villahosk Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I posted something very similar to this before to the General and it was ignored ..ALL FOR IT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloneyt Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 for anyone that cant find the poll... http://sigpoll.com/Which-Song-for-The-Villa-Anthem-p34554-v2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanWA Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Just reading through this, and some of the suggestions make me cringe to be honest. For what it's worth, I'd like us to sing 'The Bells Are Ringing' more often, although this never seems to catch on with the 'Your Support is F****** Sh*t' brigade, as there's no swearing in it, and it's not about sha. If we are looking to adopt a song that has not been sung before, then I'd go for 'Bring Me Sunshine' by Morcambe & Wise. I've often thought it'd be a brilliant song to sing down the football. Bring me sunshine on matchday Let the Villa win every game In this ground that we love There should be more happiness Let us beat every team another 3 points tomorrow You've made me happy through the years Always brought me many tears Let your skills be as good as the God from up above Bring me sunshine, bring me goals, bring me love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Stand By Me would be brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 New Order - True Faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloneyt Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 no more suggestions now lewis, poll time! http://sigpoll.com/34554.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Stand by me, for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I think it would really surprise villa players as well. whichever tune wins, it needs the general to get it played before kick off on the tannoys (so some people just sing the original) and for us (who know whatever the adaptation will be) [again will probably need another thread of lots of suggestions] will sing the Villa version. therefore it sounds like everyone is singing it, whatever the lyrics. it gets picked up. we have an anthem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I voted for the bells are ringing, always liked that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Needs to be something cheery, like Z-Cars up in toffees-ville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloneyt Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 if the general picks up the link to the poll and gets it officially on facebook and maybe on the OS then this could work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulanddonya Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I am really worried about this. Stand By Me is romping ahead - why ? The song has absolutely ZERO to do with Aston Villa Football Club in any way shape or form. In fact, I can't even think of anyone called Ben, or King that has played for us. Oh yeah - Phil King. Thats the only link this song has got to our club. You can't just pluck a song out of nowhere and say "That is our new club song" just coz its a good song. It just smacks of downright desperation. It's the same as small teams playing a song when they score - just utterly pathetic. An anthem - is what it says it is - a song that becomes more than a song. A song that the listener takes to their heart. Stand By Me - I'd guess at around 1969 - has this song EVER been sang at the Villa. As I say truly worrying this result is. (by the way, one of my three favourite songs of all time is One by U2 (as well as Specials Do Nothing and Squeeze Up the Junction) and I didnt even vote for that !. Bells or Ghostriders - anything else is so small time and contrived it will be embarrassing. The only other one I can think of is New York New York and just rejig the Dwight Yorke bit This thread needs help quickly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 25, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2011 I wouldn't worry, nothing will come of this vote or anything like it. We've got our anthems. Nobody sings them (or sings them in their entirety). Thats the character of the club as it stands right now. I don't think our vocal fanbase is that terrible all things considered, and we don't need an arbitrary anthem to make it any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloneyt Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 the lyrics or song don't have to have anything to do with villa. YNWA or Blowing bubbles or any other i can think of don't mention their teams. it just feel inspirational, right tempo and the lyrics aren't completely off track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Delilha has nothing to so with Stoke City apart from some random fan singing it years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanWA Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Stand by me.....................................F...n hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siminjo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 hou, hou let the dogs out hou, hou let the dogs out hou, hou let the dogs out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulanddonya Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 EXACTLY !!! The Stoke fans STARTED to sing Deliliah All fans, and later just self pitying bin dippers SANG YNWA etc.. Point is - fans started to sing the songs - and they took over as an anthem. Stand By Me has never even been played at Villa Park never mind been sang !. The club cant just say "here is a record, we want you all to sing it" - cant people see that ?. God , what next - Adam Ant "Stand and Deliver" has more meaning to the club than Ben E King (for those who are guessing, I'll say why at the end) - shall we have that as our anthem. Really will be awful if this happens. By the way, something a guy told me at the Villa on Saturday. Do you know when we walked out at Wembley in the 57 Cup Final our fans sang Keep Right On ! - apparently it was a Villa and Blues song up until that. By the way - Adam Ant - No.1 the day we won the league ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulanddonya Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 In fact I'd rather have bloody Cum-by-Ya (or however you spell it !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Well to be fair I doubt many people have the capacity to sing anything other than 'shit on the city'. So any of the tunes in the poll would be a bonus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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