A cover of the theme song from X-Men: The Animated Series. My version is electronic, synth-y, and slightly funky. I made a YouTube video of the song featuring some of my favorite stupid stills from the 90s cartoon:

Here's an audio version:

X-Men theme song by Nik Furious [ 0:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For 2.5 years, I've been watching X-Men and reviewing it on A Podcast with Ross and Nick as a part of something I call EXTREME. And today we've finally finished!!

In my opinion, X-Men is a terrible cartoon with a wonderful theme song. It's composed by Shuki Levy, who's got a pretty impressive list of credits.

Covering this theme was trickier than I'd expected. I thought I'd be able to teach myself the melody by ear, but I couldn't. Luckily, this video helped me nail the riff.

Still, it's a tough song to play on the keyboard, especially when you're working with a truncated set of keys on a microKORG.

Anyway, I hope you have as much fun listening to this cover tune as I had recording it. Watching all 76 sloppy episodes of that TV show sucked and I'm so glad to be done!! Recording this song was my victory celebration.

This is a response to this and this:

Pictured here (mostly) are cards from the 1991 Jim Lee-only X-Men series. In my adult years, I've never met anyone else who's ever seen these, let alone heard of them!

I guess you could say that I'm forever searching for someone who has fond memories of them too. Along with Marvel Universe Series II, these plain X-Men cards have always been my favorites.

In the second image, you can see four of the X-Men Series 1 cards by Impel from 1992. Apparently that series is also Jim Lee-only! I never even noticed until today.

Anyway, the main difference between these being that the 1991 cards pull art from the comics and re-color it, while the 1992 series have the character names on the front and the art is unique to the cards. Also, the backs of the 1991 cards regurgitate plot info, while the 1992 cards have bios and stats.

If you couldn't already tell, the last pic is the checklist from the 1991 series. I also have cards from a similar Wolverine series. Like the 1991 set, the Wolvie cards don't have any text or borders on the front, and the art comes from the comics.

And then there's this.