5 WWE theme songs that transcended wrestling

#2 "Rockhouse" - New World Order

The start of a cultural revolution. Sort of.

It's important to remember just how popular professional wrestling was in the late 1990s. It might have been a cultural curiosity (albeit it a successful one) during the Rock 'N Wrestling Connection in the 80s, but that's nothing compared to the Attitude Era. Which we're calling because there isn't a better name for it. Can you think of a better name? Go to the comments section and maybe we'll use it next time.

While Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock might be the icons that people think of when it comes to this era in wrestling, you have to remember just how big the New World Order in WCW was.

The nWo (and, yes, you are legally required to spell it that way - I don't make the rules, sorry) was the group, and the angle, that really propelled World Championship Wrestling into the stratosphere. People - kids, especially - were constantly wearing nWo t-shirts everywhere. And the nWo theme song - "Rockhouse" - was probably the most recognizable theme song in wrestling at the time.

The song, as great as it was, didn't move Q rating levels all by itself. The cultural phenomenon of the nWo can be thanked for that. Even now, though, professional baseball players come to the plate to "Rockhouse", for example. And anyone who watched wrestling - heck, anyone who watched television - in the 1990s know that theme music.