I absolutely love this show. It inspired me to go into the medical field to become an Emergency Medicine Doctor and Physician Assistant as my future career.
Strange how some shows, and more specifically their theme songs, end up symbolizing a very specific period of one's life or even a whole decade. The set of memories that get naturally summoned with a few notes or images...
So well said!!! This is one of those themes that does it for me to. Another one for me is Alias. It takes me back to such a specifically special time and place.
Damn man, you have beautifully described what I was thinking all the time. ER was that show that was running in Poland when I was 8-9 and it was always during middle of the day and later in the evening if I am not wrong. Ehh those were the times when you were young and all you cared about was waking up to school and study some simple things to pass them later…:(
+Powerspyin onegames (powerspyin1games) Same. parents used to send me away to bed since there was blood etc. Kinda scared me, so this theme is spooky for me.
Мислил съм си всеки говори когато е бил млад еее тогава кво яко беше вие младите сега кво знаете нищо обаче за 90те със сигурност е така .днес няма такива сериали,нито музика нито нищо всичко е боза така че със сигурност мога да кажа на по младите кво сте видели 😊. Е почти всичко.
Pretty genius. The theme song recreates an emergency room through rhythm. From the emergency ambulance synths at the beginning, to the drum heart beats hitting throughout. Sprinkled though out the theme you can also hear monitors and heart rates.
I miss being a kid. I’m only 27. But the 90’s / early 00’s were the best time to be a kid. The last of the old school with new things being infused. I feel bad for todays kids.
Life on Earth has taken a jolt a number of times 🌎🔨: The plague, the Industrial Revolution, colonisation, the Slave Trade, World War, Cold War, AIDS, climate change, 9/11, coronavirus,.. to name just a few. But I demonstrate that there will always be _something_ 😞. So the _when-it-all-changed_ and the _best-of-times_ will vary for different people of different experiences and/or different perspectives 🌓.
So much nostalgia from the schoolnights when I'd hear my parents watching this after I'd gone to bed.For a long time this would be the last thing I would hear on a Wednesday night, I liked the tune so much hearing it was like getting tucked in again :') I always wanted to see what the show was about but my parents said I was too young to see it, and they were right, one time I snuck downstairs to see it just in time to see a guy get his arm sliced off by helicopter blades. I didn't sleep so well that night. Even so, hearing this now as a graduate still takes me back to those days and makes me feel all snug, safe and secure. Its crazy how music can bring back memories and feelings like that.
Oh man! That's exactly what happened to me too. Lot's of night I fall a sleep to that song. So nostalgic. Life sometimes gets too hard, it's good to remember these things! Cheers
Mr Grumpyface That was actually one of the doctors that that happened to. Bloody good scene, but it's *years* since I've seen it, or any of #ER for that matter. I really must try to get it on DVD. 😃
Just so you all know I found Season 1 on DVD for £2.50 at a market today. Just seen the pilot episode and am already hooked, can't wait to get stuck in.
When I worked in the medical field, I always used to listen to this on my iPod on the way to work. The medical field is hard and unforgiving, and this song always got me in the mood to save lives even if it meant 12+ hours, double shifts, and all the rest.
My mom was a nurse (CCU) and I remember her watching this show and critiquing it based on her work experience/knowledge. I remember her cringing and questioning why they did certain things or "yep, you're supposed to do that" type of comments. Such a great memory of my mom. ❤❤
@phillips4energy: Mike Post's themes for Hill Street Blues and the Law and Order series were pretty good and Jan Hammer for Miami Vice, this theme is also on the list and a couple of our own here in the UK too.
Can you imagine there was a time when television offered original, intelligent, quality programming? In the 1990's, you could watch X-Files, E.R., Seinfeld and Due South in the same week!
And to realize that this show was created by Michael Crichton! 😃 A doctor, surgeon, and writer. He also wrote Congo, Airframe, Dragon Teeth, as well as 2 novels that founded the entire Jurassic Park/ World franchise. He’s the man! It’s a shame he passed away in 2008. He was only in his 60’s if I remember right. He easily coulda lived another 20 years or so.
Erika McQueen I couldn’t get into Greys or any other medical show. But I’m really liking New Amsterdam this season. It’s the closest to ER I’ve found since it went off the air.
Man, living in the 90's was the absolute best, hearing this on TV at night was one of my favourite things ever... I wish I could go back. Also the Amblin logo at the end - literally perfect.
Omggg my grandparents used to be obsessed with this show and watched it every night it came on. I never paid attention to it cause I was little but the theme song brings back so many memories lol
I remember when this first aired in the UK. I was 5, my mum would sometimes let me stay up and watch it before I went to bed. This is the first I've heard the intro in probably a decade and it gave me a mad wave of nostalgia as both my parents are dead. Crazy! I'm gonna start watching today as I was too young when it was at it's peak in the 90's.
God, I remember watching this TV series faithfully. Even the reruns I watched over again. I loved Noah Wylie, George Clooney, Eric Laselle and Linda Cardenelli! Great team!
Man I was still in elementary school when this show was on. My mom always had it on watching it before she sent us off to school. It was kind of my alarm clock but just hearing the theme brings back so many memories of staying home from school on sick days and just lying in bed with my mom watching this all morning. Didn't really have the developed mind to care about what was going on but it didn't matter because I was with my mom and that was all that mattered. It seems the memories we have when we are young are the most precious and sometimes we forget all about them.
This show has the best opening of all medical shows. The beginning is like an ambulance siren and some of the instrumentation sounds like different alarms and beeps various medical devices make.
It's a brilliant theme. It calls to the sound of a siren while landing reassuring major chords.... I started watching ER reruns in 2002, during a time of health challenges. So, I credit it and the theme with recovering. I also got a few health tips....
the lead actors were ✔️. The scripts, plots pulled viewers in. Up until around 2001 or so, then ER jumped the 🦈 & began to add younger, hip actors. The series became lame, stale.
The show should’ve ended after season eight. Mark Green dying should’ve been the series finale. Beginning with season nine, it was more like a spinoff than the original show. After Noah Wiley left, from season 12 on, it really was a spin off. There were no original characters left. If it didn’t end after season eight, it definitely should’ve ended after season 11 with Noah Wylie (and the only other remaining original character, Sherry Stringfield), leaving.
I was obsessed with this show as a kid. Would sneak out of bed in the middle of the night to watch it. It was always my dream to work in a hospital (I was the terminally ill kid who was always watching the RNs tediously as they busted ass, always reading medical dictionaries, etc). I’m 30 now and I started working in the ER where my son was born and it’s honestly so much better than TV 🤣
I was born in '96 and I always had that music in the head without knowing it was actually from a serie. 15 years later I found this on my RU-vid recommendations. Thank you so much !! I know remember of that time
This intro theme is one of the best ever. I was a 90`s kid and remember that this was my mothers favorite series of all time, since she is also working on the medical field. I have so many feelings and memories running through my whole body when im listening to this.
ER started in 1994 just a few months before I moved to NY from Ireland. I was immediately addicted, and continued to watch it till it ended in 2009. The theme music still hits me in the gut, as I remember my life with my family and friends 3000 miles away. I'm happy here, but it's just the kind of music that can and does evoke memories.
This is a magical melody that for me inspires a warm nostalgia of cosy nights in my mums arms by the fire watching this on one of her very few nights off and I’d be fast asleep by the first ad break. There are no words to describe how much this tune means to so many.
My mom was obsessed with this show and I don't think she missed a single episode. She wasn't happy when it ended and I remember watching some of the later seasons with her.
@@papabean4208 I was born in the 1960s, and... well, oddly enough, I don't feel that way about the 1950s at all. I wonder why? Maybe all the cool stuff began in the 1960s - including me :) Haha!
Dem memories... My parents always watched this when I was a kid. I saw a lot of episodes too, even though the first part of the music creeped me out more than the X-files theme. Damn, it still gives me goosebumps...
St Elsewhere and ER, best medical drama series!♥️ My daughter always knew it was bedtime, when she heard ER’s introduction! Made my Wednesday evening’s viewing!
God hearing that brings back so many memories of spending the weekends at my dads whn I was just a little pup and watching that with him! I miss this how! It was one of the shows my father and I bonded over when I was a kid...I wish it was still around, and yeah the saddest part WAS when Mark died :'(
Every time I watch an episode on Hulu and I hear that music I still dream about the time after I lost my grandmother and decided to become an EMT/Paramedic but my physical condition didn't let me
I was born in 87 grew up in the 90s and it was beautiful. The light from the sun shined differently then. The air, it was thick with an energy, a kind of love, an innocence, a joy and happiness that is missing today. You could feel it in the people, the music, television, movies, fashion, animation, food. The way people smiled and interracted with each other. It wasn't perfect, every era has its issues but the 90s were special. I feel for the generations coming up today.
It's funny how most people have good memories when hearing this intro music. When I was a kid I heard it every night not knowing it was the intro song of a show my mum watched...and it scared the living shit out of me. Especially the synthesizers in the beginning formed images of aliens and UFOs landing in my backyard in my 6-year old mind. Only found out what it was when I was 20. It was when I talked with a friend about childhood fears and my mom immediately knew what I was talking about and showing me this clip. We had a good laugh about it. But till this day hearing the first 10 seconds of it send shivers down my spine.
Lara Pollehn Those synthesizers, YES! I didn’t imagine aliens exactly, I have no memory of what my mind made up, just the fear at hearing those synthesizers! 💀
This takes me back to staying up late on a school, Thursday night ( uk), so nostalgic! I’m watching the series for the 3rd time, they just don’t make them like this anymore. What an epic intro theme!
talk about a throwback. I didn't get into it until TNT started that "Primetime in the Daytime". This is all I watched during summer breaks, I lived for Dr. Benton.
Raquel Washington that's how I started watching ER too! At that time the series was nearing it's end and I got to watch the final couple of seasons on TV. Ahhh those were the days!
I remember this when it was bedtime and I would pretend to be asleep on the couch so I could watch this when I was 4-6 years old. The song alone gives me so much nostalgia
Крутой сериал ! ❤ Весь без остановки , на одном дыхании ♥️ Актеры как будто живут жизнями своих героев ♥️♥️♥️👏👏👏 5 сезон 8 серия - эх, если бы в жизни были такими наши доктора 🙏♥️
This opening TERRIFIED me as a kid! Not only was I scared of masks but I knew as soon as it was over someone bleeding and screaming was gonna appear on screen. Now as an adult I admire its absolute brilliance.
I remember my hearing this theme song every Thursday from the time I was 2 until I was 16. My mom used to watch it every week. There are certain theme songs that I remember really well.
Always liked this show way more than Greys Anatomy and I was a kid when this used to come on TV. Have no idea why or how Grey’s Anatomy lasted this long tbh
Big part of my childhood all the way into my college years. Mom and I watched it every week. Still go back and binge watch the entire series quite frequently.