Pennington: 50/50 split on needing to dump Rocky Top

Should UT stop using "Rocky Top"?

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#152
#152
They do play it too frequently, in my opinion. The entire Pride of the Southland playlist needs freshened up.
 
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#153
#153
I'm to lazy to do it,but somebody ought to send this to Mr SEC ,hmmm maybe all of us ? :)


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that should get you there,i think i will shoot him a mail and a link to the poll :)

Go Vols
 
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#154
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Volosaurus rex said:
Vercingetorix, we are talking about two fundamentally different contexts. "Rocky Top" was not written as a fight song. Indeed, there are no references even remotely suggestive of athletic competition within its lyrics. It is, instead, a folk song that has essentially usurped the position of "Down the Field" and is a marker trait associated with east Tennessee and the University of Tennessee, not to mention one of Tennessee's eight official state songs. I made no reference to the broader social context of Rocky Top's popularity but was referring strictly to the more narrowly circumscribed parameters of college fight songs.
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I am using the word "recognizable" in the context of what the word means. "Rocky Top" is a far more widely known song than "Victory March" or "Hail to the Victors" or any of the other traditional powers' oom-pah fight songs. I'm unsure why you think it somehow doesn't count because it began life as a bluegrass song 40 years ago instead of a drinking song in New Haven, Connecticut 90 years ago.

If your average American walks by a TV with a football game on it and hears the Notre Dame fight song, he is likely to think, "That sounds like a famous college football fight song." If he hears a marching band playing "Rocky Top," he's likely to be able to name the song, sing some of the chorus, and hazard a pretty good guess as to one of the teams that are playing.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I am using the word "recognizable" in the context of what the word means. "Rocky Top" is a far more widely known song than "Victory March" or "Hail to the Victors" or any of the other traditional powers' oom-pah fight songs. I'm unsure why you think it somehow doesn't count because it began life as a bluegrass song 40 years ago instead of a drinking song in New Haven, Connecticut 90 years ago.

If your average American walks by a TV with a football game on it and hears the Notre Dame fight song, he is likely to think, "That sounds like a famous college football fight song." If he hears a marching band playing "Rocky Top," he's likely to be able to name the song, sing some of the chorus, and hazard a pretty good guess as to one of the teams that are playing.
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People in California know Rocky Top is the UT fight song.
 
#156
#156
Just saw the poll pop up and voted. Proof positive that Pennington is looking for ratings or lost in his own self importance. Woooooo.
 
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#162
#162
"Down the Field" and "Fight Vols Fight" do a lot more for me emotionally than "Rocky Top."
Youtube those two and tell me that isn't more of real Tennessee football history than a mediocre bluegrass song by the Osborne Brothers. Of course I'm old school.
 
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#164
#164
Pennington needs to have intercourse with a chainsaw. Rocky Top stays.

And I wanna know who the four mouthbreathing jackwagons are that voted that it should go.
 
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#168
#168
Velo Vol said:
They do play it too frequently, in my opinion. The entire Pride of the Southland playlist needs freshened up.
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Now I agree with this point. If it is anything that makes us seem like a "hillbilly" school, it is the POS music selection that seems to be pulled out of a 1985 time capsule.
 
#169
#169
The fact that Rocky Top is irritating to opposing teams is reason enough to keep it!

However, the "WOOO" is just wrong, I hate it, please make it go away! JMO


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#170
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Volosaurus rex said:
"Rocky Top" has a very catchy melody but its lyrics DO reinforce every stereotype of Southern Appalachia known to man. I am a traditionalist to the core and I remember when "Rocky Top" did not exist as a song. I have no opposition to the playing of "Rocky Top" but it is not the official fight song of the University of Tennessee; "Down the Field" (Tennessee Fight Song- Down the Field (With Lyrics) - YouTube) still holds that distinction. "Down the Field" has the feel of a traditional college fight song and I wish that it was played more prominently than "Rocky Top."
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We are the only Div 1 school who uses Rocky Top, it is unique. Conversely, we "borrowed" Down the Field from Yale and are one of several schools who use it.
 
#171
#171
VolStrom said:
Pennington is a transplant from Ohio. If you've ever met anyone from Ohio, they think they're the smartest people on earth.

Nuff said.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Ohio is also the home of Cleveland... The Shi****iest place I've ever been in my travels around this country!
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Ohio pretty much elects our prez every four years. Nuff said.
 
#174
#174
I don't understand what's wrong with being a hillbilly. I embrace my heritage and my country accent. I find it humorous that people instantly think they are better and smarter than me when they hear me speak. Especially down here in FL where all you have are transplants from the north. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not ashamed to say that whenever I hear Rocky Top, I get a tear in my eye. It epitomizes my culture, upbringing and true country nature. We should be proud of who we are and where we are from because Rocky Top will always be home sweet home to me.
 
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#175
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WallyBalls said:
It "makes us look like dumb, inbred hillbillies." UT should dump it and play "a fast version of the Tennessee Waltz."
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How does it make us look like hillbillies? We don't like smog, government agents messing with our whiskey, or claustrophobic urban accommodations. That's not "hillbilly," that's AMERICAN!
 
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