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Theme Music
Topic Started: Mar 15 2012, 01:54 PM (445 Views)
Wookiee71
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What drives your choice for a theme song for your character?

Do you stick with one or let character mood/viewpoint determine song choice?

How often, if you do, change things up?
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SteinarB
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It depends. In some cases the themesong actually comes first and the wrestler second. In other words I hear a song I'd really like to use for a character and then make the character from there. Rick Ryker, the character I used in the NCWF and related feds was one of these. I really wanted to use Aerosmith's "My Fist, Your Face" for a character, so I made a hotheaded brawler of a face.

And then sometimes a song pops up which just fits an existing character so you just _have_ to change themes. That's what happened with Uncle Frank who's been using "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who since the late 90's/early 2000's. Before that he used the Imperial March from Star Wars because I'm a nerd and because he started out as a flat, boring cardboard Mr. Perfect wannabe and I wanted an instrumental piece for him due to that.

Danny Chayne is another one like Frank. He's had several themes, but once I hit on Megadeth's "Angry Again" that was the one which was just right for him.

I do tend to stick with the same song for a long time though. Best example is Sid Starr. He's only ever had one theme since I created him around ''95 or so, and that's "Stray Cat Strut" by The Stray Cats. He may have evolved beyond the young "cool" punk he was, but that's _his_ tune, and it will never be changed even if I should change my mind some day and bring him back.
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I tend to make my character then try and match a song with his "gimmick" or attitude.

Once in awhile I'll change up his music if he has been a face and I'm turning him heel. I'll try to switch up the music to go with his new attitude.

CK Walker I never change up. I think I've been rolling with "Superstar II" by Saliva with him for quite a long time.

Of course changing up theme music everytime a wrestler "turned" would be bad if you were in a fed that had booking like TNA. :blink:
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Depends on the character. Rob Cole evolves and I try to change up his song every few years... like right now, his song has changed to "Electric Worry" to better suit his mood and character.

Vinny Vasquez, however, was created solely because of his theme song: "Save a horse, ride a cowboy"... I heard that song and immediately imagined a free spirit, laid back, tough as nails flamboyant cowboy using the "Flip Flop and Fly" from Dusty Rhodes.
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To me, a song has to have that opening hook. If you hear a gonging bell, you know it's the Undertaker. If it's "Oooh...oooh...oooh...Shawn," you know it's HBK. I try to make it that, the second you hear the first few notes of a song, you know who's coming out, and the crowd is already reacting before they see them.

For the longest time, I couldn't stick with a theme song for Chris Myers. He went from "Shoots and Ladders" by Korn to "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour to "Ace of Spades" by Drain STH, with the theme from "Phantasm" and "God is God" Laibach in there during his Syndicide days with Serge Annis. I think I associate "Ace of Spades" most with him.

The Fraternity Boys used "Blind" by Korn a few times, until I got the hang of their "drunken idiot" gimmick and immediately embraced "Fight For Your Right." The Team Rocket opening? Blame MBC...

For Augustine, it was "Hell's Bells" from the very beginning. The "I'm a force of nature that's going to flat out kick your ass" theme just fits him perfectly. I'd love to bring him back someday, but Christopher Black does Augy much better than Augy, with much less FCC fines.

Erich Seiger...it's simple. I always loved ES Posthumus and wanted a song that was a mix of "high class" and "the oncoming storm." "Ebla" just fit that for me.
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Yeah, I usually try to stick them with my gimmicks as well.

AsH's has been the Melting Point of Wax since the first time I heard it, as it fits him. Not wanting to know the risks involved with climbing to the top, and all.

Derek Weaver's Heretic gimmick had the "Heretic Anthem" fit him perfectly, as it was fast, brutal and very anti-humanity while not being over the top anti-God or anything of the like. His shift to the Pariah and the abandoning his previous scruples made "Outsider" by Tool a pretty good fit, as well.

Marcus O'Neil was always "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" as he's the American everyman with a not-so-secret drinking problem. George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers are just too fun to listen to, anyway.
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I always have a lot of trouble with theme music, because while my tastes in music are fairly diverse, my actual exposure to it is very narrow. I only actively listened to new music in the eighties, so '80s pop is my favorite genre... very little of that makes good theme music.

Sometime's, I'll just describe a made-up piece of stock music, as in the case of Tumaffi or singles Brent Maverick. In Tumaffi's case, I then went and actually 'made' his theme by looping a section of music from Civilization IV to the backdrop of a thunderstorm... but I wouldn't expect to be able to do that often.

Quartermann's music now, "As The Levee Breaks" by Led Zepplin, has a great theme music feel, but I'm not sure if it works for him. His theme as a heel was "Feelings" by The Offspring, which did fit him very well. Anyway, if I come across something better for face(?) Quartermann, I'll change his music.
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JeremySAtWork,Mar 16 2012
08:13 AM
Sometime's,

Did I just pull a Bell and apostrophise a plural?

:facepalm:
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For Augustine, it was "Hell's Bells" from the very beginning. The "I'm a force of nature that's going to flat out kick your ass" theme just fits him perfectly. I'd love to bring him back someday, but Christopher Black does Augy much better than Augy, with much less FCC fines.


Which is ironic, because Black was my way of doing an Augy homage... :P

I had had "Painkiller" stuck in my head for a few years before I created Black. I thought it could be a good theme, but it just needed the right character to fit it. Oddly enough, if Black ever genuinely turns face (and THAT isn't gonna happen any time soon), I already know what I'd switch out to...
And here's where I pretend to be a writer...
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JeremySAtWork,Mar 16 2012
09:15 AM
JeremySAtWork,Mar 16 2012
08:13 AM
Sometime's,

Did I just pull a Bell and apostrophise a plural?

:facepalm:

You did. And Bell has influenced many others...

I mean other's...




Finding good themes is a pain in the ass and I'm too lazy to bother.
Sometimes it's easy... like Eveline Eriksen being directly inspired from Whale's "Pay For Me," which also works as a wrestling theme.

Fontana, though... he was inspired by two songs, neither of which would be good entrance themes; the deathless stuff comes from Electric Light Orchestra's "I'm Alive" combined with the Wild West badassery of "Qualcuno dovrà pagare" by Basta, a neo-Morricone surf-alt-rock song by short-lived band Basta.
I've never been convinced that the music made for a good entrance theme, even though I love the Italian / French lyrics of "Qualcuno dovrà pagare" (Someone has to Pay).


Anyways... with lyrics that describe a dude seeing his life flash before his eyes and wondering what kind of strength he'll have to muster to cheat death one more time... "Failles" by Mass Hysteria works better as a wrestling theme... even though it's pretty lame, musically speaking.


I still consider switching to Qualcuno dovrà pagare, sometimes, but no one could listen to that song without purchasing it on iTunes. How useful would it be to pick a song no one can listen to? Not very.
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I wanted that big fight/UFC atmosphere for Wright's entrance...so I straight up stole Rashad Evans' theme music. Simple as that. lol
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Overly_Critical_Jue,Mar 16 2012
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I wanted that big fight/UFC atmosphere for Wright's entrance...so I straight up stole Rashad Evans' theme music. Simple as that. lol

THAT'S where I heard it before!
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Overly_Critical_Jue,Mar 16 2012
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I wanted that big fight/UFC atmosphere for Wright's entrance...so I straight up stole Rashad Evans' theme music. Simple as that. lol

...but Wright doesn't dry hump his opponents without providing any REAL offense against anyone of note in years.
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TheotherJC,Mar 16 2012
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Overly_Critical_Jue,Mar 16 2012
12:00 PM
I wanted that big fight/UFC atmosphere for Wright's entrance...so I straight up stole Rashad Evans' theme music. Simple as that. lol

...but Wright doesn't dry hump his opponents without providing any REAL offense against anyone of note in years.

I haven't turned him heel yet!
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Wookiee71
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We need a ZIP file or a torrent of our respective themes to share amongst each other. A PVW album, of sorts.
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