Highest Ranked Song: “We Like To Party”- Vengaboys (#8) Ok, now that we’ve established that, let’s see how these compilations faired. The second is that “Rock & Roll, Part 2” by Gary Glitter had to be dead last, because fuck that creepy dude. The first is that I removed any megamix track, mostly because the songs that were all smushed together into one song were all included as individual tracks on other mixes. I will include the master song ranking at the end of this piece, but you should know that I had two rules I stuck by. I added up the total points from each of the five albums, divided that by the total number of tracks (to avoid a density bias), and was given a number that I call, “The Jock Jams Rating”. Once I ranked the songs, I assigned each song a number where the worst song received one point and we began working up the list until the best Jock Jam got the maximum 77 points.
Because it is the ultimate jam for the jocks. Is “Get Ready For This” playing? Of course it is.
This is why the number one song is 2 Unlimited’s “Get Ready For This”.
Sure, the song was present, and yeah, it was a jam… but it wasn’t a JOCK JAM. I don’t remember hearing this song while the high school basketball team took practice lay-ups. Of the 77 songs I ranked, there is probably no better song on the list than Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money, Mo Problems”, yet that song is only 21 st on my list because while it is a great song, it’s not a Jock Jam. Because the second criteria was something I found a lot more important: “How much of a (jock) jam is this song?” The first criteria was, “How good is this song?” and while that seems important, it was the lesser of the two categories. In order to find the best Jock Jams compilation, I first ranked every song from all five volumes using two criteria. Hey, everyone… let’s get ready to rumble. That being said, why just enjoy nostalgia when you can, instead, over-analyze and use math to suck out all the fun of these songs so you can rank which Jock Jams album is the best one? They were everywhere.Īnd even though some of the songs weren’t great, or even very good, there is something about these massive ESPN-produced mixtapes (all released under the Tommy Boy Music label) that just feels fun. I heard wedding parties use them to as introduction music. I heard them at junior high and high school dances. I heard them at sporting events- like, all sporting events. As someone who grew up in the 1990’s, the Jock Jams series of songs were everywhere in my life.
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