30 Years of Raw openings

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

It's been 30 years of Monday Night Raw and there's been many ways the show has been opened. From the original saxophone-filled theme to the immortal Thorn In Your Eye to the current themes. With the Raw is XXX show tomorrow, just wanted to see what everyone's favorite Raw show open is.

[Fade]

It's my life in the box and charred to beat

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

There's something so fitting about 1997-1998. It captures the time period so perfectly, but the theme itself has this basic, kind of obvious, propulsion and aggression to it that I sorely missed by the time of the name change from the WWF to WWE. And the flow from the main theme into the pyro and ballyhoo then into the main riff from All Together Now as the announcers hype the card of the show, *chef's kiss*.

After all, professional wrestling is about people using physical violence to solve their problems all within the pretext of athletic contexts. Of course the music of the show should match that feeling!

[Cvslfc123]

Jan 22, 2023 14:58:36 GMT -5 Fade said:

It's my life in the box and charred to beat

Daddy talks in my arse with the solarbeam.

[Bo Rida]

Thought I'd go for Thorn in your eye but after watching them all was surprised to realise I slightly prefer across the nation. Austin walking through the warehouse is the best visual though.

A few of those I haven't seen before, was surprised to see DX titantron footage in one opening. The recent ones are awful, some of the early ones aren't much better.

[Rudy Gobert Weather Machine]

OCD TRYNA KILL MY VISION
COME ON IN AND BRING YR FRIENDS

[Hypnosis]

Thorn in Your Eye V1 and Across The Nation, though the original Monday Night Raw theme was also good.

[mc74]

Thorn in your Eve V1, followed by Across the Nation.

[mc74]

Another classic RAW intro worth mentioning is that one time when Triple H interrupted the RAW intro to cut a seething promo.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

If you can understand the lyrics in your opening theme for the wrestling show, you’re doing it wrong.

[4real]

Thorn in Your Eye 98/01 for me because it’s the first one I really remember from watching Raw when I first got Sky Sports in 2000. First episode I watched was when HHH was revealed as the guy who arranged the hit and run on Austin. That will always be THE Raw theme to me.

Before that it was mainly just watching highlight shows when I was at my Grandad’s house or ones he would record for me.

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The original has a ton of nostalgia value, but Thorn in Your Eye 1 and Across the Nation are the best

Across the Nation should be brought back tbh, I don't think they've had a more hype opening than that for RAW and the custom opening they did for it should just... BE the opening, it blows the others out of the water

[SneakMan]

Across the Nation just slightly edges out Thorn in Your Eye for me.

[msc]

It's my life in a box
And charred to beat!
Taking chalk in my arms
It's the soul of me!
You want fire,
Ashes see me laying face down
The more freedom rhyme
For your alibi full time!

The lyrics to the Thorn in Your Eye opening, apparently. Mine weren't even close to that.

Anyhow, the 98-01 theme, cutting straight into the pyro. That WAS Raw is War for me.

Straight into the Acolytes walking right through the fireworks to demand a showdown with Taker and Big Show. Awesome stuff.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

For me, it's Across the Nation.

That said, don't sleep on "Enemies" or "To Be Loved." Both fun songs.

In looking at this again, I think the only truly bad theme was "Tonight is the Night," the "Remember the Name" ripoff theme. Everything else is either good for the time or just kind of there. "Tonight is the Night" was just actively bad.

[Dan Royal]

I voted "Burn it to the Ground" because Nickelback is the greatest band of all time.

[salz4life]

97-98 because of nostalgia.

[DoubleDare]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vGpfswRnGA

I went with Thorn In your Eye V1, also loved All Together Now for the War Zone hour that hot of taker ramming shawn into the cell into the fire explosion.

[BRV]

Wow, I do not remember a single thing about the Raw opening themes from 2016 onward, other than the current one.