Gucci Mane

September 20th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^

Too much pop and old songs not enough rap and hip-hop hits. Still it's not bad. I love the band and respect the tradition of it, but piped in songs have a place as well.

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Don

September 20th, 2017 at 11:28 PM ^

Fuck pop. Fuck old songs. Fuck rap. Fuck hip-hop. Fuck show tunes. Fuck Neil Diamond. Fuck White Stripes. Fuck Hell's Bells. Fuck Broadway. Fuck '70s rock. Fuck Punk. Fuck New Wave, Fuck Grunge. Fuck Elvis. Fuck Beatles. Fuck Country. Fuck Alt-country. Funk Honky-Tonk. Fuck Classical. Fuck Blues. Fuck R&B. Fuck Vangelis. Fuck Flutes of Bolivia. Fuck Irish. Fuck Salsa. Fuck Folk. Fuck Banda. Fuck Klezmer. Fuck Polka. Fuck Tuvan Throat Music. Fuck it all except for the goddamn marching band.

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SagNasty

September 20th, 2017 at 10:33 PM ^

It seems as if it's 75% piped in music and 25% band. I personally wish it was all band. But I would settle to reverse that percentage 75% band and 25% piped in music.

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Mike Damone

September 21st, 2017 at 12:25 AM ^

go back 5 minutes ago to a moment in time when I had not entered this thread and reviewed that lame, weakass, stale, soul-crushing list of songs that someone wants associated with the Michigan Stadium experience.

This Twitter account should be banned, and whoever put this together should be forced to sit in a room and listen to this playlist for 48 straight hours.

At the end of this time, my guess is they will certainly no longer like "Welcome To The Jungle" - it is on the playlist twice, which is immoral and contrary to all civilized playlist creation rules.  Love Guns n Roses - but cmon...

I feel violated - going to take a shower, drink a large Markers Mark on ice, and try to forget such a playlist really exists...

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HAIL-YEA

September 20th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^

feel like compaining about stadium music has become the hipster thing to do these days. Really, there is nothing that does not outrage this fanbase. Uniformz, stadium music, ticket prices, advertising, talking about Sp88888, threads during the offseason, threads during the season...fuckers were even trashing Stephen Ross in the thread about him donating another 50 mill to the school. Some of you people need to get laid, badly.

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Squader

September 21st, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^

"Hipster thing to do these days"

Have you ever experienced a game without piped in music? I graduated less than ten years ago and none of the games in my four years at UM had a single song played over the loudspeakers. That was the experience virtually everyone up until recently thought of as "Michigan football." And it wasn't just The Victors or Temptation - when the band fired up "Livin on a Prayer" in a game we trailed late (2004 MSU) and the students would all sing along, it was awesome. They would do that kind of thing because they knew they were providing the soundtrack.

Now I come back for a game every year and hear the PA system playing worn-out arena tunes at every single stop in play, and often playing over crowd chants so as to actively discourage the crowd from getting into it. It's terrible. If it makes me a hipster to wish they'd just do what they did for the first 129 years of Michigan football instead of (poorly) imitating a minor league baseball game atmosphere, then hand me the flannel and kombucha.

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Chick Evans

September 21st, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^

This is spot on, the first time I can vividly remember piped in music was for the first UTL game against Notre Dame, and then it was ONLY Seven Nation Army. Which was cool that one time, but not to be repeated over and over. So that was what 5 or 6 years ago? 

A big part of the cool factor of college sports is how ORGANIC it is. Mr. Brightside during the Cinci game = Cool. It was different and the fans got into it. Then they tried to force it again against Air Force and no one gave a shit. 

I also like all kinds of music but I don't go to Michigan Stadium wanting to hear some shitty song clip every commercial break. I can do that at home for way cheaper, AND have control over what song I want to hear. 

Also +1 for flannel and kombucha

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Michigan4Harbaugh

September 21st, 2017 at 5:26 PM ^

Hipster? Wait, aren't those the beatnik looking people who wear skinny jeans, hang out at Starbucks with funny looking facial hair, drive a Prius, talk about sustainability and living off the earth, and ponder all day how to save the problems of the world?

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Mark McBoneski

September 20th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^

I'd like to present an alternative:

 

M Fanfare

The Victors

Varsity

Let's Go Blue

I Wanna Go Back to Michigan

Hoover Street Rag

Cheer #1

Intimidation

Iron Man

Black Dog/Kashmir

Respect

Rocky the Flying Squirrel

Heaven/Everytime We Touch

Calyptors

Blues Brothers

Temptation

Hawaiian War Chant

Yellow and Blue

 

 

... I think that about covers it.

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Frieze Memorial

September 20th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^

I'm one of those people who thinks it should be all band. I wonder if I would actually like that if they gave it to me. If you're sitting far away from the band it could feel pretty dead. It's been so long since I experienced 100% band that I honestly don't know. I sat with the band at Kinnick last Saturday: a great experience up close.

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charblue.

September 20th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^

think of anything that separates college from pro sports more than performance by a live band. And because my daughter performed at the Big House twice as a member of the Western Michigan band, I clearly am biased about this proposition. 

Piped in music should be a function of filling breaks in play but I still want to hear the Victors after a score and a first down.

I mean most schools get this. I can still hear the echo of the Trojans incessantly played fight song from last Saturday's game between USC and Texas in my head. 

 

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UMxWolverines

September 21st, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^

I just wish we could find some type of song that is OURS and only ours. Wisconsin has Jump Around, Virginia Tech has Enter Sandman, etc. My vote is when the defense comes on the field for the first time in the game we play the beginning of the solo of Domination by Pantera:

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UMxWolverines

September 21st, 2017 at 9:37 AM ^

No I don't. Look, I know you were in the band and all that, but for the most part our fans suck at creating a good atmosphere. The best games in terms of atmosphere I've been to have been in the Rodriguez and Hoke years. They played more than just the band. The problem is after a while that stuff gets old and they need to find some new stuff...and maybe not play it so often. It doesn't need to be played during every break and before every kickoff. But it does help. They just need to, you know, not play shit.

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bostonsix

September 21st, 2017 at 12:32 AM ^

playing Spotify through the stadium speakers is if each song that's played is chosen by a Michigan player, and before the song starts the "dj" says (example) "this one brought to by Reshan Gary".

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Stuck in Ohio

September 21st, 2017 at 8:14 AM ^

I personally dislike the piped in music. To me it takes away from the college atmosphere. The other reason I dislike it is because the sound system in the Big House is crappy. When music is played, it is so loud it is full of distortion. It also seemed to me at last weeks game, they played more piped in music than in the previous game.

Sunday I was at Heinz Field. Typical pro game....full of piped in music, but I have to admit, it sounded much much better. They have an amazingly clear sounding system with no distortion. 

Still, for me, the piped in music does not add to my gameday experience in Michigan Stadium.

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Spunky

September 21st, 2017 at 8:15 AM ^

Less bad piped in music, more of the band favorites for older fans, but with more of the drum line and rap instrumentals for the younger fans, too.

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garde

September 21st, 2017 at 8:42 AM ^

Any person who creates a playlist that contains Black Eyes Peas, Florida Georgia Line, and Flo Rida should never EVER be allowed near any type of music playing device. 

 

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wolvemarine

September 21st, 2017 at 9:02 AM ^

They should pipe in Cake's The Distance. "He's going the distance..." Then, when he makes it, they switch to "How do you support your rock and and roll lifestyle..." Ah, I got a million of 'em...

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