My brother Benjamin’s birthday finds me spinning the tunes for another late night session of MCHL Ironclad hockey.
Owing to that “other” reason for celebrating the last day of October, I couldn’t resist having a bit of fun with shamelessly abusing my authority over the music selections outside of the actual games where I take a random path through the league’s preferred playlist.
They get their music when they’re playing the game…I have my fun pretty much the rest of the time. Seems a fair dinkum deal to me… 🙂
With the kids on the ice before the Zamboni appears to resurface the rink before the first game, of course the pre-game set had a very familiar tune at the start…
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
- ”Tubular Bells, Part 1” – Mike Oldfield
- This is the theme to “The Exorcist”, everyone knows the movie but few know the actual song!
- “Once Bitten” – 3 Speed
For the Zamboni between the two games, there was only one real choice available and it had the happy bonus of taking the entire rink resurfacing time:
- Toccata and Fugue in D-minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
The warmup period before that second game featured a couple of tracks from one of my favourite B-grade zombie movies ever…”Night of the Comet” and another track making a bit of a zombie return before the starting puck drop at centre ice:
- ”Trouble” – Skip Adams
- ”Strong Heart” – John Townsend
- ”Tubular Bells, Part 1” (just the intro part to fill the time)
