# Futurama Music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 12, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364 "2008-02-12T23:11:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/1 "2008-02-12T23:11:53Z")

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Information, please, about the theme music from _Futurama_?

Instruments?  
Composer?  
Influences?  
Similar music?  
Extended versions?

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/2 "2008-02-12T23:30:37Z")

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IMDB credits [Christopher Tyng](http://imdb.com/name/nm0006326/) as the series’ composer.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/3 "2008-02-12T23:54:04Z")

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It’s played on the tubular bells, and it was influenced by Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier’s “Psyche Rock”.

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**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/4 "2008-02-12T23:57:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]  
It’s played on the tubular bells, and it was influenced by Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier’s “Psyche Rock”.  
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Here’s Psyche Rock on Youtube: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84)

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/5 "2008-02-13T01:27:36Z")

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[QUOTE=riker1384]  
Here’s Psyche Rock on Youtube: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84)  
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That is so cool. i had no idea that the geekiness that pervades the show extended even to where they stole the theme tune from.

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-music/437364/6 "2008-02-13T01:33:25Z")

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Chris Tyng expresses in the commentaries how proud he is of having resurrected commercial use of the oft disregarded [boobams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boobam).