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Everyone who's anyone gets them: I've seen actors, singers, and directors come up to their own theme music at awards shows. Politicians get them when they arrive at rallies and events. Sports teams and stars get to come out to their own music. Of course we all know about pro wrestling and theme songs, but it's evident that the idea that important people get introduced to a tune is as old as the fanfare trumpet.

So, here's the scenario: You're in a massive hall, waiting to go on stage. The MC announces your name and a rousing cheer erupts from the crowd. The spotlight strikes, ready for you. So which song is playing over the crowd as you make your triumphant entrance? What would be...nay, MUST be...your personal theme song?




This wierd question brought up because I was recently introduced at a 'recognition' party to Smash Mouth's All Star, and I could not stop complaining bitterly later that they could have chosen pretty much ANY other song and it would have been better suited to me, even "MacArthur Park" or "Duelling Banjos".

"Hungry Like the Wolf"

"Eye of the Tiger"

Has always been a good one.

Back in Black, of course.

"In the Mood"
(It never goes away)

"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins."

Over There

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
(chorus sung twice)

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who's a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.
(chorus sung twice)

Chorus
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there -
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev'rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray'r,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over
Over there.

Chuck Mangione's Feel So Good

part jazz, part porn soundtrack, entirely bitchin'.

Godsmack's 'I Stand Alone.' Though everyone else may be sick of it, I never tire of the song.

The opening riff for Iron Man or maybe Man on the Silver Mountain


Behind Blue Eyes might be a good one two but only if the lyrics are included.

R. Kelly's Ignition the Remix.

Lagmonster wrote:What would be...nay, MUST be...your personal theme song?

The funeral hymn from "Infernal Affairs 2". It's just powerful. Even if it sounds like, well, a funeral hymn.

Obvious one...*The Imperial march*

"Over My Head" by Lit

"The Blood of Cu Chulainn," the title song from Boondock Saints.

Superbeast by Rob Zombie

or

Hold On Tight by Electric Light Orchestra

depending on my mood.

A theme song for me would be Binary Sunset from the Star Wars: ANH soundtrack. It suits the quiet, sortof sad, introspective aspect of me very well.

Hell's Bells
Just add an e where appropriate.


Or:
Living Dead Girl
Wild Thing
Tattooed Dancer

one of those.

I was gonna say Back In Black - AC/DC, but since some douche already picked that...

Walk This Way - Aerosmith

Well, one that comes to mind...

This one

Imperial March.

Or Daivd Bowie's Ground Control.

The Soulforged by Blind Guardian

I'm not insane
That's how it seems though
Spiteful cruel but wise
Beyond his age
My body fails
My soul will rise

The end of life's immortalized disease and agony
And I see death through golden eyes
Beyond the door
There's something more
It seems there's just one way

On through the heat
I've felt the touch of evil
I still feel the icy claw in me

For a decent price
I've banned kindness from my heart
The spirit of all truth and beauty
Pawned for my desire

And from the flames
As chance would have it
the soulforged will come into light
And from the flames as chance would have it
The soulforged,
The stainless will rise

I will never change my mind
I will leave it all behind

And through the hour glass
Everything's grey
Everyone's pale
No colour nor beauty will enlighten my heart
The seat of life's empty and cold
Cadaverous you all seem to me
Stillborn but you're still alive
You're still alive

Truth lies in loneliness
When hope is long gone by
I'll wipe out the bliss of the new age
And welcome you precious night

And from the flames
As chance would have it
the soulforged will come into light
And from the flames as chance would have it
The soulforged,
The stainless will rise

From a distant time
Voices echo in the hall
"Come and join us
Enter life and everything is gone now"

And through the looking glass
I still fear mortality and its loss in the end
Unlimited power in my hands
The claw of the dragon ascends
"Mourn for his lost soul
He's cursed and condemned"

Each step I take
May it hurt may it ache
Leads me further
Away from the past
But as long as I breathe
Each smile in my bleak face
I'm on my way to find
Back to the peace of mind

And from the flames
As chance would have it
the soulforged will come into light
And from the flames as chance would have it
The soulforged,
The stainless will rise

I will never change my mind
I will leave it all behind

Jimi Hendrix's rendition of All Along the Watchtower.