One of my biggest loves in life is music I love a huge range of music and can happily just listen to music for hours on end. So with that being said there have been many times when a track will pop up on my ipod and it will make me think "This song could be used in wrestling in one way or another". Over the recent years wrestling has had some amazing music tracks involved in it in one way or another so I decided to come up with my Top 10 tracks that should be used in wrestling. I will explain why I think each track should be used and how for each entry. Also if I do it right I'm hope to put each track in the blog for you to listen to a judge for yourself. So lets begin with number 10 (of course).
10: Taikutsu
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So if you check out the videos you'll see this track if from Death Note. I'm a huge anime fan and Death Note has quickly became one of my favourites and this track is something I just love. It's calm yet dark at the same time, there's a real peacefulness to it yet a level of depression. I've listened to the entire soundtrack and I described it as a perfect fit for depression but it's still beautiful. When I think of this song being used in wrestling I imagine it being used in a dark video package/promo of a feud, if used in the right way it would be a great fit for a build up video and because it's an instrumental you can have the wrestlers talk and not miss out on the song. It's number 10 however because it is seriously limited in how you can use it in my view.
9: Lulled by Numbers-IAMX
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I found this album by IAMX by watching a recap video of a feud on youtube between Human Tornado and Chris Hero. I found this track and immediately thought of a promo video, just like the last entry which explains this ones position. This can be another dark video build but I also think it would fit most feuds as long as it has enough build. The range in background music is great and all the effects make the song just that little bit better.The lyrics wouldn't mean much in the world of wrestling but who pays attention to things like that really, well besides me obviously.
8: Careful-Paramore
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How can you not like Paramore? Hayley Williams is hot as hell and her voice is simply amazing, one of the few people who is as good live as recorded. The starting off slow and then bursting out is something that a wrestler could use as a entrance theme, if not then you could just use the theme for a wrestling shows theme. It's just a generally awesome song and that's mainly due to Hayley Williams!
7: Pardon Me-Incubus
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Found this song on a episode of Daria, anyone seen that or even know what it is? It was a cartoon on MTV check out it seriously it's great. Anyways when I hear this song it screams out entrance theme. Once again it's the slow opening building to a burst of energy. A common theme on this list will be rock type music and lets be honest rock is a perfect fit for wrestling. I don't like to over analysis music so will just leave this by saying I really like this track and it fits alright.
6: Rewrite-Asian Kung Fu Generation
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My anime side comes out again. Well let me say this at the moment I am completely loving Japanese rock and most of the time, and a lot of my current music, is Japanese rock. Do I know what there saying? No of course not. Does it matter? Hell no. This song is awesome and one I can listen to over and over. But back to wrestling, again I see this as a entrance theme of sorts. The song really works if you let it play all the way through however it's fast pace doesn't make for long entrances and fits more of a over hyper wrestling personality. But having said that I probably like the song to run all the way through because I love the song. Oh well if a wrestler came out to this would happily went 4 minutes until the match started and would be happy if that match lasted 30 seconds and the guy took 4 minutes to leave.
5: Anything from Sevendust
For those of you that don't know Sevendust provided the song "Enemy" for WWE's Unforgiven 2003 and in my eyes it was the first time that a theme song actually meant anything for a show. They used it in the promo video for Goldberg vs. Triple H in the main event, while the match would suck the music didn't. I don't know if Sevendust
4: Ultimate Flow 2-Re-Up Gang
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OK I'm kind of cheating here. This song uses Drugs by Lil' Kim as a sample and all you Ring of Honor fans will recognise that as the Embassy's/Prince Nana's theme. That's how I found it and I love that instrumental, I still do to this day. But hearing this song using it makes me think this is just a good a fit. Now I do imagine the Embassy entering when it plays but that's beside the point. The fireworks that go off in the song would be a perfect fit to actually use pyro (hint WWE). And lets face it wrestling loves to use either rock songs or rap songs and this is one of the better rap songs out there but what would I know being a white guy!
3: This Close-Flyleaf
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Little fact Thumbtack Jack used I'm So Sick by Flyleaf and it described him perfectly as he was a little out of his mind, just watch a match of his and you'll see what I mean. Flyleaf are a great band and I love both of their album but this song is the best in my view. My main theory here is that an actual wrestler used one of their songs so their others would fit as well and hell I think I'm right. This would be a fantastic entrance theme and it could fit any type of entrance in my view, a fun energy filled entrance or a slow serious entrance it's just one of those songs.
4: Sierra Leone-Mt Eden Dubstep
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I'm in no way a fan of dubstep, it ends up sounding exactly the same to me but this song is the exception. I love this song so much that I have 3 remixes of it and just got a fourth when finding this video to embed here. But let me explain why it would fit. Again it's a great song for an entrance theme no matter what type but when I think of it I see a heel or heels using it, taking their time to talk crap to the fans. It would be a dark arena with different coloured lights going around to create a slight rave atmosphere which fits the song. But the main thing I think about this song is that it's catchy as hell, there are hardly any words and the song is stuck in my head. Plus how many wrestlers use dubstep? They would be unique!
1: Broken Youth-NICO Touches the Walls
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This is a little selfish choice as it's my absolute favourite song at the moment and it has been for months now. Again this is a song I found through watching anime and it's Japanese rock but it's unbelievably good! NICO Touches the Walls have become one of my favourite bands and I recommend finding their songs Diver, Hologram and Leo (which could also fit on this list at number 11 I'd say). Now I couldn't find the original which has a slower build in the beginning but this version is just as great. This just screams energy and would get you're attention during a show, it's hard not to tap your feet when listening to it and that's the kind of song you need. Again a little selfish as I think this is the greatest song at the moment and likely will for a while but I still think it would fit into wrestling.
Now before I wrap up let me say one more thing. I literally just mentioned the fact that this song gets a reaction from you and gets you doing something and that can be said for the other songs on this list as well. The worst kind of entrance themes are those that you just can't react to or doesn't create a reaction, I mean even John Cena's theme gets a reaction the second it starts playing and that's what you need. I saw a show were Silas Young used Don't Stop Believing by Journey and it's just not a good fit, people sing along but for the wrong reason they sign because the song is a classic and not because of the wrestler using the song. Look at Bryan Danielson when he used Final Countdown, again it was a great song but Bryan would wait until the first Final Countdown in the song to climb up on the ropes and it got the fans going nuts.
So I've got my little rant about nothing out of the way. So if you've just read through without listening I recommend listening to the songs but cheers anyways. If you give this a read let me know what you think either on here or on Facebook.
I often visualize a wrestler coming out to certain songs that pop up on my Zune as well. Perhaps I should write a list like this.
ReplyDeleteAs for "Daria", I know the show very well, and it is indeed excellent. It is also a pseudo-spinoff of "Beavis and Butt-Head". I say "pseudo" because the show was not written, directed, created or produced by "B&B" creator Mike Judge, yet the main character is actually one of his creations and was a minor character on "B&B" throughout the entire show. I will be curious to see if she returns for the show's relaunch, or if Judge no longer sees need to use her.