# So Whats your Theme Song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 1999, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147 "1999-09-13T21:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nayaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nayaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nayaran)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/41 "1999-09-20T05:49:00Z")
Almost forgot the obvious one (to me, anyway): “Narayan” by Prodigy (not a typo, my alias is the reversed spelling 🙂 ) * * * “Of course, that’s just my opinion; I could be wrong.”–Dennis Miller ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/42 "1999-09-20T06:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > If there’s a male equivalent for this song, I think it would be, “I’m an Asshole.” It was some obscure song, really funny, but I forget the artist. That’d be Denis Leary, or The God of Comedy. Depending on my mood, my choices would have to include: **Halcyon (+ on + on)** (I don’t know who does it… it’s on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack) **32 Flavours** by Ani DiFranco/Alana Davis. **Sullen Girl** by Fiona Apple **Rapture** by Blondie and **Shut Up** by the Bloodhound Gang That’s all I can think of for right now. I think I did a pretty good job, since I have “Kung Fu Fighting” playing on a loop in my brain. (Thanks ever so much to whoever posted _that_…) * * * Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/43 "1999-09-20T06:39:00Z")
I don’t know if this is the name of the song or just a snip of the lyrics but “Paperback Writer” Cause I wanna be one! ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/44 "1999-09-20T06:43:00Z")
Theme for “Three’s Company” because I act exactly like Jack Tripper. * * * “The more beautiful the rose, the more thorns it hides underneath.” - Louie ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/45 "1999-09-20T08:26:00Z")
“I’m an Asshole” was indeed done by Denis Leary, but I think he covered it off of an English version of this song - as to who did THAT, I have no clue. Yes, the title is “Paperback Writer” and it’s by the Beatles, I think. Coldfire (Themesong: Cold Fire 🙂 - see quote below) * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![nayaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nayaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nayaran)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 1999, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/46 "1999-09-21T02:02:00Z")
ChrisCTP: “Halcyon” is by Orbital, as are two of mine, which I mentioned earlier. (“The Saint” and “The Sinner”) Just thought I’d be helpful. 🙂 * * * “Of course, that’s just my opinion; I could be wrong.”–Dennis Miller ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 1999, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/47 "1999-09-21T02:22:00Z")
Coldfire ‘Yes, the title is “Paperback Writer” and it’s by the Beatles, I think.’ You and Byzantine make me feel so old to think someone doesn’t know a Beatles song. SqrlCub Glad to hear someone else likes folk music. ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 1999, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/48 "1999-09-21T02:36:00Z")
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper 'nuff said. * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 1999, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/49 "1999-09-21T02:59:00Z")
Heath, you ask great questions. Depends on my mood, and it isn’t just the soundtrack that runs though my head. I have to walk it and time my steps to it. And look like one of Jerry’s Kids. Bach’s Third Brandenburg. No kidding. Try it. It swoops and soars and KICKS. Flirtin’ With Disaster by Molly Hatchett. Take Five by DBQ. (I’m very impressive floating along with the drum solo.) In certain moods, I USED to embody Truckin’ by the Dead. But that was before Manhattan spoiled it for me entirely by his “tums, vitamin E and Rogaine”. It’s pretty danged hard to have a musical theme, your soul in sound, if it makes you snicker and honk like a loon. Not that a carry I a grudge. Veb As weird in music as in alll ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 1999, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147/50 "1999-09-21T07:32:00Z")
“As Time Goes By” ``` Dooley Wilson ``` * * * If you’re an optimist, you haven’t been paying attention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-your-theme-song/8147.md?page=2)