[PhantomGaL]

Since this is about the best themesongs, it shouldn't be in the Critics Hangout forum.

Anyways, just want to share my thoughts about TVB themesongs.
There are many nice ones out there after all these years.
Do you guys feel different when you listen to songs that are used in TVB series???
Like Eason's song for TITS. The next time you come across this song, you'll somehow relate it back to TITS and think about the series for a while.

I like many TVB themesongs, few of them are:

Plain Love 2 - Jacky Cheung and Priscilla Chan sang the song so beautifully!
Country Spirit - Jacky Cheung and Kit Chan did a great song together!
TITS - Nice!
A Taste of Love - Miriam Yeung did a good job on the song...
The Awakening Story - Faye Wong sang the song right? Anyways, it's a lovely song...
Journey to the West - Dicky Cheung's catchy song, love it!
Witness to a Prosecution - Forgot and lost the song, but somehow I feel it should be nice...Eason sang that one too.

Those above are just some from my memory. There's actually heaps of songs that reflects different feelings when you listen to them. To me, these themesongs will somehow be special whenever I play them.

Do you have any themesongs that you like or think it's good? Will be nice to share them out since I might have forgotten some good ones too.

[tanyl78]

lady fan
survivor's law
point of no return
up and down in sea of love (english sub theme)
vigilante in the mask

[Ran Mouri]

well i love TITS oppening song its great :lol?:

[scooper]

there have been a few i like but none is like shanghai tan theme song...whenever i hear the song, it makes me think about events in the series like watching it in fast-forward mode...others are nice to listen to but not that special...

[o__o]

I really loved both of the TITS songs, the one by Flora and the one by Eason. And the Family man sub song by Flora, both of the Detective investigation files songs by Edmond Leung and the other with him and Louis. Also the songs that Dicky sang for Monkey King: Quest for sutra

[PhantomGaL]

scooper, on Aug 31 2004 5 22 PM, said:

there have been a few i like but none is like shanghai tan theme song...whenever i hear the song, it makes me think about events in the series like watching it in fast-forward mode...others are nice to listen to but not that special...

Yeah, that song is a classic.
My parents like it too. It's just one of the memorable ones around.

Last time I watched a special show where they have popular singers singing songs from classic TVB series, specially ancient series ones. It brings back good memories about those old series

[Smirfy]

I have so many memorable theme songs...

Lady Fan - Candy Lo
Point Of No Return - Julian Cheung
Remembrance - Julian Cheung
The Ching Emperor (and sub) - Julian Cheung
Eternal Happiness - Kelly Chan
Witness To A Prosecution - Eason Chan
A Matter of Custom sub - Eason Chan
The Link sub - Gigi Lai
The Link - Andy Lau
Heartstring sub - Gigi Lai
Heroes From Shaolin sub - Gigi Lai
TITS sub - Flora Chan
Family Man (+ subs) - Flora Chan, Andy Hui
Where The Legend Begins - Steven Ma
Gods of Honour sub - Kit Chan
Plain Love - Kenny Ho
Plain Love II - Jacky Cheung, Priscilla Chan
Plain Love III - Jacky Cheung, Kit Chan

...and many many more

[BORNINHK]

PhantomGaL, on Aug 31 2004 7 40 AM, said:

Since this is about the best themesongs, it shouldn't be in the Critics Hangout forum.

Anyways, just want to share my thoughts about TVB themesongs.
There are many nice ones out there after all these years.
Do you guys feel different when you listen to songs that are used in TVB series???
Like Eason's song for TITS. The next time you come across this song, you'll somehow relate it back to TITS and think about the series for a while.

I like many TVB themesongs, few of them are:

Plain Love 2 - Jacky Cheung and Priscilla Chan sang the song so beautifully!
Country Spirit - Jacky Cheung and Kit Chan did a great song together!
TITS - Nice!
A Taste of Love - Miriam Yeung did a good job on the song...
The Awakening Story - Faye Wong sang the song right? Anyways, it's a lovely song...
Journey to the West - Dicky Cheung's catchy song, love it!
Witness to a Prosecution - Forgot and lost the song, but somehow I feel it should be nice...Eason sang that one too.

Those above are just some from my memory. There's actually heaps of songs that reflects different feelings when you listen to them. To me, these themesongs will somehow be special whenever I play them.

Do you have any themesongs that you like or think it's good? Will be nice to share them out since I might have forgotten some good ones too.

What's the song's name in Chinese by Faye Wong?"Lalala".
I know how it sounds.

[PhantomGaL]

BORNINHK, on Sep 3 2004 5 42 PM, said:

What's the song's name in Chinese by Faye Wong?"Lalala".
I know how it sounds.

I don't know what's the title, sorry. Maybe others will be able to help.

And athlon, re-post what you said in here earlier since it's now gone.
I'm sure they are interested in the link as well.

I have another themesong which I think everyone will know too. But I don't know the title and I don't have any tunes I can link you all to.
It's for an ancient series for sure. It's sang alot in many occasions. By Roman Tam too I think. It has a lot of the word 'san' as in 'mountains' in that song. The song starts with 'Man sai kan...see fau lalalalala' I don't really know the proper wordings, so I can't type it all out. Sorry I sucked in describing this.

[lilliums]

i've only been obsessed with one TVB theme song...the one from 'Return of the Cuckoo', by Chilam. i used to cry whenever heard that song...

but the theme song of 'Eternal Happiness' by Kelly Chan wasn't bad either. it didn't have the same effect on me as the ROTC song though.

[athlon]

PhantomGaL, on Sep 3 2004 7 07 PM, said:

I don't know what's the title, sorry. Maybe others will be able to help.

And athlon, re-post what you said in here earlier since it's now gone.
I'm sure they are interested in the link as well.

I have another themesong which I think everyone will know too. But I don't know the title and I don't have any tunes I can link you all to.
It's for an ancient series for sure. It's sang alot in many occasions. By Roman Tam too I think. It has a lot of the word 'san' as in 'mountains' in that song. The song starts with 'Man sai kan...see fau lalalalala' I don't really know the proper wordings, so I can't type it all out. Sorry I sucked in describing this.

that is the LOTCH 3rd -Wah Shan Leun Geem- main theme.
goes something like this:

<I ask, in the world are the hills the heighest>


<what i post before>
I like a lot of themesongs, the TITS-theme, or the TGUIT-theme, BUT!!!..
no matter how good those songs are, THE best themesong would be the Legend Of The Condor Heroes part 1 (1983) -Iron Blood, Loyal Heart- theme.

That music, if played fast, makes the series exciting, if played slow, it makes the scene sad, if it's played hard, you get goosebumps from the heroic air it transmits.
Everytime when you hear the music, the scenes of that series will be flashed into your eyes. THat is THE best themesong. It's just that the composer is kinda a pervert... maybe all geniuses are perverts?

BTW, if you listen to our AF_radio, you might be able to hear the themesongs too.

[MirrorMei]

I can only think of these 3
- Reaching Out by Andy Lau i guess? haha, omg that song made me cry... nah prolly the themevideo lol, but still, its a good song tho
- A Herbalist Affair by Flora Chan n Andy Hui, they played it well, Flora's voice is so sweet
- Legend Of Love by Gillian n Kenny, such a sweetttt song! i luv it

[PinkieJosie]

hmm i havent watch much series so i dont remember much memorable songs..well here's a few..

TITS-main n sub-eason flora
summer heat- kelly
eternal happiness-kelly
the awakening story-faye
survior's law-raymond
to get unstuck in time-main sub english song-patrick flora
the legend of love-gill kenny

[suga_sw33t]

• Point Of No Return - Julian Cheung
  
• Lady Fan - Candy Lo
  
• The Legend of Love - Gillian + Kenny
  
• Eternal Happiness - Kelly Chen (love this song soooo much!)
  
• Monkey King; Quest for Sutra - Dicky Cheung (both theme and sub)
  
• Love is Beautiful - Stephanie Che (kinda old, but its great....memorable)
  
• Golden Faith (subs) - Gallen Lo
  
• White Flame - Miriam Yeung (kinda ok serie, but good themesong)
  
• The Awakening Story - Faye Wong
  
• War and Beauty has a nice one too

oh the song is called A Love Letter to Myself by Faye Wong
Some other ones are good too, very old series that I dont know the names of...lol

[missLILY]

Triumph ITS - Flora Chan .. I loved it
Burning Flame 2 - Sweet .. Brings the sweetness in the series hehe
White Flame - Miriam Yeung .. Veryy Good =)
Eternal Happiness - Omg .. Awesome
Golden Faith - Wow =) What a great series with great songs
Survivors Law - Raymond Lam-I LOVE THIS THE BEST OUT OF ALL HIS SONG
TGUIT - SOOOOOOO GOOD ! I LOVE THIS ONE <3 BUT THE 2ND PART OF THE SONG WAS BETTER IN EXPLAINING THE SERIES/PICS OF THEMEVID =)
FM - Flora Chan Sub .. Not the ending one .. I love it when they played that when Flora&Moses together !
And also the TITS SUB by flora =)

ahh ders so much o well gonna post that for now ^^

[StwaBewyAngel]

Hehe I love TVB themes and subs

x Healing Hands sub - Bowie, Flora
x Triumph in the Skies - Eason
x Eternal Happiness - Kelly
x EH sub - Raymond
x Golden Faith theme & subs - Gallen
x Reaching Out - Andy
x Country Spirit - eh, forgot who sang it
x Herbalist Affair - Andy, Flora

Uh, yea like basically everything? Hahaha.

[PhantomGaL]

athlonkmf, on Sep 3 2004 8 12 PM, said:

that is the LOTCH 3rd -Wah Shan Leun Geem- main theme.
goes something like this:

<I ask, in the world are the hills the heighest>

BTW, if you listen to our AF_radio, you might be able to hear the themesongs too.

Ohhh myyy...you actually know that song that I described, thanks!!! I like how you translate that part, it confirmed the song, keke...
Btw, don't you think this song rocks? I feel it's actually quite nice...

I listen to AF Radio frequently, don't worry Just haven't come across many themesongs yet.

Does anyone recall the song from Journey to the West 1 where there's this sub song sang during the part where Kwong Wa got kidnapped by the Snake Demon inside the temple? The song's very calming and soothing really...
I have the song which I stumbled upon, so I'm very glad I have it! They say the singer is Benny Chan but I don't think so.

It goes like this...'Yung pa chiu sin mut pat ching, lim kan ku chau sam cheng meng, hap chi yat suen yeung hei ka sa chui ngo sai keng...'
I'll be surprised if anyone knows this one

Doh'...I actually have the LOTCH3 themesong in my comp, stupid of me...

Okay one last one. I'm surprised nobody mentioned Old Time Buddy songs! Do you guys still remember the songs?
I love EVERY single songs they used in that series. I have the cassette last time with the compilation, but I lost it
Anyone have their whole collection of songs???

[athlon]

I know that song, and of course, AF-radio has that song too

It's NOT sung by Benny Chan. He only sang the themesong. And it's not JTW 1, but 2.

The song's lyric is very good indeed. Hmm.. maybe i should start that song up again.

translation is like this if I remembered correctly:

In a human life lethal dangers can be lead away lightly,
Thousands of beauties has no meanings anymore,
A mirror won't be dusted anymore,
my mortal heart is moved.

Today's fruit depends on yesterday's culturing,
The scripture in my hand, has to be valued in my heart.
Facing heavens, facing the earth, my dreams can be finished.

Pah Chiu Seen can't be used to wipe it clean,
chanting the <tight ring>-script clears the heart,
Closing my hands, taking up my robe, going to retrieve my western scripture

The mortal and the immortal world can be my witnesses,
---don't remember---
no need for hate, no need for love, only love my western scripture.


Hmmm.. funny, all the songs you guys described here are available at AF-radio


that's because i'm a sucker for themesongs, and have collected a LOT


Hmm.. is should do a themesong hour..

[PhantomGaL]

athlonkmf, on Sep 4 2004 3 38 PM, said:

I know that song, and of course, AF-radio has that song too

It's NOT sung by Benny Chan. He only sang the themesong. And it's not JTW 1, but 2.

The song's lyric is very good indeed. Hmm.. maybe i should start that song up again.

translation is like this if I remembered correctly:

In a human life lethal dangers can be lead away lightly,
Thousands of beauties has no meanings anymore,
A mirror won't be dusted anymore,
my mortal heart is moved.

Today's fruit depends on yesterday's culturing,
The scripture in my hand, has to be valued in my heart.
Facing heavens, facing the earth, my dreams can be finished.

Pah Chiu Seen can't be used to wipe it clean,
chanting the <tight ring>-script clears the heart,
Closing my hands, taking up my robe, going to retrieve my western scripture

The mortal and the immortal world can be my witnesses,
---don't remember---
no need for hate, no need for love, only love my western scripture.


Hmmm.. funny, all the songs you guys described here are available at AF-radio


that's because i'm a sucker for themesongs, and have collected a LOT


Hmm.. is should do a themesong hour..

Grrr...you even know this song...you are a sucker for themesongs, hehe...
Actually I'm very happy that you know this one, it's really a good song and I don't think lots of people pay attention to this one.

Loved your translation of the song. You got the full one?
Seems that after you translate the first few parts, the song got even more meaningful because I can felt the song more after knowing its deeper content.

Do you know where to get extensive collection of themesongs? I really want to keep as many good ones as I can. They are too good to be missed out! And specially the Old Time Buddy ones

[athlon]

PhantomGaL, on Sep 5 2004 9 34 AM, said:

Grrr...you even know this song...you are a sucker for themesongs, hehe...
Actually I'm very happy that you know this one, it's really a good song and I don't think lots of people pay attention to this one.

Loved your translation of the song. You got the full one?
Seems that after you translate the first few parts, the song got even more meaningful because I can felt the song more after knowing its deeper content.

Do you know where to get extensive collection of themesongs? I really want to keep as many good ones as I can. They are too good to be missed out! And specially the Old Time Buddy ones

well, i have that old-times-buddy's songs too

but there is a tvb-songsite, although the quality is not always high and it's hard to download. I don't know the new address anymore though.

I've just collected my collection here and there, bought a few TVB-themesongsCDs and stuff.

My english is not good enough to translate the full song of that JTW2-subtheme I think, they use quite tough words. And yes, I do have the full theme in high-quality. Just loaded it in my mp3-player.

[athlon]

Just an attempt to translate it <if someone with english as primary language and can chose more poetic words, please edit this >:


In a human life lethal dangers can be lead away lightly,
Thousands of beauties has no meanings anymore,
A mirror won't be dusted anymore,
my mortal heart is moved.

Today's fruit depends on yesterday's culturing,
The scripture in my hand, has to be valued in my heart.
Facing heavens, facing the earth, my dreams can be finished.

Pah Chiu Seen can't be used to wipe it clean,
chanting the <tight ring>-script clears the heart,
Closing my hands, taking up my robe, going to retrieve my western scripture

The mortal and the immortal world can be my witnesses,
<don't understand>

-Wrapping my palms together, smiling..
no need for love, no need for hate, I only love the western scripture.
-If I can avoid hate, avoid dispise, but not getting rid of emotions...
my heart still won't be clear.
-Avoiding meats, avoiding insanity (drunk?)..
can I achieve a level beyond mortality and get to heigher plains.


In a human life lethal dangers can be lead away lightly,
Thousands of beauties has no meanings anymore,
A mirror won't be dusted anymore,
my mortal heart is moved.


Today's fruit depends on yesterday's culturing,
The scripture in my hand, has to be valued in my heart.
Facing heavens, facing the earth, my dreams can be finished.


<scripture chanting>



Pah Chiu Seen can't be used to wipe it clean,
chanting the <tight ring>-script clears the heart,
Closing my hands, taking up my robe, going to retrieve my western scripture

The mortal and the immortal world can be my witnesses,
<don't understand>

-Wrapping my palms together, smiling..
no need for love, no need for hate, I only love the western scripture.
-If I can avoid hate, avoid dispise, but not getting rid of emotions...
my heart still won't be clear.
-Avoiding meats, avoiding insanity (drunk?)..
can I achieve a level beyond mortality and get to heigher plains.


<scripture chanting: somehting about desires means disaster, disaster means desires etc.>

[athlon]

The fact that chinese songs often has a deeper meaning into it, is what makes me like it more than english songs. Like the old Jacky Cheung songs are actually telling a full story. If lined up together, he was able to make a musical out of it :lol?:

And esp. martial arts-songs are very meaningfull and symbolic.


AF-testradio on demand station:

http://65.75.178.160...nt/jtw2-end.pls

http://65.75.178.160...ldtimebuddy.pls

[yan85]

when I was kid I remember every song from the dramas, but nowadays I've got other things to do.. I don't have the time to see every ep of the serie either.. that's sad, but I still love themesongs from the ancient dramas or police dramas..hehe.

[PhantomGaL]

athlonkmf, on Sep 5 2004 11 56 AM, said:

The fact that chinese songs often has a deeper meaning into it, is what makes me like it more than english songs. Like the old Jacky Cheung songs are actually telling a full story. If lined up together, he was able to make a musical out of it  :lol?:

And esp. martial arts-songs are very meaningfull and symbolic.


AF-testradio on demand station:

http://65.75.178.160...nt/jtw2-end.pls

http://65.75.178.160...ldtimebuddy.pls

Agree. Some of the chinese songs really have a deep meaning to them and I feel it's really nice listening to it.
And THANK YOU so much for attempting to translate the lyric for me. You did a very good job on it I am extremely grateful for the time spent in doing this

And I don't know how to open the link you posted. My Winamp hanged a little when I clicked on it and then nothing happens after it loads.

[Bubblegum]

My favourites are:
Eternal Happiness (Kelly Chan)
Love is Beautiful (Stephanie Che)
Country Spirit (Jacky Cheung/Kit Chan)
Crimsom Sabre (Kwong wa)
Dark Tales 1 & 2
State of Divinity
Return of the Condor Heroes 83 and 95
Duke of Mountain Deer 2000 (Dicky Cheung)
HSDS 2000 (Lawrence Ng)
Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain 99
Armed Reaction (Sammi Cheng)
Moments of Endearment (Miriam Yeung)

[marshey905]

return of the cuckoo - chi lam cheung
journey to the west I - dicky cheung
armed reaction I, II, III, IV - sammi cheng
a herbalist affair - andy hui and flora chan
perish in the name of love - charmaine sheh and steven ma (first time I've heard charmaine sing and I think her voice is pretty cute)
take my word for it sub theme - chi lam cheung
witness to a prosecution - eason chan
triumph in the skies - eason chan
triumph in the skies sub - flora chan

This post has been edited by marshey905: 06 September 2004 - 06:40 AM

[valkyrion]

bu ti don't like gallen lo's songs.. he only sing theme songs tho.. or at least it seem slike it

[cutie_princez]

Seed of hope-I think Patrick Tam sang it.
Point of no Return-Chilam
Return of the Cuckoo-Chilam

[crunchster]

i have quite a few and i think they are all really good..

Dragon Love - Benny Chan
ROTC - Chilam Cheung
Point of No Return - Chilam Cheung
White Flames - Miriam Yeung
Taste of Love - Miriam Yeung
Eternal Happiness Sub - Raymond Lam
Eternal Happiness - Kelly Chan
Golden Faith - Gallen Law
Family Man - Flora Chan + William So
Ups and Downs in the sea of love - nick cheung
Survivor's Law - Raymond Lam
Take my word for it sub - Chilam Cheung
Seed of Hope - Patrick Tam
Triumph in the skies - eason chan
War and Beauty - Bowie Lam

[cowtown]

Guess i'm more oldschool... blush
All time favorites,

Legend of the COndor Heroes 1,2,3: Roman Tam and Yan Lei...some of u mentioned the 1st and 3rd one, but my favorite was actually the 2nd. But all 3 songs are just simply classics in its own right.

Fearless Duo: Alan Tam
Absolutely the best heart-wreching lyrics! It applied perfectly to the story of the series. Sometimes i can't help myself thinking of barbara yung's own real-life tragic death whenever i hear this song. Just so sad! Who can change...???

The Bund: Francis Yip
Beautifully composed and sung, very heroric sounding.

Looking back in Anger: Danny Chan
Deep-emotional lyrics that summed up the 'evil-road'of deric wan in the show. I luv the last line translate something like, "I never imagined what I have lost, was everything I had."

Greed of Man: Alan Tam
Everytime i hear this song, clips of the series flash in my mind, especially when ding hai threw his sons off the building.

Other memrable ones:
The Link: Andy Lau
The Zu Mountain Saga: Deric Wan and Nnadia Chan
Conscience: Deric Wan(it might actually be the sub)
Return of Wong Fei Hung: Dicky Cheung
Heartstrings: Aaron Kwok
Secret of the Heart: Gallen Lo(2nd half one)
Healing Hands: Instrumental (subs by william so&edmond leung too)

This post has been edited by cowtown: 07 September 2004 - 11:01 AM

[PhantomGaL]

cowtown, on Sep 7 2004 10 29 AM, said:

Guess i'm more oldschool... blush
All time favorites,

Legend of the COndor Heroes 1,2,3: Roman Tam and Yan Lei
Fearless Duo: Alan Tam
The Bund: Francis Yip
Looking back in Anger: Danny Chan
Greed of Man: Alan Tam
The Link: Andy Lau
The Zu Mountain Saga: Deric Wan and Nnadia Chan
Conscience: Deric Wan(it might actually be the sub)
Return of Wong Fei Hung: Dicky Cheung
Heartstrings: Aaron Kwok
Secret of the Heart: Gallen Lo(2nd half one)
Healing Hands: Instrumental (subs by william so&edmond leung too)

It's cool to like older songs...I find them not bad too
Some of them are really memorable till today, classic!

[Zyphere]

Personally the song from Duke of Mount Deer 2000 sung by Dicky Cheung and played in the last episode near the end (when he was walking away from the emperor and the camera was zooming out on the great wall) was quite memorable. Maybe it had something to do with the scenery, I dunno.

Most of the TVB themes sung by Eason I really like (then again I've always been a fan of his music). THere are a lot of other TVB series themes that I like, probably too many to list, but just to name a few:

The songs from Golden Faith (not just the theme)
Eternal Happiness theme by Kelly Chen
Return of Condor Heros '96 (or 95) by Emil Chau and some lady
Healing Hands theme

This post has been edited by Zyphere: 09 September 2004 - 04:12 AM

[forever_autumn]

many memorable songs for me, but i'll just pick some of my personal favourites

A Herbalist Affair, sang by Flora Chan & Andy Hui
Where THe Legend Begins themesong & subsong, sang by Steven Ma
Perish in the Name of Love, all the songs, sang by Steven Ma & Charmaine Sheh
Family Man subsongs, sang by Flora Chan
Duke of Mount Deer 2000, sang by Dicky Cheung