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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 11:42:18 GMT -5
What are your favourite and least favourite national anthems, politics aside?
Top 3
Russia
Brazil
France
The worst is Kuwait, it sounds like Pop Goes the Weasel.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 17:03:31 GMT -5
Of the major European countries, I would rank them in the following order:
1. Russia
2. France
3. Italy
4. UK
5. Germany
6. Spain
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Post by Strewthless on Feb 23, 2020 3:42:30 GMT -5
Of the major European countries, I would rank them in the following order: 1. Russia 2. France 3. Italy 4. UK5. Germany 6. Spain Generous, it's a dreadful anthem. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 7:24:04 GMT -5
Of the major European countries, I would rank them in the following order: 1. Russia 2. France 3. Italy 4. UK5. Germany 6. Spain Generous, it's a dreadful anthem. The lyrics are crap, but the instrumental is better than the German or Spanish. The top 3 are miles better than anything else though. I also like the Portuguese and Finnish anthems. |
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Post by Strewthless on Feb 23, 2020 9:19:50 GMT -5
Generous, it's a dreadful anthem. The lyrics are crap, but the instrumental is better than the German or Spanish. The top 3 are miles better than anything else though. I also like the Portuguese and Finnish anthems. Lyrics are crap and so is the droning music. Something like Land of Hope and Glory would be a better anthem. |
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Post by Ariete on Feb 23, 2020 17:31:23 GMT -5
Liechtenstein national anthem  In seriousness, I like the French, Italian and Brazilian a lot. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 20:28:52 GMT -5
These are quite cheery.
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Post by nei on Feb 24, 2020 23:47:38 GMT -5
Of the major European countries, I would rank them in the following order: 1. Russia 2. France 3. Italy 4. UK5. Germany 6. Spain Generous, it's a dreadful anthem. legislature of my provincial neighbor to the north is now signing the anthem once a week |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 5:54:54 GMT -5
The lyrics are crap, but the instrumental is better than the German or Spanish. The top 3 are miles better than anything else though. I also like the Portuguese and Finnish anthems. Lyrics are crap and so is the droning music. Something like Land of Hope and Glory would be a better anthem. I do like Land of Hope and Glory.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2020 11:11:03 GMT -5
Both China and India have decent anthems.
Several catchy anthems from cricketing nations.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 7:54:13 GMT -5
The Israeli anthem sounds depressing. The Nepalese anthem sounds like the music from an early 90s RPG.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 17:51:11 GMT -5
Mexico is quite a happy anthem.
Kazakhstan sounds like the same thing over and over again
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Post by Strewthless on Feb 28, 2020 17:59:05 GMT -5
Now time for the best one.
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Post by Beercules on Feb 29, 2020 0:47:09 GMT -5
South Australian National Anthem:
The Hungarian Anthem is really nice, probably my favourite
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Post by boombo on Feb 29, 2020 9:36:06 GMT -5
The East German one was far better than the reunified German one:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 14:57:56 GMT -5
Any other countries that share national anthems? I know of the UK/Liechtenstein, and Finland/Estonia.
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Post by Doña Jimena on Jul 4, 2020 2:45:45 GMT -5
Most anthems are terrible with outdated, even evil ideas. Take the French anthem. Oh, so beautiful... until you read the text - let's water French hills with "impure" German blood. Or the Russian/Soviet anthem. The main idea of which "you all are worthless nothing, glory to Stalin". And some people like that?
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Post by Doña Jimena on Jul 4, 2020 6:35:47 GMT -5
Yes, some anthems contain a lot of politics and nationalist propaganda but I think this thread is more about music than lyrics. I do not separate lyrics and music, because lyrics are important to me. I like songs with meaningful lyrics, only in rare cases I like songs just for melody, like Rondo Veneziano which I have shared today. But yes, I am political as well, as everybody. That's why I dislike the LSSR anthem. To me it is a song of oppressed people. Regarding the current Latvian anthem, it is sometimes criticized too, and I can even support the criticism. It is called "God, bless Latvia" and God is repeated several times in a kinda slavish manner - Oh God, dear God, do this, do that... really? And the melody is quite sad. Some say it is gaudu dziesma - a howling song.  It is really not inspiring people to do much. There have been ideas to introduce another anthem, proposing for example Nevis slinkojot un pūstot. However, it is a translation of poetry from Czech language with one added verse and the author of lyrics is Czech writer and translator František Ladislav Čelakovský. |
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Post by Doña Jimena on Jul 4, 2020 6:57:02 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't know you had any contact with the Czechs. Not only that. The Latvian language orthography has been inspired by the Czech language with letters like č, š... |
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Post by Doña Jimena on Jul 4, 2020 7:12:24 GMT -5
Not only that. The Latvian language orthography has been inspired by the Czech language with letters like č, š... Even here the letters š and ž are used, although only in foreign words. Č is not used in Estonian? These letters are used in typical Latvian words, like for example čiekurs = pine cone, šaurs = narrow, žagata = magpie... |
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It is really not inspiring people to do much.