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{{trope}}
A trope growing more common every day. Need to breathe new life into old material, or just a way of keeping viewers tuning in? [['''Rearrange the Song]]''' associated with the property. It's a way to make old material fresh, or to take advantage of current musical trends and fads.
 
The staff of TV shows which have been running for many seasons have, on occasion, rearranged the theme song newly each season. A show that has a [[Spin-Off]] or a [[Time Skip]] sequel will occasionally arrange the new show's [[Theme Tune]] to hearken back to the original show. The beneficial effect of this, of course, is that they now have multiple versions of a song to appeal to [[Merchandise-Driven|multiple demographics]].
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With musicians, they can sometimes do [[Cover Version|cover versions]] of their own material as a method of pushing the envelope with their own work. Musicians also do it with other people's work as parody or homage.
 
It's also common in cases where a classic property has been made into [[The Movie]]. See also [[Diegetic Theme Tune Cameo]], [[Title Theme Drop]], [[Theme Tune Extended]], [[Rerelease the Song]].
 
{{examples}}
 
== Anime ==
* No theme has been rearranged more than the classic crooner's tune "Fly Me To The Moon" (itself a heavily rearranged version of an old waltz), which was the ending for ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. There's about 15 to 20 versions used for the show's ending, and that's for a 26-episode TV series. The ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' rendition "Fly Me To The Moon" is of itself a rearrangement. It was originally written by Bart Howard in 1954.
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* ''[[Di Gi Charat Nyo]]'' used a remix of Equal Romace, an end theme of Ranma1/2, as it's ending theme.
* The second season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' does this an interesting way. It plays the tune of the first season; ''backwards'', with enough variation to be an actual tune.
 
 
== Film ==
* A jazz version of the 1966 theme to ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' plays over the closing credits to the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movie.
** The movies also feature an extra singing the theme at some point.
* Ang Lee's [[The Incredible Hulk]] movie features a few brief moments where you can hear "The Lonely Man," best known as the delicate piano theme from the 70's70s TV show.
* Rap versions of the theme to ''[[The Addams Family]]'' are played over the closing credits of both movies.
* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney movies]] simultaneously release the version one hears in the soundtrack, plus a version recorded by a popular recording artist arranged specifically for radio play with the intention of getting a hit single.
** Disney had produced (at least) three albums of rearranged songs: "Simply Mad About The Mouse" (which had it'sits own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luoPNxyi2fE&feature=PlayList&p=990A41B1699BE352&index=0 TV special]), "Stay Awake" (which features [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_zaZ3utUY Tom Waits'] version of [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|the Seven Dwarfs' marching song]]), and an album featuring R&B and pop singers singing their favorite Disney songs.
* The ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission: Impossible]]'' movies featured at least one remixed version of the old theme, which was actually quite snappy (about the only thing I liked about the last two movies WAS''was'' the theme, in fact)
** And then there's the background music/muzik version in that infamous Scientology video (at least one person was surprised that it was actually being played and not a repeated clip).
* The film version of ''[[Dragnet]]'' (starring Dan Ackroyd) does this to its theme.
* The sequel to ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' had the iconic [[Theme Tune]] rearranged to a rap by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWOaAJtjgI Run DMC].
** Cartoon sequel ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' had a much more sinister version of the classic theme, in keeping with the series' [[Darker and Edgier]] mood.
* The [[James Bond]] movies have rearranged the iconic theme music many times over. It sounds particularly good on electric guitar.
* Hedwig's Theme from the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films has been tweaked, rearranged, and reworked in an effort to keep it fresh and slightly unpredictable. Other themes have had this done, too.
* The ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' remake features a ''lounge'' version of [[Disturbed]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-aM1HOZgsA&NR=1 "Down With The Sickness"] (by [[Richard Cheese]], an expert in this).
* For [[ZZ Top]]'s cameo in ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'', they play a country version of "Doubleback" (the original plays during the film's credits).
* The ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' Movie contains an [[Up to Eleven|even more epic-sounding]] arrangement of the TV Show's theme. Doubles as a [[Wasted Song]], since roughly 40 seconds (If we're being generous) of the song is actually used in the film.
* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' (2009) has a newer version of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''' opening theme, complete with a [[Opening Narration|closing narration]] by {{spoiler|Spock-Prime}}.
* [[Terminator Salvation]] Danny Elfman "Salvation" track is a new arrangement of theme by [[Brad Fidel]].
* ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' used a more epic, beefed-up version of the regular ''[[Recess]]'' theme.
* ''The X-Files: I Want To Believe'' features a remix of the theme song in the credits.
 
== Live -Action TV ==
 
* ''[[The Bill]]'' has rearranged its theme music five times in its 26 years on the air. The original version of the theme was arranged in the irregular time signature of 7/4, giving it almost a reggae style beat. But subsequent rearrangements have been done in the regular time signature of 4/4, making them considerably less interesting as a result. In 2009 however, the theme was changed completely, to a darker and edgier theme to fit with the show's retool, albeit with a small homage to the original theme. At the end of the final episode, a new rearranged version of the original theme played, although similar in tone to the 2009 theme.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Bill]]'' has rearranged its theme music five times in its 26 years on the air. The original version of the theme was arranged in the irregular time signature of 7/4, giving it almost a reggae style beat. But subsequent rearrangements have been done in the regular time signature of 4/4, making them considerably less interesting as a result. In 2009 however, the theme was changed completely, to a darker and edgier theme to fit with the show's retool, albeit with a small homage to the original theme. At the end of the final episode, a new rearranged version of the original theme played, although similar in tone to the 2009 theme.
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' arranged its same theme music differently every season. It was just an instrumental the first season. But in later seasons it was rearranged as a salsa song, acapella(performed by Bobbie McFerrin), a ballet, and in the final season, an [[Homage]] to / [[The Jimmy Hart Version]] of the old song "Shotgun", but still recognizable as the same song the show had started out with.
* The ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' theme seems to change every 10 episodes. And every time it does, the original tune becomes less and less recognizable.
* ''[[Growing Pains]]'' always had the same theme song, but there were different versions of it. BJ Thomas was the main vocalist from 1985-1991, using a solo version for the first year before being joined by Jennifer Warnes and later, Dusty Springfield; the music itself was reworked a couple of times. During the final season, an a capella version was used.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has rearranged its theme several times: three times in the '80s to "modernize" it, again in the TV movie, then three times with the new series. The original Radiophonic Workshop version of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' theme underwent a few rearrangements in the 60s and 70s. Arranger Delia Derbyshire added "electronic spangles" for the Patrick Troughton incarnation, and then in the 70s she added the electronic "scream" preceding the closing titles and the sound effect at the end. Series 1-3 of the new series use orchestral arrangements of the theme played over the top of the Radiophonic version, while series 4 rearranges some of the orchestral elements and adds guitars and drums, giving it a rock and roll theme. Series 5 is more electronic uses a bassline reminiscent of the 80s versions (and is rather funky) accompanied by a new grand and haunting orchestral melody, a constant drum beat, and even a chorus.
** In Series 3 of the new series, "Martha's Theme" sounds almost like a reworking of "The Doctor Forever," the 10th Doctor's [[Leitmotif]] from that series (or vice-versa, given their introduction around the same time).
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' also rearranged their version of "[[The Who|Baba O'Riley]]" in Season 4.
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* [[MTV]]'s ''Unplugged'' series is pretty much devoted to this trope.
* Each episode of ''[[The Prisoner]]'' used a slightly different mix of its opening theme tune.
* The final season of ''[[Blake's Seven7|Blakes Seven]]'' used a faster and jollier muzak-like version of the theme for its end credits only, without changing the opening credit version. This created a rather odd effect after some of the grimmer episodes of the show, especially [[Kill'Em All|the last one]].
** Incoming producer Vere Lorrimer wanted lyrics over the end credits. They were going to be sung by Steven Pacey (Tarrant). Thankfully we were spared that.
{{quote|There's a distant star in a distant sky
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Oh my love, that's where we must fly,
and let the world go by, just you and I.
 
 
Come, hit the Stardust Trail, we'll throw our cap at Mars;
we'll catch a comet's tail, and we'll sail to the stars!
 
 
Though the years go by like a silver stream,
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* [[Blackadder]]'s theme song was always mostly the same, but was preformed on different instruments with slight variations each season to reflect the change in time period.
** ''The Black Adder'', the first season, has the theme song performed mostly with trumpets and timpani, with parody [[Bragging Theme Tune]] lyrics.
** ''Blackadder II'' used a combination of recorder, string quartet and electric guitar, with lyrics recapping the individual episode over the closing credits.
** ''Blackadder the Third'''s theme was performed on on oboe, cello and harpsichord, with no lyrics.
** The theme for ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' was performed by a military band, with no lyrics, combined with "The British Grenadiers".
*** The final scene featured a slow piano piece played over a field of poppies.
** The Christmas special ''Blackadder's Christmas Carol'' featured the song as sung by carolers, with new appropriate lyrics.
** ''Blackadder: The Cavalier Years'', a sketch, and ''Blackadder: Back & Forth'', the half-hour film, used an orchestral version.
* The opening credits and main title theme of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' was modified between seasons 3 and 4.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' got rearranged theme music from season 3 on, but they kept the original arrangement for the closing credits.
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' had its theme rearranged for its fifth season. The fans hated it. So it switched back to the original arrangement for the very final episode.
 
 
== Music ==
* [[Elvis Costello]] rearranged "Watching the Detectives" to an Orchestral Big Band number out of the 1950s.
* [[Wings (band)|Paul McCartney]] has done this repeatedly from [[The Seventies]] on. His album ''Wingspan'' has two different mixes of "No More Lonely Nights" on it, and he once released a classical album in which half the pieces were reworkings of lesser-known songs of his. Then there are the concert versions of "Maybe I'm Amazed" (which is usually as good as the original), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"--though—though he probably borrowed that one from [[Jimi Hendrix]]--and—and the "Carry That Weight {(You Never Give Me Your Money)" mix. (Two [[The Beatles|Beatlesongs]] he wrote most of, with one major melody in common...)
* [[Miyuki Nakajima]] redoes her songs for her ''Yakai'' stage shows, sometimes even completely and ''literally'' rearranging them, as with the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwr63E9r4Y&feature=related Kodoku no Shouzo]." (The original can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np-xT3StTdM here].)
* [[Eric Clapton]] has done a soulful, unplugged version of his own song, "Layla." [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402040912/http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/archive2007/badcovers/part3.html Opinions vary].
* [[The Police]] released a 1985 remix of "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
** Sting did a piano and voice version of "[[Unfortunate Names|Roxanne]]" for the Live Aid show.
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* The ''Split Enz'' tribute album "eNZso" features old hits retooled into orchestral versions performed by various vocalists and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
* Used liberally in Irish rock band [[Gaelic Storm]]'s stage shows where they'll announce that one of their shows has been picked up by <insert famous singer> and then performing the song in the given style of the artist.
* Shudder To Think's Craig Wedren apparently likes doing this with his song "Day Ditty": Shudder To Think first recorded it as a 2 minute minimal ballad on ''Funeral At The Movies'', then it later reappeared on the ''First Love Last Rites'' soundtrack as a fairly lavish 4 minute Phil Spector homage, with Angela McCluskey on guest vocals. And then Wedren's more electronic-based project BABY retitled it "Leaving Day Ditty" and gave it more of a trip-hop feel.
* [[Kylie Minogue]] has done this alot. She has remade various songs into ballads, jazz, and electronica.
* [[One-Hit Wonder]] trance group Binary Finary's "1998" has seen about a dozen arrangements.
* [[One-Hit Wonder]] Real Life rearranged "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zBjYIyz-0 Send Me an Angel]" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6WIbx8ysE in 1989] to a more Hi-NRG type sound, this version has frequently been [[Misattributed Song|misattributed]] to the [[Pet Shop Boys]] or [[Erasure]].
* Ayla's self titled single, originally released in 1996, was rearranged by DJ Taucher(Ralph Armand Beck) in 1997, so much that it sounded nothing like the original, which promptly faded into obscurity. In turn, DJ Tandu (another alias of Ingo Kunzi, the [[I Am the Band|main man]] behind Ayla) did a rearrangement based on Taucher's version in 1999, then that version itself was covered by Kosmonova.
* [[Radiohead]] has done this with "Morning Bell" (rearranged on their next album, ''Amnesiac'', as (appropriately enough) "Morning Bell/Amnesiac") and the b-side "Fog" (a live piano version titled "Fog (Again)").
* The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu aka [[The KLF]] are credited with pioneering a new approach to song mixing. They would continually tweak, remix, and rerelease their material, with no version being the definitive one. Engineer Mark Stent told ''Sound on Sound'' magazine:
{{quote|It was in working with Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty that things really started to happen in a new way, using mixing as a work-in-progress, rather than an end stage. We were running everything live in the studio, from sequencers and samplers. Obviously there was also stuff on tape, but they would come in with their Ataris and Akai samplers, and we would end up rearranging the whole song whilst mixing things. They would then take away what we did, work on it again, and come back a while later, and I'd mix stuff again. My KLF work put me in the picture, and after that the phone never stopped ringing.}}
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* When The Violent Femmes had to re-record "Blister In The Sun" for the ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'' soundtrack, they submitted one version that was as close to the original in arrangement as possible, and one that slowed down the tempo and had it's signature guitar riff played by a horn section instead. Both ended up on the soundtrack, with the second version being dubbed "Blister 2000".
* When "No Rain" became Blind Melon's biggest hit and they started getting bored of playing it at every show, they started playing a much slower, psychedelic blues version of the song, which arguably fit it's lyrics about depression [[Lyrical Dissonance|better than the relaxed folk-rock of the original]]. A studio recording of this version appeared on the rarities collection ''Nico'' under the title "No Rain (Ripped Away Version)".
* [[Ministry]]'s "Halloween (2010 Evil Version)" essentially updates their old [[Synth Pop]] single "Everyday Is Halloween" to their current [[Industrial Metal]] sound.
* On [[Skinny Puppy]]'s 1987 double album CD, ''Bites & Remission'', "Assimilate" and "The Choke" were reworked as the "R23" and "Regrip" mixes, respectively. The stand-alone CD rerelease of ''Remission'' included revamps of "Film" and "Icebreaker", the latter of whose intro was extended into a prelude track titled "Manwhole".
* The surviving members of [[Queen]] rerecorded "We Are The Champions" with Robbie Williams in 2001, for the soundtrack to ''A Knight's Tale''.
* "Not Over Yet" by Grace (a project of Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) was rearranged by Planet Perfecto (another Oakenfold supergroup) in 1999, then more drastically as "It's Not Over" in 2006 on Oakie's ''A Lively Mind'' album.
* [[Fear Factory]] collaborated with Gary Numan to remake his hit single [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmW021hqzI "Cars"] [[In the Style Of]] [[Industrial Metal]].
* In addition to having a straight [[Unplugged Version]] of the song, Tonic also released an "Adult Version" of "If You Could Only See": This was a lighter and softer take on the song tailored specifically for soft rock stations.
* Nena released a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRZ1RPf_d_E completely new version] of her famous 1980s hit "99 Luftballons" in 2002.
* [[Older Than Radio]] in religious circles, as hymns have often been sung with new melodies and new arrangements for hundreds of years. That famous melody that everyone knows? Probably not the original melody the hymn was first sung with. More recently, Christian artists have taken to reusing the lyrics and adding new choruses to them. For example, Chris Tomlin's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-4NFvI5U9w Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)].
* Assemblage 23's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdfTVXAb0Y "Decades V2"], released on the ''Meta'' album, is a revamped version of the original [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvLPA3anNI&feature=related "Decades"] that was released on the compilation ''Accession Records: Volume 3''.
* The Police did a more electronic-based re-arrangement of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" called "Don't Stand So Close To Me 86" for their [[Greatest Hits Album]] ''Every Breath You Take: The Singles''. Supposedly they had planned on making an entire album of re-arranged versions of their hits instead of a traditional greatest hits album, but only ended up finishing one song.
* The US version of [[Covenant]]'s "Edge of Dawn", from ''Dreams of a Cryotank'', is a bit different from the original European version, with rerecorded vocals and a [[Vader Breath]]-like sample during the intro. The US edition of the album also had a remixed version of "Theremin" as a bonus track.
* [[Kraftwerk]]'s ''The Mix'' is a compilation of rearrangements of their greatest hits.
* ''O' Cracker Where Art Thou?'' had Cracker rearranging their own songs in more of a bluegrass style, in collaboration with Leftover Salmon.
* [[Sound Horizon]] almost always plays rearranged versions of their songs on Territorial Expansion tours. How much they rearrange any given song varies. Sometimes it's simply rearranging the vocalists, other times they change they change the instrumentation or make [[Medley|medleysmedley]]s, and then there was the one time they did a duet version "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi" -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSyPAJ8M7wA On an accordion.]
* Sixties mod group The Creation did a much more synthesized rendition of "Making Time" for their aborted 80's comeback album ''Psychedelic Rose''. Unfortunately for those looking for the original version, only the eighties remake is available on itunes.
* In the line-dance era (mid-1990s), countless [[Country Music]] songs were given "dance mixes" that mainly consisted of amping up the bass and drums, and adding an instrumental "breakdown" in the middle to draw out the song for another minute or two.
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* Alex Megane's trance/dance hit "Hurricane" was remixed in 2009 with a new singer.
* Humpty Vission & Rozalla - "Everybody's Free 2000"
* The 1993 compilation ''No Alternative'' featured a live version of The [[Beastie Boys]]' "New Style" that was entirely different from the ''Licensed To Ill'' version aside from most of the lyrics - it seemed like an attempt to update the song to their current sound.
* Groove Coverage has reworked their cover of Mike Oldfield's "Moonlight Shadow" at least twice, first as a [[Softer and Slower Cover]] in 2006, then as an electro-rap version with P.S.Y. in 2012.
* [[Pizzicato Five]] was truly adept remixing and re-cutting their themes for different releases. "Airplane" received a more rock-heavy rearrangement, "Airplane '96". The upbeat, melodic and [[Lyrical Dissonance|lyrically dissonant]] "Triste" was rearranged into a more string-heavy composition that makes it feel almost like a different song entirely.
 
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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* The Rock's theme evolved from the Nation's theme.
* Hard to believe after almost 20 years of gradual remixing and added levels of epic but the Undertaker's theme is ultimately a version of Chopin's Funeral March.
* Stone Cold Steve Austin's iconic in-house music was remixed with lyrics by [[Disturbed]] when he made his highly publicized return in September 2000, all up until July 2001, when he made an ill-fated heel turn and used a one-time-only slowed-down version. Afterwards he used a theme that [[The Jimmy Hart Version|vaguely sounded]] like H-Blockx's "Oh, Hell Yeah" until the end of the Invasion.
* Kurt Angle's theme in the WWF/WWE took a slight turn around 2006 with his [[Heel Face Turn]]. By this time, it was practically obliged for people to chant "[[You Suck]]!" during a two-note solo melody in his song. The newer version edited this portion out, so as to keep people from chanting it regardless of his Face turn.
** Ironically, the chants were originally just his name, with the crowd singing "Angle!" along with the music, inspired by an Edge and Christian bit where they played his theme on a kazoo. It wasn't until later that it turned into "[[You Suck]]!" You'd think the crowd would just go back to chanting his name.
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* [[The Rock]]'s theme – basically, based off his [[Catch Phrase|signature line]] "If you smeeeellllllll .... what the Rock ... is ... cookin'!" – has been reworked many times.
* During Jacques Rougeau's run as rouge lawman The Mountie, he used the narcissist "I'm the Mountie!" (a heel marching tune) as his entrance theme. When he began teaming with Pierre Oulette as The Quebecers in 1993, the theme was reworked to "We're Not the Mounties," with Rougeau and Oulette re-recording the theme as a duet. The instrumentation was slightly re-worked, but the only changes to the lyrics were the title line and first-person pronouns (e.g., I, my) were made plural (we and our, respectively).
 
 
== Radio ==
* Radio 4's ''PM'' has a business news section called "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Upshares, Downshares]]". Every week, it's introduced by a different arrangement of the ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' theme, many of them sent in by listeners.
 
 
== Theatre ==
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* The 2011 stage adaptation of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' uses the full original lyrics of "Arabian Nights", and also restores the [[Cut Song|previously unused]] reprises of that song.
* The songs in [[Jersey Boys]] are subtly rearranged from the original versions by the [[Four Seasons]]. Most of the songs are slightly faster, with a different instrument mix and a verse cut out so they can all fit in a two-hour musical.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' and ''We Love Katamari'' have the same tune rearranged several times.
* ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]'' reuses quite a few of its tunes in this fashion.
* ''[[Command and& Conquer|Command and Conquer: Red Alert]]'' 's constant changing of the classic "Hell March" theme.
* Both of ''[[Halo]]'''s sequels rearranged the characteristic theme in several ways.
* ''[[Time Crisis]] 3'' uses a very different theme tune than the other installments, although you can still hear vestiges of the original, and on top of that, it features an epic rearrangement of Wild Dog's theme. In turn ''TC 3'''s theme was rearranged for the fourth game.
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** [[Super Mario Bros.]] uses this frequently, both in its rearrangements of the overworld and underworld themes from the first game for subsequent games, and (especially in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'') also within a game.
* ''[[Rainbow Six]]: Lockdown'' switched to a rock version of the series theme. In fact, every installment reworked the main theme in some way.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games since ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' have used an orchestral rearrangement of the game's theme song (or, in that first case, Sonic's [[Image Song]]) for the final boss fight; ''[[Sonic Unleashed|Unleashed]]'' uses an orchestral version of "Endless Possibility" and ''[[Sonic Colors|Colors]]'' has an orchestral version of "Reach for the Stars". ''[[Sonic Generations|Generations]]'' lacks this, as its soundtrack is comprised almost entirely of remixes of songs from older games, and as such it doesn't have a proper theme song.
* The first ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' used a rearrangement of the series' traditional title screen music that added a new part to the melody. The second one took that part and made it the main melody, with the traditional melody still appearing, but only later in the song.
* For its ''Anniversary'' [[Enhanced Remake]], ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' had its soundtrack re-recorded and remastered by Pyramind Studios, as well as having its orchestral pieces conducted by the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' is a mostly new song, but threaded through it, arranged Action Movie style is an instrumental arrangement of the first two sung lines from the original, bubblegum pop-style ''[[Ben 10]]'' theme song.
* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' got a new version of the [[Theme Tune]] to go with the [[Art Shift]] in Season 2. The original version was sort of light and mystical-sounding. The Season 2 rearrangement was full of crunchy guitar and was definitely made to sound more like rock.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' theme has been rearranged countless times in the series, to the point where it is almost a [[Running Gag]].
** But that's mostly during the closing credits, within the body of an episode, or on special episodes. There have only been three versions of the main opening theme: the original [[Danny Elfman]] arrangement, another Elfman arrangement for season 2, and the Alf Clausen arrangement from season 3 onward.
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* ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' turns the franchise's famous theme song into a sinister [[Alternative Rock]] number.
* In the first season of ''[[The Raccoons]]'', the ending theme "Run With Us" was sung by Steve Lunt and was a [[Single-Stanza Song]], but in all subsequent seasons, it was performed by Lisa Lougheed ([[The Danza|Lisa Raccoon]]) [[Rewritten Pop Version|with additional lyrics]].
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'', Buddy follows up playing his beautiful, haunting harp masterwork "[[Bilingual Bonus|Sioni Bod Da]]" by grabbing his guitar and playing a Music With Rocks version of the same piece. The [[Animated Adaptation]]'s "The Messenger" captures this beautifully.
* Virtually all of the music in ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' is the theme song rescored to match the musical style of the part of the world that episode takes place in.
* For a scene in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' where [[Batman]], [[Green Lantern]] and [[Wonder Woman]] (along with more era-appropriate heroes like [[Jonah Hex]] are riding through the [[Wild West]] on horses on their way to the lair of the episode's [[Big Bad]], a Western-ised version of the theme music from the original Justice League plays.
 
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