Warm Up Songs

It's sad that I know the warm-up songs of our team so well.

I even remember hearing Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" in 2008 along with the overtime song of "Hells Bells"

In 2009 I remember "Down" and "Shooting Star." Shooting Star was my first introduction to LMFAO. I also remember hearing Lil Wayne's "Hot Relolver" playing right before kickoff for one game. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" made a lot of appearances right before the second half kickoff too.

I know the 2010 playlist really well. Hall and Oates would always come on at the most random time. I think that this playlist was ordered very well. I felt like it matched up well with what the team was doing in warm-ups. I think my favorite song of all was the strangest one for me to like and it was something called "Good Times" by Roll Deep. It was some strange European Dance/Techno song and I have to admit that it was really catchy and probably my favorite warm up song of all my years of listening to the songs before games. Good Times would always come on as the team was shooting on goal and hearing that play made me realize how close we were to game-time. "I like it" seemed to always come up early in warm-ups when the goalies started to get going. I remember the back-up keeper from Jersey would always do a bit of a dance during that song. When I say bit, she would barely move, but you could tell she was moving to the beat. 1901 was a cool song and I really liked "Ali in the Jungle."

The 2011 playlist was not exactly my favorite. It grew on me, but nothing stood out. It's also possible that it's because I was busier this year before games. As a matter of fact I didn't have everything working for the Cincinnati game until six minutes before kickoff. I wasn't on the sideline, or even listening to music prior to the game at all. I had to tend to a video crisis. We also didn't have many home games this year either. So for some reason, possibly unrelated to song choice, I really don't remember that much about it.

Speaking of all of this, I think hearing the National Anthem is special. The moment I heard that song I got really excited because I knew it was truly game time.