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Most of the songs on this list have been used so many times,on soundtracks for movies and television shows, that we know them by heart. I’ve heard them all a million times (except for Zombie Nation, which is apparently big with hockey fans), yet I was surprised to find that I only knew half the song names on the list. See how well you do, and if you knew them all you get a gold star!

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Flavorwire has assembled a list of the most memorable ’80s TV theme songs ever, including the one to Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, written by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh and crooned (screeched?) by Cyndi Lauper, who goes by “Ellen Shaw” in the credits. I warn you, though, don’t follow the link unless you’re prepared to get one of them stuck in your head for the next several days. It’s a great list, to be sure, but they missed one of my favorites:

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Fredrik Larsson (YouTube user FreddeGredde) sings a medley of 28 classic 80s cartoon theme songs that will surely transport y’all back to happier times.

Geektoplasm has the clip:

The only way I can explain how it feels to watch this is: you know that feeling you get when you come home from college and have your first dinner back home? That feeling you get in your mouth as you eat your favorite homemade meal after months of cafeteria fare? It’s like that, but in your brain and heart.

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Previously on Neatorama: Cartoon Theme Medley on Piano

If you could think of seven different themes, chances are a few of them are on Cinematical’s list.

One of the seven is one of my favorite movies of the genre, Poltergeist, music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Jerry Goldsmith previously contributed a classic horror theme with his score for Richard Donner’s Omen, but this one, not unlike Komeda’s work on Rosemary’s Baby, runs counter to expectations that horror movie music needs to be naturally dark or heavy to be menacing. That said, the children’s chorus that sweetly and innocently provides a theme for the film’s young protagonist – ironically, sort of the conduit for both its “monster” and heroine – is at once wholesome and terrifying, creating a similar sense of unease and eventually terror as the kids embody the film’s themes of childhood swallowed by a mysterious and terrifying world.

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More great themes at Link.

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