Piped in music getting ridiculous
Ok I'm all for it when it gets the crowd loud (Seven Nation Army, RAWK), but Sexy and I know it? Really? I don't know any of the other stuff they played besides Sweet Caroline and Don't Stop Beliving but it was all pretty terrible and it really didn't help with atmosphere at all.
October 30th, 2011 at 4:27 PM ^
If you're a student at u of m, and you don't show up to a football game because it's a noon start.
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<br>You're a complete and utter waste of a seat which could go to a season ticket holder.
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October 30th, 2011 at 4:55 PM ^
If you will show up on time for a 9AM class without thinking about it, yet won't show up on time for a 12PM kickoff at Michigan Stadium...
It couldn't be that difficult for Athletics to do some kind of system with the ticket barcodes to determine which student tickets were actually scanned and which weren't (they've done it for basketball in the past), and even go a step farther and keep track of how many minutes after kickoff those same tickets were scanned, and use that data when determining seating locations next year. Don't use your tickets? Welcome to row 85. Consistently don't use your tickets until 30-60 minutes after kickoff? Welcome to row 84.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:08 PM ^
Great idea. We need more students like Lloyd Brady, whom I saw at least three times on the video board.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
It's the reason my wife asked me if the Red Wings were playing?
October 30th, 2011 at 4:15 PM ^
This will probably be my ticket to Bolivia, but I think it would be cool to play dubstep to help get the students and the younger crowd into the game. Not to mention it would be original unlike Seven Nation Army, which is becoming increasingly annoying.
October 30th, 2011 at 4:30 PM ^
Yeah. We should have a rave and drop some wiz remixes.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:12 PM ^
I hear La Paz is wonderful this time of year.
October 30th, 2011 at 4:34 PM ^
There's been some song they've been playing when michigan is on defense where it just sounds like really hard rock yelling. Someone name it if you know what I'm talking about.
October 30th, 2011 at 4:45 PM ^
...yesterday was the first day they did NOT play the Pop Evil crap in that 5 seconds before the team takes the field. Come to think of it...I don't remember any Pop Evil! That's a huge improvement!
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<br>But do we really need Seven Nation Army before the first snap of the game? Pump up music with 3 hours of play left?! Let me drink my $8 hot chocolate in peace fergodsakes.
October 30th, 2011 at 4:52 PM ^
they only played it during warmups
October 30th, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
...you can tell because they show early to soak it all up during pregame.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:32 PM ^
I'm not crazy about the RAWK but it's on for such a short period of time that I can't believe it's become this much of a cause celebre.
There were "playings" of 7NA that had to be less than 10 seconds long. Sweet Caroline went one chorus, Don't Stop Believin ended a second after "South Detroit." Those are harmless tunes -- and the MMB might not necessarily have been playing. IMO, Grapenvine (and before him, King) talked more than they do now and it could very well be that the songs replace a promo for the "Dekers Club" luncheon or somesuch.
The songs don't last long enough to get this bent out of shape. If you added up all the RAWK that was played Saturday, it may not have lasted as long as the classic Blues Brothers the MMB played near the end of the third quarter.
The "throwback" uniforms are a much bigger deal than the RAWK.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:37 PM ^
Someone said the band need to learn more music and play it instead of the piped in... If you actually listen to them (i think it was mostly the third quarter), they were playing a lot of popular music arrangements.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
I realize that this is a bit off the point but what also bothered me what the cartoon Boilermaker train being zapped or whatever. That reminds of Spartan stadium the last time I was there (2001) when they had something similar -- not an example we want to emulate.
October 30th, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
I heard the band play Kashmir (I think) in the thrid or fourth quarter and felt like I hadn't heard them play all day. Can we limit the piped in stuff to maybe one song per quarter? I liked the idea at first but it's really being overdone.
October 30th, 2011 at 6:04 PM ^
Going all the way back to middle school, I have absolutley hated band music, it makes my head hurt and stomach turn, to me it just sounds like noise. Just not my taste in music, my guess is those who dont like the piped in music feel the same way about that. You are not the only fans, other people like different things. Theres 100k+ at the stadium, if only 10% are like me and can't stand band music, then thats 10k people who grin and bear the band to make you happy. So my suggestion is to just deal with it and stop being so selfish.
The ONLY band song I have ever liked is The Victors - music is awesome and the lyrics make it the best ever.
Just how I personally feel about band music. My feeling on Piped in Music is, QUIT PLAYING THE SAME DAMN SONGS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, like listening to a bad radio DJ who keeps playing the #1 song that week, just ruins it!
October 30th, 2011 at 6:21 PM ^
I love Seven Nation Army, but god dammit if I hear that song one more time I will punch a goat in the face. It's good once or twice a game. Maximum.
October 30th, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^
"Whether you like it or don't like it. Learn to live with it because it's the best thing going today. Woooo!" (Ric Flair)
October 30th, 2011 at 6:52 PM ^
new songs yes not doing it or doing it less no
October 30th, 2011 at 9:48 PM ^
Seven Nation Army is the new B1G conference theme song. I heard OSU play it at least 3 or 4 times against Wisky. Penn State does. We over do it. Notre Dame does it. I think Jim Delany is just brain washing the whole midwest with it ala Mugatu
October 30th, 2011 at 9:58 PM ^
October 30th, 2011 at 11:16 PM ^
but it generates a lot of white noise. More ambient white noise is better for the stadium atmosphere. So I guess I should get used to listening to RAWK before kickoffs from now on.
The miking of the band is good for similar reasons.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:17 AM ^
...at a high school game, aside from the piped-in music (37 iterations of the Black Eyed Peas and 14 repetitions of Cat Scratch Fever--oddly, it was the very first game all year that I did NOT hear a single playing of Seven Nation Army) they had piped in crowd noise so we could pretend there were actually a lot of people at the game.
This could never happen in college, right? At some school (no, I'm not referring to Michigan here) that stopped filling their stands because fans resented being hit up for big mandatory contributions just to stay on the season ticket list, it couldn't happen....
October 31st, 2011 at 7:36 AM ^
The Journey song was coming in pretty loud over the television. I haven't been up there for a game since they started piping in music, and I have to say it was quite surreal to hear it over the television. I really don't know if I like it or not.
October 31st, 2011 at 7:39 AM ^
Still get your White Stripes, play something relatively underutilizied. Problem solved.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:16 PM ^
I have always been partial to the Raconteurs' "Steady As She Goes," although I'm not sure if either of these lends itself so easily to being chanted along with.