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Subject: Raw tonight: who's getting called up? (OOfficial Thread for April 4, 2016)
CM Crunk
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 12:37 AM
quote:Originally posted by Count Zero
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
-Has there ever been a faction that Barrett's been a part of that he HASN'T been jumped out of? Sad to see ol' Bad News go,
especially with all of the potential the guy had at one time. Has there been any word on that second guy Meltzer or Alverez said gave their notice?
Because I'm starting to feel like it might be Sheamus. Dude seemed legitimately over it on the mic tonight.
Take a peek at the Reddit
AMA that Janners posted in Rumor Crap. IF it is to be completely believed, the "other notice" was Brie-Mode. She's going to do the thing
with the Daniel for the forseeable future, it would seem, with no contractual obligations to distract her.
etcorrectmyself.
[Edited on 4-5-2016 by Count Zero]
Thanks for the heads up Count. I appreciate it, but in the future I really wish you would pepper your words with a shaker full of aspergers and find a
way to passive aggressively imply that I was an idiot for asking such questions.
If only we had someone around here who was capable of that...
[Edited on 4/5/2016 by CM Crunk]
You are the vulgarian, you fuck!
First 9
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 12:49 AM
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
-Ecstatic to see Cesaro back. It's a shame his music is so blehhh because I seriously took a few milliseconds to recognize it as the Big Poppa
Pump alarm clouded my head in confusion. It's been said already plenty of times but it bears repeating: killen hasn't missed a step!
How this he still have that crappy theme? All the new NXT guys are getting good stuff with some like Nakamura's being fantastic.
CM Crunk
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 02:07 AM
quote:Originally posted by First 9
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
-Ecstatic to see Cesaro back. It's a shame his music is so blehhh because I seriously took a few milliseconds to recognize it as the Big Poppa
Pump alarm clouded my head in confusion. It's been said already plenty of times but it bears repeating: killen hasn't missed a step!
How this he still have that crappy theme? All the new NXT guys are getting good stuff with some like Nakamura's being fantastic.
Especially when his old remixed Dean Malenko theme worked just fine. In my opinion at least. It was unique, and even vaguely European sounding, which
fits him. Probably could've used a brand new recording session to polish it off properly, but they had to go and try to make some generic rock
based around the air raid siren.
And yes, Nakamura's theme was a thing of beauty. Honestly those CFO$ guys are building up a nice little catalogue of theme songs with WAY more
hits than misses. Enzo & Cass, Baron Corbin,
Austin Aries, American Alpha to name a few are all great and
distinctive to the person or persons entering to them. That's not even getting into the catchy ear-worm masterpieces that are
Bayley's, Sami
Zayn's,Becky Lynch's, Finn Balor's or
Sasha Banks' themes.
It should be noted though that they DO take some Jimmy Hart-like liberties with borrowing riffs and melodies from songs but they manage to do it in a
way that isn't as slap-you-in-the-face with the infringement as The Mouth Of The South was. More inspiration and borrowing of motifs than
outright thievery.
I know most of this info has been out there for a while but for those not aware take Asuka's theme and
compare it to King Diamond's 21st Century Schizoid Man, Samoa
Joe's and Pharoahe Monch's Simon Says (which itself samples the Godzilla theme) and finally
Shinsuke Nakamura's amazing new theme song and believe it or not,
Coldplay and Rihanna's Princess of China.
I know there are more examples, but short of starting a separate thread for modern themes I figure I'll just leave it at that.
You are the vulgarian, you fuck!
Count Zero
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 04:50 AM
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
Thanks for the heads up Count. I appreciate it, but in the future I really wish you would pepper your words with a shaker full of aspergers and find a
way to passive aggressively imply that I was an idiot for asking such questions.
If only we had someone around here who was capable of that...
[Edited on 4/5/2016 by CM Crunk]
[Edited on 4-6-2016 by Count Zero]
Originally posted by williamssl
"That hasn't stopped us from doing this shit before!"
"Checkmate, sir. Checkmate"
Larry Horrowitz
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 06:59 AM
Happy to see all the nxt callups. I wonder if they know that having your debut on smackdown instantly makes u seem not as important or if they think
its the same? That being said i dig the vaudevillians and hope they do well. Enzo and cass didnt miss a beat.
Sasha's face during charlottes presentation was a+. She looked legit jealous/sad/mad. Made the segment for me. She wants the title so bad it
kills her.
The Hitcher
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posted on 4-6-2016 at 12:04 PM
As someone who has a mild obsession with wrestling theme music... 10 years ago I thought it was better for the guys to use licensed music but CFO$ are
knocking it out of the park at the moment. Asuka, Sasha, Zayn, Owens and Aries recently stick out as really good and Nakamura's is next level. I
think, off the top of my head, only Nia Jaxx's theme objectively is bad and I think that's because it's just thematically at odds
with her character.
I'm sure there's a formula they're using (beyond the Jimmy Hart ripoff maneuver) that's making even the generic-rock sound
pretty badass but I'm glad my ear hasn't figured it out yet.
Also: I like Cesaro's theme in a bubble, it's just his old one was so much better I can't see why you'd change it beyond the
fact I think Jim Johnston is credited with it and maybe there's weird licensing issues because music is weird.
