Starting Line Up/Introduction Music

[MerrittsMustache]

Tell that to the AV people that often play it just prior to the second half tip at most home games...

Are you sure you're not thinking of Thunderstruck?

[Blue Horseshoe]

Streets makes me angry and fills me with rage. Hence, my original post about reverse psychology.  Da Bulls are a wholenother story because they were the FIRST team to dim the lights and use music. Sure the Bradley Center gets kinda pumped up, but it's not the hostile environment that visiting teams would loath to face. For instance this season at WVU vs Louisville: Huggie Bear had to get on the blower to tell the crowd to calm down because they were so wild and out of control. I want me some of that.

I think most of the posts are proving my point that most people are stuck paradigm. That VA Tech clips is from 03, Trevor Hoffman has been using Hells Bells long before he played on the Brewers.

Maybe it's a Milwaukee thing? Anybody get out much? It's not 1987, other music has been made since. Let's investigate.

Also, someone PLEASE give an example (preferably recent) about other BE teams. What does Syracuse do? UConn? Louisville? I gave the example that Georgetown has some edge.

[Blue Horseshoe]

And seriously, this is Marquette we're talking about. The same board that gave you "The Gold." They should have been fired for that mishap alone. I would not put it past them to put together some kind of garbage like this. Don't let this happen to MU!!

http://deadspin.com/5517857/scott-stapp-ruins-baseball

[Skitch]

I really like Streets as an intro.  The lead up to the song with the organ and drums really builds momentum IMO. 

Having said that; Greatest intro song ever here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guG9cVs3ms4

[Marq]

I agree it time for a change. Its not like the one now is bad its just time for a change. My recommendation is something like the Boston Celtics Intro from the Playoffs in 2008. Its one of the best introductions I have ever seen/heard.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRbyNEUVzm8

[jficke13]

Maybe using old music that still kicks ass decades later isn't a Milwaukee thing but a sensible thing so that you avoid using some flash-in-the pan garbage by Creed

[jficke13]

btw, that Celtics intro to Clint Mansell off the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack was pretty sweet.

[bma725]

Sure the Bradley Center gets kinda pumped up, but it's not the hostile environment that visiting teams would loath to face. For instance this season at WVU vs Louisville: Huggie Bear had to get on the blower to tell the crowd to calm down because they were so wild and out of control. I want me some of that.

No type of music is going to turn a MU crowd into a WVU crowd....that take generations of inbreeding and a heck of a lot of moonshine.

[Sawsi]

Is it just me in thinking that an intro song doesn't strike fear into the opponent?  I'm all for keeping Streets because I happen to enjoy the goosebumps.

[wizkid1304]

Long time reader, first time poster.

UWM had a good intro this year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xordOCRq6Iw

[DJO's Pump Fake]

requiem for a dream is the most over used song in all of sports.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

THREADJACK ALERT        

If U2 sucks, who is good?  They have had 12 studio albums, 8 were awesome/very good (War, Boy, October, Achtung, J-Tree, All that You Can Leave Behind, The Unforgettable Fire, Rattle & Hum) 2 stinkers, (Pop and Zooropa), and 3 okays (No Line,  Atomic Bomb)

Have toured successfully, are all gifted musicians, take chances, write their music...whatever yeah Bono is a jag, but no other band since 1980 can touch the impact U2 has had on the music world, IMHO of course.

Matter of fact, I think The Joshua Tree is one of the best albums of the past 30 years, maybe top 25 ever. It's their masterpiece.

People are sick and tired of U2 because they're overexposed and preachy...but they're supremely talented.

[MerrittsMustache]

Is it just me in thinking that an intro song doesn't strike fear into the opponent?  I'm all for keeping Streets because I happen to enjoy the goosebumps.

The opponents are huddled up getting "coached up" while MU's intro song is being played. The notion that playing a different, tougher, more intimidating song will somehow give MU a competitive advantage is laughable.

[Ari Gold]

I really like Streets as an intro.  The lead up to the song with the organ and drums really builds momentum IMO. 

Having said that; Greatest intro song ever here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guG9cVs3ms4

Skitch beat me to WWF intros (and Hogan's real american is the greatest) but: For the team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMs7juOPsDw&feature=related
for Buzz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TwLOOFvzS4&feature=related

Creighton does For whom the bell tolls:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ADPedGPaw&feature=related
kinda lame actually.. but so is the "Jays"

[Hards Alumni]

I'll have to disagree with you.  The intro to Streets is kinda awesome.  The song itself is "meh" at best.

Actually, I agree with that as well.

[Blue Horseshoe]

I think this stems from a larger problem I have w/ MU being cookie cutter in general. I'm so proud to be an alum but it just kills me sometimes the way the university conducts business. I'm sorry but I don't feel like that intro is different or special than any other top program in the country. Yes, there is only so much you can do w/ just an intro but would love Marquette to grow a pair and do something original.

[Freeport Warrior]

As a 40-something alum, even I'm sick of it, and I like a little U2 now and then.

It's like the pleated Dockers of songs though -- once in fashion, now just plain dated. I look at the old-man sausage-fest base in the lower bowl and cringe as they bounce out of rhythm to the song. IMO, you couldn't ditch it fast enough.

Now for a new song, you're never going to make everyone happy. I'd say come up with a fairly modern, new song each year and make sure it's something that gets the crowd going. Just off the top of my head, an intro like Uprising by Muse would be cool if you could get the whole arena clapping in unison like they do when the student section points during that rah rah song and shouts, "you suck." I have no problem with Thunderstruck because it is timeless hard rock, but it could get a facelift for something a few years younger like the beginning of Guerilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine.

The other option is the let the players pick within reason. I went to a Heat game a few years back in Miami and they had an absolute killer video/song for the intro with D. Wade and Shaq dressed in suits and bouncing around to Let's Go by Trick Daddy with an Ozzy Osbourne sample. It seemed to get the players fired up. The music isn't my favorite, but it did the trick and was surprisingly catchy.

[4everwarriors]

How 'bout we try, "Do You Think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart or "Feel Like A Woman" by Shaina Twain?

[Hards Alumni]

As a 40-something alum, even I'm sick of it, and I like a little U2 now and then.

It's like the pleated Dockers of songs though -- once in fashion, now just plain dated. I look at the old-man sausage-fest base in the lower bowl and cringe as they bounce out of rhythm to the song. IMO, you couldn't ditch it fast enough.

Now for a new song, you're never going to make everyone happy. I'd say come up with a fairly modern, new song each year and make sure it's something that gets the crowd going. Just off the top of my head, an intro like Uprising by Muse would be cool if you could get the whole arena clapping in unison like they do when the student section points during that rah rah song and shouts, "you suck." I have no problem with Thunderstruck because it is timeless hard rock, but it could get a facelift for something a few years younger like the beginning of Guerilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine.

The other option is the let the players pick within reason. I went to a Heat game a few years back in Miami and they had an absolute killer video/song for the intro with D. Wade and Shaq dressed in suits and bouncing around to Let's Go by Trick Daddy with an Ozzy Osbourne sample. It seemed to get the players fired up. The music isn't my favorite, but it did the trick and was surprisingly catchy.

I would be totally cool with Uprising... great song... best band alive.

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Instead of Rod Stewart how about " I'm too sexy for my Uniform(var.)"

[Ari Gold]

Instead of Rod Stewart how about " I'm too sexy for my Uniform(var.)"

Buzz "Right Said Fred" Williams?

[Freeport Warrior]

I would be totally cool with Uprising... great song... best band alive.

Agree. Not to highjack, but they announced pre-sale for Muse tix this Saturday at Bradley Center. Concert date 10/6.

[Hards Alumni]

Agree. Not to highjack, but they announced pre-sale for Muse tix this Saturday at Bradley Center. Concert date 10/6.

Believe me, I know... I went all the way to Detroit in March to see them.

Best show I have ever been to.

[T-Bone]

I don't think anyone included it here (the actual intro). 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt8Wu27kIrs

Does it want to make me watch Marquette take the court?  Yes, but I suspect it's more of a Pavlovian thing than anything else.  I really have had more than enough U2, but in this context will take it.

An intro with David Caruso, putting on his sunglasses, and then saying over a bloodied mascot of opposing team: "Looks like...  we are...  Marquette."  (Roger Daltry screams).  Someone should do it.

Something harder than U2 would be good, but please let's not ever get Stapped.

[Jacks DC]

Streets is a good song, but we are way overdue for a change.  I've been saying that for years.  Uprising is a great call.

Trust me, we do not want to be like West Virginia fans.  I have multiple friends that went there and they are embarrassed by all the attention the fans got this year.