Giants Playlist

by tobias on Mar 6, 2011 2:33 PM PST

My 12-year old son and I are heading out to Phoenix next weekend for a little Spring Training. For the trip I thought it would be fun to put together a Giants playlist for my iTunes/iPod. The playlist would mainly be made up of songs we heard at A.T. & T. last season, plus some random stuff from seasons past, like "Smooth" from the ill-fated 2000 season.

I'd love it if I could drop in a few calls from games, like "Swing and a miss! And that's it!", and Flemming's "Goo-OOO-ne!!", and even the always essential "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!". I don't know if stuff like that can be downloaded on to iTunes though.

Obviously, the playlist will include "Lights" and "I Left My Heart...". I figure I'll add "Song 2" by Blur, that song by Daft Punk, and "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz because they're such an inescapable part of the 2010 Giants soundtrack. I'm also including "Say Hey" (The Willie Mays Song) by the Treniers, because... well, I don't think I even need to explain that one.

But I'd love to hear your ideas. What other songs do you associate with the Giants? I'm mainly looking for songs that were played somewhat regularly over the PA or that relate directly to the Giants. I don't think I want to get too tangential with songs like "One Toke Over the Line" in honor of Timmy, or "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody, in honor of Ross. But, hey, I'm open to suggestions.

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Off the top of my head

“Who let the dogs out” was played excessively one season, not that I’d recommend that for a play list.

“Stomp to my beat” was one of my favorites and was played during Giants highlight montages.

by nofreetime on Mar 6, 2011 2:43 PM PST reply actions

JS16?

Also, is there any walkup music associated with individual players? I don’t think the Giants really do that. The only thing I can think of is “Smoke on the Water” back in the Robb Nen days.

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by tobias on Mar 6, 2011 3:10 PM PST up reply actions

Yup

They did a good job matching the highlights to the beat

by nofreetime on Mar 6, 2011 3:25 PM PST up reply actions

Some good ones

Wilson: “Jump Around”
Cain: “Hillbilly Deluxe”
Lincecum: “Electric Feel”
Torres has a really good spanish song, but I don’t know the name.
Romo: “Fist Pump” by Hardnox. it’s the one he dances to during the fist pump segments

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by varsity shortcut on Mar 6, 2011 3:13 PM PST reply actions

IIRC Zito comes in to "Little Secrets" by Passion Pit

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by Gobroks on Mar 6, 2011 3:48 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

I think for a while he also came in to a radiohead/jay-z mash up (that Jaydiohead album, from back when everyone was mashing up the black album after danger mouse did it).

by apistat on Mar 6, 2011 3:57 PM PST up reply actions

Doesn't he have Idioteque as his warm up song?

Hella.

by Snack on Mar 6, 2011 6:31 PM PST up reply actions

Ah yes, I think so

by Gobroks on Mar 6, 2011 6:53 PM PST up reply actions

Andres Torres – Prummm by Cosculluela
It’s findable cuz I have it on my baseball playlist. Mr. Merope found it somewhere.

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by Merope on Mar 6, 2011 4:14 PM PST up reply actions

- on the fist pump.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 7, 2011 11:07 AM PST up reply actions

Centerfield by John Fogerty

Dancing in September – Earth Wind and Fire (played in the stadium after #162 as the players took their victory lap)

Celebrate – Kool & the Gang

Bye Bye Baby

Talkin’ Basball ….Giants by the Bay – Terry Cashman
I Left my Heart….

Walk up [and other] music is listed here.

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by Merope on Mar 6, 2011 4:12 PM PST reply actions

Thanks Merope

Wow…this is a treasure trove of stuff. I was looking for Giants by the Bay on iTunes, but couldn’t find it. Any idea of where I can get “Giants by the Bay” or “Bye Bye Baby”?

Also, does anyone have an idea of how to download sound bites of game calls?

Thanks again Merope!

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by tobias on Mar 6, 2011 4:56 PM PST up reply actions

You’re welcome.
I think Mr. Merope found Bye Bye Baby on youtube and somehow recorded the audio.
Somebody else here gave us the link to Talkin Baseball. Lemme see what a site search turns up….

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by Merope on Mar 6, 2011 5:01 PM PST up reply actions

I guess Mr. Merope recorded it, downloaded it, did something … with the link here

Note: this webpage automatically just starts playing the song.

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by Merope on Mar 6, 2011 5:06 PM PST up reply actions

Yep... got it

Thanks

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 6, 2011 5:17 PM PST up reply actions

Wow...Just listened for the first time

“Talkin’ baseball, There’s Dunston and McCarty…”

Things were pretty bleak in ’96 that we were immortalizing those guys…

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 6, 2011 7:43 PM PST up reply actions

thanks Merope for the reminder

“September” is one of my all-time favorite songs, and I knew when I heard it they were playing it just for me. I remember it and other 70s-era brass songs from many family trips to SF, so it was pretty exciting to hear that song while watching the Giants freak out.

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by natteringnabob on Mar 8, 2011 5:03 PM PST up reply actions

Regarding that last link

Who the funk is ‘Mark Cain’?

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by hairball on Mar 8, 2011 9:57 AM PST up reply actions

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by natteringnabob on Mar 8, 2011 4:57 PM PST up reply actions

Calls

I’ve got the call on Renteria’s home run on MP3 and used it to lead off my baseball mix this year (Chin Music).

I’ve also got a CD called The Giants Greatest Hits which mixes in various Giants songs with background history and specific calls by KNBR at the time. Stuff like Clark’s single up the middle against Mitch Williams, and Joe Morgan’s home run against the Dodgers. Plus “Panda and the Freak” and another song by The Baseball Project. There’s stuff out there!

by DavidS on Mar 6, 2011 5:07 PM PST reply actions

How did you get Renteria's HR on MP3?

I’d love to have that. Also, “SWING AND A MISS!! AND THAT’S IT!!”

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by tobias on Mar 9, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions

somehow record it off of KNBR? they use that sound bite [swing and a miss] constantly. I’m not complaining mind you… I’m just saying…

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by Merope on Mar 9, 2011 1:46 PM PST up reply actions

I’m sure one of the KNBR podcasts has the clip.

by Natto on Mar 9, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions

Youtube came through

KNBR had all the postgame wraps, but no postgame shows (with highlights). I did find some good in-season and postseason clips on Murph’s “Castoffs, Misfits & Champions” page.

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by tobias on Mar 11, 2011 9:12 AM PST up reply actions

Youtube has a lot of the clips

i downloaded them on 11/2 so MLBAM might have gotten a hold of them since.

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by kezargiants on Mar 9, 2011 4:30 PM PST up reply actions

Yandel looks like Andres Torres, does that count?

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by garbanzo24 on Mar 6, 2011 5:22 PM PST reply actions

The Next Episode by Dr. Dre

Not from this season of course, but I have a lot of great memories watching Bonds swagger to the plate with this song playing, and I can’t help but think of him when I hear it.

This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

by AStreetcarNamedCuddyer on Mar 6, 2011 9:18 PM PST reply actions

With a 12 year old child, have to use the clean version.

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by SFGuy on Mar 7, 2011 11:05 PM PST up reply actions

the boys are back in town

I can’t remember what year but I know it was a Giants marketing slogan and everytime I hear it I think Giants.

by Franchise55 on Mar 6, 2011 10:03 PM PST via mobile reply actions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZ8Qrfj1-0

by Natto on Mar 6, 2011 11:48 PM PST up reply actions

Dynamite

Magic by BOB

That one David Guetta instrumental they used to play after big hits

Don’t stop believing.

requiem for a dream music

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by kezargiants on Mar 6, 2011 11:24 PM PST reply actions

THE WORST BASERUNNING IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME

jcb9 used to host the audio file of that classic Miller call, but my link says it’s gone.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 7, 2011 8:56 AM PST reply actions

Oh man...

I’d love to have that one.

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by tobias on Mar 7, 2011 10:27 AM PST up reply actions

I can only find videos, not mp3s.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 7, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions

an easy way to transfer youtube or other video to mp3

is at http://www.flv2mp3.com/

Enter (cut and paste) the video URL, press “high quality MP3,” and you’ve got it.

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by SituationalLefty on Mar 7, 2011 4:10 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs

I know it’s pretty widely used, but you still might consider Zombie Nation – “Kernkraft 400”.

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by waelwulf on Mar 7, 2011 10:00 AM PST reply actions

Never mind. I think I hate this song.

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by waelwulf on Mar 7, 2011 10:02 AM PST up reply actions

Great suggestions

Thanks for all the ideas and input, everyone. I really appreciate it!

The one thing that’s really bugging me: I can’t figure out how to get “Bye Bye Baby” into MPEG format. The best I can do so far is get it in my files as an AMR file. I played it on my speakers and recorded it to my cell phone. The emailed the file to myself. But can’t figure how to open it as MPEG and play it on iTunes. “Bye Bye Baby” is one song I really want—even if I need to buy it on CD. Any ideas on this?

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 7, 2011 10:18 AM PST reply actions

Here you go

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1107429/SF%20Giants%20Fight%20Song%2C%20Bye%20Bye%20Baby.mp3

by Natto on Mar 7, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions

Awesome

Thanks Natto!

/half-expects to find a Barry Zito music snippet embedded…

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 7, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions

Natto, you’ve posted audio files before very helpfully. Thanks again for this and all of them.

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by natteringnabob on Mar 8, 2011 4:59 PM PST up reply actions

+109

Thanks for that, and for all you bring to MCC.

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 9, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions

I was listening to my Giants playlist on the way home today and another song that’s played at the park is Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”

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by Merope on Mar 7, 2011 12:39 PM PST reply actions

For Home Runs. . .

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by The Enchanter on Mar 7, 2011 3:17 PM PST reply actions

Is that song by Daft Punk “One More Time” or “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” because both of them work.

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by GiantBrass on Mar 7, 2011 3:49 PM PST reply actions

i know they play “One More Time” at the park.

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by Merope on Mar 7, 2011 3:56 PM PST up reply actions

I’d throw in Dreams by Journey, and Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer, after they were played at Game 2 with everyone singing along. Magic.

The pre-game postseason song was ‘Run This Town’ by Jay-Z, but it was a mashup with Posthumus Zone. Awesome song, you can find it on iTunes.

I also just love Phish’s ‘Wilson’, because it’d be an awesome walkup song for Brian Wilson, between crowd chanting and the nonsensical lyrics.

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by BruteSentiment on Mar 7, 2011 4:53 PM PST via mobile reply actions

I meant lights by journey, not dreams.

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by BruteSentiment on Mar 7, 2011 4:54 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

They used the ‘Run This Town’ video package here at Scottsdale for tonight’s televised game. First time I saw it down here.

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by BruteSentiment on Mar 7, 2011 6:10 PM PST up reply actions

They played “Get Up Stand Up” by Bob Marley a lot at the stick during the early 90’s, pretty sure it was during the 7th inning stretch. Also, “Staying Alive” and “Cutie Pie” where Huff and Burrell’s walk up songs last year, that was classic.

by shaolinironlion on Mar 7, 2011 5:03 PM PST reply actions

Back in 2005, sfgiants.com had a “Year in Review” montage edited to “Staring at the Sun” by TV on the Radio.
Since then, that song’s always made me think of Randy Winn going absolutely berserk for several months. Classy.

by sayheybk on Mar 7, 2011 11:53 PM PST reply actions

ooh i wanna play!

Justice – “Genesis” Played in the later innings for Posey ABs; the crowd goes apeshit.
Far East Movement – “Like a G-Man” (DJ E-Rock Giants remix). I don’t even really like the original , but this one is fun.

Hm. While scrolling through my own playlist, it appears I just have a bunch of songs that remind of the Giants that probably wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to anyone else. I won’t list the more embarrassing ones but Smashing Pumpkins “Tonight, Tonight” and Tom Petty “The Waiting” are nice, and kinda make sense sorta?

OK fine one embarrassing one: Janet Jackson – “Nasty” (c’mon! for the bullpen!)

Nate woulda had that.

by MonochromeGarden on Mar 8, 2011 2:27 AM PST reply actions

My embarrassing inclusion...

“Dance Hall Days” by Wang Chung; “…and we don’t listen to that!”

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Mar 9, 2011 2:00 PM PST up reply actions

BYE BYE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by Regulus on Mar 8, 2011 10:07 AM PST reply actions

Yeah you can get calls on your I-Pod

If you wanted, say, Flem’s voice crack on Rent’s HR, find a video of it on Youtube like this.

Once you have that, go to this website (ListentoYoutube.com) and paste the Youtube URL into the box. It will convert the audio from the video into an MP3, which will then be put on your default music player (probably I Tunes). I have used this site many times, and it works fine.