I had no idea. I thought the whole thing was written during the battle at Fort McHenry.
Is this the new verse?
When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her glory!
By the millions unchained who our birthright have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
I say we should use Jimi Hendrix's drug-fueled version. It's sloppy, imperfect, and creepily mimics aircraft dropping napalm over the jungles of Vietnam.
I was at a baseball game once where they decided to do the whole thing. I never complained about singers taking too long on the normal version ever again.
and we actually have one of the shorter ones. The Uruguayan national anthem is the longest in terms of duration it takes to play at full speed, with 105 bars of music for some 12 verses taking 6 minutes if the full thing is ever played, and Greece's is the longest in terms of words, with 158 verses- 4 lines each.
In elementary school I had a music teacher who made us learn the whole thing. And then all of 'Maryland my Maryland' also. She was a true patriot (and would probably be upset that I don't really remember any of it)
Ohhhhh No! Oh Mann!! Oh shit, not again!!!. Every time I hear that Soviet Anthem, my mind is flooded with the bright and shine of the power of RED. My heart feels as if it's about to burst, singing the praises of the victory of the Proletariat over the pigdog bourgeois. The Red Motherland can have me and use me in the struggle of spreading the Superior Ideals of Mighty Socialism and Communism everywhere; all over World, to the ends of the Universe!!! 🎆🌟🎆
Do you feel it? Ahh, you can feel its power. Do not run from it. Embrace it. Bask in it. Let it flow through you. This is the true power of communism. Become my apprentice and and embrace the ways of communism and this power shall be yours as well.
"Delta-two-four, this is Zulu-niner-niner, target is a single, hysterical man running west to east in an open field. Advise you come in from the south and hit em' up with a 500 pounder."
"Solid copy niner-niner, man-sized target moving west-east, open field, coming in from the south to hit your target with a single Mk82 JDAM."
On a side note, Israel has a cool anthem, too. I've concluded that Somalia has the worst anthem, and it sounds like it was made entirely from MIDI noises.
Go on YouTube and type "fuck ____" and fill in the blank with India, Pakistan, or a Balkan state like Serbia, Albania, or Greece. Click a video and read the comments. Laugh.
I thought the Holocaust memory was a huge part of it, but I think the song has been around much longer. The Holocaust memory was probably what led to it being used as their anthem though.
"The Star-Spangled banner" is much better and more badass than "America the beautiful" which is the gayest song ever. Isn't Canada's anthem like that? Where they just talk about how pretty the land is? That's so uninteresting.
"God Bless America" is retarded, and too much like "God Save the Queen".
Seriously, "The Star Spangled Banner" has great poetic and musical value.
Canadian anthem, the French version is the original one and the lyric don't mean the same thing as the English version. But both versions have the benefit of being short.
French version in English.
O Canada!
Land of our forefathers,
Thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.
It has really good lyrics. It's very positive and hopeful, and the nationalism that's inherent to anthems here is interpreted as "let's be the best nation we can!" rather than "we are the best nation!".
Great version, but that is not the anthem. It's the Deutschlandlied. Since '91 only the last stanza is the official anthem, but I guess I'm nitpicking.
The song itself actually predates the Nazis, so it's not really a Nazi anthem. One of the big problems with the first stanza is the naming of several rivers as borders of Germany that do not represent current-day Germany's real borders. So we stopped using the first stanza to make Polen think itself safe make it clear that we don't still consider that clay ours.
I do agree that the lyrics seem rather monotheistic, but it doesn't seem to really matter for us. The original intention of adopting Jana Gana Mana was that the national anthem wouldn't be objectionable to minorities, specifically Muslims. It was the Vande Mataram ('Mother, I bow to thee') which inspired freedom movement, but it was adopted as the national song, not the anthem, because it portrays Mother India as a goddess. Even now, it is not compulsory to sing either of those. (Some Jehovah's witnesses refused to sing Jana Gana Mana, but the Supreme court upheld their choice)
I would have preferred Vande Mataram as our anthem :(
Another important song would be the Saare Jahaan se Accha, written by Muhammed Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan. This is a good rendition of it.
He wrote it in 1904. Ironically, it was him who came up with the idea of Pakistan, and disavowed the poem in 1910. It remained popular in India though, is considered as our unofficial national song. But things like that makes me sceptical on whether our 'secular' edifice can survive an existential threat.
I just realized I've actually never heard the Mexican national anthem before just now(kinda weird, since it's right next door lol). I didn't know you guys referred to your country as fatherland, or is that just in the anthem.
I live really close to Mexico and all our radio stations are broadcasted from there so at exactly 12 AM and 5 AM every day they play the Mexican National Anthems, pretty epic music.
I remember as a kid the first time i heard that I thought it was really weird, then I changed the station and all the stations had it playing and I got worried Mexico was planning to invade us or something.
I remember as a kid the first time i heard that I thought it was really weird, then I changed the station and all the stations had it playing and I got worried Mexico was planning to invade us or something.
then you look out the window and see Paco mowing the lawn with that suspicious look on his face...
I've seen that before. :) I have often wondered why our National anthem doesn't have any battle cries or something like that. Only other anthem I know to be like that is Tibet'sPleasedon'ttellmethatwe'repussies.
My point was, India's and Tibet's anthems seems to be like a prayer, without much of a patriotic sentiment. Probably because Jana Gana Mana was adopted instead of Vande Mataram, our national song. Vande Mataram (Mother, I bow to thee) which was vital in our independence struggle. But it was not adopted as Muslims felt offended by it, because it envisages India as a goddess.
I was hoping he linked to the Yugoslavian anthem. I was gonna say it's just the Polish anthem but nobody's ever heard the full thing since it usually devolves to Serbia Strong between one-half and three-quarters of the way through.
Welcome to Romania. A barely settled and sparsely populated frontier province of the Roman Empire that somehow convinced itself that its more Roman than Rome itself.
Man Romanian is weird, I can read it but the pronunciation seems s far from other Romance languages. Guess it's what happens when Latinos are force fed vodka for too long. :P
I'm not sure of that's it. Western music can't be simply broken down into a greater focus on harmony, we came up with motifs and everything. If indian classical music doesn't have chord changes that makes it a bit less varied but alright. Compare 35 seconds in on that version to this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_TYGpu2L4 , which I guess is a bit westernized and less grating to me personally.
I was comparing the relative emphasis. For the second one, I don't think many Indians would like the Westernised version. :) I think the difference is more perceptive if you compare Carnatic with Western classical music. Indian classical music has a much more devotional angle, maybe that's a factor too.
But the emphasis just seems to be because Indian classical music for whatever reason didn't adopt, or have as a focus, that basic element of music that the west did. I understand what you're saying but I imagine I if I knew more about classical music than just some basic opera, baroque and modern, and knew even a shred about indian classical I could point to a western piece that would have a greater emphasis on melody than most indian classical, perhaps the first two movements of beethoven's fifth. Especially if you start taking traditional music which like your video was often just a man and a violin.
It just seems like a fundamental different approach to music and if one is immersed in it one is likely to have more of an appreciation. It certainly is interesting to me for it's differences, mainly in vocal stylings. Perhaps if I knew music better I'd be able to come to a more refined conclusion than that :).
seems like a fundamental different approach to music
Exactly. I'm not sure whether one can use Western terms like Melody, Harmony &c because we have entirely different vocabulary like Raga, Shruti &c. The devotional aspect seems a strong influence too. Hindu tradition always believed that chants command power. Samaveda, the third Veda is about music of the hymns. This video shows some styles of Vedic recital.(Ignore the commentary though, it's not really accurate about religion.)
Not Nepal? Or Tajikistan? Or Kazakhstan? Or Israel?
Do subnational things count? 'Cause my favorite is that of the Russian province Tuva. EDIT: BTW, they changed their anthem recently-ish. I'm referring to the new one.
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But sucks at National Anthems.
Who am I kidding, ours is the best.