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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on April 02, 2015, 08:23:30 PM
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Well? Your vote matters.
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What was the old Tony Butler BRMB tune ? Unknown something wasn't it ?
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Option 3. TFAUSM. Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie.
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Spizzenergi!
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Option 3. TFAUSM. Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie.
Cheers
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Option 3. TFAUSM. Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie.
This
But do the younger fans know it ?
How long since it was last played at VP ?
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Who voted Other ? And what is it ?
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:)
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Who voted Other ? And what is it ?
Me- Spizzenergi.
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
How do we sing along to that?
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
How do we sing along to that?
You don't have to sing along to anything.
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Ignore that, just read the poll. Doh
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Ghostriders - the up tempo version by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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fuck the olbiyun
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie for me every time.
How do we sing along to that?
Lah lah lah lah
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Ghostriders....
...it was my dad's song of choice, by Frankie Laine was his fave, always...he didn't realise, in 1960 odd, that it would become a Villa Park anthem.
Holte Ender in the sky.
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I quite like,
you maybe surprised,
fuck the olbiyun
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No Hell's Bells?
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Definitely Ghost Riders in the Sky. I get that I'm younger and don't have the nostalgia factor, but I really don't get the appeal of TFAUSM, I think it's a bit cringey to come out to. We need something intimidating that gets the blood pumping!
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What about that lion roaring video they now show at home games
That would do it
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TFAUSM for me.
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
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Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5up8kJoCsJM
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I voted other- Clarry Blue the Villa Villan, always smilin', always willin', to cheer his team on to victory. They just don't do such incisive lyric writing anymore. It's edgy, triumphalist and intimidating and will strike fear into the opposistion.
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
I've put up with watching Villa under TSM and then under Lambert but the day Villa run out to anything by Kasabian will be the day my Season a Ticket finally goes in the bin. We all have to draw the line somewhere.
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What happened to the Jean Michel Jarre classic we used to run out to in the late ’80s? That would strike the fear of Zeus into the opposition.
I've gone for Ghostriders.
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Can we please add this? It's the the clear winner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmZYLLsoDA
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
You had me on the rubbish music from the 80s bit, but then went and ruined it by mentioning Kasabian. I'd rather the team run out to a recording of a Paul Lambert half time team talk.
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
I've put up with watching Villa under TSM and then under Lambert but the day Villa run out to anything by Kasabian will be the day my Season a Ticket finally goes in the bin. We all have to draw the line somewhere.
Well said that man.
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I went for TFAUSM for nostalgia purposes.
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What about Ghostbusters?
It could really work!
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
Ghost Riders is a song we sing every game...always guaranteed to get a response as soon as someone shouts "Yippee Aye Aaaaaaaaa, Yippee Aye Oooooo..." it's not shoe-horned in!
If anything would be "shoe-horned" in to anything to do with The Villa it's Kasabian!
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Ghost riders for me.
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Good to see Ghost Riders getting plenty of votes now - lets face it we're up against You'll Never Walk Alone so we need something that everyone gets behind and from those on the list this is our best effort.
Have to say though I do like the new song and hope this will start to become more of an anthem by the time we reach the Champions league final ;)
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Why not Hi Ho Silver Lining? It's our song, and is more sing - alongable than any of the other options. Certainly, it's more likely than any of the rest to whip the crowd up into a wall of noise.
I use this as my proof:
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I went for ghost riders but frankly they are all shit choices and for old people. We need to stop trying to show horn rubbish music in because it has links with the club or has been used in the 80s. If I could change our entrance music to anything it would be Underdog by Kasabian.
Most football songs are versions of old tunes anyway. Kasabian? No ta.
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I voted other- Clarry Blue the Villa Villan, always smilin', always willin', to cheer his team on to victory. They just don't do such incisive lyric writing anymore. It's edgy, triumphalist and intimidating and will strike fear into the opposistion.
If the younger fans can adopt a more modern tune as a Villa song then you'd have a point, but nowadays fans don't seem to have a mind of their own when it comes to chants and songs. Everything is just the same as what other club's fans sing, there's no originality at all. Hardly any of our players even have a chant especially for them (apart from "booooo"). Where's our modern equivalent to "Dwight Yorke, Dwight Yorke" when we went to Wembley in 96? Whoever scores our cup final winner this year will probably get a chorus of "There's only one….".
"Ghost Riders" was already an old cowboy song when Villa fans started singing it - the generation who had grown up with western films on TV, or who might have heard their parents or grandparents playing Burl Ives, Frankie Lane or Bing Crosby on the gramophone/record player.
Football songs are folk songs passed down through the generations, but folk songs get adapted, updated and new ones still get written.
Adapt a modern tune, make it your own, pass it down through the generations and THEN it makes the playlist for Villa Park or Wembley - it's not the other way round.
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Went initially for Hi-Hi Aston Villa until I re-read the options. Number 3 just makes me think of Villa whenever I hear so for that reason option 3 all day long.
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Here we go. We should wear the clobber as well. Perfect.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE
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Why not Hi Ho Silver Lining? It's our song, and is more sing - alongable than any of the other options. Certainly, it's more likely than any of the rest to whip the crowd up into a wall of noise.
I use this as my proof:
Brilliant.
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I always thought it was a Dingles song.
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The problem with Hi Ho is that the rest of the song is largely irrelevant, and other than shouting Hi Ho Aston Villa a couple of times there's nothing much to sing along with.
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The lion staring and growling please with a heartbeat sound in the background.
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Ghost riders for me. I always liked geno as well by DMR
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Hi Ho is more of a Dingles song. We only tend to get it played at big matches rather than a regular thing. Pretty sure it was one of the songs played after the '96 final.
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Can we please add this? It's the the clear winner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmZYLLsoDA
I really like this too. I wouldn't object to any of the songs suggested, to be honest, they all have their merits.
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What happened to the Jean Michel Jarre classic we used to run out to in the late ’80s? That would strike the fear of Zeus into the opposition.
I've gone for Ghostriders.
I was thinking about that too. Here it is and although I wouldn't suggest it for Wembley, it's nice to hear again.
PS we did used to come out to Kasabian for a short time during the reign of their showbiz pal, Martin O'Neill though I am not surprised that many people have blotted the memory out.
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Tangerine Dream wannabee.
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Maybe we should bring back the Pigbag mix.
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Here we go. We should wear the clobber as well. Perfect.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE
What, dress like Albion fans? You're on your own, Des.
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The problem with Hi Ho is that the rest of the song is largely irrelevant, and other than shouting Hi Ho Aston Villa a couple of times there's nothing much to sing along with.
I tend to agree in that I don't think many know the song other than the chorus but! I found these lyrics somewhere - probably this site. I don't know if they are definitive or if definitive lyrics even exist to any song, but here's what I sing:
We're everywhere that you are Villa
That's where we're at
We're the Holte End behind the Villa
We're at every match
Up and down the country
We will sing this song
When you get behind the Villa
You can't go wrong
And it's...
I voted for The Bells Are Ringing. Not an anthem from my time, but one that has the (potential) grandeur to suit Villa.
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You're goin' 'ome in a fackin ambulance
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4m 33s
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...or Einstein on the Beach by Phillip Glass (full version)
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I've just heard the TFAUSM song for the first time and nearly fell asleep. I don't get it anyway. Must be an age/nostalgia thing.
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Ghostriders, as long as this lot perform it in the centre circle pre-match........
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Hurricane smith for me, every time. I see it as our song to come out on the pitch to at VP. Might not translate that well to Wembley, but fuck it, we're Villa and it's our song.
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Aston villa that's who has won unfortunately
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Get behind it, drown out the opposition and job's a good 'un.
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I saw on the factual site of Facebook today that Aston Villa that's who has been chosen for when the team comes out.
It's a good song, but hardly the rousing anthem that we need before the dippers start wailing you'll never walk alone.
Does anyone know what has been chosen?
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There were 1,471 unique IP address votes for the Wembley song (these were de-duped by IP address to account for multiple voting). The winning song with 25% of the vote was Aston Villa That’s Who (2nd Hi Ho Silver with 20% and 3rd Ghost Riders in the sky with 17%). All of the songs will be played at some point during the build-up. Article here on the song - http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html The article also includes a video of Ampertaine primary school performing the song.
Peter Withe’s son, Steven, also entered a song called ‘Villa You’re the One’ which will also play at Wembley.
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Where is the 'Hey Aston Villa' by Ricky Disoni option?
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Or for completeness - this monstrosity:
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There were 1,471 unique IP address votes for the Wembley song (these were de-duped by IP address to account for multiple voting). The winning song with 25% of the vote was Aston Villa That’s Who (2nd Hi Ho Silver with 20% and 3rd Ghost Riders in the sky with 17%). All of the songs will be played at some point during the build-up. Article here on the song - http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html The article also includes a video of Ampertaine primary school performing the song.
Peter Withe’s son, Steven, also entered a song called ‘Villa You’re the One’ which will also play at Wembley.
How embarrassing. With all due respect to the writers, it just doesn't hit the spot. We simply don't have a club anthem, and the only way we will is if it happens completely organically. Hopefully the fans' singing will drown out both this and that other crap from the most knowledgable fans in football.
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It's a nice enough song as footy songs go. Not sure about it before a game at Wembley though.
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It's dire. Sounds like a Paul Lambert half time team talk set to the tune of a b side from a Wurzels song. The OS says "It has captured the imagination of the claret and blue faithful with messageboards praising the tune as well as the lyrics, which hail the history and heritage of our famous club.". Must have missed all the praise.
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My mate, a Bolton fan came to the qf with me, he wondered what the hell was being played. Its very bland. Them lot will have their 'anthem' and we have this shocker. Ghost riders would have got the antmospehere going
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I actually kind of like it. Reminds me of the old Jimmy Shand tapes my granddad used to play.
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It doesn't matter, whatever, just do whatever it takes to drown out the Scousers' dirge!
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There were 1,471 unique IP address votes for the Wembley song (these were de-duped by IP address to account for multiple voting). The winning song with 25% of the vote was Aston Villa That’s Who (2nd Hi Ho Silver with 20% and 3rd Ghost Riders in the sky with 17%). All of the songs will be played at some point during the build-up. Article here on the song - http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html) The article also includes a video of Ampertaine primary school performing the song.
Peter Withe’s son, Steven, also entered a song called ‘Villa You’re the One’ which will also play at Wembley.
How embarrassing. With all due respect to the writers, it just doesn't hit the spot. We simply don't have a club anthem, and the only way we will is if it happens completely organically. Hopefully the fans' singing will drown out both this and that other crap from the most knowledgable fans in football.
Organically, you say? I for one categorically refuse to sing along to organ music having been traumatised as a young seminarian when Brother Harry played psychedelic Beatles records on his organ.
Also, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale gives me the fear.
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray.
On second thought, I have changed my mind and maybe we should sing this. The key of C with no octave leaps should well suit our vocalists and they could give it the full gun.
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As these are very political times, and we have a history which dwarfs that of the Ploppers, let us consult Hansard for the only recorded reference to a popular singer and a football club the prime minister at the dawn of the twentieth century (Lloyd George I believe) said in the House "Birmingham has only two loves, Marie Lloyd and Aston Villa". And what did she sing? "My old man...."
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I'm sorry I'll be castigated for this, but the Kop in full voice doing YNWA is an impressive sight. They'll win this part of the semi, we should be doing Ghost Riders.......
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I'm sorry I'll be castigated for this, but the Kop in full voice doing YNWA is an impressive sight. They'll win this part of the semi, we should be doing Ghost Riders.......
I think you're right. There isn't anything we could have chosen to compete with YNWA because it is so established. We haven't got an anthem. Ghost Riders is the nearest, and it'll be played at some point, we'll definitely sing it at some point, and we'll almost definitely drown them out for most of the the game
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The nearest thing we have for a anthem is ghost riders,
It's not very long but HITS is sang multiple times at every match, and everyone young and old knows it (the words being easy helps)
Ghost riders is also a great stand alone song, we should go with that it's the best we have
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The lion on the screen with the roars accompanied by the crowd.
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Personally I think it's a shocking choice and shows no emotion or crowd rousing surge. The rest of the footballing world especially our unwashed neighbours from Small Heath and Sandwell will be pissing themselves when this is played.
Surely someone at the club has to say, 'wait a minute. That is sending me to sleep!'
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It is a shocking choice. Words fail me sometimes.
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We should be doing "Ghost Riders" with complete verses. Leaving the verses on the back of the claret cards left on seats for people that don't know them.
FFS!
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Personally I think it's a shocking choice and shows no emotion or crowd rousing surge. The rest of the footballing world especially our unwashed neighbours from Small Heath and Sandwell will be pissing themselves when this is played.
They can piss themselves all they want, we are at Wembley, they aren't.
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Is there a "Fuck Off Stevie G" version of Daydream Believer?
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My mate, a Bolton fan came to the qf with me, he wondered what the hell was being played. Its very bland. Them lot will have their 'anthem' and we have this shocker. Ghost riders would have got the antmospehere going
As good as the song may be in its own right, it's not a proper Villa fans' song, so I can't see us singing it...Ghost Riders is what we sing at every game and will surely sing when the teams come out. I hope we do. I can't imagine for one second any of my regular home and away Villa mates voting for it.
We can't compete with YNWA especially as it will be orchestrated, as it is at the beginning of every game at Anfield. They sang it beautifully at the start of the game up there earlier this season...they were silent for the rest of the game.
I look forward to a repeat of this on Sunday!
UTV!
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That song is embarrassingly bad.
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There were 1,471 unique IP address votes for the Wembley song (these were de-duped by IP address to account for multiple voting). The winning song with 25% of the vote was Aston Villa That’s Who (2nd Hi Ho Silver with 20% and 3rd Ghost Riders in the sky with 17%). All of the songs will be played at some point during the build-up. Article here on the song - http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4641567,00.html) The article also includes a video of Ampertaine primary school performing the song.
Peter Withe’s son, Steven, also entered a song called ‘Villa You’re the One’ which will also play at Wembley.
How embarrassing. With all due respect to the writers, it just doesn't hit the spot. We simply don't have a club anthem, and the only way we will is if it happens completely organically. Hopefully the fans' singing will drown out both this and that other crap from the most knowledgable fans in football.
Organically, you say? I for one categorically refuse to sing along to organ music having been traumatised as a young seminarian when Brother Harry played psychedelic Beatles records on his organ.
Also, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale gives me the fear.
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray.
On second thought, I have changed my mind and maybe we should sing this. The key of C with no octave leaps should well suit our vocalists and they could give it the full gun.
Perhaps we can have something by that nice Jon Bon Tempi?
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Now you're talking. You are cooking on high octane crystal meth!
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I might be misremembering but when that song was originally posted here a few months ago I think the reception was overwhelmingly positive.
FWIW I think its fairly good as far as football songs go, but I would've voted for ghost riders
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I might be misremembering but when that song was originally posted here a few months ago I think the reception was overwhelmingly positive.
FWIW I think its fairly good as far as football songs go, but I would've voted for ghost riders
It was certainly well recieved on here & else where.
Its might not be the best tune to lead the team out granted but its better than the rubbishing it getting in this thread
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It's also close to the Hillsborough date so we had no chance of outdoing them on the singing of YNWA.
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This decision opens up the long standing debate about the lack of a club anthem and variety of songs sung by Villa fans. For a club with such a strong vocal support (particularly away from home), I've never known us to have an "anthem" as such and after years of standing on the Holte you'd have thought there would have been a natural selection for such a choice...but there's not and never really has been (well, not in my lifetime).
How many clubs actually have recognisable distinguished "anthems"? Do we even need one?
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WTF, who the hell voted for that shite? I've never seen or heard anyone at VP take the slightest bit of notice when it's played.
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This decision opens up the long standing debate about the lack of a club anthem and variety of songs sung by Villa fans. For a club with such a strong vocal support (particularly away from home), I've never known us to have an "anthem" as such and after years of standing on the Holte you'd have thought there would have been a natural selection for such a choice...but there's not and never really has been (well, not in my lifetime).
How many clubs actually have recognisable distinguished "anthems"? Do we even need one?
Off the top of my head
Liverpool - YNWA
Stoke - Delilah
Chelsea - Blue Is the Colour
Man City - Blue Moon
Soton - When the Saints Come Marching
West Ham - Blowing Bubbles
And so on
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I'm completely not arsed about us not having an 'anthem'. A wall of noise sounds much better.
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I notice an omission. Much as I hate them, they have one.
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To be fair this site and the OS posted details of a the vote....yet only about 5000 votes. So like not voting in the election....you shouldn't moan at the result. I don't give shite what they play. Atmosphere at football is all about the 90 mins. I have no doubt we will do our bit. I will :)
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I notice an omission. Much as I hate them, they have one.
Crystal palace - glad all over
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I'm completely not arsed about us not having an 'anthem'. A wall of noise sounds much better.
Exactly. If there ever was a need for an "anthem" (or a song that fans adopt and adapt as their own) then I'm sure one would have come to the light over the last 30-40 years...I've always found that we make more than enough noise with a wide repertoire of songs (even if the variety seems to have dwindled over the years).
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I notice an omission. Much as I hate them, they have one.
Crystal palace - glad all over
Sunderland - Can't help falling in Love with you.
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WTF, who the hell voted for that shite? I've never seen or heard anyone at VP take the slightest bit of notice when it's played.
This
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This decision opens up the long standing debate about the lack of a club anthem and variety of songs sung by Villa fans. For a club with such a strong vocal support (particularly away from home), I've never known us to have an "anthem" as such and after years of standing on the Holte you'd have thought there would have been a natural selection for such a choice...but there's not and never really has been (well, not in my lifetime).
How many clubs actually have recognisable distinguished "anthems"? Do we even need one?
Off the top of my head
Liverpool - YNWA
Stoke - Delilah
Chelsea - Blue Is the Colour
Man City - Blue Moon
Soton - When the Saints Come Marching
West Ham - Blowing Bubbles
And so on
Annie's Song - Sheffield Utd
Goodnight Irene - Bristol Rovers
Sunshine on Leith - Hibs
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For a club to have an anthem there has to be some kind of consensus, and the only thing Villa fans are in agreement about is delight when we score and win, and despair when we lose. Everything else is up in the air, from the kit design to whether a former chairman was a twat or not. This is why we'll never agree on an anthem. All attempts to artificially generate some kind of anthem have been an embarrassment. Spontaneity is our strength, and I hope we use it to drown out the dirge at Wembley on Sunday with whatever organically occurring racket we can muster.
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I notice an omission. Much as I hate them, they have one.
Crystal palace - glad all over
Sunderland - Can't help falling in Love with you.
Loads of teams have 'Can't help falling in love with you' - I don't particularly associate with Sunderland.
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Leeds United - Marching on Together
Newcastle Utd - Blaydon Races
Everton - It's a Grand Old Team
Birmingham City - Keep Right On
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I'm completely not arsed about us not having an 'anthem'. A wall of noise sounds much better.
Exactly. If there ever was a need for an "anthem" (or a song that fans adopt and adapt as their own) then I'm sure one would have come to the light over the last 30-40 years...I've always found that we make more than enough noise with a wide repertoire of songs (even if the variety seems to have dwindled over the years).
Me too, I wonder which would intimidate me more if I was an opposition player walking up the tunnel - an absolute wall of noise coming from thousands of roaring, hostile home fans or "I'm forever blowing bubbles".
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The funniest football anthem ever, ever, ever -
Bohemians FC - Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan (Irish Eurovision Winner)
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The funniest football anthem ever, ever, ever -
Bohemians FC - Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan (Irish Eurovision Winner)
What the actual fuck?!
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The funniest football anthem ever, ever, ever -
Bohemians FC - Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan (Irish Eurovision Winner)
What the actual fuck?!
Sweet baby Jesus AND the orphans!
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He's better off singing 'Is that all you get at home?' I've seen more people at a bus stop.
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Diamond Lights and Anything by Chas & Dave - Tottenham 😉
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Mull of Kintyre - Nottingham Forest
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i am sure when they play aston villa thats who at wembley
the fans will be singing something completely different to drown it out
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It was probably Blues fans who voted for it.
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I didn't have a ticket so couldn't go, but I remember my mate Neil telling me of when he went to the FA cup match at Villa Park late 80's and he said you could hear 'who the fkn hell are you?' Booming from the ground as far back as the expressway bridge.
Would be nice to hear a raucous rendition of that when they are Never walking Alone.
Remember the last match of the old Holte End when we played them too and the whistling and booing managed to drown it out ??
Come on Villa!
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I didn't have a ticket so couldn't go, but I remember my mate Neil telling me of when he went to the FA cup match at Villa Park late 80's and he said you could hear 'who the fkn hell are you?' Booming from the ground as far back as the expressway bridge.
Would be nice to hear a raucous rendition of that when they are Never walking Alone.
Remember the last match of the old Holte End when we played them too and the whistling and booing managed to drown it out ??
Come on Villa!
This.
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Have always said it so many times on diff threads in the 70s we always sung
"When your smiling when your smiling the Holte end smiles with you
But when your laughing then sun comes shining through "
Etc etc etc
Who can remember it from the 70s early 80s what a great song remember drowning the blue nose drone at the sty mid 70s with it
That should be our song
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What about the Clarrie Blue song.
"His name is Clarrie Blue The Villa Villan. ..."
Can't find a link.
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We have just tested this against A group of Liverpool fans in Ye Olde Swiss Cottage in
London after a days drinking, and I have to tell you that there is no doubt this song works! On a record, it may sounded a bit dreary, but put it in a group of fans on the piss, it has a whole new life!
If we win tomorrow, this might really take off! Give it a go - you might like it!
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Have always said it so many times on diff threads in the 70s we always sung
"When your smiling when your smiling the Holte end smiles with you
But when your laughing then sun comes shining through "
Etc etc etc
Who can remember it fromHave always said it so many times on diff threads in the 70s we always sung
"When your smiling when your smiling the Holte end smiles with you
But when your laughing then sun comes shining through "
Etc etc etc
Who can remember it from the 70s early 80s what a great song remember drowning the blue nose drone at the sty mid 70s with it
That should be our song
the 70s early 80s what a great song remember drowning the blue nose drone at the sty mid 70s with it
That should be our song %
BE HAPPY AGAIN
the holte end smiles with you
la la la la la
yes it should be the song
those were the days
be nice for a knees up mother brown too
sod the seats
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cos when your smiling
WHEN YOUR SMILING
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We have just tested this against A group of Liverpool fans in Ye Olde Swiss Cottage in
London after a days drinking, and I have to tell you that there is no doubt this song works! On a record, it may sounded a bit dreary, but put it in a group of fans on the piss, it has a whole new life!
If we win tomorrow, this might really take off! Give it a go - you might like it!
First problem...can anyone actually remember the words? Instantly forgettable.
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It's comes out as a lead & follow - so only one person has to remember the words! In our case it was Cheltenham Lion!
Just random lines then Aston Villa that's who! I think the Liverpool fans liked it so much they'll be singing it at Anfield & claiming it as theirs before it takes off at Villa Park!
Although - choosing 'who conquered Europe in 82?' as one of our lines wasn't the most impressive choice against Liverpool of all teams!
Who were the first in claret & blue?
Who formed the football league for you?
May father said there's a team for you
Our children will support them too
To be fair - the one thing it definitely isn't, is hard to remember!
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What about this one..(Brummie version)
Tell me Mom, me Mom
To put the champagne on ice
We're goin' to Wembley twice
Que Sera, Sera!
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It's comes out as a lead & follow - so only one person has to remember the words! In our case it was Cheltenham Lion!
Just random lines then Aston Villa that's who! I think the Liverpool fans liked it so much they'll be singing it at Anfield & claiming it as theirs before it takes off at Villa Park!
Although - choosing 'who conquered Europe in 82?' as one of our lines wasn't the most impressive choice against Liverpool of all teams!
Who were the first in claret & blue?
Who formed the football league for you?
May father said there's a team for you
Our children will support them too
To be fair - the one thing it definitely isn't, is hard to remember!
Well I listened to the song on YouTube again last night and it was stuck it my head...I'm going to have to blame you that I only got a few hours of sleep with "Aston Villa That's Who" going around in my head! ;)
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In the end, how obvious was it that this was just a set up for the big YNWA? I don't know why we ever worried for a moment about our choice of song being an issue - it was clearly irrelevant. They wanted YNWA before the KO, so they had to offer us something, and they were complely unconcerned as to what it was because they were never really doing anything with it anyway!
Our song was played about 20 minutes before kick off, whilst everyone was still coming in, and then we had a long of ceremony (like the flags coming on) & announcements. Then - when everyone was ready to be suitably awestruck, we got YNWA.
As Arsenal don't have a song either, I doubt there'll be any fanfare about each club having to have a song for the final.
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I remember at Arsenal a couple of years ago they played The Wonder of You complete with lyrics and karaoke style bouncing ball on the big screen and it was very much by order of the committee and with the approval of key stakeholders and it was super cringeworthy.
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Earlier in this thread, I mentioned that our strength as fans is spontaneity. YNWA, like many other club anthems, is a set piece, but what Villa fans showed on Sunday was raw emotion, and that can't be beaten. Give me the "85th Minute Roar", as it will henceforth be known, over staged, choreographed, manufactured scarf-waving 'passion' any day.
Somebody who knows what they're doing should find the 85th Minute Roar, make it into a little clip and distribute it far and wide as a meme among Villa fans, just to remind us all what power we can have if we only think to use it. Fuck anthems.
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That roar would make a brilliant ringtone.
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I must confess the 85th minute roar passed me by. I was probably too busy pondering how with all the money the spent on Wembley they managed to install clocks that kept such slow time.
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I must confess the 85th minute roar passed me by.
I didn't notice anything either. What was it and why did it happen ?
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I did, it was awe-inspiring. Anyway, our song HAS to be Hi Ho Silver Lining, nothing else really comes close to getting everybody going. I agree with amfy though, the 'That's Who' nonsense works quite well as a chant, as the bewildered Scouser in the Swiss Cottage could attest from a drunk Chelts and Amfy bellowing it in his face!
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I think the roar was in the 89th minute. The last 10 minutes went so slow.
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It came across quite clearly on the telly. A huge roar swept through our end and the camera panned onto Villa fans jumping up and down as if unable to contain their excitement. It was as if victory was a formality. Then I realised there was five minutes left. It was bizarre.
On the "Aston Villa That's Who" song, the tune is catchy for a chant, but I don't like the "That's Who" bit. It sounds a bit naff. "Aston Villa FC" might sound a little better.
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I remember the roar. Very loud and moving. It was the roar that put a force field in front of our goal. Liverpool were never going to score. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that although time went slower I was more relaxed about the outcome than I ever am. It was to be our day, we knew it, they knew it. The roar rubber stamped it.
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Is there any coverage online of the 85th minute roar?
I recorded the BBC highlight show but I'd love to watch the whole game from start to finish with all the build up too if possible.
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I missed the roar as well, which is strange as I was very hooked on the game at that point (as you can imagine). I was right up in the Gods so maybe the sound didn't travel that well upwards I don't know.
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Sherwood caused it, waving his arms on the touchline trying to get the crowd going
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I watched it back on BT (a few times actually) and the roar being referred to was let rip on 89 minutes and 10 seconds.
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That might have been me. Sorry about that, but the tension got to me.
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I remember the 85th minute raw. it was Sherwood waiving his arms to get the crowd going.
God, I think I love him.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
Brilliant. The 89th Minute Roar.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
Brilliant. The 89th Minute Roar.
Superb.
Bottle it. Open the bottle for the final.
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YT is blocked at work and now cannot wait to get home to watch it.
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It's brilliant. You hear whilst they are showing a replay and then the camera pans to our end going apeshit.
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I wish the cameras were already on us, or on Sherwood waving his arms around, rather than Michael Owen droning on through it.
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True dat!
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Yeah, I'm in that video! Briefly. not far from the lad who had his shirt off. must say I don't remember it. I just had my eyes on the clock from about 70 minutes!
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I counted off each minute from about 83-89. Then that racket started and I was a man possessed.
I was punching my friend in the shoulder and emploring him to get louder. I was screaming at Edvard that this was his chance to help us to a famous win. I picked up the lad who was struggling to see because I couldn't sit down and chucked him on my shoulders. He was going apeshit round my neck. His Dad jumped into our row and was bouncing round like a loony with Ed. The whistle finally went and the bloke in front turned round and slapped a kiss on me. I spotted a bloke from work 2 seats down who I had missed before. The manager and players came down to celebrate. Hi Ho Aston Villa.
And then we left and I got monumentally pissed with some of the H+V crowd and the German contingent....
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Think I started clock watching from 62 mins . Jesus.
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The problem with Hi Ho is that the rest of the song is largely irrelevant, and other than shouting Hi Ho Aston Villa a couple of times there's nothing much to sing along with.
And it's hi-ho Aston Villa
Ev'rywhere we go there's aggro
You'll see our toe-caps shining
Razor blades and Crombie lining...
I don't think they'll play that version though.
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The problem with Hi Ho is that the rest of the song is largely irrelevant, and other than shouting Hi Ho Aston Villa a couple of times there's nothing much to sing along with.
And it's hi-ho Aston Villa
Ev'rywhere we go there's aggro
You'll see our toe-caps shining
Razor blades and Crombie lining...
I don't think they'll play that version though.
I remember
Hi Ho Aston Villa
Everywhere we go there's aggro
I see your boots are shining....
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Think I started clock watching from 62 mins . Jesus.
I pretty much start clockwatching when Villa go ahead in a big game. Can't help it.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
Thank you Daniel. Just brilliant.
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Give me 30 minutes and I'll post the ending celebrations here.
Thank you Daniel. Just brilliant.
Yes, here's to you DanielRolinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know.
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The problem with Hi Ho is that the rest of the song is largely irrelevant, and other than shouting Hi Ho Aston Villa a couple of times there's nothing much to sing along with.
And it's hi-ho Aston Villa
Ev'rywhere we go there's aggro
You'll see our toe-caps shining
Razor blades and Crombie lining...
I don't think they'll play that version though.
wasnt it
and your razor in your crombly lining