What Are the Best England Football Songs?
It looks like Fabio Capello isn’t going to let the current England squad anywhere near a recording studio before the World Cup Finals in South Africa this year. He sees is as an unnecessary distraction. He’s got a point actually, when the team themselves attempt to make a record it usually ends up in tears.
Here are a couple of our best and worse England Songs
1. Back Home by the 1970 England squad
Marching bands. footballers wearing headphones and smoking in a cramped recording studio, those were the days. Back Home got to No.1 in the charts for three weeks and England were ‘Back Home’ shortly afterwards.
2. World In Motion by New Order & England.
Co written by Keith Allen for the 1990 tournament, and featuring a rap by ‘MC John Barnes’, this is one of the better efforts. New Order were at there very best and Barnes’s rap could be described as ‘interesting’ if nothing else. An extra verse encouraging penalty practice may, in retrospect, have been wise.
Three Lions by The Lightning Seeds, Baddiel & Skinner and England.
Originally written for the Euro ‘96 campaign and re-released in 1998, this slice of jaunty Brit Pop tugged on the hearts of England fans. The ‘thirty years of hurt’ lyric transferred to the terraces and the song was a huge hit twice. England got knocked on penalties by Argentina and another twelve years of hurt have ensued.
Vindaloo by Fat Les
Also released for the ‘98 competition and featuring Keith Allen (again) and Blur bassist Alex James, ‘Vindaloo’ was a mix of chants and cheese that borrowed heavily from existing England chants – A big hit with the fans who still sing it today.
Do you know of any other great (or terrible) World Cup songs? Write in and let us know….
6 Comments
Arthur Moriarty - 14th April 10
Re – Best World Cup Songs:
What do you think of this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0-KcRLkNw
admin - 15th April 10
Thanks Arthur – Not bad mate! – Good luck!
Adam Lloyd - 16th April 10
I have written and produced (with lots of help) an unofficial world cup song. Here’s the Youtube linky. There are a lot of (awful) jokes and also some homage’s to well known pop videos. Hope you enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAO7oV0H_GQ
Adam (AKA The Twisted Omentum)
Phil B - 6th May 10
Hi
I did this England footy mini-mix for the World Cup in 2006 which was played on Radio1. 14 football songs crammed into 5 minutes. Am considering doing a new or revised one for South Africa 2010.
Elgar – Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 In D’ by the London Philharmonic’ (EMI)
Collapsed Lung – ‘Eat My Goal’ (Deceptive)
5678’s – ‘Woo Hoo’ (Sweet Nothing)
4-4-2 – ‘Come On England’ (Gut Records)
England New Order – ‘World In Motion’ (MCA)
Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds – ‘Three Lions’ (Epic)
Fat Les – ‘Vindaloo’ (Telstar)
Sham 69 & The Special Assembly – ‘Hurry Up England’ (Parlophone)
The England Boys – ‘Go England’ (Phonogram)
Chris Moyles World Cup Song
Rolf Harris – ‘Football Crazy’ (EMI Records)
Bell & Spurling – ‘Sven Sven Sven’ (Eternal)
Tony Christie – ‘(Is This The Way To) The World Cup 2006′ (TUG Records)
DJ Otzi – ‘Hey Baby (Football Version)’ (EMI)
Chris - 19th May 10
Here’s the latest England World Cup Song that’s just been released. A real party anthem, see what you think!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jip29tx1fjo
richard - 21st May 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1pbmOVWTk
I like this one!
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