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Post by héad.casé on Feb 14, 2019 6:43:41 GMT -5
I really think for the time it was. I still can't believe how they got away with using it. I mean it's Nirvana, but not Nirvana. I love it all the same. Even with all the corny DDP soundbytes in the song.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 14, 2019 7:26:53 GMT -5
I like it a lot, along with Samuel Shaw's "Totally not Night Call by Kavinsky" theme in TNA.
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Post by chronocross on Feb 14, 2019 8:08:52 GMT -5
I liked DDP's theme a lot as well as Chris Jericho's Evenflow ripoff that he used in 1998-99.
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 14, 2019 8:43:33 GMT -5
It's gotten to the point that whenever I hear the intro to the real song I whisper "self high five". I wonder if the other members of Nirvana (or for that matter, Cobain's family) have heard the theme and what they think of it.
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Post by realist on Feb 14, 2019 9:02:04 GMT -5
I have always loved that theme. Funny enough, I was familiar with the WCW theme before the original Nirvana theme. So, one night, I'm watching MTV and that video comes on, so I was like, "Wow!! That band just ripped off DDP's theme song!!" lol
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Post by cjh on Feb 14, 2019 9:09:22 GMT -5
So did someone from Nirvana make an issue over it with WWE, leading to WWE's new stance of removing knockoff music, even if they own it? WWE had no problem using "Self High Five" prior to WWE Network since they own the publishing rights to it via their purchase of WCW's properties.
DDP once mentioned in an interview that Dave Grohl knew about it and wasn't happy, but Jimmy Hart apparently changed enough for WCW to use it.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 14, 2019 9:09:58 GMT -5
On PS3, I'd always swap out whatever theme they gave DDP with it. Absolutely iconic theme.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 14, 2019 9:11:14 GMT -5
So did someone from Nirvana make an issue over with with WWE, leading to WWE's new stance of removing knockoff music, even if they own it? WWE had no problem using "Self High Five" prior to WWE Network sinc they own the publishing rights to it via their purchase of WCW's properties. DDP once mentioned in an interview that Dave Grohl knew about it and wasn't happy, but Jimmy Hart apparently changed enough for WCW to use it. Legally, Jimmy Hart did change it enough for Turner to use it an other knock-offs, but post-network it seems WWE doesn't want to take any sort of chance with anything music related. Hence no more knock-offs, no song parodies, etc. It seems more pre-emtive than anything.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 9:37:53 GMT -5
Yes, it's one of the all time greats. DDP's theme on WWE 2k19 is the best non-Nirvana theme that he's had.
I'll also second the guy who mentioned Jericho's Evenflow theme, which IMO is still his best theme, with his Lionheart theme being 2nd.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Feb 14, 2019 9:40:57 GMT -5
It's gotten to the point that whenever I hear the intro to the real song I whisper "self high five". I wonder if the other members of Nirvana (or for that matter, Cobain's family) have heard the theme and what they think of it. Courtney Love thinks having the rights to it was well worth having her husband killed for. ...allegedly. Anyway as for Jimmy Hart Versions/copyright free knockoffs? The JCP version of "Chase" = just as good as Giorgio Moroder's.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 14, 2019 9:54:50 GMT -5
My favourite part is how instead of those two notes in the "verse" part, DDP's has the same two notes but played in the opposite order. Genius rip off tactics.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 14, 2019 13:43:50 GMT -5
"It's that little bitty change...it's not the same"
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 14, 2019 13:58:54 GMT -5
Raven's "Come As You Are" and Jericho's "Even Flow" knockoffs were pretty cool too.
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Post by TGM on Feb 14, 2019 14:01:14 GMT -5
I remember being pissed off at Nirvana for ripping off DDPs theme.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Feb 14, 2019 14:09:01 GMT -5
I absolutely love it. Dunno about all time great but it's surely iconic.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 14, 2019 14:50:26 GMT -5
I've been doing so much DDP Yoga, I can't see the guy's name without thinking:
"Shouldas back chest out!"
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"Reach out and grab da bawl"
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Feb 15, 2019 1:04:57 GMT -5
Raven's "Come As You Are" and Jericho's "Even Flow" knockoffs were pretty cool too. Raven’s WCW theme is my favorite entrance music ever, and I absolutely don’t care that it’s a ripoff. Hell, Nirvana should pay IT royalties.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 2:06:19 GMT -5
I liked DDP's theme a lot as well as Chris Jericho's Evenflow ripoff that he used in 1998-99. I get so bummed every time I throw on a WCW show and Jericho comes out to the early version of Break the Walls Down instead of the Evenflow ripoff.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 15, 2019 2:38:51 GMT -5
So did someone from Nirvana make an issue over with with WWE, leading to WWE's new stance of removing knockoff music, even if they own it? WWE had no problem using "Self High Five" prior to WWE Network sinc they own the publishing rights to it via their purchase of WCW's properties. DDP once mentioned in an interview that Dave Grohl knew about it and wasn't happy, but Jimmy Hart apparently changed enough for WCW to use it. Legally, Jimmy Hart did change it enough for Turner to use it an other knock-offs, but post-network it seems WWE doesn't want to take any sort of chance with anything music related. Hence no more knock-offs, no song parodies, etc. It seems more pre-emtive than anything. It must have drove WWE nuts editing any of the 2001 material where Rock and Austin kept working singing into things for some reason.
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Post by héad.casé on Feb 15, 2019 5:43:46 GMT -5
When Shane Douglas was in WCW in 1999 they did a knock off of Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers", which was his theme in ECW.
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