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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jul 16, 2018 12:33:35 GMT -5
So I was a huge fan of ECW back in the day - like most were who watched it - and I thought I would try out the WWE Network's ECW footage to see how it is. I have to admit the picture quality is amazing, as is the sound quality. I taped my stuff off TV back in the day, so the quality was never crystal clear like it is on the Network, so that is neat.
So I watched an episode and sure, the wrestling was fun to watch again, a lot of cool stuff, but there was one thing drastically missing.....
The music!
I don't care what anyone says, the music of ECW helped make those shows enjoyable. The hype central stuff with "All The Way Live" by Coolio playing in the background. The upcoming events where they would play House of Pain's "Shamrock and Shenanigans" or "Sad But True" by Metallica. Or all the music videos from back in the day, like Mr. Hughes, Public Enemy, Shane Douglas, and Raven & Dreamer.
I think the one thing that gets me the most is when I watched Dreamer/Sandman vs. RVD/Sabu and Sandman and Dreamer came down to the WWE's generic "Boxed Man" theme song they made for Tommy, which sounds like Man In The Box. Yet when you watch the actual clip (I found it on youtube) it was Enter Sandman that was used.
I get that they can't use the actual music from the bands for the shows on the Network, but when the WWE can re-due Tommy's "Man In The Box" and Shane's "Perfect Strangers" for them, why can't they do their own version of Enter Sandman?? Hell, Motorhead did a version, I am sure Triple H could have gotten the rights to that.
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Post by The Brain on Jul 16, 2018 12:49:09 GMT -5
Yep no doubt the music made ECW that much better. Don't forget this song for the end promos!!!...
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Post by zoomfactor32 on Jul 16, 2018 13:26:14 GMT -5
This is a bummer to hear! I recently subscribed to the Network and ECW was on my list to re-watch. I had a feeling they wouldn't be able to use the original music, but at least now I'm prepared to not hear it. Oh well, it will still be fun to watch again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 14:30:20 GMT -5
Yeah the dubbing over the music kills it for me too. I understand why they do it, but it still sucks. I'd rather watch my discs of the original airings and the picture quality isn't that bad.
By any chance do you guys know the song that was playing in the background when Lance Wright would advertise the ECW shirt in 1995?
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Post by vampiroporvida on Jul 17, 2018 14:39:56 GMT -5
Are all the shows censored, specifically the ppvs?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2018 14:50:38 GMT -5
Are all the shows censored, specifically the ppvs? Probably.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2018 15:48:50 GMT -5
Man,that sucks alot of life out of it. I get it,but still lame. I'd like to think if it were my song, I'd donate it or at least ask for cheaper royalties. Didn't one of the games do it also with the nWo theme? I remember hearing some atrocious knock off.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Jul 17, 2018 16:16:10 GMT -5
New Jack’s matches are the worst because Natural Born Killaz would play his entire match and the audio isn’t isolated so they can’t just remove it so they play some really bad canned music over top of it.
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Post by c-scope on Jul 17, 2018 18:08:21 GMT -5
Are all the shows censored, specifically the ppvs? no the PPVs aren’t censored
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Post by k5 on Jul 17, 2018 18:48:09 GMT -5
100% agreed. i was only 9 when I watched my first ecw show and that was in 1999 so I’d already missed it. luckily a few years ago I found close to every hardcore tv on dailymotion and just watched through - it was like a time capsule to the 90s.
if it wasn’t owned by that pedophile rob Feinstein, I would’ve bought all the hardcore tv dvds from RF a long time ago.
and yeah, filter’s ‘hey man nice shot’, early 90s hip hop, the music was great.
being able to hear their dial up in commercials was always funny too, some rough editing.
I just watched an epic hardcore tv on dailymotion from 94 where they went through terry funk’s run in ecw and feud with Sabu. great stuff.
and that music video of desperado with funk in 97 literally drew tears from me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2018 19:04:25 GMT -5
Are all the shows censored, specifically the ppvs? no the PPVs aren’t censored So the cursing is not censored on the network???
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Post by c-scope on Jul 17, 2018 19:06:47 GMT -5
no the PPVs aren’t censored So the cursing is not censored on the network??? nope
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Post by Nivro™ on Jul 17, 2018 20:51:31 GMT -5
Yea it sucks but its to be expected. All the ECW DVDs released years ago had dubbed music. WCW is the same way
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Post by 235guy on Jul 27, 2018 9:43:18 GMT -5
I am a huge fan of the original ECW. recently re-watched the Unreleased dvds and still own a couple of the music cds
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