Are You Ready For Some Football (RR)
Rockadelic
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Found this today and was wondering if every sports team has related vinyl...
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For the 1986 NFL season, the Chicago Bears recorded the "Super Bowl Shuffle,"
a rather ackward sort-of rap that took advantage of the various hugely
popular personalities on the team and actually became a Gold Record, reaching
as high as #41 on Billboard. The video, shown ad nauseum on the fledgling MTV
network, was even more popular, making the track more memorable and enduring
than most of the Top Ten hits of that year.
The New England Patriots, on the other hand, Peter-McNeely-Esque opponents
of said Bears in that year's Championship Game - and my local heroes - felt
compelled to answer the Super Bowl Shuffle with a musical effort of their
own, one that fittingly mirrored their efforts to match the Bears on the
field of play. In other words, it was an embarrassment. "Berry the Bears"
managed to have a beat that made the "Super Bowl Shuffle's" 1/4 casio slaps
sound like the illest boom bap this side of Canton, OH - and lyrics that
spoke of bravado but smacked of desperation and pre-determined failure:
The video was even more of an insult. In answer to the Bears' MTV
mainstay, we had a camcorder extravaganza featuring local news anchors
and politicians mugging it up like the drunken Boston hacks they were,
produced by "V66," the short-lived local video network that sprung up in
the wake of MTV's massive success. "V66" was actually pretty cool (showing
Prince's "Controversy" video uncensored at 3PM weekdays), but that's a story
for another time - bottom line is, they were "budget" all the way, and
the video reflected that perfectly.
Although I have no JPEG, There was definitely a 45 of it - I've come across
it plenty in my digs, only to toss it aside quickly in disgust, the shame of that
Super Bowl still stings after all these years, even with the 3 Championships
in the past 5 seasons. The lyrics mention "Squish the Fish," the catchphrase
for the AFC Championship game that preceded the "Berry the Bears" hopeless credo -
that game with Miami was EPIC and one of the greatest moments in Pats history
up until very recently...unfortunately, a very good and pretty personable
Pats team was kicked to the corner of history, a footnote only as the
hapless victims of the what many consider the GREATEST FOOTBALL SEASON
BY AN NFL TEAM OF ALL TIME, the 1986 Chicago Bears.
Great team, but the record is
I'll try to put up a clip later on tonite.....
These are my two football records:
The Raiders one is actually play-by-play and interviews and stuff and the other one is the Michigan band doing a bunch of Midwest fight songs. On VAnguard no less. Wish it had USC's fight song which is one of my favorites. It does have the Notre DAme fight song tho, which rules.
mucho grande stock
b/w
so many versions of hail to the skins
(reggae version = hail to the dreadskins)
Cool. Check me out in October if you got room in the ride to bring that cheese.
And the 2008 Grammy for Best Alternative Rock Record goes to...
Actually...that wasn't the only awful song the 86 Pats released. "New England, the Patriots, and We," was the name of the other. 5 minutes of some of the worst whitedude wailing sax you've ever heard, bad hair, and local 'celebs' singing such immortal lyrics as "New England! The Patriots! And We!/ We'll Hang the Bears from the Liberty Tree!/ New England! The Patriots! And We!/ Here's to Football in Jan-u-arY!" And it goes on like that...
We've got a tape somewhere at work...i'll try to find it and dub it to DvD for you.