There are no doubt a zillion trillion decent ones left out but look, none of us have got all day.ġ0. So, we've gone and picked ten of the best - the theme tunes of all theme tunes, the opener to end all openers. Have you listened to some of the intros to shows you watched when you were a kid recently? It can literally feel like stepping into a time capsule. No matter what though, the TV theme tune becomes intrinsically linked with the show in the viewers mind, as well as with the point in your life you were watching it. Nope, we are much too cool for all that now, it's all arty farty graphics and intense, dramatic music and what not. Thankfully though, gone are those cheesy '90's style intros where we would see all cast members in mid-action shots, or smiling off into the distance as we were introduced to them all.

The TV theme tunes have suffered a little bit of a slump in recent years, with many shows like Lost and the like just deciding to ditch it all together. Would 'Happy Days' really have been as happy without that little doo-wop number at the start? Would 'Baywatch' have even gone to AIR, without that Jimmi Jamison belter playing over the slow motion running on the beach? 'Mundian to Bach Ke,' recognized immediately for its use of the dynamic bassline from the Knight Rider theme song (used similarly in Timbaland & Magoo's 'Clock Strikes' and Busta Rhymes' 'Fire It Up,' both of which were released earlier) in addition to its incorporation of the traditional dhol (drums) and tumbi (one-string guitar) instruments, became successful across the globe, placing the MC on the U.K.'s Top of the Pops program while leading to a Jay-Z remix.While of course, a good story and a strong cast are essential parts to any TV show, a theme tune can be what reels the viewer into it in the first place. A steady release schedule throughout the '90s - including the albums Souled Out, Another Sellout, Grass Roots, and Legalised - made Panjabi MC one of the most prominent names in bhangra. And well before that, the MC was honing his skills as a freestyler as he began to record more of his own tracks, he began utilizing desi samples and eventually incorporated live musicians.Ī first single, 'Rootz,' was released officially on an independent, but it was banned - allegedly due to politics within the bhangra music industry. His professional career was even older, reaching back to 1993, when Ninder Johal of the Nachural label heard his desi/hip-hop hybrid remix of Kuldip Manak's 'Ghariah Milan De' and signed him for a handful of releases. When England's Rajinder Rai, better known as Panjabi MC, made his international breakthrough complete with 'Mundian to Bach Ke' ('Beware of the Boys') during 20, the song was several years old.

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