National Anthems!

[Tee Kay]

My all-time favourites:

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- God Defend New Zealand
- Hen Wlad fy Nhadau
- O Canada (bilingual folk version)
- Die Stem van Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
(If you haven't guessed already I love multilingual anthems)
- Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR (but this specific 80s Soviet pop-rock version)
- Qaumi Tarana
- Jana Gana Mana (sung in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language)
- La Marseillaise

And finally what should be the Australian national anthem


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[Richard Cribb]

The Austrian anthem is pretty good, but it was stolen by Germany.

Somebody already adressed this - it was not "stolen".
And actually the current one is also excellent, even if it most probably is *not* composed by WA Mozart:

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The very best is also written by an (Leipzig-born!) Austrian:

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[Lohrenswald]

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[REDY]

On one hand I am proud of Czech anthem that its not jingoistic marsh, on the other hand I miss proudness and power of French/Soviet.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Yea Slovakia's is better


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Also this is great


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[Tee Kay]

I prefer the old Palestinian anthem, Mawtini. Fida'i is like "revenge, revenge, revenge!" whereas Mawtini is like "Look at my country, she's so beautiful, we will do right by her". Too bad Iraq stole Mawtini.

 

[gay_Aleks]

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Hey, who doesn't like some Verdi?

Bonus longer version.

 

[danjuno]

No love for Eire?

The Soldier's Song (Amhrán na bhFiann)

 

[Tahuti]

I prefer the old Palestinian anthem, Mawtini. Fida'i is like "revenge, revenge, revenge!" whereas Mawtini is like "Look at my country, she's so beautiful, we will do right by her". Too bad Iraq stole Mawtini.

Actually, turns out Paul Bremer stole Mawtini.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Did he drink it stirred?

 

[Lohrenswald]

I prefer the old Palestinian anthem, Mawtini. Fida'i is like "revenge, revenge, revenge!" whereas Mawtini is like "Look at my country, she's so beautiful, we will do right by her". Too bad Iraq stole Mawtini.

Oh yea Mawtani is one of the absolute greatest, I think

Spoiler :

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It actually took me some time to get around liking Fida'i by contrast, but I sort of think more about the music itself than the symbolic stances the anthems take

 

[Kyriakos]

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Hey, who doesn't like some Verdi?

Bonus longer version.

Fratelli d' Italia.

And this isn't by Verdi, btw. Although some of Verdi's music would have been more imposing..

Anyway, i do not like the music in the Greek anthem, but the lyrics are from a very notable (and the national) poet, Dionysios Solomos, and his Hymn to Liberty


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[gay_Aleks]

Fratelli d' Italia.

And this isn't by Verdi, btw. Although some of Verdi's music would have been more imposing..

Curses. My mother lied to me again.

 

[Borachio]

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Not that I liked the Nazis, of course. But it's still a national anthem, and rather catchy.

And all that marching... and... and... uniforms... and...

... "we're still looking for a guy who's about this high"...

Here's a version in colour.


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Yup. This high. Anyone seen him?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

If I felt like being nationalistic, which I do, then I am fond of Scotland's own one. It about that one time we beat the English.

YOU HEAR THAT, ENGLAND? SENT YOU HOMEWARDS! THAT ONE TIME!


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Spoiler When in doubt, send a weegie :

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[Takhisis]

I approve of Flower of Scotland.


Now, why does that Tolni man reject the glory of Balgariya? Marching, marching with our general, etc. etc. beats the definition of picturesque landscapes and actually has some panache instead of sounding like a tourist agency.

And, also, there are better versions:

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[Spiralcage]

I always liked the Soviet anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

It has a choir of men singing too.
LOL

 

[Borachio]

Pardon?

What's wrong with a choir of men singing? I'd have expected a choir of men to do exactly that at some stage.

Still, it's long been a favourite anthem of mine, too.

Here it is again. (One can't have too much of a good thing, imo. And it's got English subtitles. And pics.)


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"We will always be selflessly true". Hmm. Well. And then there was Stalin, of course. But you can't blame a national anthem for that, can you?

 

[red_elk]

This is the 1977 edition, BTW. Original text of 1943 was corrected a little bit, reference to Stalin was removed and a few other small changes were made.

Interesting that the text of modern Russian anthem was written by the same author, Sergei Mikhalkov in 2000 - 57 years after original Soviet anthem was created.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Russia#Official_lyrics

I like lyrical, less pompous version.


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[Angst]

eh i don't like it but here


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