Choose the FIRST Anthem?

[Richard Wallace]

Anyone else recall this one from the early 80's? The original lyric is quintessentially geeky. The instrumental line might make a good FIRST anthem if the lyric could be reworked.

MAKE A CIRCUIT WITH ME
(Tim Worman - Phil Bloomberg)
THE POLECATS (MERCURY 6059.588, 1982)

A sweet romance is not for me
I need electricity
If you wanna make me flip
Hit me with a micro chip

[Chorus]
I'll be a diode, cathode, electrode
Overload, generator, oscillator
Make a circuit with me

Just plug in and go-go-go
I'll be a human dynamo
Signals in my power cord
Impuls on my circuit board

I'm an AC/DC man
You can read my circuit diagram
I feed on electric jolts
I need fifty-thousand volts

A sweet romance is not for me
I really need electricity
If you wanna make me flip
Come on and hit me with a micro chip

I'm an AC/DC man
You can read my circuit diagram
I feed on electric jolts
I need fifty-thousand volts

[BandChick]

I have to say I'm a little SHOCKED by these. Was this the best FIRST could come up with?
Why didn't they ask students/mentors to maybe work together to come up with lyrics for a possible theme song!
SCARY! I voted for the first one, because, it's less....pre-school?

[Koko Ed]

So these are going to be a permanent fixture at FIRST events....


meh.

[Dan Petrovic]

Wow... who came up with these? They are REALLY cheesey. Do we really need a song?

What happened to all FIRST music being unnamed techno? That's what it should be, or written by Styx.

I felt obligated to vote so I voted for Number 2 cause I actually sat through that one.

[Jessica Boucher]

<old school>I'm sorry, the only one that should be allowed to do a FIRST song is Off Kilter. Period.</old school>

Do we have to choose an anthem? I would rather have a whole CD full of FIRST songs, if that's where we're going.

If we can get Will Smith to do a 30-second bit, then I'm sure we could find a bunch of bands to do something instead of choosing one, you know?

[Andy Grady]

Originally Posted by Tim Baird

I'm pretty sure that Hanson could come up with a good FIRST song.

Grady, what do you think?

How about no!

Just...no...no to 1, no to 2...just no.

I know they are trying really hard, and I appreciate the effort...but after hearing it a billion times in Boston...I was pretty much ready to jump off of the Bunker Hill Bridge.

I vote for Mr. Roboto...or any 90's Dance song.

-Andy Grady

[Koko Ed]

Personally if I were to pick a FIRST anthem it would be Rush's "The Mission"

Hold your fire
Keep it burning bright
Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites
A spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

I hear their passionate music
Read the words that touch my heart
I gaze at their feverish pictures
The secrets that set them apart

When I feel the powerful visions
Their fire has made alive
I wish I had that instinct
I wish I had that drive

Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Focused high on soaring ambitions
Consumed in a single desire

In the grip of a nameless possession
A slave to the drive of obsession
A spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

I watch their images flicker
Bringing light to a lifeless screen
I walk through their beautiful buildings
And I wish I had their dreams
But dreams don't need to have motion
To keep their spark alive
Obsession has to have action
Pride turns on the drive

It's cold comfort
To the ones without it
To know how they struggled
How they suffered about it
If their lives were exotic and strange
They would likely have gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane

We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

I know they are trying really hard, and I appreciate the effort...but after hearing it a billion times in Boston...I was pretty much ready to jump off of the Bunker Hill Bridge.

I would have been more accepting if they played it a few times and that was it. When it was played over and over and over again to the point where the words were being burned into my mind, they got old really fast. I need to be warmed up to new things like this, not force fed.

[Micah Siegel]

Why do they feel the need to make up new meanings for the letters in FIRST? Why not put lyrics that actually describe things that we do in FIRST?

[Emily Pease]

Personally, I'd vote for Mark Mothersbaugh doing the anthem....

Ha! I can't really see him doing a sports anthem type of song! But I think pretty much anything he'd create would be preferable to the two songs they played on repeat at the Boston regional.

[buss]

I hate to be so negative, but these are awful. Really awful. They are very childish.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

How about no!

Just...no...no to 1, no to 2...just no.

I know they are trying really hard, and I appreciate the effort...but after hearing it a billion times in Boston...I was pretty much ready to jump off of the Bunker Hill Bridge.

I vote for Mr. Roboto...or any 90's Dance song.

-Andy Grady

Now I'm glad I didn't go to Boston.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

How about no!

Just...no...no to 1, no to 2...just no.

I agree.

[CrazyCarl461]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Personally if I were to pick a FIRST anthem it would be Rush's "The Mission"

Yes! Maybe they could get Geddy to sing it in Atlanta. Or even better, Neil Peart could write a new FIRST song and they could reveal it live during opening ceremonies.

[BoyWithCape195]

...I like them *hides under table*