Songs about sports

[klothos]

Centerfield - John Fogerty

thats about it

I'm sure there's plenty more. I can think of a few about car racing, most of them pretty forgettable... several about running, including a decent one by Manfred Mann's Earth Band... a quite cringe-inducing one about Australian Rules Football...

For what it's worth there was also an Australian band called The Sports, who had a number of hits about things entirely unrelated to sport.

In Post 1, The OP asked "Which ones are my favorites?" in which my response means the Fogerty tune would be about it

[klothos]

That's actually the song I saw on VH-1 Classic last night that made me pose the question. I hate that song, especially that obnoxious drum machine hand clap thing, which seems to be about three times louder than it needs to be in the mix.

Thats because its doing the "Lets Go" handclap cheer that can be heard at least three or four times at almost any baseball game..............The Cars emulated the pattern at the end of the chorus of Let's Go....cute

[GuitarGeek]

Thats because its doing the "Lets Go" handclap cheer that can be heard at least three or four times at almost any baseball game..............The Cars emulated the pattern at the end of the chorus of Let's Go....cute

Ah yes, I see your point. Still, I think he should have actually recorded real handclaps, not used a damn drum machine. Would it have killed him to do, say a dozen overdubs of him doing the handclaps, or ya know, dragged a bunch of friends into the studio and had them do it together (does John Fogerty even have any friends?!).

[Big Ears]

Roy Harper and HQ - When An Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease.

Chas and Dave - Snooker Loopy.

Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril.

[Dave (in MA)]

In Post 1, The OP asked "Which ones are my favorites?" in which my response means the Fogerty tune would be about it

No, you have a bunch of other favorites that you don't know about yet.

[bob_32_116]

Not prog but I enjoy this bit of 80s now and again
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Sorry, but I cannot stay silent. I think Huey Lewis and the News produced some of the most vapid formulaic music pop ever to see the light of day. They almost encapsulate in one band what I disliked about the 1980s.

I'll shut up now.

[Dusty Chalk]

New Order, "World in Motion"

[Paulie]

Going for the One

[bob_32_116]

In Post 1, The OP asked "Which ones are my favorites?" in which my response means the Fogerty tune would be about it

Oh sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant there weren't any more sports-related songs.

[Big Ears]

Howzat by Sherbert - not about the sport, but uses cricket jargon as a metaphor

[Garden Dreamer]

About Muhammed Ali...

[davis]

[GuitarGeek]

Roy Harper and HQ - When An Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease.
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But is that actually about cricket? I always thought "leaving the crease" was a euphemism for mortality or something like that.

[Ten Thumbs]

Say It Ain't So Joe- Murray Head
Pocket Billiards-Stackridge

[Dave (in MA)]

Another Zevon, "Bill Lee".

[bob_32_116]

If chess is a sport - which it is considered to be in some places - there is "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head.

[GuitarGeek]

If chess is a sport - which it is considered to be in some places - there is "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head.

Not just the one song, but the entire musical. I mean, it was called Chess after all.

[PeterG]

Joxer Goes to Stuttgart - Christy Moore
Speedway - Morrissey
Daytona - Chris Rea
Bicycle Race - Queen
The entire Tour de France album by Kraftwerk
The Boxer - S & G
Amelia - Joni Mitchell

[bob_32_116]

PeterG just beat me to it with The Boxer.

Not sure about "Amelia" though - I know who it's about, but is aviation considered a sport?

[gryphs also]

For us old timers that remember Richie Allen:

[Digital_Man]

Not just the one song, but the entire musical. I mean, it was called Chess after all.

In that case Yes has at least one song about chess or at least where it's mentioned. One is the "your move" section from "I've seen all good people." I thought there was another one too but I'm drawing a blank trying to remember which one.

[GuitarGeek]

In that case Yes has at least one song about chess or at least where it's mentioned. One is the "your move" section from "I've seen all good people." I thought there was another one too but I'm drawing a blank trying to remember which one.

Well, I'm not the one who suggested that chess is a sport.

And wasn't Kraftwerk's Tour De France just a single?

[bob_32_116]

In that case Yes has at least one song about chess or at least where it's mentioned. One is the "your move" section from "I've seen all good people." I thought there was another one too but I'm drawing a blank trying to remember which one.

Probably "Going For the One", which mentions sport. Possibly the song title is a metaphor for trying to win at something.

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Not exactly sport, but on the subject of training at a gym to keep fit: "Too Hot" by the Kinks.

[PeterG]

PeterG just beat me to it with The Boxer.

Not sure about "Amelia" though - I know who it's about, but is aviation considered a sport?

Yes, I think it is, especially when it is being done to break records or to race.

[PeterG]

And wasn't Kraftwerk's Tour De France just a single?

So, are you suggesting I don't know what I'm talking about? Or that the Tour de France vinyl album on my shelf doesn't exist?

Anyway, well worth listening to. Highly recommended.