UBERMEGAPumped Soundtrack

So everyone got MEGApumped this morning, but now it’s closing in on time for the playoff games to start… which means it’s time to get UBERMEGApumped. I’ve been in a quandry on just how to go about doing that. I had a Soundtrack to the Championship playlist last season, chock full of songs I used to get myself hyped throughout the 2007 playoffs. But this is 2008. 2007’s playlist won’t work.

So I put out the call to two sports-crazed women, who also happen to have a knack for putting together a killer song mix. I asked them to compile a Playoff Playlist – songs to kick ass and take names to in 2008. And sweet Jesus did they ever come through. So below are their specially mixed playlists from the East coast (Janie down in the dirty South, Tampa) and West coast (Holly over in the sunshine of Los Angeles).

Problem solved! Kick back, crank up these playlists, and get ready to be UBERMEGApumped for the Halos.

Holly’s I Hope You Massholes Like Electronica Mix

Holly is a certified college football aficionado (you can find her work EDSBS and Yahoo and also general hilarity at her place), but she’s been dipping her toes into the beautiful waters of baseball fandom. Her baseball team is the Red Sox, but her NFL loyalties lie with the Colts and Mr. Manning… so now all of y’all will not be able to decide whether you love her or despise her. I think after hearing this mix, it’ll be the former.

Janie’s Homery Hype Mix

Janie may be a Rays fan (seriously! there are Rays fans!), but I had to make sure she was a part of this because her music expertise is unparalleled. You can find her spreading the joy of hot beats and cool music over at her place. She couldn’t resist including a few Rays-centric tracks on her playlist — but everyone should be thankful she spared you the horror of Kevin Costner. See? She does love you Sox fans.

And now, a word from Janie…

Texy, I’m sorry. I could withstand the temptation to include the Kevin Costner-penned drivel, but you had to know this would happen. I’m sure there are not, in fact, any Rays fans here, so the rest of you please chalk this horrific Top Three up to the unbridled enthusiasm of someone who has not, in fact, been there before. Aren’t we cute down here with our shiny new toy? Lemme get a hand clap for the Tampa Bay Rays!

Lord, is there a local rapper NOT involved in a Rays song right now? (Actually, yes. And if I know one thing, it’s that our girl Khia could have written something much better than ol’ Robin Hood did.) The Theme Song is questionable, but I’ll be darned if It’s Our Season isn’t pretty catchy. Trop Boys wins the top spot by virtue of being only a few days old and not run into the ground by all the blogs laughing at our homemade videos and bizarro stadium. At any rate, it’s hype time. Let’s goooooooooooooooooooo!

Bonus #1: Rays Tracks!
Ed. note: these two files are in .wma format, and so couldn’t be included in the player- but I’m including them as bonus downloads, even though they’re Rays songs… because they’re catchy, darn it!
02. It’s Our Season
03. Rays Theme Song

Bonus #2: Liner Notes from Janie!

06. Metallica | Sad But True | Metallica | 1992
I know, I know: it’s so over-used. But it’s also deliciously crunchy and hateful: the perfect spite song. If only the Yankees were still in the race…

07. Embrace | Ashes | Out of Nothing | 2004
This is normally the sort of song I’d disavow: it reads like a tenth grade girl’s diary and the guy sounds like Chris Martin trying on a man suit. However, when your team’s got its back against the wall, and all rhyme or reason says they can’t pull it out, watch them riiiiiiiiise up and leave all the ashes you made out of meeeeeeeeeeee (er, them. You get the picture).

08. Joy Division | Something Must Break | Still | 1981
Damn right, something must break…THE COLLECTIVE WILL OF OUR OPPONENTS. For the post-punk post-season fan.

09. Rendard w/ No Regard and Ced What | How Hard Can You Throw | Going For Gold | 1989
No, they probably aren’t talking about baseball. But the question still stands.

10. Cobra Krames | What More Time | Cracker Jackin’ EP
Don’t be scared, whities. It’s just a Baltimore Club remix of Daft Punk’s perennial New Year’s favorite. If you listen to it at 10am on a Wednesday, you’re not gonna get it. Suppose, though, that your boys win big and they’re throwing champagne all over each other in a locker room scene straight out of a Roman bath – and you’re drunk with your own bottle in the living room, having just single-handedly caused their victory with a season’s worth of fretting and pulling, and this comes blaring on your living room soundsystem: you’re not gonna be still. You’re gonna give in, and probably trip and hurt yourself on the coffee table, but this is the sound of celebration.