the of mirror eye

* Prince Paul: Booty Clap (6.0 mb)
From Psychoanalysis: What Is It?! : Tommy Boy Records

* Zoffy: Smoke On The Water (6.5 mb)
From Thou Shalt Not Mess With ZOFFY!! : Acid Mothers Temple : AMTCD-011

* The Gories: Nitroglycerine (5.5 mb)
From I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’ : Crypt Records

* Boris: Ibitsu (4.0 mb)
From Akuma No Uta : Southern Lord

So, my friends were in town the other day and we had a smashing time. We ate great food, walked the city, and ate more great food. We also went to a White Sox game. Now, for those who don’t know me, I’m not a big follower of sports. I don’t really watch them on TV and I don’t read about them. In fact, I’ve never even been to a baseball game before. So this was actually pretty exciting for me (which was made even more exciting by free tickets a dozen rows above the ChiSox dugout) and I found myself actually enjoying the game. Of course the beer and the fries and the bratwurst and the funnel cake certainly helped out. But what does this have to do with music? Well, I was thinking, now what if I was a pro baseballer? What song would I have them play when I walked out to bat?

It’s actually kind of tough picking songs, because you’ve gotta find songs that have great couple second snipets that you can use. But, I found a couple of songs that I thought would be pretty kick-ass/amusing to play.

First up we’ve got Prince Paul (ex-producer for De La Soul) with this Miami Bass inspired song from his twisted debut album. I just think it’d be awesome to have the whole crowd doing the booty clap.

Next, we’ve got Acid Mothers Temple side-project, Zoffy and their, um, completely out of tune, Smoke On The Water. I think it’d be pretty cool to hear those first ten seconds of the song blasted everytime I walked out on the field. People would definitely be confused.

And then we’ve got the Gories with their fantabulous tune, Nitroglycerine. I love the “Fire in the hole!” at the very beginning of the track, followed by some Link Wray inspired power cords. Genius.

And last but not least, we’ve got the Japanese power trio, Boris. Could you imagine hearing those first fifteen seconds of the song everytime you walked out on the field? I think that would even pump up the dead.

So, there we have it, my leftfield choices for “walking onto the field” songs. I purposefully avoided the classic rock genre because it’s so prevelant, but could definitely think of a couple more songs. Most notably, songs by T. Rex or David Bowie.

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