― strongo hulkington wishes he had as many $100-dollar bills as i do (dubplatestyl, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Gadget is right up there too, and that main riff has been quoted in tons of other songs.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― kidd video, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
DuckTales intro
my opinion: DuckTales theme >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else
― musically (musically), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
The horn thing at the beginning of "Duckula" is the production logo/spot for the company that made that show, which I'm recollecting as "Thames" - maybe with a picture of Big Ben or Parliament or something? It also shows up in Danger Mouse, of which Duckula was, unbeknownst to me as a kid, a spinoff. (I've tried on many occasions to build some sort of a track out of samples of the Thames thing, with predictably awful results.)
And Ned Raggett, I love you. That quotation tells you more than anything I ever could about Ska King Crab, or the Heptet. (TS: which is a worse name for a band?)
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Here in Athens we've recently acquired a gimmick band called the Shredders, who do kids' show theme song covers with one of those ubiquitous "just guitar, drums, singing" lineups. They definitely bring the love, but listening to all these songs for this thread points up the problem: half the fun of these songs comes from their overstuffed arrangements. If anything you want a guitar and keyboard arrangement - screw the drums, you can barely hear them, at least compare to the all-powerful horn sections, background singers, and one-chord guitar slashes.
Still, I'm going to say they're great, because I'd much rather see a dedicated, devoted cartoon cover band than see a band throw one of these songs into their otherwise average set as a cynical crowd-pleasing tactic. Hell, my whole musical aesthetic (wall of synths, pop vocals, earnestness) would fit pretty well with covering these songs and yet I'm still hesitant to do it because it just feels like pandering. "Goonies R Good Enough" is as close as I'm getting.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― pauljamescraig (kildog), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I was going to post this!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 May 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― danny boy, Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I was just a kid when the show was still on, six or seven years old. I always loved the opening song, and the show in general. One time, the song got me so excited that I started running around the house as fast as I could. Our house was laid out so that you could make an endless circle, from the living room to the dining room to the kitchen to the hallway and back to the living room, over and over. I was trying to see how many revolutions I could make before the song ended. As the song neared it's climax, I could only ran faster and faster, leaned into the turns more and more, cut the corners and then cut my head open on the microwave table and passed out on the floor.
I like to think that as my Mom walked in and found me and my poor head laying in a pool of blood on the floor, she immediately knew that it was the Ducktales theme song's fault. But I doubt she made the connection.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwolfcow, Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Dan I. definitely may be on to something with the MacGuyver connection, at least on the chorus of the Chip n' Dale song.
As for Dinosaucers, I have almost no memory of the plot, but thankfully the theme song features helpful exposition:
Boring Teen: "We used to be four ordinary teenagers...until one day, we met some new friends...from out of town! They were called...Dinosaucers. My friends and I became the Secret Scouts, allies to these Dinosaucers from outer space!, and joined in their battles against Genghis Rex and the evil Tyrannos!"Henchman: "The Dinosaucers are leaving, Bossosaur!"Growly Villain: "Well.... FOLLOW THEM!!!!"
Yeah. It sounds like a pretty shitty show.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― goonie goonie moony juney purple spoonie killa noonie (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
finally non gay dino porn
― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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― danny boy, Friday, 19 May 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Revelation: it sounds exactly like mid-period Van Halen! Specifically "Dreams" off 5150! This changes everything!
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I only just now realized what a rip-off the Duck Tales theme is of "You Make My Dreams Come True" by Hall & Oates. I don't think this diminishes either song, but it's still kind of a shock.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Darkwing Duck got mentioned on the American Apparel thread and I am compelled to revive this.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
me & Bell_Labs have been watching a LOT of Duck Tales lately, and have become prone to singing (in harmony) the theme song.
D-D-DANGER (LURKS BEHIND YOU) THERE'S A STRANGER (OUT TO FIND YOU)
― ian, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously was ready to learn what synths were used on these tracks
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
David the Gnome wins for stimulating my imagination
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and Tale Spin is better then both topic themes
totally OTM.
― ian, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
The horn thing at the beginning of "Duckula" is the production logo/spot for the company that made that show, which I'm recollecting as "Thames" - maybe with a picture of Big Ben or Parliament or something?
Two years late, but anyways: Yes, it was Thames Television, a TV station that was the London weekday franchise of the ITV network. Though the show was actually made for Thames by Cosgrove Hall, a Manchester based animation studio that at one point apparently employed John Squire of the Stone Roses. The "horn thing" was based on an old Victorian tune that went "Who will buy my sweet lavender?", and the accompanying picture was actually a collage of various London landmarks that rised spookily out of the center of the screen.
Two other Cosgrove Hall cartoons that really need to be mentioned here (though they were never shown in the US) are Chorlton & The Wheelies (which somebody once mashed up with "The Real Slim Shady") and their adaption of The Wind In The Willows, which had a genuinely lovely end credit theme. Both can be Youtubed.
― Chriddof, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Was the Wind in the Willows one that included "Mister Toad, if he pumps (?) up more, he's gonna expl-o-o-de"? I'm at work and can't YouTube - but I remember that one at least.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to have an MP3 of some meat-n-potatoes ska band knocking out a presumbly crowd-pleasing rendition of the "Gadget" theme.
There was a ska-funk band (called The Illustrious Skunk, oh the lolz) at my college that performed the Inspector Gadget theme.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Was the Wind in the Willows one that included "Mister Toad, if he pumps (?) up more, he's gonna expl-o-o-de"?
No, I don't know that version but this is very different to what I imagine that sounds like - this is quite wistful and gentle.
Opening titles on Youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRR7yDe7Muk
...and the closing titles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQsViELwLUk
― Chriddof, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Me, above: "the Alvin and the Chipmunks show from the same period (the best Chipmunk song ever, by a long, long margin - I may have to rip it off at some point)."Revelation: it sounds exactly like mid-period Van Halen! Specifically "Dreams" off 5150! This changes everything!
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:10 PM Bookmark
Is there a thread for posts you find by yourself that you just can't even understand or relate to whatsoever? I'm sure I've never heard 5150 by Van Halen, and listening to the track right now I'm really not sure what I was talking about here...I guess the drumming on the chorus sorta reminds me of Theodore but ...yeah, this is really baffling.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 March 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:34 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ wau
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 10 March 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 6:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
finally found this - it's the Rankin-Bass adaptation from 1987, featuring the very Gollum-esque Toad. Song begins around 3:10 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLuQK3aRIZ8&feature=relmfu
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link