Best national anthems

[Martinus]

I still think it's the French one. It's the best fucking shit ever, both music- and lyric-wise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g

Russians are pretty good, in their own Russian way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlpyh2TL3e0

The Polish one is okish, music-wise, but lyrics are all about us being fucked by all our neighbours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTq07gihqg

The Belgian one sounds like a bad Eurovision song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9u_Ituu2Q8

The Italian one sounds like an overture to Aida or something by Rossini:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ckV9QueXc

[Valmy]

I still think it's the French one. It's the best fucking shit ever, both music- and lyric-wise:

Natch

[MadImmortalMan]

Nobody can compete with Russia on this.

[HVC]

[Martinus]

 

[Martinus]

Wait, is the guy on the left representing Poland? Because he is wearing a traditional Krakovian hat.

[Martinus]

The British one sounds like a fucking Christmas carol, by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk

Or something by Handel. Which is pretty much the same thing. With a Stalinesque personality cult.

[Barrister]

God Save The Queen.   

I always liked the title of Ukraine's anthem:  Shche ne vmerla ukraina - Ukraine is not yet dead.  Very uplifting title, that one.   

[Martinus]

God Save The Queen.   

Beat you to it.

[Liep]

I like the Russian, French and Swedish. But for chills effect nothing beats our own.

[Eddie Teach]

We do, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

[Martinus]

We do, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

This sums up the best part about America to me - your anthem sucks, objectively, but the fact that you can reinterpret and reinvent it like this (and noone calls for Jimmy Hendrix to be arrested for this) speaks to what is great about you.

[Eddie Teach]

The British one sounds like a fucking Christmas carol, by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk

My Country Tis of Thee? 

I like this anthem better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fLOJswWtk

[Barrister]

Let me take this opportunity to make my semi-regular rant that Maple Leaf Forever would be 100x better as our anthem than Oh Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOhk4Lk9aE

ALthough obviously you'd take one of the versions where the lyrics weren't so much about stomping on the French... 

[MadImmortalMan]

The thing with the Russian anthem is that it sounds way better if you don't understand the lyrics. So actual Russians, and Tonitrus, probably think it's kinda crap. But for the rest of us, it's great.