Thursday, June 15, 2006

ECW musings

Watched a clip of the new ECW. Unlike the old ECW, I realized that WWE wasn't going to shell out for licensed music, which is really a huge shame. The entrance music in the old ECW really added to the anti establishment feel.

The cool entrance themes that I remember:

Tommy Dream: Alice in Chains - Man in the box
Raven: The Offspring - Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
New Jack: Dr Dre and Ice Cube - Natural Born Killaz (this would be played during the entire match)
Rob Van Dam: Pantera - Walk


Never seen this one, but I'd imagine it must've been a riot.

Steve Austin: Andrew Lloyd Weber - Jesus Christ Superstar


Of course, the best one was definitely

Sandman: Metallica - Enter Sandman

The same sequence would happen every single time. The first chords of Enter Sandman would garner a huge pop from the crowd. Then the Sandman would appear somewhere in the audience with beers and cigarettes in hand. The Sandman would down a couple of beers and smash a couple of beer cans on his forehead. Then he'd finally hit the ring after 1-2 minutes. Fans usually ate this stuff up.