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What's your favourite national anthem?

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    #62
    Agent Smith
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    Rented Mule wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpxVE_kQXg


    A tradition at Chicago Blackhawk games. My favourite performance of the American National Anthem.

    If that was at an ireland match, and the fans did that, it was probably have pissed me off


    but damm, them guys really do love America!


    (why cant mitt romney?)


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    #63
    Dangerous Man
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    Irish National Anthem
    Italian
    French
    USA
    Japan (only because, like all things Japanese, it's very, very odd.)


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    #64
    Madam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    Ireland
    Scotland
    Australia
    France
    Cuba
    India(just for the kinda sadness of the music)


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    #65
    Latchy
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    Amhrán na bhFiann , especially this version from RTE closedown in the 80s ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygzJtJwPnk



    The unofficial anthem of Australia which many Aussies think should be their official national one ' I Am Australian '

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3SkTyXzcE


    Some associate this with the Nazi regime when in fact ,it was written long before by German composer Hayden ...powerful stuff .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKTCdluhECU


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    #66
    The_Kew_Tour
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    The result was bad, but I thought the national anthems played at Ireland v Germany game sounded class here.

    Few Germans we met after brought it up and said it sounded great.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7wh0dIRrg


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    #67
    snubbleste
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    The australian anthem is a bit meh, but this version rocks!


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    #68
    bnt
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    I don't know about "favourite", but the Chinese anthem, "The March of the Volunteers", is a bit bonkers (IMHO):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctriMuXYS0


    :cool:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #69
    Sir montygom
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    my favorite
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh3PMvpnCpE


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    #70
    flutterflye
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    #71
    Mr Whirly
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    The Japanese one is pretty good. Four lines long and it refutes the concept of erosion.


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    #72
    ColeTrain
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    The French national anthem is very good.

    Our one is great too when it's sung right.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7lGmgFovM


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    #73
    yohan the great
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    O, flower of Scotland, when will we see your likes again.......................... Also love the Italian one


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    #74
    AlekSmart
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    Rented Mule wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpxVE_kQXg


    A tradition at Chicago Blackhawk games. My favourite performance of the American National Anthem.

    As a counter version in some ways,I came across this version,which stopped me in my tracks.......

    http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=233390960136570

    Dry eye in the House time ?

    Puts all the hoo-hah over Beyonce's lip synching into stark perspective too !!!


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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    #75
    dgt
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge-dwY7HwTA


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    #76
    donegal_man
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    We Can Rule You Wholesale the anthem of Terry Pratchett's Ankh Morpork.
    The only anthem where the second verse is made up of muttering with the last line sung really really loudly since that's what everyone does when singing any anthem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU


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    #77
    grenache
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    It's hard to beat Le Marsellaise in fairness. Listening to it being belted out by a stadiuim of 80,000 French folk made many hairs on the back of my neck rise up!!

    With our own Soldiers Song and Fratelli d'Italia coming in second.


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    #78
    Stimpyone
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    Our national anthem would be less abysmal if we got to sing it in its original English. As a result of the Irish version “most” sporting events I’ve been to have seen a half mumbled version offered up and it’s hardly rousing.

    IMO the best anthems are the ones you can belt out like the French, German and American ones.


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    #79
    kfallon
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    The German national anthem is absolute class!

    Followed by the Italian one, another classic!

    In work now but can't find the clip but before Chile played Brazil in The World Cup in France '98 there's a great clip of Ivan Zamarano belting out the Chilean anthem before the game, worth a look!


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    #80
    dan1895
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    kfallon wrote: »
    The German national anthem is absolute class!

    Followed by the Italian one, another classic!

    In work now but can't find the clip but before Chile played Brazil in The World Cup in France '98 there's a great clip of Ivan Zamarano belting out the Chilean anthem before the game, worth a look!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQeUOF8eY6E


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    #81
    Manc-Red
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    Always liked the French national anthem - hearing it being sung by them in the Stade de France was amazing too.


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    #82
    snubbleste
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    The Scientician wrote: »

    I'm going to go with God Defend New Zealand as sung by Hayley Westenra. An Irish man wrote the English words and it's rather rousing.
    It's actually quite good!
    The lyrics were definitely written by an Irishman :D and invokes religion quite a bit
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Defend_New_Zealand#Lyrics
    From dissension, envy, hate and corruption guard our state
    guard our country's spotless name
    should foes assail our coast, make us then a mighty host
    may our mountains ever be freedom's ramparts on the sea
    preaching love and truth to man


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    #83
    Boots234
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    The Brazil anthem before the Spain game in the final of the Confederations cup this Summer was amazing. They stopped the music but 70000 people kept singing an additional verse along with the players, pretty cool

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kmRFIJETRM


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    #84
    elefant
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    The Irish one


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    #85
    canadianwoman
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    O Canada ( of course!) :)


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    #86
    SEPT 23 1989
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    #87
    MonstaMash
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    #88
    osarusan
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    Don't know if this has been posted before, but it's stirring: (best with the sound right up)



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    #89
    Son Of A Vidic
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    The Russian and Italian anthems are my favorites.


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    #90
    ShaneMc2012
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    I always liked this one!


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    #91
    nozzferrahhtoo
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    Id happily listen to my own one if someone felt like PMing me a link where someone living in germany might watch the football game :)


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