Tuesday, January 13, 2009

National Anthems

Billy Connolly once did a sketch about how crap our national anthem is.  He pointed out that new countries in  Africa have fast, jaunty national anthems that get people going, while ours has the slow trudge of a funeral march.

I remembered this over Christmas when, by chance, I caught the start of an episode of Thunderbirds.  

The Thunderbirds theme tune almost makes me cry.  It makes me want to stand to attention and salute.  If the Thunderbirds theme tune was our national anthem, which it should be, Britain would be a proud nation. It would still have an empire on which the sun never sets.  I'm not saying that's a good thing.  I'm just saying.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM

    The March of the Marionettes from the Laurel & Hardy film shorts would have made a good anthem; totally pompous but strangely alluring and endearing, buffoonish and cheering, a wonderful companion to the absurdity of life.

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  2. BLTPJanuary 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    I go the wistful music at the end of the sweeney I just think it would be great to have loads of sports fans standing there while this poignant tune plays

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    I'm afraid I'm firmly in the Jerusalem camp.

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  4. Alistair ReeceJanuary 20, 2009 at 7:41 AM

    The anthem of the UK is awful. England need their own anthem, something like Jerusalem if you will. As a whole though, the UK deserves a far better anthem than God Save the Queen. Land of Hope and Glory would be a good start, or even Rule Britannia.

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  5. al_ukJanuary 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM

    I quite like Billy's idea of The theme from the Archer's

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