S/D: Records Made By Athletes

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Rap or otherwise. Inspired by the recent Ron Artest lunacy, it occurs to me: has an athlete ever made a record that's even tolerable much less decent? I say this as someone who can honestly say he's never bothered to listen to one, but I'm willing to be open-minded about this...to a point.

Anyway, this seems like prime ILM material. So, uh, shoot.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Lou Reed used to be* a pole-vaulter, fwiw.

(* in high school.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

yanc3y's Carl Lewis obsession to thread!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Superbowl Shuffle was no damn good, but I challenge anyone to really DO THE RESEARCH and listen to the entire Shaquille O'Neal backcatalog before answering. Cmon, you know it sucks, but can you really speak with authority? Or are you a glib dandy?

Get to work:

Respect (T.W.IsM, 1998)
Men Of Steel (Qwest, 1997)
You Can't Stop The Reign (T.W.IsM, 1996)
The Best Of Shaquille O'Neal (Jive, 1996)
No Hook (Jive, 1995)
I'm Outstanding (Jive, 1994)
Shoot Pass Slam (Jive, 1994)
Shaq-Fu: Da Return (Jive, 1994)
Biological Didn't Bother (Jive, 1994)
(I Know I Got) Skillz (Jive, 1993)
Shaq Diesel (Jive, 1993)

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

DESTROY

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

Pro wrestling is not sport.

Man, Ian, I had no fucking idea. Jeezus -- that looks like a real catalog.

― George Smith, Friday, 12 November 2004 22:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

Deion Sanders - "Must be the Money"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

Destroy: 1200 Techniques (the MC Nfamas aka Tim Tam Man is / was a runner or did some form of athletics)

― Mil (Mil), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

Pro wrestling is not sport.

Pro wrestlers are still ATHLETES.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

i used to love the shaq/fu schnickens record... when i was 13.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Search: Kevin Saunderson (college football @ University of Michigan, I believe)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Eastern Michigan University actually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

Kris Kristofferson played football here at my place o' employment.

And of course Skee-lo, if only taller, coulda been a baller.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Who put the crack in the Liberty Bell?

Ali!

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

didn't Jack McDowell have a grunge band and was friends with Eddie Vedder and shit?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Triple Crown Line had a 7" single that was an LA-area only release... I'm trying to find a picture... it exists...

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

Mark Messier's band kicked ass -- I was and still am way into them:

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

ihttp://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/Ssport/MESSPHU006002.jpg

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

And then there's Master P.

Nevermind.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

this thread has been done a few times.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

didn't Jack McDowell have a grunge band and was friends with Eddie Vedder and shit?

It was in no way grunge -- it was more of an REM-sounding trio thing. At the time that McDowell was pitching for the Indians, I was working at their then-flagship station, which was a sports-talk, and we used some of McDowell's stuff as bumper music for the air talent.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox had a minor local hit with My Little Putt Putt circa 67-68. Who knows, an original 45 is probably worth a thousand bucks these days.

Haven't heard it in eons, but I can't remember ever liking it.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

0scar De La Hoya's music is some of the funniest stuff I have heard. He makes someone like Clay Aiken seem like hardcore.

― svend (svend), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sub-mediocre Epitaph band Pulley is led by Scott Radinsky

― ng, Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

track and field just released a record by st thomas, apparently that guy was a swedish footballer once. or they could have made that up i dunno.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 14:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

The winner here has to be Cassius Clay's pretty good cover of Stand By Me, but I'd also like to mention Bunker Hill, who made three classic raucous rock 'n' roll tracks way back - this was Link Wray and his Wraymen, with lead singer Dave Walker, who was a pro boxer. These are really GREAT records. A number of old R&B, soul and so on singers had been good athletes too, especially boxers - I seem to recall Screamin' Jay Hawkins had been some sort of golden gloves champ, whatever that is.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

Roy Jones, Jr. Round One
John Daly My Life

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 17:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

D: Terry Bradshaw, "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"

D: Jim Weatherly, "The Need to Be" (he was a D-I QB @ Mississippi)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 13 November 2004 17:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Pelé did a thing with Elis Regina that's pretty good actually, called "Perdao Não Tem."

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wasn't Allen Iverson supposed to have a rap record...i remember hearing some song called "40 Bars" or something like that...he was actually a fairly decent generic, thuggy east coast type rapper if i recall that song correctly.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dr. Demento has an Ernie Banks song in the audio torture chamber, as i recall...

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

LA Rams and New York Giants footballer Roosevelt Grier has an album called 'Soul City'. There is a very good track called 'In My Tenement' on the Kent CD 'New York Soul Serenade'. Unsurprisingly, it is a big booming voice. It was produced by Bobby Darin, so no doubt we will all learn more about this particular project when the Kevin Spacey film comes out.

The Pinefox has a very impressive collection of 45s by legendary footballers such as Glenn Hoddle and Kevin Keegan.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

any hockey players? I'm intrigued by this Mark Messier band.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Pinefox has a very impressive collection of 45s by legendary footballers such as Glenn Hoddle and Kevin Keegan.

I used to have the 12" of Diamond Lights by Glenn and Chris (Messrs Hoddle and Waddle). I do believe that Ally C has a copy of a single released by Chris Waddle and Basile Boli, which must surely be the greatest thing ever committed to vinyl.

Haven't Vinnie Jones and Ian Wright tried to launch unsuccessful singing careers? (see also Gazza, Terry Venables, Ron Atkinson etc etc)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

It occurs to me that we haven't mentioned America's first ever black all-American footballer here: Paul Robeson.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Didn't someone in DOA play league hockey in Canada? Puck Rock, anyone?

Derrick -- thank you. I've been waiting for days for someone to take the bait or call the joke with that photo. It's Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, and any resemblence between Messier and that crossdressing Iowan pictured above is just a fluke of genetics. Still a great, great, great band. Hall of Famers in their own right.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/vendwrestling/Hey_Vince.html

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

bill slayback, denny mclain, and i believe roberto clemente all made albums, i think, but i never heard them.

and does nelly count? didn't he play a year or two of single A ball? or something?

― chuck, Monday, 15 November 2004 01:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

and charlie pride also played in the minor leagues, i think.

winner, though, i think is toby keith. tight end for the bengals or something like that, right?

― chuck, Monday, 15 November 2004 01:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

tsunami's kristin thomson plays for the philadelphia freeze, the women's ice hockey league.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wasn't Rod Stewart nearly a professional (soccer)football player?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

well, it's that time of year: the Bears' "Super Bowl Shuffle": C/D?

Taking Sides: Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew vs. any other music you listen to

thank me later, y'all!

your pal

"Samurai" Mike Singletary

― "Samurai" Mike Singletary (llamasfur), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

this thread is striking me as pretty ahistorical right now.like, there must have been guys in the memphis jug band or misssissppi shieks who also played in the negro leagues; it just seems logical. we just have no idea who they are. and was famous early 20th/late 19th century baseball star billy sunday also a famous white gospel singer or did he just do sermons? i have no idea. also even more recently wasn't john fred of the playboy band/"judy in disguise with glasses" fame a basketball star at louisiana state or thereabouts or was that his dad? i totally forget. point being that music and sports didn't just start yesterday you know. okay carry on.

― chuck, Monday, 15 November 2004 05:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Lou Reed used to be* a pole-vaulter"

Are you sure he vasn't a Russian?? (And my name is not Vaulter.)

― big ed delahanty, Monday, 15 November 2004 05:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

i kinda wish that "samurai" mike singletary had become as ubiquitous on ILXor as ma$e.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

WAYMAN TISDALE DUDES!

he makes jazz i think

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

I missed the photo; doesn't look that much like him, to be honest. Mark's got a bigger jaw. I just got really excited at the random canadiana of that idea... and you've let me down.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

oops just remembered another one:

der lead zanger um Rammstein = east german olympic swim champeen, no?

also ted nugent, if bow-hunting counts

― chuck, Monday, 15 November 2004 06:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

der lead zanger um Rammstein = east german olympic swim champeen, no?

does that mean that he's really an east german chiXor pumped up w/ too many steroids?

actually, if that were true that would make EVERYTHING fit into place wr2 rammstein.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Looking at the picture of the Bears, I seem to recall that William "The Refrigerator" Perry was actually known to his teammates by another nickname, "Biscuit" because "he was just a biscuit under 305" or something like that? Is this correct?

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 07:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

johnny bench did c&w gigs; may or may not made records.

alice cooper, iggy pop, huey lewis, and darius rucker a/k/a/ hootie said to have real good golf handicaps; perhaps not quite PGA quality though.

how good a tennis player was lars ulrich in pre-metallica days? was he ever actually "seeded" (whatever that means) in denmark? his much cooler dad played wimbledon (and was a jazz musician) i believe.

― chuck, Monday, 15 November 2004 15:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Didn't Johnny Mathis actually compete at an Olympics? Long jump?

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

the elephant 6 kids were really into kickball

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

those denny mcclain records are alright loungefare fwiw

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

o man - oscar de la hoya a big obv one: he actually had a hit somewhat. roy jones deserves a mention too.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Torben Ulrich lost a tight five-setter vs John Newcombe in the last sixteen of the '68 US Open, which is pretty good going considering he was 40 by that time.

I fear that Pat Cash and John McEnroe may have may a record or two (Mac certainly toured with his own band, much to the growing disgust of his wife); Jo Durie certainly did (it was 'orrible) and Jim Courier has played drums with REM. Yannick Noah has had several hits in France.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

Lars Ulrich was a seeded teen player.

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Shows would promote their shows by showing up in town around noon, challenging all comers to a baseball game, then afterwards saying "tell you what, we licked you/you licked us, but why don't you come down to the dancehall tonight and we'll show you a thing or two about this fiddle music." Could it have worked for Black Flag? Maybe.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

LLOYD COLE likes golf.

Some of those tennis players released a version of Led Zep's 'Rock 'n' Roll'.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Nick Drake was a distinguished athlete (rugby, track & field) in high school.

― mike a, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

jeff buckley? horrible swimmer, sad to say.

― big ed delahanty, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe nobody's mentioning David Ortiz's new reggaeton album (!), featuring somebody called Cynthia Roquez. It's entitled, regrettably, "Bases Loaded." I have a feeling it's the best thing in the world.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

thurl bailey has a record or two out... (former NBA player)

"In addition to professional speaking, Thurl is a broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah, an actor, and an award winning singer/song writer. His first album, Faith In Your Heart, is a compilation of uplifting songs that won several top awards. His latest CD, ‘I’m Not The Same’ is released October 2002 with great reviews and is a fusion of original style R&B and nu soul."

― 6335, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dud: Six And Out (Australian Cricket Team band)

― Mil (Mil), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

old thread on this:

S/D athletes who make music

i've pawed those McClain records a number of times but I could never bring myself to buy them.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

Tell me you're not kidding.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

There appear to be three versions of "For the Money" and two versions of, er, "Punani."

Needless to say, this is a must-buy.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.islamusical.com/sku.html?p=40511&c=117

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

(Almost) all these blokes are guys.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

And yes I know that most pro athletes are men.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

regrettably, mr. lalas is an alumnus of my undergraduate college. at least we had a good soccer team while he was there.

this IS a joke, yes? and if not, how many copies of it have been sold in boston?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

i am really surprised no one has mentioned robert pollard of GBV on this thread. yet.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

this IS a joke, yes? and if not, how many copies of it have been sold in boston?

It's for real, and it's not very good. Here's a lo-fi RM file, provenance unknown, that I found somewhere. I haven't heard the full-length yet, but if this is the single, I don't have high hopes for the rest, sheer novelty value aside.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Sunday, 13 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Heard Cecil Taylor was a great basketball player, though he was considerably smaller than stereotypical players.

Was HR involved in anything organised athletically or just naturally athletic? Seen footage of those other DC types Fugazi pretty much slamdunking themselves through basketball hoops.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

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