Top 5 Songs about Sport
Songs that will inspire you, express your anger, or just make you were wish you were capable of some greater athletic feat than climbing the stairs to your lecture without collapsing…
1. Saw Doctors – Broke My Heart – a little known song which really should be the amateur football anthem. The raw intensity of the sport and the need to win summed up. Not to mention the key fact that a team, sadly, is made up of individuals, that all too often do not see eye to eye. Football vernacular and the comparison of heartbreak to losing a match. Standard. Key lyric: “Will you open your eyes! For Christ’ sake pass me the ball!!!!”
2. The Lightening Seeds – Three Lions – standard sporting song. An example of all the pride and jingoism that runs alongside sport. A huge amount of expectation and emotion that will ultimately end in disappointment. But perhaps that is part of the fun. Winning is over-rated. All the same, remain positive. Key lyric: “30 years of hurt never stopped me dreaming.”
3. Belle and Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher – the sensitive, thinking person’s sports song. Shows that sport psychology goes beyond winning and losing. Definitely not a pre-game song. A melancholy tune about belonging and passion; the passing of success and life outside the field. Key Lyric: “He knows the drink affects his speed, he’s praying for a doorway back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench. Life outside the diamond is a wrench.”
4. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger – The guitar power-chords at the start say it all. Punch. Punch. Punch. You hear it and you almost imagine yourself in the ring. You could be Sylvester Stallone throwing the punches…sprinting along West Sands…Key Lyric: “It’s the cream of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival”
5. Cream – Anyone for Tennis – Sport with a social message. Surreal and occasionally disturbing lyrics (“the ice creams are all melting on the streets of bloody beer”?!?) but the offer of a game of tennis to round it off. You may be a hypocrite living in a corrupt society, a guru who drives a Bentley, but a jolly game of tennis offers a simple, alternative to forget all the difficulties. Sport as anaesthetic. Key Lyrics: “Anyone for tennis, wouldn’t that be nice?”
Songs that will inspire you, express your anger, or just make you were wish you were capable of some greater athletic feat than climbing the stairs to your lecture without collapsing…
1. Saw Doctors – Broke My Heart – a little known song which really should be the amateur football anthem. The raw intensity of the sport and the need to win summed up. Not to mention the key fact that a team, sadly, is made up of individuals, that all too often do not see eye to eye. Football vernacular and the comparison of heartbreak to losing a match. Standard. Key lyric: “Will you open your eyes! For Christ’ sake pass me the ball!!!!”
2. The Lightening Seeds – Three Lions – standard sporting song. An example of all the pride and jingoism that runs alongside sport. A huge amount of expectation and emotion that will ultimately end in disappointment. But perhaps that is part of the fun. Winning is over-rated. All the same, remain positive. Key lyric: “30 years of hurt never stopped me dreaming.”
3. Belle and Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher – the sensitive, thinking person’s sports song. Shows that sport psychology goes beyond winning and losing. Definitely not a pre-game song. A melancholy tune about belonging and passion; the passing of success and life outside the field. Key Lyric: “He knows the drink affects his speed, he’s praying for a doorway back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench. Life outside the diamond is a wrench.”
4. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger – The guitar power-chords at the start say it all. Punch. Punch. Punch. You hear it and you almost imagine yourself in the ring. You could be Sylvester Stallone throwing the punches…sprinting along West Sands…Key Lyric: “It’s the cream of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival”
5. Cream – Anyone for Tennis – Sport with a social message. Surreal and occasionally disturbing lyrics (“the ice creams are all melting on the streets of bloody beer”?!?) but the offer of a game of tennis to round it off. You may be a hypocrite living in a corrupt society, a guru who drives a Bentley, but a jolly game of tennis offers a simple, alternative to forget all the difficulties. Sport as anaesthetic. Key Lyrics: “Anyone for tennis, wouldn’t that be nice?”