Who has the best national anthem? The nominations thread

[JTG]

I'm still waiting for someone to come along and tell me the Internationale is the only anthem they need

 

[JTG]

although they still exist after a fashion, my dad tells me they're only a shadow of their communist era selves.

About time for a Red Army reunion tour

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Italian and Irish

 

[spring-peeper]

it's the canadian anthem sung by the red army choir.

ah - that is one of my favourite versions.

thanks for the link, btw - gonna get someone to download it.

At one of the recent olympics, they played the most horrid version of our national anthem and it was too short. Even the commentators were saying we would prefer to have silence than to hear it again. Turns out the head of the committee that looks after all the olympic anthems was canadain. iirc, he actually signed off on this version. Now I know I'll have a good version.

 

[twistedAM]

Italian and Irish

Yes and No.

 

[stavros]

Why doesn't England have it's own national anthem? "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" would be my nomination.

 

[Detroit City]

Why doesn't England have it's own national anthem? "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" would be my nomination.

 

[stavros]

It's something that does piss me off. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own, which I mostly hear at sporting events, but England just goes with "God Save The Queen", which hardly speaks for republican atheists. Although, perhaps we could have two anthems, the traditional one and then the Sex Pistols one.

 

[danny la rouge]

Why doesn't England have it's own national anthem?

Because for too long they thought England was synonymous with Britain, but since devolution are having to relearn that it isn't?

 

[lenny101]

Italy without a doubt.

 

[stavros]

Because for too long they thought England was synonymous with Britain, but since devolution are having to relearn that it isn't?

Yeah, I suppose. That's another thing that pisses me off; I don't know enough about their functions to say whether the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies are a good thing or not, but either way is it not unfair that us English don't have our own as well?

/thread derailment

 

[geminisnake]

I'm with you JTG on the choices but would put them Italy, USSR, then France.

I am trying to learnt the words to a few italian tunes just now, the anthem and Figaro being two of them

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Spain's La Marcha Real, because it doesn't have any lyrics. The über-nationalist Franco-era words have been ditched, and all subsequent attempts to introduce patriotic lyrics have failed.

 

[danny la rouge]

Derail alert:

is it not unfair that us English don't have our own as well?

I'd say so, yes; it makes a nonsense of Westminster. (Gordon Brown doesn't have any say on education, health, Home Affairs, agriculture, fisheries and forestry, economic development, environment, food standards, courts, police, fire services, local government, sport and the arts, transport, training, tourism, social work etc in his own constituency, but he does have a say on all that for England. Therefore he can do what he likes to legislate on all these matters, safe in the knowledge that it won't affect Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath).

The answer is either a federal UK, or independence for the constituent parts.

 

[isitme]

somone should do a breakcore or jungle remix of it

for all I know they probably have

There is a tune by BabyDemo with some of the Soviet anthem

England should have Land of Hope and Glory as our Anthem, it's a nicer tune and a lot less political

Ze Germans have a gut national anthem as well

 

[JTG]

France
Italy
USSR/Russian Federation
Wales
South Africa
Canada
Rupublic of Ireland
Spain
Germany

Couple more hours or so and I'll stick a poll up

 

[JTG]

It's something that does piss me off. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own, which I mostly hear at sporting events, but England just goes with "God Save The Queen", which hardly speaks for republican atheists. Although, perhaps we could have two anthems, the traditional one and then the Sex Pistols one.

Northern Ireland doesn't have its own. The football team uses God Save the Queen, the Commonwealth Games team has Danny Boy

 

[Fedayn]

Why doesn't England have it's own national anthem? "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" would be my nomination.

It does, it's Jerusalem.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The Italian would be the best if they packed it in after the first verse and chorus.

 

[Silva]

I like Finland's anthem. The Canadian one is ace, so is the Russian.

 

[skyscraper101]

It does, it's Jerusalem.

I like Jerusalem. Good tune.

When does it actually get used though?

 

[JTG]

English cricket team use it

 

[danny la rouge]

It does, it's Jerusalem.

It's a good tune. Didn't New Labour usurp it?

 

[killer b]

no, that was things can only get better.

 

[danny la rouge]

no, that was things can only get better.

(They didn't though, did they? )

 

[killer b]

tbh i think it's the tories who play it.

 

[JTG]

The Tories do use it but I believe Labour decided to use it as well lately.

 

[killer b]

how apt.

 

[danny la rouge]

The Tories do use it but I believe Labour decided to use it as well lately.

I thought so.

 

[danny la rouge]

Yes, on checking, they've closed Labour Conferences with Jerusalem since 2004.