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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Lucky Eddie on November 04, 2010, 01:37:31 PM
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Not a song that reminds you of an era - but a song that takes you back to a single Villa moment in time.
Kerrang played Oasis 'Roll with it' yesterday afternoon and I was, as I always am when I hear that song, transported back in time 14 years to moments after we'd won the League Cup Final against Leeds and it was played over the old Wembley tannoy much to the delight of the singing and dancing Villa fans. The memory is so vivid I can clearly see mates standing next to me with tears in their eyes, sadly mates who've long since lost the faith and I rarely see them.
The only other song that seems to have this affect on me is The Fratellis 'Chelsea Daggers' which instantly takes me singing and dancing to the derbyshire tannoy with my lad down the rear steps of the away end at Pride Park following our five goal rout there a couple of seasons ago.
Anyone else got one?
LONG LIVE DODGEY SPONTANEOUS SINGING, DODGY DANCING AND DODGY TANNOY SYSTEMS!
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Strangely, "You're All Alone" by Rita Coolidge.
Whenever I hear that song, it reminds me of hearing it at half time at Villa Park. Not the sort of thing you expect to be played at a football match at all.
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I didn't see that one coming adrenachrome ;)
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Great topic
Footsteps by Womack and Womack reminds me of standing in the Leppings Lane end at Hillsbrough in 1988. I remember it coming on over the crackling PA sytem.
Also, Automatic by the Pointer Sisters takes me back to the bottom of the Holte, right hand corner, in 1983.
No idea why those 2 songs and situations are so vivid in my memory
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I wasn't at the 96 LC Final - I watched it on TV with my father - but I'm reminded of the occasion whenever I hear "New York, New York." Which thankfully isn't all that often!
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Blimey, don't think I have that good a memory! For some strange reason though, any early to mid 70s soul music - Isaac Hayes,, Teddy Prendergast et all - always makes me think of Villa Park, flared trousers, V neck jumpers and long hair. I've got not idea why but I only need to hear the opening bars of Shaft to be transported back to those happy days of queueing from about 1pm outside the Holte End to get in...
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New York New York.
Wembley 96.
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Dexy's - Gino played over the tannoy at VP for much of the early 1980's
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Dexy's - Gino played over the tannoy at VP for much of the early 1980's
....and again through the mid 90's for Deano.
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Dexy's - Gino played over the tannoy at VP for much of the early 1980's
....and again through the mid 90's for Deano.
I vividly remember it being played after his home debut against Liverpool.
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Most of the above.
Also:
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (early 80's)
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Hmmm.
I've got two for this and they are roughly from the same era, I think. I used to sit up in The North Stand, as a kid, in the late eighties and I can remember a match against Nottingham Forest. Half-time came and the Villa DJ started playing Jackie Wilson's "Reet Petite" to which all the Forest fans below us started to join in and sing along to the chorus. Whenever I hear that song I'm brought back instantly to Villa Park and looking down at those Forest fans bouncing about.
The other song is "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life". I can remember the Holte End mocking Man Utd and Alex Ferguson with that one after we beat them 3-0. Graham Taylor was the Boss and Fergie looked to be on the way out of Old Trafford (it was the good old days before the marketing men belched up the nonsensical "Theatre of Dreams" stuff).
I was more than a little miffed to see the Man Utd fans adopt the song, themselves, (and get all the credit for it) in the subsequent weeks and months of that season.
Whenever I watch "Life Of Brian" my feelings swing between ones of appreciation for peerless, insightful comedy and ones of a rabid, bile-filled anger towards Man Utd, Alex Ferguson and the respective progress of both clubs since then.
If I boil it down, I suppose both songs remind me of the more simple times of the pre-Premier League/Sky TV era.
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Three lions on a shirt. Newcastle game after keegan left.
"hes f**ked off home"
"hes playing golf"
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I'm kind of disgusted at myself for writing this but I'll always associate 'Saturday Night' by Whigfield with Villa v Inter in 1994, my second-ever game at Villa Park and it was playing as I walked into the stadium. Terrible tune, but so excited to be at VP ans what a night.
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Most of the above.
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Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (early 80's)
Excuse the pedantry but this came out in 1987!
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'Walk Like an Egyptian' was on the radio just before we lost to Small Heath in their first season in the Prem.
Shame, as I quite like that song.
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Hi ho silver lining
no matter where I am I always should Hi ho Aston Villa whenever I hear it
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The Dexy's one gino remind's me when we use to sing it for Dean Saunders.
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I have a good and bad one. The bad song is Kelly somebody from Destiny Child and Nelly, not a clue what its called but it was played after we lost to Southampton in the league under GT, proper poor game, things looking bad and this piss poor song coming on at full time whistle didnt make it any better.
Good song is New Radicals, Only Get What You Give, Emma B who used to have the saturday afternoon slot on radio 1 is a huge Villa fan and she dedicated it to the Villa and wished em luck for the following days final game of the season at Arsenal. Always loved that tune and think it would be super to have it blasting out before kick off.
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For all the great music that was around in 1982, the band I associate most with winning the European Cup is Haircut 100. Please don't ask me why.
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My sister is a Bowie fanatic, she was always playing 'Low' and in particular 'Sound and vision' so that takes me back to my favourite season of 1976/77.
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Carpenters songs takes me back to sitting in a 3/4 quarter empty witton lane stand as we drifted downwards circa 67/68, just the sort of middle of the road unexciting ballads you needed over the tannoy for 12.000 hardy souls who turned up expecting us to capitulate as usual.
If I ever hear Thin Lizzys Whisky in the Jar it puts me in Shrewsburys ground in 1972 packed full with Villa fans, I think it was the first time I heard it.
Theme from an unmade silent movie by Hurricane Smith transports me back to when we were the best team in England, and then the best team in Europe. The club should re-instate it, play it before every game.
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"Rocking All Over the World" was played after we beat Bolton on pens in the FA Cup semi at Wembley in 2000, remember that vividly. "We will rock you" reminds me of my early visits to VP in the early/ mid 90s.
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Theme from an unmade silent movie by Hurricane Smith transports me back to when we were the best team in England, and then the best team in Europe. The club should re-instate it, play it before every game
I totally agree
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Theme from an unmade silent movie by Hurricane Smith transports me back to when we were the best team in England, and then the best team in Europe. The club should re-instate it, play it before every game
I totally agree
Here Here, it always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! Halcyon Days, I remember being at a game a few years ago when they played it again!
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Great Thread btw Lucky Eddie
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^^^
Theme from an unmade silent movie makes me all goose pimply.
Hi Ho Silver Lining gets me singing.
New York reminds me of the League Cup final (whichever year it was).
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"Rocking All Over the World" was played after we beat Bolton on pens in the FA Cup semi at Wembley in 2000, remember that vividly. "We will rock you" reminds me of my early visits to VP in the early/ mid 90s.
Rocking all over the world was also played at Wembley 96 when we beat Leeds IIRC.
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"I'm Still Standing" takes me back to any half time during 83/84 kind of time when I would've been about 8 sitting in the Trinity with my dad. It's the only Elton John song that doesn't make me violent.
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1981 towards the end of the season, beat Middlesborough at Villa Park and at half time the tannoy was playing "Making your mind up" by Bucks Fizz. That song had just won the euro song contest.
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That's Entertainment by the Jam after the 4-0 Boxing Day win over Everton in 2005. The Life of Riley by the Lightning Seeds during 1992-95 ish, an endless supply of quality Villa goals featuring in Match of the Day's Goal of the Month. Also, a 1995 track which i think was called "Pigbag?" and always seemed to be played when the teams came out during Brian Little's first full season. Its played at Boro quite a lot too even now.
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Also, Ghost Town after we relegated Coventry in 2001!
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Hi ho silver lining
no matter where I am I always should Hi ho Aston Villa whenever I hear it
It's a dogheads theme.
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Theme from an unmade silent movie by Hurricane Smith transports me back to when we were the best team in England, and then the best team in Europe. The club should re-instate it, play it before every game
I totally agree
Here Here, it always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! Halcyon Days, I remember being at a game a few years ago when they played it again!
Same for me.
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Elton John....Crodile Rock, 1972, I was on the Holte End, wearing my 8 button waist band baggies, 3 star jumper and me Doc Martins.... We played Leeds united and lost 1-0, I have no idea why this so memorable.
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Several Queen songs. We Will Rock You at nearly every home match in the BFR era but particularly as the players got ready to take their penalties vs Inter in 1994. Also hearing We Are The Champions before kick off at Wembley in 1994.
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We Are The Champions by Queen, May 1981 civic reception. That song takes me back 30-odd years to Victoria Square, Birmingham.
Come On Eilenn by Dexys takes me back to the 1st game of the 82/83 season when we lost to Sunderland and hearing their fans singing the chorus.
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i remember listening to Buks Fizz live on the pitch at white hart lane in the early 90's when they were a top band ::) ::)
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No need for words..
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The only other song that seems to have this affect on me is The Fratellis 'Chelsea Daggers' which instantly takes me singing and dancing to the derbyshire tannoy with my lad down the rear steps of the away end at Pride Park following our five goal rout there a couple of seasons ago.
It was six goals, not 5. Sorry, OCD and all that ;D
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2 songs that take me back was madness house of fun and stranglers golden brown.....they were always playin on the video jukebox in the cabin in the city centre over and over agen before we left to get the train to take us to dover for the european cup final.........good times !!
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For all the great music that was around in 1982, the band I associate most with winning the European Cup is Haircut 100. Please don't ask me why.
Why's that, Dave?
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Being completely morbid, but 'If you let me stay' by Terence Trent D'arby reminds me of standing on the Holte the day we were relegated against Sheffield Wednesday in 1987; not sure why other than it must have been in the charts and played on the radio a lot around that tijme
When I hear "Can you feel it" by the Jacksons/Michael Jackson I think to the game at Highbury in 81 for the same reasons.
These are just 2 songs, I can think of loads of music over time that remind me of Villa moments.
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When I hear "Can you feel it" by the Jacksons/Michael Jackson I think to the game at Highbury in 81 for the same reasons.
How strange that I came to this thread to post exactly the same song and there it is in the very last post I read. For me it reminds me of the game before that, against Middlesborough at Villa Park. The whole sense of excitement about what was about to happen is there in the lyric "Can you feel it?". However, bizarrely, it's the line "It's in the air - the wind is taking it everywhere" that plants a crystal clear image in my mind of a stream of bog roll rising from the right side of The Holte and floating over our heads and tangling itself around the left floodlight!
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For all the great music that was around in 1982, the band I associate most with winning the European Cup is Haircut 100. Please don't ask me why.
Why's that, Dave?
Dave was at a Haircut 100 gig at The Odeon the day something else was happening at Highbury - but he doesn't care to mention it ;-)
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For some reason I associate the Black Eyed Pease 'Meet me halfway' and that Katy Perry song from earlier this year (the one 'if we meet again') with our home League cup semi final against Blackburn. I think it's because they got a lot of airtime around then because it certainly wasn't because I had a liking for the songs!
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Heaven 17-Tempation.
Reminds me of Liverpool away in May '83.
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Theme from an Unmade Silent Movie and Hi Ho Silver Lining are general Villa songs that make me glad to be a Villa fan.
New York, New York is Wembley '96.
My Girl by The Temptations is the FA Cup quarter final defeat at Anfield 92, the season we really should have won the thing.
West End Girls by The Pet Shop Boys is a near deserted Holte during the dire 85-86 season at half time in a match I've long since expunged from my memory. Whenever I hear that song it just makes me feel depressed: I can feel the cold coming up through the inadequate footwear I had on and the feeling of complete frustration at the Villa's plight: three seasons ago we were the reigning Champions of Europe...
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Shock off the lightening - Oasis
This is an emergancy - Pigeon Detectives
Both songs used to be played before the games at VP a few years ago, reminds me off the 2-2 dramatic draw with Arsenal.
Also Club Foot - Kasabian, was also played before and used to get me 'pumped up'
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I don't know why it's this song cos but it's 'Come on Eileen' when we lost 3.1.First home game of 82/83 I think.
We had just won the European cup and were not expecting to lose to Sunderland at home. They bought thousands and their fans were brilliant and were singing and dancing to this at half time.
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Always Dexy's ,Geano. Played that persistantly during 1992-1993.
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Come and get it from the 3rd Division days.
Tracey - Cuff Links and Love Grows - Edison Lighthouse - late sixties before relegation.
Barbara Ann - Beach Boys - around 1973/4/5 - behind the goal at Forest with a huge mob waiting outside for us.
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Thought of another one - Beautiful Day U2 - Aug 2001; first game of the season at the Lane, watching us on Match of the Day at Euston, soaking wet (inside and out) as I recall.
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My little lad's got a musical toy that plays "Oh my darling Clementine", and I can't help but sing "Hand it over, hand it over, hand it over Arsenal", as though it's Valentines Day 1990 all over again.
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West End Girls by The Pet Shop Boys is a near deserted Holte during the dire 85-86 season at half time in a match I've long since expunged from my memory. Whenever I hear that song it just makes me feel depressed: I can feel the cold coming up through the inadequate footwear I had on and the feeling of complete frustration at the Villa's plight: three seasons ago we were the reigning Champions of Europe...
The same song reminds me of the Man City game at Villa Park on New Years Day 1986 - it was playing at half time - we ended up losing 0-1.
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Mull of Kintyre, Baseball Ground , 1977
I think in those days they gave us half the Popside, one of the worst
views around. Think this game was around the festive season &
remember all the fans singing along to this.
Bad Manners, Can- Can 1981, Charity Sheild.
Takes me back to the pub in Toddington where the Cincinnati branch,
of Villa fans , a factory in Erdington not the USA !
took over the Sat night disco.
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Theme from an unmade silent movie by Hurricane Smith transports me back to when we were the best team in England, and then the best team in Europe. The club should re-instate it, play it before every game.
Here Here
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Spaceman by The Killers reminds me of Zat Knight's last minute Christmas equaliser against Arsenal.
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"Good Morning Britain" by Aztec Camera with Mick Jones. Half time against Inter, October 1990.
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Not sure it can be classed as a single moment but my mate who had a habit of constantly playing his current favourite song in the car played Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac all the way back from Swindon in '88. I seem to remember we adopted Tempole Tudors 'Swords of a thousand men' as our theme song for the quarter final at Liverpool in '92 as well.
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'Ready now' by Frankie Valli & the 4 seasons, getting a pass out from the Bristol Rovers main stand at half time with my Dad and my Uncle Frank to piss in a big pile of builders sand outside the ground. 1970 I reckon, won the game via a Lindsay Parsons headed own goal from about 20 yards out if my memory serves me well
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The Return Of the Los Palmas 7 by Madness instantly takes me back to the early 80's as does a Mike Oldfield tune which I can't remember the name of, but always seem to hear around Christmas.
Respectable by Mel and Kim - I remember it because I was standing in a queue with a load of Everton fans outside the Witton in 1987 and they were all singing along to the song which was on the tannoy at the time all adorned in their stereotype tracksuits.
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Mull of Kintyre Derby away 1977 ,boxing day i think it was,always stays in my memory. Another song i always remember is We shall not be moved by the Seekers before most home games in the 60s. I also can recall Rotherham fans singing You aint see nothing like the mighty quinn in a f a cup tie they beat us in at villa park.
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Dexy's - Gino played over the tannoy at VP for much of the early 1980's
....and again through the mid 90's for Deano.
I vividly remember it being played after his home debut against Liverpool.
I remember Da Do Ron Ron being played over the tannoy for BFR's home debut against Man Ure which we lost 1-0 and you could have heard a pin drop
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Theme from an unmade silent movie.
La Dolce Vita by Ryan Paris always makes me think of a cold, half empty Villa Park.It seemed to echo round the whole stadium.
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I also can recall Rotherham fans singing You aint see nothing like the mighty quinn in a f a cup tie they beat us in at villa park.
Blimey. I was at that game and can also remember The Mighty Quinn being sung. Circa 1969.
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Bab Come Back by Pato Banton always reminds me of being on the pitch after the shoot-out against Inter.
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Theme from an unmade silent movie for me!