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chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
edited January 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
This thread is a petition to stop the overworking, oversinging and general bastardization of national songs (my only experience is with American anthems and the like, but I am sure it happens in other countries as well). This is not a new phenomenon, it has been occurring for decades and must stop.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,506
    I'm in.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    chromiam wrote:
    This thread is a petition to stop the overworking, oversinging and general bastardization of national songs (my only experience is with American anthems and the like, but I am sure it happens in other countries as well). This is not a new phenomenon, it has been occurring for decades and must stop.
    Nope... I think it's just an American thing... but I'm pretty sure Leona Lewis will change that and single handedly spread this phenomenon throughout the world :D
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    my national anthem is usually only ever sung by drunk people... its quite good fun actually.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    But I make money every year betting on how long the National Anthem will be at the Super Bowl when some artist butchers it.

    Think about my gambling habits before making a thread like this. ;)
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Everything is oversung nowadays... watch American Idol and what people consider "good." It's about histrionics and melodrama.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Im in...
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  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,315
    The Mets are among the biggest offenders with this. The Yankees seem to do it right, either with a recording of the Marine Corps band or of Robert Merrill.
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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciWEufZ2xA


    My favorite.:)
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 49,294
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    The Jeagler wrote:
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.

    I have nothing against this practice... however, if you are asked to perform at a major sporting event, please do not turn the star spangled banned (or other national song) into a 10 minute ooohhh and ahhh and oversung atrocity.
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 49,294
    chromiam wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.

    I have nothing against this practice... however, if you are asked to perform at a major sporting event, please do not turn the star spangled banned (or other national song) into a 10 minute ooohhh and ahhh and oversung atrocity.

    we are in agreement my friend. i am staunch advocate for singing those songs the exact way they were meant to be sung. that is why i led a thunderous applause in the jeagler's basement on sunday for that american idol chick at the eagles game. i thought she did a commendable job and didnt really alter anything.....but i was also out of my mind drunk at that time.....hey, did we win?
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    The Jeagler wrote:
    we are in agreement my friend. i am staunch advocate for singing those songs the exact way they were meant to be sung. that is why i led a thunderous applause in the jeagler's basement on sunday for that american idol chick at the eagles game. i thought she did a commendable job and didnt really alter anything.....but i was also out of my mind drunk at that time.....hey, did we win?

    they're still playing the game ;)
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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    Soooo no more Mike SSB solo's at the end of the shows :shock:
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  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Soooo no more Mike SSB solo's at the end of the shows :shock:

    I believe Mike plays the song the was it was intended to be played -- originally they just didn't have the technology to play it correctly.
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciWEufZ2xA


    My favorite.:)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIr-S6mwFk
    My favourite :D

    But yeah, it's a very American thing to do the whole oversinging anthems until you can't make out a single word and they last longer than the game of football. So I'm with the o.p. on this one.
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,483
    The Jeagler wrote:
    hey, did we win?

    thankfully, no. :lol:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Hendrix was the only person who could do it, and turn it into art. Everything else is just margarine, at the very best.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    The Jeagler wrote:
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.

    That's so lame. There are few things worse than cheap drunken patriotic sentimentality.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,506
    The Jeagler wrote:
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.

    Yeah just like betting FOR Penn St. Hmmm?
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  • RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Well as long as you all know that it was Hitler and his Propaganda Division that popularized the use of national anthems and "patriotic" songs, and that you are taking part in something he used to get people to blindly follow him while he did terrible things, then National Anthem away.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,506
    RW81233 wrote:
    Well as long as you all know that it was Hitler and his Propaganda Division that popularized the use of national anthems and "patriotic" songs, and that you are taking part in something he used to get people to blindly follow him while he did terrible things, then National Anthem away.

    Yeah ok, thanks for sharing.
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  • Corey LynnCorey Lynn Posts: 681
    This is my favorite


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDc5tQxmJY


    If I knew where it was I would take you there. There's much more than this
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    soulsinging wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    i cant tell you how many times the jeagler and his wasted friends have belted out "god bless america" at 1am in some random bar. it is a lot of fun, and also100% jeagler approved...so you really cant go wrong.

    That's so lame. There are few things worse than cheap drunken patriotic sentimentality.
    agreed.


    that seems to be what those songs were designed for.


    drunken sheep or idiots, not sure if there is a difference.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Corey Lynn wrote:
    This is my favorite


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDc5tQxmJY
    LMAO... oh dear... what about Hillary

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZ_gXCHa ... re=related

    :lol:
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  • RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    mickeyrat wrote:
    RW81233 wrote:
    Well as long as you all know that it was Hitler and his Propaganda Division that popularized the use of national anthems and "patriotic" songs, and that you are taking part in something he used to get people to blindly follow him while he did terrible things, then National Anthem away.

    Yeah ok, thanks for sharing.
    You don't believe it? Don't care? I don't get the response.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,506
    RW81233 wrote:
    mickeyrat wrote:
    RW81233 wrote:
    Well as long as you all know that it was Hitler and his Propaganda Division that popularized the use of national anthems and "patriotic" songs, and that you are taking part in something he used to get people to blindly follow him while he did terrible things, then National Anthem away.

    Yeah ok, thanks for sharing.
    You don't believe it? Don't care? I don't get the response.
    It's just that I don't think Hitler was as instrumental in popularizing patriotic/anthem like songs. That type of thing was around long before him. Our own anthem was adopted by congress in 1931.
    http://www.gbjann.com/anthem/history.htm , History of our own anthem.
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  • RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Yeah our anthem was played several times before the '36 Olympics, especially at big contests like Opening Day in Baseball, and the World Series. However, we weren't playing it at every little event in the way that we do today until Hitler played it after every event during the Olympics, playing the German anthem twice in a row when his country won, in an attempt to promote Aryan supremacy. Thus it is clear that the popularization of the Anthem is a direct decendent of Hitler's propaganda machine, just as it is part of any countries propaganda machine to demonstrate the supremacy of that country.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,506
    edited January 2009
    RW81233 wrote:
    Yeah our anthem was played several times before the '36 Olympics, especially at big contests like Opening Day in Baseball, and the World Series. However, we weren't playing it at every little event in the way that we do today until Hitler played it after every event during the Olympics, playing the German anthem twice in a row when his country won, in an attempt to promote Aryan supremacy. Thus it is clear that the popularization of the Anthem is a direct decendent of Hitler's propaganda machine, just as it is part of any countries propaganda machine to demonstrate the supremacy of that country.
    http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/feature_2/Ma ... 944420.htm Little bit of olympic history regardind Nat. anthems
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  • HinnHinn Posts: 1,517
    The Aussie anthem gets overdone quite regularly. But that's ok cos it's not a particularly good anthem to begin with.
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