Yes, I'm doing another blog themed compilation and have come up well short. Songs about sportspeople (Hurricane, Billy Bragg's God's Footballer) are fine, Cup final songs aren't, the less obvious the sport the better.
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make an exception
and have the anfield rap on there please!
LIVERPOOL FC IS HARD AS HELL
to be helpful
The Sporting Life by The Decemberists
errr
Snooker Loopy?
Good god, I've just found Rory Bremner's N-N-Nineteen Not Out
How had I not thought of The Sporting Life myself? Gah. And I've only just remembered all the Fall's football songs (three, I think).
How embarassing
This was the first single I ever bought!
_
the sporting life by the decemberists?
10CC - dreadlock holiday
Half man half biscuit - Fucking 'ell, it's Fred Titmus!
Soundgarden - Ty Cobb
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Magic Johnson
Belle and Sebastian -
Stars of Track and Field
Football Meat - Ultrasound
and
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit - Half Man, Half Biscuit
The ballad of Geoff Boycott - Neil Young*
* May not be a real song
Sometimes...
All I Need Is Vieira-t I Breathe by The Hollies
Yello - the race
Although obviously I'd love to get this in
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2007/12/363_121_Bobby_George_-_Bobbys_Theme.mp3
It's Bobby Dazzler in smooth balladeer mode!
for pocketmouse -
Sportfreunde Stiller - Ich, Roque.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W6zBOpCnFmk
I Don't Want To Play Football by Belle & Sebastian
does this count?
Billy Bragg has a song called 'God's Footballer'?
god everything about that twat annoys me.
pagan wanderer lu
the gentlemen's game
We Are The Physics
-You Can Do Athletics, BTW
Yes Boss -
They Think It's All Over
Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong
Joey by Therapy?
song about the motorcyclist Joey Dunlop and also featuring 2 other sporting greats
'So hats off for Joey Dunlop
One day you'll go to the great big bar in the sky
Everybody's free, everybody flies
The greats will be there, you wouldn't want to miss it
Me, George Best and Hurricane Higgins'
Shame on everyone for not mentioning this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uce6O7CifA
Diefenbach-Anyone for ping-pong?
Kraftwerk-Tour De France
..and indeed all of the songs
off the album of the same name.
the 'Hot Chip King of the Mountains Mix'
of 'La Forme' is amazing. is that allowed?
Chariots of Fire?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keVEeT_JcVc
Does that count... there was chariot racing?!?!
Adam & Joe
The Footie Song
A mate of mine
has an album by Serious Drinking, some 80's band. Songs included "Love on the terraces" and "He's an angry bloke (but I like him)".
The Long Blondes
Darts....if you class it as a sport like
.
10CC - Brother From the Gutter
Erlend Oye - The Athlete
The Others - that one about that guy who played for QPR which actually about that guy who was in prison.
Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian
Elvis Costello - I Dont Want To Go To Chelsea
That New Order football song. Might be called World At Your Feet, might have made that title up.
Everything by American Football
World in motion
World in Motion
featuring another infamous John Barnes rap.
Another?
There is only one, surely. Although as a friend says, it's either a great song or harbours a terrible rap, it can't be both.
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Possessed to Skate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lSmQ8X1zI
SUPER DELUXE - All I wanted was a skateboard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RoJsJY9Qj8
cake - the distance
Belle & Seb - Loneliness of a middle distance runner
Strachan by The Hitchers
and has no one mentioned that Fred Titmus song by HMHB yet?
kick push by lupe fiasco
is skateboarding a sport, or just for good-looking rebels who play by their own rules?
That debate has been raging for years.....
skateboarders would argue that it's too important to be considered a sport.
Strachen!
I heard that song ages ago on Gideon Coe's show and bloody loved it. However Ididn't know who it was by, with the title being fairly ungoogleable.
Now I'm off to google The Hitchers, any advice where to start with them?
I'm sure there are two bands called The Hitchers
The Hitchers you want (if there are actually two, and I'm not drunk) did an album called 'It's All Fun And Games 'Til Someone Loses An Eye'. It's bloody brilliant.
Not only does it have Strachan on it, it also has an ace two-minute pop song called 'You Can Only Love Someone So Much But You Can Hate Them All The Way To Hell'. Added to the fact that their singer was also called Niall Quinn, and they're pretty much the best band in the history of everything ever.
England's Irie
by Black Grape. The discerning listeners choice of mid-90's Football song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvuqgyKj5iM
Look, that's joe strummer on stage with Shaun Ryder and....erm....Keith Allen.
Blah ultra jag
We've just recorded a song about the Wolves winger Michael Kightly called Michael Kightly Is Pretty Rad. It also talks about Steve Bruce and Eric Cantona.
http://acebushystriptease.com/michaelkightly.mp3
It's only short like...
...
tell me your secrets
SUPER
BOWL
SHUFFLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNC3dgreaU
Is this sport?
Can't believe noones mentioned Wu Tang - Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzOEZQwxkrs
How about
First that come to mind:
Football Fight by Queen
I Don't Like Cricket by 10cc
Snooker Loopy by Chas n' Dave
might be pushing it, but:
flaming lips - race for the prize
kate bush - running up that hill
radiohead - fitter happier
not about sport as such and the titles are only partially relevant, but ive gotta get credit for trying, no?
maybe Fall of the Star High School Running Back
by the mountain goats
KICKER! KICKER CONSPIRACY!
A Rook House For Bobby by iLiKETRAiNS
The best though is clearly 'Theme From Sportsnet' by The Clint Boon Experience. It's a b-sdie to 'Earworm' (I think) and is frankly fucking incredible. It's just a list of sports over some brilliantly cheesy theme-tune style keyboard and guitar stuff.
JUDO! LACROSSE! EQUESTRIAN! DARTS!
Tie Me Kangaroo Down SPORT
Too tenuous?
Bradman by Paul Kelly
"his feet they used to sparkle, but he always kept them on the ground"
Midfield General - Bergkamp
Roy Harper - When an old cricketer leaves the crease (this is fantastic)
G-Love & Special Sauce - Shootin' hoops
Half Man Half Biscuit - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit
St Etienne and Kaiser Chiefs are both named after football teams too
.
Duk Koo Kim - Sun Kil Moon (about a boxer who died)
Half Man Half Biscuit have loads
Fuckin Hell It's Fred Titmus
The Len Ganley Stance
Outbreak of Vitas Gerulatis
Hedley Verityesque
Bob Wilson - Anchorman
Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess
plus lots more...
Yeah, I've already decided my HMHB track
It's, I think, the only song in their canon directly about football rather than its ephemera, and nobody's mentioned it in this thread yet. A CHALLENGE.
The one about Friday Night and The Gates Are Low?
or Dog on the Pitch?
or Referees Alphabet?
(Got to be honest mate, i don't know what ephemera means)
there are a few on DOG EAT DOG's play games..
http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfixqyhldte
The Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports - Glassjaw
Well,
Welcome back race fans, it's Cavalcade sport time again.
Here at the jamboree,
Home of the hits.
How you doing Bob?
It's the last stretch
And my heart.. my heart stays in the lead
And we see first, second behind my heart is my mind
Third behind my mind is my body.
Fourth behind my body is my soul
And my heart stays in the lead.
Coming around the stretch..
That was a good one Bob.
You Take Me Up (Version) - THOMPSON TWINS
(about sheffield wednesday innit)
...
... Matt & Kim - Lightspeed
Walcott
Vampire Weekend
...
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner* - Iron Maiden
*may not actually be about a long distance runner, possibly metaphorical, dunno, haven't heard it.
'Brother Sport'
by Animal collective..which should be on there new album. probably the best thing they have ever done!
Foals
The French Open
Super Furry Animals
The Man Don't Give a Fuck
Kicker!
Kicker Conspiracy!
Kicker!
Kicker Conspiracy!
(by The Fall)
Eh?
This is about government oppression.
or....
Cassius
boxing - ben folds five
these........
Half Man Half Biscuit - Bob Wilson, Anchorman
Half Man Half Biscuit - The Referees Alphabet
Sultans of Ping - Give Him a Ball and a Yard of Grass
And this is what became of it
http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2008/05/sweeping-nation-covermount-12-this.html