OT "Shout!" at Oregon football games
Seems like the perfect song to get the crowd going. Would this work at the Big House... or is it too much fun?
https://twitter.com/UnnecRoughness/status/1441062690034683904
September 25th, 2021 at 8:22 AM ^
Animal House was filmed in Eugene. It makes sense. Just like Mr Brightside at Michigan gam….. wait.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:44 AM ^
Hey, Mr. Brightside attended the University of Michig…wait a minute.
September 25th, 2021 at 11:29 AM ^
Just like...
September 25th, 2021 at 12:41 PM ^
I had completely forgotten about... that. Thanks.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:23 AM ^
Down in front!
September 25th, 2021 at 8:24 AM ^
Do you mind if we dance with your dates?
September 25th, 2021 at 8:33 AM ^
That's "wif yo dates" -- just to be accurate.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:26 AM ^
Honestly thought about this song, also called "Shout", before I thought about that one. Shows you where my mind is at:
September 25th, 2021 at 11:03 AM ^
Before we leave "Shout" for other lesser sounds.
From 60s70sTheBest
"Shout", written and recorded by the Isley Brothers in 1959, is pure R&B and Gospel, but it left its legacy in Rock & Roll. Though only making it to #47 on the Billboard Hot 100 then, it was the Isley's 1st gold single. When all said and done, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and ranked #118 on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was covered by many acts since its initial release, and featured in the movie National Lampoon's Animal House, the comedy film Diner, and is the promotional theme of the NFL's Buffalo Bills to mention a few. The Isley Brothers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and received the R&B Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
September 25th, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
Bills have been using Shout for at least 20 years. Probably since the 80s.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:43 AM ^
Nah. Mr. Brightside does just fine getting the crowd going and allowing them to have fun. What makes Mr. Brightside so awesome isnt the song itself, it’s the fact that it arose organically. We didn’t force a “tradition” or “fan song” on the fans. The FANS created this.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:48 AM ^
Yeah, best to limit the cultural efflorescence to one slender sample.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:55 AM ^
Better than asking ourselves which other school’s gameday song/tradition we want to copy
September 25th, 2021 at 9:19 AM ^
Or, we could ask Dave Brandon to create something. Geoffrey Giraffe isn’t doing anything; maybe incorporate him as our new mascot along with a catchy tune
September 25th, 2021 at 11:56 AM ^
I don't think you understand how music or culture work.
September 25th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
I don’t think you understand how gameday traditions work. This isn’t about music or culture. It’s about fan experience on gameday and being original. You don’t do that by forcing new traditions and copying other schools’ ideas.
September 25th, 2021 at 10:39 AM ^
+1 for deploying the word efflorescence
September 25th, 2021 at 8:49 AM ^
I haven't been to a game in years. How did this tradition get started?
(And I am all for the traditions that start organically!)
September 25th, 2021 at 8:53 AM ^
The MSU game in 2017?
September 25th, 2021 at 9:05 AM ^
A little background, Mr. Brightside is STILL a big party anthem on college campuses, even though a good number of college age kids weren’t alive when the song debuted.
So when they played it in the Big House during the 2017 game against MSU, the student section ERUPTED. Participation was huge and you often hear the roar of the student section singing OVER the speakers.
Whether you like the song or not, the atmosphere it creates gives you chills. And the fact that it started organically just makes it all the more beautiful. It was just a bunch of student having fun singing a song and it’s turned into a huge thing.
I’m not a huge fan of the song itself, I don’t hate it but I’d never play it on my own, but it’s awesome watching ~70,000 or so (because we have a lot of poo pants in the stands) belting out the lyrics. Videos don’t do it justice and it’s an awesome sight even in videos.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:24 AM ^
I thought it was during the Cincinnati game in 2017 that it first became a thing during the break between the third and fourth quarter. I had season tickets then and I don't recall hearing it at the Air Force game the week before nor in previous seasons. Also, pretty sure the broadcast showed Chase Winovich singing along on the sidelines as they were coming back from commercial break.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:31 AM ^
It’s been played sporadically throughout the years but the MSU game was when it really became a “thing”
September 25th, 2021 at 9:45 AM ^
Huh, guess I completely struck that game from my memory. Probably because it sucked ass.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:03 AM ^
It's also a very Michigan song in the way that the singer is sarcastically saying he's "Mr. Brightside" after some douche steals his girl and he's imagining all the terrible things they're doing together. In reality, he needs to move on and stop holding onto the past.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:40 AM ^
End thread. I get not everyone likes it, but you nailed it
1. Earworm song still popular enough that everyone knows it, easy to sing along to
2. Like you said, started organically
3. The lyrics low key fit Michigan football and the exact game it became a thing (2017 MSU) is literally the perfect example for the feeling the song describes
September 25th, 2021 at 11:30 AM ^
And it’s an easy song to learn. The second verse is the same as the first.
September 25th, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
This comment made me want to binge-watch The Tudors.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:47 AM ^
Let's keep it original instead of copying other fanbases. Mr. Brightside it is.
Virginia Tech's Enter Sandman is pretty impressive. Do we really want to copy them, too?
September 25th, 2021 at 8:47 AM ^
That song is for shit-canned people at wedding receptions.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:41 AM ^
Let's go full wedding reception and do Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
We can replace shaking the keys with "STOP RIGHT THERE!!" on third downs.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:43 AM ^
Hmm where else can we find a bunch of drunk white people originally from the suburbs all in one place
September 25th, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
Times Square on New Years Eve.
September 25th, 2021 at 12:41 PM ^
If I had a dollar for every time I heard Pour some sugar on me by Def Leppard.
Wait…I gave away a dollar every time a heard that song.
September 25th, 2021 at 8:49 AM ^
I’ve always been a shama lama ding dong guy.
September 25th, 2021 at 10:02 AM ^
Otis ! My Man !
September 25th, 2021 at 8:55 AM ^
I was expecting the Tears for Fears version. That might be better than this.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:00 AM ^
I though this thread was going to be about the song "Shout" by Tears for Fears. Man was I wrong.
September 25th, 2021 at 10:58 AM ^
Let it all out.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:09 AM ^
If you’re not having fun at the big house you’re doing it wrong.
We already have the greatest fight song, blues brothers song and dance and Mr. Brightside. No need to force anything else.
Also Special K.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:18 AM ^
Unless I'm going insane we definitely did do shout some point in the early to mid 2010's while I was in undergrad. It always got a pretty decent reception and didn't realize it's not done anymore.
Thay being said I definitely prefer Mr. Brightside. Would have loved that as an undergrad.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:49 AM ^
I'm class of 2016. We did this too in 3rd quarter intermission along with the Blues Brother cover of that Otis Redding song, and that one classical song that everyone pretends they ride a horse during
I'm great with names obviously
September 25th, 2021 at 11:02 AM ^
Yes this has been on the Big House song playlist. Never really got the top billing as Oregon is doing.
Also this year, we haven't played consistently Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", which was our own favorite since forever with the ubiquitous "South Detroit"
September 25th, 2021 at 11:17 AM ^
Windsor?
September 25th, 2021 at 12:25 PM ^
YES!!!
September 25th, 2021 at 2:00 PM ^
Doing a Blues Brothers version of an Otis Redding song is the whitest thing ever.
September 25th, 2021 at 9:39 AM ^
Otis!
September 25th, 2021 at 10:22 AM ^
Singing a whiny, self-pitying, angsty song at the stadium seems a bit masochistic to me, but I suppose “I just can’t look/it’s killing me” is an apt rendering of the reaction of Michigan football fans to the last two decades of Michigan football.
September 25th, 2021 at 10:42 AM ^
I don't get it either, so I'm going to just assume they are singing it 'ironically'.
*checks with millenials to confirm proper use of terminology*
September 25th, 2021 at 10:54 AM ^
Fun fact: none of the students who have been driving this tradition are millennials. Millennials are late 20’s and older now.