GB Leighton's Twins song, how do we stop it?
by @mnsportstalk on Apr 25, 2010 11:57 PM EDT
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Seriously, is there way we could contact FSN and have something done. There is still a lot of baseball to be played this year and it annoys me everytime I hear it. I appreciate they are a local band and Fox Sports is trying to tie all that in but if no one likes it why are we subjected to it every game multiple times. I have yet to talk to anyone who has anything positive to say about it. I will include a poll to see if I'm just talking to be sure. Post your thoughts/ideas below.
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I voted dislike
But it doesn’t bother me that much. I dislike most music used on TV.
Since I don't obviously get to see FSN (from CA)
Can someone post a link to the song? I would still like to hear it and vote.
by MarshalltheIrish on Apr 26, 2010 2:32 AM EDT reply actions
here you are
http://www.foxsportsnorth.com/pages/video/?PID=xRjzMShP7KoqTBe1aKdeeJPPlTKKMSNy
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by @mnsportstalk on Apr 26, 2010 2:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Thanks
I hadn’t heard it, either.
I didn’t hate it, but I thought the Twins and MInnesota references were really forced, like they just decided “Hey, let’s write a song about the Twins and put so many references in it that they feel like they have to play it!”
At least it’s better than that Prince debacle from January – I blame the horrible karma from that for keeping the Vikings out of the Super Bowl.
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
purple and gold was a horrible
the minneapolis sound is dead!
kidding
but RIP – The Mats, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, Ipso Facto, The Wallets, Polara, on and on and on
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
wow that's pretty bad
did someone say they play it before games at TF?
if so that is a big entertainment FAIL in my book
I guess I should be happy that the even the games on FSN on extra innings don’t include the song
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
Thanks for posting that
And I echo everything BeefMaster said. I’m indifferent…it’s hackneyed and contrived, but it works better than Prince’s song. That monstrosity didn’t even come close to a football fight song, it was like a gospel hymn.
Also, if they haven’t been mentioned yet, you’re all forgetting another local titan: The Replacements!
by MarshalltheIrish on Apr 26, 2010 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
There's so much musical talent in the Twin Cities
Why on Earth did they choose that hack? Then the self-promotion around the song was heinous. “The world premier of a new song by GB Leighton is coming on opening night of Target Field…” started in spring training. They led us to believe it would be a song for the ages. Instead, it’s just a blatant rip off of the Monday Night theme with some Twins lyrics shoehorned in.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Apparently...
Leighton reads TwinkieTown, because we have one “love it” vote.
Either that, or someone made a mistake.
Apparently.....maybe...or...
His mother reads Twinkie Town.
No Problem With The Song, But...
At this point, I think Meatloaf’s “Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad” would be more aporpos.
by TheQatarian on Apr 26, 2010 10:01 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
The Hold Steady
has a version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame with a (slightly outdated [Metrodome?]) Minnesota twist. Much better than G.B. Leighton.
Everyone knows...
that the Hold Steady song “Constructive Summer” should be the Twins song.
I want to have Buddy Nix's baby.
Atrocious
G.B. Leighton? No offense, but, really? We couldn’t do better? Hopefully this is simply a FSN thing and will never spread further to become associated with the franchise itself or the new ballpark or anything. We don’t need our own “Go Cubs, Go” with five times the annoyingness.
Given the excitement over the team and Target Field, think of all the other Minnesota musicians who might have been willing to put something together that would crush Leighton’s song. Partial list of who needs to be contacted (in addition to the Hold Steady – like Craig Finn wouldn’t be all over this!) to put something together to help us all forget this:
1. Gary Louris
2. Leo Kottke – seriously, he’d put together something totally evocative of the North Woods and then tie it to Kirby Puckett in some bizarrely Minnesotan sounding lyrics
3. Dylan
4. Bob Mould
5. Paul Westerberg
6. Dan Wilson
7. The Bad Plus
8. Tapes ’N Tapes
Yeah, I'm not so sure it's just an FSN thing.
They play it on the giant scoreboard before games at TF. :\
Bingo bango.
+1
It smells like an FSN thing, you know, the network that moved Marnie out in favor of Telly Tubby, Robby Itch-my-crotch-ski and Captain Hairplug.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Woah, you leave Robby out of this. He’s all pluck, heart, and fanboy. It beats seeing Anthony look like a botox freak trying to generate a facial expression before the interview is over.
by deacs on Apr 26, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I liked Telly, I'm sad he went to Milwaukee.
They really do need some real reporters though. At least Bert and Dick are good, the commentators for the Wolves and Wild are garbage.
Man you guys have low standards
Telly was often wrong and slow. He obviously didn’t do his homework.
Robby is quicker, but his energy is spazzy. My wife has to mute the TV when he talks because his voice is like fingernails on a chaulkoard.
Actually, if you had a cartoon of the two of them together, it would be Tennessee Tuxedo:
For Bert’s birthday.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
It's all about the voice.
Unless you’re Anthony Lapanta, and lately, Roy Smalley. Then it’s about the hair.
Yep
In the first series of the year, I swore Lapanta had his piece on backwards. If not, it was hastliy snapped in, Also, Captain Hairdo has that voice immodulation problem. He seems to say everything at the top of his lungs.
Smalley’s hair is real, which is even freakier than Lapanta’s piece. It’s one of the reasons my 12-year-old son is sure he’s a vampire. “Dad, ever notice Smalley never works day games?”
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
LMAO!
Your kid is awesome. I never noticed that
I love Twins Baseball and Minnesota Vikings Football.
by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Apr 27, 2010 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions
I think Marnie is preggers and about to pop
miss her though
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by @mnsportstalk on Apr 26, 2010 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Just hire TMBG
You’d think They Might Be Giants could write a jingle for the team, they’re willing to write songs for $$.
People clearly don't care for it
I would think after this season it would likely be gone. It has no staying power.
Since FSN apparently consigned the song,
Get used to it. They’re not going to dump a song they paid for. This isn’t like “Purple and Gold” where they can say, “Meh” and ignore it.
Your choices are:
1. Suck it up.
2. Invest in a remote with a mute button.
3. Stick your right index finger in your right ear while simultaneously sticking your left index finger in your left ear and say repeatedly in a loud voice “LALALALALA I CAN”T HEAR YOU LALALALA!" whenever it comes on.
Good luck.
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"Positive happines come whit sucess if you no have that is all bs" -Ozzie Guillen
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Apr 26, 2010 11:56 AM EDT reply actions
thanks, Dad
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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Apr 26, 2010 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Awesome!
I wish there were, in fact, a consignment shop for this sort of thing. (I know you meant commissioned. Just teasing/having fun with the idea. Sorry!) I don’t think they’d have any success moving this song for FSN, though. Fox would have to either show up at the store after 90 days to reclaim the sheet music, or allow the shop to donate it to charity. They could at least write it off, then, though.
Anyway, if people actively boo the song, it might work. It’s been absolutely torn to shreds by the local music media, so a campaign from fans would further degrade it. And it’s not like Fox paid a million bucks for it or something. The sunk cost was probably 15 grand and a couple kegs of Grain Belt. Just take that away from the budget for Bert’s next birthday party and there’s no spilled milk left to cry over!
A blight upon the glorious first season of outdoor baseball
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming." -Teddy Roosevelt
Sounds as if there are more benefits to living in Montana than I expected.
by montanatwinsfan on Apr 26, 2010 2:01 PM EDT reply actions
Well with Sheep and not
having to hear this horrendous song you got two things ;)
I love Twins Baseball and Minnesota Vikings Football.
by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Apr 26, 2010 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions
There's also the Beartooths and Glacier
Two of the best mountain parks in the world.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
when will they rename glacier?
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
It will be a sad day when the glaciers are gone
Most are already gone from the Tetons.
It boggles my mind that people deny global waring in the face of this evidence. Just look at Google Satellite images and you see how much ice is gone from the northern hemisphere. Greenland has 1/3 less glaciation than it did just five years ago.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Global warming deniers
There are people that deny humans are causing warming who can argue all they want, however little evidence is on their side. Then there are the crackpots that deny the climate is actually warming at all. The crackpots probably also believe the earth is flat and aliens are talking to them through their tinfoil hat.
It should be an easy debate then,
but Al Gore and associates refuse to debate the deniers, which prolongs the issue.
It's hard to debate people who just use obstructionist rhetoric
Deniers: Global warming doesn’t exist, you morons!
Scientists: The facts show clearly that global warming has been happening since the 80s, and accelerating in the last 10 years
Deniers: I don’t believe your facts, idiot egg heads.
Scientists: If you won’t listen to facts, what will persuade you?
Deniers: Just shut up!
It’s very similar to the cigarette companies in the 70s. They simply denied overwhelming evidence from the medical and scientific communities that smoking causes a wide range of health problems. This rhetoric worked into the 80s.
In this case, the oil companies are using the same obstructionist tactics. They don’t want to engage in a real debate because they know they will lose every time, so they deny the validity of the debate itself.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Money
Tighter carbon restrictions mean less petroleum consumed. Like all companies, they thrive on growth, not market shrinkage. Obstructionist rhetoric and political investment is a business strategy to protect their markets from government regulation. Public companies are required to grow, even i it means the end of the planet as we know it.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
well
there’s plenty of free oil in the Gulf of Mexico if you can get to it…wha? too soon?
I think even comic book villians realize if their master plan destroys the earth…what’s the point of winning…
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
heck, I want This Town back
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YES!
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Come on put them up, let me hear it loud"
by Stay classy, Joe. on Apr 26, 2010 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Since we're on the subject
My humble suggestion to site management: someone should coordinate a Lipps Inc. reunion to re-record “Funkytown” as “Twinkie Town” and get it up on the website.
+1000
I can hear it note-for-note in my head.
by MarshalltheIrish on Apr 26, 2010 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I like the MN WILD song
Who did that?
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming." -Teddy Roosevelt
Ha!
That’s what you get for googling yourself.
"...and we'll see ya tomorrow night!" - Jack Buck, Game 6, 1991 World Series
by WindyCityTwinsFan on Apr 26, 2010 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't want to hear about your lowercase googling
TMI
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
this t-shirt was made for fischean
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
BWAHAHA
I love Twins Baseball and Minnesota Vikings Football.
by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Apr 26, 2010 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Googling - Duly Noted
But in this case, each is as disgusting as the other.
"...and we'll see ya tomorrow night!" - Jack Buck, Game 6, 1991 World Series
by WindyCityTwinsFan on Apr 26, 2010 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I think they should've had...
Atmosphere or another local Minneapolis Hip Hop Artist do the song…
I mean, Slug from Atmosphere would’ve prolly done it for a free hat or 19.
Love Slug and Atmosphere
say shhh….
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
I lost interest in it in about the first ten seconds
I don’t like it
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by thewild_viking_twins on Apr 26, 2010 7:20 PM EDT reply actions
More artists in other genres
Here are four national acts that still live the the cities:
Debbie Duncan: Jazz vocalist
The Steeles: Gospel/Soul
Peter Ostrushko: Folk
Johnny Lang: Blues
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
I actually think they should've used Mauer's at-bat music from last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFxN4Sz4wEM
Made by his friend A&R…I actually work out to the song sometimes. lol
I'm still a Minnesotan at heart...
I love that song.
It’s got a great beat. :)
"A-Rod has that arrogance about him. I’d drill him." -Bert Blyleven
WOW that was bad.
The lyrics were the worst I think I’ve ever heard since the Spice Girls and Hanson.
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"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
From that group
there’s a link to this. Not bad, and The Unknown Prophets have some really good music. Better than GB Leighton’s, at least. :\
"A-Rod has that arrogance about him. I’d drill him." -Bert Blyleven
somewhere GB Leighnton is shedding a single tear
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
It's funny, that is the ONLY group I've ever joined on facebook.
"Pinch-bunters don't have a ton of value, even with the Twins"
by Steven Ellingson on Apr 27, 2010 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions
speaks volumes
"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings."
— Earl Wilson
I don't think another forced theme song is the answer.
What’s wrong using regular bumper music coming in and out of break?
Well after 630 votes there were only 21 positive votes to 531 negative votes (78 indifferent) a bit of a landslide. Thanks for everyone taking part in the thread.
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by @mnsportstalk on Apr 28, 2010 2:33 AM EDT up reply actions
For those of you who enjoy Facebook angst
I created an anti fan page for the song.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Never-hearing-the-GB-Leighton-Twins-Territory-Song-ever-again-Ever/122623677748437?v=photos#!/pages/Never-hearing-the-GB-Leighton-Twins-Territory-Song-ever-again-Ever/122623677748437
I always loved that one.
Never Heard It
I’ve never heard this song, but everyone I know hates it. Actually, I probably have heard it, I just didn’t realize what it was.
Is it as bad as that song Prince wrote for the Vikings last fall?
Much, much worse
Prince can’t help but put out a minimum level of quality
Yeah
I have a hard time thinking of a worse song in recorded history. There’s no melody. What music they have is cobbled together crap borrowed from other sports songs. The lyrics are inane in the extreme, delivered in a monatone. And even the solos are just common scales you play every day to warm up your fingers.
This reminds me of the song “Live and Let Die.” When McCartney won the Grammy for it, he said he was embarrassed because it only took him 10 minutes to write it. If Leighton spent more than 5 minutes writing this song, he’s a complete no-talent hack. It’s not even a good first draft of a song, let alone a final release.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
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