NRL Theme song

[carcharias]

It would be the most unoriginal idea on the history of sporting soundtracks.
It has bee floggged to death in just about every sport
that has ever been shown on tv.

Kick start my heart that is.

 

[LazyDreamer]

Cher? Pffft!

The Who - awesome. Even in his 60's Pete Townshend would wipe the floor with most of the crud around nowdays.

The Tina Turner ones were great - but it wasnt just about the songs. The videos were great and sold the sport brilliantly.

That said, some good decent standard metal is the only soundtrack possible. The Trooper (Maiden), Thunderstruck (AC/DC), Bark At The Moon (Ozzy), I Wanna Be Somebody (WASP), We Cant Be Beaten (Tatts), Seek And Destroy (Metallica), Stand Up And Shout (Dio), Hole In The Sky (Sabbath), and even mellowing it down for the sooky majority - Unchained by Van Halen - any of these would be mega.

However, I reckon the best by far - and I challeng someone to come up with music that screams RUGBY LEAGUE more than this:

Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue.

Gallop, it HAS to happen!

Carcharias hit the nail on the head.

As an aside, AC/DC & the Tats are not 'metal' bands. I'd say the same of both Van Halen & the entire 'Bark At the Moon' album.

Of course, you could drag your sorry ass out of the 80s & drive just as many people from the game with some good metal from this century - some Devil Driver, Agonist or Arch Enemy maybe?

But coincidentally, your suggestion of Kickstart was in the ballpark - just bring it forward a couple of decades (and maybe get Mr Sixx to tweak the lyrics...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5G1D9XO_C4

 

[beave]

I'd love Kickstart but the doo gooders and naysayers would be all over the lyrics and meaning of the song and squash it in an instant.

Foo Fighters 'My hero' would probably be my pick....... I think slow mo vision of big hits and try scoring feats during the verses would work well with crowd/fan interaction shots during the chorus.

 

[beave]

And throw in the fact Dave Grohl seems to love Oz and use the Beaconsfield lad who is a Broncos fan (i think???) to call in a 'Fooeys Favor'.................. Get onto it ARLC!!!

 

[BigSteveo]

Further to that, if there's one thing i hate more than bands or artists doing covers of songs that shouldn't be covered, its multiple bands or artists doing shitty covers of said song. Can you imagine how much you're going to hate Simply The Best by the time its been covered 4 times by bands or artists who aren't Tina Turner??

I disagree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_ZJMMAGEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3_sBvcCEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qiEcbu9LtY
(Eye of the tiger/Simply the best)

 

[TheDalek079]

...Celine Dion has also covered simply the best. Maybe we could use her version?

 

[Mader45]

Get some amazing songwriters, give 'em a copy of the Talladega Nights soundtrack and tell them to come up with 1 song that encapsulates all the powerful songs on that album.

Got songs on it like TNT, Cochise, Kickstart My Heart, Click Click Boom, Space Lord etc.

 

[Moffo]

Hit em up by 2pac - you could have the holographic image of him fly out before the game, then we could use him as a holographic ref afterwards for each game. Would save plenty of money

 

[Loudstrat]

Carcharias hit the nail on the head.

As an aside, AC/DC & the Tats are not 'metal' bands. I'd say the same of both Van Halen & the entire 'Bark At the Moon' album.

moot point. By todays standards, no. Pre 80-82, pre Heaven and Hell, Number of the Beast and Screaming For Vengeance, yes. And to most punters today, yes.

Of course, you could drag your sorry ass out of the 80s & drive just as many people from the game with some good metal from this century - some Devil Driver, Agonist or Arch Enemy maybe?

Would prefer Threshold (Light and Space), Arc (Burn the Sun) or even Rise to Power by Dungeon?

I think album and ticket sales suggest that those sorry arsed 80's bands are preferred by people a zillion times more than the bands you suggest. Dont let your jealousy of missing the golden age of music get to you!

Kickstart it is!

Hit em up by 2pac - you could have the holographic image of him fly out before the game, then we could use him as a holographic ref afterwards for each game. Would save plenty of money

Always knew you were a brainless nice person. Besides, wont you be too busy pruning the roses to watch footy like last weekend?

 

[carcharias]

http://www.airbournerock.com/

Check these blokes out.

Aussies
They rock like it is 1983
They could actually know a thing or 2 about the game
and maybe even play at a GF.

Oh
..and they sound great

Everyone is happy

 

[LazyDreamer]

moot point. By todays standards, no. Pre 80-82, pre Heaven and Hell, Number of the Beast and Screaming For Vengeance, yes. And to most punters today, yes.

Would prefer Threshold (Light and Space), Arc (Burn the Sun) or even Rise to Power by Dungeon?

I think album and ticket sales suggest that those sorry arsed 80's bands are preferred by people a zillion times more than the bands you suggest. Dont let your jealousy of missing the golden age of music get to you!

Kickstart it is!



Always knew you were a brainless nice person. Besides, wont you be too busy pruning the roses to watch footy like last weekend?

Wrong assumption there my friend. I owned the first two Maiden albums when Bruce Dickinson was still with Samson. Still have my Music For Nations copy of the WASP 12" 'F**k Like a Beast'. Have the first 4 Metallica albums & Garage Days Re-Revisited on vinyl (they ceased to be Metallica when they brought out the black album imho). Megadeth vinyl...Slayer vinyl (up to 'South of Heaven'). Hell - I have an original pressing of Black Sabbath's debut (as well as other Sabs vinyl, up to Mob Rules). Have a stack of Zeppelin vinyl. Alice Cooper vinyl. Every KISS-with-make-up album (up to Creatures of the Night obviously). The first 5 Motley Crue albums on Vinyl (first pressings from Theater Of Pain). Other stuff like Living Death's 'Protected From Reality', Lizzy Borden's 'Menace to SSociety', Smashed Gladys's sublime 'Social Intercourse'...and a shedfull of other stuff purchased in the 80s.

And man, AC/DC and Rose Tattoo have NEVER been metal, except to the ignorant.

 

[Loudstrat]

Wow, so now you are trying to put your sorry arse INTO the 1980's? I also notice the absence of Motorhead, Saxon, Ted Nugent, Judas Priest, Dio, Purple, Rainbow, Scorpions, Lizzy, Krokus, Aerosmith, UFO, Ozzy and MSG. Plus you sold/gave away/lost the 2 Di'Anno albums - some classic music there.

Sabbath aside, can you name an album that out-metalled Let There Be Rock from the same era?

Bands like Golden Earring, Blue Cheer, Uriah Heep and Blue Oyster Cult were once considered Heavy Metal in their time. The meaning if the name has shifted over time. AC/DC were definitely considered heavy metal at the time, their first tours were with Deep Purple, Kiss and Priest ffs! I even think they opened for Sabbath.

 

[Liam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clf_Ong6gUo
This was awesome when it was the Friday Night Football theme, they should have stuck with it because Children Collide are pretty big in Australia now and wouldn't ask for anywhere near as much as Bon Jovi. Much better song too.

 

[vahoukop]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2icdM9KuHU

 

[Liam]

http://www.airbournerock.com/

Check these blokes out.

Aussies
They rock like it is 1983
They could actually know a thing or 2 about the game
and maybe even play at a GF.

Oh
..and they sound great

Everyone is happy

f**k Airbourne are awesome, last time I saw them was at the Sydney BDO in 2011, the vocalist climbed the scaffolding of the mainstage with no harness to play a solo. I'll find a clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcwj06kj-NU

 

[beave]

Airbournes 'runnin wild' would actually be pretty decent.

 

[carcharias]

Of course airbourne would be perfect!

They mean it.

 

[LazyDreamer]

Wow, so now you are trying to put your sorry arse INTO the 1980's? I also notice the absence of Motorhead, Saxon, Ted Nugent, Judas Priest, Dio, Purple, Rainbow, Scorpions, Lizzy, Krokus, Aerosmith, UFO, Ozzy and MSG. Plus you sold/gave away/lost the 2 Di'Anno albums - some classic music there.

Sabbath aside, can you name an album that out-metalled Let There Be Rock from the same era?

Bands like Golden Earring, Blue Cheer, Uriah Heep and Blue Oyster Cult were once considered Heavy Metal in their time. The meaning if the name has shifted over time. AC/DC were definitely considered heavy metal at the time, their first tours were with Deep Purple, Kiss and Priest ffs! I even think they opened for Sabbath.

Dickwad, my "sorry ass" was shaped by and in the 80s.

Absense of Motorhead, Nuge, Dio, Aerosmith, Purple & Ozzy because I wasn't writing an exhaustive list.

Absense of Rainbow, UFO, MSG & Thin Lizzy because I never really got into them, or they were before my time & unlike Alice, Purple, Led Zep, Sabs, I never got around to going back for them.

Absense of Priest, Saxon & Scorpions because IMHO they sucked arse. I just couldn't get into 'em.

Absense of Krokus because, well, can't believe you included them - they were a f**king joke.

There was also an absense of the likes of Warlock, Anthrax, Girlschool, Mortal Sin, Kreator, Possessed, Flotsam & Jetsam, Malmsteen, Exodus, Loudness, Venom, Gillan, etc, etc etc. So farkin' what?

Sabbath aside, Judas Priest's Sin After Sin out-metalled Let There Be Rock. Doesn't mean LTBR (another I have on vinyl) is not the far better album.

Still have my copies of Maiden's debut & Killers on vinyl (and CD) - never said I didn't have them, dick. 'Running Free' was a staple of a band I used to play in. One record I did in fact lose was my copy of Maiden Japan. Still spewin' about that.

Deep Purple & 70s' KISS were not metal FFS! Metal is more than a distortion pedal - I need to point this out because obviously you don't know it. There were instances in the 80s where Bon f**king Jovi & Poison were called 'metal' - doesn't mean they were. Far out - you ever hear Precious Metal? They had metal in their name! They called themselves 'metal'. Therefore, they must be metal, right? (fyi, the singer was the big-titted chick out of Promises).

But there was no mention either of (just to name a few) J Geils, Blondie, Berlin, Oils, 80s-era U2, Spy Vs Spy, Beatles, Marianne Faithful, Creedence, Gen X/Billy Idol, Springsteen, Public Enemy, Dead Kennedys, Pink Floyd, Violent Femmes, Fleetwood Mac, PWEI, Cure, and a shitload of other up-to-the-eighties non-metal bands I listen to.

Plus, there are decades called the nineties, noughties & whatever we're in now that have a wide range of music - metal and non-metal. You really should get out more.

I love 80s metal, but then I love Indian food too. Doesn't mean it's all I eat. Don't f**king try to school me in music, pal - especially when you're so obviously cemented in the one period & one genre. You're like a world-is-flat dude trying to teach geography.

But anyway, what was your opinion of the Sixx:A.M track?

 

[Loudstrat]

Dont school you in music? Why? You f*cking need it!!!!!!!

Lobbing out of play school and into Metal in the mid 80's means you missed what was considered Metal in the 70's. Obviously, when LTBR was release, there wasnt f*cking Slayer around to comapre them to was it you dope.

Do yourself a favour - hunt down this book - the one that gave a certain band it's name (bonus point for naming the axeman on the cover - extra bonus point if you can tell the original owner of that guitar!)

See the last band on that list?

And before you dismiss Malcolm Dome as some cadet journo hack from NME, his pedigree with Metal Hammer and Kerrang and biographies on AC/DC, Crue, Metallica, EVH et-al would give him cred - no?

Check Wikipedia's pages on the topic - pretty comprehensive. Especially the timeline.

That aside, I have no idea why you waffled on about owning albums by sh*tful bands like the f*cking Cure, but if your intention is to somehow make you look like a music guru with a wide range of styles, pfft. There is nothing in that list that wasnt Australian top 40.

My musical exposure is limited. But I have seen Def Leppard, Motorhead, Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick in pubs. I have seen half of the Beatles. Funnily enough, I had Ozzy Osboure tickets a full decade before he actually toured here! I own an imported Japanese pressing of the last Zeppelin single ever released, owned Malmsteen stuff before he went solo, and have spent countless hours playing my Green Bullfrog album to mates knowing who the band members really were. I even have on vynyl a recording of Howlin Wolf teaching Eric Clapton how to play Little Red Rooster. How many songs do you own featuring Nicko McBrain pre Maiden? Me, I only have one. Ever heard of the Star Fleet Project? 3 songs, all solos. Two guitarists and a keyboard player of great fame. Can you guess who?

When you can cobble together a credible cross section of music that include artists as varied as Muddy Waters, Bengal Tygers, Lee Ritenour, The Dreggs, Eric Johnston, Butterfly Effect, Beethoven, Steely Dan, Steve Morse, SRV, James Brown, DIG, Sabbath, Santana, TSO, Janis Joplin, RATM, Steve Earl, Ray Charles, Rush, Aretha Franklin, Toto and Black Label society - meeting firmly at Dio's first scream in Mob Rules - let me know.

The irony of a f*cking Cure fan giving lessons on metal :lol::lol:

 

[WayneBennett]

Uh it hurts stop it This is not your house by a long shot