{"id":199504,"date":"2025-06-15T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=199504"},"modified":"2025-06-21T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:22:16","slug":"top-five-list-the-songs-pro-wrestling-fans-should-have-on-their-playlists-that-arent-directly-about-pro-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/06\/15\/top-five-list-the-songs-pro-wrestling-fans-should-have-on-their-playlists-that-arent-directly-about-pro-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP FIVE LIST: The songs pro wrestling fans should have on their playlists that aren&#8217;t directly about pro wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2022245349\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>As the owner of Nerdstalgia, a physical media &amp; pop culture collectibles store, I consider myself a bit of a pop culture expert. Also being a massive pro wrestling fan all my life, I love it when the crossover happens, even if it\u2019s partially just me compensating by my nerdy love being recognized as cool for a moment. Today, I thought I\u2019d give some love to five of the songs a wrestling fan should have in their playlist, that aren\u2019t directly about professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Asco6xgp_k&amp;si=aV8q8itx9Y0purJM\">Weezer &#8211; \u201cEl Scorcho\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weezer was a band I adored in junior high. Their \u201cBlue Album\u201d was at the top of my list of CDs I wanted to own, but growing up with a bit of a controlling father, it was forbidden in our Christian-and-Country-Music-only household. A few years later, I picked up not only my coveted \u201cBlue Album,\u201d but I also checked out \u201cPinkerton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While underrated my critics and the masses, there was a fandom that saw that album for what it was, groundbreaking. This record eventually was the birth of what would come to be known as Emo. Within that record was a song called \u201cEl Scorcho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When trying to learn what this girl he is fascinated with finds to be cool, the singer of the song decides to read her diary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo I went to your room and read your diary<br \/>\nWatching Grunge leg-drop New Jack through a press table<br \/>\nAnd then my heart stopped listening to Cio-Cio San<br \/>\nFall in love all over again\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a home where Weezer wasn\u2019t allowed, ECW was. It was all stupid, fake \u2018Rasslin to my father, so no attention was paid! Hearing this band I loved with references to Johnny Grunge putting New Jack through a table was a cool insider line that I got, and I knew very few did.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=CO5GaVJiRwo&amp;si=Uta4AnbQtoCTNSsT\">R.E.M. &#8211; \u201cMan on the Moon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While not a direct wrestling reference, R.E.M.\u2019s song \u201cMan on the Moon\u201d has some clever pro wrestling references in the opening lyrics.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3765308570\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMott the Hoople and the Game of Life<br \/>\nYeah-yeah-yeah-yeah<br \/>\nAndy Kaufman in the wrestling match<br \/>\nYeah-yeah-yeah-yeah<br \/>\nMonopoly, 21 checkers, and chess<br \/>\nYeah-yeah-yeah-yeah<br \/>\nMister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess<br \/>\nYeah-yeah-yeah-yeah\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are two icons that you need to learn about if you\u2019re interested in the history of pro wrestling. Andy Kaufman was the first celebrity to become involved in a wrestling angle. He would wrestle women as a part of his comedy shows, and brought it to the Memphis territory, where it became an angle with national attention, in an era where wrestling was very much regionalized. A wrestling angle on Dave Letterman\u2019s talk show that started at midnight may as well been Fozzy playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It just wasn\u2019t possible!<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cIs This Guy For Real?,\u201d an autobiography about Andy, his entire act of riling up an audience &#8211; anti-comedy that is more for those in on the joke, rather than the audience themselves &#8211; was inspired by the time he saw professional wrestling in Madison Square Garden. He would see people with the job to make people dislike them, and he said no one did it better than Freddie Blassie. They did a movie together called \u201cMy Breakfast with Blassie\u201d that is worth watching if you\u2019re a devoted fan, but there the Jim Carey movie of the same title as this song, that even contains this song on the soundtrack, that I believe should be watched by all. Andy was a one of a kind performer and deserves to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p><em>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of &#8220;Wrestling Coast to Coast&#8221; with Chris Maitland and Justin McClelland, part of the PWTorch Dailycast line-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/wrestling-coast-to-coast-maitland-mcclelland-review-prestige-dpw-west-coast-pro-wrestling-s-unit3d-incl-sinner-saint-vs-cowboy-way--66521386\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cpwtorch\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wrestling Coast to Coast - Maitland &amp; McClelland review Prestige\/DPW\/West Coast Pro Wrestling's Unit3D incl. Sinner &amp; Saint vs. Cowboy Way\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=66521386&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nfGYVbdWREh57DinQdA-3D-iL0IqkwjrQ&amp;si=gg5b44J0G_qvekaP\">Method Man &amp; Redman &#8211; \u201cBlackout!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Method Man has often been outspoken about being a wrestling fan. He\u2019s made appearances for WWE and was featured in the underrated Def Jam Vendetta wrestling game. In the titular track from the first album he did with Redman, he rapped a description of himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNow I\u2032m the streettalkin&#8217;, dogwalkin\u2032<br \/>\nApproach me with extreme caution, Oh now how you forcin&#8217;?<br \/>\nMy hand that rock yo&#8217; cradle often I\u2032m hot-scorchin\u2032,<br \/>\nbut stone cold like Steve Austin<br \/>\nIf you smell what Tical cookin&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One will find more rap lyrics dedicated to wrestling than any other genre, but this song was the first time I heard them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=phLb_SoPBlA&amp;si=tIaYJiSrqfPAf_2A\">Kendrick Lamar &#8211; \u201cNot Like Us\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the big one. Most people have heard this track. The song \u201cNot Like Us\u201d is the biggest diss track since 2Pac called out Biggie. Bigger than any of Eminem\u2019s beefs. Hip hop in its purest form is a battle, and proving you\u2019re the best. Often this takes aim and \u201ccalls out names,\u201d which is where it becomes personal. This was the first time that type of purity in rap music has ever been featured on a stage as large as the 2025 Super Bowl. In the song, there are a couple of lines that I will edit around to make known his feelings about Drake that referenced wrestling.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3987381780\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat\u2032s up with these jabroni-ass ****** tryna see Compton?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m sure this will be referenced again in a future article about wrestling phrases used in the mainstream. As most reading this article know, a jabroni was a slang term for enhancement talent. They were there to do the \u201cjob.\u201d They were losers. The Rock popularized this phrase, calling all of his opponents jabronis, and now it has been used in an iconic rap song. But, not just once was there a mention, but also a reference to ending Drake in the same manner a Heart Break Kid in Shawn Michaels used to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPut the wrong label on me, I&#8217;ma get \u2032em dropped, ay<br \/>\nSweet Chin Music, and I won&#8217;t pass the aux, ay\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=QufTQDgSOTE&amp;si=h__mLLgbQ5mCgjNZ\">Metro Boomin\u2019 &#8211; \u201cRic Flair Drip\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As stated previously, many rap songs out there may reference a wrestler, a hold, or holding a championship, but only one song, not including theme songs, cemented for decades the iconic position of Ric Flair. The man was always known for his style, his money, and his enthusiasm for showing it all off. No lyrics really need to be added when it says it all in the title. Rap has often delved into the flashy lifestyle of success, and the money, cars, jewelry, clothes, and so much more come with that success. Ric Flair is a perfect embodiment of that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wade Keller Post-show (6\/13) - WWE Smackdown w\/cohost Chris Adams\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgF717CKPvw?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-6683556\"><div id=\"pwtor-2450016394\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As the owner of Nerdstalgia, a physical media &amp; pop culture collectibles store, I consider myself a bit of a pop culture expert. 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