Apr 14, 2004

Montreal Canadiens music: Repetition is a good thing

A great game last night between Montreal and Boston at the Bell Centre. Montreal usually has one of the more interesting game day productions in the NHL. There's the french folk music, lots of Beatles tunes and other old pop music. During last night's game, I noticed a high repetition of three sound clips:

  • "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte)
  • "Make It Clap" (Sean Paul)
  • "Put Your Hands Up In The Air" (DJ Tonka)

These songs were eached used at least 2 or 3 times per period. Normally, the general rule in sports is "don't repeat songs", but the Montreal approach seemed to work in 'training' fans to respond. The repetition got to be a bit too much by the second overtime period, these songs were getting stale.

So when the Habs (hopefully) return home for Game 6, I hope the dj plays each of the songs once per period. Repetition is good, but too much of it becomes ... repetitious.

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