Everyone Write In The Curly Shuffle!

[seawolf17]

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/fan_forum/singalong_vote_form.jsp

]What Sing-A-Long Song Should the Mets Play During the Eighth Inning in the Final Season At Shea? Fans, select your favorite from the songs listed below. Your votes will help determine what Sing-A-Long gets played during the 8th Inning during the final historic year at Shea. Fan voting is now open and concludes at Noon on Monday, April 7. Select a song from the list below, or select "Other" to write-in your own suggestion. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts I'm A Believer - The Monkees Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett I Love Rock N' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi Movin' Out - Billy Joel Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond Waitin' On A Sunny Day - Bruce Springsteen Other

The people's voices must be heard!

[Guest AG/DC]

Is that a binding poll?

[soupcan]

Curly Shuffle's not really a sing-a-long though

I kinda like 'Build Me Up Buttercup' for that.


Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison - Gay.
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts - Very gay.
I'm A Believer - The Monkees - Eh. Not slow enough for this purpose.
Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett - No idea.
I Love Rock N' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Doesn't have enough cross-generational appeal
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi - God no.
Movin' Out - Billy Joel - Please, no.
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond - My problem with this is that its a Red Sox tradition.
Waitin' On A Sunny Day - Bruce Springsteen - Um, no.

[soupcan]

Why do they need my name, email address and birth date in order for me to vote?

This is bullshit - just another way for them to make money. It never stops. Amazing.

[Guest AG/DC]

="soupcan"]Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett - No idea.

Nah. I'm sure you know this. It's just that most people think of it as:

"Naaa, na-na-na-naaaaa. Na-na-na-naaa, na-na-naaa, naa, na. Na-na-na-naaaa!"

[seawolf17]

http://www.metsblog.com/2008/03/31/vote-meet-the-mets-for-new-sing-a-long/

Metsblog says you should write in "Meet The Mets"... and considering they can't use the song next year anyway because of the "Shea" line, I think that'd be a grand plan too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The 1984 version of Meet the Mets mentions Shea by name, but the original version (the REAL version) doesn't.

[soupcan]

And the '84 version blows chunks anyway.

[Gwreck]

I think we need to remember the greater good when voting.

Write-in choices are nice, but what if there are too many, splitting the vote, and Sweet Caroline winds up winning?

[Theoldmole]

If we got other Met blogs and fan sites behind the Curly Shuffle...?

[Guest themetfairy]

Build Me Up Buttercup has always been one of my favorites. It's even my ringtone.

[soupcan]

And EVERYBODY knows the words - it's perfect

Is there a team that already uses it?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think I'd vote for "Buttercup" too.

The Curley Shuffle belongs in the dustbin of history.

[Fman99]

I like "In-a-godda-davida" as a write-in candidate. There you go.

[Guest AG/DC]

soupcan wrote: And EVERYBODY knows the words - it's perfect.

If you want every game to be like your lame cousin's wedding, I guess.

[soupcan]

Well - they are looking for a 'sing-a-long'.

[Guest AG/DC]

Folks don't sing in public to anything in the United States (at least nothing in English), and that's a fact. "Sweet Caroline" is a process of standing around, hooting and hollering, and waving at cameras, until they get their chance to go "Duh, duh, duh!" and "So good! So good! So good!" which isn't even in the song. That ain't singing.

"Bulid Me Up, Buttercup" would be a process of standing around, hooting and hollering, and waving at cameras, until they get their chance to echo "Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh!" as the DJ turns down the song for three seconds to cue them. That ain't singing either.

Going "HEY!" during "Rock and Roll, Part II" also isn't singing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, it's not supposed to be music appreciation class. It's supposed to be fun.

And if chanting "Oooh!" or "HEY!" entertains the crowd, then that's what they were going for.

[soupcan]

AG/DC wrote: Folks don't sing public to anything in the United States

I do.

Honed my singing in public in college on Thursday $1 Import Nights at Maggies on Marshall Street, singing into Molson bottles.

'Mony Mony' would be a good sing-a-long except 'Ride the pony' can be (and was) easily substituted with 'fucking bullshit!' and at the breaks singing 'Get laid! Get fucked!' really slides in there nicely.

[Guest AG/DC]

Then sing a better song for Pete's sake. Teach it to them.

And who doesn't know the words, more or less, to "Meet the Mets"?

Japanese fans know how to sing out:

[stevejrogers]

They should easily replace the awful "Everybody clap yo hands!" thing and even the classic shot from Network with the Curly Shuffle.

[stevejrogers]

soupcan wrote: And the '84 version blows chunks anyway.

Hence why it's been removed from inside the ballpark, but for reasons known only to them, the PA system outside Shea still plays this.

The instrumental intro is still used to close out the Mets Extra postgame show on WFAN radio as well, but for all intents and purposes the original has been back in use for quite sometime now.

[metirish]

The eighth inning could get Rickrolled...

Rickrolled all year long


Are you all familiar with what Rickroll is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Serves 'em right.

[Guest AG/DC]

Brilliant.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

AG/DC - - "Japanese fans know how to sing out..."

If you can't get American crowds to sing in English, you'll never get them to sing in Japanese.

[Fman99]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Serves 'em right.

I love it.

[bmfc1]

metirish wrote: The eighth inning could get Rickrolled... Rickrolled all year long Are you all familiar with what Rickroll is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

My 14 year old son told me that "Rickroll" is an internet meme [fad] that's been around for a year. He said that since more than 8,000 people "Digg'd" it, the song should win.

I'm not sure if I understand why this song was the object of the fad. It's a good song. The video is silly (the Pop-Up facts version is good) but there are far worse songs and certainly far worse videos.

[Frayed Knot]

Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit that was ghastly.
He said I’m never gonna give you up or let you down.
Well I’m here to tell ya that Dick’s a clown
-- Nick Lowe

[HahnSolo]

Wow. What did Rick ever do to Nick?