Music League: At bat
What song would you play while walking up to the plate?
- Black Sabbath: Supernaut
One riff to rule them all. Surges out of the gate exultant and invincible and never lets up, not even when there’s a little drum circle break for the hippies. And its fade-out ending, unlike most fade-outs, isn’t a cop-out; it sends its Supernaut marching off into the horizon, forging new frontiers and radiating wisdom and splendor to all in his path. (In my cursory research, it seems that Sabbath songs are not uncommon in the baseball walk-up realm, but I couldn’t find a single instance of anyone using this one, so I’m here to right that wrong.) - Siouxsie and the Banshees: Peek-A-Boo
The opposite of a jock jam in almost every way, and yet it fits the stadium like a glove, like something made by an art-damaged, post-Neanderthal Gary Glitter. As the crowd is adrenalized by its intoxicating thump, they’re also invited to ponder its lyrics’ exploration of conflicting modes of empowerment and debasement in sex work, a rarely invoked but nevertheless important social-commentary function of the walk-up idiom.
