Your Favorite National Anthem (besides Your Country's)

by **Elsa the Snow Queen** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:05 pm

What is your favorite national anthems besides that of your nation? (i.e.: Don't say Star Spangled Banner if American or O Canada if Canadian or God Save the Queen if British) These are my favorite anthems:

1. Anthem of Russia/Anthem of the USSR: Something about the Russians, while screwing up their politics and history, they always seem to have the best anthems

2. Anthem of South Africa: Pretty much a tie with the Russian Anthem, I love the South African anthem, it is very moving and patriotic as well as peaceful

3. O Canada: Another passionate anthem, a close second to the one of South Africa

4. Anthem of Germany: I don't agree with all its lyrics (especially "Germany above all") but I love the tune

5. Anthem of France: Very bloody lyrics but cool tune

These are all closely tied but I'd add the anthems of Kazakhstan, Israel, The UK, Mexico, and Chile

by **Cyrisnia** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:18 pm

1. The Polish national anthem.

2. CSA Anthem.

3. The Qing Empire's anthem.

4. The Austro-Hungarian Empire's anthem.

5. The Communist Party Anthem, English version. (Not a communist, but they turned out some good musical stuff.)

6. East German Anthem.

7. Southern Vietnamese Anthem.

Might add more stuff later on.

by **United Marxist Nations** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:19 pm

Cyrisnia wrote:1. The Polish national anthem.

2. CSA Anthem.

3. The Qing Empire's anthem.

4. The Austro-Hungarian Empire's anthem.

5. The Communist Party Anthem, English version. (Not a communist, but they turned out some good musical stuff.)

6. East German Anthem.

7. Southern Vietnamese Anthem.

Might add more stuff later on.

That's not actually the CP's anthem, that is just the USSR's anthem adapted into English by Paul Robeson during the War as a show of support for the USSR.

by **Free United Provinces of East Torkelburg** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:25 pm

1. Turkish National Anthem. It sounds like something Darth Vader would march his troops to.

2. Central African Republic Anthem. It has a nice tune for such a poor country.

3. Venezuelan National Anthem. For once it actually honors the people.

4. Swedish Anthem. Good tune and very inspirational.

5. Swiss Anthem. It may be religious but hey, what the hell.

Many other nations have good anthems and if I were to list all of them then this'd be very long.

by **Occupied Deutschland** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:25 pm

I've always really loved the Polish national anthem.
In fact, I like it rather more than the American anthem. Why we let that joker Scott write the anthem instead of just adopting Yankee Doodle, I will never understand. Plus, it'd be much more fun to play it at functions involving visiting UK officials or other such instances. Because irony makes for the best national anthems.

by **The Huskar Social Union** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:27 pm

There are quite a few that i like, but my top three would be Soviet/Russian (i like both equally), German and then Belarus.

by **Cyrisnia** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:27 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Cyrisnia wrote:1. The Polish national anthem.

2. CSA Anthem.

3. The Qing Empire's anthem.

4. The Austro-Hungarian Empire's anthem.

5. The Communist Party Anthem, English version. (Not a communist, but they turned out some good musical stuff.)

6. East German Anthem.

7. Southern Vietnamese Anthem.

Might add more stuff later on.

That's not actually the CP's anthem, that is just the USSR's anthem adapted into English by Paul Robeson during the War as a show of support for the USSR.

Ah. Never knew that. Paul seemed to have an interesting life too.

Occupied Deutschland wrote:I've always really loved the Polish national anthem.
In fact, I like it rather more than the American anthem. Why we let that joker Scott write the anthem instead of just adopting Yankee Doodle, I will never understand. Plus, it'd be much more fun to play it at functions involving visiting UK officials or other such instances. Because irony makes for the best national anthems.

as a pole i appoint yuo of honorary pole

by **Dejanic** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxTbfeYdO0

The USSR anthem.

by **Jetan** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:33 pm

Estonia.

by **Hallowell** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:34 pm

The Mongolian and the Bhutanese anthems. I don't really like the lyrics, but the instrumentals (especially the Olympic versions) are very nice.

by **Scepez** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:44 pm

Jetan wrote:Estonia.

You're just saying that because it sounds really close to the Finnish one

But does the EU's anthem count?

by **Margno** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:47 pm

Gonna go with the cliche answer and say Austrian. God, that song is beautiful.

by **DesAnges** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:48 pm

I really dislike my national anthem. God Save The Queen is rubbish, my republican tendencies aside. So dreary and monotonous.

Whilst not an official national anthem, I am a fan of Flower of Scotland.

by **Edward Scissorhands** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:48 pm

Germany.

by **Aydean** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:50 pm

Scotland's I think it's called march of the drums or something

by **Ngelvomlam** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:50 pm

Nepal.

by **The Huskar Social Union** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:54 pm

DesAnges wrote:I really dislike my national anthem. God Save The Queen is rubbish, my republican tendencies aside. So dreary and monotonous.

Whilst not an official national anthem, I am a fan of Flower of Scotland.

I like the British anthem, the lyrics are alright, could be better but the actual music is pretty good.

by **Jute** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:55 pm

Elsa the Snow Queen wrote:4. Anthem of Germany: I don't agree with all its lyrics (especially "Germany above all") but I love the tune

5. Anthem of France: Very bloody lyrics but cool tune

In the case of Germany, that isn't actually part of the official anthem... Only the third stanza is. And the "above all" refers to having a unified Germany "above all" the smaller kingdoms and duchies that made up the German Confederation in the middle of the 19th century, and is not supposed to mean "better than all other countries". It's more that, above all, the author wanted a unified Germany more than anything else in the world.

The French anthem refers to the bloody times of the French revolution.

by **Hatay** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:56 pm

Definitely the USSR/Russia. Such power.

by **Murkwood** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:58 pm

Pakistan has a good one.

by **Jetan** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:02 pm

Scepez wrote:
Jetan wrote:Estonia.

You're just saying that because it sounds really close to the Finnish one
But does the EU's anthem count?

The melody is exactly the same, they borrowed ours and made new lyrics for themselves in estonian.

But EU's anthem is actually very good now that you mention it.

by **Scepez** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:05 pm

Jetan wrote:
Scepez wrote:You're just saying that because it sounds really close to the Finnish one
But does the EU's anthem count?

The melody is exactly the same, they borrowed ours and made new lyrics for themselves in estonian.

But EU's anthem is actually very good now that you mention it.

I really think we need a new anthem, I mean the possibilities are endless.

by **Jetan** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:27 pm

Scepez wrote:
Jetan wrote:The melody is exactly the same, they borrowed ours and made new lyrics for themselves in estonian.

But EU's anthem is actually very good now that you mention it.

I really think we need a new anthem, I mean the possibilities are endless.

You could try Finlandia next? :lol:

by **Scepez** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:33 pm

Jetan wrote:
Scepez wrote:
I really think we need a new anthem, I mean the possibilities are endless.

You could try Finlandia next?

Nah, we got Latvia down south

by **Kwadai** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:33 pm

1. German National Anthem
2. UAE National Anthem
3. Japanese National Anthem
4. Australian National Anthem
5. French National Anthem

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