National Anthem

[Moctezuma]

England needs to bin off 'God Save the Queen' for a start it's a right dirge, secondarily it assumes everyone is some royalist twirp.

 

What would you replace it with?

 

I heard someone recently say that That's Entertainment by the Jam would be good with lines like:

 

Waking up at 6 A.M. on a cool warm morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
Watching the telly and thinking 'bout your holidays

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

Just replace the That's Entertainment bit with That's Fucking England, or maybe a Town Called Malice would be better.

 

 

Re Scotland I reckon we need to move on from gloating about a battle we won 700 hundred years ago and get onto something more positive. Five hundred miles is often belted out in conjunction with Flower of Scotland but I'm not sure I'd want that as a national anthem, though I suppose it would get the blood pumping.

 

Also if the UK were to break into regional areas should the south get something like Lazy Afternoon by the Kinks and Northern Ireland grab Teenage Kicks?

[Bjornebye]

The Pistols version.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

God Save the Queen is the UK national anthem, that the English use because they're too shit to get a tune of their own.

 

I'm both English and British (but, primarily, Scouse) and I feel no urge to call on a being that doesn't exist to keep me subjugated by some inbred shower of cunts.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Stu Monty]

Quite simple really. The National Anthem by Radiohead.

[cloggypop]

This Is England by The Clash (the only good song on their last album)

 

 

If not that then National Shite Day by Half Man Half Biscuit.

 

[Mook]

Can't say I'm arsed about the English one although I do like the ELP version of Jeruselum.

 

For Scotland it should be Caledonia by Dougie MacLean, a fucking beautiful song.

[RedinSweden]

If not that then National Shite Day by Half Man Half Biscuit.

 

 

This gets my vote.

[njackets]

I like the National Anthem as it is myself.

[Jairzinho]

Corbyn is changing it to The International.

[Total Longo]

What Monty said.

[Guest Super Sub]

I vote to keep the current national anthem.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I want it to be Live and Let Die.

[Ginny]

I like the French and German ones. We need someone like Hans Zimmer or John Murphy to create some over the top film score national anthem with every instrument involved. We need to go balls out

[Anny Road]

[magicrat]

National Anthems meh

[Tony Moanero]

Morrisons is shite.

[Trumo]

GSTQ (the actual anthem) is fucking shite. It sounds miserable and is all about everlasting subservience to the crown instead of the greatness of the country. I mean, fucking hell, Borat did a made-up piss-taking version of the Kazakhstan anthem and he still managed to drop in stuff to try and big the place up, like the superiority of their potassium.

[MokTheAfflicted]

Get rid of it.  It's about an over-priviledged person not about a country.  Easily replaced with Edward Elgar's  "Land Of Hope And Glory"

 

...... or "You'll Never Walk Alone"  :)

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Get rid of it.  It's about an over-priviledged person not about a country.  Easily replaced with Edward Elgar's  "Land Of Hope And Glory"

 

...... or "You'll Never Walk Alone"  :)

Imagine the FEEWWWWWWMM!!!

 

For that reason, I'm in.

[General Dryness]

Imagine the FEEWWWWWWMM!!!

 

For that reason, I'm in.

 

County Road would secede.