Post-game Mix-tapes 2009

Almost as bizarre as the team-building exercise with facial hair, the Cardinals post-game interviews of 2009 were marked by truly strange choices of music. On July 27, 2009, at the cusp of the strangest, wildest summer of stunning trades, kismet chemistry, creative high-fives, and of course, breath-taking baseball – we were introduced to the soundtrack of victory.

Victory in 2009 was awfully cheesy.

FSM-watching VEB could not figure out if the team had brought a CD or a loaded iPod on the road. It was so corny and dated that we figured it might've been a cassette tape, perhaps from someone's prom after-party. We did not know who was responsible, or why it was allowed to continue. Sometimes it was a local radio station; at least once it was confirmed as a volume from a dance mix. Reporters from the clubhouse confirmed some of the music via Twitter, so we knew we weren't imagining it. From that day on, a dedicated team of volunteers (thank you, fellas and ladies! particularly Ghostrider520, andi_k, and The Continental) compiled the songs, trying to find some sort of a pattern.

Yes, that was Tony shaking his head at the Ghostbusters theme.

Yes, those were Top Ten 80s tunes that you probably last heard through a haze of drunken karaoke.

Yes: through the laughter and giggling in at least two languages, through the high-pitched voices of players' kids, they turned up the volume.

 

Except when Carpenter gave an interview. That's when it was turned way, way down.

So – as the year draws to a close – in lieu of my actually getting enough time to cover the second-half in poetry form, here is our incomplete record of the music of the 2009 Cardinals team, during their Summer of Stache. Oh, Man Stew... we can't take you anywhere, can we.

July 27 – Sussudio (Phil Collins), Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
July 28 – ?
July 29-30 – (Olivia Newton-John)
July 31 – ?
Aug 1 – Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Aug 2 – (loss)
Aug 4 – ?
Aug 5 – (loss)
Aug 7 – ?
Aug 8 – Hip to Be Square (Huey Lewis and The News)
Aug 9 – ?
Aug 10 – Every Breath You Take (The Police), That’s What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick), Venus (Bananarama)
Aug 11 – (loss)
Aug 12 – ?, Sound of Madness (Shinedown) [guess: The Point]
Aug 14 – If You Leave (OMD), Faith (George Michael), (Eagles)
Aug 15 – Cruisin’ duet (Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis) – confirmed as Delilah Show
Aug 16 – (rainy getaway game)
Aug 17 – (silence in L.A.)
Aug 18 – (loss)
Aug 19 – (silence in L.A.)
Aug 20 – Ghostbusters theme, (no idea … something funky)
Aug 21 – (loss)
Aug 22 – ?
Aug 23 – ?
Aug 25 – (something rap), (Lil Wayne)
Aug 26 – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar), Broken Wings (Mister Mister), Funky Town (Lipps Inc)
Aug 27 – (loss)
Aug 28 – Say (John Mayer), While You See a Chance (Steve Winwood)
Aug 29 – Let My Love Open the Door (Pete Townshend), Tenderness (General Public), Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
Aug 30 – ?
Sept 1 – Silent Morning (Noel), You Were the One (Deniz) (andi_k says it’s Shut Up & Dance, Vol. 1: Best of Freestyle)
Sept 2 - Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)?, I Wish (Skee-Lo), Guns and Cigarettes (Atmosphere), Hit That (The Offspring)
Sept 3 - (loss)
Sept 4 - (something w/ pounding bass)
Sept 5 - (moar bass - too far away)
Sept 6 - (loss)
Sept 7 - (at least two songs, with someone singing along)
Sept 8 - (acoustics still terrible)
Sept 9 - female vocalist, booming bass line ... possibly Get Your Freak On (Missy Elliott)
Sept 11 - (loss)
Sept 12 - (loss)
Sept 13 - (loss)
Sept 14 - Who Can It Be Now (Men At Work), Whip It (Devo), Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Sept 15 - (loss)
Sept 16 - (loss)
Sept 18 - 867-5309 Jenny (Tommy Tutone), possibly: Paradise City (Guns n' Roses), Safety Dance (Men Without Hats), something (U2)
Sept 19 - f'in Fox doesn't have a postgame after the awesomely violent Boog walk-off
Sept 20 - (loss)
Sept 21 - They watched Monday Night Football. But we also heard a squeaky... dog toy?
Sept 22 - bluesy folk in Spanish w/ instrumentals, Fashion Nugget (Cake), possibly Blackened (Metallica)
Sept 23 - (loss)
Sept 25 - (loss)
Sept 26 - clenched! only confirmed Ghostbusters theme... with a circle dance
Sept 27 - (loss)
Sept 29 - (loss)
Sept 30 - (loss)
Oct 1 - Country Boy Can Survive (Hank Williams, Jr)

 

(I'll come back and edit this for accuracy.)