Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Retro Video of the Week: "Jump Around" by House of Pain

Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the release of House of Pain's eponymous debut album, mixing hip hop, rock, and pseudo-Irish-American themes.  The group's biggest hit from that album (or ever, for that matter) was the classic "Jump Around," which went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.  It's one of those songs that you know from the first note, and it brings back fond memories for me because it was our hype song in the freshmen football locker room.  I'd like to think it helped bring us our Freshmen B conference title back in '92, so yeah, pretty big deal.  In 1998, it became an unofficial theme song for Wisconsin football games, played in between the third and fourth quarters at Camp Randall, sending all those drunken cheeseheads into a frenzy ever since, and essentially ruining the song for everyone else in the Big Ten, much like Ohio State has done with "Hang On Sloopy."

No comments: