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1. Home Run Teal & Black Black Black Gone! Posted: February 08, 2010 at 08:13 PM (#3456148)For the kiddies.
I still think its kind of cool the Red Sox play "Sweet Caroline." Its a stupid manufactured gimmick that all these other teams are trying to find a "team song."
Oh no, sir. I must say you're wrong. I must disagree, oh no sir, I must say you're wrong. Won't you listen to me?
/tucks
The song was always popular but is now ubiquitous.
Is berselius from the Bizarro world? I can find no other plausible explanation for his posting.
*just trying to come up with the least appropriate bands possible.
The song was always popular but is now ubiquitous.
According to Wiki, the 2005 White Sox were the first sports team to use it (thanks to AJ Pierzynski), but it really took off in popularity when it was used in the Sopranos finale, in 2007.
FWIW, Steve Perry supposedly is a Giants fan, and hates that the Dodgers use it.
Other than when Al Czervik says, "So what? So let's dance," I've never felt a twinge of conflict regarding any of Journey's musical output.
I used to act grumpy whenever I heard Journey. But I've been to enough bars and parties where "Don't Stop Believin" precipitates a drunken female stampede to the dancefloor to change that stance.
None of the above? I've never wanted to hear a Journey song (nor, obviously, do I own their stuff), but do like Perry's voice and can totally see why something anthemic like "Don't Stop" would catch on, while I don't understand (on an personal/emotional level) why lots of other popular stuff does.
Even allowing for that, the problem is that the song is undanceable, so this rush to the dancefloor is just followed by mass unison karaoke.
According to Wiki, the 2005 White Sox were the first sports team to use it (thanks to AJ Pierzynski), but it really took off in popularity when it was used in the Sopranos finale, in 2007.
The Royals played it some in 2003 when they had their improbable first half run.
They sure did, I always think of that song as a prototypical skating rink ballad from the 80s.
Maybe that's why the Royals spent the offseason accumulating ex-White Sox players - to try and re-capture that chemistry.
What a terrific phrase!
I did a lot of skating in the early 80s. The songs from Pink Floyd's The Wall were played to death at the rinks in the Oakland suburbs.
It is funny how things catch on, isn't it? I mean, I readily admit I like Journey (a neighbor who was a few years older than me used to play it constantly and it was, more or less, my introduction to popular music, so much of my like may be sentiment, but still, I like it. Shoot me). But I can tell there is no more reason for Journey to catch on than dozens of other bands. Why them? Luck? Intangibles? Politics?
Appallingly complete lack of taste by the public, your idiot neighbor obviously included?
Also, my song nomination --
"Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide, though I could see Throbbing Gristle's "Zyklon B Zombie" earning some support as well ...
Here's a good example of why you should always tread lightly with Wikipedia. The finale of "The Sopranos" has approximately zero to do with the popularity of "Don't Stop Believin'," which was really popular long before then.
Personally, I'm more partial to "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'."
The question is why it became even more popular recently.
My vote for the replacement wd be a nice tasty Warren Zevon number....what about "Desperados Under the Eaves"?
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill
Or Lawyers, Guns and Money, at least until the divorce is final.
Disagree. I hear that song all the time since the Sopranos, much more than I did before. I never knew Wiki had an opinion on the subject until now.
The authors of Allmusic would seem to lack an understanding of irony.
The Sopranos made the song popular among one segment of people--call them hipsters--which is not the same thing as creating the song's popularity.
The ironic hipster holds a lighter aloft with one hand; he uses the other to make "scare quotes."
Totally agree with your disagreement. Much more run since Tony and family went dark.
I feel less guilty about liking the pre-Escape stuff ("Feelin' That Way/Anytime," "Lovin Touchin Squeezin," "Lights," etc.), but have to confess to liking the Escape stuff right around as much.(**) In concert, Journey would replace "born and raised in South Detroit," with "born and raised right here in [INSERT LOCAL TOWN NAME]." That makes me like the song more, which just shows how utterly senseless these things can be.
(**) Other than "Open Arms," which I find irrevocably terrible. There are likely others not coming to mind which fall in the same category.
The authors of Allmusic would seem to lack an understanding of irony.
Yeah, that's a bit much. Journey songs, and songs in a similar vein, appeal as an organic whole -- a unified gestalt. Once you start separating out components and critiquing them and saying "Yeah, that's what makes that song good," you're setting yourself up for serious ridicule.
http://www.amazon.com/McCarver-Sings-Selections-American-Songbook/dp/B002OJGGH6
Also, bonus points for perfectly apt usage of gestalt. Though I'd disagree -- the critic's job is to analyze particular components, and then to explain how they do or do not relate together to make a superior or inferior aesthetic whole.
And, of course, some thing by some woman.
When "Glee" did it, that pushed it into hipster-level use.
Violin Concerto (op. 36) by Brentwood resident Arnold Schoenberg.
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