Deucey  | 04 Jul 2022 6:47 a.m. PST |
Mine: Finland: a beautiful tune and an uplifting message (if it's the same words they play at my church) Britain Philippines USA (I'm actually not a huge fan of the song, but I'm American so it's on the list!) |
| David Manley | 04 Jul 2022 8:04 a.m. PST |
I love the Italian national anthem FWIW I live about 10 miles from where the tune of the US national anthem was written, and I've visited the site that inspired the words several times. Well done the Royal Navy for that :) |
| Zyphyr | 04 Jul 2022 8:08 a.m. PST |
|
| Frederick | 04 Jul 2022 8:41 a.m. PST |
Hands down La Marseillaise YouTube link Followed by Russia (not a huge fan of the country, but great song), UK, USA, Canada and then Germany |
| SpuriousMilius | 04 Jul 2022 10:45 a.m. PST |
+1 for La Marseillaise; the "Casablanca" scene in Rick's "Cafe Amercan" where the barflies' rendition humiliates the Nazis always brings me to my feet with tears in my eyes. |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jul 2022 11:12 a.m. PST |
As a Dwarf, there can only be Diggy Diggy Hole.
link Germans were robbed. Deutschland Uber Alles is a notch below the Marsailles, but Wacht am Rhein would have won. |
| Mollinary | 04 Jul 2022 11:12 a.m. PST |
The old East German anthem, good tune, inspiring words, always livened up the Olympic "women's" shot put competition! |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jul 2022 11:16 a.m. PST |
Point Mollinary. Lots of national anthems which no longer have a country. The Imperial Russian National Anthem? Or Austro-Hungary's Gott Erhalte Unser Kaiser? For that matter, "Land of Hope and Glory" ranks well above "God Save the Queen" much as I admire Elizabeth II. |
| Mollinary | 04 Jul 2022 11:40 a.m. PST |
Agree 100% Robert. The Austrian version, to the same Haydn tune as the German anthem, is hugely impressive. I remember being deeply moved when it was played at the funeral of Otto Von Habsburg. Ironically, of course, the Imperial German anthem, Heil dir Iim Siegerkranz, was to a somewhat oompah band version of God Save the Queen! But the Russian Imperial anthem is also a magisterial piece of music, cleverly worked into the 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky. |
| Shagnasty | 04 Jul 2022 12:08 p.m. PST |
Another vote for the "Casablanca" version of "la Marseillaise". |
| ZULUPAUL | 04 Jul 2022 12:29 p.m. PST |
The Star Spangled Banner
Never cared for the Canadian anthem, just personal choice. |
| forrester | 04 Jul 2022 1:11 p.m. PST |
Zyphyr thanks despite being a Discworld fan I.d never seen that. I love the motto. I always loved the Imperial Russian anthem, used as the title music for the BBC War and Peace adaptation [1970's] |
| rmaker | 04 Jul 2022 1:36 p.m. PST |
|
| mad monkey 1 | 04 Jul 2022 3:29 p.m. PST |
|
| Timbo W | 04 Jul 2022 3:41 p.m. PST |
Welsh of course, Mae Hen Wlad fy nhadau. The mareillaise is stirring, and I find the Italian anthem rather jolly, usually hear it when Ferrari win Formula 1 races. |
| Grand Dragon | 04 Jul 2022 6:58 p.m. PST |
La Marseillaise – Alors, enfant de la patrie/ le jour de gloire est arrivé. Who can beat that? |
| FilsduPoitou | 04 Jul 2022 8:13 p.m. PST |
|
| bandit86 | 04 Jul 2022 9:13 p.m. PST |
USA, because. But I also like "la Marseillaise". and New Zealand's, Australia's and many others |
| 377CSG | 05 Jul 2022 12:04 a.m. PST |
Republic of Korea Thailand Israel Philippines |
| grenadier corporal | 05 Jul 2022 2:21 a.m. PST |
Italia and La Marseillaise are stirring tunes.
The Imperial Russian and the modern British anthems are very inspiring.
The Imperial Austrian anthem (the Haydn one) will always move my heart but often with some bitterness, because it had been ripped awway from us after WW1. |
| dilettante | 05 Jul 2022 3:56 a.m. PST |
Marseillaise…and We Can Rule You Wholesale :)) |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 03 Jul 2023 3:22 p.m. PST |
|
| bobm1959 | 05 Jul 2023 7:41 a.m. PST |
I'm surprised so many like the UK one…it's a bit of a dirge, at least one verse is always avoided (anti- Scottish) and really it's a song about the monarch not the country…
We do have songs about the country that would make a good anthem though: Jerusalem and land of Hope & Glory. |
