Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts - Memory and Tank!

When I first saw Cowboy Bebop on lent Chinese bootleg DVDs, this is how every single episode started: a mournful musicbox montage of Spike destroying his old life before segueing wildly into the impossibly funky opening theme. When I tracked down my own Region 1 copies a few years later I was disappointed to discover this attention grabbing contrast only played at the head of a few eps. Shame. It was an ideal summation of the series: rainy lone-man functioning spliced with a hyperactive stray cat clash.