Start Wearing Purple

by rencito on Nov 6, 2009 4:05 PM CST

This is what it comes to during a bye week.

I have long thought that the Vikings should use this as their theme song (not to displace the Skol Vikings fight song, as this is most definitely not a fight song and Skol is awesome); sort of like how the Red Sox use Sweet Caroline as their de facto theme song. (By the way, lyrics ARE safe for work.)

This song is by the great band of Gogol Bordello (the lead singer is from Ukraine, and hence some of the lyrics are not in English, plus he is also nutty), and it fits perfectly for the Vikings, as you can tell by the title. The song would be a festive, quasi-drinking song to warm our spirits during the game.

I hope someone from the Vikings organization reads this and implements my idea. A great way to get the crowd going rather than the cliche music they normally play at games (let it be noted that I have not attended a game in a year or two, but I imagine it has not changed much, if any).

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I've seen Gogol Bordello twice in concert.

Best concert I’ve ever been to. He goes absolutely ape-shit on stage!

Johnnie Morton: The Man. The Myth. The Legend.

by craig in calgary on Nov 6, 2009 4:55 PM CST reply actions

Just saw them

last Sunday down here in Austin, TX. You are right, he goes nuts. Spraying wine on everyone. I love how they have band members from the US, Russia, Ecuador, Ukraine, England, etc. Craziest band ever. It is like the musical form of paella. Just a bunch of mixed up stuff that you wouldn’t think works together—but strangely it does in a fantastic way.

by rencito on Nov 6, 2009 8:16 PM CST up reply actions

My favourite was the Asian girls

They were sexy, but scared me at the same time!
I talked to one of them after the last show and she was great…I tried to buy Eugene a shot but he was actually kind of a dick, but I’m sure he just wanted to get away from the crowd.

Johnnie Morton: The Man. The Myth. The Legend.

by craig in calgary on Nov 9, 2009 12:50 PM CST up reply actions

Rec'd

"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 6, 2009 5:07 PM CST reply actions

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!

PURPLE is running trough my VEINS!!!!!!!!

by REVENGE4FAVRE on Nov 6, 2009 7:39 PM CST reply actions

the look on my wife's face

as i listen to this song, is priceless. i think she is under the impression that i’ve gone off the reservation. love it!!!

I piss people off on a fairly regular basis. I cherish my right to speak my mind, whether I sound like an uneducated savage or not. I've never been accused of keeping what I think a secret, nor will I ever. Don't like it? I don't care.

by IABerserker1 on Nov 6, 2009 9:03 PM CST reply actions

Love the song...

My wife and I were at a game last season and they played “start wearing purple” during an intermission.

by IAVikesFan on Nov 6, 2009 10:57 PM CST reply actions

So they did play it at a game?

Awesome!

by rencito on Nov 6, 2009 11:30 PM CST up reply actions

Great for the game

Yeah play it before the game to get everyone fired up. Hey the more you drink the better it sounds. Makes me want to run to my closet and get something PURPLE!

by iowaron on Nov 7, 2009 1:52 AM CST reply actions

It's got my vote!

But I can’t understand lyrics except for the title…got the purple part….so can you post the lyrics?

by lorenzo4 on Nov 7, 2009 11:07 AM CST reply actions

Lyrics

Start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time

So yeah, start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time

I met you were a twenty and I was twenty
But thought that some years from now
A purple little little lady will be perfect
For dirty old and useless clown

So yeah, start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time

I know it all from Diogenis to Foucault
From Lozgechkin to Paspartu
I ja kljanus obostzav dva paltza
Schto muzika poshla ot Zvukov Mu!

So yeah, start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now

Start wearing purple for me now!

All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time

So Fio-Fio-Fioletta! Etta! Va-va-va-vaja dama ti moja!
Eh podayte name karetu, votetu, i mi poedem k ebenjam!

So yeah, start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time

by REVENGE4FAVRE on Nov 7, 2009 12:02 PM CST reply actions

Reminds Me Of Some Of Classic German Party Songs

Nice and fitting for SKOL-land I think!

Nothing wrong with a party to go with a W…..for SURE!

Watching MN games this weekend….still need the Viking fix LOL….

Hope all can maybe spend some time with the families sincw we are on bye-ing this weekend…

Here working as usual, what to do?

SKOL!

I would rather be IN the Arena than watching from the stands...That is my life!
* Read Teddy Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" if you need further explanation...

by vikingfanfrom afar on Nov 7, 2009 1:26 PM CST reply actions