Each week, in the days leading up to Oregon’s next game, Chip Kelly selects a few songs to play repeatedly during practice. The song choices vary from the obvious (USC’s fight song before heading to the Coliseum last year) to the unexplainable (the Lion King theme music). In honor of this wholly enjoyable tradition, we here at the Duck Season blog created The Playlist. Each week, we will choose an array of songs that represent, in some obscure way, the matchup Oregon is presented with on Saturday. We can’t promise to be as creative (or ambiguous) as Kelly, but we’ll do our very best.
And so, without further ado, your Week One Playlist (warning: some songs are NSFW):
 

Title: “The Dog Days Are Over”
Artist: Florence and the Machine
Admittedly, this is a strange choice to lead off our list. You may have been expecting a thumping Lil Wayne track, or something really epic from Phil Collins. But we aren’t here to be predictable, or to provide you the soundtrack you hear at Autzen Stadium on game days. The title of this song says it all: the “dog days” of the offseason, of speeding tickets and recruiting scandals and fall practices, are over. The college football season is upon us, and could we ask for anything better than LSU-Oregon to kick things off? This is a happy song for a happy time of the year.

Title: “Otis” (Feat. Otis Redding)
Artist: Jay-Z and Kanye West
Now this is more like it. I know, I know. This song has had its fair share of airplay, and if you’re a hip hop fan you might be just a tad sick of hearing it. But I couldn’t resist including it as we prepare to visit the opulent monstrosity that is Cowboys Stadium. The basic premise of the song is that Jay-Z and Kanye West have it made. Kanye can’t remember which Benz he took out the other day, and Jay wants to call the paparazzi on himself. They live a life of, well, opulence, and nothing represents vast fortunes and unrepentant spending quite like Cowboys Stadium. “Otis” could be the soundtrack to Jerry Jones’ life (if he listed to rap, which is hilarious to imagine).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXFFI9budNI
Title: “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?”
Artist: Louis Armstrong
The Playlist is taking a bit of a melancholy turn here, but this seemed like an important song to include. Though this is essentially a home game for the Tigers (Les Miles says 50,000 tickets were sold to LSU fans), I’d be willing to bet that they wish this game could be played back home in Louisiana, where nearly 100 percent of the crowd would be rabid Tiger fans. (And yes, I’m aware that LSU plays in Baton Rouge, not New Orleans. But unfortunately, no one has ever penned a song called “Do You know What It Means To Miss Baton Rouge?”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ihRbPtfmA
Title: “Don’t Feel Right”
Artist: The Roots
Ah, The Roots. This happens to be one of my favorite songs by the hip hop collective, but it also fits well with a now infamous story about Darron Thomas’s recruitment. The Houston native was ready to commit to Les Miles and the Tigers, but when Miles repeatedly called him an “athlete” rather than “quarterback,” Thomas demurred. All of a sudden, what had once been his dream school fell off the map. Or, as goes the chorus in this song, “Seems to me nowadays things have changed/ I don’t know if I feel the same.” He didn’t, and when Chip Kelly swept in, the rest was history.

Title: “(I Know I got) Skillz”
Artist: Shaquille O’Neal
This is where things really get fun. Did you know that, in addition to being an LSU alum and now-retired NBA legend, Shaquille O’Neal a.k.a. Shaq Diesel a.k.a. Shaq Fu was once a burgeoning rap star? Above is the first single from his debut album, Shaq Diesel. I don’t know what’s more amazing: the ’90s production of this video or the fact that the album hit platinum (over one million copies sold). Choice line: “Rhymin’ is like hoopin’/I’m already a legend.” Whoa there, big fella. Slow down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Sk9zRXq5Y
Title: “Green and Yellow”
Artist: Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne is from New Orleans. He is clearly proud of his hometown. When it comes to sports, though, Wayne’s the ultimate bandwagon fan. He has, at various points in time, supported the Los Angeles Lakers, the Chicago Bulls, the Boston Red Sox , and, yes, the New Orleans Hornets (while wearing a Cincinnati Reds cap). Yet when you Google Image search “Lil Wayne LSU,” no dice. I found that amusing, and even more so when I remembered that he made this song about the Packers when they made the Super Bowl. Apparently, Wayne is a bigger Green Bay fan than he is of his hometown Tigers.

Title: “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
Artist: The Stooges
This song has nothing to do with anything, other than that it’s one of the best “let’s get jacked for football season” songs that I know of. Excited yet?