Today's entry explores Millencolin's "Entrance To Rudebrook" from the 1997 album For Monkeys.
This song is primarily about Nikola Sarcevic's experience with his favorite hockey team Orebro Hockey in his hometown of Orebro Sweden.
Nikola laments on the pain of being a fan of the struggling team. Fans of the band might also recall the line "my favorite hockey team is struggling" from the song "Losin Must" on the same album. Apparently this is nothing new as the chorus reflects "for twelve years I've been down."
Nikola is no fair-weather fan though. He has stuck it out for twelve years (as of 1997) and shows no intention of abandoning his team. Like a true fan! "I'm not whining, I'm still smiling. I'm still around every night." Any die hard fan of a struggling sports team can relate to this song but it's message applies to various aspects of life.
I have never understood or admired those who follow the bandwagons and only cheer for teams that are good. Do they feel cheering for a winner somehow makes them a winner by extension? Are they filled with so much self-doubt that the thought of mentioning that they cheer for a bad team would be too embarrassing for them to live through for 2 tenths of a second?
Out here in California we call them Yankees fans. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But seriously, if you weren't born, raised or currently live in New York then you have no business cheering for the Yankees. Get over yourselves. You aren't a better human being for cheering for a team with more titles, you are just more of a douche for thinking that way. But now we're getting off topic...
The title "Entrance At Rudebrook" comes from the arena's location which is officially Rudbecksgatan. Since none of us speak Swedish, we are assuming Rudebrook is a translation. The lines "every Sunday or Wednesday we'll be there" reflect the fact that these are the two days that games traditionally take place on.
Nikola laments on the pain of being a fan of the struggling team. Fans of the band might also recall the line "my favorite hockey team is struggling" from the song "Losin Must" on the same album. Apparently this is nothing new as the chorus reflects "for twelve years I've been down."
Nikola is no fair-weather fan though. He has stuck it out for twelve years (as of 1997) and shows no intention of abandoning his team. Like a true fan! "I'm not whining, I'm still smiling. I'm still around every night." Any die hard fan of a struggling sports team can relate to this song but it's message applies to various aspects of life.
I have never understood or admired those who follow the bandwagons and only cheer for teams that are good. Do they feel cheering for a winner somehow makes them a winner by extension? Are they filled with so much self-doubt that the thought of mentioning that they cheer for a bad team would be too embarrassing for them to live through for 2 tenths of a second?
Out here in California we call them Yankees fans. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But seriously, if you weren't born, raised or currently live in New York then you have no business cheering for the Yankees. Get over yourselves. You aren't a better human being for cheering for a team with more titles, you are just more of a douche for thinking that way. But now we're getting off topic...
The title "Entrance At Rudebrook" comes from the arena's location which is officially Rudbecksgatan. Since none of us speak Swedish, we are assuming Rudebrook is a translation. The lines "every Sunday or Wednesday we'll be there" reflect the fact that these are the two days that games traditionally take place on.
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