The Experts Say: “’Percolator’ is the perfect song to get the fans (and my hips) moving after I sink a backwards half court shot.” - Benny the Bull, Chicago Bulls mascot The Part You Definitely Know: “ It’s time for the percolator.” When You’ll Hear It: Fan-cam breaks in the action. What It Is: A gnawingly repetitive Chicago house classic, best known for its bubbling synths and overcaffeinated, mantra-like refrain.
CAJMERE, “COFFEE POT (IT’S TIME FOR THE PERCOLATOR)” (1992) On Saturday games, I beat mix it with the Bay City Rollers ‘Saturday Night’ for the older fans.” - Roger Orton, Utah Jazz “Music Guy”ĩ8. The Experts Say: “The beat is simple and easy to clap along to, the lyrics are uplifting and victorious and there’s plenty of ‘Na Na Na Na Na’s to make it fun. The Part You Definitely Know: “Here we go back, this is our moment/ Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over…” When You’ll Hear It: The final minutes before kick off. What It Is: A no-ceilings anthem of achievement and perseverance, with a pounding piano hook and hands-up sing-along chorus. The Part You Definitely Know: “Pump up the jam/ JOCK JAMS!/ Pump up the jam/ JOCK JAMS!“ĩ9. When You’ll Hear It: During the cheerleader routine before the game, maybe - though honestly, the thing is so purely 1997 that you might not hear it a ton outside of retro night these days. What It Is: ESPN’s one-stop medley for all the ’90s-era jock jam classics, stitching together over a dozen of the then-standards - many of which will be appearing later in this countdown - into one continuous jam-pumping-up. They were kind enough to give us their picks for the stadium-anthem GOATs, and explanations for their selections are interspersed throughout our list.Īnd now, let’s sound the horn and get our countdown underway. So to help flesh out our Top 100 and determine the absolute cream of the bumper-music crop, we consulted the experts: Stadium entertainment officials, DJs, and general music men and women of the MLB, NHL, NFL and especially the NBA worlds. Now, a bunch of us here at Billboard are sports junkies, but we didn’t trust our own experiences and recollections in this matter to be anywhere near complete. It’s a Hall of Fame in which AC/DC are The Beatles, 2 Unlimited are Michael Jackson, and The Baha Men… well, they’re still The Baha Men, but forever bronzed at their 2000 peak. These are the songs that helped define sports culture in this country for decades, which may have fallen in and out of favor with music supervisors as hip songs of the moment, but which will forever produce a Pavlovian response of sports-readiness. We tried to stay away from jams that only really made sense for one sport (like John Fogerty’s “Centerfield”) or one city (like Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”), in favor of the classics that could work in the most games in the most places. To celebrate this canon, Billboard presents our list of the 100 greatest jock jams of all time. It’s a canon that spans rock, hip-hop, dance and country, and still includes pop songs as old as the ’50s and as new as last week.
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But defined more broadly for our purposes at Billboard, a Jock Jam is a song that has come to define the in-game experience at a pro sports arena: Any song that, after years of stadium (over-)usage, is as familiar to sports fans’ ears as sneaker squeaks, referee whistles and Zamboni organ groans.
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What is a jock jam? Well, in the ’90s it was whatever ESPN defined it as for the purposes of their series of Jock Jams compilations: Most often, hip-hop-flavored dance-pop bangers which implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) promoted physical movement of any and all kinds.
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