Bombs Away

by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 5:00 AM CDT

Last night in Billings, Montana the Wolves were ostensibly the home team. Judging by some of the sound effects and music played during the broadcast of the game, I'm pretty sure the Wolves promotion folks were running the audio inside the arena.

While this seems like a trivial thing (and it is), it meant that we finally found out which love-related song would be played for #42.

While I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the B-52s, I'm not so sure I'm ready for a year's worth of Love Shack.

We here at Hoopus were expecting a bit more creativity with this song selection. We'd like to ask you, our readers, what songs you would like to hear when Mr. Love scores a bucket. Put your suggestions in the comments and we'll put up a poll with the best ideas.

Finally, whatever your thoughts on the B-52s may be, I think we can all agree that it was a good thing that Air Supply's Young Love or Huey Lewis' Power of Love did not make an appearance last night.

Looking through my iTunes list, I think this is going to be tougher than it sounds. Most songs with the word "love" in them aren't exactly the type of song you'd want to hear at a basketball game. Maybe Love Shack is as good as it gets.

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I’m guessing this is going to be a pretty hard one. Not exactly much songs with “Love” in the name that aren’t Lovesongs.

Love shack might indeed be as good as it gets. I’ll check my list later on but no promises

by Wim (Belgium) on Oct 9, 2008 9:48 AM CDT 0 recs

How about “Love will tear us apart” by Joy Division. It’s a smidge dark, but hey…it’s a nice sentiment for a post player.

by weak wrists short shot on Oct 9, 2008 10:28 AM CDT 0 recs

Calexico...

…does a nice little version of that song. As does Jose Gonzalez.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 5:49 PM CDT up 0 recs

What about Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love"...

I suppose that’s more of a song for his retirement party.

by wyn on Oct 9, 2008 10:29 AM CDT 0 recs

Nice Roxette reference!

Hot! This site needs more 80s/90s europop references. There must be something by A-ha or Milli Vanilli or someone that the Wolves could play? “Don’t forget my number” could be a good trash-talking song maybe…

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 10:36 AM CDT up 0 recs

By the way

how do these guys look so good after all these years? That crazy red-sleeved shirt thing…that, my friends, is argyle (back with a vengeance if you hadn’t noticed) taken to the most extreme and terrifying limits of its logic. Fantastic! And how about Fred’s hat? Even the drugged-up Miami Vice guy looks kind of good.

In fact I think they all look too good for Love – no offence to him, but for me he dropped some serious style points this summer when, as opposed to Mayo and all the others who are voting Obama, he said he was undecided but would vote for whoever lowered his taxes most. Hey don’t get me wrong, it’s not a left/right thing – all I’m saying is, don’t be a wanker about it!

Frankly I think Air Supply would be a fine choice! Again, I’m not trying to insult Love – on the contrary, I think Air Supply is vastly underrated. Has anyone seen the awesome recent commercial with the 2 vocalists? They’re pitching one of these Time-Life compilations, I think the one they’re doing is rock ballads or some such. Or maybe just love songs, I think the power ballads might be the Kevin guy from REO Speedwagon (“Keep on loving you” anyone?). There have been a whole slew of these lately, Peter Fonda is pitching some Time-Life seventies compilation, in his “easyrider” leather jacket. (I saw this one while watching “Swingtown” this past summer – guilty pleasure – and then started seeing all the other ones.) Anyways not only do I vote for Air Supply, but I think the Wolves should adopt an Air Supply-only policy and play only their music. Maybe they could bring in those 2 guys to sing the anthem every night! They still look good, much younger than their years, and they have those raunchy Aussie accents to boot. (Well OK the blond dude looks better than the short guy, check out their wikipedia entry for the worst moustache ever.) Anyways just my 2 cents. Rock on.

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 10:55 AM CDT 0 recs

c'mon guys this is easy....

Feel like makin’ ……
By Bad Company. Mostly just for the guitar riffs…

by wolfen on Oct 9, 2008 11:00 AM CDT up 0 recs

Holy crap you're right!

Disclosure: the other day I was in The Wedge (local organic supermarket, secretarykissinger shops there too) and they were playing that song! NO JOKE! I was kind of vaguely listening, then the chorus came in:

I feel like makin’ love
I feel like makin’ love
I FEEL LIKE MAKIN’ LOVE!
Feel like makin’ love to you!

I stopped dead in my tracks in the chips section! There was some Wedge dude in his early 20s walking by at that very moment, stocking shelves or something, and I said to him “do you hear what song is playing?” He just smiled a kind of weird smile – looked like he was high actually – without responding! So I said to him “dude this is ‘Feel like makin’ love,’ listen to the chorus! Then he heard it and just kind of laughed, and I said "do you know this song?” and he just kind of smiled again and said “no.” Anyways kudos to the Wedge for playing that on their “sound system” even if the younguns don’t appreciate the significance. By the way doesn’t Bad Company also have a song called “Bad Company”?

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 11:06 AM CDT up 0 recs

benatar.

“love is a battlefield” — pat benatar. did you know her given name is Patricia Mae Andrzejewski? that’s what wikipedia says.

i see lots of thematic possibilities here, since you could of course also find occasion to play “hit me with your best shot,” and “heartbreaker” would really resonate during the nightly postgame trudge out to the parking structure. and all this could be handled with one greatest hits cd.

pliny: did you buy some kind of fake curry tofu dish there? for the record, the wedge is on boycott since 1995. you’re in noncompliance man!

by secretarykissinger on Oct 9, 2008 6:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

quit lying

I saw you just the other day at the juice bar ordering a wheat grass

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 6:51 PM CDT up 0 recs

He's gone back to the tax joke well...

…a few times with comments about write offs and chefs.

Don’t forget about Air Supply’s The Power of Love.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 5:45 PM CDT up 0 recs

All You Need is Love!

Love is all you need.

by gill0137 on Oct 9, 2008 11:58 AM CDT 0 recs

Bad Company

I’m only 24 and even I know they rocked hard. Their “10 from 6” album is one of the greats.

Whattup.

by College Wolf on Oct 9, 2008 1:29 PM CDT 0 recs

a few suggestions...

Love Will Come Through - Travis
Love Like a Bomb - Oasis
Love is Stronger than Death - The The
The Look of Love - ABC
Our Love - Rhett Miller

Also like The Beatles - All You Need is Love, as someone suggested above.

Best regards.

by miami91 on Oct 9, 2008 1:43 PM CDT 0 recs

Love Train!

While I’m not surprised that “Love Shack” was selected since that was the first tune I thought of, I still want to put in a plug for “Love Train” by the O’Jays.

Catchy, upbeat and far superior to “Love Shack” – plus it fits the whole old-school meme that the Wolves have been striving to create for Love as well.

by snyde043 on Oct 9, 2008 1:57 PM CDT 0 recs

Love Train is the one

That’s a great choice. You’re absolutely right that Sweetwater Jones should be all over FSN right now dancing to that song.

Plus it would be good during timeouts in the fourth quarter after KL has thrown a 60-foot outlet pass to Brewer for a dunk and a three-point play. . . Or he’s dished from the high post to AJ for the bunny. . . Or he’s kicked it out to Miller for the dagger. . .

I’m getting excited for the “Love Train”!

by Sterno on Oct 9, 2008 4:42 PM CDT 0 recs

I'm surprised...

…no one has gone with Barry White’s Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Baby.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 5:46 PM CDT 0 recs

Songs

Get Ready For Love – Nick Cave
When Love Comes To Town – U2
Fell In Love With A Girl – The White Stripes
I Feel Love – Donna Summer
Love Rollercoaster – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ain’t Love A Bitch – Rod Stewart
Love Is A Contact Sport – Whitney Houston
Love’s A Deadly Weapon – KISS
Addicted To Love – Robert Palmer
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Forever Love – Color Me Badd
Love Machine – Prince
I Think I’m In Love – Eddie Money
Let Me Put My Love Into You – AC/DC

by McCleak on Oct 9, 2008 6:50 PM CDT 0 recs

As much as I love all these love songs...

…this list is getting pretty long. Therefore, and as much as I love Pat Benatar (even though she comes on like a flame and then turns a cold shoulder), I propose the following. In my humble opinion the most inspired and inspiring suggestion of the day was Wolfen’s “Feel like makin’ love” by Bad Company. I therefore suggest that rather than songs that mention “love,” we limit our selection to songs that mention “makin’ love”! I’ll get the ball rolling with a game of Name That Lyric:

“If you like makin’ love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
You’re the lady I’ve looked for
Write to me and…”

Wyn you’ll like this: I’ve only ever been to Macalester once. As I was leaving, I passed a hall of some sort where there was a party going on, and there was a band in there playing a cover of the song that the above-mentioned lyrics come from! So I guess Mac isn’t all bad. “I’ve got to meet you by tomorrow noon/And cut through all this red tape/At a bar called O’Malley’s/Where we’ll plan our…”

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 7:25 PM CDT 0 recs

oh i know that one

it’s “go see the doctor” by kool moe dee

by secretarykissinger on Oct 9, 2008 7:42 PM CDT up 0 recs

LOLZ!

No it’s Curtis Blow, don’t you know anything?! ;)

Too bad his name’s not Kevin Babe, then we could use Babe by Styx!

by plinytheelder on Oct 9, 2008 7:51 PM CDT up 0 recs

OK, I think I have the winner:

Solomon Burke, Everybody Needs Somebody to Love. Hell, use the Wilson Pickett version.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 7:36 PM CDT 0 recs

Stevie Winwood...

…Higher Love.

There’s a great song on the old Stax label called Love is Taking Over. It’s a little obscure but it has a catchy chorus that the whole crowd could sing. When It’s Love by Van Halen. Who Do You Love is another good one. What’s Love Got to do with it.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 7:43 PM CDT 0 recs

Love TKO

by Teddy Pendergrass.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Oct 9, 2008 7:45 PM CDT 0 recs

McCleak almost had it

Come on guys, this one is obvious,

KISS’s “Doctor Love”

Its got the guitar riff and the break with the drums. "
RIght after he slams it home or hits Brewer on the break away “And they call me DOCTOR LOVE (call me Doctor Love)”

And a little bit obscure, but save it for the fourth quarter when Love sets a hard screen or throws a hard foul when Baron Davis or Steve Nash come into the lane
The Pretenders “Its a thin line between Love and Hate.”

by Andy B on Oct 10, 2008 9:10 AM CDT 0 recs

Maybe I didn't get that right

“They call me…DOCTOR LOVE (backup singer ‘They call him Docor Love’)”

Yeah, I think thats it (been a long time since I listened to Kiss). That would be perfect.

by Andy B on Oct 10, 2008 10:13 AM CDT 0 recs

Holy crap I forgot about Kiss!

They were my first favourite band! However in addition to the excellent “Doctor Love,” two more songs need to be added: first, the excellently titled “Love Gun” (guess what part of his anatomy he’s referring to); second and most importantly, a relatively obscure track from their “Rock and Roll Over” album entitled…wait for it…“Makin’ Love”! If I remember right the chorus went something like this:

Makin’ love
Makin’ love
Makin’ love
Makin’ love
Makin’ love
Makin’ love
All night long!

by plinytheelder on Oct 10, 2008 12:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

If he has a bad moment, do you think they'll have the guts to play....

LOVE STINKS… By J Geils…. Also loving the Dr. Love take. I think it should be a 3 song rotation. Feel like makin’ Love, Dr. Love, and a big LOVE STINKS when he misses a free throw or makes a turnover…

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can’t win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It’s gonna make you cry
I’ve had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

by wolfen on Oct 10, 2008 11:41 AM CDT 0 recs