Stanford actually has two fight songs. The official fight song (which is terrible, by the way) is “Come Join the Band” and it is over 100 years old and set to the tune of nobody gives a damn.

Stanford’s de facto fight song is actually “All Right Now” by the English rock band Free and truth be told it isn’t that great of a song. The reason Stanford’s unofficial fight song made my list is largely due to the band that performs it.

Now why the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band chose to embrace this song is beyond me, but I assume they had their reasons. Attempting to ascertain those reasons would be a fool’s errand, as the LSJUMB as a group is both certifiably insane and supremely awesome. I know, I know – supremely awesome band? Indeed they are, and they deserve your respect, dear reader.

Evidence

In 1986, the University suspended the band from traveling to the UCLA football game scheduled on November 8, 1986 after incidents in previous games that season. First, on October 11, 1986, an infamous incident of public urination happened following the home football game against the University of Washington. Second, during the halftime show of the home USC game on October 19, 1986, the band spelled out “NO BALLZ”. Finally, for the next game they performed an anagram show and spelled out an anagrammed four-letter word (“NCUT”).

No other band has ever accomplished anything even half as impressive during a 3-game span.

The band typically looks something like this:

And then there’s this:

I highly doubt that any other band would attempt to foil a hated enemy’s miraculous comeback themselves.

So now that I’ve set the bar for future posts in this series unrealistically high, here is the song itself: