Your Theme Music

[TraceyQ]

Ok, so you've made it to your own radio show. Like all good presenters, you need a theme tune to do the "this is what's happening on the show..." What would yours be?

Instrumentals are preferable, natch.

ediiiiiit:  An easy one  : The Clique - "Wormin'"

[slim]

Oooh, good thread idea.

Who's The Realest? by The Herbaliser Band.

[Banana Woofwoof]

Only one answer I can really give to this, "Jazz Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold" by the Bonzo Dog Band.

Or if we can have non-instrumentals, "Motown Junk" by Manic Street Preachers.

Two quite different shows, though.

[RHX]

For past radio shows I've done, it's been Royce 5'9" - Boom, or at least the instrumental of that. I intend to keep that choice for this thread.

(Or for irony - Sexy Boy by Shawn Michaels. Everything I'm not but it's a great song that I listen to all the time.)

[Frinky]

The middle bit to You Stole My Love by the Yardbirds.

[A Passing Turk Slipper]

TMBG - Lady is a Tramp. I will never tire of this song. I think if I was contemplating suicide and someone played this song to me I would immediately cheer up and dance around the place. Perfect jolly instrumental theme music.

[Lt Plonker]

The Man About The House theme tune.

[kenneth trousers]

The instrumental of Miracles - The Jackson Sisters

[Jemble Fred]

Only one answer I can really give to this, "Jazz Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold" by the Bonzo Dog Band.

Well Whose Line Is It Anyway already nabbed that one. You're Clive Anderson in Disguise.

I don't know, personally... Actually, the Pet Shop Boys' 'Overture to Performance' is a fantastic track – I've always fancied presenting a really cheesy variety show that kicks off with the final swing section of that.

[Derek Trucks]

Mr PC by John Coltrane (taken from the Giant Steps LP) - in fact pretty much anything from that album will do.

[Neville Chamberlain]

If I had a radio show (which I would really like!), I'd open with a few bars of A New Era by The Specials.

[smewie lewis]

It would have to be both very catchy and relatively obscure.

Basement 5 – Work (Dub) would do the job just nicely.

A short-lived reggae/punk cross-over band from back in the day who released only one album "1965-1980" which was industrially dubbed up by Factory's knob-twiddling genius Martin Hannett - and what a combination. Begins with the singer yelling "...and they're off!" and then launches into a curious foot-stomping mix of heavy bouncing bass and dub metal guitar screeching over the top. Perfect.

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[clareQuilty]

The opening music to the film 'Underground' composed by Goran Bregovic.
Catchy as hell.

[Lee]

Well obviously Tenacious D - Lee. Who cares if it's got vocals?

[Neville Chamberlain]

Actually, I might open with Theme One by Van der Graaf Generator...

[SurferGhost]

I was torn. I agonised. I'll probably change my mind again in five minutes.

The Who (featuring Nicky Hopkins) - The Ox   I can always turn the volume down a bit.
or
The Small Faces - Ogden's Nutgone Flake

Others considered but rejected:
Theme from Plan 9 From Outer Space (the theremin one)
The Bonzos - Noises For The Leg
Traffic - Glad
The Small Faces - Plum Nellie
The Small Faces - the extended psychedelic-freakout-jam epilogue of Rene
The Faces - Looking Out The Window
The Fleur De Lys - Hammerhead
The Green Scarab - Asariah's Dance

You'd need a different closing theme, wouldn't you though? Well I know I would. At least this was easier.
Hecate's Angels - The Somnium Waltz

Say we were allowed a non-instrumental though, I'd have this:
Julian Cope - S.P.A.C.E R.O.C.K With Me

[weekender]

Probably 'Weekender' by Flowered Up I suppose.

Suave me would choose 'Green Onions' by Booker T and the MGs to demonstrate my cool sophistication.

Actual me would take an instrumental version of 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' by SFA, because I don't really give a fuck (about anybody else).

[kidsick5000]

Id love to say "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges...

but its more realistic to say the theme from Steptoe and Son

[Morrisfan82]

Amen, Brother by The Winstons

[jutl]

Either

The Velvet Underground - Ride Into The Sun

or

The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (instrumental version)

[TJ]

High Havoc! by Corduroy

[TraceyQ]

Corduroy

I knew it! I knew it!

[Gamma Ray]

'If you're gonna be dumb, You gotta be tough' by Roger Alan Wade

[dan dirty ape]

Gatur Bait by the Gaturs
http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2XXLETII7U9FI32J5ZMXS5AN5D
It's been the background music on my mobile answerphone 'leave a message' message for a good four years or so. I'm sure my friends are all sick of hearing that bass intro.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The Fruity Track By Lemon Jelly or Gee Strings by The Orb.

[Harold Lloyd's Safety Net]

Either the opening riff from AC/DC's 'Back In Black' or Led Zeppelin's 'The Wanton Song.'  Yes, it would be a rock show.