hassanchop
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Post by hassanchop on Sept 7, 2023 4:54:35 GMT -5
"Big Time" worked great as the WM theme IMO. My problem is that it sadly reminded of a certain Eddie Murphy movie that was around this time where he plays multiple characters ![](https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p163211_p_v8_ab.jpg)
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 7, 2023 6:49:21 GMT -5
The attempts at a wholesome rapper gimmick like Men on a Mission or “make a difference” Fatu. Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m Not a follower of hip hop, but gangsta rap was already a thing by then, it was the age of Tupac and Biggie, the more “kid friendly” hip hop of the 80’s was already looking outdated and corny.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 7, 2023 6:52:17 GMT -5
Pretty much always except for the couple of years when nu metal was popular.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Sept 7, 2023 7:01:40 GMT -5
WCW using KISS in 1999. also see the Misfits....kinda, it was Graves era Misfits so they don't really count.
Also WCW having Bob Mold work for them and do nothing musically was a bit silly.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Sept 7, 2023 7:55:43 GMT -5
WCW using KISS in 1999. also see the Misfits....kinda, it was Graves era Misfits so they don't really count. Also WCW having Bob Mold work for them and do nothing musically was a bit silly. Bob Mould!? Sorry, I've never heard this before. Can you elaborate please?
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 7, 2023 8:01:31 GMT -5
The attempts at a wholesome rapper gimmick like Men on a Mission or “make a difference” Fatu. Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m Not a follower of hip hop, but gangsta rap was already a thing by then, it was the age of Tupac and Biggie, the more “kid friendly” hip hop of the 80’s was already looking outdated and corny. Men on a Mission constantly used the "whoomp there it is" catchphrase, and since they debuted the same year the song became popular (1993), it actually WAS relevant.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Sept 7, 2023 8:02:38 GMT -5
WCW using KISS in 1999. also see the Misfits....kinda, it was Graves era Misfits so they don't really count. Also WCW having Bob Mold work for them and do nothing musically was a bit silly. Bob Mould!? Sorry, I've never heard this before. Can you elaborate please? Yep, Sorry i spelt his name wrong. from his Wiki After the tour, Mould took a break from the music world to get involved with another passion of his, professional wrestling, when he joined WCW as a scriptwriter in 1999 for a brief period.[24] Creative differences with some of the other writers led to Mould's leaving the company and returning to music. The liner notes for the 2002 album Modulate thank some of the wrestlers he associated with, most notably Kevin Nash and Kevin Sullivan.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 7, 2023 10:56:49 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. I was always curious about a lot of the no-name rappers that were hired to do themes for wrestlers. Then you have acts like Naughty By Nature doing Shane McMahon's theme. They were big enough. I know he started using that theme in the early-aughts and Naughty By Nature had four albums up to that point ("IIcons" came out in 2002, so it was still being worked on). However, I surmise that "Money" was a song they recorded but didn't make it to one of their albums and it probably wasn't made for Shane McMahon to begin with. Of course, I could be wrong. Then you had Silkk the Shocker do themes for Orlando Jordan and MVP. I guess he took what work he could get at that time. No Limit was hardly a thing in the 2000s (at least the mid-2000s), if a thing at all. I know he had "Based on a True Story" come out 2004 but he wasn't as known as he was during the late-1990s to early-2000s. Not to mention he wasn't that great of a rapper.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Sept 7, 2023 11:08:59 GMT -5
Bob Mould!? Sorry, I've never heard this before. Can you elaborate please? Yep, Sorry i spelt his name wrong. from his Wiki After the tour, Mould took a break from the music world to get involved with another passion of his, professional wrestling, when he joined WCW as a scriptwriter in 1999 for a brief period.[24] Creative differences with some of the other writers led to Mould's leaving the company and returning to music. The liner notes for the 2002 album Modulate thank some of the wrestlers he associated with, most notably Kevin Nash and Kevin Sullivan. Wow, that is mad. They should have had some of the wrestlers coming out to Husker Du tracks.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Sept 7, 2023 11:09:48 GMT -5
Smackdown having "Are You Ready" by AC/DC for it's theme song for a few years.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Sept 7, 2023 11:13:53 GMT -5
Not really the OP's intent, but there are many examples of stock music being used on DVDs/network instead of the original. Sometimes it's suitable, sometimes really not.
I have a WWE DVD with a match featuring...I think Dusty Rhodes... and they've replaced his music with stock music. Unfortunately it's the same stock music that the producers of mid-90s low-rate British daytime quiz show 'Supermarket Sweep' used as the theme music throughout that programme. I spat out my tea the first time I heard it and it took me a few seconds to process the jarring collision of worlds.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 7, 2023 11:15:40 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. I don't even need to click the link to know what this is a reference to.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 7, 2023 11:20:23 GMT -5
any use of kid rock after American Badass version of taker.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Sept 7, 2023 11:21:47 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. By the time Nicki Minaj became a big name (2010) Victoria was gone from the company and in TNA so I'm not sure what they could really have done with it. They did put it on one of those WWE Music CDs. It's not like a Patriot thing were hardly anyone would care or remember he briefly used it so they could just give his theme to Kurt Angle. Victoria used that theme for 5 whole years and was a pretty established name with multiple women's title reigns. It would have been very weird to just give it someone else a year or two after she left just because one of the people in the group who sang her song became a star. Lil Kim doing Trish's theme in 2002 was a far bigger get at the time as she was still close to her mainstream relevance at that time.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 7, 2023 11:22:31 GMT -5
And jizzing $500,000 up the wall to book them.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 7, 2023 11:25:43 GMT -5
any use of kid rock after American Badass version of taker. I'm throwing a challenge flag on this. Lonely Road of Faith was used for the best desire video ever made after Taker stopped using 'Badass
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 7, 2023 11:30:22 GMT -5
any use of kid rock after American Badass version of taker. I'm throwing a challenge flag on this. Lonely Road of Faith was used for the best desire video ever made after Taker stopped using 'Badass I counter with the 9 hour Wrestlemania concert
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 7, 2023 11:31:19 GMT -5
I'm throwing a challenge flag on this. Lonely Road of Faith was used for the best desire video ever made after Taker stopped using 'Badass I counter with the 9 hour Wrestlemania concert Oh, that was ass. My argument was that anything after Lonely Road of Faith was when they were out of touch with Kid Rock
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Sept 7, 2023 11:37:11 GMT -5
And jizzing $500,000 up the wall to book them. The amount of money WCW wasted on music-related stuff around that time was crazy. Master P was paid millions to make a few appearances and take part in that terrible No Limit Soldiers/West Texas Rednecks feud. They paid James Brown to show up and dance for a couple minutes at Superbrawl but the way it was built up it seemed like The Cat was a delusional heel who was lying so no one really expected Brown to actually be there and they never got any extra PPV buys out of it. Big money to Kiss for that concert and the rights to use the Demon character. Also The Demon was contracted to have a certain number of PPV main events even though he sucked and wasn't over so he would just wrestle a crappy lowcard match but the commentators would describe it as "one of our main events tonight" so I guess that was enough to fulfil that contractual obligation or KISS just didn't care enough to kick up a fuss about it. Megadeth paid to close Nitro with a concert that was ratings poison then paid more to license Crush Em as Goldberg's theme which they gave up on after a couple months because it just didn't fit Goldberg at all and was hurting his crowd reactions.
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Post by salz4life on Sept 7, 2023 11:42:57 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. Wasn't Thriller really popular throughout the 80s after it came out? I'm sure it was kind of old, but I could see a song that popular being used for several years.
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