Song Overplay at Hoya Game/Other Games

[RDF]

I just want to say that if I hear the CRAP....uh, I mean song "Zombie Nation" one more time at a sporting event, I'm going to drive to the Verizon center/whichever arena/stadium is playing it--and personally DESTROY THEIR SOUNDSYSTEM.

I hate this song more then Jim Calhoun, Tom Crean, Doug Gottlieb, and Duke COMBINED. I imagine this is what Hell is like--you have to sit at a table with these people and that "song" plays non-stop--oh wait--you don't have to be in Hell--you just have to watch a sporting event. Goodness--when will the nightmare end!!!!

For the students doing the Penn State like chant--look at what you are "emulating"? It originated at US sporting events by Penn State fans? That is like saying you decided to add to your wardrobe after watching Andre "3000" Benjamin of Outkast on television wearing some moon boots, a fur coat with no shirt, and some pants made of cactus.

If you have ever seen Animal House--where John Belushi--for you youngsters that is Jim Belushi's older, actually talented brother who was Chris Farley of his day--takes the guitar of the "sensitive music maestro" and bash it into pieces due to the annoying music? Imagine that times infinite hatred and you are not quite approaching the level of hatred I have for this "Song".

Save us all-please and show some forward, ahead of your time thinking by not stooping to the level of a "tradition" that Penn State created. It's just wrong--on so many levels.

[Boz]

Before you get lambasted by all of the Zombie Nation lovers, RDF, I will chime in in support of your view.

As a Boston Bruins fan, I am so sick of that song. Every Bruins game I watch, it's played after every goal. It sucks. It sucks as bad as a basketball roundtable featuring Jim Boeheim, Gary Williams and John Feinstein.

The only recorded effective use of Zombie Nation in the history of media is when it was playing in the background of the bus in "Sean of the Dead."

[theexorcist]

With that said, people on this board asked for Zombie Nation and someone responded. We brought this upon ourselves.

There have been a variety of other suggestions for other "pump up" songs, but none have ever really caught on.

[Ro]

Come on now...how could you not love this guy???

[GUHoya07]

I agree that it's generally a stupid song, and that it is overplayed a lot. However, no one else seems to have come up with something else to really get the crowd (especially the students) pumped up.

I'll admit that while it's a dumb song I do like when it comes on and the student sections are jumping up and down to it, it looks really good when you are there.

[HoyaPride]

Jump Around - House of Pain

[vcjack]

I think we should stop selling alcohol and let everyone buy warm milkshakes instead

[bubbrubbhoya]

I used to be in the Zombie Nation hater camp for the reasons stated above (its roots), but you can't argue with its ability to win over the crowd. The only song that has matched it in recent years is the Mortal Kombat theme, but that seems to have lost steam this year. Since Zombie Nation gets people pumped, I'm firmly in the pro-ZN camp, and will continue to be until such time as a better song comes around.

Play it before the 2nd half!!!

[theexorcist]

Just play Call on Me once and I'll stop complaining.

[bubbrubbhoya]

Jan 29, 2008 16:02:42 GMT -5 theexorcist said:

Just play Call on Me once and I'll stop complaining.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[SoCal Hoya85]

Look, Rock and Roll Part 2 is gone (and many of you will say for good reason) and now we have to attack Zombie Nation? No, its not a unique song to Georgetown, but it pumps up the crowd and the students like it. So plug your ears for 30 seconds, back off, and let us have our fun. No one is going to like every song, stop whining.

[BurleithBeast]

Count me among the Zombie Nation haters. Why not play the GU hoops hiphop number from the warmup video more?

[kchoya]

What's the Penn state type chant?

[AustinHoya03]

Jan 29, 2008 17:36:36 GMT -5 kchoya said:

What's the Penn state type chant?

[hoyastrong]

Jan 29, 2008 15:51:02 GMT -5 Ro said:

Come on now...how could you not love this guy???

I had envisioned a much different video... that's just bizarre

[LizziebethHoya]

As long as the song gets the student sections going - I'm fine with it. I loved Rock & Roll Pt 2, and Zombie Nation is now filling that void. When they played it during one of the final timeouts during the UConn game, the whole place was rocking. I'm pretty sure Call on Me will get the student section going too and I do hope they play it. That and Love Generation have become staples of every Hoya Blue roadtrip playlist.

[PDRHoya99]

Jan 29, 2008 16:09:14 GMT -5 SoCal Hoya85 said:

No, its not a unique song to Georgetown...

That's its entire problem. It's not unique to anyone anymore. Prior to reading this thread I didn't even know of its Happy Valley roots, but that's mostly immaterial. Playing it is the musical equivalent of jumping off the brooklyn bridge just because all your friends are doing it. People will get pumped up to whatever is played before the game because they are about to watch one of the best college basketball teams in the country play. Traditions are not started by just copying what everyone else in the country is doing.

[saxamaphone]

Two words: Murda Murda.

[DuddingtonHoya]

Disagree entirely. The song gets the students pumped up more than any other song has in a key point of the game (at least in my 10 years of going to games). Let them have their fun, you old geezers.

On the other hand, I would love to bring back Murda Murda as a warm up song.

[lichoya68]

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