terrytini Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 For info it's more than a song we played. We came out to it. But back then in the days before mass travel and Sky many of us used to listen to away games on the radio, and it was used every weekend, and ( with special memories) weeknights, at all sorts of times, including but not only when we scored. Football does indeed span generations. I listened to that song at home and at the Holte End with my late Dad and my late Brother in the seventies, my first proper girlfriend in the eighties, my ex-wife in the nineties, and occasionally with my Son in the noughties. I won't be the only one , so I think it has more resonance than 'something we all know' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Mind you re-reading that it sounds like it's a curse !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 On 13/03/2017 at 13:13, hogso said: Thinking about Sabbath lyrics, Sweet Leaf could pretty easily be about Villa. So that. When I was younger my elder brother told me that was about them enjoying tea...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 14, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 14, 2017 36 minutes ago, mattyvilla said: We used to run out to the theme from the unmade silent movie , thus why it appears on many of the videos from that era My memory must be fading then. I remember Tony Butler playing it on BRMB Radio and I remember it being played in the ground from time to time, but as "run out" music in the 80s...nope. Mind blank. I think I'm going senile. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Said it before. Another reason why we should have gotten Wagner as manager. Intro music would been sorted then. Sure we now have Bruce as manager, but I can't really find any song by "The Boss" that fits... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 14, 2017 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 14, 2017 3 hours ago, blandy said: No way sid - the Holte was still standing then. I'm sure we didn't start with any of this music nonsense until it was all seater. I could be wrong, I suppose I definitely remember Doug Ellis going on about Baltimore Blast coming out to We Will Rock you and how we should do it at Villa Park. That was (according to the Oracle of Truth Google) may 1992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 14, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 14, 2017 @sidcow I believe you. He was wrong about that as well. Maybe, just maybe it's seeping back into my mind. In fact I think I've blanked it because I hate Queen so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Having thought about it, I think we should walk out the the "Rainbow" theme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Or......... not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hev Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) the intro to this is great - the first 1 min 40 seconds ? We could see them on the big screens in the tunnel area and they could "burst" on to the pitch just at the point where the intro ends ! Edited March 15, 2017 by Hev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Agbonla-score Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Took my 4 year old boy to his first game on Saturday against Wednesday. I thought the entrance tune was awful and did nothing to incite excitement. When did they stop the 'We will rock you'? I thought that was the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) 20 hours ago, sidcow said: I definitely remember Doug Ellis going on about Baltimore Blast coming out to We Will Rock you and how we should do it at Villa Park. That was (according to the Oracle of Truth Google) may 1992 20 hours ago, blandy said: @sidcow I believe you. He was wrong about that as well. Maybe, just maybe it's seeping back into my mind. In fact I think I've blanked it because I hate Queen so much. We definitely ran out to We Will Rock You, with a standing Holte. Going off on a bit of a tangent here, but I remember a 90s, BBC cop show, set in Birmingham, and in one episode they featured a fictional match between Villa and Liverpool, where there was going to be a potential hooligan problem. I recall it showed a bunch of Villa fans in a pub, singing We Will Rock You. It was dreadful. EDIT: Looked it up, and the name of the show was, Backup. Anyone remember it? - Off Topic, I know mods. Apologies. Edited March 15, 2017 by dAVe80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 In my mind, last season all of our games were accompanied by the Benny Hill theme. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 15, 2017 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 15, 2017 4 hours ago, dAVe80 said: We definitely ran out to We Will Rock You, with a standing Holte. Going off on a bit of a tangent here, but I remember a 90s, BBC cop show, set in Birmingham, and in one episode they featured a fictional match between Villa and Liverpool, where there was going to be a potential hooligan problem. I recall it showed a bunch of Villa fans in a pub, singing We Will Rock You. It was dreadful. EDIT: Looked it up, and the name of the show was, Backup. Anyone remember it? - Off Topic, I know mods. Apologies. Yes it was pretty awful. The football hooligan one was probably the worst. They used to use a nightclub in John Bright Street (whatever it was that Boogies became) as their drinking den. It was one of those shows that tried really hard to be edgy and controversial but it just felt all so unnecessary and desperate. And there was the brummy accents............. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 The idea has been around since i started watching the villa in the early 70's - We used to come on to MOTD theme - or a great tune made famous by tony butler , never did find out what it was called. Big Ron made a big thing out of we will rock you - theres been few others here and there - it seems to be an idea that flits in and out of favour every few years.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 On 13/03/2017 at 13:33, dAVe80 said: With Tony coughing as the fanfare, just before the teams come out? I like it! Hippo hippo it was Theme from an Unmade Silent Movie by Hurricane Smith - see my earlier Posts in this thread .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 On 14/03/2017 at 14:21, terrytini said: I'd prefer no music . But if we must play something we have a song, a song that conjours up wonderful memories for any of us who went in the seventies, it's as close as we will ever get to a theme song, and it's Theme from an Unmade Silent Movie. If I had my way that would always be played, if not as we come out, within ten minutes of kick off. As it happens it's always the last one I gave on in my car as I arrive at the ground, so I'm inhabiting my own little seventies world every time , lucky me ! It's my wake up alarm every day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 When I started going it was popcorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Napalm Death are almost from Birmingham, we could use this one. Although the players would have to hurry up a bit during the walk in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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