Gabriel at least had a Greatest Hits album out at the time). Even though the song was still popular at the time, WWF used Michael Jackson's Thriller (a song from 1982) as the theme song for Championship Wrestling from 1984 up through the summer of 1986. I'm currently watching the OVP podcast episodes dealing with this time period and the hosts are just sick of it by this point (1986). You'd think a company wanting to seem contemporary would have switched it out to a more recent song by that point. |
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Post by theghostofalwilson on Sept 6, 2023 18:08:50 GMT -5
Oh yeah of course Big Time. Sorry about that. They were trying to get the phrase Big time over for Wrestlemania at this point in time, also using a song with the same name by the band Soundtrack of Our Lives the year before.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 6, 2023 18:32:43 GMT -5
I know it was five years after the Invasion storyline, but hearing "Bodies" by Drowning Pool as the theme for ECW felt a little dated in 2006.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Sept 6, 2023 18:33:13 GMT -5
Linda McMahon using the 1993 Euro-pop track 'Wrestelmania' as her theme at the height of the Attitude era.
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on Sept 6, 2023 18:33:48 GMT -5
"Big Time" worked great as the WM theme IMO.
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Post by XIII on Sept 6, 2023 18:38:34 GMT -5
ZZ Top are wrestling fans and IIRC they hosted a Texas Raw. Billy Gibbons has been in the crowd at a ton of WWE events.
I’d put Vince’s never ending fascination with Kid Rock way past that. lol
Motley Crue randomly playing a song on Raw in 1999(?) as a way to introduce Test has to be up near the top though.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 6, 2023 18:47:53 GMT -5
They named a PPV 'Great Balls of Fire' to the enduring bafflement of audiences the world over. What cracked me up about that was that they did it without regard to copyright and ended up having to pay an 80-something Jerry Lee Lewis. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 7, 2023 0:29:08 GMT -5
ZZ Top are wrestling fans and IIRC they hosted a Texas Raw. Billy Gibbons has been in the crowd at a ton of WWE events. I’d put Vince’s never ending fascination with Kid Rock way past that. lol Motley Crue randomly playing a song on Raw in 1999(?) as a way to introduce Test has to be up near the top though. Not really, Mötley was still very much in the public eye at the time, with Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee still dominating headlines and Mötley had a Greatest Hits album out with a couple new songs. It was just another stop to promote a new album they were touring on at the time, no different than them being on Leno or Letterman, except WWF was hot, so why wouldn't they go in front of that audience? Besides. I win this thread. BEHOLD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVOOVL9RO3oSince it's WWF footage, I can't direct link it, but trust me, in WWF is out of touch with music, I just won the thread. |
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Post by chazraps on Sept 7, 2023 0:46:49 GMT -5
Aretha Franklin's Respect being used to hype Bret Hart's title match at Wrestlemania 9. I suppose you can say it's a timeless classic but I still found it odd to use a 60's song to hype this match in 1993. I wouldn't say this counts at all. On top of being timeless, it did have a big resurgence in the early 90s across being licensed for a bunch of media. If anything, it was WWF being very *in* touch. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 7, 2023 0:49:11 GMT -5
Aretha Franklin's Respect being used to hype Bret Hart's title match at Wrestlemania 9. I suppose you can say it's a timeless classic but I still found it odd to use a 60's song to hype this match in 1993. I wouldn't say this counts at all. On top of being timeless, it did have a big resurgence in the early 90s across being licensed for a bunch of media. If anything, it was WWF being very *in* touch. Yeah. Especially since Bret was huge was on quoting the song around this time, and it had a huge resurgence in popular culture around this time. It was certainly *in* |
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Post by DSR on Sept 7, 2023 0:57:18 GMT -5
He looks like Dana Carvey in the "Choppin' Broccoli" sketch! |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 7, 2023 0:59:55 GMT -5
He looks like Dana Carvey in the "Choppin' Broccoli" sketch! I don't know what that is, but I know it's not Dana Carvey either. |
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Post by Chiral on Sept 7, 2023 1:22:53 GMT -5
IDK if the story is true but I remember reading Heyman pitched a System of a Down song as the WM19 theme and Vince said nobody knows who they are or something along those lines and then picked Crack Addict from WWE's most favorite band in the whole world, Limp Bizkit instead.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 7, 2023 1:40:26 GMT -5
I can't get over that WWE had a young performer named Onicka Maraj do "I Ain't The Lady To Mess With" for Victoria, and it just... never seemed to occur to them to do anything with that song ever again once the now Nicki Minaj became one of the biggest goddamn names in music. I don't even like her, and that's bafflingly stupid.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 7, 2023 2:54:41 GMT -5
I can't get over that WWE had a young performer named Onicka Miraj do "I Ain't The Lady To Mess With" for Victoria, and it just... never seemed to occur to them to do anything with that song ever again once the now Nicki Minaj became one of the biggest goddamn names in music. I don't even like her, and that's bafflingly stupid. You truly do learn something new every day 🤯 |
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Post by Glitch on Sept 7, 2023 3:25:24 GMT -5
I can't get over that WWE had a young performer named Onicka Maraj do "I Ain't The Lady To Mess With" for Victoria, and it just... never seemed to occur to them to do anything with that song ever again once the now Nicki Minaj became one of the biggest goddamn names in music. I don't even like her, and that's bafflingly stupid. holy crap. I didn't know that. Also, I'd imagine even if somebody did bring it up to vince: "what are you talking about? nobody knows who she is!" |
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Sept 7, 2023 3:27:51 GMT -5
"Big Time" worked great as the WM theme IMO. easily my favorite choice of wrestlemania song besides my way |
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