The original and the 2002-2007 will forever remind me of this show. So grateful I got an opportunity to visit Pin Oak Court and meet an actual resident of the place 😊.
I like how simple the 1st theme is and Barry's vocals double tracked. I think i would have liked it more if i started watching it in 86 but i wasn't around then.
The Janine Maunder version is the one I remember from my childhood in 2006 on TV2. While I wasn't really into the show, I still know which theme song I heard. And it definitely wasn't any of the other ones. I honestly didn't even know there were other ones. Aside from the Sandra DeJong version.
My favourite version of Neighbours theme is performed by Janine Mauder. That was definitely my childhood memories of Watching Neighbours every weeknights on Channel Ten from 2002-2007
Can we take a moment to respect and admire the fact that Greg Hind put a little tune onto the bit where the stars cross over on the rotating Grundy logo... GENIUS!!... 😎✌🏼
That applies to the BBC version and possibly some European broadcasts. The original Australian broadcasts had the Ten ident shown over that piece of music (the Grundy logo preceded the Ten ident in Australia)
So glad this soap is getting a revival! Been watching this since I was 11! At the time I began watching, Janine’s version was still being used. I was heartbroken when they replaced it.
Okay this is weird. I just searched for "Neighbours Theme Metal Version" and the only one I could find was literally a day old! This video was the next recommended video, and your comment is the top comment!
37 years of so many wonderful years, I was only one when this wonderful soap opera started. So many amazing people that have came and went through the many eras on ramsay street. Hopefully one day they'll bring it back and reliase it's a constitution of Australian tv as well as worldwide.
The original theme is the best by far, but the one I like most from my era is 2003, it's so good.... over the years there have been theme tunes to make you feel proud to be a fan, and theme tunes to make you feel embarrassed to be a fan & have me reaching for the remote control to turn it down because my parents would say I was watching a childish show. Like 2013-2014...Thanks for putting this up by the way, very good.
My absolute favourite is the first one ... takes me right back to Mrs Mangle, Bouncer, Jim ... the legend that was neighbours, Helen Daniels, Madge, Ilene, Des, Mike ... and on and on!!! Such a good time in my life. Good to hear the latest two getting back to the actual tune:) it’s started to be almost totally different x
I agree with everyone on here that the best 2 versions of the theme are Barry 1985 - 1989, and Janinie 2002 - 2007 which looking at all the comments on here seem to also coincide with the best 2 era's of the show. Nothing since for me is as good as those 2 and if I had to push for one it would be Janine's. I feel like Barry's was the introduction to the chirpy, comedy and good feeling neighbours started as, and Janine's was the completion where neighbours really do become good friends, I feel the storylines in that period echoed that as well.
Heard Bonnie's theme the first time watching Neighbours. Quite good, but my favorite one's the 2002-07 theme, great voice and spanning a lot of good stories. The original feels much suited for a full-length song than a theme.
The personal best for me is 1985-1989 - because that's when I was glued to watching Daph, Des, Helen, Jim, Paul, Gail, Max, Maria, Mrs Mangel, Jane, Scott, Charlene, Julie, Eileen, Madge, Henry, Clive, Danny, Shane, and so on. I was young and optimistic - and so was the show. Unforgettable. Lovely to see Des and Jane marry for the 35th anniversary. I tuned in specially.
I've never watched it but my family used to watch it and seeing it on tv. Greg Hind and Jannine Maunder opening is very too its era of it's time theme. Dame farewell neighbers.
He’s the best they should use his singer for the finale when all the other actors are coming back be sad as show was great 80s and early 90s after that I stopped watching.
Yes indeed! It was a disgrace initially (a bit like Eastenders jazzy version) though very much of the era. However, it's now the one I remember most as it probably coincides with the time I watched the show most. My partner and I are 41 and if we ever hum or sing the tune it's the version we relate to the most. I have to say that Janine Maunder's version beats them all hands down. I hadn't heard it before the finale and it's brilliant.
@@sebastianohalloran9093 I must be the only one who actually liked the remixed EastEnders theme tune. I loved it. (Never watched the actual program though.)
Janine Maunder, Sandra De Jong and especially Bonnie Anderson's ones were synonymous and iconic along with the 1985 and 1992 ones. Bonnie's was quite special though!
Barry Crocker's original theme 1985-1989 was the best. I admit the last time I watched it avidly was way back when Harold Bishop was still around (sometime in 1989/1990). By the time of Greg Hind's version 1992-1998, I wasn't watching it anymore, nevertheless we still had the TV on in the background, so Greg's version also seeped into my memory. Definitely one of the better theme songs on aussie TV from the 80s and 90s.
My wife has been watching this from the very first episode she was nearly 6 and thinks the best song for it was the very first one by Barry Crocker all the rest just will never be as good as the original and Scott and Charlene were her favourites
IMO the original Barry Crocker themes were the best. I remember hating the Greg Hinds theme when that first came out! Completely forgot about the Sandra DeJong version, I liked that too. Shame the way TV announcers talk over theme tunes nowadays!!
Goes without saying that the best version is the Sir Barry Of Crocker original, but other than that, it's a tie between Greg Hinds and Bonnie Anderson for me. Her voice is just heaven!
Janine Maunder's version is my fav, but I still think the music plays a huge part, Id love to hear Bonnie sing to the music in 2002-2007 as I think she would sound amazing, thanks for sharing this, great memories through all the years.
Janine Maunder for me...a very unique take on a classic theme without trying to copy the original. All versions since hers was changed just don’t have any impact
I grew up with Garth Ploog theme song and 2016 was my first known season. And I didn’t know until a couple years ago that Neighbours have been airing since my parents’ childhood
Trivia Wendy Stapleton sang the 1999-2001 theme tune with Paul Norton later appeared as Trixie Tucker who married Lou Carpenter then left him after the Hello Dolly musical flopped. Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton are married
I like the male/female duets a lot. I never knew there was more than one. Also like the current and immediately previous versions. Plus the original, of course.
Sandra DeJong's version is brilliant. I love them all but this stands out. At the time it was current, it sounded like something The Corrs would have out out. I'm gonna miss Neighbours
Definitely a fan of the second one & the third one the most!!!! I loved the revised, more upbeat Barry Crocker version after episode 1000.... & I loved the jazzy version after that!!!
Thanks for sharing these Andrew. I have surprised myself at just how many different artists had a go at the theme when I have very fond memories of only what turns out is just a few of them. My fondest memories are from Greg Hind's version. I have no recollection of the ones from Paul and Wendy's right through until Garth's version, which must be when my wilderness years came to an end.
@@Red-Red-Red-Red what thumbs down? youtube doesn't let you see the number of thumbs down for comments, unless of course you mean the 100 or so people in your fantasy. Also everyone has different opinions, just because someone disagree with your opinion it doesn't mean they're "silly", grow up!
Was at its prime in the days of Mrs Mangel, Jane, Madge, Dr Clive, Des, Daphne, Eileen, Helen, Jim, Scott, Charlene, Shane and the rest in the mid 80s and the plots were better. Who remembers when they went to search for Mrs Mangels's body in her back garden, when Charlene was terrorised in the caravan she was living in, Mrs Mangel falling off the ladder and loosing her memory, etc?
The 1992-1998 is my favorite Neighbours theme tune as it's the one i'm most familiar with and being so detailed. The 1994-1998 revision of it is actually an edit of the closing theme tune. The others are good but the 2013-2014 theme tune lets not go there.
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The original and the 2002-2007 will forever remind me of this show. So grateful I got an opportunity to visit Pin Oak Court and meet an actual resident of the place 😊.
Have to say Barry Crocker singing it definitely my favourite!!
I like how simple the 1st theme is and Barry's vocals double tracked. I think i would have liked it more if i started watching it in 86 but i wasn't around then.
The Greg Hind version was the sexing up of Neighbours in order to maintain interest, and it absolutely worked.
janine maunder's will always be my personal favourite
Agreed ❤
Very "breathe in, breathe out"-y ala Passions ^_^
2002 -2007 Janine Maunder is my favourite as I grew up with that version.
Agreed
Me too. I watched Neighbours on BBC One quite a lot back then.
@@sambee8982 that would have been the BBC’s heavily edited 35 second version.
@@boldbeautifulau How do you remember that?
Agreed. I used to watch the show religiously back then on BBC one.
The Janine Maunder version is the one I remember from my childhood in 2006 on TV2. While I wasn't really into the show, I still know which theme song I heard. And it definitely wasn't any of the other ones. I honestly didn't even know there were other ones. Aside from the Sandra DeJong version.
2002-2007 is my favourite, grew up with that version and there is something about it that is so nostalgic
1992-1998 my fav, so uplifting!
I agree without doubt the best of the rest !
My favourite version of Neighbours theme is performed by Janine Mauder. That was definitely my childhood memories of Watching Neighbours every weeknights on Channel Ten from 2002-2007
Can we take a moment to respect and admire the fact that Greg Hind put a little tune onto the bit where the stars cross over on the rotating Grundy logo... GENIUS!!... 😎✌🏼
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That applies to the BBC version and possibly some European broadcasts. The original Australian broadcasts had the Ten ident shown over that piece of music (the Grundy logo preceded the Ten ident in Australia)
@@madmurdock100 i remember the 1992 to 1998 version of the neighbours theme
@@madmurdock100 I rue the day it left BBC1 for Channel 5.
I never liked the 1985-97 Grundy logo, I hated that one. The 1998-2006 logo was much better.
So glad this soap is getting a revival! Been watching this since I was 11!
At the time I began watching, Janine’s version was still being used. I was heartbroken when they replaced it.
The Sandra DeJong version was definitely good. But nothing can beat the Janine Maunder version.
R.I.P Neighbours 1985-2022
Janine's theme wins it for me!
Same. I started watching the show a year before her version was retired. Wish it was still being used.
Yes! Hands down.
Same! Excellent version. The way she sings "That's when good neighbours become good friends" is so well done.
1992-1998 and 2002-2007 are my favourites, i can see why they both lasted the longest!
Janine Maunders 2002-2007 is my favourite. Reminds me of my university days when we would all get together as a house and watch.
Neighbours is coming back!!! Roll on 2023 😍
And next year In 2025 Neighbours will celebrate their 40th anniversary in their 40th Season of Neighbours.
So cool that you've included some of the recap tunes as well.
That takes extra dedication. 🙂
02-07 nostalgia
07-13 the best for me with 02-07 a close second.
What on Earth were they thinking with the 13-14 version, horrific!
I actually like that version. But not as much as the Janine Maunder version which is my personal favourite. Or the Sandra DeJong version.
I searched for Neighbours theme and found this video which is only like a day old. That's some psychic neighbours shit!
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2002-2007 wins!!! Grew up on that!❤️
Going to miss this show so so much :(
2002 - 2007 is decent enough, but you can't beat the original.
The Barry Crocker versions are hard to beat.
so happy to see this coming back next year
My favourite version is the Barry Crocker version from 1989-1992.
37 years of so many wonderful years, I was only one when this wonderful soap opera started. So many amazing people that have came and went through the many eras on ramsay street. Hopefully one day they'll bring it back and reliase it's a constitution of Australian tv as well as worldwide.
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The original theme is the best by far, but the one I like most from my era is 2003, it's so good.... over the years there have been theme tunes to make you feel proud to be a fan, and theme tunes to make you feel embarrassed to be a fan & have me reaching for the remote control to turn it down because my parents would say I was watching a childish show. Like 2013-2014...Thanks for putting this up by the way, very good.
Janine Maunder version is my fave. What an angelic voice.
2nd only to the original by Barry Crocker 👍
Everybody needs good neighbours.. . .....
My absolute favourite is the first one ... takes me right back to Mrs Mangle, Bouncer, Jim ... the legend that was neighbours, Helen Daniels, Madge, Ilene, Des, Mike ... and on and on!!! Such a good time in my life. Good to hear the latest two getting back to the actual tune:) it’s started to be almost totally different x
I agree with everyone on here that the best 2 versions of the theme are Barry 1985 - 1989, and Janinie 2002 - 2007 which looking at all the comments on here seem to also coincide with the best 2 era's of the show. Nothing since for me is as good as those 2 and if I had to push for one it would be Janine's. I feel like Barry's was the introduction to the chirpy, comedy and good feeling neighbours started as, and Janine's was the completion where neighbours really do become good friends, I feel the storylines in that period echoed that as well.
And now I’ve come back here the day after they’ve started filming to get the programme up and running later in 2023
It came to a fitting end last night here in Oz, loved how they closed it with a blend of all versions of the theme song from the last 37 years.
Keep coming back to have a listen, just love each theme in a different way 💙 Really going to miss Neighbours 😪
Heard Bonnie's theme the first time watching Neighbours. Quite good, but my favorite one's the 2002-07 theme, great voice and spanning a lot of good stories. The original feels much suited for a full-length song than a theme.
The personal best for me is 1985-1989 - because that's when I was glued to watching Daph, Des, Helen, Jim, Paul, Gail, Max, Maria, Mrs Mangel, Jane, Scott, Charlene, Julie, Eileen, Madge, Henry, Clive, Danny, Shane, and so on. I was young and optimistic - and so was the show. Unforgettable. Lovely to see Des and Jane marry for the 35th anniversary. I tuned in specially.
Here, here ...let's drink to everything written in this good comment! Neighbours ....the old days. (Says something about my age too!)
I think 89-92 was the best, but I love 92-98 as well because it reminds me of secondary school.
Salute to you sir - they’re my favourites too 😜😜
2002-2007 was my favourite, wish that would return
I agree
Correct
That theme was the one being used when I started watching the soap as a preteen.
I've never watched it but my family used to watch it and seeing it on tv. Greg Hind and Jannine Maunder opening is very too its era of it's time theme. Dame farewell neighbers.
That closing theme from 1999-2001 is the best IMO
So unbelievably iconic beyond words
92 to 07 are my favs, memories of growing up watching. So sad that its coming to an end in August!
1992-1998 Memories
Who is here listening to neighbours themes before it finishes for good this year
Barry is the man! None of the others are close.
Amen.
I wholeheartedly agree
He’s the best they should use his singer for the finale when all the other actors are coming back be sad as show was great 80s and early 90s after that I stopped watching.
The 2002 neighbours theme is 2nd best
@Scott Kenyon That's where you are wrong, Greg Hind, Paul Norton and Wendy Stapleton sang it the best, Barry was awful.
Definitely Janine’s 2002 version at 6:25. Thank you for packaging this Andrew.
The theme tune has changed so many times in recent years, but only those of a certain age will remember the sense of disbelief when 2:27 happened.
Yes Anti Peters yelled wait stop its all changed!
10:06 was worse!
Yes indeed! It was a disgrace initially (a bit like Eastenders jazzy version) though very much of the era. However, it's now the one I remember most as it probably coincides with the time I watched the show most. My partner and I are 41 and if we ever hum or sing the tune it's the version we relate to the most. I have to say that Janine Maunder's version beats them all hands down. I hadn't heard it before the finale and it's brilliant.
@@sebastianohalloran9093 I must be the only one who actually liked the remixed EastEnders theme tune. I loved it. (Never watched the actual program though.)
@@sebastianohalloran9093 I love her version the best!
The 92-98 and 02-07 lives deep in my memories. Me and my older sister used to love watching it during that period 😋
1999 onwards is what I remember, that's the year I turned 11 and started watching it after school lol
Greg Hind & Janine Maunder does my favorite two themes from Neighbours.
Happy days. Great variations on the theme.
Never missed an episode from 1997-2006!
I stopped watching in 2001, but wow Janine Maunder's version is amazing. There's a beautiful melancholy to it.
2007- 2013 is just nostalgic 👍
My favourite themes were the two solo females from 2002 - 2013! Janine and Sandra such good vocalists!
Strong powerful whamin!
It’s all about the Crocker
Greg Hind version was my favourite.
Farewell Neighbours. Forever Australia's Longest Running Beloved Soap of All Time! [03.18.1985 - 08.01.2022]
Janine Maunder, Sandra De Jong and especially Bonnie Anderson's ones were synonymous and iconic along with the 1985 and 1992 ones.
Bonnie's was quite special though!
Barry Crocker's original theme 1985-1989 was the best. I admit the last time I watched it avidly was way back when Harold Bishop was still around (sometime in 1989/1990). By the time of Greg Hind's version 1992-1998, I wasn't watching it anymore, nevertheless we still had the TV on in the background, so Greg's version also seeped into my memory. Definitely one of the better theme songs on aussie TV from the 80s and 90s.
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Thank you Australia
You offered me finest memories and it was unforgettable.
My youth was so amazing
The only versions of the Neighbours theme song I like is when Barry Crocker sings it as he performs it the original and the best
My wife has been watching this from the very first episode she was nearly 6 and thinks the best song for it was the very first one by Barry Crocker all the rest just will never be as good as the original and Scott and Charlene were her favourites
Ever since I found out the show has been axed / rested... I've been coming here to listen to this on loop. Thank you Andrew.
1992-1998 is my childhood, 2002-2007 is my favourite though.
Will never understand why the 1999 version didn't last longer, such great harmonies!!
3yrs was enough
I totally agree 1992 and 1999 theme tunes are the best.
I agree about the harmonies, but the sax just makes it sound too soft porn.
IMO the original Barry Crocker themes were the best. I remember hating the Greg Hinds theme when that first came out! Completely forgot about the Sandra DeJong version, I liked that too. Shame the way TV announcers talk over theme tunes nowadays!!
Goes without saying that the best version is the Sir Barry Of Crocker original, but other than that, it's a tie between Greg Hinds and Bonnie Anderson for me. Her voice is just heaven!
Janine Maunder's version is my fav, but I still think the music plays a huge part, Id love to hear Bonnie sing to the music in 2002-2007 as I think she would sound amazing, thanks for sharing this, great memories through all the years.
the first 3 versions are the real versions imo none of the others even matter in my eyes
Janine Maunder for me...a very unique take on a classic theme without trying to copy the original. All versions since hers was changed just don’t have any impact
None of the others certainly were not trying toclpy the original
Loooool
I grew up with Garth Ploog theme song and 2016 was my first known season. And I didn’t know until a couple years ago that Neighbours have been airing since my parents’ childhood
My favourite is The original 1985-89 theme version.
This is fantastic! Thanks so much for doing this!
The orignal qnd still the best. And then 2002-2007.The end.
Trivia Wendy Stapleton sang the 1999-2001 theme tune with Paul Norton later appeared as Trixie Tucker who married Lou Carpenter then left him after the Hello Dolly musical flopped. Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton are married
I like the male/female duets a lot. I never knew there was more than one. Also like the current and immediately previous versions. Plus the original, of course.
The first bit said no one ever 😂😂
RIP Neighbours in the UK at least from August. Sad news today
My favourite for ever
Sandra DeJong's version is brilliant. I love them all but this stands out. At the time it was current, it sounded like something The Corrs would have out out. I'm gonna miss Neighbours
Definitely a fan of the second one & the third one the most!!!! I loved the revised, more upbeat Barry Crocker version after episode 1000.... & I loved the jazzy version after that!!!
So sad to see this show end. ❤
Love the song so much it is awesome
2007 - 2013 is my favourite
2002-07 Janine Maunder is my favourite, so good
Janine Maunder's is the one I remember from my childhood and so my favorite.
Likewise
It's a good one!!
As a millennial, the best era was when the Hoylands were around. I stopped after stingray died. Basically the entirety of Janine’s theme.
Thanks for sharing these Andrew. I have surprised myself at just how many different artists had a go at the theme when I have very fond memories of only what turns out is just a few of them. My fondest memories are from Greg Hind's version. I have no recollection of the ones from Paul and Wendy's right through until Garth's version, which must be when my wilderness years came to an end.
the version from Janine Maunder will always be the best version IMO!
it's my personal favourite as well
Dont be silly. The Barry Crocker version will always and forever be the best version!
@@Red-Red-Red-Red I disagree, and at least 51 people agree with me
@@iamlinda100 and what about the 100 or so people that gave you the thumbs down?
@@Red-Red-Red-Red what thumbs down? youtube doesn't let you see the number of thumbs down for comments, unless of course you mean the 100 or so people in your fantasy. Also everyone has different opinions, just because someone disagree with your opinion it doesn't mean they're "silly", grow up!
Love the closing theme doe 1999-2001 the most
I like the Bonnie Anderson one version, she was a good singer.
Was at its prime in the days of Mrs Mangel, Jane, Madge, Dr Clive, Des, Daphne, Eileen, Helen, Jim, Scott, Charlene, Shane and the rest in the mid 80s and the plots were better. Who remembers when they went to search for Mrs Mangels's body in her back garden, when Charlene was terrorised in the caravan she was living in, Mrs Mangel falling off the ladder and loosing her memory, etc?
Mrs Mangle 😂 Those were the days
Not forgetting Daphne managing to give birth on a fishing trip without removing her tights 🤣
And also never forgetting Bouncer's Dream!!!
@@derekhorne8076 and Jim and Doug of course had a different 'dream' altogether... thanks to a load of mushies
It was Mr. Mangel they were looking for but he wasn't seen until '94 long after his family left.
Bonnies is my favourite, but Paul and Wendy’s is honestly awesome too.
Best is the 1992-98 theme, and the guitar and bass recaps from 1996
The 1992-1998 is my favorite Neighbours theme tune as it's the one i'm most familiar with and being so detailed. The 1994-1998 revision of it is actually an edit of the closing theme tune. The others are good but the 2013-2014 theme tune lets not go there.
I didn't realise there was a difference between versions 1 and 2 until I listened to this video.
Wendy Stapleton was also the backing singer to Greg Hind's 1992-1998 version.
Garth Ploog has a wonderful voice
2015 -2020 is my favourite as 2020 was the year I started watching it I was crying watching the final episode and 2022 is also my favourite
never knew so many people sang it