# Teen Titans - 7/19

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703 "2003-07-20T04:42:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703/21 "2003-07-22T07:44:01Z")

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The pads are of course more detailed. And as you can see I’ve deleted the acronyms since I didn’t know if anybody would know what I was talking about if I used PPG. And since I got rid of that one I got rid of both.

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703/22 "2003-07-22T11:15:01Z")

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No, that’s Super Girl by Shonen Knife, who are… I’d like to say good. Er. Really punk? And I’m pretty sure they still don’t speak a word of english. They’ve been around forever though. I like Little Brown Mushroom best…

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**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703/23 "2003-07-22T13:08:53Z")

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I know they left out the opening themes to _Trigun_ and _Inuyasha_, but kept the closing themes. It’s a pity since the opening theme to _Trigun_ was a kind of guilty pleasure guitar rock song for me. I didn’t see the true opening to _Outlaw Star_ until they had that Saturday night anime block a year or so back, it was okay but nothing special. Haven’t watched some of the more recent additions like _Kikader_ or _Cyborg 009_ to know if they are playing those theme songs or not. I saw the opening song to _Rurouni Kenshin_ after TT Saturday night, so their playing it at night at least.

I know some people like the kind of squeaky-voiced, bubble gum guitar pop on speed of _The Teen Titans_ theme and lots of real anime, but it’s never really worked for me. I’ve never been a big Shonen Knife fan either, the Pizzicato Five was more my speed.

I can remember renting tapes to shows I liked like _Sorcerer Hunters_ and the different _El-Hazard_ series, and quickly learning to fast forward through them after the first few painful listens. But hey, YMMV.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans-7-19/189703/24 "2003-07-22T16:00:39Z")

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I’m not too fond of the theme, myself. It sounds rather forced, and is definitely squeaky.

\<hijack\>  
As an aside, while the _Kikaider_ theme is nothing to write home about, I do like the bits where Jiro is sitting around playing his guitar. Does anyone know if those snippets are part of a larger piece of music?  
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