competition playlists..

[Jon Abad]

Hey gang...

I'm in charge of AV and whatnot (miscelanous items, not the T190 mascot ;)) for BattleCry 2 and I was wondering what you'd like to hear... We all know that there are those songs that we know and love as FIRST Competition songs...

I know we've all talked about this before but this is a chance to directly affect the playlist for BC2... so...
What would you like to hear? What has to be played?

Let me know...

--
Jon Abad
BattleCry @ WPI 2
AV/IT Staff

[Lora Knepper]

This one's for Justin T. ;)

It's all about COTTON EYE JOE! :p

~ lora

[mike o'leary]

i would suggest ac-dc's 'big balls', but everyone was playing that at their pits at all the other competitions so its sort of lost its originality/humor

[ColleenShaver]

You've gotta play Jellyhead! Cause they didn't except @ the party in LongIsland.. and it was definitely what we talked about the whole way there.

Tony Basil's "Mickey" for our very own Timmy Baird

The techno mix of the Hamster Dance for WhatNot

Lynard Skynard's "Sweet Home Alabama" cause it reminds me of Kuli & FIRST

"Wild Wild West" for Kato

And 'Ready to Go' by Republica..

Hahaha.. you should just play all of those, regardless of who they are for though.

Woohoo... I know 'DJ Ed' so I can harass him now about what to play!! :P

[Matt Leese]

It wouldn't be a FIRST Competition if I didn't hear "We Like to Party".....

Matt who heard "We Like to Party" at every single match at Nationals in 2000

[Jessica Boucher]

Definetley "Big Balls, "We like to party", and "Ready to go"...and "Cotton Eyed Joe"...and all the others suggested

I'd like to add "People of the Sun" by Rage...trust me, you will never see a bunch of guys more pumped up over a song....

Also, the "Discovery Channel" song by Bloodhound Gang....ask anyone on 237 to teach you the "happy dance" to join in on line dancing at its best ;)

Also..."Mambo No. 5" and "Jump Jive n Wail" and "My Sharona" and I think its called "The Rockafella $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#" by Fatboy Slim ("Right about now...the funk soul brother", you know, that song ;) )...and "I like to move it, move it" (I have no idea what the name of that song is).....and "twenty twenty four hours to go.....I wanna be sedated"

If youre wondering how I found all these, I just basically scrolled through my "UTC 2000" tape and picked the ones I liked (or I could name)

lol, Jon is on IT staff ;) (Sorry, bad joke)

"The Sie-H2O-Bots are coming...and all of Worcester's jumping...we're here to start a party, and get a little rowdy....the wheels of FIRST are turning, and robot gears are burning.....so if you like to party, come on & move your body" ;)

[Justin]

COTTON EYED JOE (THE REAL VERSION)!!!!!

Mutiple Times!!

[Joel J]

Throw a little Daft Punk in there......get things started right.

[mike o'leary]

have you ever seen the movie office space? know the scene when they take the copier out to the field and beat the crap out of it? its called 'gangster trippin' and you have to play it

also:
green day - brain stew
disturbed - shout 2000
blink 182 - all the small things
house of pain - jump around
american hi-fi - flavor of the weak
sr-71 - politically correct
opm - heaven is a halfpipe
beastie boys - fight for youre right; or - paul revere; or - no sleep
till brooklyn
rancid - lady liberty


actually you dont have to play any of those, i just started listing some of my favorite songs and was indesisive in my listing...i could go on but ill spare you

mike who spends way too much time listening to music

[Todd Derbyshire]

Whatever happened to Queen "We Will Rock You" that song has to be played by at any sporting event that involves competition. Also I would suggest some techno from the chemical brothers and my personal favortie and I know I'm getting hissed at for this but Nelly "Ride with Me."

;)

[Matt Leese]

"We Will Rock You" was even played at jousts! So it's been played at almost ALL sporting events....

Matt who went with his cousin to see "A Knight's Tale" because, well, she wanted to see it and he was bored.....

[ColleenShaver]

Hey Jon!

Get some old school Bon Jovi.. i.e. 'Shot Through the Heart'

I love that song :)

And of course.. Cake's 'Sheep Go To Heaven' for your very own T190 :P

[Tim Baird]

I've sat back long enough watching you guys put up the obvious songs. Time for the good stuff. Why listen to the same stuff you've heard for years at the FIRST comps when you can hear equally good songs that FIRST hasn't caught on to? With this in mind, might I suggest the ska rendition of "Come on Eileen" by Save Ferris? If you haven't heard this yet, log on to napster or whatever you use and find it asap. Also, we've all failed to mention "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol. Hey colleen, i think that we should just play the song and not sing along like at the CHS dances, there might be little kids around. On the same little kid note, do you think that we're all mature enough to hear "Hash Pipe" by Weezer, and my personal favorite "Buddy Holly".
Just some suggestions. Now for me to sound cocky. I can and will have all of these songs played by "DJ Ed" because he still owes me big time for not getting Reel Big Fish for quadfest this year, and for not inviting me last year.

Tim "who is still amazingly bitter about not seeing RBF at quadfest last year, and missing them this year because of Nats" Baird

[Tim Baird]

Not to rag on Mike O'leary for his above statement, but i would just like to clarify the music regarding the scene where they kicked the crap out of the copier in office space. That song is called "still" by the geto boys, and for reasons of their "vernacular" you might say, that songs should never be played at a FIRST comp for legal reasons. However, gangster tripping by fat boy slim is a very good song and I will second the motion to play it.

Tim

PS-Sorry if I sounded like I was lecturing, I just wanted to prevent a catastrophe. Watch the movie again and you'll understand why

[Jon Abad]

its a good thing i've seen the movie...

[Clark Gilbert]

What about..............
Darude- Sandstorm
(one of my favorite techno/dance songs)

Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive

Freestylers - Dont Stop

Gary_Glitter_-_Rock_'N'_Roll_Part_2

The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright


That's all i have for now
:cool:

[Jay Lundy]

Don't forget Spybreak! by Propellerheads from The Matrix Soundtrack, it's a great song for matches with a lot of action. It's a little too long (about 6 minutes), but you could cut it down.

[mpking]

Originally posted by Tim Baird
Also, we've all failed to mention "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol
Baird
That's Joel, Billy Joel.

Um... I've got a few off the wall suggestions (the List swiftly became very large, but your all set for the next 3 to 4 hours)


Cmon N Ride It - Quad City Dj's (there's a 5 minute, and a 7 minute version)
LOVE SHACK - B52's
Down - 311
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
The Cup of Life, Livin the Lavida Loca - Ricky Martin
Stupid Girl - Garbage
The Sign - Ace of Base
Whisky in the Jar - Metallica
1999 - Prince
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwulf
Rock and Roll Band, Smoking - Boston (This has special meaning for the Boston Area)
You Shook me all night long - AC/DC
SummerTime, Wild Wild West, Miami- Dj Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
You Give love a bad name, Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Where it's At, Loser- Beck
Spoonman - Soundgarden
Fly - SugarRay
ParidiseCity, Sweet child of Mine - Guns and Roses
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker (it's good, believe me)
I love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett
Gimmie Some Loving - Spencer Davis Group
FootLoose - Kenny Loggins
Ants Go Marching, I Eat to Much - Dave Matthews Band
Crocodile Rock- Elton John
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
Love RollerCoaster, Give it Away Now - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gimmie all your Loving - ZZTop
Simple Irresisitble - Rober Palmer
Let's Get Rocked - Def Leppard
The love that I found - Led Zepplin
Kryptionite - 3 doors down
Hard to Handle - Black Crows
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and the heart Breakers
Mr Jone's - Counting Crows
Sweet Emotion, Love in an Elevator, Walk this Way, Dude Looks like a Lady, Rag Doll, Back in the Saddle - Aerosmith
Walk this Way - Run DMC
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Old Apartment, Too Little Too Late, one Week, it's all been done - Barenaked Ladies
Come Together - Orginally by Beatles, but the Aerosmith cover is better for this situation
Jump, You've really got me, panama, lots of other stuff - Van Halen
Bad to the Bone - George Thourgood and the Destroyers
Lit Up - BuckCherry
Cumbersome - 7Mary3

[Molly Menges]

hey..why we are talking about music, does anyone know what this son is called or who wrote it..."one way, or another, i'm gonna find ya, i'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha, one way or another..." i cannot figure it out for the life of me!!! please help!! :) thank you!!
-molly

[Tim Baird]

I'm just curious, but, I can't seem to remember Billy Joel singing "Mony Mony", and if he did, I'm referring to having the Billy Idol song being played at the comp. But then again, I was only around for 8 of the 10 80's decade.

Tim

PS-If anybody can confirm the true artist of this classic song, please let me know because I'm going quasi-crazy now.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Molly Menges
hey..why we are talking about music, does anyone know what this son is called or who wrote it..."one way, or another, i'm gonna find ya, i'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha, one way or another..." i cannot figure it out for the life of me!!! please help!! :) thank you!!
-molly

Blondie ..... i think

http://summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/o/one_way_or_another.txt

Originally posted by Tim Baird

PS-If anybody can confirm the true artist of this classic song, please let me know because I'm going quasi-crazy now.


and with a little bit of searching on www.allmusic.com and www.google.com i came up with this:

Mony Mony
By: Tommy James & The Shondells
(Bloom, Cordell, Gentry, James)
1968

http://home.att.net/~bubblegumusic/songmony.htm
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aq09us31ba39g

[mpking]

Originally posted by Tim Baird
I'm just curious, but, I can't seem to remember Billy Joel singing "Mony Mony", and if he did, I'm referring to having the Billy Idol song being played at the comp. But then again, I was only around for 8 of the 10 80's decade.

Tim

PS-If anybody can confirm the true artist of this classic song, please let me know because I'm going quasi-crazy now.

I did some more checking. Your right, it was Billy Idol. I don't know, I coulda sworn it was Billy Joel.

And Brandon is right about the orginal artist, but it was Billy Idol that made the popular remake.

[Molly Menges]

thank you soooo much brandon!!!! that hasbeen driving me absolutly bonkers for days! thanks again!! :D

-molly

[Tim Baird]

Thanks to the confirmation and research (this was found on the link brandon put up ". . . story goes that Tommy saw the MONY (Mutual of New York) building and was inspired to write this song . . . I feel silly naming my daughter Mony now . . . remade by the idle hands of Billy Idol in 1981 . . . long before The Wedding Singer . . .")of both mpking and brandon, I can now go on living knowing that I'm not totally crazy. Now I can go back to enjoying this wonderful day knowing that I'm not stuck in my office like the previous 5 days of the week.

Tim (who just had to put a "who phrase" on this time because Amy Weeks loves "who phrases", despite the fact that there really isn't anything to this "who phrase") Baird

[David Kelly]

After KSC this year I'd say that anything but Brittany Spears or ANY Boy band. If you were there you'd know what I'm talking about. About every other song was "Oops I did it again." My favorites are some of the classics like:

Aqua: Barbie Girl
Chumbawamba: Tubthumping
Quad City DJ's: C'mon ride this train
Smashmouth: All Star
Fatboy Slim: Funk so Brutha, Praise you
Styx: Mr. Roboto
Sir Mix Alot: Baby Got Back
Outere Brothers: Boom Boom Boom
Macarina
2 Unlimited: No Limit
Coolio: 1,2,3,4 (Slimpin' New)
Ce Ce Penistan: We got a love thang
Amber: This is your night
Montell Jordan: This is how we do it
Reel 2 Reel: I like to move it
Dis N' Dat: Party
K.C. & The Sunshine Band: Get down tonight
The Village People: Macho Man
YMCA
The Matrix CD

I'm sure that there are a lot more, but I can't think of them right now.

[ColleenShaver]

Ok Jon-- I have even more requests!!

Maybe some you can play.. maybe some not.. who knows

FenixTx - Surf Song, All My Fault (almost any of their songs and I'll be happy!)
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance
Devo - You Spin Me Round
The WeatherGirls - It's Raining Men
Cake - I Will Survive (no more Gloria Gaynor!)
TheVillagePeople - YMCA (of course, but for Kato)
Offspring - Pretty Fly (Low Rider rmx :P)
Don McLean - American Pie
PuffDaddy - It's All About the Benjies (the remix tho)
Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack
3rd Eye Blind - Semi-charmed Life
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Bewitched - C'Est La Vie
Barenaked Ladies - Old Apartment, One Week, Go Home
The Temptations - My Girl
The Standells - Dirty Water
Janis Joplin - Bobby McGee (or anything for Ken :P)
Real McCoy - Automatic Lover, Come and Get Your Love
REM - Losing My Religon
Positive K - I Got a Man (the waiter at Pizza Hut once insisted that the guy sings both the male and female parts of this song.. i never disagreed, but he could apparently tell I didn't believe him and wouldn't give us the food until I said I believed him.. :P)
The Monkees - I'm a Believer
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

*forcing myself to stop now*

I trust Jon's musical judgement.. plus, you know the songs looping through the mp3discman in the shop all hours.. so you know what we like :P:P:P

see everyone this weekennnnnd!

[Pamela]

Yeh Cotton-eyed Joe, I love that song :). You need to play these too, they are cool songs:

CrazyTown- Butterfly
Aerosmith- Walk This Way
Metallica- Fuel
POTUSA- Video Killed the Radio Star
SmashMouth- All Star
Eiffel 65- Blue
Arrogant Worms- I am Cow or Carrot Juice is Murder

[Todd Derbyshire]

I agree with what a lot of people are saying and thought I would add a couple of more to the mix.
Gorillaz- Clint Eastwood (I just saw this video on mtv and I can't stop singing it.
St.Lunatics- Midwest Swing?
Sum 41-Fat lip
Lastly but most important we need to hear Blink 182 anything I just want something Rock Show whatever you got.

P.S. The original Jock Rock tape made by ESPN is great for any event. What would be better then hearly "LETS GET READY TO RUMBBBBBLLLLLEEEE!!!!!" right before the finals.:D :D :D

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Todd Derbyshire
Gorillaz- Clint Eastwood (I just saw this video on mtv and I can't stop singing it.


um.
im sorry your singing that song
its udderly horrible.

1000% horrible.

the guy across from my cubical plays it every day at 3pm to drive me crazy ..... its evil............

[patrickrd]

A few suggestions...

Robot Parade, by TMBG
The Sun is a mass of Incandescent Gas by TMBG
Cowtown by TMBG
It's the end of the world as we know it, REM
Theme to Star Wars
Louie louie, Kingsmen

Can't wait to see you all at battlecry!

Patrick

[Clark Gilbert]

You could go out and buy the cd called Ray's House by Ray Munns... it's all FIRSTy music....


:cool:

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
You could go out and buy the cd called Ray's House by Ray Munns... it's all FIRSTy music....


:cool:


i just downloaded some of their songs today. and i'll have to say, it's pretty good. i think i may have to buy it. or i may just burn my own copy:cool:

[mike o'leary]

Originally posted by Todd Derbyshire
Sum 41-Fat lip
Lastly but most important we need to hear Blink 182 anything I just want something Rock Show whatever you got.



i agree on both counts...and if the band does get up there im sure well play some blink...and ive been spending the past week or so figuring out fat lip...(again though, we dont know if were gonna be able to pull this band idea off for nats, much less battlecry in a couple of days...we havent even played together yet...but its being worked on)

[Justin]

Yeah...if you could go ahead and throw Hemmorage by Fuel in the mix somewhere...I'd really appreiate it.

[Todd Derbyshire]

What is this I hear a band? What type of rock music do you guys play









"The Day is mine Trebeck!" -Sean Connery SNL

[mike o'leary]

well......
right now the whole things sorta just a plan...but we have the people and all that, just lack certain things like motivation and stuff...

but we listen to all sorts of stuff: coal chamber, rage, sum 41, blink, korn, nirvana, dropkick murphy's, green day.........

[Madison]

Originally posted by Jessica Boucher
...and "I like to move it, move it" (I have no idea what the name of that song is).....and "twenty twenty four hours to go.....I wanna be sedated" [/B]

That would be Reel 2 Reel's "I Like to Move It" and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated," respectively :-)

As for me. . . well, I'll be happy with any sort of old school rap . . . or Rammstein. Rammstein is cool, and loud, and would probably suit the competition. Who cares if you can understand a word they're saying?

Actually. . .I'll be happy as long as you promise not to play any Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, or anything else that's similarly saccharine.

[Christina]

Originally posted by Michael Krass


That would be Reel 2 Reel's "I Like to Move It" and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated," respectively :-)

As for me. . . well, I'll be happy with any sort of old school rap . . . or Rammstein. Rammstein is cool, and loud, and would probably suit the competition. Who cares if you can understand a word they're saying?

Actually. . .I'll be happy as long as you promise not to play any Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, or anything else that's similarly saccharine.

I'm sorry...but I'm brought back to '99 and I remember a certain dance that was done by Michael and Mike Tria (another old teammate) to "Apache" by the Sugar Hill Gang. And I also rememebr Rammstein being played in the pits by my team. ::sigh:: memories.

As far as the teeny bopper music (sorry to anyone who's obsessed with those groups)...I heard them far too much at the regional competition. So, I wouldn't mind staying away from that.

Just my two cents. Hmm...if it's a penny for your thoughts, and I put in my two cents...where does the other penny go? Sorry...just had to ask.

~Christina ºoº

[mike o'leary]

Just my two cents. Hmm...if it's a penny for your thoughts, and I put in my two cents...where does the other penny go? Sorry...just had to ask.

yeah...ive thought of that too...seems like someones profitting off it.

as far as the teeny-boppers...heres my main problem with them (other then that the music is horrible): they dont play their own music, they dont write their own music, they dont write their own lyrics, and when they sing, their voices are altered tons so that what you hear isnt even them...so its never made sence to me: seems like all they do is sing the words, but they dont sing well enough to sell so they have to be altered.
and they call it music???

mike who feels obligated to add that no offence is intended to anyone who likes teeny-bopper music (:::shudders:::) - you can like youre music and ill question youre taste

[mpking]

You'd be surprised how truly talented some of the teeny-boppers really are.

Nsync really can sing, i've heard them sing acapella (another genera of music I really enjoy, yet didn't seem to fit very well in a competition playlist, but for your napster junkies, lookup Rockapella's rendition of Dave Matthew's Band Satellite, and keep in mind it's all human voices, no instruments), and they really have range, stlye, and rhytm.

Christina Aguilera really has range and talent I could not believe the sheer power of her voice, for the size of here, she's like 99 pounds.

Another good example, One of the singers from Eve's Crush (the new made for TV girl Band) was a band member of Day's of the New on the orginal record, before the lead singer broke it up.

Their popular songs may be written by song writers, but they do write there own material. (Some of KISS's songs were written by Michael Bolton!, and not all of Aerosmith's songs were thiers)

Back to the point, which is that these people are popular because of multi-million dollar marketing campaigns, but they still have to have large amounts of talent.

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by mpking
but for your napster junkies, lookup Rockapella's rendition of Dave Matthew's Band Satellite, and keep in mind it's all human voices, no instruments), and they really have range, stlye, and rhytm.



Napster really doesn't work anymore because of the lawsuits by Metallica and the music industry. (those idiots already have enough money) I have now since abondoned Napster and have turned to Morpheus to burn my own illegal CD's.

[MikeA56]

Ok, Apache by The Sugar Hill Gang has to be the most played out song at the J&J Mid Atlantic Regional. On thursday alone, i counted them playing that song 7 times, got annoying after awhile, but now i have that song stuck in my head, needless to say, i had to download it and play it aleast 3 times a day, lol, go figure.

Anyway, there is a techno song they played at a few of these regionals, manly Silicon Valley and Nationals, and i can't seem to figure out the name of it, and it's not sandstorm. It bearly has any words if any at all in it, but here's the beat in type:
(real fast) da da da da da da da da da da, (then) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba buh ba ba ba buh ba ba ba buh ba ba ba ba ba, and then so on, It's like real hard to describe it, but that's the best i can do. I go crazy if i hear a techno song somewhere and can't figure out the name of it.

Then there's a song that will always make me remember a specific moment during robotics (Def Leppard - Pour some sugar) that happend at Rutgers. It was the final matches last year and my team was in it, after the last match, it came to a tie, While we were waiting to find out who won, that song came on and after a few min, they announced our alliance as the winners. To this day when i hear that song, i remember that tense 10min of waiting of who won that match, and our alliance winning.

[Elgin Clock]

Ok I have to reply to this,


Blue- Eiffel 65
Mr Roboto and Too Much Time on my Hands by STYX
Rapture- Iio
Castles in the sky- Ian Van Dahl
THE SCOOBY DOO THEME SONGS all of them!!!!
Linkin Park
Hit me baby one more time- Brittany (for Luigi) LOL
One More Time- Daft Punk
The Safety Dance- ARGHHH Who the heck sings that???
Sandstorm- Darude
Welcome to the Jungle- GnR

Ok last but not least who saw the GE commercial that ran during the olympics and has a FIRST robot in there??? The song in ther is called
"Around the World(La la la la)" and is sung bt ATC

Hint for the DJ: Don't play 30 seconds of a song and then go to the next one, apparently people do not like that! (who knew?)
:confused:

[mike pawlak]

i just have to say, you cant go wrong with "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf

:cool:

[Kyle Hill]

You have to get some good bass in there to wake up the crowd... check out "Theme From Wide Angle" by Hybrid and/or "Tao of the Machine" by BT. Good stuff for the middle of match number eleventyfive when everyone's starting to get a little burned out.

Oh yeah, also check "Stomp to my Beat" by JS-16. People may start dancing for some reason when you play this song. I don't know why. ;)

[Trashed20]

how bout anything from good charlotte?

Little things, waldorf world wide, walk by, ect.

They r0x0rz my 50x0rz :D

[Elgin Clock]

Originally posted by Trashed20
how bout anything from good charlotte?


Like "LIfestyles of the rich and famous"???

YES, another thread resurected from the depths of Chief Delphi!!!