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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #71
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
The advantage of the Eton boating song is we always sing it unaccompanied and its sung any time during the game . The Enemy song doesn't happen without the tannoy.
There's never been an outbreak of " we'll live and die in these towns" just for the hell of it.
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There was at Darmstadt away.
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #72
pusbccfc said:
There was at Darmstadt away.
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Well if the fans can get it going spontaneously then it's got legs but I'm not sure it's going to happen. Great before kick off though.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #73
I just hope we don't get tempted to add goal music, always felt far too artificial.
 

Hobo

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #74
pusbccfc said:
Twist and Shout not being our own needs to be dropped. It's been sung for generations now.

West Ham never really sing it. Certainly not like us.

Why would other clubs mimick The Enemy?
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Because it's a universal song. It's not about Coventry.

It says, We live and die in these towns

Not this town, this city or Coventry

Football fans have a long history of adopting good songs.
 

Hobo

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #75
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
The advantage of the Eton boating song is we always sing it unaccompanied and its sung any time during the game . The Enemy song doesn't happen without the tannoy.
There's never been an outbreak of " we'll live and die in these towns" just for the hell of it, unless it was last Friday when I wasn't there !
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I like the fact it is only sung prior to kick off.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #76
Hobo said:
Because it's a universal song. It's not about Coventry.

It says, We live and die in these towns

Not this town, this city or Coventry

Football fans have a long history of adopting good songs.
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Worth listening to any long form interview or podcast with Tom Clarke.

It's about Coventry and those similar towns/cities. It's written by lads at a time when they were living in Coventry.

Parts of the music video are filmed in Coventry. The song is more Coventry than any other song.
 
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Skybluekyle

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #77
As others have said, I personally love WLADITT as an anthem, it's got to be up there as one of the best in the country. You look at Liverpool and "You'll Never Walk Alone" as the benchmark, but you ask yourself, why is it that special? I mean, it's a song from an American musical, which happened to be covered by Gerry and the Pacemakers, the song itself has little to no connection to the city of Liverpool itself (unless someone can point out any ignorance?).

It's seen as special because of the passion of the Liverpool supporters who sing it, and I commend them for that, but the CBS can be close to or maybe even as passionate, whilst singing a song pretty much directly about the city they represent, sung by a, pretty much, Coventry band. It's absolutely brilliant in my view. The song just resonates with the people of Coventry, "yeah, it's a bit of a shithole, but it's our shithole", with the risk of adoption by clubs of cities/towns with similar backgrounds, but it can only truly be claimed by our club.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #78
Skybluekyle said:
As others have said, I personally love WLADITT as an anthem, it's got to be up there as one of the best in the country. You look at Liverpool and "You'll Never Walk Alone" as the benchmark, but you ask yourself, why is it that special? I mean, it's a song from an American musical, which happened to be covered by Gerry and the Pacemakers, the song itself has little to no connection to the city of Liverpool itself (unless someone can point out any ignorance?).

It's seen as special because of the passion of the Liverpool supporters who sing it, and I commend them for that, but the CBS can be close to or maybe even as passionate, whilst singing a song pretty much directly about the city they represent, sung by a, pretty much, Coventry band. It's absolutely brilliant in my view. The song just resonates with the people of Coventry, "yeah, it's a bit of a shithole, but it's our shithole", with the risk of adoption by clubs of cities/towns with similar backgrounds, but it can only truly be claimed by our club.
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Spot on.

It won't be copied. It's not like other generic songs that even we copy.
 

WestEndAgro

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #79
pusbccfc said:
Spot on.

It won't be copied. It's not like other generic songs that even we copy.
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Well Bolton are making a good fist of it.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #80
WestEndAgro said:
Well Bolton are making a good fist of it.
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Difference between using a song in a video and actually singing it...
 
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dadgad

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #81
wingy said:
What would be your preference then,are we talking Jeremy levels of dissatisfaction or Nigel's, Reese mogg or Boris on the other side?
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Society needs decent left of centre politics with a neutral MSM…..without it disparities of ‘elf, welf an opportoonity can only widen….more wars, austerity….etc.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #82
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
The advantage of the Eton boating song is we always sing it unaccompanied and its sung any time during the game . The Enemy song doesn't happen without the tannoy.
There's never been an outbreak of " we'll live and die in these towns" just for the hell of it, unless it was last Friday when I wasn't there !
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Yep whole game sorry you missed it
 
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tskezz

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #83
pusbccfc said:
The song is more Coventry than any other song.
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I'll see you, and raise you.

 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #84
tskezz said:
I'll see you, and raise you.

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Wtf is that ?
 

tskezz

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #85
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Wtf is that ?
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A song that is "more Coventry than any other song" especially one from a Brummy singing about a town
 

Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #86
tskezz said:
A song that is "more Coventry than any other song" especially one from a Brummy singing about a town
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Not as good as Alan Randall's rendition .
 

David O'Day

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #87
pusbccfc said:
Worth listening to any long form interview or podcast with Tom Clarke.

It's about Coventry and those similar towns/cities. It's written by lads at a time when they were living in Coventry.

Parts of the music video are filmed in Coventry. The song is more Coventry than any other song.
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i know them, it's not

what Tom says and is the truth are not the same thing sometimes

it's written deliberately to be as generic in location as possible so anyone can see it as about their "town"

it's that's entertainment but set in the mid 00's
 

shmmeee

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #88
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Not as good as Alan Randall's rendition .
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Alan Randall covered C.O.V. 4 My City?
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #89
David O'Day said:
i know them, it's not

what Tom says and is the truth are not the same thing sometimes

it's written deliberately to be as generic in location as possible so anyone can see it as about their "town"

it's that's entertainment but set in the mid 00's
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Absolutely but you only get those experiences to write about when you've observed it yourself. Hence why it's important to people of Coventry. Whether you've experienced it or lived it.

Plenty towns the same but it was written by people who were born or lived in Coventry.

If this song was written by the Courteeners or Arctic Monkeys, it wouldn't mean the same.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #90
tskezz said:
A song that is "more Coventry than any other song" especially one from a Brummy singing about a town
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Born in Birmingham but didn't Clarke go to Finham Park school?
 

pusbccfc

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #91
tskezz said:
I'll see you, and raise you.

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Genuinely a tune as well
 
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PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #92
pusbccfc said:
Born in Birmingham but didn't Clarke go to Finham Park school?
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Pretty sure he grew up in Cov
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #93
Tell you what only just found out that Rogers and Hammerstein were scousers who’d have known?
 
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wingy

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #94
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Not as good as Alan Randall's rendition .
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Yeah but what about Vince,Frank and Lt Pigeon? Or lover speaks who were based out of Earlsdon at the time?
 
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wingy

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  • Aug 20, 2024
  • #95
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
Tell you what only just found out that Rogers and Hammerstein were scousers who’d have known?
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That's as maybe but you didn't get back to me on the other thread?
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #96
wingy said:
That's as maybe but you didn't get back to me on the other thread?
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Do you even read your posts before you send them. Also why would I have to get back to you on every one of your posts. You like me are old enough to remember the state of the British motor industry in the 70s and 80s we were producing junk square steering wheels ffs
 
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wingy

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #97
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
Do you even read your posts before you send them. Also why would I have to get back to you on every one of your posts. You like me are old enough to remember the state of the British motor industry in the 70s and 80s we were producing junk square steering wheels ffs
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And so were the Japanese and now Chinese,trade deals have an effect on this on the Macro level?
 

Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #98
shmmeee said:
Alan Randall covered C.O.V. 4 My City?
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Did he ?
 

Sick Boy

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #99
tskezz said:
I'll see you, and raise you.

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Christ I remember that. It even has HR in there.
 
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AJB1983

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #100
Am I in the minority here, whilst I admire how it’s sung by everyone and been adopted as our ‘anthem’, but I don’t really like it as it’s really quite a depressing song.
To summarise, where we live is shit, you’re stuck here, but try not to let it get to you….
hardly a love song to the city is it?
Or am I missing something?
 
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bawtryneal

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #101
Grendel said:
I love the song Villa come out to it whips the atmosphere up - well I assume they still play it
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SOTV !!
 

blunted

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #102
Lets throw in some local connections.
2468 Motorway was written by a bloke from Nuneaton. The non Fairbass member of Right Said Fred was from Nuneaton. Actually, either or one of those my have been from Beduth, can't exactly remember. A Message To You Rudi was covered by the Specials.
Take your pick from all of the Specials, Special AKA, Selecter, Sorrows, Indian Summer, Vince Hill, Delia Derbyshire, Frank Ifield, The Enemy, Lieutenant Pigeon and The Swinging Cats. One of The Style Council and a member of Badfinger were from Cov. A member of the Beatmasters is from Coventry and co wrote all their hits.
Got to be another tune from that lot.
 

rob9872

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #103
blunted said:
Lets throw in some local connections.
2468 Motorway was written by a bloke from Nuneaton. The non Fairbass member of Right Said Fred was from Nuneaton. Actually, either or one of those my have been from Beduth, can't exactly remember. A Message To You Rudi was covered by the Specials.
Take your pick from all of the Specials, Special AKA, Selecter, Sorrows, Indian Summer, Vince Hill, Delia Derbyshire, Frank Ifield, The Enemy, Lieutenant Pigeon and The Swinging Cats. One of The Style Council and a member of Badfinger were from Cov. A member of the Beatmasters is from Coventry and co wrote all their hits.
Got to be another tune from that lot.
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You missed King and the Primitives
 
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lordy_87

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #104
Hazel O'Connor
Bolt Thrower
Adorable
Punjabi MC
 
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skybluericoh

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  • Aug 21, 2024
  • #105
Covkid1968# said:
Also think a The specials guns of naverone should be sung after a goal rather than that generic thing loads of teams fans do. Tried it once on my own after a goal … didn’t catch on
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Youngsters won’t know that one would they? Might be worth introducing it to them after a win. That would have gone down a treat on Friday, last minute winner then the specials!!
 
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