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Righty ho. So it's that time of the decade again, where every two years our national football team scrapes through into a major tournament and then...drat! goes out on penalties to the cream of Port Vale or someone as equally beguiling. Of course it's the ref's/lino's/commentator's/bloke in the crowd with the striped hat's fault so Sven can laugh all the way to the bank in his final swansong as England manager safe in the knowledge that he's probably got A.N.other job lined up somewhere on the Italian or Spanish riviera worth megabucks and the odd hand shandy.
But still, that doesn't excuse the fact that the Football Association went for one of the most diluted, pedestrian acts on the planet to perform what is supposed to be a representation of the average English football fan's passion, commitment and desire over a three and a bit minute song. Let's face it folks, terrace anthem this ain't, although I'm sure even the staunchest of Embrace fans would've known that from the off.
To be fair, it's not a bad Embrace song by their standards, but at the same time, when you've heard one McNamara vocal you've heard them all, and some.
I suppose, theoretically, 'World At Your Feet' is the perfect epitaph for Sven's reign as England's number one - staid, disinterested, and passionless. Oh well, here's to Austria and Switzerland and Euro 2008.
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is that none of the songs this year are any good
we need a song like fat les' vindaloo
Have you heard
that Hamiltons one?
Now that really does scrape the bottom of the biscuit barrel.
Have you seen the video
for the video for it? Neil Hamilton is sexy
Just for a moment ...
... I dared to dream that you didn't mean Neil and Christine Hamilton. But you did. So the world must pay.
<goes postal>
They should just
release Three Lions at every tournament.
Every football song ever is rubbish by comparison.
No
not seen the video. I daren't look to be honest...
I don't wanna trash this for the sake of it...
...and it's by no means unlistenable. But to me it's one of the best cases in point of the thing that I think blights so many songs; people writing catch-all, generalised lyrics and refusing to commit to anything specific (Keane's new song also suffers badly from this)
I mean, for fuck's sake, it's England's offical World Cup song but still the guy can't commit to anything more than a few slight hints that song might, just might, be about football.
Plus I can't help thinking someone who could actually write a catchy singalong pop song (Kaiser Chiefs maybe?) would have done a much better job.
Adam and Joe
should release their football song.
"Ball, ball, ball, footy, footy, footy, ball, ball, ball, FOOTBALL!"
that song is fantastic
and i'm not even being ironic
ha...
G.L.E.N.N.H.O.D.D.L.E. Glenn Hoddle Is Having A Goal!
why oasis have never done one baffles me still
"stop crying your heart out' was the most poignant moment of the last world cup, and they're clearly perfect for an england tune:
know 4 chords, write stomping choruses have a limited vocabulary. they'd have done a cracker...
as if
World in Motion pwns Three Lions
!!!!
now that was a song,
Also.
His name is Bobby (ooh ooh) Bobby De Niro (ahh ahh)
or at least
Half Man Half Biscuit's 'Bob Wilson - anchorman'
Why football needs an anthem still eludes me
I blame you all for the fact that Tony flanging Christie is going to be foistered upon my poor ears for another summer. Ye gods, please, no!
well
football needs an anthem because if you look back at what it did in euro 96 and it was phenomenal. If you can unite the nation singing/buying one song it just helps and terrace singing helps too. Three Lions still sends the shivers down my spine and gets me going
three lions
was re-released on monday.
this would be great news. but they haven't edited the "thirty years of hurt" to be "forty years of hurt", so it's a bit daft
I heard
that Fat Les were going to do a version of 'Let's Stick Together' by Bryan Ferry, replacing the chorus with
"It's Fucking England! Come On, Come On You Fucking England!!!"
Now that would have been a terrace lifter!
Can you honestly imagine how fucking dull the terraces will be if all the fans start singing in Danny Mcnamara voices. ugh...
It helps...officially
Referees favour the home side i.e. the side with the most fans doing the most SINGING by 15% - and thats a fact from a recent FA study.
So singing officially helps.
Although maybe not Danny Embrace's singing.
Oasis
should've done it.
Kaiser Chiefs
Should have released "Everyday We Mention Sixty Six."
I reckon.
Either that or "I predict the usual premature exit amid a load of excuses about referees, the weather, and those blasted Johnny Foreigners."
best world cup song
is at http://www.wereengland.com/, by beauty & the geek's ed and will
listen to it
I liked England's Irie by Black Grape
...that was just silly.
Embrace... pfff. First album, pretty good. Second album, a near classic. Third album, hard going as it's pretty much all about a relationship breakup. Fourth album... dull beyond words. Fifth album, not purchased.
I guess the point I'm making is that they have shown themselves to be capable of making decent music so it's a shame to see them descend into such M.O.R. bilge.
figures
we live in a society obsessed with recapturing past glories - whether it be pillaging old movies for remakes, the "modern" music scene, stands to reason people want to recapture an atmospheric moment. repeating an emotion - it's never the same second time round. when will people learn?
what?
The second album by embrace? You mean the one with kazoo's on it?
keith allen
co-wrote both englands irie and world in motion.
that bastard
seems to have been involved in nearly every football song ever recorded.
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