# What would be your theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770 "2004-07-06T11:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/61 "2004-07-08T06:24:41Z")
“Sister Madly” by Crowded House. Not sure why. I play it when I’m getting stoked up for a big presentation. It always works. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/62 "2004-07-08T06:43:52Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > This was my first thought, but I’m more partial to another piece by the same artist, _Katana Groove_. It’s an instrumental with a lot of similarities to _Battle Without Honor_, but it’s less… ‘large’ (for want of a better way to describe it). Good walking music. Great choice, **Sublight**. And thanks for the (indirect) recommendation; I just looked on the iTunes Music Store and saw that _Electric Samurai_ by Tomoyasu Hotei has been added. From what I’ve heard so far, it’s just _awesome_. Ever since I saw _Kill Bill_, I’ve wanted to find a whole album like “Battle Without Honor or Humanity”, and this is basically that. Not quite as “large,” like you say, but the same spirit. And three versions of that song! The other Hotei stuff I’ve heard is a lot more pop/rock than this. I’m loving it. I wonder if it’s a semi-soundtrack from _Samurai Fiction_ (which I also saw based on your recommendation), or a completely unrelated project. I could never find the SF soundtrack. Uh, sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/63 "2004-07-08T14:37:22Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Okay, this is really dorky. But when I was younger, I used watch Late Night and imagine being a guest and what song I would want Paul to play when I walked over to Dave’s desk. I’m very embarrassed to admit that. :o Lets start a club because me too! My song would be Blue Monday by New Order (for night time!) And because I believe I’ve got just the right amount of swing and swagger in my high heeled step, Little Green Bag by the George Baker Selection. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/64 "2004-07-08T16:20:11Z")
Ooh, hard to make up my mind. First thought would be Steely Dan’s “Almost Gothic”. But then, when I think of how theme songs are usually instrumental only, I would go with something heavy on the acoustic guitar, maybe Hot Tuna’s “Water Song” or the Allman Brothers’ “Little Martha”. ---
**Author:** ![ThatDuckIsEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@ThatDuckIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatDuckIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/65 "2004-07-08T16:54:32Z")
**Rico** , you took mine. That’s ok though, _Soulful Strut_ really does fit me better (the oldie instrumental version, I don’t know the artist off the top of my head) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/66 "2004-07-08T17:01:23Z")
I’m going to go with \*Yackity Sacks \* from the **Benny Hill Show**. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/67 "2004-07-08T20:06:11Z")
_Girls Just Wanna Have Fun_ by Cyndi Lauper, it’s actually the ringtone that rings when any of my girlfriends call me on my mobile. It’s more of our group theme song. Individually, I’d have to say _Rhiannon_ by Fleetwood Mac, but then some of you may have guessed that. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770/68 "2004-07-08T20:49:05Z")
“Overture” from The Who’s _Tommy._ It’s my first musical memory. I was born the year the album came out and my dad apparently played it loudly and incessantly for the first three or four years of my life. To further compound things they took me to see that damn Ken Russell film when I was six. And they named me Tommy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-theme-song/253770.md?page=3)