Pop Music Scores Big With Baseball’s Champions Top teams are programming hit tunes over stadium sound-systems to keep crowds fired up between innings. by Colin Devenish 10/18/1998
New York Yankees star-pitcher David Wells is the classic ruffian, known forhis after-hours antics, but he’s all business when he brings his portlyframe to the mound.
Or as business-like as you can be when the defiant blast of “Runnin’ With the Devil”by Van Halen is escorting you onto the baseball diamond.
While Wells, an anchor in the 1998 American League Champion Yankees’rotation, favors the fist-pumping fervor of Van Halen, each of histeammates will step into the batter’s box during this year’s World Seriesagainst the National League Champion San Diego Padres this week to the tuneof their own drummers — or drum machines, as the case may be.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
OK, now let's smooth it out with a little afternoon rock with Chrissie Hynde and the boys...
http://i.imgur.com/ynCEYhx.jpg
84. The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket859 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
As you know, every night at 11pm on "The Aorta" we kick back with a set of deep cuts from a different classic band. If you join us tonight, we'll be digging in the crates with The Pretenders:http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2014/06/deep-album-cuts-vol-21-pretenders.html
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Total pedant shit here, but Pretenders are one of those bands like Ramones and Pixies who have no article before their name.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
ha ha "and the boys" is my #1 most hated rock dj cliché
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
we get a few things wrong here at The Aorta, but it feels so right
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Sometimes yes, sometimes no...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/Learning_to_Crawl_(The_Pretenders_album_-_cover_art).jpg/220px-Learning_to_Crawl_(The_Pretenders_album_-_cover_art).jpg
xp to JF
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
where were you itt when Eagles needed you??
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/t/the_pretenders_learning_to_crawl-28014.jpg
I think the "The" is typically added to European pressings.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
I often refer to them as The Eagles because I know Glenn Frey would hate it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
cr cover connections:http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens1271574module168475102photo_a3261e3d2dc5fdef9c5a2.jpg
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
xps to tipsy -- if there's any pitcher who could pull off Runnin' it's David Wells, who pitched a perfect game while hungover.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Netherlands picture sleeve:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Oneofthesenightssingle.jpg/220px-Oneofthesenightssingle.jpg
― Lee626, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
Take that, Glenn
― Lee626, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
1 first place vote! out yourself!
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, David Wells was maybe the most Classic Rock pro athlete ever.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
growing up there was a club in Ocean City called Scandals, and for like 10 years i would constantly hear a local rock radio ad in Delaware that was some random cover band playing the "Runnin' With The Devil" intro with that bass pulse and the little piano tinkle, and then the drums kick in and a vocalist sings along with the guitar riff: "SCANDAAAAAAALS"
I really hear that every time I hear the VH song tbh.
― some dude, Monday, July 28, 2014 8:37 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yesssssssssss god that commercial rises unbidden into my forebrain every time somebody mentions the TV show Scandal, too.
SCANDAAAAAAALS EVERY ONE KNOWS
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Wooooo I just came dangerously close to pasting some dude's SCANDAAAAAALS post into a risk assessment memo for work.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Well, I mean I DID paste it in the memo. I came dangerously close to sending the document to the reviewing attorney with a little anecdote about Ocean City's finest night club instead of information about a settlement demand.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
DON: The Pretenders where one of those exciting new bands paving the way for the 80s, making the Reagan years tolerable for freethinkers.
GLENN: We knew well the feeling of having brass in our pockets.
DON: Well, yeah.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Macca claim that Steve Miller was his favorite guitarist? Yikes...― Iago Galdston, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Iago Galdston, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Recommendation: don't seek out their 1997 collaboration "Used To Be Bad."
"Runnin' With The Devil" is, ironically, god-like. AaaaaaaaAAAAAAAH!!!!! OH GOD! OH GOD I'M RUNNINGAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Maybe the best showcase for Roth as lead singer, a justification or mission statement for what it is that he does. "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" is maybe more of a song, but my heart is with this one.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I know you didn't expect to have to get your lighters out this early in the show, but it's time to get 'em out:
http://i.imgur.com/4OzJaKj.jpg
83. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird861 points, 13 votes
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I kind of hate the guitar solo in this song.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
does Free Bird have a good rep up north? bc down south it was the alpha and omega
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
#255 on Q107's top 500 of all time, #11 on CHEZ106's top 106.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Yay free bird!!
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
TOO LOW
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
TOO
LOW
― Brad C., Monday, 28 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Man.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I'm just happy it made it.
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
My 17.
Struggling to think of another band I adore (3 of their songs in my top 100!) where I hate their biggest song. Can't even take the 4 minute demo version.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
For a couple of years Free Bird was my go to song to tell people it was time to leave my party.
Unfortunately I found out every party always has the couple of drunkards who scream 'fuck yeah finally some good music' and try to rock out through the whole thing... for them I had to play this one afterwards:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hvbd4q68L._SX300_.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Granted it is totally played out and granted it is never, ever funny to yell a request for "Free Bird," still: the idea that there are 82 tracks more Classic and more Rock than this boggles my aging mind.
― Brad C., Monday, 28 July 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
we've got more birds and sacred cows to sacrifice, believe me
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
I last heard somebody yell "Free Bird" at a show exactly 164 hours ago.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
I thought they had all abandoned the practice in favor of "more cowbell"
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
moka's party guests otm
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
free bird is a total jam
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure I heard those triplets the first time. Maybe you could repeat them?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
it's not about thatit's about the total jammitude of the whole song
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
free bird is more of a jam but I'll take "tuesday's gone" every time
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
ughhhhhhhhhhh you guys I hate that I have missed most of this rollout so far. hopefully tomorrow will be kinder to me
crying into my can of beer that 'Walk Away' came in so low. I even voted it my #1 to give an extra bump. Oh well. Glad it ranked, it's such a great jame
SEEMS TO ME
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
pull up a seat, Veg, there's still a couple songs left for the day:
http://i.imgur.com/syGtzBW.jpg
82. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone864 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
gr8080, some dude, you guys are killing it right now
"this is big daddy jimbob rocker from modesto, currently haulin my bigrig up Reno way and just wanted to call in and say keep up the good works, these sweet sweet tunes are what keep old jimbob haulin. 10-4 over and out"
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
echoing the above sentiments that "Free Bird" is a jam and that "Walk Away" is a jame
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
BAW BAWBAW
BAWBAWBAW BAWBAW
ttsstt ssttsstt
bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 28, 2014 5:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i have nothing against "Free Bird" but i much prefer "Simple Man" and "Tuesday's Gone." by the same token "Sweet Home Alabama" is probably my least favorite of their uptempo hits.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
xpost that was my radar love intro
i love when the horns show up in the second crazy break, this song has EVERYTHING
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link