Rebooking N.W.O. Entrance Music

This has bothered me for 20 years; I hope that you can answer my question and act as a balm to my troubled imagination.


What earthly reason did WCW have for using the stupid, generic, awful, porno-style theme as the NWO’s entrance music instead of Ministry’s balls-out, hard-as-hell intro track to their PSALM 69 album which not only was called "NWO," not only prominently featured a sample of President George H.W. Bush saying "new world order" over and over again, but was released on Sire Records, which was owned and distributed by Warner Bros, who at that time were entangled with Turner and all of his various business fiefdoms, which leads me to believe that it could have been used with a minimum of shenanigans re licensing, etc.? It’s practically tailor-made for the era: it would give any wrestler an irresistible badass elan, it would be right in step with the ECW-style use of the sort of music that their fanbase was probably listening to anyway, and it has a perfect, instantly-recognizable hook in the opening seconds, akin to the breaking glass of Steve Austin’s theme. Whenever a face would be in the ring yelling into the mic about what assholes Nash and Hall were, that wocka-chicka nonsense that is the Earth-Prime NWO music seemed to just annoy them into silently waiting for their entrance. Ministry’s BUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDA-BUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDA-BAAAAAAAHHHHHHN would have instead shut them right up, and announced to the crowd that two men who existed on society’s dangerous margins – outsiders, you could call them – had arrived and were about to cause a ruckus.

I guess what I’m asking is: is it possible that a drunk college student in Wisconsin is the only person in the entire 1990s who ever thought of this?

​This has bothered you for 20 years? ​