New Marching Band/Fan Participation Songs

a football version of what you do at Yost with "Can't turn you loose?"

Jack Johnson's dad could host.

I'm BLUE da ba dee da ba die...da ba dee da ba die...da ba dee da ba die...

JOKING JOKING!!! kill me SHOOT me we don't need any freakin catchy songs.

Respect.

Barring that, Varsity, Hoover Street Rag, and full Calyptors.

What ever happened to "the MMB doesn't take requests?"

This is awesome that you posted this here. Crowd participation songs are something my wife and I have kind of been annoyed about for years. For example, "Living on a Prayer" was amazing during the '04 MSU game. I think it actually had a role in all those Braylon TDs. But the past couple years, it's been thrown into the rotation and played at inappropriate/weird times.

I really think the MMB needs to arrange and play more hip-hop songs. It seems like the only new songs are from bands like Fall Out Boy (I think "Sugar, We're Going Down" was played at 2 different halftime shows--and I hate that freaking song!). The only hip-hop song I can really remember the band playing was "Hey Ya." Maybe there aren't a lot of songs that would translate well to a marching band, but thinking about the music playing at the spring game (and yes, I know a lot of people complained about that), it was almost all hip-hop. Maybe it'd get people more pumped up?

Now that I got that rant out of there, I'm going to try to come up with some songs. Thanks again for this post. Good luck this year.

Zombie Nation

the victors?

Before I offer any suggestions, I just want to thank you again for making this community an interactive part of the band's participation in the upcoming season. I know it's been on my mind since you first broached the topic and I appreciate your warm reception of my ideas thus far. With that being said...

Here's the plan: I propose the band break away three trumpeters from the band and put them surreptitiously somewhere else in the stadium. They then blast the opening notes to this classic:

And as the crowd cranes its collective neck to see the musicians behind the notes floating down to them, the rest of the band KICKS THE FUCK IN. YEAH MAN FOURTH QUARTER

What do you think, sir?

I know they do this for Red Sox games (and probably other schools), but what about Sweet Caroline?

Anyways, whatever gets picked I think it should be something that the entire stadium would know the words to, not just the student section.

That song in animal house I think, the one the guy sings during the toga scene, they play that scene at the palace all the time and the crowd gets into it. It goes you make me want to shout, throw my hands up and shout

Don't stop ... believin'!

Sweet Caroline is brilliant, and pissing off all the old fogies with "so good, so good, SO FUCKIN GOOD!" would be epic.

MOAR LADY GAGA

A lot of these are decent suggestions. The problem is that they've already been done, or are currently done at other venues. I think we need to find some fresh, new ideas.

@Big Boutros: I'm happy to be of service. I hear people bitching about the band all the time, and hopefully I can do something to change that at least a little bit.

And I like the Ennio Morricone idea. That man's a true BAMF

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KNEED MOAR RAWK MUSIC

How about Wolfmother's "Woman?"

How about Beyonce's first hit, is it "Crazy in Love?" That song has a cool riff.

And, of course, how about "Whatta Man?" by Salt N Pepa? Could be apropo after a big sack or key catch....

One Step Closer

Either bring some HBCU style to the Big Ten or go all Stanford on us

with thunderstruck or something like that. but i think something new like especially in Michigan by red hot chili peppers or something like list of demands by saul williams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NStMkaJE8

Not to divert the topic too much, but I think a major improvement that could be made, in light of the stadium's relative inability to hold in sound (hopefully somewhat remedied with the renovations) would be to get rid of the damn woodwinds in the MMB ('cept picollo). Now, I was in band for many years K-12, and have a lot of respect for woodwinds in a concert hall or auditorium. But GD, you just can't hear the damn things at ALL! The members playing saxaphones, oboes, clarinets (clarinets?!) could be making many times more noise with a brass instrument. It seems that whenever there's a visiting marching band, they are almost always louder than our very own band! This should not be! Particularly OSU, MSU, and Wiscy to name a few - they are all brass (and maybe picollos, can't remember). Perhaps this goes hand-in-hand with the 'opera' fans that we're stereotyped to be, who would surely appreciate the balance and depth that woodwinds add, but dammit, nobody can hear the damn things! Get rid of 'em! Get loud! Get the crowd pumped up! The biggest stadium should have the loudest band, period.

Ok, rant complete....