1. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
"Dig me out, dig me in / Outta this mess, baby, outta my head" is an apt description of how much of the summer, and the past three years, has gone. We're hoping and pleading for better things, but it's not in our hands.
2. Tegan and Sara - The Con
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this
I broke down and wrote you back
Before you had a chance to
Forget forgotten
I am moving past this giving notice
The allegations leveled against the Michigan football program were true - practices ran long by an average of 15 minutes, which rises to the level of a major violation. More embarrassing was the record-keeping fiasco and the grad assistant who lied to NCAA investigators, not to mention the miserable battle with the Freep. Now is the time to start putting the past in the past.
3. The Thermals - I Let It Go
There's been a point in 3, maybe 4 of the last 5 seasons where I've had to pull back from how much I put into the Michigan football team, how much I live and die with wins and losses. Losses have traditionally been such a painful thing for this team, and learning how to want them to win so badly without getting too crushed by a defeat has been a difficult process. But that's just it: Wins are so precious and so sweet, and we need to celebrate them that way. Let go of unrealistic expectations and media hype and watch Denard find his passing game or an unheralded Carvin Johnson grab a starting spot as a true freshman. There's joy to be found in that.
4. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
Such a great song. And I can never wait for the season to start. We're just a few days away.
5. Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
Everyone involved in this team is doing their damnedest to get to that promised land. The coaching staff's jobs probably depend on making a bowl game, and any kid that's stuck it out is playing for more than just his own pride.
6. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Mike Martin wrecking fools. Tay Odoms blocking some dude who's got 50 pounds on him. Tate Forcier juking a Notre Dame safety out of his jock and taking it to the house. Denard dropping the snap, picking it up, and scoring a ridiculous 40+ yard TD on his first touch as a college player. Goosebumps.
7. Stars - Take Me To The Riot
I've only watched one Michigan home game on TV since I became a student -- I had enough time to watch the first half of EMU last year before my cousin's wedding, and I just wanted to be there, to here the crash of the helmets and the thud of a good hit.
8. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
It feels like this team can never get moving in the right direction, whether it's a great non-conference followed by a disastrous Big Ten season, or an offseason of progress derailed by a key injury, or any of the countless PR contrivoversies. But we're doing our best to make a clean break with all of that, to do the difficult thing and to trust in the future.
9. The Gaslight Anthem - Meet Me By The River's Edge
NO RETREAT, NO REGRETS.
10. Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money
Barwis will handle THE GUN SHOW, Bill Martin already sent the lawyers in, and David Brandon can take care of the money. But man, it's a deep pile we're standing in.
11. The Pixies - UMass
Such an obvious choice. So unlikely that the MMB does a Pixies tribute. What a waste. (NSWF language)
I love the bass line in this song
13. Gnarls Barkley - Going On
The Puma campaign that used this song as the soundtrack for their World Cup spot was pretty good, but I like the original video better. And my fundamental belief is that Rodriguez didn't forget how to coach and will eventually successful again. I hope it's at Michigan.
14. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
I would like that "swarm of bees" to be half a dozen Michigan helmets and the "I" to be "Terrell Pryor's spleen"
15. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation
The media story on Rich Rodriguez hasn't varied from the same basic template ever since he decided to leave West Virginia - He turned his back on his home, he's engaged in various shady activities, he's no MICHIGAN MAN. Rodriguez can't do a lot to change opinions on this. He can only coach football. So suit up and get to work.
16. Drive-By Truckers - Never Gonna Change
The DBT's are Alabaman to the core, so no use transplanting this to Michigan, but you want your football team to hit like a truck and run twice as fast, and there's a lot of that toughness in this song.
17. Silversun Pickups - Future Foe Scenarios
The Big Ten has now released their 2011 and 2012 schedules. Now you just have to find a way to beat them.
18. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI
Sometimes it really does feel like "Michigan Football" died when Bo did. I know this is ridiculous, and there have been some bright spots, but sometimes you feel like you're watching a different school, one that just can't get it right, but one that has the potential to put it all together.
19. Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment
Sometimes the urge to compare the way things are versus the way they were is overwhelming.
20. Josh Ritter - Empty Hearts
Don't let this team go out without a bowl game to reward them for the last few years of disappointment. Get them over the hump and back in the postseason. A win over OSU is probably too much to ask for, but a man can dream...
I looked my fear in the eyes!
Looked at the water below!
I knew I could love or live!
I let it go!
It's sixteen miles
To the promised land
And I promise you, I'm doing the best I can
Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed boys that had been away
One foot in and one foot back
But it don't pay to live like that
So I cut the ties and I jumped the tracks
For never to return
See I've been here for 28 years.
Pounding sweat beneath these wheels.
We tattooed lines beneath our skin.
No surrender, my Bobby Jean.
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
It's educational!
And you can stand right there if you want
But I’m going on
And I’m prepared to go it alone
I’m going on
I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees
An' everyone can say
What they want to say
It never gets better anyway
So why should I care
'Bout a bad reputation anyway
Mean and strong like liquor.
Mean and strong like fear.
Strong like the people from South Alabama and mean like the people from here.
Someone tell me why I do the things
That I don't wanna do
When you're around me I'm somebody else
Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart
With an empty heart
Don't let me into this year with an empty heart
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