Seven Nation Army chant
The 2009 season was the last year I was able to enjoy the student section due to this silly thing called graduation. One of the biggest reasons I love this university and its sports is due to our unique tradition. We are second to NONE in that department. From the best fight song in the nation: to our helmets, to our stadium, to our history, and of course, to this guy: During the Notre Dame game, the piped in music played "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes who are originally of Detroit. I absolutely love the song and I, along with 25,000 of my closest friends went crazy. And then I started to hear the chant: Don't get me wrong, it is a super hype and great "war" chant. But it is not ours. For all intents and purposes, PSU was the first fan base to take it as their own: I either stood in the student section or on the field for the next 5 home games having to hear the chant, and everytime it really annoyed me. We were the ones who taught OSU's band how to spell Ohio, and I LOVE the fact that we invented one of their "best" traditions. The last thing I want to do (I can't speak for our whole fan base) is to involve myself in some other team's tradition, even though it has been short lived so far. I may be completely off based with this, but I compare this to adding "Jump Around" to our 3rd - 4th quarter intermission mixtape.
GETOFFMYLAWN!
I think we should quit using this song at football AND basketball games. But i do love when they play "Lose Yourself" by Eminem. Eminem is a local guy and to my knowledge no other school currently has a tradition of playing that song.
Agreed. I love it everytime this song comes on and I hope we continue with it. Original tradition.
It's neither original (OSU did it before us) nor a tradition (we've done it for all of one year).
This is what we need to prevent. What has Michigan come to when our fans think that we're the first to drop a Jock Jamz CD over the loud speakers? It's not "original", it's embarrassing.
It's not a Jock Jamz CD in this case, it is a local artist who is also a fan. I was unaware that OSU or any other team used his song, so in that respect, "My bad." But Eminem = Jock Jamz? Come on now..
"Lose Yourself" is in heavy rotation at pro and college sports stadiums across the country. It's probably one of the 10 most-played songs at sporting events nationwide.
OSU beat us to the punch there. They started piping in "Lose Yourself" a few years ago (and yes, their students do the same hand gesture). Not to mention that dozens of pro sports teams use it.
We really need to find a way to get the band to be heard all over the stadium, because relying on jock jams is costing us a lot of our uniqueness.
Does "no other school" include a large portion of high schools and colleges around the country? Does it include nearly every NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB arena/stadium?
Want to use something local? Iggy Pop.
Want to be original? Drop the Jock Jamz. These new "traditions" like piped-in music and losing need to go asap.
that song was cool when i was 14 and really mad at my step-dad
I don't care what I'm yelling as long as the other team can't hear themselves think.
It's not even unique to PSU. They ripped it off from an Italian soccer team.
Personally, I don't get it. I like the White Stripes, but that song doesn't seem well-suited for that kind of audience participation. Those notes are supposed to be quietly played on a bass, not shouted out.
Between this and the way the "Temptation" teaser has been defaced by "You Suck," I feel like our students are falling short in the creativity department right now.
Completely agree.
The "You Suck!" at the end of the Temptation Teaser is on the level of Maryland fans.
Michigan is so much better than that, so, please, for the love of God, let's be better than that.
As a student I hate the 'You Suck' chant, ESPECIALLY when we're losing. Drives me insane. It's like me (5'9) telling a 6'1 person they're short.
Zombie Nation as their incessant chant.
I'm pretty sure you mean "intents and purposes".
... and when I say pretty sure I mean 100% sure.
the purposes just aren't as intense.
If I've said it once
I've said it a million times
NO ONE USES MUSE
Make Muse the official RAWK of Michigan!
Yeah, I wouldn't be against hearing Uprising while at the games.
Stockholm Syndrome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHkQPOQ3EDg) would be a good one or Hysteria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8)
Sorry, i don't know how to embed just yet and don't have to time to fiddle around with it right now
intentional haiku is intentional?
At least we didn't use the song when Penn State came last year. I was kind of wondering if we'd be ripping off what they're known for while they were visiting, but if I recall properly, we never used Zombie Nation or Seventh Nation Army Chant against them.
That being said, I'm kind of on the fence with stuff that's used by other schools already. I'm cool with the not-band music as long as its reasonably done (Happened too often last year IMO. It needs to be kept to the most oppurtune moments such as getting maximum crowd pump-up on an important third down), but when it specifically involves stuff other schools are known for, I'm just not sure. My initial instinct is that we don't need to take stuff from anybody else to be awesome, but then I remember that other people rip our stuff from time to time as well, and all of a sudden I'm not caring as much anymore.
You said,
I'm kind of on the fence with stuff that's used by other schools already.
So...name one song...just one piped-in song that hasn't been played over 1000 times previously at other colleges, high schools and minor league stadiums across the country. Ripping off the game experience from lesser organizations is below us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRl0u9AF0Gg
Especially this season as we remind those who forgot that we are still Michigan.
Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman by Britney Spears for one.
+1 for the laugh, but I was tempted to -1 the post for having to endure it playing in my head.
it should be "Ten Thousand Fists (in the Air)". One Hundred and Ten Thousand. The marching band drummers could join in the opening, stay through the song
Unless, you know... somebody already does that
Get rid fo the piped in music altogether. not only is it all unoriginal, it takes away from the traditions of the entire event. I'm usually all for progress and finding new and different ways to enjoy games, but playing overly hyped, terrible sounding music over and over just doesn't do it for me. When I see the student section doing the "war chant" or when i hear Eminem come on for the 5th time in the same game i get pissed. The student section is turning into a bunch of poser-frat boys and sorostitutes who care more about being seen rather than seeing the game.
We have the Michigan Marching Band. We also have lots of talented musicians who can create crowd-pumping beats. Why not use them? We can record those songs which can't be live mic'ed on the field. Why not be the leaders and best? This piped-in garbage, almost as much as the losing, is the most shameful byproduct of the RR era.
Hell, Boom Boom Clap, is a huge stadium cheer. We can do better, and we don't have to copy minor league baseball to do so.
At least we're not subjected to a race between a donut, bagel and coffee cup.
And the results were awesome from Michigan fans everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6mE9Au3CwM
Yes, gratuitous Freekbase link.
Way to stereotype. Isn't it sad that so called "poser" frat boys make more noise than any of the alums? See what I did there - I made an assumption about an entire group of people without really thinking that it probably isn't true for the entirety, hell even the majority of them. Also do you really think the student section had anything to do with the choice of piped in music? If so, I missed the memo on that one.
What is this, ACB? Besides, those that do show up (late) are normally gone by 2nd or 3rd quarter allowing real fans to move down and get better seats.
Eminem gets the students fired up. The band has great traditional value, but the students above it can't hear it. Do you want the students to be loud and in the game or not?
Generalizing 20,000 people in the student section as poser-frat boys who don't care about the game is not a good idea, either. Most care vehemently.
I think they are trying to use Michigan artists - Eminem, White Stripes and so on.
No, they aren't using Michigan artists...unless Guns n Roses, Neil Diamond and Journey are from Michigan. They're just using a copy of Jock Jamz 17 that someone found at a minor league baseball game.
You're generalizing. We incorporate more Detroit/Michigan artists, so yes, we do use Michigan artists. You are one angry fan.
My bet is, last year was an experiment. They'll probably have a better selection this year.
on the stipulation that Kid Rock stays really fucking far away.
Bawitaba (sp?) is so damn catchy and makes no sense....
I think this is a great pump up song especially for a footbal format especially when the singer comes in with "Can I scream?!?!"
I think it came out near the end of Friday Night Lights (the movie) and it fit so perfectly
Anyone else feel that more creativity is needed in the student section like at hockey games?
This is sarcasm right?
You think our students are displaying a sufficient amount of creativity as it is?
The atmosphere at Yost is so close-knit, everyone can hear one another clearly and even if the entire crowd doesn't get in to it, the students are pretty easy to understand. At the Big House, it is really difficult to get a unique chant started ( e.g. you can only get the people that attend hockey games in on a "Ref You Suck" at a football game - and with B10 refs there are like 10 opportunities a game).
I got that, just seems like there aren't many special chants they do or anything. Be creative! Come up with something for each team that visits the Big House. We want a tough atmosphere
...is inversely proportional to the number of beers I drink before a game.