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The Return Of Rothkoid

07:03 / 01.12.02

Move it to Music if it's warranted, but I'm curious; what would you choose as your fictionsuit's theme music? What would play, ideally, as you stalked into the luxurious surrounds of the underground?

For me, I choose Anton Karas' theme from The Third Man because it's zither-tastic and sounds kinda elegant. Though should there be a problem with that, I offer two substitutes: "The Easy Winners" or "'Swipsey' Cakewalk" by Scott Joplin, because they both sound upbeat while managing to be sad as hell at the core.

So. Bring it on.

Tezcatlipoca

07:55 / 01.12.02

I'd originally have gone for My Pink Half of the Drainpipe by The Bonzo Dog, but since hearing Gary Jules' excellent reworking of Mad World, I think a change may be in order...

Bear

07:59 / 01.12.02

Real American, the Hulk Hogan theme!

Oh hell yes!

Barbelith on a Sunday, isn't this a sin?

Mourne Kransky

08:03 / 01.12.02

Mine would the haunting, slightfully mournful, theme music for Robinson Crusoe, a French version, with subtitles, which showed on British tv when I was a youngester in the early 60's and which has been on a tape loop in my head ever since. Music's by Robert Mellin and Gian-Piero Reverberi..

Failing that, and for posts with entirely more oomph, the Dr Who theme tune, theremin and all, would be perfectly cromulent. & suitably weird.

But the unconsidered trifles which I post here would probably be best accompanied by the Muppets singing "Mana mana, Doodoo doodoodoo..."

Cavatina

08:18 / 01.12.02

Mmm, good one, Rothkoid. At present I think it'd be the Allegretto from Karl Jenkins' Palladio - very lively & upbeat in a Pink Pantherish sort of way.

Shortfatdyke

09:55 / 01.12.02

Right now, Spiritualized's I Think I'm In Love, without a doubt. It's dreamy and drug fucked and idealistic and terribly cynical, all at once.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:52 / 01.12.02

The theme tune from Godzilla and the Invasion of the Astro-Monsters. All together now... "da da da da DAA da DAA da da da da da da dig a ding ding ding dig a ding ding ding ding ding ding..."

Hey. Why's no-one else singing?

Seth

11:35 / 01.12.02

Ni Ten Ichi Ryu by Photek. Energy held in check. Peaceful and violent.

Eloi Tsabaoth

11:36 / 01.12.02

Get Away by Georgie Fame. Just love that acoustic strum beginning, the jaunty bass, that sting of brass...

Gotta go, I hope you're ready 'cause, take a look outside,
Don't mind the weather, girl, let's take a ride...

I would be proud to be associated with that.

Rollo Kim, on location

12:28 / 01.12.02

Not very original but gotta be The Prisoner theme...

Matthew Fluxington

12:43 / 01.12.02

I've always thought it would be cool that if I had a talk show, the intro music for me should be Reuben Wilson's version of "Hold On, I'm Comin'", and so I will choose that.

The Strobe

13:27 / 01.12.02

OK, so it's somebody else's already... but probably John Barry's theme to The IPCRESS File. I'll try and come up with something no-one else has used later.

Suffragette City.

I'll have the theme from Midnight Cowboy please. Or for less laid back moods the Pink Room from Fire Walk with Me.

Linus Dunce

15:09 / 01.12.02

Tons of dry ice, flashpots, lasers, A short Ride in a Fast Machine by John Adams at thousands of watts. On the crescendo I appear in centre stage courtesy of an hydraulic lift.

I finish on The Ketchup Song.

paw

17:04 / 01.12.02

thundercats theme tune

Jack Fear

18:07 / 01.12.02

Colossus, by the Afro-Celt Sound System. Only appropriate, I should think.

Spatula Clarke

18:43 / 01.12.02

I'll bagsie the Are You Being Served? theme before anyone else nabs it.

_pin

20:11 / 01.12.02

Saturday by King Missile

Tryphena Absent

21:31 / 01.12.02

Ferris Bueller on the float singing ... oh crap I can't spell it ...

Yagg

00:16 / 02.12.02

The funny thing being that I was just watching "Are You Being Served?" and I was going to lay claim to John Barry's theme from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Either I'm just tediously unoriginal, or we all need to quit hanging out here so much.

w1rebaby

01:09 / 02.12.02

Just been on the phone with kittie, kazaaing by request, and I would nominate Santa Baby sung by Eartha Kitt. I'm now very fond of that song. If I was in a more introspective/boring mood I'd probably say How Soon Is Now or something, but sod that.

XXII:X:II = XXX

03:50 / 02.12.02

Janina: You're thinking, I believe, of Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen." That, or the Beatles' "Shake It Up Baby," though where the problem with spelling would be I'm unsure. Just trying to help.

My theme would probably be Kenna's "Vexed & Glorious." Every time I hear it I want to choreograph a tango fight scene in an underground bar between Invisibles-like agents and a SWAT team, shot from above like an Esther Williams/Busby Berkeley number as interpreted by John Woo. No, fuck that, I want to be IN that scene, looking dashingly sexy as I punch through the visor on some grunt's riot helmet while clutching a rose in my teeth.

After that, I think the theme to Dark City follows me down the street. I'm always waiting for Richard O'Brien to emerge from an alleyway hissing, "So, Mr. Baptiste, you've finally discovered your unfortunate identity. SLEEP... NOW."

Papess

04:05 / 02.12.02

It Could Be Sweet ~ Portishead or...

Mothdoom Ecstasy ~ Torchsong (BTW, if anyone knows how I could get my hands on this, I would be very grateful. TY)

*Reminisces about the ole Twilight Zone on Richmond St.*

Or was that Adelaide? So long ago....*sigh*

rizla mission

11:05 / 02.12.02

I think I go with "Hey Student" by The Fall..

hanabius yamamura

12:11 / 02.12.02

i always harbour a massive soft spot for the theme tune to SPACE 1999 ... fabulous memories of explosions on the moon with alan carter zooming about in EAGLE ONE ... so i can now be found skulking around the streets north of the border to these particular nostalgic futuristic tones !

Sax

14:37 / 02.12.02

"Get Your Bloomin' Skates On", which you might know better as The Self Preservation Society

Because, you know. You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:40 / 02.12.02

fortunately my suit comes with built in soundtrack and audio capability...

Loomis

14:56 / 02.12.02

The wonderfully jangly "Mr Frosty" from Expert Knob Twiddlers by Mike (Muziq) and Rich (Aphex Twin). Dancing down the brightly lit stairs wearing a white suit and twirling a cane. Oh yeah!

8===>Q: alyn

15:12 / 02.12.02

For the credit sequence, Elvis Costello/No Doubt I Throw My Toys Around; for the scene where I'm hitting the boulevard, possibly ODB's Got Your Money; Nick Cave's Red Right Hand when I flip out on some dude. I think the Breeders' cover of Happiness is a Warm Gun should go in there somewhere.

This is more of a soundtrack, ain't it?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:09 / 02.12.02

'Biscuit' by Portishead is the music for the credits at the end where everyone buggers off to make the tea, theme music for the start would probably be The Beatles 'Hard Days Night' remixed by The Scourge of the Earth.

Eloi Tsabaoth

19:38 / 02.12.02

Can I change mine? After a brief period of coffee-fueled introspection I've decided it would be much more appropriate for my theme to be Gloria Estefan's Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, but with Bizunth replacing Rhythm in every circumstance.

Bizunth is gonna get you... tonight!

Chilling.

Jack Fear

19:50 / 02.12.02

See, now I always thought it was "biz-UNTH"--an iamb, not a trochee.

There goes my plan for an epic Yeats pastiche, Sailing to Bizunthium.

grant

20:17 / 02.12.02

"That is no message-board for old men. The punks
in one another's arms, freaks in their trees,
-- Those blank generations -- and hip-hop songs...."

Cop Killer

20:39 / 02.12.02

Um..."Copkiller" by Bodycount

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