GOAT Movie Themes - The Championship

The cover of the Theme from Midnight Cowboy by elevator music legends Ferrante and Teicher made it to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on adult contemporary charts in 1969.

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Hahaha YES!

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In the meantime I flipped my Bryan Adams vote to that nothing Warsaw Concerto as a tactical matter because the specter of a Bryan Adams-2001 second round matchup was unsettling me.

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Yeah Im younger than both but my sister is right in your age range so Im sure she had me watch it as soon as I would understand it

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It also felt like it had Shawshank-level ubiquity on TBS for years and years and years.

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Absolutely. I saw it on VHS first, but caught it in reruns multiple times after like WCW Saturday Night or Superstars or something.

I have memories of the curse dubbing being horrendous but cannot find any examples online so it might be a mandela effect thing.

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Oh, it’s terrible. I caught ten minutes of it a couple of weeks ago on TV, having only ever seen the undubbed version, and couldn’t believe how bad it was.

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Thats what I thought. Normally, youtube is filled with compilations of terrible edits but I cannot find one for BC anywhere.

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wtf that Gremlins song is horrible

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Lawrence appears to be safe but still isn’t crushing hard enough.

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There are few songs I hate worse than that Bryan Adams song.

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But you do hate some worse.

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If only this had been the theme to a movie

Just for fun I looked at the year end Hot 100 for 1991 (where Everything I Do is #1), and oof what a terrible year for pop music. #2 is somehow even worse. Thankfully it wasn’t used in a major film.

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Wow Mariah Carey killed it that year.

#2 is as bad as you said!!

Definitely looks like Mariah Carey should have taken up four spots in the top 10. There are a handful of good songs, but yeah it’s a rough list.

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In fairness that’s a “hot singles” list which probably sucks every year.

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The following year does immediately look quite a bit better though.

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I have no idea what the methodology is, but how are “Under the Bridge” and “November Rain” hot singles in 1992 and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” wasn’t in 1991?

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