Why all the hate for the Enterprise theme song

Dagger75 · Sep 13, 2003

I'm going to admit I like the open credits of Enterprise. A friend of mine likes them as well but I have noticed for almost every review they say the open credits and the song in particular suck. Why? Why all the hate?

ForceUser · Sep 13, 2003

Because it's a Rod Stewart song?

I dunno. I like the original Enterprise song, just not the up-tempo version used in this season's premiere. I've always found it, when coupled with the images, to be rather inspiring.

Shadowdancer · Sep 13, 2003

I'm the opposite. I like this season's version better than the original, although I'm still not crazy about it. The original sounded like Bon Jovi.

And I like Rod Stewart's cover version better than the original as well.

Tarrasque Wrangler · Sep 13, 2003

The show I could take or leave, but that theme song is like the audio equivalent of a twelve-car-pileup. I can't take my ears off it. I'll drop anything I'm doing, wherever I am in the house, to come listen to that theme. It's hypnotically awful. It's like a whole new level of suck. Only a higher intelligence on the order of the Greys, the disembodied spirit of DeForrest Kelley, or perhaps God Himself could achieve a level of suckiness that this song has pulled off. (Incidentally, it begs the question: Could God create a song so sucky that even He couldn't listen to it?)

A mere basic cable television program is too minor a venue for a song so important. Too many questions are raised by it's very existence for Mankind to ignore. Like the alien signal in Carl Sagan's Contact, it deserves to be studied by a blue ribbon select panel of musicologists, physicists, cosmologists, the cast of "What's Happening", ethnobiologists, chiropractors, crackpot televangelists, assorted former members of the Manson Family, the Wu-Tang Clan, and Dr. Joyce Brothers. The future of our race may depend on it.

Kobold Avenger · Sep 13, 2003

Because it's crappy adult contemporary type pop music with crooning and I hate pop music and adult contemporary and crooning, simple as that. If it was instrumental I wouldn't really care...

I liked Firefly's theme song more, considering the fact that I normally hate country music too...

orbitalfreak · Sep 13, 2003

Tarrasque Wrangler said:
I can't take my ears off [the song]. I'll drop anything I'm doing, wherever I am in the house, to come listen to that theme.

Heh, I do the same thing, but because I absolutely love the song! I don't care for the re-mix, though. It loses its feeling, its heart, and replaces it with a new tune.

Hackenslash · Sep 13, 2003

Enterprise theme song and inspiration.....

I have to say that I was very impressed when the theme song for the new Enterprise series came on for the first time and since then I have to agree with Tarrasque Wrangler, I tend to listen to it whenever it comes on, even if sometimes I don't watch the episode. The tune is just very inspiring and conveys a feeling of hope and determination. If I have had a bad day at work it does actually cheer me up. Just my 2 cents...Cheers All.

Tarrasque Wrangler · Sep 13, 2003

Hackenslash said:
I have to say that I was very impressed when the theme song for the new Enterprise series came on for the first time and since then I have to agree with Tarrasque Wrangler, I tend to listen to it whenever it comes on, even if sometimes I don't watch the episode. The tune is just very inspiring and conveys a feeling of hope and determination. If I have had a bad day at work it does actually cheer me up. Just my 2 cents...Cheers All.

Uh ... did you read the rest of my post? It inspires me alright, the way David Berkowitz was "inspired" by his neighbor's dog.