Definately Russia.
Hell, It's so awesome that Painkiller used it as the battle music for one of their levels.
Hell, It's so awesome that Painkiller used it as the battle music for one of their levels.
Most awesome national anthem?
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Majorly so...It's nearly as bad as getting called English!Deathsong17 said:
*Edit* No idea why I wrote slow instead of so -.-
Which one? Killing someone every other line or being written to the tune of a drinking song?Guffe said:
In Soviet Russia Techno, Remixes YOU!
Though I'm rather partial to the Turkish & Algerian national anthem because they're freaking metal.
Though I'm rather partial to the Turkish & Algerian national anthem because they're freaking metal.
My own British National Anthem is the best, of course. 
All the older classic anthems rock, though. The old USSR is a great example. Our unofficial English anthem Land Of Hope And Glory is another bombastic, we're-better-than-you-cos-we're-[insert nationality here] classic, like Germany's "Deutschland uber alles" or England's other classic "Rule Britannia!".
I don't think much of the US Anthem, but that is ONLY because I have never heard it sung properly. Anthems should be sung as if you are a soldier going into battle (that's the rousing mood we should be going for, anyway, but this is the reason I think the French one doesn't work so well, too jaunty). If I saw someone trilling "God Save The Queen" the way I've seen some American "star" yodel "Star-spangled banner", I'd fight through the crowd and pull them off the stage myself.
I don't mean any offense to the French and US, if I picked on your anthem, it's just because I knew of it. I'm positive there are worse, like I'm not sure about the new Russian anthem, which suffers in comparison to its previous incarnation.
All the older classic anthems rock, though. The old USSR is a great example. Our unofficial English anthem Land Of Hope And Glory is another bombastic, we're-better-than-you-cos-we're-[insert nationality here] classic, like Germany's "Deutschland uber alles" or England's other classic "Rule Britannia!".
I don't think much of the US Anthem, but that is ONLY because I have never heard it sung properly. Anthems should be sung as if you are a soldier going into battle (that's the rousing mood we should be going for, anyway, but this is the reason I think the French one doesn't work so well, too jaunty). If I saw someone trilling "God Save The Queen" the way I've seen some American "star" yodel "Star-spangled banner", I'd fight through the crowd and pull them off the stage myself.
I don't mean any offense to the French and US, if I picked on your anthem, it's just because I knew of it. I'm positive there are worse, like I'm not sure about the new Russian anthem, which suffers in comparison to its previous incarnation.
Well, since I don't really know any other anthems, I have to go and say America's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE
But we all know that at some point in time there's going to some sort of sex scandal that'll force us to change the anthem to 'America, Fuck Yeah!' or something hugely epic composed by Hans Zimmer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6zH7gKSr4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE
But we all know that at some point in time there's going to some sort of sex scandal that'll force us to change the anthem to 'America, Fuck Yeah!' or something hugely epic composed by Hans Zimmer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6zH7gKSr4]
Like the Soviet National Anthem best, especially the techno remix, which is brilliant.
Few Brit's like their national anthem, but i do like Rule Brittania, as imperial and outdated as it is, it's a very rousing song. Great for big stadiums.
Also like Jerusalem, which i think they sometimes sing at cricket games. Anyway, here's Bruce Dickinson's version:
Few Brit's like their national anthem, but i do like Rule Brittania, as imperial and outdated as it is, it's a very rousing song. Great for big stadiums.
Also like Jerusalem, which i think they sometimes sing at cricket games. Anyway, here's Bruce Dickinson's version:
Hear hear! I always get the chills when watching important Champions League football matches and I hear this. And welcome to the Escapist!Boemmel said:Although I really like the European Anthem, technically, us crazy Europeans still have sovereign countries each with their own National Anthems
Also, I do no think the European Anthem is really used all that much in that function, I think if you really want to take an anthem with pan-european appeal, I think this one might be much better (although also not technically a national anthem
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Cmwissy said:
DUuuuuuuuuuude That European Union Anthem Made my ears Orgasm!! That has to be one of the best anthems of all time.
Just thinking the same thing.Ruffythepirate said:
I do like the Soviet National anthem (the 80's version)
Strangely the Nazi one is quite good too (I'm not a Nazi).
Anybody else think the Turkish & Algerian national anthems sound eerily like a real life version of the Imperial March?
(Hint: Listen closely to the start of the Algerian one.)
(Hint: Listen closely to the start of the Algerian one.)
Yeah, I'll go with the Soviet one, too.
It was made of so much raw awesomeness that after soviet regime ended, Russian Federation reused it, although with somewhat different lyrics. Also it was featured as combat music for the war-time Leningrad level in Painkiller and it was glorious.
Now excuse me, I think I've got something in my eye.
P.S. European Union cheated, they just used Beethoven! It's hard to compete with classical music.
It was made of so much raw awesomeness that after soviet regime ended, Russian Federation reused it, although with somewhat different lyrics. Also it was featured as combat music for the war-time Leningrad level in Painkiller and it was glorious.
Now excuse me, I think I've got something in my eye.
P.S. European Union cheated, they just used Beethoven! It's hard to compete with classical music.