Watching on TV for the first time this season and I can still hear the stuid music in the background during the telecast. There’s so many other games I watched where between plays the band plays, or the crowd dows something interactive with the band, but at Beaver Stadium we play that stupid we will rock you beat or the stupid heart beat. It makes us look cheap and unoriginal.

I was relatively pleased with how it all went yesterday…

-…but We Will Rock You indeed sucks. Can it.

-The stated use for Seven Nation Army is a sustained offenseive drive. You get a big play, you play it, then maybe the next one isn’t so big yet positive, but you still play it. It’s supposed to create a snowball effect. I really like how the Band uses it. As far as Zombie Nation goes, it was used well also. When you wait for the right moment, it really sends everyone into a frenzy.

-Sweet Caroline seemed to not be as big a hit with the band as you would have thought. If the song is loathed by the older crowd and played for the younger crowd, the reaction to it in the student section yesterday was less than rousing (at least where I was). The band played it fully and directly at the south endzone, and for the first time I can remember, came off the field playing “Victory” to the student section rather than the west side. It was obvious who they were catering to. I don’t know whether it’s actual uninterest by the students in the song, or if they don’t know the words (some people yelled “Sweet Caroline! Ba, Ba, Ba” and just trailed off), but no matter what the reason, it was hardly a ringing endorsement for it to be played at every game like it has been lately.

-“Livin’ on a Prayer” is a good song. I don’t think most people care what the words mean, they know what they are and it’s a great sing along. I liked it when they pumped it in, and I like it even better now that it’s being played by the band. No, we’re not “Livin’ on a Prayer”, but we like it, generally, so keep it.

Was also extremely over played yesterday.

this week compared to Syracuse. Maybe because the crowd wasn’t remotely, remotely into the game – therefore maybe I paid attention to the music more. It was pretty quiet in the stands, student section filled up around mid 2Q (although lots of empty seats), chairbacks in the south end zone seemed sparse as well.

However, I’m hoping people were just saving up for the insanity that will be the Iowa game.

…as noted by others, Seven Nation Army is supposed to be played continuously on long drives and will quiet down for the action as appropriate. It’s not used on a play-to-play basis, it’s used for the whole drive. As long as we’re driving, I can’t get enough of it.

(On a related note, I wish they’d start playing Skin I’m In, our other driving song, more – I haven’t heard it for a long time. I swear, back in 2005, whenever they started playing Skin I’m In, the drive always resulted in a TD… There’s just something about that song.)

Zombie Nation is supposed to be used for something truly, truly special. I would go so far as to say that it probably should never be used when we’re playing a team like Temple. That said, if it was going to be used this past game, at least it was used more or less tastefully.

Living on a Prayer and Sweet Caroline should never be played ever. Queen should never be played ever. (And I’m not saying that ‘cause I’m an old guy – I just graduated in December.) And why in the freaking world would you pump in O Fortuna when the Blue Band is perfectly capable of playing it themselves and often does?