Sorry I’ve been gone so long. I didn’t plan on not writing any sports songs for this long. It just kind of happened that way. Anyhow, the good folks at Yardbarker wanted me to pass along this short survey. It really is short, doesn’t ask any personal questions, and you can win a $100 American Express gift card. All they really want to know is if you go to blogs or main stream media for your sports information. You’ve done far stupider things in your life. So go ahead and click that link. I’ll wait.
OK, so your gift from me to you for taking the survey is the Admiral Ackbar theme I did a couple months ago but never got around to putting it to video.
We had five undefeated teams heading into the bowl season in college football. But only two ever had a shot at playing for the title. That in and of itself is sad. What if TCU is the best team in Texas this year? You’ll never know. I’ve got a million of those “what if” scenarios, but only one answer. You’ll never know. If you agree with this video, send it to your congressman, your school’s president, the NCAA. You know what, don’t bother. Like me, you probably don’t have enough money to be heard.
As alway, a big thanks to LSUFreek for putting the video together, and thanks to EDSBS for linking it up this morning!!
This is a collection of songs I haven’t put to video yet. It seems like a good idea just to get a post up. They’re fun, to me anyway. If you’re a Marshall or Greg Robinson fan, not so much.
The first one is Turd Country I wrote for the Marshall-WVU game. Being that I’m a WVU fan it’s kind of one sided.
The next one is written for Syracuse fans. It’s kind of a slight, but it came from a good place because I wanted to say I was happy they got rid of GRob and brought in a coach that understands the program. Anyway, it’s called Welcome Back Syracuse. Original title, I know. Just work with me people.
This last one isn’t really anything to do with anything, just that maybe someone might want a copy of the original version of Rocky Top I did for EDSBS.
Head over to EDSBS and check out the Gwar infused version of Rocky Top. I did the music and Orson…he…well, just go listen. It’s mind bottling. Thanks to O for getting me to work on that with him!
I’ll have a song to send to the B C S here in a couple days. Check back.
Since this site is still fairly new I’d like to at least keep you interested until I have a few more songs under my belt. I’m working on something, but it might not be out until the beginning of next week. So I thought I’d post some other peoples songs up here and give a little tip of the hat.
Here’s Ryan Parker from this summer with the Boston Trophy Party. Let the Boston hate fill your veins.
Here’s our friend LSUFreek with Les Miles singing Short People.
There’s no doubt that Charlie Weis is on the hottest of hot seats with his second straight home loss to Navy this year and a pitiful overall record against ranked teams. In fact, I doubt there is anything he can do to save his job at this point. But hey, he’s the one that set the expectations so high.
Special thanks as always to LSUFreek for taking my song and making a wonderful video interpretation.
It’s been neat to build these posts up for the launch of the site. I haven’t watched a lot of these videos for a while. Doing so makes it obvious that I should create this site.
But now we’re finally in the present and the best video I’ve been part of. LSUFreek and I got to know each other and decided we should try to collaborate on some funny. Bobby Bowden was just too big a target not to take a shot at. Everything else is in the future.
After the 2008 season was over, Greg Robinson was fired from Syracuse. It was a long time coming and probably should have happened a year earlier. I got an email from Sean at Troy Nunes with some lyrics substituted into Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel. I used the upbeat version by the Lemonheads to base the song on.
I got Pro Tools for recording, and decided to start using a full band sound. But with the added technology there was an added stress level of doing this every week. I tried to expand it by doing a song for each of the major conferences in the preseason. Ultimately, I burned myself out and wasn’t able to finish the season. I had to just walk away. I hated quiting FanHouse, but I was also happy to have some free time and work on some real music.
I started the season the same way I ended it, by picking on tOSU. Your Flagship’s A Failboat is one of my favorite songs. Just the music and vocals were fun and easy, and that’s the best kind of song.
The Big East Hot Seat was a shift back to the bluegrass sound. It seemed like the right thing to do. At the time of me writing this, Steve Kragthorpe is still employed at Louisville. But I’m pretty sure if you read this in two months he won’t be.
You Ain’t Forty Anymore is the preview for the Big 12. I wish I could record this one over again. As I did these previews I got more and more behind. So some of recording sessions were rushed. But that’s life.
The Week Five Upsets was a collection of different games. Fun, and I liked the way the recordings were starting to sound. I was finally learning how to make a good recording with the new software.
The Long Tearful Ride is about the Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma. After my WVU team whooped Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl the year before, I had a lot of contempt to Oklahoma. In truth, they were a great team. But that didn’t stop my from wanting Texas to win.
The ACC Is BCS Minus The C is just me hating the ACC. It’ll probably take a long time for me to change. It really hurt the Big East. As long as a Big East team is in the title chase and an ACC team isn’t, I’ll be happy. So far it’s worked out that way most of the time.
Goodbye Phil, Hello Dr. Phil was the last song I did for FanHouse. If it sounds sad, it reflects the way I felt from the grind of doing these songs every weekend.
I can’t see the reason to do a post for each song I want to post. Just a little blurb for each should do.
This first one, Losing To Croom, is from the 2007 Auburn-Mississippi St. game. I think this was the first one that Pete Holiday edited. One of the more popular ones also.
Pete Carroll Can’t Have This is the first one I edited the video for. It shows, but it’s fun. From the Stanford-USC game. Biggest upset ever in college football, I believe.
Next up is the Ode To Phil Fulmer. Pete really seemed to enjoy this one. I have no idea why. From the Alabama-Tennessee game. Not really an upset as much as me being motivated to see the quality of the Phil Fulmer pics Pete had.
Do The Jorts Fit Better is from the Georgia-Florida game. From the 2005 Sugar Bowl between WVU and Georgia, I got to appreciate the Georgia blogosphere, as well as being introduced to the term Jorts.
O H I Oh Damn, well I work with some OSU fans so this one was fun for me. It was recorded low. So I’m sorry about that. From the OSU-Illinois game. Funny that they did make the National Title game and got smoked.
