Worst Theme Music

[SirOllyBolly]

The "music" from Ken Russell's The Devils really gets on my nerves

[faginsgirl]

Coronation street!



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[Lord Brett]

name='Geoffers']Someone supplied me with a DVD of that film with all the music replaced, except the title song, by that written (mostly) by John Barry, from previous Bond films. It worked surprisingly well and the film was much more enjoyable to watch.



It shows what a difference the wrong music can make to a film.

What a good idea! It's not just the theme music which is poor in Never Say Never Again - the entire score seems to bear no relation to the film it's attached to. I note that on Goldeneye a second composer had to be drafted in to supply more traditionally Bondian music to the tank chase scene. Eric Serra's music works pretty well in places, but it's not a CD a return to very often.

[Marky B]

Bernard Hermann's piano clashing music for Obsession (other than that,he was a great composer - North By North West my fave).

Duke Ellington's irritating score for Assault On A Queen (again,a great composer,but film music wasn't his forte).

Goldeneye - the worst of the Bond scores.

Coronation Street.

Eastenders.

Worst of all is that stupid music on Cash In The Attic,Bargain Hunt.

Ta ta

Marky B

[dremble wedge]

Anything with jazz

[CaptainWaggett]

name='dremble wedge']Anything with jazz

Especially when it's a film set in the 1890s as with the Colin and Rupert Importance of the Being Earnest

[davidb]

i never knew that ringo starr was offered the chance to do the theme tune for goldfinger ,thank god he didnt get it if this is what he came up with [ame="http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbiu6P0lcw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbiu6P0lcw[/ame]

[earlb]

'Bridge on the river Kwai'. The original music was superb but on the 'restored' version, particularly on the opening they use a Bontempi type synth. Grrrrr!!!

[Guenther]

name='earlb']'Bridge on the river Kwai'. The original music was superb but on the 'restored' version, particularly on the opening they use a Bontempi type synth. Grrrrr!!!

On which version is that atrocity? The DVD I have even has an isolated score on an extra audio track.

[earlb]

I have the VHS restored version and sadly cannot get rid of that damn bontempi.

[nowhearthis]

name='DB7']I cant say I can recall any particularly offending intro's at the moment but I'm sure there's plenty. One variety that does make me squirm are the cheesy 1950s 'sung' themes; I'm All Right Jack being one example.

How about the embarrassing Carry On Screaming theme?

[Sleepin_Dragon]

Some of the opening music on the Bond films is bad, in terms of tv shows K9 and Company is the worst soundtrack in the world!!!

[Gypsy]

"Oh Lucky Jim, how I envy him" or whatever it is, repeated on and on ad infinitum ruined the film for me.



I also loathed most of the incidental music in Black Narcissus, one of my favourite films, natch.