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** 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]]'' 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.
* ''[[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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* [[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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* 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.
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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.
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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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* ''[[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.
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* 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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