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Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

Weird fact about me - I grew up in a house with no television for a huge portion of my childhood, so I never got into TV shows like my peers. Everyone I knew loved this show and although it's cool to me, it certainly doesn't invoke the same nostalgia in me that it does for others

I love this song, though 😁


Boss of Me - They Might Be Giants
 
morelikeasong said:
Bonus points!

I’m doing something a little different this month.
Play or don’t play, doesn’t matter to me. Just another way to make things fun. Please don’t feel pressured in any way to do this additional part and I’m definitely not expecting any perfect scores.

You can collect points all month long! There will be some 1-day bonus points, announced day of, and a few for the entire month.

Please track your own points. Honor system.
*Breaking the cardinal rule will disqualify you for the month*

March is women’s month!
+1 if the artist is a woman, or
+2 if the artists are multiple women

+5 for dedicating a song to me 👑 (this can only be used once in the month)

+5 for perfect attendance

Points might be awarded at random as well. Haven’t decided about that part.
People with the highest points at the end of the month will win… something 🥳.
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I have a 'rules' question: is perfect attendance defined as posting a song every day, or a song for every day, regardless of when?
 
onanismaddict said:
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

Attempting to go in a completely different direction from last night's song choice...
I've listened to this theme song so many times and I still can't decide whether it's a surrealistic deconstructionist work of absolute genius, or just abject foolishness (most likely about dead centre between those polarities)... but all I can say with certainty is that this song will be stuck in my head for days. "How do you like the theme to Garry's show?"

It's Garry Shandling's Show

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I will argue this is among the greatest TV themes ever. It perfectly sets the viewer up for what is to come. And what to come is genius. Gary Shandling was so fucking ahead of the curve, no one paid attention.
 
Day 2 - an excellent TV show theme song regardless of whether or not you liked the show:

"We Used to be Friends", the Dandy Wahols (Theme from Veronica Mars) (+1)

Once again, Puddlestomp, represent! Another Portland band I had the joy of seeing a lot, including the stupendously talented Zia McCabe, who I may have had a small crush on. (She also plays country in the band Brush Prairie (a Vancouver reference), and as DJ Rescue).

Yesterday I did a BuffyVerse song, and Veronica Mars was a spiritual successor to Buffy. Except where Buffy used vampires and demons as metaphors for the horrible things in life growing up, Veronica Mars used horrible things in life growing up. "Want to know who took my virginity? So do I," set the tone for the show. It had good and not so good seasons, but Season 1 is up there with anything on TV.

And this song is First Season all over the place, as Veronica loses everything she thought she had, including all her friends, as she tries to solve her best friend's murder. And not get kicked out of high school.


For me, because I am crappy at keeping track, and really love bonus points: +3
 
KarenB59 said:
Day 2- Excellent TV theme song regardless if you liked the show.
I loved the show
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Me too! I have the first season on DVD. (Too bad they had problems licensing the music so they couldn't do them all. ) The song was perfect, the intro was perfect, it was all far too perfect.
 
SalaciousMonkey22 said:
Day 2 An excellent theme song
1+1=2

It’s about more nuanced than that.

I just happen to be starting a rewatch of this show because it’s brilliant.

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Oh yeah, that is a brilliant show! I knew that we could count on you to find something cool.
Great choice! And one that I never would have thought of myself. I have to admit that I wasn't enthused at all about this show before I started watching it, and I only gave it a chance because I like Rachel Bloom... but I was very pleasantly surprised. Brilliant show, indeed... and so well done!
 
vagrantx said:
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show
(would have posted this on Day 1 but I forgot!) +2 points for 2 women. eta: +1 point granted from the thread-god! 🤗

So I'm going to stretch the spirit of rule a bit.

Theme songs are not necessarily the same as a Leitmotif, the song played at the intro to a TV show. Theme songs can be a song used during the show/film, take for example Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter, or Imperial March from Star Wars. Anyone would argue that they are the embodiment of their respective films.

I won't go into detail, but growing up I had serious issues coming to terms with who I was. Something that helped me was the Rrrriot Grrrl scene, women in punk, and after that came the post-punk era.

Enter: Tegan And Sara. Queer icons, both gay. Their openness gave me confidence, their music inspired me, and they were obviously my first celebrity crushes.

In 2022 their memoirs were turned into a TV show: High School. It's an excellent show (and an excellent book) made special because it's about two gay women growing up, but it doesn't focus on their sexuality. It's a trait of theirs, but it is not the onus of their being. In fact, I don't believe it's even mentioned. It's normalized. This is so very very rare when showcasing gay women in media.

In the show we get to watch T&S as they discover music, and take their first wobbly steps into composing.
So I'd like to present one of their first songs, the theme of the show, and their lives distilled:

Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You.
Sometimes, you get so tired of pretending like you're so strong
Everyone you love has gone and decided that you're so wrong
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Thank you for your always enlightening posts! The personal touches make your already excellent recommendations even better!
I luv Tegan and Sara. In fact, I've got the album version of 'Hey, I'm Just Like You' sitting in front of me right now, on top of a pile of CDs that I've been listening to the past few days... so it was wonderful to read your song selection. I've always enjoyed Tegan and Sara's music, the way they conduct themselves, and the super cool way that their career has unfolded... but reading about the impact they had on you and your life was very moving! Thank you. And in spite of my devoted fandom for their music, I've never actually seen this show... so I'll have to check that out, too. Thank you for the great recommendation!

Bonus: Even though Canadians (at least in my relatively low-population part of the country) sometimes get annoyed at stereotypical suggestions or jokes that we all know one another, my ex-wife went to high school with Tegan and Sara (lol).
Sometimes this vast country of ours seems very small...
 
onanismaddict said:
Oh yeah, that is a brilliant show! I knew that we could count on you to find something cool.
Great choice! And one that I never would have thought of myself. I have to admit that I wasn't enthused at all about this show before I started watching it, and I only gave it a chance because I like Rachel Bloom... but I was very pleasantly surprised. Brilliant show, indeed... and so well done!
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Same, I was really concerned it was gonna be some toxic stereotypes. But it’s criminally underrated but comedically and for its brilliant arc! One of the best shows in TV history.
 
UnquietDreams said:
Day 2 - an excellent TV show theme song regardless of whether or not you liked the show:

"We Used to be Friends", the Dandy Wahols (Theme from Veronica Mars) (+1)

Once again, Puddlestomp, represent! Another Portland band I had the joy of seeing a lot, including the stupendously talented Zia McCabe, who I may have had a small crush on. (She also plays country in the band Brush Prairie (a Vancouver reference), and as DJ Rescue).

Yesterday I did a BuffyVerse song, and Veronica Mars was a spiritual successor to Buffy. Except where Buffy used vampires and demons as metaphors for the horrible things in life growing up, Veronica Mars used horrible things in life growing up. "Want to know who took my virginity? So do I," set the tone for the show. It had good and not so good seasons, but Season 1 is up there with anything on TV.

And this song is First Season all over the place, as Veronica loses everything she thought she had, including all her friends, as she tries to solve her best friend's murder. And not get kicked out of high school.


For me, because I am crappy at keeping track, and really love bonus points: +3
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This song is why I suggested a TV theme prompt last month. But, I’m a point whore so…thanks for taking the no point bullet. So good. Best show.
 
onanismaddict said:
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

Attempting to go in a completely different direction from last night's song choice...
I've listened to this theme song so many times and I still can't decide whether it's a surrealistic deconstructionist work of absolute genius, or just abject foolishness (most likely about dead centre between those polarities)... but all I can say with certainty is that this song will be stuck in my head for days. "How do you like the theme to Garry's show?"

It's Garry Shandling's Show

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This is an impeccable choice. I liked the show but love the song.
 
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