2. Baywatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Add_M-eau8U Just in case you didn't get your fix of the ghastly Survivor during the 80s - the grim rock outfit that brought us 'Eye of the Tiger' and then just wouldn't go away - Baywatch commissioned some-time Survivor frontman Jimi Jamison's insipid 'I'm Always Here' to signal the start of every episode. It's rare that a song should encapsulate absolutely everything cheesy about its decade, but 'I'm Always Here' manages to do that, and then some; from the slap-bass, to the tuneless piano chords, the mullet-rock vocal and the subhuman backing vocals, it really was an absolute car crash. Of course, Baywatch was equally cheesy, but it was on telly a good ten years after Survivor had gone out of date; whilst Friends and the Rembrandts became icons of '90s together, Baywatch couldn't keep up, perhaps in part down to its hugely out-dated theme tune that held it back. It's a huge misjudgement to commission the Survivor singer for a huge '90s show; it would be like launching a hot new drama on Channel 4 and inviting Craig David to score it. Ultimately, the naffness of the Baywatch theme embedded itself in the consciousness of the show, and the programme became more and more desperate. The big question is though, how did this awful song manage to stay a fixture of the show, even up to Series 10?