WELCOME to a brand spanking new thread full of delicious England content.
Shout out for @Starttheline and her ruined kecks for the new title.
Our WC themed poll today is favourite footie banger where we pay homage to the beautiful melodies that the beautiful game has produced over the years.
FAT LES - VINDALOO
A personal fave anthem of @333149O and can be counted on to get everyone going. C3PO has detailed knowledge of this video and watch out for the celeb cameos incl. David Walliams who we inexplicably fancied in 2003. Thank god our standards have raised since then. I was also shook that Fat Les is a tiny grey bloke.
BADDIEL AND SKINNER AND THE LIGHTENING SEEDS - THREE LIONS 96/98
sorry they are mashed together became i couldnt tell the video thumbnails appart and time is of the essence here.
This fuckin GETS ME. Once cried to this on the coach on a school trip to Canterbury Cathedral 5 years after the event. It is a hymn, a worship song. The pathos, the bathos. Stunning. A work of art.
NEW ORDER - WORLD IN MOTION
A song by a real and actual sensible band. Manages to keep their essence whilst appealing to footie madness, quite a feat.
Shout out to my Ma's fave toilet buddy Gazza in the video.
THE FARM - ALL TOGETHER NOW
There's war imagery, it's metaphor laden, really tugs on the old heartstrings whilst sounding motivational and I can imagine if you were 6 beers down at the Hen and Chickens in November this would do you in.
ANT AND DEC/PJ AND DUNCAN - WE'RE ON THE BALL
Why they didn't release this under PJ and Duncan we will never know. 2002 World Cup anthem. Juvenile but sweet all the same. I work for the NME now.
NO MORE MEDIA ALLOWED WTF you'll have to sing it to yourselves lads sorry
SHAKIRA - WAKA WAKA
The pressure's on, you feel it
But you got it all, believe it
When you fall get up, oh, oh
And if you fall get up, eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa 'cause this is Africa
An anthem for bae when he inevitably gets kicked around the pitch. Wish it was still time for Africa, what a vibe.
DARIO G - CARNIVAL DE PARIS
Straight up fire. Inspired years of belting. Anthemic, life affirming.
NEIL DIAMOND - SWEET CAROLINE (CARROT LIME)
If, like me, Neil Diamond was revered like a deity in your household because he was the JG of your Ma's heart, this will have been haunting your sleep for years before footie fans got hold of it. Neil is a poet, a genius, he blessed the world with this joyus song.
Lyrics also representative of seeing bae come on the pitch during the Euros:
Where it began, I can't begin to knowing
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along
Shout out for @Starttheline and her ruined kecks for the new title.
Our WC themed poll today is favourite footie banger where we pay homage to the beautiful melodies that the beautiful game has produced over the years.
FAT LES - VINDALOO
A personal fave anthem of @333149O and can be counted on to get everyone going. C3PO has detailed knowledge of this video and watch out for the celeb cameos incl. David Walliams who we inexplicably fancied in 2003. Thank god our standards have raised since then. I was also shook that Fat Les is a tiny grey bloke.
BADDIEL AND SKINNER AND THE LIGHTENING SEEDS - THREE LIONS 96/98
sorry they are mashed together became i couldnt tell the video thumbnails appart and time is of the essence here.
This fuckin GETS ME. Once cried to this on the coach on a school trip to Canterbury Cathedral 5 years after the event. It is a hymn, a worship song. The pathos, the bathos. Stunning. A work of art.
NEW ORDER - WORLD IN MOTION
A song by a real and actual sensible band. Manages to keep their essence whilst appealing to footie madness, quite a feat.
Shout out to my Ma's fave toilet buddy Gazza in the video.
THE FARM - ALL TOGETHER NOW
There's war imagery, it's metaphor laden, really tugs on the old heartstrings whilst sounding motivational and I can imagine if you were 6 beers down at the Hen and Chickens in November this would do you in.
ANT AND DEC/PJ AND DUNCAN - WE'RE ON THE BALL
Why they didn't release this under PJ and Duncan we will never know. 2002 World Cup anthem. Juvenile but sweet all the same. I work for the NME now.
NO MORE MEDIA ALLOWED WTF you'll have to sing it to yourselves lads sorry
SHAKIRA - WAKA WAKA
The pressure's on, you feel it
But you got it all, believe it
When you fall get up, oh, oh
And if you fall get up, eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa 'cause this is Africa
An anthem for bae when he inevitably gets kicked around the pitch. Wish it was still time for Africa, what a vibe.
DARIO G - CARNIVAL DE PARIS
Straight up fire. Inspired years of belting. Anthemic, life affirming.
NEIL DIAMOND - SWEET CAROLINE (CARROT LIME)
If, like me, Neil Diamond was revered like a deity in your household because he was the JG of your Ma's heart, this will have been haunting your sleep for years before footie fans got hold of it. Neil is a poet, a genius, he blessed the world with this joyus song.
Lyrics also representative of seeing bae come on the pitch during the Euros:
Where it began, I can't begin to knowing
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along
Jack tax
