You know what I’m talking about.
During ‘Sweet Caroline’, everyone shouts, “So good! So good! So good!”
During ‘Mony Mony’: “Hey! Get laid!”
And the one that inverts my bowels and spins my testicles, during ‘Margaritaville’: “Salt! Salt! Salt!”
Are there others?
Is anyone else disturbed by these folks who think they’re so damn witty and original as they engage in this Pavlovian behavior?
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The only one I know about is “Mony Mony:” “Hey motherfucker get laid, get fucked.” I haven’t heard of the others or ANY others for that matter.
You must really hate Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Stay away from Rocky horror Picture Show
Although it’s not really a response, instead just the original lyrics, every time I’ve heard Love Shack everyone shouts along with the line “Tin Roof Rusted”. Perhaps not what you meant, but to me it’s more “fun” than “annoying.”
“American Pie”:
This’ll be the day that I die (at [name of bar])
This’ll be the day that I die (drinking beer with my fucked up friends)
My personal favorite would be “Living Next Door to Alice” (ALICE?! WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE!!)
“Sweet Home Alabama”
At University of Alabama football games and at bars in Tuscaloosa after Sweet Home Alabama in the chorus the crowd responds with Roll Tide Roll!
The Angels, “Am I ever gonna see your face again”.
Audience response 'No way, get fucked, fuck off".
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Hank, why do you drink?
To get drunk!
Why do you roll dope?
To get high!
Why must you live out those songs that you wrote?
To get fucked!
[Family Tradition]
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Here in Ohio, the tradition arose to chant “O-H-I-O” in the breaks between the title phrases of “Hang on Sloopy” (accompanied by forming the letters with one’s arms a la “YMCA”).
The story behind it is that the Ohio State Marching Band started performing this song sometime in the 70s, and fans at their football games somehow took up the cheer. “Hang on Sloopy” is now the official Rock Song of the State of Ohio, partly because of this and partly because The McCoys were from Ohio.
When Nick Swisher (an OSU alum) was acquired from The Yankees by the Cleveland Indians, he played up this tradition a lot, doing the O-H-I-O bit after every home run he hit. And it’s a between-innings scoreboard animation at every Indians home game.
What interests me is how these things get started. In “Sloopy”'s case you can understand it being a crowd thing, but in the case of “Mony Mony” and some of the others, someone had to be the first to do it. I guess it’s like trying to figure out the origin of jokes that travel across the country (and did even in the pre-internet days)…something that can’t be pinned down.
I’ve always heard it as “To get drunk, to get stoned, to get laid”.
Also, Kenny Rogers:
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille…
“You bitch, you whore…”
I’m with the OP. I hate it, especially during Sweet Caroline.
At least they’re not chanting “Get in the hole!”.
Tangential to this thread, but golf courses should employ people specifically to dope-slap anyone who says that shit when it’s physically impossible–say, teeing off on a par 5. Dipshits.
I’ve never heard any of these, except the Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer one. Which means either that I need to get out more, or that it’s a good thing for me that I don’t.
They had been playing “Hang On Sloopy” in the 8th inning for several years before they were duped into hiring that broken-down charlatan. He had nothing to do with it.
I’ve never heard the “Mony Mony” one, but the “Sweet Caroline” and “Margaritaville” versions always bug the shit out of me too. It doesn’t help that I’m not a big fan of either song or artist to begin with, but it just makes me cringe to hear the audience participation in both.
Speaking of baseball…at the Baltimore Orioles games they shout “OH!” during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“Oh! Say does that star-spangled banner…”
Awkward.
“Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother” where the audience screams “so well, so well,so well” in the chorus. “London Homesick Blues” the audience feels they have to sing along with the chorus.
Kind of annoys me, too, especially when the DJ (usually at weddings), drops the music for the response and the crowd, invariably, ends up a half beat or more behind the song when the music returns.