Project Anthem

[AVFC-Tom]

Good evening fellow Villa fans.

I come from another AVFC forum (VillaTalk) and over there we have started to try and create/find a new club anthem.

Not a much better time than now given our situation to have such an anthem, yet we don't seem to have one other than mindless chanting about how Blues should be listening.

The General has said he would back the idea and so that has gave us even more of a boost to get this going. Would make the pre-kick off atmosphere electric.

There are have been many suggestions on VillaTalk, most popular being:

Ghost Riders:

 
Stand by me (my personal fave):

Here is the link to the discussion on VillaTalk: http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=66659&postdays=0&postorder=asc

So i come here to ask you to discuss what you think would be a good anthem and in the future vote on it and add all the votes from the different websites together, including a facebook poll, then head to the General, who has said he would be fully behind the idea. Then hopefully he will take it further and it will get into all 4 stands and the end product will be outstanding.

Tom,
UTV.

[JJ-AV]

The song Brigada have been singing to 'Just can't get enough' is class, IMO.

The Bells Are Ringing is your best bit, I reckon.

[mrfuse]

Got to be Ghost Riders!

[Percy McCarthy]

Got to be Ghost Riders!

Don't think the club will get behind a song with three verses about killing Blues fans.

[JJ-AV]

Ghost riders was played on Saturday wasn't it?

[mrfuse]

Got to be Ghost Riders!

Don't think the club will get behind a song with three verses about killing Blues fans.

no true but we could update those bits

[mrfuse]

Ghost riders was played on Saturday wasn't it?

Cant remember it being played SAT but it does get the odd airing

[spangley1812]

Arcade Fire - Funeral..........with all the Villa fans swaying

[Dave]

Arcade Fire - Funeral..........with all the Villa fans swaying

Wake Up I presume.

[Percy McCarthy]

Ghost riders was played on Saturday wasn't it?

Not our version:

Was walking down the Witton Lane one dark and dusky day,
I spied a poor City fan a-running far away,
I said to that poor City fan "It's time for you to die,
Cuz you have seen the glory of...Holte Enders in the sky.

He ran down the terraces and fell towards the gate,
Little did he know that death was sure to be his fate,
He had one more short hour to live and then he'd hear the cry,
That every City fan does fear..Holte Enders in the sky.

Their fists were just like granite and their pockets lined with lead,
And if they catch a City fan he's sure to end up dead,
Cuz Villa fans rule Birmingham and City fans know why
cuz they have seen the glory of...Holte Enders in the sky.

[usav]

The thing that bugs me about Ghostriders is that it's a real loose connection between the Cash song and what is sung on the terraces, the tune is barely recognisable.  I can't be the only one that thinks that, surely?

[spangley1812]

Arcade Fire - Funeral..........with all the Villa fans swaying

Wake Up I presume.

Sorry yes Dave.........well spotted

[mrfuse]

The thing that bugs me about Ghostriders is that it's a real loose connection between the Cash song and what is sung on the terraces, the tune is bearly recognisable.  I can't be the only one that thinks that, surely?

Dont think its that far off just sang a bit faster

[Dave]

The thing that bugs me about Ghostriders is that it's a real loose connection between the Cash song and what is sung on the terraces, the tune is bearly recognisable.  I can't be the only one that thinks that, surely?

I assumed it had no basis on the Cash version and was based on an earlier recording (Cash's wasn't until 1979 according to Wikipedia).

How long has it been sung at Villa Park for?

[glasses]

Reading through the thread on VT, bits about adding atmosphere before the game kicks off, aswell as having an anthem. An idea for scaring the shit out of the opposition.