Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 8, 2017 14:22:50 GMT 2
OK, so we need to pump the breaks just a little bit, because this week is pretty darn unique. This week is a song that I'm asking you to base on slightly different merits other than if its good music, and you need to try and picture what the song is FOR.
In theory I should hate this song, because it comes from a sport I have zero time for. Guys, it's a football song. This week I am asking you to rate a song that was written for the World Cup.
It's a British tradition; the World Cup looms, a bunch of football songs are written and recorded with the hope of them catching the mood of the nation and becoming big hits. This has happened in the past, and as the years go on some songs continue to get chanted by fans and played on the radio, others are rightly forgotten forever.
Because of the nature of it, most football songs are absolute trash. A few slip through the tracks and turn out to be actually, shock, quite good. "World in Motion" had New Order, formerly Joy Division, behind it, and become pretty much the gold standard of what an actually good football song should sound like.
Then there's this weeks, and it was actually pulled from the radio over fears it promoted hooliganism. The majority of football songs talk about passion and integrity, the history of the game blah blah. This one? It channels early Ian Dury, spits out nonsense verses over a pounding bassline and a relentless chant that even though it was banned from the radio can still be heard at pretty much every England football game ever, over 20 years since it was released.
This is Vindaloo. And again, try and view this from an English football fan. I hate football and I'm not even English and I've always fucking loved it.
The video is a parody of the "Bittersweet Symphony" video and stars comedian Paul Kaye (Dennis Pennis, Mike Strutter, some guy from Game of Thrones who's name I forget) and a bunch of other British celebs you may or may not recognise. Just don't go fighting in the streets after listening to it.
In theory I should hate this song, because it comes from a sport I have zero time for. Guys, it's a football song. This week I am asking you to rate a song that was written for the World Cup.
It's a British tradition; the World Cup looms, a bunch of football songs are written and recorded with the hope of them catching the mood of the nation and becoming big hits. This has happened in the past, and as the years go on some songs continue to get chanted by fans and played on the radio, others are rightly forgotten forever.
Because of the nature of it, most football songs are absolute trash. A few slip through the tracks and turn out to be actually, shock, quite good. "World in Motion" had New Order, formerly Joy Division, behind it, and become pretty much the gold standard of what an actually good football song should sound like.
Then there's this weeks, and it was actually pulled from the radio over fears it promoted hooliganism. The majority of football songs talk about passion and integrity, the history of the game blah blah. This one? It channels early Ian Dury, spits out nonsense verses over a pounding bassline and a relentless chant that even though it was banned from the radio can still be heard at pretty much every England football game ever, over 20 years since it was released.
This is Vindaloo. And again, try and view this from an English football fan. I hate football and I'm not even English and I've always fucking loved it.
The video is a parody of the "Bittersweet Symphony" video and stars comedian Paul Kaye (Dennis Pennis, Mike Strutter, some guy from Game of Thrones who's name I forget) and a bunch of other British celebs you may or may not recognise. Just don't go fighting in the streets after listening to it.
