What's your favourite opening/closing sequence?

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What's your favourite opening/closing sequence?

Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:36 am

It can be from any dub. My favourites are 'We Were Angels', 'Machine Gun', 'Yeah, Break, Care, Break', 'Dragon Ball Opening and Ending (English)' and this opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqrv1gf3NXU
Probably one of the best pieces of Original English dub music ever produced. I also enjoy the English movie ending which is a remix of the opening aI just mentioned. So what's yours?

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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:49 am

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqrv1gf3NXU
Probably one of the best pieces of Original English dub music ever produced. I also enjoy the English movie ending which is a remix of the opening aI just mentioned. So what's yours?
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On the Japanese side of things, I'll have to go with "Head-Cha-La" and "We Used To Be Angels".

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Post by Goku100xKamehameha » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:54 am

Dragon Soul(Vic version), Yeah!Break!Care!Break!(Japanese version), CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA, Let's Blast Through This Moment with a Rusted Machinegun, DAN DAN Kokoro Hikarete 'ku, Orange Hero, that's currently!
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Re: What's you're favourite opening/closing sequence?

Post by Metalwario64 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:00 am

Goku100xKamehameha wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:We Used To Be Angels
You used to? what happen?
He was wished back with the Dragon Balls. :lol:
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:06 am

Metalwario64 wrote:
Goku100xKamehameha wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:We Used To Be Angels
You used to? what happen?
He was wished back with the Dragon Balls. :lol:
I heard a bad joke.

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Post by Metalwario64 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:19 am

Piccolo Daimaoh wrote: I heard a bad joke.
Hey, he set himself up! :wink:

Anyway. I love Don't You See?, Cha-La Head-Cha-La, We Were Angels, Sabitsuita Machine Gun, and Yeah! Break! Care! Break! the most.

I dislike the dub's cover of Don't You See, because the main melody was removed for no reason at all, so the new main melody was originally backing harmony, or whatever you call it. It is incredibly obvious that those notes were not intended to be a main melody, and really messes up the song. Machine Gun's dub cover was decent, but suffered from the Japanese verison of Dragon Soul's main problem of having the notes not held long enough, which makes the song rather weak. That is the main reason I like Sean's Dragon Soul over the Japanese one, although Jerry Jewell's Yeah! Break! Care! Break! was very weak and boring.
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Re: What's you're favourite opening/closing sequence?

Post by B » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:25 am

The second set of Z themes, although it's not hard to be better than Cha-La and Zenkai.
GT endings 1-3 and The Jump Special's "Orange Hero" are also quite good. Where's this level of greatness for Kai's themes?
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Re: What's you're favourite opening/closing sequence?

Post by Echo64 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:57 am

We Were Angels is definitely one of my favorite endings, but for openings I would have to say either Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku or Dragon Soul, they both sound the same in my opinion.
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Post by BobZ » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:35 am

Gosh, I don't know. Dragon Ball music is just so nostalgic and beautiful, that it's hard to choose.
I loved "Rock The Dragon" when I was little and I did kind of grow up with it... but I don't have much tolerance for it now.
"Cha-La-Head-Cha-La" is a classical piece, indeed. As you can see from my signature, I really like it. The phrase below means a lot to me and it is also something like a personal motto for me these days. Anyways, "We Gotta Power" and "We Were Angels" are gorgeous, too. "Dan Dan" and both GT endings ("Blue Velvet" and I forgot the other one's name) are pretty neat themselves. And getting to Kai, I like everything so far: "Dragon Soul" (which you can occasionally catch me singing when I'm happy :lol:), "Yeah Break Care Break" (not a big fan of it, but I still find it enjoyable to an extent) and "Kokoro no Hane" (which is very pleasant to listen to).

And there is also an opening that has a special place in my heart, because it was really well made and I also associate it with the old days when I used to watch DBZ on TV. It's the Italian version, which is called "What Is My Destiny Dragon Ball". I'm not Italian myself and I don't speak Italian, but this is truly a beautiful piece of work. Take a look for yourselves:
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Post by SSJSteve » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:44 am

I have two favourite openings, "We Gotta Power" and "Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku", I love those songs so much. For endings, I would have to choose, "We Were Angels" and "Yeah Break Care Break". :)

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Post by oXdanXo » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:53 pm

"Rock the Dragon" and DBZ "International" openings which were on the TV. Still don't understand why they never put them on DVD even as an extra on the season sets. That would have been cool.
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Post by dragonpiece » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:05 pm

I couldn't choose; every Japanese song in the show was great. The real question has to be which was the worst.
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Post by TripleRach » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:22 pm

So is this thread about the songs and their animation sequences, or just the songs? Because most of the posts make it sound like the latter, and if so, this needs to be moved to the music forum. But if not, I know I would love to talk about the associated animations.
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Post by Akira » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:32 pm

Which one is my favorite? Coincidentally, the one we have never gotten in any of the North American releases. That being the second intro to Dragonball. Same song, different animation. I like the characters all parachuting at the beginning, and Teen Goku riding the Nimbus over ponds, fields, and a thunder and lightning sky with Tenkaichi Budokai wisps in the background. Then it closes with Piccolo Daimao's silhouette and Goku landing from a jump off Nimbus with the power pole drawn.

That intro had it all, and it is a real shame that we never got it in any of our Dragonball releases.
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Post by Paradox295 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:37 pm

oXdanXo wrote:"Rock the Dragon" and DBZ "International" openings which were on the TV. Still don't understand why they never put them on DVD even as an extra on the season sets. That would have been cool.
International? You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYolcGfT_8

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Post by Choice195 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:59 pm

Dragonball Kai's, "Dragon Soul" and "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!", Those Two are my favorite Opening's and Ending's :lol:
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:01 pm

Paradox295 wrote:
oXdanXo wrote:"Rock the Dragon" and DBZ "International" openings which were on the TV. Still don't understand why they never put them on DVD even as an extra on the season sets. That would have been cool.
International? You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYolcGfT_8

SERIOUSLY?!?!! O_o
That makes "Rock the Dragon" look like a musical masterpiece. :P

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Post by jjgp1112 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:14 pm

I find almost every Dragon Ball Z JP song to be incredibly silly. The only DB opening songs that I actually really like are the the two FUNi Dub DBZ BGMs, and Funi's dub version of the Dragon Ball theme song.
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Post by Goku100xKamehameha » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:18 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:I find almost every Dragon Ball Z JP song to be incredibly silly. The only DB opening songs that I actually really like are the the two FUNi Dub DBZ BGMs, and Funi's dub version of the Dragon Ball theme song.
Even Chala-Head-Chala?

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Post by jjgp1112 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:18 pm

Goku100xKamehameha wrote:
jjgp1112 wrote:I find almost every Dragon Ball Z JP song to be incredibly silly. The only DB opening songs that I actually really like are the the two FUNi Dub DBZ BGMs, and Funi's dub version of the Dragon Ball theme song.
Even Chala-Head-Chala?
Especially Head-Cha-La.
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