It is a fantastic theme tune. I also love the cartoon. Raven rawks totally (I'm such a goth) but I think Robin is a mistake. He's a bloody sidekick FFS not a hero in his own right. It is totally badong.
The original Teen Titans roster was all sidekicks - Robin, Aqualad, Wonder Girl[1], Kid Flash and Speedy (the Green Arrow's sidekick - known as Arsenal these days). It was very much the Teen Sidekick Club. Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy (aka Changeling) and Starfire were introduced in the 1980s, when Marv Wolfman was asked to develop "The New Teen Titans". I think that's the incarnation of the team that's most fondly remembered, though I suspect the real reason those characters were picked for the TV show is that, being created for the book, they don't intersect with any other license. (As a corporation you don't want to be in the position where, for example, Kid Flash is already licensed by Company Y when the Flash character gets licensed by Company X.) Robin was likely left in because of his relationship with Starfire, and also because frankly a Bat-family guest star never hurts.
There, more than you ever wanted to know about the Teen Titans.
[1] Which was actually a fuckup, Wonder Girl was never a sidekick, she was the adventures of Wonder Woman when she was a girl. But the editors didn't notice and the writers didn't care, and since then they've thought of all sorts of wonderful explanations for the problem, so who cares?
The full track has a bridge, I think maybe it is heard over the end credits, only there are words to it. It is so cool. I'm trying to download other things by Puffy AmiYumi, they are apparently a proper J-pop band.
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Date: 2005-04-11 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 10:41 pm (UTC)There, more than you ever wanted to know about the Teen Titans.
[1] Which was actually a fuckup, Wonder Girl was never a sidekick, she was the adventures of Wonder Woman when she was a girl. But the editors didn't notice and the writers didn't care, and since then they've thought of all sorts of wonderful explanations for the problem, so who cares?
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Date: 2005-04-11 10:06 pm (UTC)It is a kick ass theme tune!
If your heart is black you better watch out
Date: 2005-04-11 10:42 pm (UTC)Re: If your heart is black you better watch out
Date: 2005-04-11 10:50 pm (UTC)Ive only ever heard it off the cartoon (start and end credits).
Re: If your heart is black you better watch out
Date: 2005-04-11 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-12 08:44 am (UTC)i ♥ raven!