Music

[Mike Steinfeld]

Since Gary Glitter and Macho Man and other random music with hockey has been discussed, I just had a couple things to say/ask.

It's pretty much too late for a new set of cheers this year, but if anybody has any special requests for songs or cheers they'd like to hear the band play, please tell me. As the arranger of the much maligned Macho Man, I'd much rather hear a poor song appreciated than a good song (not that I'm calling Macho Man good) groaned at. I have a 80% finished arrangement of Styx's Blue Collar Man, and probably around a 50% finished arrangement of Aguilera's "Come on Over," but other than someone else arranging "Video Killed the Radio Star," I don't believe there's any other new (full pepband) music for this season, though I could be wrong. Before *SOMEONE* asks, I do have a 50 second arrangement of the Power Puff Girl's theme sitting around gathering dust. Any song that attempts to drag the band kicking and screaming into the 90's is even better.

Second, and more importantly, one of the bones, Rico Screpka to be precise, arranged "Roll Out the Barrels", and proposed some lyrics to it. Would people be interested in singing said lyrics should the bones play said song at a hockey game? Or in writing new ones? Here are the current two standing versions:

Roll Out Your Goalie, by Rico (Play, Sing, Play)

Roll out your goalie
We'll have three periods of fun
Roll out your goalie
We'll have your team on the run
Then bring out the safety
He'll cry for his mommy tooooo
Get on the ice so we can make a fool of you!

--And/Or--

Grease up your five hole
You'll have a five hole of fun
Grease up your five hole
Wider by the time we're done
Then cry to your mother
Her five hole's wider than yooouuu
Get on the ice so we can make a fool of you!

Alternatively, maybe make it into LeNeveu's song? (Here comes LeNevue?).

Alright, I'll go back to lurking about now. I can send you any of the arrangements I've mentioned above (except Video Killed) in .mid or .nwc form if you want to listen to them in stunning electronic instrumental quality.

Mike

[jtwcornell91]

I've been thinking the Specials' "Message to You Rudy", properly arranged, would make a great pep band song (fun for the bones, and the winds could imitate the harmonica), although I suppose that would be dragging the band back to c.1980.  Can't say I'd object to hearing the Power Puff theme ("So once again, the Game is Saved!")

[Greg Berge]

I can't imagine how you'd make that a pep band song, but it is one of the coolest songs ever.

Alas, it doesn't contain the all-time greatest lyrics in a Specials song:

And she thinks that he'll be happy
When he's hanging out the nappies.
If that's a happy marriage
I prefer to be
Unhappy.

[jtwcornell91]

"Rude boy, you have led me to believe that you was goin' out with this girl and she left you and married someone else.  So you got drunk and smashed up your ex-girlfriend's property!"

[jtwcornell91]

BTW, it will take some doing to top the Yale pep band's addition of "Uncle Fucka" (speaking of clever vulgarity) to their repertoire.

[kingpin248]

Not to mention Afro Man's "Because I Got High."

[melissa \'01]

ok....thought about this one earlier in the year....kinda crazy and might be a lot of work since you could only get one year outta it but it'd be a lot of fun.

Think Madonna's "Like a Virgin" but with the words

"Like a McRae, Whooooo
Scoring for the Umpteenth time!
Like a MaaaaaCrae
Let your Goalie Weep and wayyyyayyyayne (whine)

i think the song itself is something the crowd could have tons of fun with!

[Lowell '99]

Am I the only one who finds most lyrics-changed-to-something-about-Cornell-Hockey incredibly annoying?  Sure, "Hey Baby" is amusing, but for every one of those, there are 50 ill-fated ideas.  I'd rather sing the Schafer beer jingle than the new alternate lyrics ANY day.  

I just can't help but feeling like a 3rd grader doing a poor imitation of Weird Al Yankovic when I sing those damn things.  The Lynah Faithful should not be frooty.  B-]

[ugarte]

I'm with Lowell.

[jeh25]

You're just jealous of the most excellent Underhill lyrics

;-)

[Shorts]

If the band should start playing "Like a Virgin", perhaps it should be the arrangement from Moulin Rouge.  The following was in the Feb. 6 Daily Sun, in reference to the Lady Icers:

they all were swept away by a viewing of The Moulin Rouge and its "...incredible sound track", so said ECAC player of the week Brooke Bestwick.

Also on that same soundtrack: "Elephant Love Medley"

-Shorts

[Admin]

Maybe I should make a sandbox for you two, too, then.:-P

[Graham \'02]

I agree, unless it is something incredibly obvious like Hey Baby, rewriting song lyrics is really kinda lame.  By the way, is there any way the band could try to play Hey Baby when the big man is on the ice?  I know it's tough, because you have to queue up songs without knowing when there will be a stoppage, but that has always bothered me a little.

[jason]

One song that I've always enjoyed (but it's an orchestra piece, not sure how well the string portions would translate to horns) is the main theme (it plays during the opening credits) to the movie Untouchables called "The Strength of the Righteous" --if nothing else, you can't beat that title!

[Greg Berge]

> Am I the only one who finds most lyrics-changed-to-something-about-Cornell-Hockey incredibly annoying? Sure, "Hey Baby" is amusing, but for every one of those, there are 50 ill-fated ideas.

Thank you!  Yes.  Bingo.  Agreed.  Where do I sign?