So they're on about a new national anthem for England (I thought we had one?!)
Anyway, here's four suggestions from me... Enjoy ;D
The Cheeky Girls: "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UUsMnwquo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UUsMnwquo)
Mr Blobby: "Mr Blobby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h37KQu64RY4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h37KQu64RY4)
Right Said Fred: "I'm Too Sexy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ)
Rage Against the Machine: "Killing In The Name"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ) [warning! song is NSFW 18+ ]
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 January 2016, 10:59:57 AM
So they're on about a new national anthem for England (I thought we had one?!)
I thought it was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvr6X054xLY
;D
Surely the English Anthem should be:
No, it should be...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRwXsJ3wmmo
Whilst the Billy Bragg is quite apt, can I vote for -
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 January 2016, 10:59:57 AM
(I thought we had one?!)
Right, but aren't you folks currently using our "My County 'Tis of Thee" ?
High time you went for something truly original! :)
I think it should just be a lengthened version of the theme from The Navy Lark and have done with it...... :D
My school song was Jerusalem - truly weird as the school was in Wales.
I was rather a fan of "England" by Ralph McTell when it came out in the early 1980s. Particularly the full version with the lines regarding the rows and rows of crosses, and the corner of a foreign field, which seem to have dropped out of current versions. I took a cassette of it with me when I went to Croatia in 1991, and I always found it very moving.
Mollinary
Surely it should be this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsBsQSBy4o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsBsQSBy4o)
Cheers
Ian
So as not to split the NMA vote, I withdraw my entry and back Sandinista's :D
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 January 2016, 10:59:57 AM
So they're on about a new national anthem for England (I thought we had one?!)
This quiet Scottish comedian has a good idea for a new national anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 13 January 2016, 10:50:42 PM
This quiet Scottish comedian has a good idea for a new national anthem.
If he is a quiet Scottish comedian I hate to think what a noisy one would sound like X_X
I thought it was Knees Up Mother Brown.
Quote from: WeeWars on 14 January 2016, 01:59:45 AM
I thought it was Knees Up Mother Brown.
It's got to be Flanders and Swann
IanS :)
I think it should be this (from 1m 40s onward I tell thee)
Changed me mind. I want this!
Flanders and Swan.
The English have fought just about everyone, so why have the national anthem just insulting the Scots, lets annoy them all!
I think anthems should in some way reflect the past and ancestry of a country
So could you just not take a verse from each of German, French and each of The Scandinavian countries and mix them up😀
I'd be tempted to go all Euro, and use Ken McLeod's quote, maybe set to some German techno-noise.
""Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *f***ing* weapons.""
Otherwise, perhaps just sing Eton Rifles. Sums us up pretty well, sadly.
Quote""Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *f***ing* weapons.""
I rather like that, where did it come from, the only Ken McLeod I can find on Google has a lot of stuff about Buddhism which doesn't chime quite right with the quote.
Second hit on Google :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod
Even misspelt without the "a", my fault ;D
I highly recommend his books - very good reading, especially the "Fall Revolution" series. That quote came from a response to someone posting Heinlein's rather unpleasant and inaccurate "cowards and weaklings" quote about the glorious founders of the Americas.
Never mind Europe, you might as well lob the whole world in. And surely when the Anglo-Saxons began to settle they must have fancied some of the Britons and vice versa, so you can't leave the Celts out.
How about:
Engerland, Engerland, Engerland ,(pause for breath) Engerland, Engerland,Engerland, (repeat as often as you wish!
(http://2014footballenglandclothingproductscomeonengland.co.uk/images/products/come-on-england/engerland-footy-mouse-pad.jpg)
I think that's the one!
Lager-lager-lager!
Quote from: Leman on 15 January 2016, 08:18:50 AM
Never mind Europe, you might as well lob the whole world in. And surely when the Anglo-Saxons began to settle they must have fancied some of the Britons and vice versa, so you can't leave the Celts out.
Good Idea! So, perhaps to emphase England's historic mission, something like the old Coca Cola advert, "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony" would be appropriate? ;) :D
Mollinary
Think you could replace the words with, "I'd like to rule the world again, In a red coat like Michael Caine." Should please the Daily Mail readers!
Now I do like the song "Born Slippy" but, my word, reading the lyrics they make absolutely no sense what-so-ever. Like if you were on drugs or something! ;)
Also, I'd rather have a pint of John Smith's "Magnet" Best Bitter. [this maybe only available here in the North East?]
Quote from: Leman on 16 January 2016, 02:35:56 PM
Think you could replace the words with, "I'd like to rule the world again, In a red coat like Michael Caine." Should please the Daily Mail readers!
Daily Mail?
They won't be choosing anything by Foreigner then?
;D ;D ;D ;D
You can get John Smith's Magnet in the northwest as well.
John Smith's Magnet is dreadful. Beer that bad was one of the reasons I moved away from Teesside in the 80's.
Cheers
Ian
Magnet .... not a patch on Tactical Nuclear Penguin! :)
(https://www.brewdog.com/images/products/large/1428397399TNP.jpg)
How about 'We're all in this together' to the tune of 'There'll always be an England.' Hmmm........ maybe not.
One of my favourite breweries, run by a mate as well :-)
It also has possibly the smallest pub in UK
http://www.brightbrew.co.uk/ (http://www.brightbrew.co.uk/)
Cheers
Ian
Southport boasts the smallest pub in England.
Whereas the smallest bars within a pub are in Nottingham
Quote from: Leman on 17 January 2016, 01:18:45 PM
Southport boasts the smallest pub in England.
It may boast it, but if it is the Lakeside Inn, then it is huge compared to The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds!
Mollinary
...He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink...
Name that song.
(http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article142052.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/image-7-for-sunday-mirror-pictures-gallery-169719111.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fGAF-tym5d8/Ti7FClGGvrI/AAAAAAAAOBU/dAi89oHRre0/s1600/_53991499_phone.jpg)
Doesn't count as a public house though :(
Can't beat a bit of Chumbawumba, but "A is for Anarchy" is the better album ;)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 January 2016, 01:22:00 PM
Whereas the smallest bars within a pub are in Nottingham
Yet Nottingham University boasted the longest uni bar when I was there 71-74 (never saw it all open at the same time though.
Quote from: Leman on 17 January 2016, 09:59:05 AM
How about 'We're all in this together' to the tune of 'There'll always be an England.' Hmmm........ maybe not.
We're all in this together,
of that you can be sure.
We'll keep on raising taxes,
ensuring you stay poor....
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 17 January 2016, 03:30:08 PM
Can't beat a bit of Chumbawumba, but "A is for Anarchy" is the better album ;)
The Day the Nazi Died is a good track
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: mollinary on 17 January 2016, 03:08:38 PM
It may boast it, but if it is the Lakeside Inn, then it is huge compared to The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds!
There seems to be a few competing for the title http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2615748/No-half-measures-Step-inside-smallest-pub-world-The-Signal-Box-Inn-serve-SIX-customers-time.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2615748/No-half-measures-Step-inside-smallest-pub-world-The-Signal-Box-Inn-serve-SIX-customers-time.html)
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/smallest-pub-county-creates-real-9570671 (http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/smallest-pub-county-creates-real-9570671) I'm in 3 of the photo's as well :)
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: Sandinista on 17 January 2016, 08:23:37 PM
The Day the Nazi Died is a good track
Cheers
Ian
Weirdly enough I've had that bouncing round my brain since reading the Tubthumping lyrics earlier. Which is odd, as it's not on "A is for Anarchy" at all!
I can already forsee (for hear?) tomorrow's work-music...