(Not so) sweet caroline

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  • liz
    Veteran
    Site Admin
    • Jan 2003
    • 16786

    Originally posted by Meg
    No idea what it was - but it was the LOUDEST music ever played at the footy. The decibels must have been at a dangerous level for eardrum safety. Really, really painful.

    #bringbacksweetcaroline [emoji3]
    The last two SCG finals I have sat on your side of the ground (as you don't get to pick your seat) and have noticed the volume of EVERYTHING is much louder on that side of the ground. It can be irritating enough over in the O'Reilly trying to hold a conversation during one of the breaks and fighting with the noise. But at least you can try...not over in the Churchill or Brewongle.

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    • Meg
      Go Swannies!
      Site Admin
      • Aug 2011
      • 4828

      Interesting comment Liz. I did wonder if the music was louder in the Brewongle. It sounded as if I had a powerful loudspeaker at full volume mounted on my right shoulder immediately behind my ear.

      Just awful.

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      • AnnieH
        RWOs Black Sheep
        • Aug 2006
        • 11332

        No SC, but they did have "players choice".
        Sinkers picked "easy"... now I'm assuming that's a redo of a commodores song. If it is, isn't it a bit "slow" for the footy?
        (I could be wrong - who knows who the kids listen to these days!!)
        Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
        Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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        • barry
          Veterans List
          • Jan 2003
          • 8499

          Originally posted by Meg
          Interesting comment Liz. I did wonder if the music was louder in the Brewongle. It sounded as if I had a powerful loudspeaker at full volume mounted on my right shoulder immediately behind my ear.

          Just awful.
          The SCG is a tired old stadium, a hotch-potch of stand designs that look like the result of an Alan Jones tantrum, and speakers that probably date back the the goldern age of vinyl records.
          ... and we are stuck with it for 30 years!
          Everytime I go there I am disappointed. Maybe when the tram opens in 2026 I might try again.

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          • AnnieH
            RWOs Black Sheep
            • Aug 2006
            • 11332

            Originally posted by barry
            The SCG is a tired old stadium, a hotch-potch of stand designs that look like the result of an Alan Jones tantrum, and speakers that probably date back the the goldern age of vinyl records.
            ... and we are stuck with it for 30 years!
            Everytime I go there I am disappointed. Maybe when the tram opens in 2026 I might try again.
            So where would you rather see they play Bazza?
            Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
            Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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            • mcs
              Travelling Swannie!!
              • Jul 2007
              • 8177

              Originally posted by AnnieH
              So where would you rather see they play Bazza?
              Quite clearly at a ground so far out of date after only 2 decades that they had proposed to tear it down almost completely and start again rofl
              "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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              • barry
                Veterans List
                • Jan 2003
                • 8499

                All alternatives have been burnt. We are stuck with this aging dinosaur.

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                • Markwebbos
                  Veterans List
                  • Jul 2016
                  • 7186

                  Anyone missing it this year? I'm glad to see the back of it!

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                  • jono2707
                    Goes up to 11
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 3326

                    Originally posted by Markwebbos
                    Anyone missing it this year? I'm glad to see the back of it!
                    It was played in one of the breaks in the Bulldogs v Pies match at docklands yesterday.
                    Happy for the dogs to take it.

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                    • Meg
                      Go Swannies!
                      Site Admin
                      • Aug 2011
                      • 4828

                      Originally posted by Markwebbos
                      Anyone missing it this year? I'm glad to see the back of it!
                      Yes.

                      I was thinking Friday night sitting in the Brewongle as that LOUD garbage destroyed my eardrums, ‘oh for Sweet Caroline’.

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                      • dimelb
                        pr. dim-melb; m not f
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 6889

                        So many people fed up with the noise. I hate it with a passion.

                        When will we be allowed to talk with one another?
                        He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                        • Margie
                          Regular in the Side
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 800

                          Originally posted by Markwebbos
                          Anyone missing it this year? I'm glad to see the back of it!
                          Yes, I miss it. So much better than the "noise".

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                          • Doctor
                            Bay 29
                            • Sep 2003
                            • 2757

                            We were commenting on the noise on Friday night too. Nothing to do with the choice of song, it was actually before the game had even started. It was just noise, noise, noise. It's one reason why park footy is so appealing these days.
                            Today's a draft of your epitaph

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                            • jono2707
                              Goes up to 11
                              • Oct 2007
                              • 3326

                              How about a few emails to the club and/ or the SCG tomorrow?

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                              • snajik
                                Senior Player
                                • Jan 2003
                                • 1115

                                Originally posted by Margie
                                Yes, I miss it. So much better than the "noise".
                                Yes it's all relative. In hindsight it seems mildly inoffensive compared to what has replaced it. More advertising, more noisy incoherent shrieking into a roaming mic, more bogan rock or vacuous contemporary pop songs. I'm not holding my breath for Foxtrot Sierra and His Uniforms, Minami Deutsch or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but seriously I'm yet to hear a song that's significantly better than SC come out of those speakers.

                                Meanwhile this whole voting for which song shd be played at 3 quarter time caper has heightened my cynicism. I wonder who is taking a cut of all those SMS costs whereby fans 'vote' for pre-arranged song choices? SC has it seems been replaced by a money-spinner. And apparently Wil Hayward really digs Bryan Adams, whereas Sam Reid can't get enough of Paul Simon's African grooves. Really?
                                It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
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