ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In 1995, ESPN launched Jock Jams Volume 1, a compilation record that would define the sound of sports for the next quarter century. We listen to the album's biggest songs to define what makes a "Jock Jam," and tell the story of how this record came to define the sound of the stadium. MORE Read Emily VanDerWerff's article: “The Jock Jam” megamix inadvertently plays out ESPN’s inner tensions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from the Genesis GB70 Performance SUV.
0:05.6	Every Genesis is a reminder to try something bold to keep growing, keep hustling.
0:12.8	At Genesis, they've harnessed all that excitement of beginnings into their performance SUV,
0:19.2	the GB70.
0:20.5	It's a car built to turn heads with stunning design inside and out.
0:26.0	It's packed with intuitive technology inside, like the 14.5-inch infotainment system,
0:31.8	and fingerprint recognition plus the GB70 features all-wheel drive, which is bound to add
0:37.4	a little more acceleration to your next drive.
0:40.5	Your Genesis GB70 is waiting for you.
0:43.9	What will you begin?
0:45.6	Learn more at Genesis.com.
0:47.9	Genesis, keep beginning.
0:56.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop.
1:07.9	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding, and I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan.
1:11.7	Today we have a deeply nostalgic musical inquiry brought to us by a listener, here's Steve.
1:17.4	So as that work, and like we all try and do sometimes, we try and get ourselves hyped
1:22.4	up to sit at our desk and work on email.
1:25.2	So I went and I did my usual routine.
1:27.2	I grabbed a cup of coffee and went sat down on my desk ready to tackle about a thousand
1:31.9	emails.
1:32.9	I sort of said to myself, all right, and my brain auto-completed, you're all ready for
1:38.6	this.
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