Angels need a new song for the 7th Inning
by DaBigKahuna on Apr 8, 2009 5:11 PM PDT
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PrintAm I the only one who thinks that we gotta get rid if "Build me up Buttercup."
There's one line in it that sums up the Angels '08 season.
"Why to you build me up just to let me down"
How can we rally support when they're just gonna let us down? It's the wrong message to send!
Our luck isn't gonna change while this song is still around,
I say kill it... KILL IT NOW!!
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how can you even concede that it is ok? sure, it’s cute in “something about mary” but that’s it.
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by Downing Rules on Apr 7, 2009 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Thumbs down
Songs about songs cannot be the best song ever. Unless it’s “I Write the Songs,” sung by the guy who didn’t write it.
Thumps up
that or “I Will Dare.”
A good song is a good song is a good song, mattwelch. ; )
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
This should be Billy Mac's theme song
he of course in the role of the bus driver.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
sweet caroline should be his song
There is an "Angel in the outfield" and his name is GA! ps. he is lazy but not a bum GO HALOS!
Gary's Got a Boner...
ode to GMJ sitting on the bench?
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Apr 8, 2009 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
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I think it would be a good one to bring around if any of our outfielders go down to injury, because then he SURELY will.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
ATTENTION ARTE AND THE ANGELS FRONT OFFICE
THAT SONG IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRING BACK REPEATING “TAKE ME OUT” FOR A SECOND TIME!
BAD MOJO RISIN’ WITH BUTTERCUP, HALO FANS NO LIKEY!!!!!!!
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by Downing Rules on Apr 7, 2009 10:20 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Not sure it's Arte's choice
I seem to recall this was foisted on owners somehow, one of three allowable songs.
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Did the front office even listen to the lyrics? It’s a song about a friggin’ LOSER!
Angels fan since '67
Take me out?
The Franz Ferdinand single?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
we need something with a good, repetitive, easy-to-sing-with chorus
any suggestions?
Kotch would've had that.
how about...
take me out to the ballgame?
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by Downing Rules on Apr 7, 2009 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
How about "The Glory" by Kanye?
That song always gets me jacked…and it actually has something to do with winning.
send me an angel roooocks get play that im down with that i love that song
FOUR F'S FIND UM FEEL UM FUGUM FORGET UM.
rick astley
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We'll DO IT LIVE!!!!!
How about another Bon Scott tune like TNT or Whole Lotta Rosie
I was amazed to hear that Bon was lead vocalist for the Valentines song “Build Me Up, Buttercup.”
Ha Ha
There were so many fanposts/comments on this subject last year. Next will be the “what should be the song” fanpost.
The song is pretty lame.
I vote for a Neil Diamond song ;)
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
If they are going to play anything but take me out to the ballgame, then continue using buttercup. My opinion … the damage is already done and a “tradition” has been started. Heck, it’s even listed on “buttercup’s” wikipedia page that the Angels “have been using this song for the 7th inning stretch since 2008.” Like it’s a part of history now or something.
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In honor of Bill MacDonald, How about Winger's "Seventeen?"
by PieceOfAase on Apr 8, 2009 9:24 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
WINGER! Classic garbage 80’s pop rock.
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by Downing Rules on Apr 8, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
How about Ringo Starr's version of "You're Sixteen"?
Ain't no stoppin' us now. We got the groove!!
by Fan Since 1981 on Apr 8, 2009 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I emailed Public Relations.
This song is an abortion. I heard it played in Boston when I was there. It makes me think of patsy’s and Red Sox.
Play Wood already. Willits sucks.
actually
boston has sweet caroline…. “good times never seemed so good”
point un case
"Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
by AnaheimHalos61 on Apr 8, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
*in
"Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
by AnaheimHalos61 on Apr 8, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I am aware they play Sweet Caroline in bASSton
They also played Build me up when I was at Fenway.
But did you know Neil Diamond wrote that song after a show at the Forum? It was dark night and he had been drinking a lot, and he hit a kid, and so they got out and sure enough he was dead so they took off pretty fast. Sure enough two hours later he wrote Sweet Caroline.
In all honesty it is written about an underage girl.
Play Wood already. Willits sucks.
Neil Diamond wrote "Sweet Caroline" about Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy.
Where did you get your story from?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/21/usa.musicnews
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
Well the first part is an SNL with Will Ferrell skit it is hilarious
The second part is accurate. When he wrote that song Caroline Kennedy was 11.
Play Wood already. Willits sucks.
Patsy Cline?
or pasty whites?
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by Downing Rules on Apr 8, 2009 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Patsy
It is thought that the popularity of the name may have waned due to the dictionary meanings of the word “patsy” being “dupe” or “scapegoat”.1 With regard to the use of the term, “patsy” to mean “scapegoat,” the usage comes from the early 20th Century vaudevillian, Billy B. Van, whose character, Patsy Bolivar, was more often than not an innocent victim of unscrupulous or nefarious characters.
Play Wood already. Willits sucks.
someone toss out that stale old buttercup already!
we need something by the doors, “la woman” maybe or “break on through”
Bienvenidos El Chupacabreu!
I'd go for that.
Break on through would pump me up in the late innings!
Keep those hammies limber, boys.
by Rally Manatee on Apr 8, 2009 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
If they're looking for some 60's song, how about...
California Girls – Beach Boys
Twist and Shout – Beatles
Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
Catch Us If You Can – Dave Clark Five
Runaround Sue – Dion & the Belmonts
Or there’s always the old stand-by…Me So Horny – 2 Live Crew
I was uncool before uncool was cool.
by WiHaloFan on Apr 8, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Johnny B. Goode is straight-up 1950s.
Get your ancient rock right, bro.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Half Chuck Berry fan
Half “Back to the Future” fan.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 8, 2009 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It's in Oxnard, just off the beach amidst some suburbs.
Last Christmas our family drove up north of Santa Barbara to be with relatives and I took the sons (college aged now) on a detour off the highway for a little surprise. We pulled over and looked around, noting landmarks from that final scene in BTTF III and how things had grown since that scene was shot there. Took some pics. Had some good laughs.
No, I live just 5 minutes from Angels Stadium in Santa Ana.
Any track from my band's last album entitled...
The Halo is Lit Tonight!
Keep those hammies limber, boys.
hahaha I was JUST talking about this....
I swear, about two minutes ago I was telling my GF about this and she thought playing that song was totally lame.
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Apr 8, 2009 5:16 PM PDT reply actions
1961
The Angels commenced play in 1961; why not a song from that year?
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1961.htm
They already play one of them (Big Bad John, which they already play for Lackey).
speaking of which
[overheard last night in the team store around the 9th inning last night, while looking at the hat linked below]
Random Teenage Boy: “I don’t know why they have an LA hat, since the Angels are from Anaheim. They just used to be the Anaheim Angels.”
Teenage Boy #2: “No, I think they used to be LA.”
#1: “I’ve lived here all my life and they’ve always been here.”
well he wasnt
technically wrong. At least he knows his geography? Southern California geography at least?
couldn't find a link
it was a dark blue “LA” hat. I would have bought it if it were the one with the halo, but it wasn’t.
According to the Baseball Hall Of Fame...
…the official hat had the halo starting in 1961.
I cannot find the really cool and comprehensive baseball uni website, so I went to the offical source.
So I have to admit
The song is definitely catchy. I’m pretty sure I know most if not all of the worlds. But then it was in There’s Something About Mary, which I didnt see until about 5 years ago. I then realized the song is about a loser. Its the catchiest song ever written about a guy who is at best a loser and at worst some sort of serial stalker. Since then I’ve just been letting my friends know that his is a song about some creepy, stalkerish guy. Grassroots movement against it.
But seriously, the song has gotta go
Thanks Rev
For putting it on the front page!
Baseball more than any other pro sport is steeped in tradition and superstition. It’s all about the Mojo/ Karma or what ever you call it.
CAN THE SONG!
"No pay me bunt" Vlad
gotta be accessible lyrics, melodic, for 43,000 to do a sing-a-long
better yet, apropos for the Halos, or baseball.
Name your substitute. (I have been Googling lyrics for “angels” songs all day…so far I got nothin’)
how about,
what about a different song for different circumstances?
for instance, Eye Of The Tiger if we’re down
and something cheery if we’re winning
i like Reach Out (I’ll be there) – Four Tops, or Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch – The Temptations as songs that sound similar to Buttercup but have more positive lyrics.
But, if we’re going for cheese factor they should take it real old school and have a song sung by the Singing Cowboy Gene Autry himself. Maybe Blueberry Hill, or Back in the Saddle Again, or You Are my Sunshine.
Or, maybe update the Angels Fight Song?
Come On Now
We Have Bad Seasons, But At Least We Aint As Bad As The Red Sox, Or Even Worse The Cubs…..But Look At It This Way, Baseball Is Not Only A Sport, Fans And Players Are Like Family, Everyone Lets Someone Down Sometimes
I say
we make our 7th inning song whatever Nick Adenhart’s favorite song was..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
by b0rd3rline on Apr 9, 2009 12:06 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
what about
calling all angels by train?
There is an "Angel in the outfield" and his name is GA! ps. he is lazy but not a bum GO HALOS!
You are correct
I have the 2002 World Series Game 7 Inning 9 Third out call memorized.
“Erstad says he’s got it…Erstaaaad…MAKES THE CATCH!!!! AND THE ANAHEIM ANGELS…ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!”
sigh good times
l 34 l
l N.J.A l
l R.I.P l
-- Figgi4life
it is..
but it seems so fitting
There is an "Angel in the outfield" and his name is GA! ps. he is lazy but not a bum GO HALOS!
very fitting
“I need a sign to let me know you’re here…”
Let us know you are with us, Nick! However, in our hearts we are certain you will be with us every time we go to the park!!!!
RIP Nick Adenhart - Angel fans will never forget you!
by Downing Rules on Apr 10, 2009 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
How about the Angels marketing department
or whatever department is in charge of the music selection and have them give the fans a choice of 3 to 5 songs to choose from, then play the song during the 7th inning.
The winning song gets to stay in the voting selection for a week….something like that.
When I'm not at the stadium, I'd rather be watching my Halos back in Costa Rica!
Back In The Saddle- Gene Autry
"When they signed Fukudome, I knew they were trying to get me fired". - Ron Santo, January, 2008
heres an other thought
what about just singing take me out to the ball game once followed up with a moment of silence and a video montage of nick’s hi-lights?
There is an "Angel in the outfield" and his name is GA! ps. he is lazy but not a bum GO HALOS!
by wallispdub1 on Apr 10, 2009 1:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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