Jacques Hunt Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Keep right on to the end of the road? A Brummie favourite but Scottish in origin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Keep right on to the end of the road? A Brummie favourite but Scottish in origin. I'm on the fence with that one because I actually do like that song. It's very uplifting, I'll give it that. But on the other hand, I despise everything that "Sir" Harry Lauder stood for. Firstly, his entire act revolved around making Scotland a complete laughing stock and he became a very rich man out of it. He was a favourite of the Royal Family, a "pet Jock" long before Billy Connolly was even born ! Secondly, he never showed any remorse (unlike the arch-imperialist Rudyard Kipling) about his extensive efforts at recruiting young men to fight, die or be maimed in a pointless, imperialist war whilst he was safe in his cosy country mansion between 1914 and 1918. Finally, Lauder also presented to the world an awful, negative image of Scotland and the Scots which was that we are all mean, drunk, miserable and small minded. Sadly that image has persisted to the present day and Harry Lauder was responsible for it. Not that I'm qualified to suggest any potential songs though. You should see the state of my Spotify playlist. It's got Andy Williams, Camera Obscura, Chopin, the Carpenters, Beethoven, Deacon Blue, the Corries, Wagner, Electric Light Orchestra, the Proclaimers, Oasis and Debussy on it. I'm the last person you want to ask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Hunt Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I'm on the fence with that one because I actually do like that song. It's very uplifting, I'll give it that. But on the other hand, I despise everything that "Sir" Harry Lauder stood for. Firstly, his entire act revolved around making Scotland a complete laughing stock and he became a very rich man out of it. He was a favourite of the Royal Family, a "pet Jock" long before Billy Connolly was even born ! Secondly, he never showed any remorse (unlike the arch-imperialist Rudyard Kipling) about his extensive efforts at recruiting young men to fight, die or be maimed in a pointless, imperialist war whilst he was safe in his cosy country mansion between 1914 and 1918. Finally, Lauder also presented to the world an awful, negative image of Scotland and the Scots which was that we are all mean, drunk, miserable and small minded. Sadly that image has persisted to the present day and Harry Lauder was responsible for it. Not that I'm qualified to suggest any potential songs though. You should see the state of my Spotify playlist. It's got Andy Williams, Camera Obscura, Chopin, the Carpenters, Beethoven, Deacon Blue, the Corries, Wagner, Electric Light Orchestra, the Proclaimers, Oasis and Debussy on it. I'm the last person you want to ask Wow! Mebbe stick wi doe a deer then, eh??!! Point taken re the Lauder Fellay but I like the song and Brum fans give it laldy every week and it could be tweaked to suit us. Hopefully we can come up with something new. Agree with original poster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I'm on the fence with that one because I actually do like that song. It's very uplifting, I'll give it that. But on the other hand, I despise everything that "Sir" Harry Lauder stood for. Firstly, his entire act revolved around making Scotland a complete laughing stock and he became a very rich man out of it. He was a favourite of the Royal Family, a "pet Jock" long before Billy Connolly was even born ! Secondly, he never showed any remorse (unlike the arch-imperialist Rudyard Kipling) about his extensive efforts at recruiting young men to fight, die or be maimed in a pointless, imperialist war whilst he was safe in his cosy country mansion between 1914 and 1918. Finally, Lauder also presented to the world an awful, negative image of Scotland and the Scots which was that we are all mean, drunk, miserable and small minded. Sadly that image has persisted to the present day and Harry Lauder was responsible for it. Not that I'm qualified to suggest any potential songs though. You should see the state of my Spotify playlist. It's got Andy Williams, Camera Obscura, Chopin, the Carpenters, Beethoven, Deacon Blue, the Corries, Wagner, Electric Light Orchestra, the Proclaimers, Oasis and Debussy on it. I'm the last person you want to ask how good would it be if the next royalist pet wiz frankie Boyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Hunt Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 how good would it be if the next royalist pet wiz frankie Boyle Interesting thought. Perhaps BBC hype machine could do the job. Arise, Sir Frankie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ANDYP Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Everywhere we go song went down well in la bamba. Place was jumping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 This was getting big licks at the marina in Faro on the Saturday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Shame we can not get anything like Rosenburg have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAS2013 Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 This was getting big licks at the marina in Faro on the Saturday night. Good job I had my Spotify up and running then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thinking back to the old days standing at Hampden, the repertoire of songs was along the lines of:- "Flower of Scotland" - still sung "Que sera sera" - became obsolete when we stopped qualifying for stuff "Here we go, here we go" - became obsolete in the 1980s "We hate Jimmy Hill" - most of the crowd wouldn't know who he is now "We f***in' hate England" - I'm happy that one's died a death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thinking back to the old days standing at Hampden, the repertoire of songs was along the lines of:- "Flower of Scotland" - still sung "Que sera sera" - became obsolete when we stopped qualifying for stuff "Here we go, here we go" - became obsolete in the 1980s "We hate Jimmy Hill" - most of the crowd wouldn't know who he is now "We f***in' hate England" - I'm happy that one's died a death I would say the early to mid 90's were worse for songs at Scotland games than just now, when at Hampden you would just have the high pitched squeal of school kids giving it "SCOT-LAND.... SCOT-LAND....SCOT-LAND!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thinking back to the old days standing at Hampden, the repertoire of songs was along the lines of:- "Flower of Scotland" - still sung "Que sera sera" - became obsolete when we stopped qualifying for stuff "Here we go, here we go" - became obsolete in the 1980s "We hate Jimmy Hill" - most of the crowd wouldn't know who he is now "We f***in' hate England" - I'm happy that one's died a death To be clear Toepoke (IMO of course).... We f***in hate England - Acceptable If ye hate the f***in English - Unacceptable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) Following on from my earlier post. Why don't any of you TAMB members who harbour dreams of musical immortality, compose your own original Scotland song and post it on here for us to listen to ? Come on, just give it a try ! Someone might just come up with a belter of a song that's suitable for games. I'm sure there's a few folk on here that like to mess around with their guitar, drum kit, pipes, keyboard or who perhaps even play in a band with their mates and would be perfectly capable of producing something. Apply your imagination ! Even if it's not very good, at least you put the effort in and gave it your best shot which is the main thing. I don't know anything about music so I won't be having a go at it myself but surely someone on here must have a scrap of talent for this sort of thing ? Just keep in mind - no racism, sexism, homophobia or club references please. Keep it (reasonably) clean, positive and relevant to supporting the Scotland national team. Edited November 2, 2015 by ErsatzThistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Keep right on to the end of the road? A Brummie favourite but Scottish in origin. Loved hearing that song any time I went to St Andrews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wembley67lisbon Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Shame we can not get anything like Rosenburg have http://youtu.be/ryj9mXsIQes If that happened in Scotland it would be slagged off. Despite it being great too see. All over Europe their is player/fan interaction. Over here, no no. Just you sit down and applaud the team. Then leave at 80 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Always used to enjoy the yogi bear song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slide tackle Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 to reluctant to change club songs into Scotland songs imo, only need to change one word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Following on from my earlier post. Why don't any of you TAMB members who harbour dreams of musical immortality, compose your own original Scotland song and post it on here for us to listen to ? Come on, just give it a try ! Someone might just come up with a belter of a song that's suitable for games. I'm sure there's a few folk on here that like to mess around with their guitar, drum kit, pipes, keyboard or who perhaps even play in a band with their mates and would be perfectly capable of producing something. Apply your imagination ! Even if it's not very good, at least you put the effort in and gave it your best shot which is the main thing. I don't know anything about music so I won't be having a go at it myself but surely someone on here must have a scrap of talent for this sort of thing. Like that Rangers fan in his own living room with that bairn's keyboard! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Scotland No Party Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 The Bonnie Mary tune is already a Celtic song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Scotland No Party Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 https://youtu.be/z4qeoigOm7k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Hunt Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 https://youtu.be/z4qeoigOm7k Oh well...........at least this kind of neutralises the fears that arise from the Bonny Mary British Army connections!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewisEDI Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 no long drawn out songs with cringey lyrics, bore the place to death, get a chant to something catchy and simple that gets the place going, like this from 30 seconds in, sounds ace when european club teams chant to it. no more emotinal guff or cheesy chants please :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Something that's just dawned on me is that I've rarely heard songs/chants about players in many years. Maybe it's because there haven't been many heroes/legends to sing about for a while ? Anyone else noticed that too ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) Barry Bannan v Lithuania is the last time I can remember the crowd singing a player's name in big numbers. Tbh I'm not sure I can remember too many player songs going way back to the 80s. Did Kenny Dalglish even have a song about him?... Edited November 5, 2015 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Hunt Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 The Barry Bannan song was quite popular in Alicante I recall (until he fell asleep watching Jordi Alba get to bye line and cross for Silva to score) . Of course this one is a revamp of Christian Dailly song. Going back to 70s Joe Jordan and Jim Holton had chants that seem very corny by today's standard. Kenny Dalglish's name was chanted to a tune that I cannot describe. Kenny, Kenny, Kenny Dalglish, Kenny- Kenny Dalglish. Original, eh? I liked the suggestion of another poster in another thread about Jordan Rhodes using tune from 12 Years a Slave but he needs to play for it to be any good! We definitely need something new IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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