A question from Tom:
Shannon — not sure if you’ve remarked on this recently. Or if it’s just my imagination. But I would swear the amount of organ music being played at Citi Field is on the upswing. I noticed it at a game earlier in the year. Then when I went (last week) to see Johan vs. the Braves it seemed like the organ was heard even more (and the pre-recorded rock/pop/hiphop clips less).
Just wanted to mention. I would be curious if you or your readers have noticed. I love hearing the organ. (Though I’m assuming that it is pre-recorded.)
As always, enjoying Mets Police.
Best,
Tom
I don’t think so overall. Â There are times when I have arrived early and the organis playing contemporary songs, which sounds great!
At the last game I attended I commented on twitter (@metspolice) that the Noise Patrol must be getting paid by the button-push.
When I invent the holodeck and buy the Mets and Cyclones with my money, stadium music will be eliminated and there will be full-time organ. Â You know about the uniforms. Â I’m also moving the Cyclones to Los Angeles just for laughs. Â The LAC hats will be priceless.
I know I’m a middle aged fogey and you kids like the black and the loud music…..what’s the consensus on organ music?
I was also there for Johan’s start against the Braves and loved how prominent the organ was.
There has been a fair amount, mostly pregame, organ music. and I like it.
I was at that game too. It seemed to me there was a lot of organ while they rebooted the scoreboard and P.A. System. There was a 1/2 inning of no intro and also no announcements or other various taped music for almost an inning after that.
i wish the organ would become the more prominent music in the ballpark. i understand guys like their walk up songs and that’s fine, but i’d love to fill the rest of the gaps with the organ. i’m not adverse to loud music (i’m 25) but the organ is baseball. plus it’s a nice tribute to an outstanding woman (jane jarvis) to return the organ to prominence.
The organ does seem to like “So What” by Pink though. Definitely heard that one a couple of times, I guess the beat just plays well to organ.
Yea. There’s a crappy Green Day song that they play allege time on the organ. I can remember as far back as last year they were playing it, and maybe even the last season at Shea. The song sucked before they turned it into organ music. And it sucks now. They need to update the database to more modern stuff.
Green Day’s pretty modern.
I have a mini-clip of “So What” on the organ i think, that maybe I’ll share if Shannon’s interested.
I think the organ seems more like background music, which is appropriate for a sporting event when killing time in between things, while what I’ll call “traditional radio” music (pop/hip hop/rock/etc) seems more intrusive.
I want to see a player to ask for his on deck/intro music to be something on the organ.
quick story – I was at a New Jersey Devils hockey game earlier this year (and the NHL is infamous for playing 10 second clips of songs after a whistle before the next faceoff) when the entire arena sound system blew out for about 20 minutes (to the point where a goal that had just occurred could not be announced during that entire time). It might have been the best 20 minutes I’ve ever experienced at a sporting event. Fans, on their own and without the sound system working, sang whatever song it is that’s played when a Devil player scores a goal, but I didn’t hear any of them breaking into “Born To Run” after an icing like we might have heard from the PA system. Maybe the fans know best.