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What song would you like to hear, when the Jumbo Trons kick on for the first game?

ForTide said:
I also can't wait to see Nick Saban added to the video.:biggrin2:
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I can't wait for CNS to EARN a spot on the video .

pvilleguru said:
i have yet to hear why people don't like the song. how about giving a reason because, "i just don't like it".
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Because ...... well , here's 10 quick ones ......

I hate bands who choose to politicize themselves .
I hate bands who poke fun at our leaders .
I hate bands who hate their country .
I hate bands who make fun of our nation .
I hate the band .
I hated the band way before any of the above .
It's been played for way to long .
The lyrics are terrible .
The song doesn't translate well for being covered by a marching band .
The South doesn't share the lost values of dirty punk drug addicts .

.... make it 11 - It SUCKS .
No , make it 12 - Anyone who follows up the 9/11 attacks with the release of "American Idiot" - should be shot . :p_evil:

Anyway , I feel like my IQ lessens with every note that's played . :redface:

JOMO :p
 
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First verse of "Dixie". Nice and slow sort of like the Elvis version. Then blast into "Yea Alabama". Teary eyes and boiling blood. Southern football. Glory be!
 
LCN said:
I can't wait for CNS to EARN a spot on the video .


Because ...... well , here's 10 quick ones ......

I hate bands who choose to politicize themselves .
I hate bands who poke fun at our leaders .
I hate bands who hate their country .
I hate bands who make fun of our nation .
I hate the band .
I hated the band way before any of the above .
It's been played for way to long .
The lyrics are terrible .
The song doesn't translate well for being covered by a marching band .
The South doesn't share the lost values of dirty punk drug addicts .

.... make it 11 - It SUCKS .
No , make it 12 - Anyone who follows up the 9/11 attacks with the release of "American Idiot" - should be shot . :p_evil:

Anyway , I feel like my IQ lessens with every note that's played . :redface:

JOMO :p
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LCN, I'm not sure how old you are but the best music (IMHO) ever made was the music of the 60's and early 70's and almost every bit of that music was political. I call the music, music with meaning! The songs had meaning, whether or not you agreed with their message at least it wasn't just a bunch of words thrown together.

Also, U2 happens to be one of the best bands ever and 99.9% of what they do is political. Again, you don't have to like their message, but you've got to love the music (at least I do).

Finally, a band can say negative things about our country and not HATE our country. That's part of what makes America the BEST country in the world! The simple fact that we can stand up and say that although we have complete disdain for certain things about our country, it is still the best there is! I look at it like this and I do believe it's a good analogy. When I was a kid I could pick on my sisters as much as I wanted...however, don't you dare say a word or you'll deal with me and my dad! The same is true of our country...it is ours, so we can gripe...but if you're not an American, KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT OR ELSE!:biggrin2:

With all of that said, I happen to enjoy Basketcase but I am tired of it.
 
GrayTide said:
Sorry dvldog can play "Dixie" it is not politically correct and insensitive.
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PC is not a concern for me. It fits my politics just fine. Nothing insensitive that I see. Hey, the thread title was what song would you llike to hear. Thats the one.:biggrin2:
 
AlanBama27LCN, I'm not sure how old you are but the best music (IMHO) ever made was the music of the 60's and early 70's and almost every bit of that music was political. I call the music, music with meaning! The songs had meaning, whether or not you agreed with their message at least it wasn't just a bunch of words thrown together.

Also, U2 happens to be one of the best bands ever and 99.9% of what they do is political. Again, you don't have to like their message, but you've got to love the music (at least I do).

Finally, a band can say negative things about our country and not HATE our country. That's part of what makes America the BEST country in the world! The simple fact that we can stand up and say that although we have complete disdain for certain things about our country, it is still the best there is! I look at it like this and I do believe it's a good analogy. When I was a kid I could pick on my sisters as much as I wanted...however, don't you dare say a word or you'll deal with me and my dad! The same is true of our country...it is ours, so we can gripe...but if you're not an American, KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT OR ELSE!

With all of that said, I happen to enjoy Basketcase but I am tired of it.
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From that era , I'm into The Doors , Stones , Hendrix , Cream , etc. , while I hate Joan Baez and John Lennon . 37 going on 27 :wink:
 
jeremy said:
That song was played once upon a time before our games. I heard it a few times in 2004.
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I don't remember hearing it, but I'm not always in my seat a long time before kick-off. Probably played before I was inside the stadium.

UAEngineer113 said:
This gives me goosebumps every time I see it...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jjJolf1IBPA

Same thing, different day...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5h1EW5z1wdc
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It is awesome to see at VT! I think that's one of the songs that could really get the crowd going before the game. I like all the traditional stuff we do, but wouldn't somethink like that be fun?
 
If we can't do Dixie, how about John Denver's "Annie's Song"? I mean, who doesn't like John Denver? For those more radical, "Rocky Mtn High". I'm sure the Aubies will beat us to "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".:biggrin2:
 
That whole "Enter Sandman" thing is VT's. Call me an elitist, but I don't enjoy copying others' ways of doing things, mostly because I think our way is better and always will be. Alabama deserves traditions all her own, not something watered down by the fact that someone else has routinely done it before us.

I'm all about "Yea, Alabama" and "Sweet Home Alabama" and all our usual Bama cheers and songs. I would love, love, LOVE to see/hear Hans Zimmer's "Crimson Tide/Eternal Father" song tricked out, pumped up and used in our intro as well.
 
This would be very cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoR8bL-ZXAA
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ChattTide said:
You can't hear Basketcase anymore anyway. They play "Sweet Home Alabama" over the PA now between the 3rd and 4th quarters.

I'm a band guy. I just hate it when they start playing music DURING the game when the band can play. That's their job. They enjoy playing and they have a role during the ball game. I say give them their time. This happened to my group a couple of times at home and I made sure the powers that be heard my opinion on the matter.

Now don't get me wrong; I love hearing "Sweet Home". I love hearing 92,000 people saying "Roll Tide Roll". The band gets slighted at that time.

Sorry some of you don't like the song.

Roll Tide!!
ChattTide
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I'm with ya 100%. I think that them doing that is a direct shot at the students. That is the one part of the game that i can't stand, other than the cheerleaders (especially when we're losing to MS St.... that was the worst day)
 
Most of you have never heard it ; "Happy Days Are Here Again".
FDR's campaign theme song. He did bring us out of that long depression.:biggrin2::biggrin:
 
I have several ideas...

1) Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iiF8U6y_U

2) Back In Black - AC/DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPlEnC4SdCA

3) Like a Stone - Audioslave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjBtHg1T4E

Also, I don't mind the BasketCase song by Green Day. I only like the Dookie album and coming from California, I'm no druggie or anything like that but do enjoy punk music from time to time.

I always do get chills everytime I hear Sweet Home Alabama, Dixieland Delight or the Yea Alabama fight song.

Question: What is the song "Dixie"? Just curious.
 
CaliforniaTide said:
Question: What is the song "Dixie"? Just curious.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)

"Dixie", also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land", and by other titles, is a popular American song. It is one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century,[1] and probably the best-known song to have come out of blackface minstrelsy.[2] Although not a folk song at its creation, "Dixie" has since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the Southern United States.

Most sources credit Ohio-born Daniel Decatur Emmett with the song's composition; however many other people have claimed to have composed "Dixie", even during Emmett's lifetime. Compounding the problem of definitively establishing the song's authorship are Emmett's own confused accounts of its writing, and his tardiness in having "Dixie" copyrighted. The latest challenge has come on behalf of the Snowden Family of Knox County, Ohio, who may have collaborated with Emmett to write "Dixie".

The song originated in the blackface minstrel show of the 1850s and quickly grew famous across the United States. Its lyrics, written in a racist, exaggerated version of African American Vernacular English, tell the story of a freed black slave pining for the plantation of his birth. During the American Civil War, "Dixie" was adopted as a de facto anthem of the Confederacy. New versions appeared at this time that more explicitly tied the song to the events of the Civil War. Since the advent of the American Civil Rights Movement, many have identified the lyrics of the song with the iconography and ideology of the Old South. Today, "Dixie" is sometimes considered offensive, and its critics link the act of singing it to sympathy for the concept of slavery in the American South. Its supporters, on the other hand, view it as a legitimate aspect of Southern culture and heritage.

I actually didnt know all of that. Most of the people that grew up in these parts know all of the type in bold as our main history of this song. :smile: Maybe that helps.

Then I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand,
To live an die in Dixie,
Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie,
Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie
 
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