One wonders what Grunge Rocko would be like.) - C.W. This award-winning animated show regularly features classical pieces to add pathos to its episodes the overtures of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and Rossini's La gazza ladra and Strauss' The Blue Danube are only a few and the show's creators even commissioned an original piece, The Suction Cup Symphony, from Emmy nominated composer. (Fun fact: apparently Kurt Cobain was their second choice to pen the theme. It’s a great fit: After all, Rocko, with his breathless exuberance and unceasing zest for life and adventure, feels like Fred Schneider if he a) wore Hawaiian shirts and no bottoms (!) and b) was a wallaby. In between trips to the Love Shack, ‘80s new wave darlings The B-52s lent their talents to the zippy, effervescent theme to Rocko’s Modern Life. Disneys goal was 'picturing this music not the music fitting our story' and he hoped the film would bring classical music to people that, including himself, had 'walked out. The B-52s – Rocko’s Modern Life (1993-1996) Fantasia (1940) ‘Fantasia will amaze ya’ went the publicity when Disney released his animated masterpiece, and it has continued to amaze for more than 70 years. For a lot of ‘90s kids, this is the definitive theme for the Caped Crusader. But the former Oingo Boingo frontman still pours heaps of Gothic brass and haunting orchestral sweep into this evolution of the theme, expanding on it in ways that Shirley Walker would run with in her moody, evocative score for the series proper. This one almost feels like cheating, since Danny Elfman’s iconic theme for the TV show is largely derived from his work on the ‘89 Tim Burton classic. An interactive journey through time featuring composers and the events of the day. C.W.ĭanny Elfman – Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) Visit an interactive map to explore the composers of the world. It’s a work of understated genius, of a kind he’d parlay into scores of scores hence. Obviously, though, his biggest contribution to our collective childhoods was the deceptively simple, but eerily playful synthesizer theme to Rugrats, with its oddball, carnivalesque chirps and human sound samples. the Machines.īut he cut his teeth writing some of the most iconic Nickelodeon themes of all time in the ‘90s, from the jaunty bassline and catchy lyrics of Clifford the Big Red Dog (co-writing with Josh Mancell), the frantic ‘90s dance-music drums of Rocket Power, or the strangely reggae-inspired theme for the Super Mario World cartoon. Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO) – Rugrats (1991-2006)ĭevo frontman and keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh has long since made a name for himself as a prodigious composer of film and TV, whether for Marvel ( Thor: Ragnarok), Wes Anderson ( The Life Aquatic) or animated jaunts like The LEGO Movie and The Mitchells vs.
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