# Music for Megalomaniacs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194 "2002-07-22T08:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/1 "2002-07-22T08:27:48Z")
Well, as the title says, I’m looking for good music for that special someone with delusions of grandeur. All I can think of is the **Imperial March** from Star Wars, and maybe **Behold the Lord High Executioner** from the Mikado. Can anyone else suggest something? Well, thanks for your patience, Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/2 "2002-07-22T09:22:59Z")
Sad that I know this, but Shredder’s Theme from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie would qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/3 "2002-07-22T11:17:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\*Well, as the title says, I’m looking for good music for that special someone with delusions of grandeur. All I can think of is the **Imperial March** from Star Wars, and maybe **Behold the Lord High Executioner** from the Mikado. Can anyone else suggest something? > > \*\* Sorry, can’t help you, but I was reminded of this funny snippet from a Happy Rhodes song, called “I Am A Legend.” It’s a hoot! * * * Oh it’s inside my active mind That I am one of a kind I am a legend in my, a legend in my own mind I wish that you would all agree that I’m impeccably me Make me a legend in your, a legend in all your minds ## Song © 1986 - Happy Rhodes ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/4 "2002-07-22T11:21:54Z")
_Revenge of the Black Regent_ by retro-electro-synth-sleaze outfit **Add N To (X)**. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/5 "2002-07-22T12:27:54Z")
“I Wanna Rule The World” by 10cc. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/6 "2002-07-22T12:57:50Z")
Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” – the thing they play at graduations. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/7 "2002-07-22T16:24:32Z")
_Pictures At An Exhibition_ - Mussorgski The Promenade and Great Gates of Kiev pieces from that suite are suitably show-offish. You can also check out Jupiter from _The Planets Suite_ by Gustav Holtz. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-megalomaniacs/120194/8 "2002-07-22T17:37:02Z")
**Waffle King** by “Weird Al” Yankovic on his **Alapalooza** album. The song starts out with him creating the best waffle ever. Then he becomes famous and as the song goes on his delusions become larger and larger until: _Can’t you tell the universe revolves around me? Don’t you know you suckers owe me everything? And can’t you see that I’m the highest form of life that there Could ever be?_ If that isn’t a meglomaniac, I don’t know what is. Another one of his songs that suggests meglomania (in the character, not in Al) is **I’m Such a Groovy Guy** , but not nearly as much as **Waffle King**.