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I nominate God Save The Queen (The UK national anthem)

The UK national anthem is retarded. It is the most boring piece of music in the world, no one knows any more than one verse and the words don't in any way represent the views of the average citizen. The UK is a largely secular society with most people being at best indifferent towards the monarchy, so why is our anthem about both God and the Queen?

Also, why do Scotland and Wales get to have seperate Scotland and Wales anthems and England just get lumbered with crappy God Save The Queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuoGOo3Bew

Come on, can't we have something a bit livelier, which instills some sense of national pride in me or at least makes me want to invade France or Germany for the love of the homeland X(

Is anyone else's national anthem as bad as this?

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yikes how can you insult our national anthem yikes:O:O yeah it might not be the greatest song in the world but its still OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM.

Still alot better than Gold, by Spandau Ballet (can't believe some idiot thought changin our anthem to THAT cr*p would be a good idea)

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3 Reply by [TI] Sitting Duck (edited by [TI] Sitting Duck 22-Mar-2009 00:18:10)

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I've found one worse!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDR8_JRY6w

And as far as boring anthems go, it seems the UK isn't so bad after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj2HY4UK-co

Seriously guys, lighten up!

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4 Reply by CaptainChipmunk (edited by MasterofDisaster 22-Mar-2009 00:19:15)

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Yeah can't get worse than that lol big_smile

Maybe we should change our anthem to 'We Are The Champions' by Queen, the title sums up the UK perfectly tongue

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5 Reply by The Yell (edited by Chris_Balsz 22-Mar-2009 00:41:20)

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you should switch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwmxUi5XKE

I think the whole point of the UK anthem was "Hey bitches, HRM is so uber you gotta stand for this shite song"

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uhm,
my comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeP220xx7Bs

simpy the coolest anthem and best fitting for the english tongue

anyways I don't think the belgian or english anthems are bad. Maybe not of our times indeed, but what do you expect?

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I actually like the UK's anthem tongue

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I move to have Rule Britannia as England's national anthem!

Shit would be so cash.

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Our national anthem was composed in a pub, so it's very fitting for Belgium!

Also, you managed to find the worst possible version of it.. I don't think ours is bad (compared to a whole lot of others)

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Name some them!

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god the belgian one sounds stupid

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China's anthem! the Mexican one, the Japanese

and here's a proper version of the belgian anthem..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Low3ByYigQ

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Japan's is 4000 years old so it pwns

hmm you're right the Belgian anthem can be good depending how's its played

here's a totally awesome Jump version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gMl4I9HD7w

GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!

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Wooo now thats a funky anthem big_smile

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The Australian anthem is kinda lame tongue

Nobody knows the second verse lmao yikes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KGfC-2ZVAA&feature=related <-- Instrumental

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMuf8wE52k  <-- with Lyrics

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America's anthem is the one of major suckage. It's about holding on to a fort? WTF? We could do better, something that gives justice to the greatest empire since Rome.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-jaQf2YnY&feature=related yikes
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Except America isn't an empire...

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lol, on the link of this other belgiananthem version, the guy wearing an army hat covered it pretty nice to, and pretty funny comments aswell. 'it's not me whom invented this ayeh, it's on the internet'

and I aswell found this  'old version (70's) by Pol Closset and his dixieland gamblers' -version which is pretty nice.

Although I must say I'd prefer listening 'normal' songs over national anthems.

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And he conveniently forgot about the British Empire wich was vaster than any other in history, Eltara tongue

And nothing can beat the European Anthem. What on earth is more divine than Beethoven's Ode an die Freude?

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"Except America isn't an empire..."

Nor is it the greatest since Rome

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Ummmm the theme to Legend of Zelda?

We don't know if you guys won a medal or if somebody is selling a luxury car

Besides if your gonna pick a German song it might as well be "deutschland uber alles" and have done

Star Spangled Banner is perfect, demonstrates we're so damn stubborn we'll fight to the death for freakin' Baltimore. I mean, let them have it and all its troubles, would be the sensible way to really harm them. And then we write a poem about it like it was a huge deal, which is linked to some pirated music by somebody else in a mashup, and it becomes our anthem 115 years later because the govt can't figure out we need some song for an anthem and "Alexander's OldTime Rag" aint doing it for Old Europe. And then we make everybody stand up for it, not out of respect, but out of fear to disrespect. How American is that?

A strong case could be made for Little Brown Jug, because I would love to see the representatives of the world have to stand quietly while a band plays "little brown jug" and then their own anthem like their own national anthem is on a level with "little brown jug". Although that would mean superdoping at the Olympics just nobody had to stand for Little Brown Jug. I mean look how they got about Lance Armstrong not dying of ball cancer.

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....The original National Anthem for the United Kingdom was different to the one we sing now....there is a whole verse on keeping the Scots under our control which is deemed "offensive" now due to there not being hostilities between us anymore....have they (who chose this option) never been to an England Vs. Scotland football/rugby match then?

Current Version

"God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.
O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all.
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen"

Missing from the Original Version (c.1837)

"Lord, grant that Marshal Wade,
May by thy mighty aid,
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush and like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush,
God save the King."

My suggestion of a Newer Version

God save our precious weed,
fast grow our plants of weed,
God save my weed:
Smoke it in bongs of brass,
learning to smoke in class,
skin up a fat one boy:
God save my weed.
O Lord, our God, arise,
Sitting with reddened eyes,
And make them roll.
F*ck up their politics,
laugh at their smaller dicks,
Inhale our latest fix,
God save our crops.
Thy choicest blunts in store,
On ice we are pleased to pour;
J.D. and twenty tokes:
May we defend our smokes,
And wheel out the cheapest whores
To "dance" with heart and nakedness
God save our weed"

(*if you ARE the Queen....then sorry....i know you must play IC and i want to keep my head and i don't like towers much either!)

....how about "Anarchy in the UK" by The Sex Pistols.....this would make illegal immigrants think twice before thinking about moving here and would be cool to see an operatic soprano singing it before a match and also to see politicians miming it at historical/royal functions?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMRvZTk7QYE << go from 2:00.

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Chris, what about "when johnny comes marching home again"?

Everyone knows that song now (thanks to Dr. Strangelove), it has history and it's quite fitting for a militaristic country like the USA.. It doesn't have any sensible words in it, but I consider that to be a bonus..

For those who don't know it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhHdKmKXqA


And ARFeh, you nationalist pigs tongue
Shut up and assimilate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ggvWvwsUFk (don't mind the crap pictures)

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