Top 5 TV Intro songs

[CornbreadFed]

1). Cheers

2). Game of Thrones

3). Friends

4). Blue Bird Naruto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2upuBiEiXDk
5). Downton Abbey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xnUdt5Zm0

Bonus: Mission Impossible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGSUjuSBt1A

The Office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42KUh3vRr10

CSI Las Vegas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFat8VkwWUA

 

[Bible_Belt]

 

[The Duke]

 

[SW15]

 

[SW15]

3). Friends

Friends is a horse poop TV show. I agree with Andrew Tate's take on the show. That said, the theme song was memorable.

 

[Millard Fillmore]

 

[Millard Fillmore]

Friends is a horse poop TV show. I agree with Andrew Tate's take on the show. That said, the theme song was memorable.

The Friends theme song was very 90s in its melody and composition. It gets on my nerves for some reason. But I can't deny it's an earworm.

I just googled the Rembrandts (who sang it) and didn't realize they sang this one -

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

The Friends theme song was very 90s in its melody and composition. It gets on my nerves for some reason. But I can't deny it's an earworm.

This is middle of the road music for a middle of the road show.
The reason it gets on your levers is probably because you have taste, unlike the masses who buy this shyte.

 

[Millard Fillmore]

This is middle of the road music for a middle of the road show.
The reason it gets on your levers is probably because you have taste, unlike the masses who buy this shyte.

No doubt. I'm not a 'natural' musician who can identify notes straight away. So for some reason the Friends theme always sounded like it had minor notes that gave it that droll 90s melodic sound (like a cheery happy version of a grunge song). But I looked up the chords and it's pretty straightforward and major with a couple of minors thrown in. So I guess it's just the progression plus that guy's voice, which sounds strained, and the guitar hook.

The Cheers theme isn't much different chord wise but it sounds much more classic and likeable to me. I think that singer had a softer voice and the arrangement was more palatable.

I know I'm doing a deep dive here but I've always been interested in how a jingle or hit song can be written.

 

[ManFromTartarus]

Hill st blues
https://youtu.be/Je2fGzKiqRM?si=Nz4zsOqlMvJ3JS5s

Gilligan's Island
https://youtu.be/Akzzy2G-ve4?si=9JmO5dDa3wbZ4lMu


Honorable mention: Brady Bunch

 

[SW15]

So good!

The Friends theme song was very 90s in its melody and composition. It gets on my nerves for some reason. But I can't deny it's an earworm.

That's exactly how I feel about this song and I felt that way about it as a child and adolescent in the 1990s-early 2000s.

 

[Dr.Suave]

I thought Netflix´s Daredevil Intro was great. I never skipped it

 

[The Duke]

Hill st blues
https://youtu.be/Je2fGzKiqRM?si=Nz4zsOqlMvJ3JS5s

Gilligan's Island
https://youtu.be/Akzzy2G-ve4?si=9JmO5dDa3wbZ4lMu


Honorable mention: Brady Bunch

Sandford & Son used to be my ring tone. When people would hear it they would look at me like I was crazy and start laughing.

 

[The Duke]

 

[The Duke]

My #1 Favorite of all time was the Dukes. My appreciation for freedom, fast cars, and good looking women started with this show at 5 years old.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

A movie but still:

There was a club in Germany that opened the dance floor with this track, I had the place on lockdown...

Yeah I'm old.

 

[Desdinova]

You know what I like? The theme song for the animated version of the TV show "ALF". If you didn't know what show it was for, you wouldn't be able to tell what decade it's from.

Also, the theme for Newton's Apple, but that's because it's a Kraftwerk song.

Oh yeah, and the Littlest Hobo theme. Legendary Canadian 5hit right here:

 

[Millard Fillmore]

Props to Sammy Davis Jr. on this one -

S.W.A.T.:

John Sebastian -

 

[Giovanni SouthSide]

 

[9-3enthusiast]

The BBC's Formula 1 coverage....

The outro from Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'

or

One from my youth
70s current affairs TV show 'Weekend World'

A section from Mountain's 'Nantucket Sleighride'