Don't Look Back in Anger

[Lastfootstamper]

It's funny, for all the moaning here and on social media, the vast majority of fans sing it after the games.

Manc song, so what, who cares? What's Jeff Beck got to do with Aston Villa? Born in Surrey. Not to mention the fact that HHSL fucking awful. But everyone claps along and sings it.

I like the fact it started organically, it wasn't forced on us.

Yes, we need to update the playlist without a doubt, but if we're blasting out DLBIA against Bournemouth, I'll be very happy.

Johnny Cash was defo a Villa fan though (anyone as cool as him must be)

saw him on the left side of the Holte one time in 77 singing knees up mother brown

He's Johnny Cash, of course he's on the left side.

At this point I believe etiquette says that you should infer "no offence intended" to right siders. But that's not going to happen. Fkn weirdos.

[The Edge]

This has to be it

I still can't get over the captain of a team that's just won at Wembley, and a load of the players, with their medals round their necks, singing in  front of a crowd that look like they've just rolled out of the Aston Social.

Yeh it’s a beautiful thing.

A beautiful noise even.

[CT]

New win song should be Sweet Caroline

Yes, agree with this

Agree too.

Also, can we PLEASE bin Allez Allez Allez?

Everyone else sings it, but we seem to do it every 45 seconds.

Quite right Paulie. That Allez dirge is a pox on football

That song contributed to some fantastic atmospheres home and away last season. At Villa Park, the best in many years in fact.

But yeah, it's a pox, lets bin it.

[Legion]

This has to be it

I still can't get over the captain of a team that's just won at Wembley, and a load of the players, with their medals round their necks, singing in  front of a crowd that look like they've just rolled out of the Aston Social.

Not seen the chavtastic kit promo shots yet?

[Bad English]

Sweet Caroline is a great song but I don't rate it as a song down the football. Now, if last year's team loved it then fair enough.  It will be popular for a bit and then it will be forgotten.

[in exile]

Ditch Don't Look Back In Anger and Sweet Caroline as soon as possible please

[Mister E]

Where's this Sweet Caroline revival come from all of a sudden? Did someone sing it on the X Factor final or something? It's bloody everywhere! And it's bloody awful!

'kin right.

No 'kin way.

Sweet Caroline is a brilliant song in its own right.  The way the horn part builds up to the chorus is perfect.  It's one of my favourite songs anyway, but then its association with our march to winning the playoffs, and then hearing it twice at my daughter's school leavers' ball has cemented it in my psyche.  It's a million times better than DLBIA in every single way.  I hope to hear it and sing it a million times at Villa this season.

And I had the impression you were a man with taste!  I consider I have a pretty eclectic musical repertoire but I find Neil Diamond just vanilla middle-of-the-road dross.Sorry!

[Ads]

New win song should be Sweet Caroline

Yes, agree with this

Agree too.

Also, can we PLEASE bin Allez Allez Allez?

Everyone else sings it, but we seem to do it every 45 seconds.

Quite right Paulie. That Allez dirge is a pox on football

That song contributed to some fantastic atmospheres home and away last season. At Villa Park, the best in many years in fact.

But yeah, it's a pox, lets bin it.

There's plenty of videos out there of the whole ground belting that out against a number of teams last season and a particular version against the Stripey Filth that's very loud.

It's definitely our song the way we sing it. Hearing the Brummie twang in the 2 always makes me smile.

As ever with songs, if you don't like them, come up with a new one.

Songs don't have to be good to be good football ditties. Some resonance with a memory from an event during a game etc.

Sweet Caroline will always be the song that got us promoted. We roared them off, belted it out and roared them back on at Stoke. 32 points out of 39 and a double Midlands vanquish later, here we are.

[Duncan Shaw]

Allez song is synonymous with the best times supporting Villa in our recent history, and certainly the best my 18 year old has ever known.  When you get the players on the pitch singing a song at the end of wins away at the likes of Rotherham, it's become a special song with an a meaning and identity to us.  Here to stay I feel!!

[Breezeblock]

There's a lot of vitriol for DLBIA on here. I quite like it and always sing along. It could be a lot worse - remember the time when some wankspanner at the club thought it would be a good idea to play "Chelsea Dagger" after we scored? Now the backlash on that was as awesome as it was justified.

[randy.stand]

Blimey. Bin Don’t Look Back in Anger because Oasis are from Manchester, bin Sweet Caroline because it’s Neil Diamond, bin Hi Ho Silver Lining because Jeff Beck from Surrey, bin Allez Allez Allez because we sing it too much. How about we just all sit in silence? What is with some people? Villa Park actually had an atmosphere last season, for the first time in ages. Why would you want to take that away just because of a few songs which help contribute to the atmosphere. Leave it as it is.

[AsTallAsLions]

Has to be Sweet Caroline now. Never quite understood us using Don't Look Back In Anger anyway. Seemed to me it started around the time we got relegated, which just made it seem like we were suggesting we shouldn't be sorry to go down. It's not the right tone for a win either way so bin it.

[chrisw1]

Blimey. Bin Don’t Look Back in Anger because Oasis are from Manchester, bin Sweet Caroline because it’s Neil Diamond, bin Hi Ho Silver Lining because Jeff Beck from Surrey, bin Allez Allez Allez because we sing it too much. How about we just all sit in silence? What is with some people? Villa Park actually had an atmosphere last season, for the first time in ages. Why would you want to take that away just because of a few songs which help contribute to the atmosphere. Leave it as it is.

Exactly.

[john e]

not a big fan of Allez allez mainly because like others have said we're just jumping on the bandwagon with it,
 every other club sing it, so its not original or unique to us but then i don't suppose many are

 i'm not a big singer anymore because i'm old so my views on chants don't really count

 having said that my 11 year old son has spent his time since breaking up from school learning all the words to it and others from
you-tube videos
made me laugh on Saturday when it was first sang, not many times as we were quiet but he was up of his seat both arms in the air leading from the front like a 1970's hoolie,
 my  daughter (13) just looked at him shaking her head

[UK Redsox]

That song contributed to some fantastic atmospheres home and away last season. At Villa Park, the best in many years in fact.

But yeah, it's a pox, lets bin it.

I thought that it hindered the atmosphere. As with the Oasis thing, it's too slow