WCW Theme Music

[tbondrage99 0]

Ok we all know that WCW pretty much had no idea on how to make good entrence music aside from lucking out on the nWo theme. My question is what WCW theme music was ripped off from what songs I already know a few.

 

Diamond Dallas Page - Nirvanas, Smells like teen spirit (Th most obvious of them all)

Chris Jericho - Pearl Jams, Even Flow

Shane Douglas - Deep Purples, Perfect Strangers

Raven - Nirvanas, Come As You Are

Perry Saturn - Marylin Mansons, The Beautiful People

 

I know there are alot more and some are slipping from my mind at the moment, so I come to you, what are they?

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

I know Rick Steiner used one lame ripoff of "Welcome to the Jungle".

[Epic Reine 0]

Jeff Jarrett used a shitty rip-off of Kid Rock's "Cowboy" during his last stint in WCW.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Well, it's not really a rip-off...but I remember Sting in the final days of WCW using Seek and Destroy for some reason.

 

Which is a shame, cause I liked the dark, moody Sting theme that he used at first in the Crow Sting era.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Ok we all know that WCW pretty much had no idea on how to make good entrence music aside from lucking out on the nWo theme.

What about Goldberg's theme?

 

Or is that another example of WCW using stock music?

[tbondrage99 0]

Ok we all know that WCW pretty much had no idea on how to make good entrence music aside from lucking out on the nWo theme.

What about Goldberg's theme?

 

Or is that another example of WCW using stock music?

Well The nWo music is the one that comes to my mind the quickest, the rest I have to think about for a few minutes.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Ok we all know that WCW pretty much had no idea on how to make good entrence music aside from lucking out on the nWo theme.

What about Goldberg's theme?

 

Or is that another example of WCW using stock music?

Well The nWo music is the one that comes to my mind the quickest, the rest I have to think about for a few minutes.

Ah, OK.

 

For the record, here's a couple of themes WCW used that I liked that didn't seem like rip offs to me.

 

- nWo Theme, as you mentioned

- Goldberg's theme

- Wolfpack Theme (hey, I liked bouncing to it)

- Rey Misterio's first WCW theme (I remember humming that in a Summer Camp)

- Sting's first Crow theme.

- "Man They Call Sting"

 

And even though it sorta is a rip off...

 

- American Made.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

I don't know if my memory is right here, but I think I remember someone saying that the nWo theme was heard on a porno one time.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I don't know if my memory is right here, but I think I remember someone saying that the nWo theme was heard on a porno one time.

The way the nWo theme sounds, I would NOT be surprised one bit.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Rey Mysterio's "March of Death" is used in the Austin / Angle SummerSlam build-up video.

[Golgo 13 0]

Raven's theme also contained a bit from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell" and one of the Filthy Animals' themes was a rip off of Q-Tip's "Vivrant Thing".

[Boner Kawanger 0]

I don't know if my memory is right here, but I think I remember someone saying that the nWo theme was heard on a porno one time.

The way the nWo theme sounds, I would NOT be surprised one bit.

"Cue the porno music!"

-Scott Hall

 

Benoit's first theme song was from a porno, too.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

I don't know if my memory is right here, but I think I remember someone saying that the nWo theme was heard on a porno one time.

The way the nWo theme sounds, I would NOT be surprised one bit.

"Cue the porno music!"

-Scott Hall

 

Benoit's first theme song was from a porno, too.

Half of WCW's music could qualify for porno music. Maybe not Steinerized... but most of it.

 

And that Benoit song, is that the one called "Replica"?

[Cran Da Maniac 0]

Hugh Morrus/First Family: Bruce Dickinson's "The Zoo"

[Nighthawk 0]

Elix Skipper used a "Party Up" rip off.

 

Somebody was using a Ricky Martin rip off around then as well, though I can't remember who or what song.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Wasn't that Chetti in ECW?

[MillenniumMan831 0]

Hugh Morrus/First Family:  Bruce Dickinson's "The Zoo"

Not to be a prick, but "The Zoo" was originally done by The Scorpions.

 

The rule of thumb is that if it's not ripped off a song or a cheesy wrestler-specific song itself, it's probably stock. As for the ripoff themes, I actually felt they had a certain charm to them.

 

And to add on:

 

Mamalukes - Godfather Movie Theme

MIA - War, What is it Good For?

Mike Awesome - Alt version of Beautiful People

Saturn's late 1998-early 1999 theme - You Got Another Thing Coming

TAFKATAFKAPI - Purple Rain

 

As for the Ricky Martin ripoff, that was Kid Romeo.

[BUTT 0]

I remember VK Wallstreet using a "Love in an Elevator" ripoff. Also, Jim Powers' theme always seemed like a ripoff of Aerosmith's "Make It", but that song isn't very well-known so I'm not sure. Plus, in the last days of WCW, Kanyon used a rip-off of Bush's "Comedown".

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Kid Romeo used "Here We Go...Kid Romeo!" A rip-off of Ricky Martin's "The Cup of Life".

 

"Here we go...Ole Ole Ole!"

"Here We Go...Kid Romeo!"

[Guest sek69]

I'm pretty sure Sting's theme when he was still Surfer Sting (before the "Man Called Sting" one) was a rip of "All Fired Up" by Van Halen.

[reign 0]

I've heard the generic WCW music on more than a few TV commercials and some porn too...they used to rehash so much of it though it's hard to tell...I always thought the Hollywood Blondes music was the best original theme they ever came up with...

[Guest sek69]

I don't think the Blond's music was original, I'm almost 100% sure I've heard it in commercials. Almost every theme in WCW was public domain around that time.

[Guest The Decadent Slacker]

Gotta mention Hogan's faux "Real American" somewhere in here, too.

[Special K 0]

nWo theme had a few Hendrix licks in it too. The most obvious one from Highway Child. There was another one I had definitely picked out as a Hendrix lick, but now I can't remember it.

[1234-5678 0]

Jericho's Pearl Jam ripoff was fucking clutch. I'm going to go download it now. Raven's "Come As You Are" ripoff was also one of the better ones.

 

Also, for decent "original" music, WCW did a nice job with Harlem Heat's.

[Nighthawk 0]

Now that you mention it, I don't think HH's was at least completely original. It had what you might call samples. And I swear I heard it in a car commercial once.

[Precious Roy 0]

What about Goldberg's theme?

 

Or is that another example of WCW using stock music?

 

Definitely stock. I've seen it used on the history channel a bunch of times, the first time was back when Goldberg was first getting pushed. Turner had, and still has, a huge stock library of audio. Mysterio's first theme and Dean Malenko's first theme also pop up on THC from time to time.

[Black Lushus 0]

I have heard someone rapping to Benoit's theme...anyone know who that was? i thought it was the Beastie Boys but I could be wrong...

[Special K 0]

Psychosis' music was pretty cool (I think they used it for Mysterio at some point as well?) But it could have well been stock music. It was just a beat caused by many strings playing at once.

[deancoles 0]

Barry Windham's theme during 91/92 sounded a lot like "La Grange" by ZZ Top.