Sunday, May 17, 2009

In need of a new sports anthem

For the record, I can do without "Welcome to the Jungle" as the go-to, pump-up-the-crowd sports anthem.

The Celtics overuse it (I'm watching Boston play Orlando in Game 7 right now and Guns N' Roses is playing over the PA system), UConn football uses it every time they're defending a third down play, and the 80s rock song is heard in other sports venues during pivotal moments. I wonder if G n' R considered when they wrote the song that it would become as legendary as it is. What am I thinking? The band was probably unaware of creating the entire album, Appetite for Destruction. That's creativity for you. Mind-altering drugs yield art. Consider James Taylor's most well-known work was written and performed under the influence of heroin.

Anyway, all I really intended to say here was that I was sick of "Jungle" - a song that was good in the 80s, retained its value 10 years later, but now its time is passed.