TV Shows that use pop/rock songs as themes ?

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• Ollie_h19 Posts: 8,548

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  11/09/12 - 23:39 #52

  Has no-one mentioned the Inbetweeners theme?
  
  Shot up in Flames by Morning Runner.
  
  The full song plays over the ending credits of the film.

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• Ollie_h19 Posts: 8,548

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  11/09/12 - 23:43 #53

  RiverChelt wrote: »

  
  PS: Ooooh, liking this. Just remembered, The Office (UK version) used Handbags & Gladrags but I don't know if it was a chart song as it wasn't the Chris Farlowe or Rod Stewart version.
  

  
  Not the Stereophonics either, but an especially recorded version by Big George.

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  11/09/12 - 23:57 #54

  The Magic Roundabout
  
  "Florence and the Machine."

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• grimtales1 Posts: 46,695

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  12/09/12 - 00:14 #55

  AngusMast wrote: »

  Some old ones
  
  Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
  The Computer Programme: Kraftwerk - Computer World
  Salor: Rod Stewart - Sailing

  
  Really? I always thought that music was written especially for the show/radio series, I guess not
  I didnt know that

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• grimtales1 Posts: 46,695

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  13/09/12 - 13:20 #56

  Andy_G wrote: »

  The South Bank Show used a track from Andrew Lloyd Webbers 'Variations'
  A brilliant classical / rock album which I loved at the time.

  
  Didnt it used to be "Variations on a Theme" by Paganini?
  A version of this tune:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRs-Yrbo_w

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  14/09/12 - 02:01 #57

  degsyhufc wrote: »

  Mock The Week - News Of The World by The Jam

  
  I like Mock The Week but I hate that as a theme song. The lyrics are naff.

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  20/09/12 - 15:48 #58

  Veering off the pop/rock theme
  
  Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Liberty Bell" by John Philip Sousa

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• Kiko H Fan Posts: 6,546

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  20/09/12 - 15:55 #59

  Top Of The Pops used ' Whole Lotta Love', but the CCs version, rather than the Led Zep version.
  
  Later, they got Phil Lynott to write the theme 'Yellow Pearl' which he later released.

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  21/09/12 - 11:49 #60

  The theme to new Sky 1 comedy Moone Boy is the wonderfully bonkers "Where's Me Jumper?" by the Sultans of Ping.

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  21/09/12 - 13:28 #61

  Another oldie(ish)... Teachers had The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian,,, classic!

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  21/09/12 - 16:47 #62

  Radio
  The Archers
  
  The theme tune of The Archers' is called "Barwick Green" and is a maypole dance from the suite My Native Heath, written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood.

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  21/09/12 - 21:45 #63

  Sky Live Football League
  You've Got The Love - Florence and the Machine

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  23/09/12 - 04:29 #64

  degsyhufc wrote: »

  Sky Live Football League
  You've Got The Love - Florence and the Machine

  
  When Sky first got the footie the song they used for the advertising was Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds

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  23/09/12 - 07:42 #65

  SteelEdge wrote: »

  Peep Show uses a rock track as it's theme, not sure what it is or who it's buy though.

  
  "flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. Has been covered by Blink 182. Great tune.

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  02/10/12 - 14:43 #66

  Clive Anderson Talks Back on Channel Four used Yakety Yak by The Coasters
  
  Clive,s later BBC chat show used Elvis Costello,s brilliant track Let Them All Talk
  
  The opening notes of Waring My Rollex were used at the start of The Kevin Bishop Show
  
  That Joe Crocker version of With A Little Help from My Friends used on The Wonder Years is my all time favourite version of the song by the way

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