Seven Nation Army

Ted, you turned on the computer over here.

Hamza sang Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.

So many great picks this week.

Again, scenario, what is a song that feels patriotic without being a patriotic song? Inso, get us your picks.

Exactly.

You would hear The Strokes' Last Nite, and the very next track would be The Killers' Mr. Brightside, followed immediately by the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.

That was the literal soundtrack to every college party.

Right.

It's a banger, though.

Next on the list is Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes.

Oh, that's a keep.

Keep.

I'm good keeping this.

This is a banger.

All right, so you've kept In Da Club, you've kept Seven Nation Army, you've kept Bring Me To Life.

You've cut Numb by Linkin Park, cut Get Low by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz.

that there is, and it's, and I had to like, the tune was like sticking in my mind and I'm like, I know that song, I know that song, I know that song.

And then I realized that it was the White Stripes Seven Nation Army going, oh, it was nice to hear that again.

Nice to hear that again.

Yeah.

October 22nd 2003 at the Sunseedle Stadium when the reigning champions of Europe were stunned by a Belgian underdog.

This is the story of how Seven Nation Army by a two-piece rock band from Detroit became football's unofficial anthem and how it all runs through and begins with AC Milan.

I'm Frank Risotto, and this is Calcio Strano.

Let's set the stakes.

It was match day three of the Champions League group stage and nobody outside of Belgium, and more than likely even those inside Belgium, expected nothing but a routine Milan win.

Before kick-off, pockets of Club Bruges supporters were doing what football fans do on an away road trip, having a few beers in the city centre and in and around the bars near the Sunseed Hall.

And on the stereo that night was a song that had come out seven months earlier, Seven Nation Army, the lead single from a band called The White Stripes, and their album Elephant.

It hadn't even been a huge hit at the time, peaking at number 76 on the US Billboard chart in May of that year.

But there was a video from underneath the Richmond train station overpass on Swan Street.

And they had Seven Nation Army blaring.

And because there were so many cops down there, the red and white lights.

I was there.

I was literally there.

Absolutely bonkers.

And the crowd was singing Seven Nation Army.

And I like White Stripes.

Yeah.

Seven Nation Army, White Stripes, Mark the Spark, he says.

Yeah, a lot of interest.

Stranglehold by the Nuge.