Will/Should 'Gloria" be retired?

[LetsGoBooze]

Retire it.

It's special.

We won the Cup the year it happened.

We will always remember it as the song that underlined the Cup run.

This. Plus i'm sure the players already are/will be sick of it by the start of next season.

 

[Rarename91]

Put her on the shelf and bring her out for Cup series clinchers.

That's four times a year - that's plenty.

NO all the time.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Fans of teams that hate us hate hearing that song. As one board described it, "it's worse than hearing 'Chelsea Dagger' in Chicago."

That's sweet music to my ears. I say keep playing it.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I have a caveat for my earlier answer. If it REAAAAALLLY bugs other teams, they should play it all the damn time.

 

[STL BLUES]

Agree that Gloria’s future is in the hands of the players. Let them decide. I doubt she goes forward.

Please stop with the John Denver song. It has nothing to do with St Louis nor the Blues. That song make me blow chunks every time it’s sung.

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling
That I…

OMG can we retire this John Denver classic.



Hell I’d be happy if the fans retired this John Denver classic and replaced it with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

 

[KingBran]

Agree that Gloria’s future is in the hands of the players. Let them decide. I doubt she goes forward.

Please stop with the John Denver song. It has nothing to do with St Louis nor the Blues. That song make me blow chunks every time it’s sung.

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling
That I…

OMG can we retire this John Denver classic.



Hell I’d be happy if the fans retired this John Denver classic and replaced it with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Who cares if it has nothing to do with STL. It's just a song people like to sing together. I kind of like that it bothers people like that too.

 

[fishsandwichpatrol]

I'm fine with it continuing into this season and if we win again then using it again until we lose, but I think it should be retired as soon as we're no longer defending champions, or at least only used on somewhat special occasions and not an everyday thing

 

[STL BLUES]

... I kind of like that it bothers people like that too.

Age Discrimination Is Alive And Well In The Digital Age.

 

[TheDizee]

who cares

 

[Note Worthy]

who cares

Sorry it wasn't a thread about people drinking at a celebration parade. I know that's your biggest interest.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

Crowd singing John Denver is fun. Why are people advocating removing stuff that’s fun? Get over it.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Team finally finds a winning culture and people want to retire parts of it?

You don't retire that, you instill it and amplify it.

 

[Punished ROR]

Fans of teams that hate us hate hearing that song. As one board described it, "it's worse than hearing 'Chelsea Dagger' in Chicago."

That's sweet music to my ears. I say keep playing it.

Makes me wonder what Gloria would sound like as a goal song ... but it'd never happen.

 

[Kreegz2]

I'll probably be crucified for this but I never really liked the Gloria craze so I'll be happy if it gets retired. I'd rather hear some good old organ music than any prerecorded crap anyway. The more organ music the better. It kinda irked me that the year we finally won the cup was the year that our old traditions and culture of organ music got shunted to the side in favor of Gloria and that terrible goal song. Country Roads can stay but I'd still rather chant "When the Blues Go Marching In".

 

[Mike Liut]

She’s run her course. Time to move on. What’s next, 70’s disco? Bee Gees? Donna Summer?

 

[Edgar Carrow]

Makes me wonder what Gloria would sound like as a goal song ... but it'd never happen.

Epic. That's how it would sound.

 

[Brockon]

She’s run her course. Time to move on. What’s next, 70’s disco? Bee Gees? Donna Summer?

Still better than the Dallas goal song if it happens.

 

[Meatball]

It would make sense for Gloria to become our "Chelsea Dagger", but on the other hand, it was to the 2018-19 Blues what "Celebration" was to the '82 Cardinals.

Time to let it rest. Also, we own the comment section in the YouTube clip.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

She’s run her course. Time to move on. What’s next, 70’s disco? Bee Gees? Donna Summer?

What's wrong with the Bee Gees?

 

[STL Stanley Cup]

I doubt they will retire it

 

[sfvega]

It was the team's call to start it, it should be the team's call to end it. I just don't want bars and places to play it after regular season wins. If the locker room/arena wants to play it, that's not up to us. But I'm pretty done with it until there is a long enough gap to make me nostalgic for it, which shouldn't be too long. But having heard it (thankfully) for months and months, the burnout is real.

 

[Stlblue50]

I'll probably be crucified for this but I never really liked the Gloria craze so I'll be happy if it gets retired. I'd rather hear some good old organ music than any prerecorded crap anyway. The more organ music the better. It kinda irked me that the year we finally won the cup was the year that our old traditions and culture of organ music got shunted to the side in favor of Gloria and that terrible goal song. Country Roads can stay but I'd still rather chant "When the Blues Go Marching In".

I’m with you on this for sure! Too much crappy music being played at games in general these days. Although the Blues completely nailed the playoff pregame videos, with great speeches from Chaser/Ect. The “dream on” into the team taking the ice to Enter Sandman was bleeping sweet!!

The story of Gloria randomly being discovered the night before Binny’s first start is the best part of it. Outside of reading an article in February about the song, I don’t recall it getting playing on the Enterprise PA until after we clinched vs the Jets.

 

[simon IC]

I think Gloria is pretty classy! I also think that the fans chants are fun and inspiring without being offensive. I think as long as we don't chant "you suck" or "It's all your fault" and don't have strobe lights around the penalty box, we will be okay.

 

[Ranksu]

Blues new winning song. I love it.

 

[rumrokh]

Blues new winning song. I love it.