Greatest Stadium Songs with Joe Kwaczala

you want to say to me? Now, I was gonna this is a lead up, This is a lead up into I was gonna say, your father an avid listener, your parents are avid listeners of the show, and he complimented how I introduced the show, how rolled into the show. That's why I was trying to do it really well, trying to make your dad proud. I was trying to do my dad is proud of me. Okay, but I was trying to do it really like professional. But then

I didn't have anything passed your aime planned out. So that's why when I said today, I was like, oh no, we don't go into the topic, and we're not right into the guest, and you know, I messed up. Honestly, it's episode by episode whether either of us has a nice smooth intro. I would have said, how are you doing? Okay, how are you doing? Doing great? I mean you know how I'm doing. I know how you're doing. You really

talked today, not? I mean today has just been silly. Um. I want to bring in our guests and that done with his wife. No, no, we'll catch up. I just want Joe, because Joe is waiting patiently. I'm excited that he's here. You may know Joe very very funny comedian. We came up with so many, so many jokes. What Joe could it be? You may know him from his Comedy Central half hour Ladies and Gentlemen. Joke was allah he Joe, I mean you're You're on this show earlier

than I thought you'd be. Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe you had to go to this earlier. We didn't have to go to you. No, nobody canceled. I actually wanted you and I had two topics that I pitched to c J. Two pitch to you, and then I it was reported back to me that you said no. No, he did not. I kept it open for him. I thought, you know, I thought I had landed on what would be a pretty funny topic. But I guess it was

narrower than I anticipated. Well, there's a lot. I mean, this show can come together at the last second sometimes. And I was texting you as we were going to sleep, and so I was just like, whatever, Joe, whatever you want and Megan, because Megan had suggested greatest national anthems, and I think I suggested like athletes who attempted musical careers. And you said, songs written this is the original topic. Songs written about sports teams. Yeah, just I don't know.

From my experience in the places that I've lived, there have been a lot of cheesy songs written for Like I grew up in Pittsburgh and there is a very awful but ubiquitous song, especially any time they get close to like going to the super Bowl, called here we Go.

And it's by some dude who's not like a musician, and he just like he recorded it and then but its like it blew up and it's like and it and it's for the Steelers specifically, was frozen and it looks he's frozen in a spot where it looked like okay, so and this song was written specifically for the Steelers. Yes, And it was written like in when they went to the super Bowl for like the first time since the

eighties by robbing the Colts. Oh yeah, okay, a man ran, No, a man ran out of bounds and then came back in and called like, part of the reason we have replay now is because yes, because that ended up deciding who was going to the super Bowl and they were like, we can't have that. And so it's not the song like here we go again. I don't know, bro, it's not that. No, it's not the White Snake song. But it's a dude with a thick Pittsburgh accent. He just

recorded it like at some studio. He probably paid like two hundred bucks, and it's so so popular. It's here we go Stailers, here we go, Yes, okay, okay, wow. Yeah.

I mean I think that's why. You know, there was a lot of discussion back and forth, and and you sent us a length that was like the greatest songs written for each NFL team, And I think that article was like the guy just looked for like the weirdest songs he could find that maybe it wasn't the best resource, and it's valid what you were talking about for sure. And also you're from the market that has more pride than I mean, that's all they have in Pittsburgh. But

they did. All the songs they listen to are about the Steeler. What's funny about that song, is John, I know exactly what song you're talking about because it was a where from Western all So yeah, so it was everywhere where we grow? Yeah, I mean, but that's the thing is. But I also thought it was a generic song, So I thought there was in my head and I never ventured to find out, but I was like, oh, yeah, there's probably in Meghan's hometown, Indianapolis. Here we go, Colts,

here we Go. I just thought, like, because the only place I was hearing music was on the bus, um so well I would have I would have assumed that every market had their own like some jag off like made a song and then it got played on the radio because everybody was excited, I'm sure, but not as catchy as Here we Go Team. It's so bad. The guy's not a singer, it's really it's a very weird. But it's sold like a hundred thousand copies. Uh, and he updates it like every years. And who do you

think he voted for? I guarantee he's dead because he spent his fortune from the millions of coffees. He updates it every year. He updates it with obviously the original one like referred to like power Power was like a big Ryan for that dude. I wonder if he's updating it just to signal to his ex wife, like I'm still alive, you know, like if you want to come back,

you want money. His songs this year would be very sad, I think, I mean, yeah, I think losses in playoff history, yeah, I think he doesn't at the beginning of the season before he can really comment on any if he was following up this with like all right, I gotta think of a Christmas song. Here we go, Santa, here we Go, and so everything was big events coming up. Let's see if I can drop it in the here we Go template. I mean, yeah, that's very clearly his his thing like that.

That dude's not doing anything else with his life. And we all met in chicag Go and they do have like go okay before after Steelers, here we go steel As you think I think it's better. I think it's like that's that's a real song, Like that was written by a guy who was a real musician, you know, and like it was he found that in though I mean it's very sure for sure, I mean it's it's very simple. But at the very least it was like produced the Steelers song. It was just a dude like

plugging in things in the studio. I don't want to speak poorly on people we grew up with, but very much in line for what people are successful for Pittsburgh and Western p A. Yeah, right, obviously any uh, the elevation of cities alone from there to Chicago, you would expect, but that the number one I was gonna pick was one of my favorite things or not sports music? Whatever is? Scott Staff from Creed wrote a song for the Marlins.

What was that? It's it sounds like a joke, like my description sounds like a joke, and then you listen to it and you're like, this is a joke, but it's it's real and it doesn't have religious undertones. Well, it is so devoid of any undertone. He's literally just being like one strack, two stra bringing the bat. Some of the actual lyrics are we watch strackouts, Barry sir, it's noble, please describing Marlins. Don't I correct me if

I'm wrong. I think like Florida Baseball is like void of fans, Like that's not even the Marlins don't even have a fan base really to cling to that. Well, I someone must have been mad. It's really a diving kid stolen ace there. And James Taylor. As we were doing this, James Taylor wrote a song for the Red Sox that's also you know, it's like the second line is like the Bambino. So it's like and it sounds just like a James Taylor song would. So now I

feel like we've let you down that episode. Actually that sounds kind of glad that you got out the ones that do you want anymore? I mean the Super Bowl Shuffle is like the big one like that. Actually, you know it charted, you know, it was so big and that that's such a goofy song. And I when I was looking up the Super Bowl Shuffle, I found out that the year before, I guess, the forty Niners did a song similar like the guys and the team sang

a little song. Yeah, I see, let's bring that trend back. Well, that's all I was wondering. I mean, there's been like parody as the Super Bowl Shuffle, But has there been any sort of like recent any any team taking a stab at producing a song? They all like have really good now that's celebrations are allowed in the NFL. They do like choreograph dances are like very fun. Homage is to think, like I think the creativity is there to do it. We just got to get these guys in

the studio. So that is that's our plea is professional athletes, We need more of you in the studio. Why didn't you pitch that at the Pistons, seure, I don't know who knows what at the Pistons. Well, that's why I was so sad that Victor Ladipot got traded because it's like, listen, there's a lot of all star basketball players, there's very few that also have voices of angels. You know, the Super Bowl Shuffle. I wasn't listening to it because it

was a good song, Like songs can chart for irony. Yeah, I don't think. In the eighties though, I don't think it was irony. I thought it was just the age of and I still wish this was a thing. I think it would make a lot of money, especially now is that like there was either a kiosk or a room where you and your friends could record music videos and just there's like a box of props and costumes. Like I don't know how that one out of style, But when the pandemic comes back, maybe I'll open up

a shop where we do that. Come and cut your own track. Yeah, And it just seemed like the Bears or maybe walking them off whatever city the super Bowl was in and then made that. Yeah. I mean I think part of it was just they were just so so famous, Like there were so many characters on that team that that's what propelled you know, obviously wasn't the

quality of the song or the dancing. I mean, that's what I'm saying, Like the dancing is so good now and the dancing shuffle is so bad that I think we could get a better song, especially like l A has two teams. We've got all the labels out here. I mean New York is two teams. That's four teams that have a lot of talent in their cities. Come on, the Jets. This is what the Jets need to turn the organization around. They need a new coach, they maybe need a new quarterback, but they need a damn song.

I think that's what. Yeah, that is what we'll turn it around. I was bummed that they started winning games. I'll say that they were bummed to the fans. The players were happy, but the fans were sad. Joe and I guess that's a good segue into how much sports are you watching? These guys? Well, just because you've been doing it, even saying some sports stuff in our tax for sure, But you did grow up in Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh,

and like you went to Notre Dame. I know I've been I've been surrounded by sports despite being very ambivalent, Like you know, I wouldn't. I don't like hate sports by any means, but it's just not the way I spend my time. But like when you grow up in Pittsburgh, you cannot escape it. Like it's doesn't matter what time of year the first story on the evening news is going to be about the Steelers. Well it could be the middle of summer. And like I knew just going

to school like they were. I mean, like a lot of my sports connection was just when I was a kid, Like the clothes I work, Yeah, I mean I was going to bring it up somehow. But when I stayed at your childhood home, I shade and this is on just like a road gig. I stayed with your family, and I went to bed looking at a picture of you or your Grant Hill jersey, and and knowing everything about you, had to I was like, why is he

wearing jersey? It's it's like that thing when you're because that was from like fourth grade or something, when you're like a kid and you just want to be cool or you want to wear the things that everybody else is wearing. And people were wearing jerseys like football and basketball, and so I had. I had a Grant Hill of Pistons jersey, and I had I think I had a Lakers jersey, and I think it might have been shock, but I couldn't tell you. And then I had some foo.

I had a I had a Dolphins of football jersey. Didn't have anything Pittsburgh. It really fits who you are. I feel like I had. I had a boomer a siasin football jersey, which was just a very strange one, but I had it. Maybe it must have been on sale. That must these are all good looking, is for sure, because the boomer one would have been like a Green Eagles or I think it was. I think it was white. In my recollection, Did you go to any Notre Dame

sporting events while you were there? Football, basketball, volleyball. Yeah, when I when I was a freshman, like they kind of even in like the orientation. I remember one of the kids in the dorm was like, going to a fighting Irish home football game is going to be the greatest experience of your life. And I remember thinking like, oh, this must be like really cool, like and I got tickets for this season the way like everybody does. And as as a freshman, I was like, all right, let's

go um now. And I hated it. I need it so much because it was like in the student section, you are uh. It just felt like this is how Hitler came to power. Like every everyone just this mold mentality and like everyone's like white, moving their arms in the same direction that Unison. It creeped me out. And also like I wanted to like joke around and like

be kind of silly and stuff. In Notre Dame fans are so so fucking serious about everything, and like people are in tears and people are so mad when something goes wrong. I just felt like there was no levity and I was like, well, this isn't for me. Well, I feel like Notre Dame this year, this season has

been one of the biggest examples. Well Alabama maybe topped it, but with COVID out there, they story it was after a crazy game, they stormed the field, and it's just like that really shows you the important priorities and priorities to Notre Dame football fans. That that was clear. You can see it in their eyes. You could see it back I could see back in twos and five in their eyes that like if there was a national pandemic going on, the first thing that they would care about

more than anything else is is this football game. I mean I was never mad at that because it's like the Dean the priest Man, he got COVID being at the White House. Yeah, Amy, Tony Barrett confirmation have if you have college age kids at a game, you've already you've already failed, you know, like that, then it's bad already, it's already bad. Yeah, So I was on those crazy people's side. Uh real quickly. You also, I don't know, I don't know if we should bring this up, but

your roommate. I don't know if you want to burn material on this podcast, but your roommate, which I forgot you when I first met you. Some of your early bits were about your football playing player roommate who was my roommate. My roommate as a as a freshman, was a defensive tackle. So he was a huge and he was six six foods like a big guy. I loved him. He was great, but he was very He was a

very silly man. He it just he would I remember he had used my laptop but for some reason, and I came back and I just saw he had he just searched the word basketball. I just remember, like I'm sorry, I keep going, keep going. Yeah, I just remember remember Atlantic. I think I gave him ship for it. Like it wasn't like, you know, because we had a good relationship. And I was like, did you want to see a picture? No,

it's more embarrassing than porn. Uh, just the word. I'm so shocked that they didn't have Like maybe he was truly an odd number on the football team because usually they put them with other football players. Like their schedule is very yeah, like intense different and intense. Yeah. No, I mean there were. There were a bunch of football players in my dorm who were who lived with non football players, like my my cousin was on the team, and yeah, he lived with I don't know c J.

If you remember, you probably don't. My friend Joe Wong, he came to Chicago once. At any rate, that's cut that out, Hey, Joey Joe Wong. Um, shout out Joe Wong for coming to Chicago one time and not making an impression. Um. Yeah, let's take a break, um, and then let me just check this connection here. So let's take a break, all right, and we are back, and we are now into the premise portion of our podcast.

Usually usually we say the topic before we go. So I just dad, I would have done that differently, just for the record. I would have been like, and today's topic is going to be Oh, I forget how we're even phrasing it. Ship, damn it? What happened? Can I do it? Yeah? The only person who's professional. Yeah, as I understood, we were going to do the greatest stadium songs. Ye, stadium songs pump up like associated with sports. Yeah, like songs that you would that are they get the crowd

going at the stadium. I mean that would be in um jams. I mean that, like all I want is jock jams all the time. That's the jock jam. Like, oh I could I all I growing up all we did was make up dances to jock jams. We would get like jock Jams one or jock Jams I don't even know what they were numbered. And yeah, the songs didn't even end. They just like went into another jock jam. And yeah, we put that puppy on and my friend Maggie Daniels TV room and we'd make up dances all night.

Oh it was fun. Gosh, alright, Joe, since you are our guest, you are going to kick us off with your number three pick for greatest stadium jock jam. Sport E song just sending orders. So okay, so I I have to put this one at number I feel like I had to include it, but I'm I have conflicting feelings about including it because of the person who made it. But I think it has to be on there, which is Rock and Roll apart two, which is by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter. No, but this is this is the show.

I mean, it's a perfect pick because we people need to know the backstory about this, which I think our group is kind of obsessed about. First of all, number part two is the most famous, right, Yeah, there's a part one that no one has heard. But yeah, someone flipped the record over and and found this. It really is like a perfect It's almost like primal it. It's

like a heartbeat. Uh. And it doesn't have any words, which I think is in a h Jock James favor in a stadium songs favor and the only words it has our words that you can sing along to that you know exactly what it is. Hey done, no no, no, no, no, no, no no. I wonderful because I think that we're singing it, They're going to be like, that sounds bad. Well they might sue us for making it sound bad. Yeah, okay, well we'll have to pay Gary Glitter. I'm not not.

Which is why it's why you don't hear that song that much anymore. Is because people were like, hey, we just paying all these royalties to this pedophile. He almost got killed by firing squad in Vietnam. Yeah, but because that's that was the that was the I was just gonna say the reason I said the firing squad. Thing is that was the potential punishment, punishment in Vietnam because he had, you know, molested a girl in Vietnam. And how long was he before soldier? What was he doing there? No?

I think he maybe was fleeing along Okay, yeah, where he had you know, I was thinking like a John McCain. He got captured and then there was a firing squad. But this is he was just they're on Vaca. Yeah, I know, he yeah, he was looking for some stream so bad. We talked about the House Forbidden the song is, but it was in Joker. It was a major scene in Joker. I know. I feel like that was maybe an intentional move because who like edge Lord like yeah whatever? Man? Wow,

well that's a great first pick. Todd really showed us, didn't he. Um. That is a great first pick. And I hope it's the only pedophile that we feature on this episode. But I don't know. I haven't really interesting. I haven't you know, I've done no no on my list. This is it. You want me to go next, honey? Okay, So for my number three pick, I'm going real homer

bang the drum all day, don't want yes? Okay? So This was the song that the Colts played after every single touchdown, and so when I hear it, it like endorphins, like my brain truly is just like you're happy, You're happy, You're happy, I can like see the flag. Going doing research of this, I found out it is also the song played at Lambeau after the Packers score. So I'm guessing the Colts stole this um and then the Bengals

used it for a while. The St. Louis Rams used it as their touchdown song during their season that they won the Super Bowl, and the Colts don't even use this song anymore now. They use the Black Keys Gold on the ceiling. Good pick. But yeah, I mean the bang of drum is also just like it's silly, Yes, a lot of fun, doesn't it doesn't. Yes, So it was it was c J. You will love this. It was in the opening of the VH of Shrek. Yeah,

it's perfect energy. It is. It's sporty though, I mean, just because it's so like it almost sounds like at like it's not it's an organ like I think that might have something to do with it. It's like an organ is a very stadium instrument. It just captures the failing to me, I mean, and that's why I said it's a trailer sold. It really is like what is happening the scene? I want to bang on that, like I don't want to do any work, you know, over

the school. You know, it's the still. It's the silliest thing. And Todd Rundgren is like a very accomplished artist too, This is by far the silliest song in his catalog. He's like a very accomplished producer and he has like a lot of really great, credible work. But it is

funny that he has this one song. Well, that's a great reason to point it out because a lot of these people that I'm going to name at least are one hit wonders, say like struck Golden, They're like I'm out of here or I wasn't really a good musician. On this song's Wikipedia page, it does say that it was used in a Carnival Ruise Line commercial. Yes, that was quoted as saying he got a ridiculous amount of

money to use it. I'm happy before him and Carnival Cruise Line probably being corrupt now, um, but they I mean, I don't know, would you get on it? Well, I'm sure the wizards. Yeah there, I was like, would you, I'm like, oh, I forgot where we live. Um, of course people are flooding to carnival cruises right now. It worked on me. I just I mean, I always think about those advertising exacts because my worker is kind of

in line with it. But just like, so the idea is this song that you that everyone really enjoys and it just becomes the commercial? Yeah right, yeah, I think so. I mean, I think there's there's probably a round of clearance where they can't get their first choice or they have to do this or that about this bang the drum song. Um, but it makes me feel happy. So that's why it's my number three. I feel in my shoulders I want to like not calling sick to work for the rest of the week. Um all my number

three pick is uh. I like this song because it's very direct too as to the actions that are happening in the game. It is not no, it's not it's it's hard to not sing it. It's nna hey kiss him, goodbye bye steam. Um. And I was trying to find some cool Gary glitter story, but I wanted I was hoping for some not cool, but like interesting, I needed

some contumace, some dramas in history. Not much came out nineteen sixty nine by a band called Steam Again was also looking through the members see if there's anything else. But yeah, it just is like a classic song because I think it a lot. It's it's played a lot when like ejections happen, or when hockey players are sent to the penalty box, or as a team is losing in the playoffs are being eliminated. Also in the Wikipedia, and this truly speaks to what you can just put

on Wikipedia. It's noted as what people sang in the streets when Trump of the election. It's just like what you know, we were singing funk Donald. True, that's what was happening in our That's not like a fact you should put on Wikipedia. So I do not I love

this song. I do not like it in the sports context because whenever I always see like angry, weird white fans, like what Joe was describing as the Notre Dame student section, I see, like, do kids like screaming this at a twenty year old who's not getting paid to play basketball? So its like, for some reason, it like reeks of privilege to me because it's always fans being like by and it's like you're a fucking loser, you're in the you're in the in the statelished sing me um. But

I do love the song. And if I got to like wave goodbye to like a you know, like Ben Roethlisberger, like a truly villainous person, and I would like it. Yeah. It's also a song that you can utilize in like playing sports with your friends, Like everybody can jump in on that without having to actually play the song. Yeah. It's like, yeah, if you had like your own sand lot, like you're you're singing it. Yeah, it's like a fun unifying activity. So let's take or should we just keep

us rolling? So far? We were up to million dollars. What we're gonna get suited for popular and we'll get fired? No stop, al right, the same if you guys don't hear us ever again. We got fired because we sang bang the drum all day too much. Okay, give us your number two pick. Okay, My number two pick is a song that I had to look up the name of it because and I think it's a song that only can be played in stadiums, which makes it a good stadium. To play it outside of a stadium I

think would be weird. But it's the song curn Craft four hundred by Zombie Nation. That's the song that's oh so right at the beginning, like right before tip off. That is, when you hear that, you're get you're running to your spotlights are like happening the stadium and what is it called? Yeah? How did you find this? The song is called could Craft? Stop saying it like an SNL character voice like a Deeter. And then the song is called could Craft by a DJ named Zombie Nation. Wow, okay, cool?

They does Zombination have any other hits? Concraft one hundred and then the fourth model of could Craft. Yeah, no, you're right, you don't hear that anywhere else, And I like we should, Yeah, we should use it in something. It's like it's jarring. I think it would be jarring or if you can imagine you're just like hanging out in your your house just listening to that song. No, it's a great one. It's an ultimate like pump up song.

And I feel like so many across the globe, like it's popular in soccer, it's popular in football, it's popular in every sport, but nowhere else, Like you're not going to hear that at the Oscars. It's just it's only sports. I've never heard it anywhere. And the Oscar goes to Kate Blanchett that they got to do that, Well, we we got, we got, and then they should go up on a samboni except because yeah, they would play that at high school teams too, like yes, Pepper rallys and

I guess, yeah, that's out of a stadium. But what year did it come out? Is there any history behind it? It's like wow, So yeah, if you if I wanted to guess, I would have been like in the seventies or eighties. I mean, it definitely has like it's very much a techno song, you know, and so it has the trappings of that, uh you know, we're like in a in a post movie erast techno, you know, and techno in the clubs and stuff was like big. It's probably especially in Europe where this dude is from the

Zombie Nation, of course I'm referring to it. But yeah, it's a again a song. I think most people, including myself before like a few minutes ago, I did not know the name can we go back? I want to riff more on the premobi Postmobile era. Yeah, like there's like but I actually, for me, it's it's pre impost prembe post movie. You know, everybody had hair before and then movie showed us you could be vegan, you could be bald and you could still be famous. Yeah, but

you can also be really fucking annoying to Natalie Portman. Yeah, oh yeah, and she was like, we did not. He's like, you bothered me a bunch when I was like sixteen. Yeah, you're fucking weirdo. Okay. Then the Gary Glitter or what's his name, Gilbert Glitter Gilbert Gilbert Gary Glitter. He Gilbert's who did Part one and and he's fine, He's okay, So I can't. I'm gonna listen to all of these after this, Okay, C J Joe, you ready for mine? Yes, Okay, I'm just gonna give you one word and you're gonna

know what it is. There it is? Yeah, team back again. No, but you know I've been talking about this. Have you been talking about woo there? Well? Yeah, because because of the commercial that is taking the world by storm once again, Scoop there it is, that's right, that's right, Okay, yes, so and those are those are the guys um tag Team, Tag Team. The first line of that song, the first line of that song is tag Team back Again. It is their first single. Yeah, and they are considered one

hit wonder so absolutely nothing. But one of the guys his name d C the Brain Supreme Glenn was the main d J at Magic City in Atlanta other sports tie in. And then the other guy's name is Steve Roland Gibson. And this was it for them, womb there it is. I mean, but it was. It was huge at like set Records for how long it was on the Billboard top ten. It was a massive hit. Is definitely considered like one of the greatest stadium anthems of

all time. And now they're back with Scoop There it Is, and thank god what we needed the most well And and I like laughed when I first saw them in the Geico commercial and then yeah, like I said, I think I tweeted out the other day I was like, I kind of think Scoop there it is is better than the original. Um, it just makes more sense and they and they look happy, and so I'm wondering, like they made probably millions from the first single, and then

they then toward what they did halftime shows. They did like corporate events where you know they're singing tag Team is like and now introducing tag Team and you and You're like and Karen are like charing and going whoa tag teams here. Atlanta Magazine called it the bomb Party song, and I think, well, I mean, what more do you have to say from the paper of records? Do you know that the Adams Family did a remix Adams Family? Yeah? Some.

And it also replied to my tweet about now I'm wondering what I do with my time when I leave this earth? Will I be happy with what I do with it? But like, I'm gonna make a cut of this, and the next time we're in an argument, I'm going to play that back to you because you're like Onday, and then I'm just gonna play back you being like, I don't even know what I do with my time. Yeah, well, it's listening to Adam's Family version of Whoop there? And

also people say, whoop there? It is it taking your rights? There is a whoop there? It is? Um, I think that's let me look it up. Keep that I that's a lawsuit. That's a lawsuit. And what do you call it again, Megan? It comes up a lot on this cheeter brand, cheater brand. It's a cheater brand. It's probably not been the right way, do you say? But yeah, it is just whoop? But people maybe what I was seeking is, yeah, people think it's whooped. There it is, yes,

and they're wrong. We're here to correct, you know. Okay, okay, and a number two is my classic Chicago Bulls pick of every episode and it's serious by the Alan Parsons Project. Can't you um sample a little bit of that? Yes, we are near near near, near, very intros. You know. In picking this, I was like, I gotta find some nuggets about it. It's interesting is that some other a wrestler and it came out in the early eighties and a wrestler his name is sorry Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.

He was using it as in his intro for a while and then a Bull and then I think some of the sports teams used it, but most famously the Bulls, and that was because Tommy Edwards, the announcer for the Bulls at the time, decided to use it and it was obviously um I think, yeah, just it charted. I think because of just the nineties bulls were so famous. And this is a pre movie era. This is pre Alan Parsons project. Uh. And this song was written because the first he wanted the first song of his album

to be this song called I in the Sky. But he was like, this needs some sort of intro, we need to ramp up into it, and so that he wrote serious. So this is the intro to I in the Sky essentially. Yeah. Wow, yeah, well that's interesting. Alan Parsons is he He looks weird. I mean he when you think of like anthem songs and then you see him and you're like, oh, well that's a Parsons. They had I and the Sky was one of the big ones. Games people play as another song from the Alan Parsons Project.

But really Alan parsons biggest thing was that he was a producer and he produced for Pink Floyd and he produced. Yeah it has a definite Pink Floyd vibe to it. Yeah, So he and this was after that and he was kind of trying to establish himself as an artist himself. Wow, well that's great, that's gonna Boy did he? Boy did he? These are all songs that I would get in trouble for jumping on my bed too. The title of this episode should be a k songs that I would get

in trouble for jumping on my bed too. Um, okay, great, let's take a break and we'll be back with our number one picks. All right, and we are back, and Joe, how it works. Since you are guests, you're gonna be our big grand finale choose ours. Um, maybe we'll throw in some honorable mentions here, but um yeah, let's let's just go in our number one picks. Okay, my number one pick. It's got like a it was my number one pick. I mean, I'm gonna on the slide try

to try to pretend like it wasn't. But yet that's like I think that's just definitively the best one. Yeah, well, so let's all talk about it, and Joe, if you have any others, well we'll just talking about honorable mention. This happens a lot so and then I think that also just means that that is the best one. I mean, like this is like it's my queen. It's a real song. Um.

I also have questions about it. People they did release we Will Rock You and We Are the Champions as one single in nineteen seventy seven, and so that is what a lot of sports teams. And that's just because Yeah, on the radio, I remember hearing yeah, both of them back to they planned back to back. Yeah they do. I mean, so it depends on I guess what rock station you're listening to. But yeah, that's sometimes there are songs that are packaged like that, especially when there's like

a thematic connection. The way there is, it's not like a mashup that like be made popular. But yeah, I mean this has one of the hallmarks and we kind of talked about this already, but like the fact that the people in the stands can be involved and it's not complicated at all, but it doesn't feel simplistic. You can boom boom clap and everyone knows how to do that,

and you can do it without the song. That happens sometimes at like baseball games, where it just says, like on the JumboTron like boom boom clap, where their nose to get on rhythm get Yeah. I have not seen the movie Oh boy, Yes, there's some hilarious scene. The scene is like one of the more embarrassing h biopics because it's just so on the nose with everything, and the performances are really over the top, and Rommy Malick has like very silly fake teeth to play pretty mercury.

But yeah, there is a scene where they're like, okay, okay, so what I want everyone to do is okay, now take your foot and stomp, stomp, stomp, Yes, all right now, and and and they're like they're like, look like they're apes. They're like, oh what do we Yes, now we you stump and then we clap and it's just like this is And then that's how one of the greatest songs of all time was written. That's how they saved the playhouse because they won the contest for eighty thousand dollars

We Will Rock You into We Are the Champions. Well, so I guess my pick wasn't we Will Rock You? Was I wrote down we are the Champions? And then I was going to ask actually had written down we are the Champions? But did they came up? Both on News of the World. That's the album. No, yeah, News of the World, Um yeah, yeah, that's the News of the World. And it's almost like a double A side

when they released the single interesting Interesting. Yeah, it's hard to beat played at the end of I used to think end of just Muddy Ducks too, but both one and two even though they didn't win a championship in the first one, So I don't you know, what do you think they're bringing it back though? As we know, yep, it looks disappointing, But hey, this is we're not critiquing out of people's art here. Yeah art the Mighty duxbo one of the great examples of modern art, post movie

air art. Yeah, let's keep it in context if you don't mind. Um, do we want to talk honorable mentions then yeah, I mean I love guns and roses. Welcome to the Jungle. That's a good one. That's it. That's like another good like starter, like the game's gonna start, because it's the way it begins, it's and it kind of ramps up the doing before when they when the crowd needs to be reminded to get hype, like for

in the last minute of a game. That's a good example. Yes, that'll take a dead audience and get him back to where Man, we're all really a bunch of just like zombies. Could be Yeah, but we're a zombie nation and we could be by a good stadium anthem one that it has sort of like a famous thing that happens around

it now is jump around. They like, we'll play that at I think it's Wisconsin that did it first, but now it's a lot of places they'll play that, and then like the whole stadium dances and and and jumps around. You'll play it. And happy Gilmore, I mean it isn't happy Gilmore CJ. What are some honorable mentions for you? I mean I don't like this song. I mean when it came out, I loved it. But seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, like maybe one of the biggest

of the last decades. Also a big comedy club song that's so weird. Maybe I feel like they would always play that cy Sky because it's like because I've definitely been performing at places and you know, didn't sell a lot of tickets, and then like that song would come on and it's like, oh, you're really yeah, Like it's such a jarring like feeling to hear that in just a sad, empty room. Where do you have to make

people that have the opposite political opinion as you laugh. Yeah, I feel like a lot of a lot of like college bands will play Yea, I am I still okay. I think they a couple of bit. But that song I feel like kind of took over for Rock and Roll Part two, Like we had to let rock and Roll Part two go for you know the reasons I illustrated earlier. But the Seven Nation Army is so popular. I think, especially with like football clubs in the UK, that they just start to sing it by themselves, like

without anybody telling them to do it. They just kind of because that's another one where you can just be like oh and everybody just gets on board, like especially in the UK, I think is a huge deal. Yeah, it feels kind of tribal, like like a tribal chick um. I mean like scary in the sense of all right, when when that many people are doing the episode has been camped. Did your No, that's not what I meant. Did did your high school have like a football hype song?

I mean it usually was just kind of hip hop song. It was never like anything that we pulled from like the greatest hits. Um. I can't remember him out bring them out of the Yea ours was we ready, um, and then people and then there were hoodies, so I did not get one, but people sold hoodies. Were we ready in very weird font? Yeah that makes sense. You have high school and pick a font. Yeah that's like blue. It wasn't like that font. Not that like a bear,

did you know? But animal? Slightly less animal and then blue. All right, let's do your greatest we have sometimes. Another honorable mention is, I know we talked about Rock and Roll Part two. There's song to by Blur that's a great one, which one is oh yeah, yeah, that's fun. That's actually all you need is that Yeah yeah, but that that's a and that's an interesting one. We talked about like, you know, Todd Rundgren has like this whole other career. Blur has an entire you know, career that

with a lot of great songs. But that's especially in America. Nobody knows Blur except for the sports song. Ye I saw a Thunderstruck on a lot of list that feels like of a different time though, you know, like if they played Thunderstruck at the Staples Center right now, I don't know if it would get popped. It feels Arena football to me, Yeah, I saw the speaking arena football. I saw the L A Kiss when they were still

around that. What was your experience, Like, it's hysterical. They there's a live hard rock cover band on pretty much on the field, like they're a little bit on the sidelines. But they play music. But really more than that, there's the songs they play on the p A system. It gets more. That's really more of the songs that are playing every time the L A Kiss scores. They play rock and roll all night by kids on the p A and or a lot an arena football like a

lot They played it one time. No, I'm not kidding you, because they would do it for the touchdown and they would also do it for the extra point. Oh my god. And the best was they scored a touchdown they played it and then they were like, we have to review it. We've reviewed it the call stance and they played that's awesome. Why didn't that stay in business? Who were they playing? They were they were playing other real named teams or what No, no, no arena posts that real I mean,

not that real name. You know, I'm writing a movie about an arena football team. Um, and it's don't steal that idea listeners and it's um, yeah, they're they're all silly, like Jeans a questionalist. They weren't playing like the Milwaukee Van Halens. Yea, they were Bong Jovion's team. Um, when we were in Chicago, Mike Dicka owned a team Like there's no un ambassadors that own arena football. It's silly people. Yeah, but the gall to name the team after your band.

Only Gene Simmons did that. I love it. Thank you Jean and his passion for arena sports. Um, there was one other song I wanted to say before we go. I don't even know there's a stadium song or just I'm just naming songs in my head, but it goes oh the Place Day. I think that's the name of it. That might just be like a personal playlist at um. Yeah, I don't think that's a sports but that's a jam.

Oh pump the jam, I would say. We didn't actually touch on a lot of the classic uh literal jock jams from the CD, Like I like, I like to move it, move it. Yeah, yeady for this? Oh yeah ready for this? Yeah. The Mortal Kombat theme is also a big one. Yeah, that's almost what I just did. Like they're very very similar. Um, all right, well, I mean I think this ended up being a great episode

as ended up. No, I just you know, we had a little bit debate in the beginning, and that episode that you you pitched us would have been great to that we found in the first we just didn't know. I was like, I'm just gonna have to pick songs and pretend I like them because I don't write. I listened to the cult song it was like this is our It was a song I absolutely never heard. And it's like I have been accused of being mentally ill

about the cults. There's no way a song slipped past me that's anything, you know, like this wasn't real and there really is nothing with the cults like that would be played on Indianapolis radio. The only song that I can think of, it's nap Town Riders. That's like a song like Huda beest Riders, and no one else has ever heard that song. And it wasn't sporty in any way. And I thought it was like a song played elsewhere, like that Sailor song, and no one else knows what

it is. And they didn't even play that at pacers or Yeah, so we just we don't really have, you know, baby faces from Indie and that's that's really all we have. Yeah, way more people than baby Face. I'm talking about like musically music, I feel like mcgah I I after top of my head. I can't think of anybody and you know a lot Joe, So yeah, I would like to think I do all right, Well, Joe, what can we

plug for you? You You have an awesome music podcast. Yeah, so, I think obviously the reason why I did a music focused version out of your show was because I have a music podcast that is not just about music, but we look at artists through the lens of the weird institution called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My podcast is called Who Cares about the Rock All? And

it's a lot of fun. We have people in the show to talk about artists they love and then if we think they have a shot at getting inducted, and if they will, when will that happen? Who would induct them? From all that kind of stuff? Yeah, and me and you, we we texted about this. We both were booked on podcasts to talk about the awful Cleveland Cavaliers rock and Roll Hall of Fame themed jerseys with yeah what really had to do some research to figure out what they

were trying to do. Yeah, when that first? Because the Cavaliers have they did one letter of Cavaliers for EAT and it was each corresponded to a different band. But it someone like me that would be able to tell. I had to like really dig deep to find out what they were doing and what that what any of these bands were. It was a mess and it looks terrible, amazing, incredible. Spy didn't wear it at our wedding. There's no players I really really love. Okay, that's not all that's holding

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