BadFish Boom Box Beat
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This page is a compilation of music selections contributed by USS Bremerton (SSN-698) shipmates who responded to the question:
“Name one song that brings you back to your years on the boat.”
Each entry, currently in order of being submitted, is headed by the shipmate’s name and the years he served on 698. You may click on the songs, they are almost all linked to a YouTube music video for your convenience.
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MIKE MEEHAN, EM1(SS)
1983 – 1986
RICH CROMBIE, STS1(SS)
1978 – 1980 & 1984 – 1986
Rich notes: This is the video I made with music from the Alan Parsons Project with news and Navy footage of her pulling into Bremerton for the last time. We played this at the 2018 reunion.
SKIP CLAWSON, YN2(SS)
1980 – 1984
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STEVE EVERETT, MMC(SS)
1982 – 1985
RUSS WOODS, IC2(SS)
1979 – 1983
JIM JONES, IC2(SS)
1980 – 1983
The Dives We’ve Known – Tommy Cox
Jim notes: Any of his songs
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TIM PAYNE, EM1(SS)
1978 – 1982
RON SHIREY, FTG1(SS)DV
1980 – 1983
Main Street – Bob Seger
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MATT MASON, EMC(SS)
2004 – 2009
Tell me are you a Badfish too – Sublime
Matt notes: How’s no one else posted this yet 
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JOHN DAVID SCOTT, MS2(SS)
1988 – 1991
Welcome to the Jungle – Guns N Roses
John David notes: 4 years onboard, 1st boat… beginning of 88 – Dec 91
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BILL PATTERSON, MM3(SS)
1982 – 1984
CHALLEN YEE, STS1(SS)DV
1983 – 1986
Red Skies – The Fixx
Challen notes: This reminds me mostly of the first year of being stationed on Bremerton and my new life in the Islands, getting lot of exposure to the tropical evenings and sunsets from Waikiki (when we were in port, the hot running boat that we were).
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TODD BARNETT, RM2(SS)
1984-1988
Keep your hands to yourself – The Georgia Satellites
Todd Notes: … we sang “got a short-timers chain in my pocket!”
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JOHN StCLAIR, MM3(SS)
1986 – 1988
Big City Nights – Scorpions
John notes: late 1986 – 1988
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DAVID CORTESE, ET2(N)/SS
1982 – 1985
White Wedding – Billy Idol
Dave notes: First time I heard White Wedding (Billy Idol), was in a bar in Olangapo City.
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TREY CARRIVEAUX, ET1(SS) RC-DIV
2001 – 2006
“Party Up (Up in Here)” – Original music and lyrics by DMX* (link TBD)
Trey notes: I don’t remember the guy’s name but there was an A-Ganger who brought his guitar and started playing and singing a country version of DMX’s “Up in here”.
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MITCH JONES, MM2(N)SS
1995 – 2000
Mambo #5, Lou Bega
Mitch notes: Definitely heard Mambo #5 on westpac alot! (Made MM1 on my way to prototype in SC).
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JENS MICHAELSEN, EM1(SS)
2007 – 2011
A Bay Bay – Hurricane Chris
Jens notes: Just picture wandering around Waikiki saying this… Ahhhh, I miss those shenanigans where the bars didn’t close until 4.
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DAN SHERMAN, ET2 (SS)
1991 – 1996
Pride and Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Dan notes: All I can say is I remember Craig Wortham playing his guitar and singing Stevie Ray Vaughn “Pride and Joy and George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” with Mike Trail (see Mike Trail’s selection).
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CLINT CERA, QM2(SS)
1992 – 1996
Don’t Take The Girl – Tim McGraw
Clint notes: The guys kept playing it on the mess decks.
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ROBERT BERRY, MMA2(SS)
2009 – 2013
Badfish – Sublime
Robert notes: My first time pulling into Guam, the girls at the club said “we’re going to play the Bremerton song for you guys!”
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RIGO BACA, STS3(SS)
2009 – 2014
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
Rico notes: It was a great song to be constantly field daying too. Left as a STS3, now a STS1.
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TONY WALTERS, ET(N)/SS
Can’t Deny It – Fabolous
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JOSH MELLON
2017 – 2018 (split tour)
Boys are back in Town – Thin Lizzy
Josh notes: Played over the 1MC pulling back into port after the boat’s final depoyment. Served on board for the last 2 deployments before split touring to stay in Hawaii.
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JOHN DENNEM, YN2(SS)
1986 – 1989
Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
John notes: We had cassette tapes and a cassette player. It was a great song and by the time we got back from that westpac it was song of the year.
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Wes Bringham, CAPT
2013 – 2016
Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution – AC/DC
Wes notes: While I was onboard, I looked up songs released the week of commissioning. The two songs that stuck out to me were Blondie’s Rapture and Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution (AC/DC)…you can imagine which one I picked…we would play this on the boat’s birthday, March 27th, 1981 over the 1MC (the NAV ETs) put a Jack into the XOs stateroom to play songs during field day, battle stations, or when coming out of emcon. Best song played over the 1MC? AC/DC. Worst? I can Bake a Cake by Lil Debbie (not my choice, raffled off). We would pick songs for battle stations, goal was to relieve before the song ended.
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KENT SMITH, RM3(SS) & SHERMAN SMITH, QM2(SS)
1983 – 1985, 1983 – 1986
Ohm Sweet Ohm – Kraftwerk
Sherman notes: Kent and I were at Great Lakes when we both bought the first Sony Walkman. So Glass Works just came out the year I got to the boat. Oxygene, Kraft Werks Ohlm Sweet Ohlm. That would have been “82”.
DOUGLAS JENKINS, YN2(SS)
1983 – 1986
Jump – Van Halen
Doug notes: We were on a dependents cruise to Maui, Great weekend.
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JUAN ACOSTA, SN(SS)
1981 – 1983
Lakeside – Fantastic Voyage
Juan notes: This was one of my favorite songs, it came out when I was in Sub School a couple ofmonths before I reported to the Bremerton. I used to play it on my boombox and later my Pioneer version of a Walkman!
MIKE TRAIL, ET2(NAV)(SS)DV
1990 – 1994
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
Mike notes: Jeff Laub rewrote the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald to be Bremerton Appropriate without Wrecking. We sang it for Half-Way Night WP 93. If someone still has the words to it, it’s a classic!
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TOM MacPHILLIPS, ET3(SS)
1979-1983
Torpedo in the Water – The Tommy Cox Band
Tom Notes: Plankowner
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