View Full Version : an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
KenWittlief
06-03-2005, 14:22
Anyone else think it was a really odd choice of music, at the Finger Lakes Regional
after the chairmans award was given
to play Dylan's "Rolling Stone" ?
A balad of a teenage runaway, living on the streets, fending for herself?
"how does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction home
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone?
.... No one ever taught you how to live out on the streets, and now your gonna have to get use to it"
is this our new 'Chairmans Award song'?
or did someone pull an Ashlee-Simpson and hit the wrong button?
it was just, well....... weird!
Matt Leese
06-03-2005, 14:37
I wasn't really paying attention to the music at that point in time. ;)
Matt
Anyone else think it was a really odd choice of music, at the Finger Lakes Regional
after the chairmans award was given
to play Dylan's "Rolling Stone" ?
A balad of a teenage runaway, living on the streets, fending for herself?
"how does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction home
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone?
.... No one ever taught you how to live out on the streets, and now your gonna have to get use to it"
is this our new 'Chairmans Award song'?
or did someone pull an Ashlee-Simpson and hit the wrong button?
it was just, well....... weird!
I'm still trying to find a way to get FIRST to dump the Chicken Dance song. :p
Kit Gerhart
06-03-2005, 20:42
Anyone else think it was a really odd choice of music, at the Finger Lakes Regional
after the chairmans award was given
to play Dylan's "Rolling Stone" ?
A balad of a teenage runaway, living on the streets, fending for herself?
"how does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction home
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone?
.... No one ever taught you how to live out on the streets, and now your gonna have to get use to it"
is this our new 'Chairmans Award song'?
or did someone pull an Ashlee-Simpson and hit the wrong button?
it was just, well....... weird!
I suspect that it was kind of a random event that "Like a Rolling Stone" was played at that time. It's a great song, but not necessarily appropriate to go along with the chairman's award announcement.
Elgin Clock
06-03-2005, 20:50
Music for awards is usually standardized across the regionals.
Or that is what I have noticed from my 4 years of FIRST anyways.
KenWittlief
06-03-2005, 20:58
I just wondered if anyone else noticed?
It was surreal, like when you are dreaming, and your radio alarm clock goes off, and for a minute you hear the music on the radio in your dream, and in your dream you realize "wait a minute, where is that music coming from?" and you wake up.
it was like that. Everyone was walking around, picking up their stuff in the bleechers, teams were finishing up crating their robots, teams heading home
and Bob was singing away
"Now you dont talk so loud
now you dont seem so proud
about having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel?"
I was wondering if I would wake up at home, and the whole regional was only a dream, with Dylan on my clock radio :^)
I'm still trying to find a way to get FIRST to dump the Chicken Dance song. :p
*cough* What was that? *cough* :D
IRT:
The DJ was kinda disappointing... playing rather mellowing and irrelevant music. Our CEO asked him if he could play more upbeat exciting music the rest of the competition, and found out he wasnt a real DJ. He only plays on on TV.
*cough* What was that? *cough* :D
IRT:
The DJ was kinda disappointing... playing rather mellowing and irrelevant music. Our CEO asked him if he could play more upbeat exciting music the rest of the competition, and found out he wasnt a real DJ. He only plays on on TV.
You mean like the Hookie Pokey? :rolleyes:
You mean like the Hookie Pokey? :rolleyes:
Yeah he only played it like 50 times :D
Nah I mean more like on Thursday when he was playing things like Lil John and nearly half the song was bleeped out.
Yeah he only played it like 50 times :D
Nah I mean more like on Thursday when he was playing things like Lil John and nearly half the song was bleeped out.
I didn't mind the WBER playlist on Thursday but FIRST has this weakness for the Electric Slide, the Chicken Dance, YMCA, The Macerena and Cha Cha. There are other songs in existance. They should give them a spin once in a while.
KenWittlief
06-03-2005, 21:27
The hokie pokie? Hey now that is something Im looking forward to
the day when all the robots at the regional have their own radio frequency
and we can put 30 or 50 robots on the field during lunch break
and have THEM ALL doing the hokie pokie!
I would pay money to see that! :cO
The hokie pokie? Hey now that is something Im looking forward to
the day when all the robots at the regional have their own radio frequency
and we can put 30 or 50 robots on the field during lunch break
and have THEM ALL doing the hokie pokie!
I would pay money to see that! :cO
uhhhh.... no. I wouldn't.....
uhhhh.... no. I wouldn't.....
*Agrees*
Somthing about 30 robots fitting on one field creeps me out...
The hokie pokie thing is weird too.
KenWittlief
06-03-2005, 21:41
Ok, have it your way then, but having 30 robots doing the chicken dance instead will require a little more driver skill!
Ok, have it your way then, but having 30 robots doing the chicken dance instead will require a little more driver skill!
Pff driver skill? Let the programmers do it autonomously :D
Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can't believe that you are so old that you couldn't join in. ;) Let's all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no "dancing"). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap "music".
Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can't believe that you are so old that you couldn't join in. ;) Let's all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no "dancing"). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap "music".
Now I know when to take a loooooooooong bathroom break. :D
J Flex 188
06-03-2005, 21:50
It's all going to be a matter of taste in the end anyways. :D I think Koko is right, every regional no matter where it is will always have a collection of "hokey" songs that are played over and over again in an effort to bring the crowd forward; but that again is part of what makes FIRST endearing, to always see the mascots doing the YMCA and what not. I thought the playlist was fine at Rochester. I love hip hop, and was rather surprised at the amount they did play as well, it had a pretty good mix as far as I am concerned. I also heard some P.O.D in the midst of it as well.
The hokie pokie? Hey now that is something Im looking forward to
the day when all the robots at the regional have their own radio frequency
and we can put 30 or 50 robots on the field during lunch break
and have THEM ALL doing the hokie pokie!
Well while we are on award-winning ideas...lets do it now...who has a tether cable?
KenWittlief
07-03-2005, 08:05
cant do the 'turn yourself around' part on a tether cable :c(
Erin Rapacki
07-03-2005, 08:08
Well, that's better than the Chairman's Award music picked for Team 501 at the BAE Regional. The split second after they announced the team as the winner the Verizon Wireless Arena's fire alarm siren went off and we had to evacuate the building.
I didn't mind the WBER playlist on Thursday but FIRST has this weakness for the Electric Slide, the Chicken Dance, YMCA, The Macerena and Cha Cha. There are other songs in existance. They should give them a spin once in a while.
Ed, you pick.
1. song for mentors on field to dance to:
2. song for mascots on field to dance to:
3. song for rookies on field to dance to:
It's all about knowing your crowd. At some regionals Hip-Hop is going to work, at others it isn't. I love my Hip-Hop, but the crowd didn't seem to get into it in Rochester. That being said, playing "Lose Yourself" by Eminem during the last match of the finals was absolutely perfect.
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
It really captures the tension and pressure felt by all the drive teams.
Yan Wang
07-03-2005, 15:23
Karthik is sooooo right.
After finals 1.3 at FLR, I asked my drive team how they felt about the perfect choice of music (Lose Yourself) for the perfect moment. One didn't like it, one didn't remember it.
The other piece that I really like during finals is the FOX sports theme. That pumps me up.
So would Battle Without Honor or Humanity from Kill Bill.
Absolutely.
That song definitely had an effect. When I heard it come on, I couldn't believe it. I looked back to "our corner" and saw several other teammates going through the same thing I was.
Amazing.
John
Origionally posted by KenWittlief
cant do the 'turn yourself around' part on a tether cable
I disagree...you can do it but you shouldn't do it...and since it is suppose to be a bad idea I would say "that's what its all about." :p
Joe Ross
09-03-2005, 10:16
One year, at one of the events, they played "We are the Champions" for the chairmans award.
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world -
ScoutingNerd175
25-03-2005, 22:46
Now I know when to take a loooooooooong bathroom break. :D
But see, if you run out of the room every time they play the Hokey-Pokey, you would have missed the mascot dance at the Chesapeake Bay Regional! Now that was enjoyable! I particularly enjoyed watching my best friend in the Buzz mascot try to put her left and right hips in because, of course, our mascot is just really round and you don't really have hips. (also you can't reach your butt when doing the macarena. :)
mtaman02
26-03-2005, 21:19
Our DJ up at the NYC Regional was kewl. It was his first time at the regional competition but that didn't stop him from playing nothing but the best upbeat songs during the rounds. He had like 13000 songs ( I guess that FIRST put together ) to play. He was quite honest to he made sure he played the boring stuff when there was nothing doing (LUNCH) =)
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