The Official World Cup 2006 Soundtrack

Instead of the dinky sing-along themes that so often come along at this time, here’s an open call for all of you to come up with songs that could be found on a soundtrack for the World Cup. Songs like ‘World In Motion’ by New Order are disqualified due to uber-nationalism inherent in the song. Ditto too obvious selections like “We Are The Champions” by Queen, or that crap song Ricky Martin did for France ‘98. So I went through my extensive collection and tried to come up with themes for handballs, breakaways, bench-warmers, strikers, free kicks, referees–see it for yourself and come up with more, please.

“Hit Me With Your Best Shot”-Pat Benetar
“I Don’t Need No Doctor”-Humble Pie
“Loser”-Beck
“(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown”-Archie Bell & The Drells
“Attitude”-Bad Brains
“Beer”-The Reverend Horton Heat
“Down The Line”-Jerry Lee Lewis
“Kick Down The Door”-The Professionals
“Keep It Clean”-Camera Obscura
“Slowdive”-Slowdive
“Cool Drink Of Water”-The Gun Club
“You Win Again”-Charley Pride
“Sweet & Tender Hooligan”-The Smiths
“Two Sides Of The Coin”-KISS
“Learning The Game”-Buddy Holly
“We’re Gonna Move”-Elvis Presley
“Just Out Of Reach”-The Jesus And Mary Chain
“Over The Wall”-Echo & The Bunnymen
“Control (People Go Where We Send You Part 1)”-The JB’s
“Straight To You”-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
“Corruption”-The Plasmatics
“One Big Rush”-Joe Satriani
“Substitute”-The Who
“Hands All Over”-Soundgarden
“Run Run Run”-Concrete Blonde
“I’m Hurtin’”-Roy Orbison
“I Just Wanna Have Something To Do”-The Ramones