It was Sir Graham's favourite apparently. Anyway, we're not trying to make a hit record here, just looking for something that people can join in with at the footy. I think it would work perfectly
Sir Graham, I'm afraid, had terrible taste in music. In fact it was GT that inspired Leonard Cohen to pen the immortal line "You don't really care for music, do you?" (Little known fact). Anyway, Knox Carnochan of The Vibrators went to WBGS, so we ought to start there. Plenty of suitable material. This one is easy to learn and the exact length needed. This one has a reference at the start to the doodlebug that took out Sandringham Road.
The obvious anthem under the current regime is: God save the team The fascist regime They made you a moron Potential H-bomb God save the team He ain't no human being There is no future In Hornets dreaming To the tune (?) of the Sex Pistols' God save the Queen
I hope it catches on, if the crowd sing it and do the last part a Capella then it would be good in my opinion
Tbh I think it caught most by surprise and they seemed to get the timing/part of the song just off. Think it could work quite well once people get used to it.
I think it would work, if we could galvanise the home support by getting them to collectively sing a few lines of any song, would help to get the atmosphere going. It’s my principle complaint against the durge that is Z cars. As people who can’t remember the TV show seem irrationally wedded to it. The combination of both would be great.
Your Song is a dreary, soppy song that is about as far removed from an anthem that will get a football crowd fired up as you can imagine. The tempo, the lyrics. Just no. Surely by now you people realise that there is not a single Elton song that is appropriate for pre-match hype building. Not one. It's a damn shame, but that's the way it is.
Needs to be tub thumping by chumba thingy. “We got knocked down, we didn’t get back up again, We’re never gonna go back up. We got knocked down, we didn’t get back up again We’re gonna have to sell all our quality players and rummage through the bins for inferior replacements. Etc” Repeat to fade.
You're right, we need something upbeat and lively like You'll Never Walk Alone, Marching on Together, Delilah or I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. They're not at all slow and dreary, no Sir. I think we should just all just sing along to Darude - Sandstorm.
IMO one of the best club anthems and it’s one of the most dreary songs you could imagine (still a banger though)
I've always thought Arcade Fire's Wake Up is a perfect football song. The chorus could easily be adapted to be relevant to WFC. I imagine some other clubs have already nabbed it.
Yep. Wham! were from just round the corner and far more bouncy, finger-clicking tunes. Or Let Loose? Weren’t they from the Cassiobury?
Anthems sung at football clubs are meant to be slower and passionate, as others have pointed out above, I think it will work if everyone joins in and Elton is unique to us so it’s perfect.
We could go the whole hog and call the bluff of the current batch of adolescent wannabe hoolies and choose SEJ's 'Saturday Night's Alright....'
Congratulations to whoever made the decision to play a live version of Your Song where it is sung in a completely different melody, making it impossible for people to sing along in unison.
I wonder if it was recorded at his Vicarage Road concert by the club, and therefore they don't have to pay any rights to play it. Because other than that, I can see absolutely no reason to play it over the original... But even then, surely it's not that much and Elton would probably waive his cut.
