{"id":471,"date":"2014-06-05T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=471"},"modified":"2015-01-06T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:20:00","slug":"the-greatest-england-songs-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/the-greatest-england-songs-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest England Songs Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, every time a major tournament rolls around, an &#8216;official England song&#8217; is released. The idea is to get England fans excited and behind the team but often, the songs are either rubbish or unintentionally hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s crop of songs are slightly disappointing (<a title=\"This Year\u2019s England Songs\u201d\u00a6Reviewed!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/06\/05\/this-years-england-songs-reviewed\/\">you can listen to them here<\/a>), but there have been some real &#8216;classics&#8217; over the years. Here are some of our favourites!<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>P.S:\u00a0<\/strong>we&#8217;re giving away an Official England Shirt to one lucky person who completes an order with us by June 8th. <a title=\"COMPETITION: Complete an order with musicMagpie and WIN an England Shirt!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/05\/30\/win-england-shirt\/\">Check out this post<\/a> for more details!)<\/p>\n<h3>Three Lions &#8211; The Lightning Seeds and Baddiel and Skinner<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJqimlFcJsM\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is <em>the<\/em> England song, capturing the hopeless optimism of supporting a team that always \u00a0disappoints. It&#8217;s weirdly beautiful and usually coincides with at least one bloke getting something in his eye. Crucially, though, it&#8217;s great for a lairy singalong.<\/p>\n<h3>World in Motion &#8211; John Barnes ft. New Order and the rest of the England Squad<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Re4aDJL3heA\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A favourite among musically-inclined England fans, this is actually a brilliant song by a great band. But let&#8217;s not pretend that&#8217;s why everyone likes it: this song is all about John Barnes, spitting bars like a politer Dr. Dre. Sublime stuff.<\/p>\n<h3>All Together Now &#8211; The Farm<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U3xrv5A41AU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As far as anthems go, this is top. It&#8217;s got a belting chorus, a lovely tune inspired by Pachebel&#8217;s Canon and a lovely message of unity. It loses points for not having a lairy bit overly excited England fans can chant outside the pub, though. Weirdly, it wasn&#8217;t used as an England song until 2004 either.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0Sing 4 England &#8211; Chris &#8216;Kammy&#8217; Kamara &amp; Joe Public Utd.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBs-VjRfiWg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chris Kamara can sing?! Unbelievable Jeff! The only thing that could improve this is a couple of samples of Kammy&#8217;s greatest Soccer Saturday moments.<\/p>\n<h3>On The Ball &#8211; Ant &amp; Dec<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzt5WO_VjLo\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Light entertainment titans Ant &amp; Dec provided this rousing (and not at all annoying&#8230;) tune for England&#8217;s trip to Japan and South Korea in 2002. The video sees the cheeky scamps attempting to impersonate Sven Goran-Eriksson and his assistant Tord Grip. We presume that&#8217;s to manage England, and not to enjoy Sven&#8217;s&#8230;erm, &#8216;active&#8217; private life.<\/p>\n<h3>Vindaloo &#8211; Fat Les<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLph6ePNkGQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The musical equivalent of shouting &#8216;LADS, LADS, LADS!&#8217;. Also lacks ambition by stating that England will only score &#8216;one more than you&#8217;, which likely makes this Roy Hodgson&#8217;s favourite England song.<\/p>\n<h3>Back Home &#8211; The 1970 England squad<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLpyriMOttA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before the swagger of <em>Vindaloo<\/em>, there was<em> Back Home<\/em>, a somber tune sung with mournful grace by England&#8217;s 1970 squad. It&#8217;s a nice song, but c&#8217;mon lads, cheer up &#8211; you&#8217;re the world champions!<\/p>\n<h3>This Time (We&#8217;ll Get it Right) &#8211; The 1982 England squad<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uO844xT7ivE\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAnother squad-based effort, although half the team look (and sound) like they&#8217;d rather be putting their tongue in a mousetrap than singing this tune. One performer stands out though; a perfectly permed Kevin Keegan, showing early signs of his showmanship (which culminated with his classic recital of his poem \u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;d Love It&#8217; on Sky Sports).<\/p>\n<h3>Diamond Lights &#8211; Glenn (Hoddle) &amp; Chris (Waddle)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KEMMfV5-Qg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not strictly an England song, but sung by 2 legends of the team. Glenn and Chris (who decided, criminally, not to dub themselves &#8216;Hoddle and Waddle&#8217;) croon over a moody synthpop track while dressed like a couple of punters at a Croydon wine bar in the 80s. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s actually quite a good song.<\/p>\n<p>What is your favourite England song? Have we missed any off our list? Give us a shout on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musicMagpie\">Facebook<\/a>, <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/musicmagpie\">Twitter<\/a> or in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, every time a major tournament rolls around, an &#8216;official England song&#8217; is released. The idea is to get England fans excited and behind the team but often, the songs are either rubbish or unintentionally hilarious. This year&#8217;s crop of songs are slightly disappointing (you can listen to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}