Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs

[Batman]

Thoughts?
Seven of the top 10 seem pretty solid to me. That high on the list, you ought to be able to immediately identify the show the second you hear the first notes of the theme song.
One of the top 10 I couldn't even tell you the show (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), let alone the theme song. Another, while I love the "show" that it's from, it doesn't belong anywhere near the top 10 (Too Many Cooks). The other ... I wouldn't have put it that high, but maybe that's because it's a newer one that didn't hit me the right way (The O.C.).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-tv-theme-songs-of-all-time-1234630913/

 

[jr/shotglass]

 

[Songbird]

Haven't clicked yet but boom goes the dynamite if Welcome Back Kotter isn't No. 1.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

I can't believe "The Ballad of Paladin" rated so low. It is an all-time clashic. It's author, Johnny Western, later became the warm-up artist for the Johnny Cash road tour. Marty Stewart and the Superlatives back up this version.


I think Riders In the Sky were sitting in as well. Here's their take.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Never heard of that show. It looks like it' is trying so hard.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Never heard of that show. It looks like it' is trying so hard.

Oh, it was. Such drama and late-teen angst. But that was part of what made the song so perfect for the one-year series -- the schmaltz.

The song itself probably wouldn't hold up at three minutes -- which is exactly how I feel whenever I've heard the Rembrandts' full rollout of the Friends theme. But in 1:18, it worked.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Perry Mason not on the list? Absurd. Also no "Secret Agent Man." That was a darn Top 40 hit.

 

[BTExpress]

No Get Smart. Missed it by THAT much.

 

[MisterCreosote]

How anyone could think anything but Cheers is No. 1 is beyond me.

 

[garrow]

Greatest TV show theme song is theme from Twin Peaks.

 

[Songbird]

WBK and Cheers are essentially the same song. Cheers basically drafting off Kotter's heat.

Even Kotter's uncle the skin diver would agree.

 

[playthrough]

Hill Street Blues ... scrolling ... scrolling ... scrolling ... No. 27. Absurd.