Football and Music

Michael emailed me to ask what is that techno music that they play when they score.

In the goals we did see inbetween the blackouts… was originally used in France ‘98. It was a newer version of an already released track by Bellini. The original was called Samba De Janeiro and the France ‘98 version is:

» Bellini - Samba E Gol

Also… I was sure that I heard the fans repeatedly doing the hook line from a very familiar tune.

And that song is…

» The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army

July 2nd Update: More stuff about the Seven Nations Army song.

Hello and thank you to Jorge Martinez who is in Columbia for mailing me.

The other day I put a shout out for anyone to email me if they spotted anything related to Spain and Euro 2008. He suggested this video: España PODEMOS! (Podemos means “power”).

From that I discovered that a Spanish television channel is using this music as the theme to their coverage of the tournament.

(Have I mentioned that I adopted the Spanish team and they are the ones I’m following throughout Euro 2008…? Yeah I probably have too many times already. What I also said is that when I looked at the draw, everything was lined up for Germany to be in the finals. If they are I hope that Spain meet them there.

Anytorres… to the music:

Oliver Pocher is a German actor, comedian and entertainer did a song that would give Skinner & Baddiel’s “Three Lions” a run for it’s money.

Like the Skinn/Badd/Lightning Seeds single it has a very catchy chorus which can be chanted on the terraces (or uncomfortable plastic seating as it is now). There are similarities with 3 Lions but why change a winning formula.

I’ve played this song a few times now and I have to say I love it. Wish there was an English version of it.

In the video he imitates some familiar German footballing faces, such as der Kaiser, Klinsmann (I think), the coach Joachim Löw and Kevin Kuranyi.

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. . . Just occurred to me that it could be a spoof/piss-take of Three Lions, but I enjoyed it.

Audio:

» Oliver Pocher - Bringt Ihn Heim

Turkey and Russia in the Semi’s…? I betcha that before the tournament began when you downloaded and filled in your wallcharts, speculating on who you thought would be playing where and when, that you didn’t have either of these two going this far.

I bet you had Germany winning their group, with Croatia as runners up. Portugal and the Czech’s in theirs, Italy and maybe France or Holland and Spain with Sweden in theres.

Well I did anyways.

We were expecting the Germans and the Portuguese to meet up later than they did. We were expecting Italy and France to stage a historic match. We were expecting England to be there as well, but none of this happened.

With this pre-filled wallchart of mine I plotted how much time I would probably have to find and post some music for or about each participating country, but my armchair punditry failed.

I thought there’d be a few more days for Croatia so I could do part two. The same with the Netherlands.

As for the Swedes… I’m sorry Sweden. I had a few lined up but you decided to leave the party early.
I may still post what I’ve found of theirs because there are a couple of half decent ones.

What about Italy and France you ask… Hey whatabout Spain…?

I’d liked to have posted something, but I couldn’t find anything.

Singing-wise Holland and Germany were very, very well represented, with lots of acts err… getting in on the act. But when it came to some of the others, not even a whistled tune.

- Of course I may be wrong on this. My grasp of foreign languages isn’t brilliant and Google Translate can only go so far.

But forget about France and Italy, they are out of it. How about something from the Spanish ?

Football and Music needs your help - If you spot anything from España then contact me here.

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Until then and for now a lower quality version (because the single is still on sale) of Natasha Marsh doing the “Queen of the Night” aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute:

» NM - QotN

I have to say that I find the orchestration a bit overbearing on this one. It almost overpowers her singing.

They’ll be more attention and chatter from the pundits about these two tonight:

Where will he go after this..? Who will Big Phil sign first…?

There’s also a football match and just in case the result goes the over way… I don’t think it will, I’m putting my tuppance on them, but just in case they are knocked out before I can find some music about them to post, here’s a song made by a fan: