Those high schools lucky enough to have a band can ignore this. As we saw in the regional tournaments last week, those bands do a great job cranking the music during the pregame warm-ups.

You schools that don't have bands, you need a good warm-up CD. Something to drown out the white noise of a crowd shuffling into the arena. Proper warm-up music should be loud, and should work pump up athletes and fans alike.

As one who has been to many a game and has heard many a warm-up mix, I'd like to offer up the following suggestions for pre-game tunes. I know, many of these songs are old. But they still work.

These are in no particular order:

"Cochise" by Audioslave
"Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Shipping up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys
"Aces High" by Iron Maiden
"Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys
"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy (but find a clean version, please)
"Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC
"It's Tricky" by Run/DMC

Those eight songs should get you started. What do you think makes a good warm-up song? Do you have a favorite?

If it's Celine Dion, I don't want to know.