A New Club Anthem!

Yes that old chestnut, but I really think it is time. Someone commented on this subject on another thread, and if you were at Wembley you will appreciate that they were right!

Before the game the Wembley sound system played tunes associated with each club; first they played "Glad all Over" which really got the Palace fans singing along and Rocking the stadium; then they played "Z Cars" for us, which of course did nothing for us, and left us flat as pancakes, because we couldn't have sang along even had we wanted to! Therefore I think it really is time to adopt a new "Club Anthem"

So may I suggest that the "1881" lead the way on this, but all WFC fans should get their thinking caps on and come up with credible songs!

My suggestion would be it should be one of EJ's hits such as: - "Your song", which has already been highlighted along the back of the EJ stand, and seems to me to be the perfect choice, as the words of the chorus are kind of fitting for a football song; or maybe it could be "Don't Let the Sun Go Down"

Anyway guys lets really go for this, and the next time we play at Wembley, we can really get the jump on the opposition fans!

 

As soon as I saw 'A New Club Anthem! started by The Voice of Reason', I just knew it was going to be gold.

 

I'm going to take a wild stab at this and suggest 'Yellow' by yawnmongers.

 

I was singing along to Z Cars.

 

I'm happy we don't have 'Glad all over'. It's one of the tinniest, noisiest dirges of the 1960s an era well known for tinny, noisy dirges.

 

How about 'Speed Of Sound' by yawnmongers?

 

"Histor-history"

Shame some of the day trippers don't know the words

 

If we have to have a song from the 60s how about something by Pink Floyd or Voodoo Chile by hendrix. Albatross by Fleetwood Mac is something which would get your gander up too.

 

What about "The Wheels on the bus go round and round..." Should get the away support going, which after all is the core of the vociferous support - Also might get the family section joining in?

 

Yes and when required we could sing 'the wheels on the bus have fallen off, fallen off'.

 

The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off...

 

How about the Horst Wessel song?

 

Too late, Moog has painted over his 1939 banner.

 

Traffic Light Song

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All things bright and beautiful.

 

Gold by Spandau Ballet.

 

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'Baby Baby' by Corona

We could alter the lyrics a little:

Quique Quique
Why can't we just stay together?
Wooahhhh
Quique Quique
You 'should of' never sold Fernando
Wooahhhh

 

Watford woooah
Watford woooah

We come from Hertfordsha

We'll fkn murder ya

 

That's the one

 

I'm Still Standing by Elton John would work. Good subject matter (considering out near-administration and Baz fiascos), plus the chorus is really catchy. It could make great chants, too.

 

There were a few ****e things on Sunday, as we know. But, when they played 'Glad All Over' I was thinking 'oh, no, please don't follow this with Z Cars'... both sounded utter crap. How about we just walk on to the pitch to the sound of the crowd... and as for the end, at least we haven't heard so much early Depeche Mode this year...

 

Initially, I thought they were just going to play 'Glad All Over' and nothing else, as if it was part of some poorly-planned pre-match playlist that they'd asked the work experience boy to compile.

 

About time we dumped the god awful Z Cars. I hated it in the 70's and I hate it now. Just don't have any special music, what's the point? Keep the background stadium music going as it is.

DZC, dump Z Cars.

 

Agreed. The supporters should be given the choice.

I'd vote Zexit.

 

Listening to other club songs they are often only loosely or even totally unrelated to the club:

Stoke and Delilah
Chelsea and Liquidator
West Ham and "Forever blowing bubbles"

Needs to be high tempo and catchy. How about the likes of "We Will Rock You" or "bittersweet Symphony"

 

Knights in white satin by the kinks

 

After Sundays performance we could do golden brown by the stranglers. As we were a yellow tinted poo on the day

 

Do we really need a special song just for the one or two games per decade that we play Palace at Wembley? If we'd played Everton they would have played Z-Cars for both teams! Atmosphere at home is fine, and away as well. Let's move on.

 

I remember Phil Tufnell strolling out to bat with cigarettes and alcohol blaring out. A town called malice always fired me up.

 

I heard a player interview eons ago which explained why Palace play "Glad All Over". Apparently the manager of the day (Malcolm Allison?) was attending to the needs of a club cleaner called Gladys on the side. The players had the club DJ play the song with the lyric "and I'm feeling Glad all over" as a uplifting mickey take and because it went down so well, the song stuck.

Given the injunction headlines last weekend about a certain Premier League manager about who there has been a chant , "He sh@gs who he wants", I thought it amusing that they played that at Wembley.

No wonder Pards went straight down the tunnel at full time.

Z Cars is woefully awful IMO, always has been, I wish it'd be put out of its misery soon. We don't have the dog track or boiled hot dogs from that era anymore so why the terrible TV theme tune which is actually a sectarian marching tune?

 

I personally like "Glad All Over". Really upbeat, easy to to get involved in and simple for newbies to pick up. That's what it needs to be.

Perhaps instead of a new tune, we can adopt the Anita Dobson approach of putting words to the existing tune:

We are Wat-ford Watford FC,
Sing your heeearts out for the lads,
Forever Golden we’ll be standing,
This is craaap, let’s think of an-o-ther tuuuuune.

(to the tune of Z Cars obvs).

 

Atem by Tangerine Dream

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Why don't we just adopt Glad All Over too? It's not as if we've nicked any of their songs before.

 

It's cheesy and upbeat, not a dirge. But if you don't like dirges, why the **** did you suggest yawnmongers's Yellow, probably the dreariest dirge written since the 16th century?