Two years after this album was released, Jock Jam Megamix was released, containing songs from this album and the next two. The next iteration, Jock Jams, brought some 1970s rock flair to the mix, revitalizing Village People's "YMCA" and Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2," alongside a slew of late '80s and early '90s dance hits and one hit wonders. Jock Jams, Volume 1 is the first album in the Jock Jams compilation album series, released in July 1995.
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That series was shelved after two volumes (a third appeared much later in 1999). Their first attempt was 1994's Jock Rock, featuring a lot of Queen, the Ramones and James Brown. The label hooked up with ESPN to make it happen. Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy's founder and CEO, saw an opportunity to use the hits that were becoming popular in the country's sports venues as a way to tap into a different audience. It also brought us Jock Jams.Īccording to MTV, the idea for the series evolved out of a previous compilation Tommy Boy engineered alongside MTV to raise money for the American Cancer Society. That's the label behind De La Soul's first six records, several of hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa's pioneering albums and Coolio's, Gucci Mane's and Queen Latifah's major label debuts. The esteemed Tommy Boy Records did a lot for the world. Here's the story behind the compilation that's now every sports fan's guiltiest pleasure, from its five-volume run to its highly suspicious ending in the early 2000s. Today, though Jock Jams is long gone, its jams endure.
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1 "All Time Weirdest Certified Platinum Album." 1 Review by Keith Farley Jock Jams includes a full dozen of the best arena rock anthems of all time, including original versions of 'Get Ready for This,' 'Whoomp (There It Is),' 'It Takes Two,' 'Gonna Make You Sweat,' 'Pump Up the Volume,' 'Y.M.C.A.,' and 'The Power. The compilation was a massive commercial success, with its second volume currently reigning as Paper's No. It turned songs that had nothing to do with sports - such as 2 Unlimited's " Get Ready for This" and Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll Part 2" - into immortal anthems that would sound odd if played anywhere outside a stadium today. Jock Jams, the ESPN-affiliated compilation of stadium-certified pump-up jams was an infomercial sensation when it dropped in 1995. Few of us know the names of these sports fan anthems or the artists that created them, but we all know where they came from: Jock Jams.
Songs like " Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team or " Tootsee Roll" by 69 Boyz are the sounds that go with the smell of hot dogs and the sight of big foam fingers.
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Since the mid '90s, nearly every professional sports game has had essentially the same soundtrack.
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