Updated Jock Jams For Modern Tailgating
By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Aug 30, 2012 7:00PM
We're told college football kicks off tonight, and last week a reader, Will K, requested that we compile a modern day list of tailgating music to help update his playlist. While not everyone on the Chicagoist staff is a sports fan, we are all music fans so we decided to take the gauntlet thrown our way and run all over the musical gridiron with it.
The rules were fairly simple; we wanted songs most people wouldn't expect to hear in a pre-game parking lot and we wanted to try and focus on the side of musical discovery. Primarily, though, it had to be something that would pump you up before the game, and there's quite a wide range of what people consider pump up-able. Other considerations were that it be relatively new (even though a few of these tunes are 2+ decades old we tried to keep selections from 1980 onward) and songs that have actually appeared on a Jock Jam compilation were immediately disqualified. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that a selection from AC/DC was still viable!
Below is our humble playlist of suggested Jock Jams for a new(er) generation. Feel free to snag the playlist and listen to at your leisure, and of course we'd love to see your additional suggestions in the comments below. We'll add the best ones to the playlist and credit you on our tracklisting!
Let there be rock in the parking lot!
And the breakdown of selections by staff member is as follows:
Andrew WK "Party Til You Puke"
The Darkness "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us"
Blur "M.O.R."
Oasis "Acquiesce"
I Was A King "Norman Bliek"
The Cribs "Chi-Town"
Foo Fighters "Monkey Wrench"
Kanye West "Monster"
My Chemical Romance "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)"
The Format "The First Single"
- Tankboy
Javelin "Lindsay Brohan"
-Rob Christopher
AC/DC "Thunderstruck"
- Lorna Juett
Slayer "Raining Blood"
- Aaron Cynic
LCD Soundsystem "Drunk Girls"
Beastie Boys "Sabatoge"
M.I.A. "Paper Planes"
Daft Punk "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
- Michelle Meywes
Jay-Z "Public Service Announcement"
- Jake Guidry
Chemical Brothers "Block Rockin Beats"
Kid Rock "Bawitdaba"
- Prescott Carlson
Soundgarden's "Head Injury"
- Alex Hough
DJ Khaled "All I Do is Win"
- Rob Winn
Iron Maiden "Run To The Hills"
- Chuck Sudo
Free Energy "Free Energy"
Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation"
Robyn "Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do"
Ting Tings "That's Not My Name"
Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
Butch Walker "Hot Girls In Good Moods"
Jamiroquai "Canned Heat"
John Williams "The Imperial March"
- Samantha Abernethy