So, in the Royal Rumble thread, someone mentioned how the entire front row were bobbing their heads along with Gangrels theme when he came out to the ring, and it made me realize how freaking great that theme music was. Which then got me thinking about what are some of the best wrestling themes I can recall, so I'm posting a thread to get everyone elses opinion.

Another theme I loved to death outside of the Broods was Christians theme back before he got released, by Waterproof Blonde. I freely admit that when I still had my ipod, that was on my "Top 5" list in total listens.

So, fire away.

Im partial to the Four Horseman music from the mid-late 90's and Mutoh's various mixes of Triumph.


Also Rob Conway's con-man theme was the best.

First one that comes to mind is Gangrel, yes. What an amazing song

Was also a huge fan of Jake Roberts' Trust Me theme. Creepy as hell

The Fabulous Rougeaus - All-American Boys
Steve Regal - Man's Man
Big Bossman - If you ever take a trip down to Cobb County, GA
Mr. Perfect - Exodus-lite Instrumental

Yes, love the Gangrel one and I forget where but they were playing it at an NFL game last week. Here's some others I liked..

- Midnight Express circa Starrcade '87
- Bret Hart
- HHH/Stephanie circa 2000
- Undertaker's Dead Man Walking
- Any Horsemen theme
- Million Dollar Man

I'll think of others as they come to me..

Demoltion and Rougeaus were the best.

Not original, but Randy Savage's theme was so awesome and fit so well.

Bret Hart's and the Corporate Ministry were awesome.

The last version of the Horsemen theme was outstanding. I love Double A appearances so I get to hear it again.

Demolition
King of Kings
I always dug the rock version of Pomp and Circumstances WCW used for Macho
The Ministry era Taker theme was fucking awesome
Hollywood Blondes/Marty Jannetty/Greg Valentine/various random WCW workers
All of Sid's themes were bad ass
Warrior
The LWO theme
Most all of Christian's themes
Santino!

If we're talking original themes, then I go with Chris Jericho.
If we're talking any theme song, the Al Snow and "Breathe". The visual of all the styrofoam heads and the strobe lights made it that more awesome.

yeah I'm with you on the Hollywood Blondes theme. I have it on my iPod. Also I loved Macho's theme during the Gorgeous George/Madusa/Miss Madness era.

WADDUP MACH!!! OHHHHH YEAHHHH!

-The first Nation theme
-Takayama's "Destructive Power"
-Razor Ramon's theme


I still think they saw that Family Guy Episode with the Randy Newman joke, and used it as the bases for his theme.

Midnight Express - hands down the best
Gangrel/The Brood - only thing holding it back is the crappiness of Gangrel
Lex Luger circa '89 heel turn - for some reason I think this is kickass
Slick/Akeem - Jive Soul Bro...how could that not be good?
Jericho - original Y2J...instantly recognizable and still great

There are a ton more...I also really enjoyed the long drawn out classical music that Corino used in ROH, as well as Homicide's ROH music (it is actually frightening when you hear it standing across the ring from him, but I'm just a wimpy announcer).

--Bryan

Samoan Swat Team

Goldberg, Ric Flair, Wolfpack, Mankind's was pretty cool.

Favorite wrestling themes
Million Dollar Man theme
Demolition theme
Real American
Undertaker's current theme
'98 Horsemen theme
Sting's "Turbo Charged" and "Crow-era" themes
Rude's WCW theme
"Glass Shatters" Stone Cold theme and the Disturbed mix
Sexy Boy

Favorite wrestling themes that work as non-wrestling songs

Voices
Just Close My Eyes (original version)
King of Kings
Badstreet USA

My favorite that hasn't been mentioned was Barry Windham's pseudo "La Grange" theme.

"Iron Man" by Ozzie for the Road Warriors

"We Will Rock You" by Queen for Rude and Bull

"Halloween theme" for Samoan Swat Team

"Bad Company" for ... well, Bad Company

"Eye of the Tiger" for Hogan

"Jump" for Art Barr

"Walk" by Pantera for RVD

"Pepper" by Butthole Surfers for Mikey in ECW

"Snap your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" by Prong for Justin Credible in ECW

"Welcome to the Jungle" by GnR for Bam Bam in ECW

"War Machine" by KISS both for Macho in Memphis and Taz in ECW

Oh.... and like Spanky should get an award for best all time music selections for:

Dre Day by Dr. Dre
Peekaboo by Souixsee and the Banshees
Quality Control by Jurassic 5
"DANGER: High Voltage" by Electric Six

As one could see, I could never really get into any non-mainstream music for wrestlers. Just think it comes off as second rate most of the time.

DX
NWO
Christian "Just Close Your Eyes" (Waterproof Blond version)
Hulk Hogan "Real American"
Macho Man "Pomp and Circumstance"
Lita "Lovefurypassionenergy"
Razor Ramon
The Million Dollar Man
Jake Roberts "Trust Me"
The NWO Wolfpac
Bill Goldberg
AJ Styles " I Am"

Bret Hart's
Edge's Current
Mark Henry's Current
Eddie Guererro's last heel theme that started with the cellphone ring
Taker's Ministry theme
Road Warriors' Iron Man theme
Honky Tonk Man's theme

I really wish the WWE would hire a band to cover The Final Countdown for Danielson.

Ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Digi Demonia (Genki Horiguchi, Toryumon/Early DG)
Seek and Destroy (Sting)
D'Lo Brown's theme post-Nation of Domination ("YOU LOOKIN AT THE REAL DEAL NOW!")

YES! Can't believe I forgot that on the list of current themes.

Gotta give love to Punk's RoH themes: Miseria Cantare by AFI and Cult of Personality by Living Colour

Rick Rude in WCW

Booker T/ Harlem Heat is still very playable.
Disturbeds Stone Cold theme.
Lita had a great guitar one before her heel turn.

We all know though that in the end the top theme belongs to Minoru Suzuki!

Co-signing on Minoru. How could we go this far, and no mention of Jumbo fuckin Tsuruta? One of my favorite themes of all time. I'll also echo the love for Mark Henry's. It rules, because it plainly states what he's about to do.

I'm watching the 1990 Rumble right now, and due to the totally retarded pop Roberts gets, his face music gets a mention too.

Too many to mention so I'll go for just one - The Model Rick Martel. Suited his character to a tee - in fact I think his entrance at Wrestlemania 8 is one of the best ever as he shows you everything you need to know about his character in his ring walk. Honourable mention also goes to his tennis entrance at Summerslam 92 haha

IRS had an awesome theme.

All Hell is breaking Loose by Kiss for the Studd Stable
Jump by Van Halen for Los Gringo Locos
Hot Stuff by Donna Summer for Eddie Gilbert

Ikari No Jushin for the one and only Jushin Thunder Liger
Bakusho Sengan for Hashimoto. That music just has that incredible opening that just makes me think "Whoever comes out is going ot rule it hard!"

The fact that Azumi Hyuga gets no love for using Blue Murder's "We All Fall Down" is a crime.

And seriously, this discussion ends with Aja Kong's bad ass AJW theme because it just sums her up so perfectly!

James

Just some off the top of my head...

NWO
Hollywood Hogan
AJ Styles
Ultimate Warrior
Evolution
Samoa Joe's TNA rap theme
Low Ki
Shawn Michaels "Sexy Boy" sung by Sherri
Million Dollar Man
RVD "Walk"
New Jack
Original Wrestlemania and Royal Rumble theme songs

Aja Kong's badass AJW theme.

God made the devil just for fun, when he wanted the real thing he made AJA KONG~

I think all my favorites have already been mentioned, but...

Demolition - This theme is not only my favorite wrestling theme ever, it's the song that got me into metal. My later life would have seriously been different if I hadn't been so enthralled with this song in elementary school.

The Brood - holy fuck was that theme awesome. Not much else I can say about it.

Undertaker's 98 through pre-biker hiatus "Ministry" themes - he had two or three around this time that were similar (I think they were on Vol 3 & Vol 4 of the WWF CDs). Still his best themes.

Mortis and Wrath had my two favorite WCW ones. Funny how Wrath's entrance/presentation was so similar to Kane's, right down to the red lights and everything...months before Kane even debuted. Speaking of which, Kane's first theme was great. They haven't been able to match that quality since for him. Kane's current theme is awful.

Sting's "Crow" theme was one of WCW's best, and although I'm trying not to include licensed/"real music" songs on this list, Seek & Destroy was a cool one later on.

The Disturbed version of Austin's theme was fucking awesome (and this is coming from someone who dislikes Disturbed). I hated when they changed it back. Watching him beat the shit out of The Rock with a chair while that music played at the end of WM17 is one of my most vivid memories of any pro wrestling event.

Papa Shango's theme and Doink's evil theme were great.

(original) Mankind not only had a good entrance theme but the exit theme was good too. Somehow the entrance music by itself gave you an idea that someone was finally going to be able to fight 'Taker and be able to do some damage. On a related note, in the blink-and-you'll-miss-it category, Mordecai had a great theme. Too bad he couldn't live up to the gimmick, I was excited about an eventual "evil light" vs. "good darkness" feud with Undertaker.

Other ones already mentioned that I thought were great: Christian's Waterproof Blonde theme, HHH's King of Kings theme, the mid-late 90's Four Horsemen themes, the omnipresent Hollywood Blondes/Marty Janetty/Greg Valentine/The Extreme stock theme from WCW, and Stasiak's short-lived metal theme that he only had for a month or two. It didn't fit his character at all, but it was awesome.

And I have a soft spot for the hilarity of the American Males theme.

Hulk Hogan "Real American"
WWF Dusty Rhodes
WWF Jimmy Snuka
WWE Randy Orton (current)
WWE Edge (current)
WWE Mark Henry (current)
Triple H "King of Kings"
WWE Triple H (current)
WWE Evolution

Other great ones that haven't been mentioned yet

Doink's heel theme song used to creep me out when I was little and it's still pretty great.

Stone Cold's Alliance era theme song was bad ass. It sounded like a Black Label Society song without vocals.

Rey Mysterio's original WCW theme he used from 96-98. Psicosis WCW theme was also great.

Angle's TNA theme before they adding the rapping was tremendous

Hollywood Rock's theme with the long opening

For comedy purposes, Coach's original theme is great stuff. Not the one on Wreckless Intent.

Man, all the unanimous agreement over the Brood' theme being just fantastic makes me wonder. Is it the single best wrestling entrance ever? Not just the theme, but the ring of fire as well. Honestly, it makes me want to see a reunion just to see the entrance one more time.

A few are very close (as far as the entire package of entrance/effects/theme), but I can't think of one I liked more so I may have to sign on that.


One I didn't mention that was definitely one of the most easily identifiable/iconic themes of the 90's was Goldust's.

So, what is the best theme music for a wrestling program?

I remember back in the bad ol' days of AOHell, there was some Gangrel fan who'd come in and type out the breathing/chanting stuff from the beginning of the theme. Shit was kinda disturbing and hilarious at the same time.

A few of my personal favorites:

Doom - It was weird that such a tough ass team would have such a jazzy theme to a very dumb 9-11 year-old me, but I loved the fuck out of it.

Ricky Steamboat's WCW theme after he came back(not Sirius) - That shit was PERFECT for him.

The Steiner Brothers circa 1991

The Midnight Express

Badstreet USA

Austin's Disturbed theme - I got this on my mp3 player and tend to listen to it multiple times when it pops up.

Metalingus - It only occured to me that Edge had been using the second part of the song when I heard the whole thing a while back and now he's using the first part. Weird.

Voices - Just awesome.

Undertaker's "Your Gonna Pay" theme - Used to hate it at first, but when I heard the full version, that shit was ROCKIN'.

Rock's "Gone Hollywood" theme - Hell. Fucking. Yeah.

Co-signed, these are all awesome. He's currently using So What'cha Want by the Beastie Boys, which is also pretty tremendous.

Rick Rude- Simply Ravishing
Steamboat- Family Man
Hogan- Real American
Dusty- Common Man
NWO Theme
Both of Luger's Theme's from 91/92 and then later 95-98?
Jumbo Tsuruta
Kenta Kobashi
Stan Fucking Hansen
Mark Henry
Warrior/Sting/Rockers similiar themes heavy on power chords
Rick Martel

Vince McMahon
"What's Up!" don't care how he is in the ring...but last week he had a bag of magic
Slick/Akeem
Larry Sweeney for the brief time he used "Don't Bring me Down" by ELO


Props to the Barry Windham La Grange Theme from 92

* If you don't know my #1, tough cookies. "Here comes the Ax, and here comes the Smasher..."
* Any of Mutoh's themes. When he comes out to any of them in the Dome, I get chills & want to RUN to Japan.
* Special props to Bret Hart's music, partly b/c I'm Canadian & have to say that by law, and partly because my head is going to explode when he comes out to it on 1/4.
* Jake "The Snake" Roberts
* Kobashi
* Misawa's "Spartan X"
* Slick
* Hogan of course, to this day.
* If Savage's grad music ever hit & he came out, I'd probably die.
* Surprisingly enough, Manabu Nakanishi has insane music, I'd call it the most underrated theme music in wrestling today.
* The coolest non-Mutoh/King's Road Era music in Japan? Minoru Suzuki. Watching the girl who sings it sing it live for his 20th Anniversary show made my life. It was other-worldly, and I know how insane that sounds, and I can't even begin to explain why.

When I read the thread title, the first 2 I thought of were the Brood's and Christian's by Waterproof Blonde. Others I enjoy are:

Wolfpac
Lita's "Lovefurypassionenergy"
Randy Orton's "Burn In My Light" (Loved the "Nothing you can say" part for some reason)
DX's "King of Rock" version with Run D.M.C.
Mr. Perfect

But yeah, I listen to the Brood music way too much.

Ashley Massaro.

This discussion begins and ends for me with;

The Ultimate Warrior and Mr. Perfect.

I still think those two had not only the best entrance music in wrestling, but the music that BEST fit their gimmicks.

Not to mention, still to this day when I hear the Ultimate Warriors music I want to run around like a maniac.

I concur. I also really liked Tazz's them in the WWE, too. Very infectious.

Badstreet USA

I gotta back up Naylor with Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez coming out to "We Will Rock You". That shit owned.
Also, Rude in World Class used "Smooth Operator" by Sade. It was awesome. Hell, Kerry using "Tom Sawyer" and Kevin using "Stranglehold" both rocked.

also: JYD: "Another One Bites The Dust".

Speaking of Queen, has anyone ever used "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "Princes Of The Universe"? Because they're RIGHT THERE.

Some great ones mentioned...I'll mention the excellent Corporate Ministry mash-up, and the original Sid Justice theme.

Also Steve Blackman's surprisingly catchy last theme. Very driving and intense.

Agreed with the love for Mark Henry's current theme, especially when he was a heel, it just fits so well. Heavy and menacing.

Oh yeah, definitely!

The post match stuff goes on so long you hear the whole song and it ends up looping back, with the final quiet section perfectly in place as Austin is getting ready to land the final chair shot.

Bret Hart (Hart Foundation theme and the one he used till early 1994).

Chris Jericho's had some great WWF/E themes. I liked King of my World by Saliva but the best by far was Break Down The Walls.

Undertaker's theme he used as The Deadman from SummerSlam to 1994 and from 2004-present day though I prefered the organ theme, much more haunting.

Million Dollar Man's.

Sting's Crow theme though it's too short with the rest of the song being the same low sound. WCW should have looped the first minute again.

Randy Orton's Voices is brilliant.

Stone Cold Steve Austin never had a duffer when he became Stone Cold. Glass Shatters, the Disturbed theme and the one he used as the Alliance theme for a few months were all awesome.

Eddie Guerrero's theme as a face "I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal" and the heel theme version with the telephone ring. The last face version sucked.

CM Punk's Miseria Cantare by AFI from ROH was great.

Mitsuharu Misawa's Spartan X theme.

Kenta Kobashi Blazing Sword.

Keiji Mutoh's Hold On Version 2.

n.W.o theme was great.

Undertaker's "Your Gonna Pay" lyrics version kicked ass.

Count me in the love in for the Demoliton and Brood theme.

Rey Mysterio Jr.'s WCW Theme was extremely underrated.

In WCW in the early 90s, if you heard Welcome to the Jungle, someone was gonna die.

Perfect Strangers for Shane Douglas.

Ultimate Warrior. Demolition. Ted DiBiase's Money Money Money Money Moneeeeeeeeyyyy. Shane-O-Mac's Here Comes the Money. MVP's theme. The Brood. Wolfpac is Back song. Austin's Disturbed music. Kurt Angle in WWF. Booker T's WWF/WCW music. Rock N Roll is King for the Rock N Roll Express.

The last 4 horsemen theme song. Booyaka 619. Every theme song Christian has ever had.

and the all-time champion of theme songs, All American Boys