Entry Song for Saints? AFL request

[avid]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

What a horrible idea!!!!!!

"While the song is not compulsory, clubs have been encouraged to find a suitable anthem that can inspire players and fans before teams hit the field this season."

What the hell are the club theme songs supposed to be????

They've played rock/pop hits at etihad right up until the first bounce before, some Jet songs, they even did play kashmir once, I think, and its absolutely s*** in regards to killing off the natural pre-game atmosphere of an AFL footy match, which is an entity all of its own. Every true football fan knows that feeling before a big match, with that gnawing at the gut and that restlessness to get into the contest, its an amazing thing unique to our amazing game. God damn the AFL to hell for bastardizing our game with this rubbish.

FFS, why isn't the traditional club song good enough? All the fans can identify with it and sing along and clap to it. This idea of piping some irrelevant tune is so CORNY and contrived. Typical of the AFL wanting to introduce more Mickey Mouse stuff to our game.

How clichéd can you get with 'welcome to jungle' or any rock anthem or pop song for that matter. This idea belongs (and should stay) with professional wrestling.

BS-free Australian Rules Football would be refreshing. But that's a little too much to ask for with the contemporary game being more and more saturated in crass commericalism.

Just my 2cents worth...

Thank Gawd for HFAP and Sainternist for some sanity on this thread!!!

Both your posts are worth infinitely more than '2 cents worth'!

Why, why, why are we so intent on embracing the most cringe-worthy elements of American society???

Absolutely, totally agree.
I don't mind change -- I just don't want destruction of things that are unique and valuable.
Like the atmosphere before the bounce.

This is what I think we want:

1: players run on to club song. This unites ALL supports of the club, regardless of wide diversity in musical taste.
2: time to digest who's on, who's missing, who's wearing black armbands, who's got a new hair style.
3: We DON'T want some turkey, at volume 11, trying to whip the crowd up for an artifical cheer for the St Kilda Saints.
4: the lull. time for a quiet prayer
5: the sound of anticipation mounting
6: the bounce. and start the yelling!

Hungry for a P has it dead right -- the atmosphere of that moment is quite unique to us, and has to be sacrosanct.
The AFL apparently just sees it as a gap to be filled.

[St Chris]

The fans of every club suggest their club plays "They Dont Care About Us" by Michael Jackson, as a big F-You to the AFL. The line "enough is enough of this garbage" in the intro pretty much sums it up.

[Hurricane]

Id say a bigger FU to the AFL would be a Dope song called Die MF Die.

Plus its pretty heavy and would sound cool

BANG BANG

[White Winmar]

It's raining men.

[Dr Spaceman]

Id say a bigger FU to the AFL would be a Dope song called Die MF Die.

Plus its pretty heavy and would sound cool

BANG BANG

Fire Water Burn by The Bloodhound Gang could be appropriate for games under the Etihad roof

[Wrote for Luck]

The Lady in Red... White and Black

[st_Trav_ofWA]

i think you guys are getting a bit over worked by this ... its not a song to replace our song as we run through the banner its just a song to be played before we run through - as it stands there is usually a song played before the teams come out all the AFL is doing is giving the teams a choice of what song they want ... hardly worth getting your panties in a bunch over ... from memory dont Essendon have the air raid siren before they run through the banner ? i know the WCE play "eagle rock" every game they win at subi (after the siren goes they play their song twice then eagle rock before they play their song a third time ) from memory Freo play ACDC its a longway to the top before the team runout to their god awful song ...
for our team playing an ultra modern song is not really going to suit considering we have 140years of history so i would think something wth a more classical feel with a harder edge to it bit maybe something like "Ecstasy of Gold" form the 1966 classic the good the bad and the ugly www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rHdSWZLpQ
or that little irsh number from the movie The Departed that the AFL used a while back in their promo adverts "Shipping up to Boston" by the dropkick murphys www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc6weNxetBw

[snowdelisaint]

There's been crap music playing at Etihad for years, AFL trying to further Americanise the game.

It's pretty clear we fans think this is a terrible idea, but it'll happen anyway, and we'll have goal music before too long as well.

If it has to happen, what about something with a bit of humour (or old-school value) to it.

This is done quite well in Europe with e.g. West Ham singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles" or in Cologne "Der Treuer Husar"..

My suggestion:

[St. Hellrider]

I'd prefer not,
But if they do it I hope they don't let the players pick,
Some of our guys have horrible taste in music.

[bergholt]

That Dropkick Murphys track was played before and during every game at Etihad for a few years. From memory they stopped last year but maybe I was just tuning it out.

[mr six o'clock]

The teams should all agree to play Meatloaf from the GF of a couple of years ago !

Dimwit will love it !

[gringo]

The teams should all agree to play Meatloaf from the GF of a couple of years ago !

Dimwit will love it !

Alternating with bound for glory.

[SinCitySainter]

It should be "I like it both ways" by Supernought.

[mr six o'clock]

I would love the bombers to enter a psychedelic docklands stadium to the sound of

" White Rabbit "

by jefferson airplane .

[saintspremiers]

"I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug that killed River Phonenix!".

[snowdelisaint]

And now please welcome onto Etihad Stadium, the ESSENDON team!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO43p2Wqc08

[Dr Spaceman]

The Bombers?

"The Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve

[stevie]

The Bombers?

"The Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve

'The Needle And The Damage Done' - Neil Young

[bozza1980]

if it has to be, it has to be the saints are coming

[Furphy]

How about the old favourite "Red Back On The Toilet Seat"?

[Saints43]

....I think, and its absolutely s*** in regards to killing off the natural pre-game atmosphere of an AFL footy match, which is an entity all of its own. Every true football fan knows that feeling before a big match, with that gnawing at the gut and that restlessness to get into the contest, its an amazing thing unique to our amazing game. God damn the AFL to hell for bastardizing our game with this rubbish.

Why can't they just leave us alone... Are they scared that given any short period of silence we may think of something better to do?

[thejiggingsaint]

NO CONTEST for mine; Ian Dury "sex and drugs and rock and roll" (VERY good indeed )

[Dr Spaceman]

Or Charlie Rich serenading the Bomber fans with "'When we get behind closed doors...."

[thejiggingsaint]

Entry song for the AFL leadership? "send in the clowns"

[Dr Spaceman]

Entry song for the AFL leadership? "send in the clowns"

And of course we can all sing along to the line "don't bother, they're here"