Piped in Music
While i was at the game this weekend, which i stayed the whole time (was there with first timer). I noticed that there was less piped in music throughout the game. It seemed that they allowed the band to play more, which i personally enjoyed. Maybe Bill Martin got tired of his secretary telling him the Stadium email box is full. Did anyone else notice this, and if you did, have you heard anything about it?
October 18th, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
It was significantly less, I only recall maybe 4-5 times piped in music was used. Contrast that with the IU game where it seemed to be played 10+ times and it was a lot less
October 18th, 2009 at 6:27 PM ^
They probably didn't have enough time to queue up the music in between all of the TDs.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:31 PM ^
This was probably the best the canned music has been since week 1. I was disappointed that they omitted lose yourself, since that always gets a good reaction from the students. Start me up is so cliche, almost as bad as enter sandman.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
it was because the band was always playing The Victors after all those touchdowns
October 18th, 2009 at 6:44 PM ^
I was across the field (21) from the DSU band, they were 100% more entertaining.
Honestly, it's not that hard to use the piped in music in a responsible way.
1. Use better speakers
2. Turn the volume down a bit (sort of linked to # 1)
3. Chose original/unique songs that are topical, and motivational.
4. Use sparingly
October 18th, 2009 at 6:52 PM ^
I agree 100%. The quality of speakers is horrendous and double that with the fact that they have the volume cranked up so high makes it intolerable at times.
This week was decent. I still won't be happy until they get rid of Seven Nation Army, though.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:19 PM ^
but I enjoy it because of the student section participation IMHO
October 18th, 2009 at 7:30 PM ^
Plus it's by a local band.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:50 PM ^
Most of the songs they play are cool because people actually participate with them. That's the main reason I like piped in music for the most part. You don't see people participating as much when the band plays something like Varsity. DSU had some cool stuff they did with the band with using a lot of current songs in their band. Maybe the MMB will take that opportunity of watching DSU play and use some of their ideas. On the speakers, though, I do think they play the music really loud. Probably a little too loud. I think they will have better speaker quality next season when they will (I'm guessing) get new speakers for on top of the new suites.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
I would imagine that the plan is to put a better speakers all the way around the stadium when the boxes are complete. That would fix 1 and 2.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:07 PM ^
I'm sure that's in the plans. I don't know why they wouldn't just crank down the volume a bit in the mean time.
It seems like the last two weeks have been the two extremes - one week of horrid overplaying. One week of very little piped in music. Next week should be interesting.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:45 PM ^
it seems they think that the piped in music pumps the crowd up. there wasn't a big need for this during the delaware state game.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:46 PM ^
This Saturday was my first exposure to the "piped in music" at the Big House. Compared to the music at other stadiums, the Michigan Stadium tunes sound like they're being played on a ghetto blaster in some dudes' basement. Really, really awful. So, in a normal, competitive game - a Journey tune on cassette played at max volume will pump folks up?