Best Soap Opera Theme

August 20, 201213 yr

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With the added piano intro and minus the visuals, I really don't mind this theme. With the visuals, of course, it goes from General Hospital to General Seizures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bobt6YHv2-k

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Howard's Way was the BBC's attempt at creating their own version of a US primetime soap, and though dated as hell, I like the opening theme.

It's composed by Simon May, who also composed the EastEnders theme.

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It's not an opening but the closing credits music for DOOL in this are so beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_NwL9Nr_wQ

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Some UK soap themes. The first, for Marked Personal, is incredible!! Better than the show...

This also has Rooms, another first rate opening that gets the point across immediately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSDf_6vSTDc

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The best part of the 1992-1995 OLTL theme? The closing theme. That's it. I will say the opening does provide snark value, though.

http://www.televisio...nding_-_VO.html

The bottom theme has the VO from above, but an attached ending to the theme which was clearly, well, added on. It's actually from the old WoST site--there's a LOT of those themes I recognize at Television Tunes from there.

Edited August 20, 201213 yr by MissLlanviewPA

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Also from WoST:

http://www.televisio...1966_(The).html

I LOVE these recreated SS credits. Beautiful.

Edited August 20, 201213 yr by MissLlanviewPA

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Probably the best thing about the show (Also composed by Simon May).

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My favorite Home and Away opening:

The best version of their theme, IMO.

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I also like this version of the AMC theme as well

I think you & I are the only ones. LOL. I loved this one too!

0:13-0:17 (same as in the clip you posted), that little part in the music always gets to me. I like it in the following clip because of how perfectly it goes w/Vanessa's head motion and the infamous gold leaf

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You 90s teens know this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cWxMOcPOtA

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I was only 3 in 1992, but I do know what it is! :lol:

My favorite here is actually the third theme, most like the second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpJRmsyPho&feature=related

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Look at this

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You 90s teens know this one!

I actually never watched that show, never even heard of it until the last decade or so. Doesn't look like anything I would have ever watched.

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Oh, you would have watched! :lol: That's when I described SMG's character as "the Erica of this show", and when she showed up in SOD as this new character Kendall, I had no idea where they were going with it.

This '90s teen soap I watched more than Swan's (and yes, that's Ryan Reynolds as Billy):

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