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The Nationals announced today that the results are in from their online ballot asking fans to pick which songs will be played at Nationals Park. There's some good news, and some less good news.
After the first Home Run by a Nats player in any game, we'll be treated to Chuck Brown's "Bustin Loose". Thank goodness. Something unique to D.C., and a great song to boot. Well done, Nats fans, for not picking Fat Boy Slim.
The sing-along during the 7th inning streth -- after "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" -- will be "Shout" by Otis Day and the Knights. OK. This is acceptable. We had been pulling for "Build Me Up Buttercup" or "You Gotta Have Heart", but pretty much anyone can live with Otis Day.
Here's the bad news: the victory song played as fans leave a game the Nationals have won will be U2's "Beautiful Day". Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. Can people actually still listen to this song without pulling their hair out? We don't understand. Sigh.
Full results from the voting are after the jump.
Home Run Song Final Standings
1. Bustin Loose by Chuck Brown
2. Song 2 (Woo Hoo) by Blur
3. Off We Go (Air Force Theme) by Robert Crawford
4. Because We Can by Fat Boy Slim
5. Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation
7th Inning Stretch Song Final Standings
1. Shout by Otis Day and The Knights
2. Twist and Shout by The Beatles
3. Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations
4. You Gotta Have Heart by Damn Yankees The Musical
5. September by Earth Wind and Fire
6. The Gambler by Kenny Rogers
7. YMCA by the Village People
8. Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim
Victory Song Final Standings
1. Beautiful Day by U2
2. Celebration by Kool And The Gang
3. Dancing In The Streets by Martha Reeves and the Vandelas
4. How Do You Like Me Now by Toby Keith
5. Rock and Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter
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Yeah, Damn Straight we picked chuck brown...
Oh by the way, the song is Zombie Nation by Kernkraft 400
All things considered, it could have been much, much worse.
Gimme the bridge, y'all!
Song 2 has got to go. Blur's made enough money off it. They've practically used it to sell everything from Nissan Tundras to Fleet enemas.
It could have been worse, but it's still pretty bad. Shout is so overdone. I doubt that many people even made the Washington connection with "You Gotta Have Heart". Even still, for all the reasons radio sucks, a bland overplayed song like Build Me Up Buttercup was bound to beat it out.
Hate it and them as you will, but there's really nothing like the way "New York, New York" comes blasting out the speakers at the end of a Yankee game. The brash obnoxiousness of it is just so damn fitting and perfect. There's no song remotely as fitting for DC; no one song that can be simultaneously so cherished and reviled. We don't even have a Dirty Water.
Although, I agree that Bustin' Loose is a very bright silver lining on a cloud of the vacuous lowest-common-denominator that was the other selections.
No soulja boy?
nothing is worse than "Go Cubs Go"
Indeed, Beautiful Day is a pretty bad song, but Sommer what would you have rather had from that awful list? Please don't tell me you'd have rather had Celebration or some crap by Toby Keith. The choices were really really bad - pretty much for all three polls (Chuck Brown was the only decent option).
What about The Magnetic Fields?
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T-O-N baby
DC!
Ugh, I'm sure someone mentioned this already, but why does a convicted pedophile (Gary Glitter) get his song played at massive sports events?
We need a local punk band to come up with a rockin' cover of a classic tune like the Dropkick Murphys did for the Red Sox.
Well, if they were looking for songs that (a) reflect how I feel about the city spending $611M on a Goddman baseball stadium in a city with as many problems as DC and (b) simultaneously instill a sense of local pride, I can think of more than a few Minor Threat diddies which would have worked nicely.
boooooooooo toby keith
sorry sommer, the U2 song was the best thing available on that list for end-of-the-game song.
No love for The Gambler!? Argh.
Suck it up people. It's not like you're going to have to suffer through the U2 song that often. I mean these are the Nationals we're talking about.
What would be the choices for a song to play after a Nats loss?
demonfafa said:
We need a local punk band to come up with a rockin' cover of a classic tune...
...and that tune should be the Magnetic Fields song! The original piano tune would never work in the stadium, but maybe The Dance Party or Georgie James could take a stab at it.
Victory song should've been "Da Butt" by EU. Totally inappropriate, but has a DC connection AND would allow me to shake my big ol' fanny. What's better than that?
Anything good on the DC Cab soundtrack?
I ain't complaining. I'll take Otis & Chuck Brown.
Imagine Whoo-hoo by Blur, YMCA, and then Gary Glitter. That's lose-lose-lose.
waaaah-bash
For what it's worth, the actor that played "Otis Day" was DeWayne Jessie, who (according to IMDB) was in DC Cab.
Granted, it's not DeWayne Jessie's voice on the recording, but as far as DC connections, that's probably the best we're going to do...
The obvious choice for a victory song would be something by Nation of Ulysses. "P-Power"? "Last Train to Cool"? "You're My Miss Washington DC"?