Kashmir at the footie
Last night at the football, just before the teams came out they played Led Zep's "Kashmir" at full blast over the PA and it was magnificent!
It really added to a great atmosphere - there's something magic anyway about an evening game under floodlights, especially when you first walk out from the bar to take your seat and you see the lush green pitch in front of you.
A big away support helps, and the atmosphere was building and then they go and play "Kashmir" - fair brought a lump to the throat!
Have you ever had a "soundtrack" moment?
Have you ever been in a place or situation where you've heard music totally unexpectedly and it has blown your mind?
Where you feel like you're in a movie or TV show, you know like where they do those montages and play a soppy song during a soppy scene, or something like that?
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Cobblers
The first time I saw Northampton Town play was a league cup tie against Oldham on 28 August 1979. The Sex Pistols' Silly Thing was played over the tannoy, and the chorus (which has something of a football chant feel to it anyway) sounded just fantastic as it rolled down the terraces.
And Northampton won 3-0. Happy days.
Own goal...
Would've been a great chant aimed at a player who'd just scored an own goal..."Oh you silly thing, you've really gone and done it now...".
We Are The Champions
But ONLY when a team have become champions of their particular league or won a final and NOT when some team have won a bloody match thank you.
Happens all the time to me thanks to "shuffle."
One time springs to mind, it wasn't a big deal but I was wandering in a park, alone, one morning (nowt sordid folks, I was just unemployed and Mrs Sprocket had to go to work early so I got up for a walk), the ipod was on, it was a bright, crisp, frosty day and "Dawn Chorus" by Boards of Canada practically painted a sound picture of what I was looking at.
Not actual serendipity I know but very lovely all the same...
After a goal
Clubs have started playing music after a goal is scored. "Glad All Over" by the Dave Clark Five seems to be very popular as is ·Song 2" by Blur.
Here in Spain when the mighty Top of the League ESPANYOL score we get Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
You can just about hear it in the Background.
Music played after a goal is scored
Is a blight on society and should be banned forthwith.
You'd never get it at Goodison.
Mind you, you don't get many goals at Goodison...
Not scored by Everton anyway.
You want unexpected?
A few weeks ago at the mighty Melbourne Cricket Ground an Australian Rules Football Final was about to commence.
The players lined up opposite each other.The stadium announcer said "Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the playing of our national anthem."
The players locked arms in a show of brotherhood in anticipation of the battle they were soon to face. The massive crowd hushed. There was a moment of utter silence and then...
AC/DC's "It's Long Way to the Top" blasted out.
No-one expected that but no-one would have been too surprised either.
Wolves
I remember seeing a cup tie on TV quite a few years back, played at Molineux. Before the game, the DJ was playing Hi Ho Silver Lining, but ducking out 'Silver Lining' so it went:
Jeff Beck: And it's Hi! Ho!...
Crowd: Wol-ver-HAMP-ton
Jeff Beck: Everywhere you go...
Not really a soundtrack moment, but it made me smile. Hope they still do that.
November 1996, early one Monday morning....
.... during a holiday in California, I set off from Monterey driving down Highway 1 heading towards San Luis Obispo. Hwy 1 is the road that hugs the coastal cliffs tightly as you head south, scene of many a movie car chase. Anyway... as we approach Big Sur with the sun coming up I turned on the radio just in time to hear the opening chords of "Hotel California".
OK, so it certainly wasn't a "dark desert highway", but it fit the mood perfectly for me.
Chelsea Reserves
When they played Arsenal Reserves at Aldershot's ground in 2005/6, the 'DJ' (ha!) played House of Love's Greatest Hits album before the game and at half-time. Purely for his own entertainment, and mine.