Comments on: Heavy Metal Curling, FTW!

Heavy Metal Curling, FTW!

snottydick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:12:18 -0800

Heavy Metal Curling! Gothenburg band, Hammerfall joins forces with the Swedish Women's Curling Team for a power metal promo. Meanwhile, Americans get shafted with the godawful AT&T Team USA Soundtrack. Curling owns the 2010 Olympics.

By: (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates

(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:14:32 -0800

Curling owns the 2010 Olympics. I agree with this statement. Curling is incredibly addictive. Fascinating and strangely intense.

By: arto

arto — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:19:32 -0800

*bangs head* *hurries hard* *sweeps*

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:20:03 -0800

The curling promo is indeed awesome, but to be accurate, it was filmed for the 2006 Olympics. I remember watching it then.

By: snottydick

snottydick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:20:40 -0800

Ice bocce. I can't get enough of it.

By: LMGM

LMGM — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:26:57 -0800

Yes. Yes. YES.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:35:40 -0800

Curling has owned since forever. It's basically all you can watch on Sunday afternoons on TV in Ontario. That is a pretty bad-ass power metal curling video. It may, in fact, be the best ever.

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:42:17 -0800

I too must now come out as a newly turned curling addict.

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:46:35 -0800

Wait, no wonder the headbangers couldn't win the match -- they were sweeping behind the rock.

By: shinyshiny

shinyshiny — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:55:35 -0800

Hammerfall is ridiculously awesome.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:58:20 -0800

Curling & Hockey >>> All else. I admit to having a bit of a crush on Cheryl Bernard. Go Team Canada, eh.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:59:33 -0800

Nic Cage owns curling

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:20:05 -0800

I agree with this statement. Curling is incredibly addictive. Fascinating and strangely intense. Yes yes yes. Watching some right now, in fact.

By: eccnineten

eccnineten — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:21:36 -0800

Compare and contrast with another music video including curling... Kein Liebeslied by Andreas Dorau.

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:25:53 -0800

One of the things that I've loved about watching the curling events is that the commentary/play-by-play seems so much more...intelligent than the commentary for most of the other events. I'm watching all this on NBC and its minions, and maybe I think the curling commentary is awesome because I don't have any other curling commentary to compare it to, but goddamn, it's such a relief.

By: snottydick

snottydick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:38:18 -0800

Compare and contrast with another music video including curling... Kein Liebeslied by Andreas Dorau. It sounds like "Some Guys Have All The Luck" by Rod Stewart and "Enola Gay" by OMD had a baby together.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:40:09 -0800

The Hammerfall video is great. I can't wait to see Blind Guardian's tribute to ice dancing.

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:21:40 -0800

"Curling & Hockey >>> All else. I admit to having a bit of a crush on Cheryl Bernard. Go Team Canada, eh. posted by Justinian at 3:58 PM on February 24" I agree with the above whole heartedly.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:23:24 -0800

(Go Team USA hockey, though!)

By: 1adam12

1adam12 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:32:36 -0800

This is what you get when corporations make "creative" decisions - the USA produces some of the best pop music in the world, and yet we nonetheless have an "Olympic Soundtrack" (why do we need one of those again?) 100% filled with suck. My parents, who are in their 60s, would be embarrassed by how lame this is.

By: misha

misha — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:07:01 -0800

I can't understand why the US curling team didn't use M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This" as their curling theme. Seems like a perfect fit to me.

By: rainperimeter

rainperimeter — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:17:55 -0800

The Hammerfall video is great. I can't wait to see Blind Guardian's tribute to ice dancing. or for the 2012 summer olympics, Manowar's contribution to team USA's javelin and hammer throw competitors.

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:18:52 -0800

the USA produces some of the best pop music in the world, and yet we nonetheless have an "Olympic Soundtrack" (why do we need one of those again?) 100% filled with suck. Dude, maybe you didn't see the Hoobastank track?!

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:18:27 -0800

Dude, maybe you didn't see the Hoobastank track?! They're really still around? Really? Well, that's depressing. I once saw or read (I forget which) that the singer was asked why they chose that name, and he basically said "like duuuuude all the other names were like taken brah".

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:02:10 -0800

God I love Curling. And I'm absolutely the poster child of the people who didn't get into it until about ten days ago, and I don't care. I'm proud of it. I'm on the forefront of making the U.S. care about the coolest damn sport I've seen in ages. And while Canada's killing the American team precludes any affection for Cheryl Bernard, I have a pretty major crush on Nicole Joraanstad (and a little bit of a burning hatred for Debbie McCormick for not taking her more proper place at second or third earlier on when she had proven time and time again that she couldn't pull a draw shot to save her life and both Joraanstad and Pottinger were clearly superior to her, skills-wise, as is Natalie Nicholson but Nicholson is so good at lead that it'd be a crime to move her elsewhere and... well I could go on.) This is Curling's year. And it's a better world for it.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:47:40 -0800

I just earned major points showing this to my brother's girlfriend who's a metalhead. We were watching curling when they mentioned the Canadian team listens to Hammerfall while training. MeFi FTW!

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:28:47 -0800

Well, shoot. I came into this thread all prepared to defend curling as the interesting, intense, intelligent sport it is against a bunch of people who had never seen it before and thought it bizarre, boring, and baffling. And you guys got there all on your own...And you're discussing draw shots. I love you Mefi. *hurry hard!*

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:01:08 -0800

Well we've been into curling since 2002! Unfortunately the ~~Scottish~~ British ladies didn't live up to expectations this time around.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:20:42 -0800

Curling Skin Exposed - 2010 Fire On Ice Olympian Women's Curling Calendar

By: snottydick

snottydick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:11:59 -0800

The team sang it at some kind of event as well.

By: uandt

uandt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:29:03 -0800

Yay! Annete is teh boss! Love the whole team