An Ode To The ‘NCIS’ Theme Song And Its Many Turbo YouTube Remixes – Junkee

They did not have to go this hard.

NCIS is currently in its seventeenth season, despite there being no evidence that anyone has once tuned in on purpose. No one watches NCIS (except Trump voters, apparently); it simply happens in front of you, reaching out from the TV, theVideodromeof crime procedurals.

The shows theme song, however, does not simply happen. An intense psy-trance trackwritten by Numeriklab(who seem to have done nothing else), the NCIS Theme pulsates with way too much energy for this show.

The theme is better suited to a cybergoth day-rave under a bridge than the opening to a show about internal US Navy crime investigations. Thankfully, the conceptual approach behind the two-disc approach of NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack (Volume One) provides context.

While Disc 1, called Special Agent, offers songs from Oasis, Bob Dylan and Dashboard Confessional, Disc 2, Abbys Lab, is inspired by Pauly Perrettes goth forensic character. The theme, then, is something Abby would listen to.Abby was the differing element between the show and the thousands of its kind, including JAG, which is where it spun off from so it makes sense they signpost that right from the start of the show.

Abby is now gone, as Perrette said goodbye to the show in 2018 after suggesting a series of physical assaults led her to leave. ButNCIS continues.

So in ode to Perrettes character, put on your best baggy chained pants and listen to the bestNCIS remixes while drinking a slurpee and thinking about how NCIS was originally calledNavy NCIS, aka Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Metal band Ministry re-upped the theme song for the Abbys Lab disc of the official soundtrack, flecking it out with heavy guitar riffs. Halfway through, some industrial clangs come in underneath, and the BPM is kicked right up.

We would imagine Abby would listen to this song while waking up and putting her hair into side ponytails, possibly gnawing on the bones of a racoon.

There are so many fan-made remixes of the NCIS theme on YouTube. This one is by ReVeRsE, which is very cool. In it, they slow things down a little and let the airiness of the songs outro play out a bit, centring the piano for a searching break between the build-ups.

One commenter calls it very Russian, and we get it. Sure, theres a Euro-trance element here, sure, but this remix sounds most Russian through its coldness and irreparable sense of yearning.

If NCIS Theme remixes could win a Nobel prize, there would be an uproar if Theme Bootleg RainDropz! meets HardfuiZ Booty edit didnt take the medal. This hardstyle remix is like the NCIS team: unwavering and relentless in their cause to make the world a better place.

YouTuber MODIFICA7E uploaded this dubstep-lite remake in 2012, writing that they triedgiving the song a completely different feel, even though the melodies are pretty much the same as in the original. The end result should have been used in The Beach instead of Mobys Porcelain.

Jared Richards is a staff writer at Junkee, and is available to DJ your next event, provided that event be NCIS-themed. He is on Twitter.

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