My mistake

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I've been going around thinking that "Soul Bossa Nova" (popularized as the theme from Austin Powers, and in my opinion, the best thing about the Austin Powers movies) was a Burt Bacharach composition, when in fact it's by Quincy Jones. Incidentally, I discovered this when I decided that I needed to own another Quincy Jones tune, "The Streetbeater," which also was famous as a theme song. (Bonus points if you know what it's the theme of)

I have an inordinate amount of theme songs in my collection, partly because context makes music better, and partly because theme songs tend to be catchy and anthemic, and I dig that.

In addition to the Dr. Who theme (2 versions), the themes from Star Wars, Firefly, and Invader Zim, I also have the theme from the Katamari video game, "Boss of Me" by TMBG, "Hawaii 5-0," "Judgement Night" (the whole soundtrack which is far better than the movie), "Repo Man," "View to a Kill," "Some Kind of Monster," "Peter Gunn," "Live and Let Die," "Love is All Around Us," that whole Saturday Morning Cartoons thing, as well as "Watching the Detectives," "Life on Mars," "All of Me," "Hockey Monkey," "Pretty in Pink," "In the Street" which have retroactively become themes.

I was going to post asking what you thought the best themes were, but boy there sure are a ton of them. I always loved the sitcom themes from my youth: Barney Miller, WKRP, Taxi, etc. but those are mostly context. Except Barney Miller. That's still pretty damn funky. So let me ask anyway: What do you think are the best themes?

I didn't count the music of Seks Bomba, but I should have.

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