Amazing!
I wonder if Rheem is in therapy now, or has ever been since 1992?
Itâs about keeping track of personal items and treating others with respect. But when I was very young this would have been terrifying, I suppose.
Wow, interesting! I think even at my age today if I saw Big Bird pacing around armed with a hockey stick and a baseball bat looking to smack a witch up, that would still be a little terrifying.
Akhil Sharma talks about reediting the drafts of his novels in order to â[slow the reader down as] a way to make them spend more time with difficult subjectsâ, or conversely â[to reduce the] demands on the reader reader, thereby allowing a more empathetic immersion in the charactersâ
And now we see what comes next after that Winnie the Pooh horror movieâŚ
But will Robert Crumb illustrate their mascot, should they have one?
Somehow YouTube decided to get me into this new Olympic sport and I am loving it.
In the summer of 1982, while the Brewers were on their way to the playoffs, a song was written and recorded by a local Wisconsin bar band that included such lines as:
Brew Crew, Brew Crew
Weâre right behind you!
Brew Crew, Brew Crew
Yeah, weâre goinâ all the way!
Over in Milwaukee,
So the people say,
Theyâre knock-knock-knockinâ
baseballs
County Stadium way.
I woke up one morning and its county-infused melody was all over WTMJ.
This was an important song for me. I was 10-years-old at the time. I had no idea that ordinary people in ordinary states like Wisconsin could write music and make a recording of it. I thought such things were only done by special people in exotic locations like Los Angeles.
So why am I writing this?
There is an idea that all the knowledge of the universe is contained on the internet. But I have not been able to find any evidence of this song there. Not even a picture of the label. It has gone down a memory hole.
So, why did I write that brief tribute to a Brewers fan song forgotten by the internet? What made me try to find it in the first place? Hereâs where I bring it all together.
The song might we absent from the internet, it is however permanently implanted in my brain. My older brother was a huge Brewers fan and he played that record a lot. Incessantly. That and the teamâs official theme song âCome See Whatâs Brewinâ.â
So the âBrew Crew Weâre Right Behind Youâ song is never far from me. I find myself singing it at various random moments.
A few days ago I stumbled upon this song by Garbage, which I had never heard before:
As we get to the ending chorus, Shirley Manson sings:
Go, baby, go-go!
Weâre right behind you.
Go, baby, go-go!
Yeah, weâre lookinâ at you.
It didnât seem real. This has lyrical, rhythmic and melodic similarities to:
Brew Crew-oo, Brew Crew-oo,
Weâre right behind you!
Brew Crew-oo, Brew Crew-oo,
Yeah, weâre goinâ all the way.
But then I remembered â Garbage is from Wisconsin. Is it possible this song is in their sub conscience too?
Then I went further. Various members of Garbage were bumming around the Wisconsin music scene in the early 80. They were members of bands and recording music going back to the late 70s. Their dedicated facility, Smart Studios, was started in â83. So itâs not impossible to consider one or more of them performed this Brew Crew Song. Heck, maybe they could have even written it or recorded it.
I canât say for certain, but this how my mind works. Iâm the James Burke of Wisconsin.
But unless I find a copy in a second-hand music store we my never know. Radio Doctors is long gone. And Milwaukee is sadder for it.
the 84 Tigers had a similar theme song leading up to their world series win that year, but thereâs multiple videos of it on YouTube. I always assumed the title, Bless You Boys, was due to being pitted against the Padres in the series, but I never fully understood the lyrics beyond the chorus.
and of course the Bears had the Super Bowl Shuffle.
considering the above, it really is odd that your song is lost media these days.
Well, weâll always have this at least:
