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2010/05/21 17:04:34
Subject: If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
Pretty self-explanatory: Link a youtube vid of your favourite piece of music that you'd consider to rival your nation's national anthem!
Starting with the UK:
I'd replace our outdated protestation of love to our hereditary monarch with this little beauty:
I'd want the lyrics changed ofc, they're horribly outdated... As a matter of fact I consider the best version to be that you'll find in most instrumental renditions of Holst's Jupiter, you hear it about half way through... I just picked this particular video because it was the only one I could find that was specifically I Vow to Thee My Country rather than Jupiter in its entirety. This one with lyrics really doesn't sound as emotional.
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I am happy to keep the one we have, if anything is 'outdated' its our current generations blinkered selfishness, a generation which considers anything of our culture that does not profit them should be discarded, or worse replaced for something 'trendy'.
God Save the Queen.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2010/05/22 01:49:32
Subject: Re:If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
I'd replace the Canadian national anthem with this, just for the heck of it:
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Manchu wrote: This is simply a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone says, "it won't change so why should I bother to try?" and then it doesn't change so people feel validated in their bad behavior.
Orlanth wrote:I am happy to keep the one we have, if anything is 'outdated' its our current generations blinkered selfishness, a generation which considers anything of our culture that does not profit them should be discarded, or worse replaced for something 'trendy'.
God Save the Queen.
I agree with that, actually. I was kidding with the Lethal Bizzle tune.
Nearly anything is better than The Star Spangled Banner. Its a horribly unpleasant song. America the Beautiful is one that I hear often discussed as a hypothetical replacement.
Alternatively it should be composed by John Williams.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
2010/05/22 02:06:40
Subject: If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
I 2nd a motion for Imperial March for the US Anthem.
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
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2010/05/22 02:35:13
Subject: Re:If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
Orlanth wrote:I am happy to keep the one we have, if anything is 'outdated' its our current generations blinkered selfishness, a generation which considers anything of our culture that does not profit them should be discarded, or worse replaced for something 'trendy'.
God Save the Queen.
An elected President is just trendy is it?
Nightwatch wrote:I'd replace the Canadian national anthem with this, just for the heck of it:
Just thought you'd stop kidding the world eh?
SlaveToDorkness wrote:Pfff.. how can you argue with "the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!" ???
But Stompa that music is for militaristic, right wing, Thatcher loving, flag flying, Churchill remembering, politically incorrect, hawkish, reactionaries. I love it, but why do you?
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2010/05/22 15:10:42
Subject: Re:If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2010/05/22 15:34:25
Subject: If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2010/05/22 17:40:35
Subject: Re:If you could replace your country's anthem, what would it be with?
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