Best national anthems?

diusmr8a504cvk

Was just watching the darts and big John Henderson came out to Flower of Scotland. While it wasn't the best version of it, it reminded me of in the past when it's been sung at rugby games and has been phenomenal - https://youtu.be/1Hotgyw4wOk

So what're your favourite national anthems? I love the Scottish, Welsh and French myself. I know more words of La Marseillaise than I do the Irish national anthem.

Thrashssacre

Russia
Wales
Italy

In that order

Church on Tuesday

Scottish anthem for me.

riffmongous

Big fan of Flower of Scotland too, also the French and Russian.

The Young Wolfe Tones do a great jaunty version of The Soldiers Song that I like a lot too

LETHAL LADY

I hate to say it but .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIff7EB7pvc

Vita nova

"Ode to Joy" anthem of the EU and the Council of Europe, not a national anthem per se but perhaps a supranational anthem :-)

Although purely instrumental (Beethoven's 9th), it sounds even better when the words of Schiller's Ode to Joy are added.

With vocals

kowloon

Kazakhstan, as played at this medal ceremony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WH9HVJRFk

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8DMJ3SGlzk

The Cush

The South African national anthem, the 1995 RWC final was the first time I heard it and combined with the atmosphere of the occasion, as 1 comment put it, it gave me goosebumps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncwee9IAu8I

Acosta

DDR
Russia

Italy, by a country mile.

Canis Lupus

Russia is pretty cool for it's cold war feel.

God save the Queen is pretty rousing if you ask me as is the amhran na bhfiann. Don't really know many anthems to be fair.

Larbre34

All anthems have a bit of a cold war feel to them, all that cock waving at various Olympic games.

I agree about Italy though, its the best by far. In terms of future thinking for Ireland, I think New Zealand made a great job of a bi-lingual dual-heritage anthem.

Flower of Scotland is not a national anthem, at least not yet. Its an adopted song, just like Ireland's Call, but has no status. Works a treat for getting the blood up though!

con___manx1

France and Italy

Larbre34

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I hate to say it but .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIff7EB7pvc

Careful now, this includes the nazi era stanzas which have been long since dropped. 'Deutschland uber alles' etc.

The official anthem today is from 1:58 of this video onwards.

Pherekydes

France, Canada, Hungary, Finland (and eh, Estonia ).

Richard Hillman

The Welsh national anthem at the Millennium Stadium for rugby games is amazing.

Mad_maxx

Do Russia still use the old Soviet union anthem?

That was epic

lbc2019

France.

Oh Flower Of Scotland isnt a national anthem btw

amcalester

Liechtenstein. There's something really soothing about it, like a reminder of better times past.

lbc2019

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The Welsh national anthem at the Millennium Stadium for rugby games is amazing.

Wales Rugby Anthem amd FoS are pretty awesome in the Principality Stadium, Murrayfield respectively

Yamanoto

La Marseillaise

Raucous and rousing in equal measure

lbc2019

GSTQ is dull and insipid.

denismc

PinotNero

Let 'em all go to hell except for Cave 76.

razorblunt

The Welsh Anthem in Cardiff is something else.

Flower of Scotland with the lone piper and the band letting the crowd singing the second verse on their own in Murrayfield is brilliant too.

French, Italians and Argentinean are brilliant too.

Much better than the Phil Coulter driver the Irish Rugby lads have to sing.

Your Face

La Marseillaise by a country kilometre.

lbc2019

People here seem to confuse songs sung at sporting events with actual national anthems.

Anyone for YNWA lads? Fields of Athenry?

troyzer

RIP in peace.

theteal

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Russia
Wales
Italy

In that order

The soundtrack to a hard fought victory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K24fRNG9cRQ

denismc

lbc2019 wrote: »

People here seem to confuse songs sung at sporting events with actual national anthems.

Anyone for YNWA lads? Fields of Athenry?

Most "National Anthems " have no legal standing and are not recognized by legislation.

PhilOssophy

French national anthem by a metric kilometer.
Also the Welsh one is really good, especially in Cardiff.
Italian is great too.
Anything to be said for the good ole Star Spangled Banner?

beertons

French, Italian and Irish.

Spanish not too bad either.

all the bais

Brazil

Melodeon

Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, please remain upstanding for the national anthem of the United States of America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftKpiI6_sI

The_Kew_Tour

France and Italy


When you go to football games and hear other national anthems the Irish is lot better then most.

Flower of Scotland has a line in it that says "and be the nation again" so considering 55% don't believe that I don't include it.

IAMAMORON

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I hate to say it but .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIff7EB7pvc

The first part of this is actually illegal now in Germany. Any overtly nationalist references can get you arrested and potentially a prison sentence. It is more serious than you would imagine.


There are still pockets of eastern Germany where national socialism is rampant. Skinheads etc.

dxhound2005

The anthem of Europe.

Hermy

lbc2019 wrote: »

GSTQ is dull and insipid.

Not just dull and insipid - it only embraces one individual rather than the whole nation.

God save the queen, not me
No one else but she
Just save the queen

Don't save my mammy
Don't save my daddy
Don't even save my wife and child

Just save the queen.

topper75

Ladies and gentlemen, if you could all now stand please...

razorblunt

PhilOssophy wrote: »

French national anthem by a metric kilometer.
Also the Welsh one is really good, especially in Cardiff.
Italian is great too.
Anything to be said for the good ole Star Spangled Banner?

I do like the part where the crowd cheer for the "that the flag was still there", its like the pause is for the reaction alone a bit like Flower of Scotland where some of the crowd throw in "bastards" after one line.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

France and Italy


When you go to football games and hear other national anthems the Irish is lot better then most.

Flower of Scotland has a line in it that says "and be the nation again" so considering 55% don't believe that I don't include it.

Well to be fair the whole song is about Bannockburn is about winning the battle, they subsequently lost the war. The "send him homeward, ta think again". Which he did and then came back and bate the heads off them.

branie2

Our one
France
U.S.A.

AllForIt

I think the Russian one is my favorite.

UK is the worst, it's funeral music.

Tacklebox

Russia by far, It stirs up vast snowy wasteland and forests, swirling snow flakes like ghosts in the snow...

YouTube Iron Maiden Mother Russia

bob mcbob

Hermy wrote: »

Not just dull and insipid - it only embraces one individual rather than the whole nation.

God save the queen, not me
No one else but she
Just save the queen

Don't save my mammy
Don't save my daddy
Don't even save my wife and child

Just save the queen.

This song was written during the Jacobite rebellion around 1745. The lyrics of the sixth verse are -

May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush.