Some of the reasons attributed were: absence of good title song, shoddy and hasty animation and the failed hype associated with the past four movies.
Maeda wrote and composed the two songs "Doll", performed separately by Lia and Aoi Tada, and "Human", performed by Lia; both versions of "Doll" were used as the main ending theme songs for the second season of the anime series Gunslinger Girl in 2008, while "Human" was used for the final episode.
In 2001 Zeebra released the single "Never Enuff", the theme song for a Japanese movie called Brother, directed by Takeshi Kitano and starring Claude Maki.
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The theme music for the show was the 2nd movement from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata (Sonata No 8 in C minor), performed by Haas himself; and Haas started every show with his trademark greeting "Hello everyone."
For several years, Arthur opened his radio show with the theme song from The Muppet Show.
It included the tune "Parisian Pierrot," sung by Gertrude Lawrence, which proved to be Coward's first big hit and one of his signature tunes.
Probably the most popular cavatina is a melody for classical guitar by Stanley Myers that was subsequently used as the theme for The Deer Hunter.
The song – an answer song to Run-D.M.C.'s "Sucker M.C.s (Krush-Groove 1)" – did not sell in quantity upon its first release, but Ben Liebrand reworked the song in 1990, including a sample of the theme song from the American sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie.
His composition "I Could Be So Good For You" was recorded by Dennis Waterman for the theme tune of the ITV series Minder and became a Top 10 hit single in the United Kingdom during 1980.
Every three weeks, he tapes 10 cases a day over three days previously in Houston where the show was based (once Texas Justice was cancelled, its courtroom set and theme song was used for Judge Alex); Ferrer then flies back home to Miami, where he lives with his wife and two children.
That song sampled "Ghosts", the theme music song from the 2002 film The Road to Perdition, and was featured in the 2005 British/Canadian film, It's All Gone Pete Tong.
The series uses two Leonard Cohen songs, "Everybody Knows" and "Ain't No Cure for Love", as theme music.
The iconic theme music to the programme, "Pop Looks Bach" by Sam Fonteyn, has changed very little over the years and is well-known to the British public.
Each with common running themes that have survived to make appearances on later records, namely, Stephen Hawking references and The Tony Bear Theme.
Rhodes recorded the theme music for the Firefly television series, "The Ballad of Serenity", which was written by the series' creator, Joss Whedon.
In 2013 it was used as the theme music for Channel 4's Anna and Katy - the choice of the show's co-writers and performers, Anna Crilly and Katy Wix.
This was the first episode to feature the animated title sequence designed by Gerald Scarfe, and the theme music composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Themes from Mr. Lucky, the Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (also referred to as TV Action Jazz Volume 2) is the second album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his All Stars to feature interpretations of theme music from private eye, legal and police drama television programs recorded in 1960 for the RCA Camden label.
Troldspejlet has been shown on Danish television channel DR1 since 1989, and uses the Gremlins 2 End Credits theme from the American horror-comedy film Gremlins 2 as signature tune.
TV Action Jazz! is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his All Stars featuring their interpretations of theme music from private eye, legal and police drama television programs recorded in 1959 for the RCA Camden label.
It was sung in the movie Safe in Hell by Nina Mae McKinney, and became the theme song of Louis Armstrong, who recorded it almost a hundred times during his career.
The theme music for the opening of the TV show was a version of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by Propellerheads
When one of Mom's sons says that Fry must be a genius of the highest order, they show him watching Sanford and Son, as indicated by the theme music heard.
As the program's theme music, Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, plays, Hitchcock appears in silhouette from the right edge of the screen, and then walks to center screen to eclipse the caricature.
In addition to the original film score composed by Richard Hartley, the Irish folk song "The Last Rose of Summer" is used as O'Hara's theme music throughout the film.
Ballblazers theme music, called "Song of the Grid" and heard between matches, was algorithmically generated, a technique designed by Lucasfilm Games team leader Peter Langston and called "riffology".
Delia Derbyshire, composer and electronic musician most famous for producing the 1963 realisation of the theme music to science-fiction TV series Doctor Who, and associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The show's opening theme music was "The Beanbag Song" by DeLugg, Lester and Willie Stein.
A portion of the traditional American religious song Simple Gifts (specifically, in the early years of the series, as adapted by American classical composer Aaron Copland for his ballet Appalachian Spring) is used as the CBS Reports theme music.
He is best remembered for his theme music to the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
"Woke Up This Morning" is well known as the opening theme music for the HBO drama series The Sopranos, although the mix used for the show is different from the one on this album.
In 2010, PAC started using their song "Evolution (Entering the New World)" as his theme music when wrestling in Dragon Gate.
His song "Donald the Dub" was used as the theme music to the BBC radio adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's The Oldest Member.
Various versions of "Way Down in the Hole" were used as the theme music for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits' original version for the second season.
Get Smart, Again! also reprises the television program's original theme music and opening credit sequence, which were absent from The Nude Bomb.
The intro theme music was Akinla, the final movement of the African Suite by Nigerian composer Fela Sowande.
In the 8th season of the aforementioned TV series, several artists covered it for the season's theme music, including Spinnerette, Against Me!, Kate Voegele, Susie Suh and Patrick Stump.
It received generally poor reviews which criticised inferior graphics and animation; however, Rob Hubbard's theme music, unique to this version, was considered a highlight.
The Kevin Turvey segments used as theme music the third movement alla marcia from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius; the first movement, intermezzo, was the theme of ITV's This Week current affairs programme.
The BBC used Nat King Cole's version of the song as their theme music for the mockumentary series Twenty Twelve.
Their early sound was obviously imitative of ska bands like Madness; they didn't bother to hide the influence, titling what became one of their earliest hit songs "Rakevet Laila Le-Kahir" ("Night Train to Cairo"), an homage to Madness' "Night Boat to Cairo", or "Geveret Sarah Hashchena" ("Miss Sarah, the Neighbour") that copied the theme, music and opening lyrics of Bob Dylan's "The Hurricane".
Since 1980, "My Mood" has been the closing theme music for the Friday 6:00 p.m. newscast on WRC-TV (NBC4), the NBC-owned television station in Washington, D.C..
In the Super NES, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation versions of the game Mega Man X3, Neon Tiger's stage theme music is extremely similar to this song.
From this release the band received international recognition, chosen as the theme music behind Sony PlayStation games and included in a major ad campaign screening during the American Super Bowl.
Bits of other music appear in the film, including theme music from Halloween, the Donovan song "Season of the Witch" (sung by the school play cast) and "Fix Up, Look Sharp" by British rapper Dizzee Rascal.
His ultimate goal is to have the group perform his own theme music in place of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Sponsored by Milwaukee's Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, the 60-minute show opened with theme music by Bernard Green.
It was also used as the theme music for the television series Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, which aired on BBC Three in the UK.
An instrumental version of "Ride My See-Saw" was used as the theme music for the Canadian morning programme Canada AM on CTV during the 1970s.
The introduction to the march is described as "in the style of the opening theme music to the BBC television series Warship".
The Astro Chicken theme music is a variation on the Chicken Reel, a traditional folk song best known for its use in animated cartoons.
The film is sometimes referred to by the titles Special Studies I Film II and Killer Doll. The music heard during the film is the theme music to Hey, Stop Stabbing Me! composed by one of the stars Sean Hall, along with fellow actor and musician Jack Shreck.
The show's theme music from its debut in 1976 until October 2011 was Isao Tomita's electronic rendition of Claude Debussy's Arabesque No. 1, from Tomita's album Snowflakes Are Dancing.
The theme music from Astro Boy is played prior to each train departure from the Yamanote Line platform, a homage to the series being set in the Takadanobaba area.
In production for its 6th Season, the show has played host to many celebrities and important personalities and remains an original African offering with such features as the theme music (Eri Okan/Conscience by King Sunny Ade) introducing viewers to a glimpse of the African soul.
The theme music was an updated version of the original composition by Norman Leyden and performed by Charles Randolph Grean, the show's musical director during its first season.
Theme music for the series was "The Elephant Never Forgets", a playful version of Beethoven's "Turkish March" in 1967 by electronic music pioneers Perrey and Kingsley.
The opening and closing theme music, composed by Loreena McKennitt, was released as the track titled "Tango to Evora" on her album "The Visit".
Why Aye Man was the theme music for the third, comeback, season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 2002, and its lyrics are based upon the same premise that the original series was based upon – that of Geordie tradesmen during the Thatcher years, going abroad to find work in Germany.
Kid You're A Dreamer by Perth band The Panics from their first album A House on a Street in a Town I'm From was used as the opening credits theme music for the series.
The War Lord, a 1965 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner or the film's theme music composed by Jerome Moross
It features Mark Snow's theme music from The X-Files series, as well as voice acting by the show's actors.
The theme music of Thierry la Fronde was a simple tune in the Dorian mode composed by Jacques Loussier, and performed on a brass instrument (possibly a French horn) for the melody.
The program begins with its theme music, a clip from John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
In his book A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, professional wrestler Chris Jericho states that he used Unskinny Bop as his entrance theme in his first professional match, and continued to use it as theme music while wrestling on the Canadian independent circuit in the early 1990s.
The most well-known theme music is the Leevi and the Leavings song Tuhannen markan seteli, used from 1983 to 1993.
The Bitmap Brothers co-operated with the British musician Tim Simenon to include the 1988 Bomb the Bass hip hop track "Megablast (Hip Hop On Precinct 13)" as theme music, which is also the origin of the game's subtitle.
Its theme music, typical of the time, was a bouncy tune with high-pitched vocals by a female and a male (a clip of this was featured in the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury).
In 2006 he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western film, A Shot in the West, for which he wrote the theme music.