August 21, 2007
Pete Stemkowski’s Revenge Posted by Frederic D. Schwarz at 06:00 PM EST In their excellent interview on this blog about baseball-related songs, Allen Barra and Jerry Silverman scoff at the idea that there might be songs about hockey. In fact, there’s a band called the Zambonis that plays nothing but hockey songs, and they’ve been around for at least 10 years and put out half a dozen albums. (Here’s their MySpace page, if you’re interested in such things; I can’t make head or tail of it.)
Some of band’s most memorable songs include “Lost My Teeth,” a furious minute-and-a-half punk assault; the elegiac “Bob Marley and the Hartford Whalers,” a sensitive lament about losing the people and things we love; “Hockey Monkey,” which seems to be the theme song to something called “The Loop,” on Fox (here again I’m clueless); and my favorite, “Johnny Got Suspended,” about a boy who suffers the consequences for wearing an “Islanders Sucks” [sic] T-shirt to school. I once suggested through their website that they should do a song called “Kick Save and a Beauty” about Manon Rheaume, a woman who has played goal in various men’s professional leagues, but they showed a strange lack of interest. On the classical side, John Zorn, the avant-garde musician and composer, has released an entire album called Hockey, a description of which can be found here. (According to the blurb, Zorn has also made albums called Lacrosse and Pool.) So you see? I’ve come up with two sources of hockey music, and we’re still in the Z’s. There must be plenty more.
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