Vote in the BBCs fav song of all time

Dampsquid

Go to the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/ and enter your details.

In the boxes for Favourite song and Artist add the following

Song : A Nation Once Again
Artist : Wolfe Tones
Why : 800 years is why.

Its just outside the top 10 already

the fnj

Not being a Wolfe Tones fan i'll still vote for it because it would be funny if it finished in the top ten.

gogo

The wolfe tones are already a contender for the top ten.

BLITZ_Molloy

Well obviously. Nobody really likes the Wolfetones. It's just because we enjoy ****ing with the system.

Remember all the Irish incidents in Channel 4 top 100 world cup moments? All due to e-mails/posts like this.

leeroybrown

Not a big tones fan but I'm definitely voting for them a few times a week

Already done it twice.

_sheep

getting about 100 ppl to do it now as we speak oh the joys of college (and students with 2 much time on their hands )

meglome

actually if you look at the top ten we are not the only ones taking the piss.

Sposs

When will people realize that these international polls will always be a piss take as long as us paddies have internet access

monument

talk about a piss take, Shakira is a contenders for the Top Ten!

if you dont like the Wolfe Tones, why dont you all vote for Rory Gallagher?? :rolleyes:

BuffyBot

All of the joke ones will get pulled by the BBC. So there isn't any point.

leeroybrown

If the reasons are varied a little then theres no problem.

And anyway the BBC always parade themseves for their honesty and journalistic accuracy. They'd hardly fix it ... would they?

daveirl

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Winters

I think its more just getting a "rebublican" song as such in the top 10. Vote anywho.

At the time of my vote:

Also contenders for the Top Ten
(In no particular order):
• A million miles away, (Rory Gallagher)
• A nation once again, (Wolfe Tones)
• No woman, no cry, (Bob Marley)
• Ana wa laila, (Kazem El Saher)
• My heart will go on, (Celine Dion)
• Girl from Ipanema, (Tom Jobim)
• Candle in the wind, (Sir Elton John)
• Reetu haruma timee, (Arun Thapa)
• My way, (Frank Sinatra)
• Borderline, (Chris De Burgh)
• Solo le pido a Dios, (Leon Gieco)
• Thriller, (Michael Jackson)
• Whenever, wherever, (Shakira)

My all of us vote again and again and again and again ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/
Song: A Nation Once Again
Artist: Wolfe Tones
Why: 800 years is why.

BuffyBot

Gah..hate to sound like this...but


Does no one else think it's a bit sad?? Am I the only one that finds it not remotely amusing?

Robbo

The Ronnie O'Brien thing

However, I must object due to it being the Wolfe Tones. Surely Joe Dolan would have been a better choice?

Asok

Song : A Nation Once Again
Artist : Wolfe Tones
Why:Generally a well written song that embiggens us all

BOP

Yeah I think theres alot of people taking the piss, looks like every Pakistani with a PC has voted for Dil Dil Pakistan.

DMC

An Update....

Contenders for the number 1 slot in the chart include:
(in no particular order)

Imagine (John Lennon), Vande Mataram (Various artists), Believe (Cher), Dil Dil Pakistan (Vital Signs), We Don't Talk Anymore (Sir Cliff Richard), Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu (Ilayaraja), A Nation Once Again (Wolfe Tones), Hero (Mariah Carey)

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I voted for the 'Tones because I just want to hear Steve Wright play it! I dont like Steve Wright, so maximum embarrassment for him. (forgetting the thought that he voted for the Birdy Song.:rolleyes: )

pickarooney

Pranksters, prepare to be out-pranked :-

http://www.junaidjamshedonline.net/

http://www.tfmpage.com/forum/26625.11.08.23.html

It seems to have turned into a full on scrap between India and Pakistan. We're just not up to that level

Dampsquid

E-mail puts Irish ballad top of chart



THE popular Irish ballad A Nation Once Again is on course to be voted the world's favourite song of all time on BBC's World Service website - thanks to the help of a chain e-mail drumming up support around Ireland.


Performed by The Wolfe Tones, the song is now listed among the Top Ten songs for consideration for the number one slot on the BBC's website.


Other favourites riding high on the chart include John Lennon's classic Imagine, Sir Cliff Richard's We don't talk anymore and Mariah Carey's Hero.


However, it has emerged that many Irish people are voting for the ballad to be picked as the favourite song of all time as a result of a chain e-mail that is being forwarded to them by their friends and business contacts.


The chain e-mail has gone to major banks, colleges, business companies and many individual e-mail subscribers, asking them to help "mess it up" for the BBC competition and vote the Irish ballad as No 1.

tuille

Contenders for the number 1 slot in the chart include:
(in no particular order)

Imagine (John Lennon), Vande Mataram (Various artists), Believe (Cher), Dil Dil Pakistan (Vital Signs), We Don't Talk Anymore (Sir Cliff Richard), Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu (Ilayaraja), A Nation Once Again (Wolfe Tones), Hero (Mariah Carey)

tuille

Oops, duplicate IGNORE!:o

Thanx 4 The Fish

Seems Wolfe tones havge dropped out of the top ten, but they are number on in Europe.

pickarooney

Apart from Imagine, is there even one non-joke contender in there? Cliff Richard? Hands up whose granny knows how to use the e-mail, or for that matter, the computhers. The pie-chart seems to have disappeared...

Serbian

I think the BBC have decided already that they are not going to include it in the vote or something. In the contenders section it has:

Contenders for the number 1 slot in the chart include:
(in no particular order)

Imagine (John Lennon), Vande Mataram (Various artists), Believe (Cher), Dil Dil Pakistan (Vital Signs), We Don't Talk Anymore (Sir Cliff Richard), Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu (Ilayaraja), A Nation Once Again (Wolfe Tones), Hero (Mariah Carey)

--

But when it is showing the breakdown of the votes for the individual songs, it list every song above except the Wolfe Tones and has Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody there instead... Interesting.

Mercury_Tilt

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DMC

TV3 News this evening at 5:30pm, 6:30pm and 11pm.

Jim

yeah, i saw that

"the wolfe tones are contenders in a bbc internet poll to find the best sone ever. there song A Nation Once Again is already in the top 5"

lol:D

Tellox

was even on jerry ryan this morning

byte

Today FM were egging people on to vote for Wolfe Tones in it too!

DMC

Voting ends Friday 1:00pm.

So remember, go out and vote. And, as usual in the case of our Northern friends, vote often!

DMC

IT WON!

BBC World Service, between 1 and 2pm tomorrow!

Robbo

Makes you proud to be Irish, what with the Fine Gael-Wolfe Tone "Up the RA" furore in the papers today...

Winters

Amazing, it won.

I am so happy, and so are my many other names under which i voted.....

There is a little poll on the bottom of the BBC page:
"Do you think this poll accurately reflects the Top Ten songs around the world:"

Vote Yes

mike65

Hopefully that'll learn them and they wont put up any more daft polls for us to troll...!

Mike.

kamobe

That is the crappest top ten I've ever seen in my entire life - lol

Vande Materm a deserved second...
Dil Dil Pakistan up there at number 3 (I've had that around no5 myself, but ey, we're all different)

Cher believe there at 8 (hahahaha)
And Queen a humble 10th with Bohemian Rhapsody.

My god :rolleyes:.

EDIT:

Do you think this poll accurately reflects the Top Ten songs around the world:
Yes ( 54%)
No ( 46%)
Total so far: 164

heh

Makaveli

So do they actually have to play the top 10?
Might be hard to find 7 of those songs.

Lump

Pfff, if there is one Irish person out there that can say A nation once again doent inspire some feeling of joy, proudness and happiness of being Irish well then...... I dont know, your all big fat liers. :P



John

kamobe

It seems to have turned into a full on scrap between India and Pakistan. We're just not up to that level

:rolleyes:

Space Coyote

well holy sh*t ... we friggin won !!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/

A big hand to everyone in the country who voted...i hope those limey's (no offense) are sick !!!

Mossy Monk

Two votes were cast for Who let the dogs out

:eek: :eek: i would love to meet the people who voted this and smack them for being tasteless :eek: :eek:

probably trolls like everyone of us who voted the wolfe tones

Space Coyote

The whole point in voting for the Wolfe Tones was because 'A Nation Once Again' is a Republican anthem. i.e. the Brits hate it with a vengeance.
It just happens to be written by the Wolfe Tones, if it was written by The Sawdoctors then thats who we'd have voted for.

Originally posted by kamobe
That is the crappest top ten I've ever seen in my entire life - lol

Vande Materm a deserved second...
Dil Dil Pakistan up there at number 3 (I've had that around no5 myself, but ey, we're all different)

Cher believe there at 8 (hahahaha)
And Queen a humble 10th with Bohemian Rhapsody.

My god :rolleyes:.

EDIT:

Do you think this poll accurately reflects the Top Ten songs around the world:
Yes ( 54%)
No ( 46%)
Total so far: 164

heh

Looks like there were Indian and Pakistani versions of our Irish chain email doing the rounds aswell.
mm

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Space_Coyote
The whole point in voting for the Wolfe Tones was because 'A Nation Once Again' is a Republican anthem. i.e. the Brits hate it with a vengeance.
It just happens to be written by the Wolfe Tones, if it was written by The Sawdoctors then thats who we'd have voted for.

if this was in response to my comment about smacking people for being tasteless, i was on about who let the dogs out

it turns out a nation once again was written in the 1800's, according to Steve Wright when he was on about the number 1 so that's something new i've learned today

Gordon

Well done the Wolfetones!

DMC

Originally posted by Makaveli
So do they actually have to play the top 10?
Might be hard to find 7 of those songs.

Yep, they did.

DMC

Thomas Davis wrote it, he was the founder of Young Ireland and all, helped with Daniel O'Connell in trying to repeal the Act of Union. He also wrote "The West's Awake."

The reason why it was the Wolfe Tone's version, is that its probably the most commercial recording of it.

Space Coyote

Mossy Monk, I agree with you about Who Let The Dogs Out, ridiculous piece of sh*t.
What I meant was that some people didnt seem to realise why we were voting for A Nation Once Again in the first place.

Now we can all sing it together...

"A Nation Once Again" by Thomas Osbourne Davis...his middle name was Osbourne ! Didn't know that...must be related to Ozzy.

When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen,
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
Three hundred men and three men;
And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be.
A Nation once again!

A Nation once again,
A Nation once again,
And lreland, long a province, be
A Nation once again!

And from that time, through wildest woe,
That hope has shone a far light,
Nor could love's brightest summer glow
Outshine that solemn starlight;
It seemed to watch above my head
In forum, field and fane,
Its angel voice sang round my bed,
A Nation once again!

It whisper'd too, that freedom's ark
And service high and holy,
Would be profaned by feelings dark
And passions vain or lowly;
For, Freedom comes from God's right hand,
And needs a Godly train;
And righteous men must make our land
A Nation once again!

So, as I grew from boy to man,
I bent me to that bidding
My spirit of each selfish plan
And cruel passion ridding;
For, thus I hoped some day to aid,
Oh, can such hope be vain ?
When my dear country shall be made
A Nation once again!

sceptre

Originally posted by Space_Coyote
The whole point in voting for the Wolfe Tones was because 'A Nation Once Again' is a Republican anthem. i.e. the Brits hate it with a vengeance.
It just happens to be written by the Wolfe Tones, if it was written by The Sawdoctors then thats who we'd have voted for.

It was written by Thomas Davis (one of the Youndg Irelanders) - the main street in Mallow is named after him. For anyone passing through the town (if you're there you obviously have nothing better to do with your time), he was born in the shop three doors up from the European Grill. You can sit on the steps with the winos and think of olden times.

I hate the song - the local pipe band took every opportunity to play it at any occasion. Can't stand the Wolfe Tones either but there are other reasons for that.

yankinlk

Checking the News on Sky Active today and saw the heading down to wards the bottom of the page...

Jumped up in bed and started laughing...Boards.ie is at it again. Too funny.

Dustaz

Originally posted by yankinlk
Boards.ie is at it again. Too funny.

Well, in all fairness, it wasnt a boards thing :P