We simply cannot stop thinking about footy at theMusic.com.au HQ this afternoon. That's all well and good, but we're a music site, so in order to try and remain slightly relevant we've made some tenuous links between music and footy for some Friday fun.

The same can be said for our friend Urthboy, who wrote us this little intro. Guess which team/code he's backing?

"Cheering on the Swans is to side with the perennial underdog, charged with representing a city that has not fully understood the guts and poetry that shakes down the SCG every couple of weeks in Winter. Admired and feared for their fiercely proud footy culture, the Swans have become the team that every true fan respects.

"You can keep your teams with your massive supporter base and memberships; you can have your sports pages filled with AFL news and gossip; you can watch your footy show in prime time. I (mostly) don't care. Give me a team of spirited never say die conviction that doesn't know how to bottom out, somehow rising even when the escalator is on its descent, and I'll be happy. Go the Bloods; we love your guts; we love your unlikely heroes and recycled superstars; stick it up the maggots!! Let's dance!"

On that note, we need some tracks to get us through.

Don't get us wrong, World's Greatest Beer Songs Volumes 1 through 49 is perfect footy finals music and will keep everyone happy/amused, but if you really want to stir some emotions, you need to delve a little deeper.

Listen to it on Spotify or Rdio now!

AFL:

While you're all rugged up watching 100,000 freezing their arses off at the MCG on that TV you bought that is simply too big for your loungeroom, you are going to get sick of Bruce McAvaney crapping about what a momentous occasion this is. So we kick off our Footy Fever playlist with a few not-yet-acknowledged AFL anthems.

YOU AM I - Beautiful Girl

"I met her on Grand Final Day," that lyric is enough, in our not-at-all-humble opinion, to grant Timothy Adrian Rogers permission to play before, after and during every AFL Grand Final ever. It's so simple, but it captures the importance of the occasion in an incredible way.

DEAD MEADOW - Such Hawks Such Hounds

If you close your eyes during this slow burning piece of psyched out beauty and completely, ignore the lyrics, you can just picture the 1961 VFL Grand Final where the Hawthorn Hawks took down the Footscray Bulldogs to win their first flag. Hawks and Hounds... get it? Told you it was tenuous.

SWANS - Lunacy

It is said to be completely untrue that Michael Gira named his legendary New York post-punk band after the Sydney AFL team and said to be completely co-incidental that the band formed in 1982, the same year the team moved from South Melbourne to Sydney. This tense piece from their recently released album The Seer should have you crapping your pants about the game though.

HAWKWIND - Night Of The Hawks

Okay, it's a bit long, but this would make a pretty bloody stellar club song for the Hawthorn side. We could see Buddy Franklin belting it out with gusto after a big win.

CAMERA OBSCURA - Swans

After the intensity of the past couple of songs, this little slice of indie-pop will lighten the mood a little bit. But if your team is losing, the chirpiness of it is going to shit you to tears.

THE TEMPER TRAP - This Isn't Happiness

There can only be one winner at the end of the season, which also means that there is going to be a loser. This song is for them, we hope The Temper Trap dedicate it to the losing team tomorrow night.

NRL

THE BAHA MEN - Who Let The Dogs Out

If you want to make a Storm fan very angry on Sunday evening, just put this on repeat for 80 minutes. Or, even better, just scream it in their ears.

PAUL KELLY - Gathering Storm

We're secretly hoping this whole Good Charlotte/The Script is a big ruse and Paul Kelly will jump on a plane and perform the pre-game entertainment, after he's serenaded the Melbourne side with this gorgeous tune (with Cooper Cronk providing the harmonies).

GRINSPOON - Dogs

We thought Phil Jamieson was a South Sydney fan?

BILLY JOEL - Storm Front

We're willing to spend a lot of time re-arranging this song so that the Melbourne Storm can make it their team song. A few changed lyrics and a massivekick into the chorus and you'd scare the pants off people moreso than Billy Joel does at most other times.

THE FAUVES - Dogs Are The Best People

This could be used in the same way as the Baha Men, if you're looking for a way less annoying and more awesome way of pissing off your Melbourne-supporting mates.

EVERYONE:

GOOD CHARLOTTE - March On

One for the referees. Hopefully Good Charlotte can play this one on Sunday evening in honour of those men who cop so much of our shit all year around. "March on" is a really good way of avoiding the words "fuck off" if you're around small children too. Just a little tip.

ROSE TATTOO - We Can't Be Beaten

Because no celebration is complete without it.

THE SCRIPT - We Cry

You can be guaranteed that there will be tears at both finals on the weekend, but we reckon The Script will be the cause of most of them on Sunday.