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Prince composes new Vikings fight song
By Doug Farrar
You've probably seen Prince Rogers Nelson, His Royal Purpleness, in a luxury box watching the Minnesota Vikings at Mall of America Field this season, especially since FOX enjoys crowd cuts at the expense of in-game replay as a general rule. And this compatibility isn't just about the common themes of the Twin Cities and the color purple; there's now a musical connection as well. Courtesy of MyFox9.com in Minneapolis, the news that Prince composed a Vikings theme song after watching his home team beat the heck out of the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional playoff round last weekend.
The team loves the song and plans to put it on its website, according to the report, and hopes it will provide some inspiration as the Vikings head to New Orleans to deal with the Saints in the NFC championship game -- that is, unless everyone finds Brett Favre's(notes) rendition of "Pants on the Ground" more to their liking.
As far as overall musical quality ... well, it isn't up there with B-level gems in the Prince catalogue like "Play in the Sunshine" or "Computer Blue." In fact, it sounds like someone got half a gospel choir together on the quick, vamped on an old-school Casio keyboard, and got a slightly wobbly recording out of the whole thing. As NFL fight songs go? Not quite as catchy as, say, "Fly Eagles Fly", but quite a bit better than the legendary "Ram It" by the 1985 Los Angeles Rams (in my opinion, the sole reason there isn't pro football in L.A. anymore). But judge for yourself; click here to hear an excerpt, and read the lyrics after the jump.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...omposes-new-Vikings-fight-song?urn=nfl,215101
Prince composes new Vikings fight song
By Doug Farrar
You've probably seen Prince Rogers Nelson, His Royal Purpleness, in a luxury box watching the Minnesota Vikings at Mall of America Field this season, especially since FOX enjoys crowd cuts at the expense of in-game replay as a general rule. And this compatibility isn't just about the common themes of the Twin Cities and the color purple; there's now a musical connection as well. Courtesy of MyFox9.com in Minneapolis, the news that Prince composed a Vikings theme song after watching his home team beat the heck out of the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional playoff round last weekend.
The team loves the song and plans to put it on its website, according to the report, and hopes it will provide some inspiration as the Vikings head to New Orleans to deal with the Saints in the NFC championship game -- that is, unless everyone finds Brett Favre's(notes) rendition of "Pants on the Ground" more to their liking.
As far as overall musical quality ... well, it isn't up there with B-level gems in the Prince catalogue like "Play in the Sunshine" or "Computer Blue." In fact, it sounds like someone got half a gospel choir together on the quick, vamped on an old-school Casio keyboard, and got a slightly wobbly recording out of the whole thing. As NFL fight songs go? Not quite as catchy as, say, "Fly Eagles Fly", but quite a bit better than the legendary "Ram It" by the 1985 Los Angeles Rams (in my opinion, the sole reason there isn't pro football in L.A. anymore). But judge for yourself; click here to hear an excerpt, and read the lyrics after the jump.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...omposes-new-Vikings-fight-song?urn=nfl,215101
