# What is your theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564 "2006-03-16T04:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/41 "2006-03-16T17:48:10Z")
My real name is Ryan Stone. With that name, I’m pretty much stuck with _Like a Rhinestone Cowboy_. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/42 "2006-03-16T17:52:10Z")
I like this song by the Propellerheads called “Take California.” Such a cool walking around song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/43 "2006-03-16T17:57:06Z")
“Annie Christmas” for the in-folk (people who get the ALW reference) and “Desperado” by the Eagles for those who don’t. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/44 "2006-03-16T18:44:33Z")
_Wild_ by **Poe** ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/45 "2006-03-16T18:58:55Z")
Sadly, most of the time it’s _Sorrow_, by Pink Floyd. Sometimes, though, when the weather is just right, it’s either: _Salty Dog_ by Flogging Mollys or _The Thunder Rolls_ by Garth Brooks, but only the -full- version, with the third verse (first version I heard of it was live, the audience went nuts when he included the non-radio-edit verse. It gave me chills.) ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/46 "2006-03-16T19:12:37Z")
Well, my luck tends toward the bad kind (not **really** bad, just lots of little things tend to go wrong on an almost daily basis), so one time I was in the car with my husband, and Daniel Powter’s song “Bad Day” came on, and I said, “Ooh, honey, it’s my theme song,” which got a laugh out of him. But seriously, I tend to think of Steely Dan’s “Almost Gothic” as mine, for some reason. And Dire Straits’ “Portobello Belle” (which really makes no sense, as I’m a Merkin). And a Michelle Shocked tune - not sure of the title, but the chorus goes “oh, the trouble I’ve seen, I seem to learn everything the hard way, well I’m not old enough to be on my own, but I’m much too young to stay.” I bet I have a lot more I just can’t think of at the moment. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/47 "2006-03-16T19:16:26Z")
**"Pure and Easy"** I like the version on _Odds and Sods_ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/48 "2006-03-16T19:18:17Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Mine is “Dare” by Gorillaz. What was your theme song before 2004? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/49 "2006-03-16T19:30:27Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Mine is “Dare” by Gorillaz. What was your theme song before 2004? ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/50 "2006-03-16T19:32:18Z")
_Good Ol’ Boys_ - Waylon Jennings When I was first dating my ex-girlfriend, it was _Glory of Love_ by Peter Cetera. Because I was like a knight in shining armor. From a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/51 "2006-03-16T19:55:47Z")
Mortal Kombat. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/52 "2006-03-16T20:12:56Z")
Roy Budd, _The Final Option_ ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/53 "2006-03-16T20:28:13Z")
“Always Late” - by Lefty Frizzell ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/54 "2006-03-16T20:40:07Z")
“First Cut is the Deepest” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/55 "2006-03-16T21:23:40Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > What was your theme song before 2004? I didn’t have one. ☹ When I heard “Dare” for the first time, I looked at my husband in awe and said, “There it is. That’s my song. I’ve been waiting forever!” So now I have one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/56 "2006-03-16T21:48:43Z")
Definitely [Loser](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4721CD249AC7F20C7972D4BDEAD7DD20ED342F38250234558C0E36219A13F5CF209E9DAD2B0FC6AB679AFF962A0500BD4C0ED50ECBC1B&sql=10:fu2gtq3zbu4a). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/57 "2006-03-16T22:05:32Z")
“Non piu andrai.” It’s what I usually sing in the shower. Horrifically off-key. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/58 "2006-03-16T23:48:11Z")
I think mine is the Rasputina version of “If Your Kisses Won’t Hold the Man You Love, Then Your Tears Won’t Bring Him Back” ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/59 "2006-03-17T01:12:33Z")
Martyn Bennett’s “[Tongues of Kali](http://music.yahoo.com/ar-271919---Martyn-Bennett)” is pretty fitting for me. Sometimes it’s [Atahualpa](http://www.atahualpa-music.com/)’s Se Fue. (Very small band, from Peru they use native Incan instruments.) Se Fue means “she left” which I feel celebrates my freedom from my previous abusive marriage. (Even though it’s sung from the man’s perspective, I can just picture the woman dancing as she leaves, free and happy finally. The music is very upbeat, and uplifting.) However that is not all that I am so, that is why I chose the other song as a primary theme. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564/60 "2006-03-21T04:30:51Z")
> [@AndyPolley](#): > > I always hear a song like Bela Fleck’s “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo” when I read posts by **roger thornhill**. So smooth and precise, with a touch of whimsy thrown in, the tune suits him. Never heard of this, nor any of the other songs you mention, but at least I _have_ heard of _Genesis_. Used to be really hip to have their stuff on your turntable back in the mid 70s in my boarding school. The lead singer at the time, Gabriel, was a fellow public schoolboy - except he’d left school by then, of course - so I guess people looked up to him as a kind of rebel role model. Met up with some of these guys at a school reunion a few years back (only one I ever managed to attend), and they were all lawyers an accountants now, or did things in the City which I couldn’t begin to understand but basically involved making lots of money. Same as lawyers and accountants, essentially, I guess. And there was me doing crazy things like self publishing books that no one bought and taking people to court, and I’d been the guy who didn’t listen to rock; in fact, I didn’t even have a record player. Just used to listen to the radio sometimes. Closest I got to rebelling was to listen the football in bed with my earplugs (as we used to call them), and sometimes this dude called Brian Hayes on Radio London, a brusque Australian who’d run a midnight phone-in show, except he’d cut everyone off that he didn’t like. Kind of like his style. Gee, I’m rambling. Smoothly, though, I hope, if, certainly, not concisely. Nver thoguth of it like this before, but, now you mention it, I think I was born with whimsy. Gets me in a lot of trouble with people who think I’m drawing attention to their pomposity when all I’m doing is, well, just that. Strange how they can’t take it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-theme-song/348564.md?page=4)