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So then Portugal went into sleep mode and did a favour for one of the co-hosts & their fans.
I wanted to get everything for or about Switzerland posted whilst they were still in the tournament but found this too late. But I’m going to post it anyway as a send off .
- Discovered a band from Switzerland who sing some of their stuff in English:
They named themselves after a notorious woman from the late 1800’s named Poker Alice.
The band Poker Alice re-recorded a song from 2007 for the Euro 2008 Championships and also redid the original English version first released last year.
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» Poker Alice - Alles Klar |
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» Poker Alice - Raise Your Hands
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He manages the Croatian team, he wears an earing, he smokes fags, he plays guitar in a rock band.
Meet the man who put one over on England and then the other day taught dem Germans a footballing lesson.
Slavan Bilic, who West Ham and some Everton fans remember with fondness has said that he would like to manage in the Premier League and if he carries on the way he is there’ll be a couple of chairman wanting to talk to him.
After they qualified for Euro 2008… … the less said about that the better… Bilic, the lead guitarist in the band Rawbau decided to write a song for the Croatian team himself.
“Coach Bilic told us in January that he had a song that sounded good. The song is very catchy, a classic rock tune and I believe that fans will like it and that it will become their hymn,” said Vlatka Bartulovic, a spokeswoman for Zagreb brewery, who will produce the song.
A sample of the lyrics:
We were together in 98?
World has heard of us
And still the bronze medal shines
When we beat Japan, Holland, Romania, GermanyAnd now, 10 years later
Again the same hope, same dream
We have the tickets, backpacks, and a crest on our chests (Crest 3x)Fieeery Madness, when it starts, Fieeery
Let everything burn when through our veins
Red and white starts flowing
Audio:
» Rawbau - Fiery Madness
Video:
I’ve got a tulip barrel load of songs done about the Netherlands. It seems that everybody and his dog had a go at singing something for the Oranje.
I’m going to post some randomly selected tunes from what I’ve collected and split this into two, maybe three parts because there are so many.
The Google translation of this one sez:
“Hatsjikideee with “Behind Orange Are” band from Apeldoorn with pretty new Oranjelied!”
Bit of a reggae tinge to it. Not too bad.
Listen:
» Hatsjikideee - Behind The Orange
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The translation of this one said:
“EK2008 Cowbell Unlimited which hit the famous “Go Holland Go ‘new Swiss reinvigoration by a Après-Ski turn to give. It is thus transformed into “Höb Holland Höb (après-ski)”
The band have a bit of an “umpah, umpah” thing going with a female lead singer.
Listen:
» Cowbells Unlimited - Go Holland Go
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Don’t know anything about this I’m afraid. It has a very traditional Dutch sound.
Listen:
» Crazy2 - Trots op Oranje
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Lastly for now here’s one where in the video a bunch of orange suit wearing middle aged blokes get together a have a bit of a conga through Amsterdam.
Listen:
» De Dikdakkers - Schreeuw
You know Romania could nick it here…
They were (in everybody’s eyes) doomed from the beginning when they were drawn into the group of death with Italy, France and Holland.
But with their performance (or France’s lack of) in the first match there is now an decent chance of them making it through to the knockout stages.
Italy are notoriously slow starters and even though they were stunned by the Netherlands I reckon they’ll still somehow manage to scrape it.
France on the other hand picked the curse that is Le Sulk and yet again when he plays, the team doesn’t. Anelka doesn’t play well with others you see. When he’s a partner up front with someone they don’t gel, they never get along. He’s a lazy striker, a goal hanger and poacher who doesn’t go looking for the ball. He’ll wait until it comes to him.
If he starts the next game then I can’t see France progressing.
Somehow this turned into a mini rant about Anelka when it should’ve been about the Romanian team and their chances. Back to the subject team then:
They don’t have any familiar (to us anyway) names in their ranks right now, but neither did Greece four years ago.
I don’t think they will or can go all the way, but there’s always one team in the competition that nobody expects to go anywhere and Romania may be that team.
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Some music about them and a song known only as a Romanian anthem for Euro 2008. No other info found about this.
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It’s bugging me now. What is it ?
*Ahem* Sorry…
I spotted something in relation to the current European Champions and a video posted online.
I was searching for anything footieandmusical about Greece and found only one thing.
It was via a Greek television station’s section on Daily Motion.
Sport 24 TV have added the vid below which has a tune which I’m sure, near certain that is it a Greek language version of a famous song. But what is the song..?
Video:
Audio:
» Unknown Artist - Song of Greece
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I know it. I do. But I can’t name that tune right now.
Can you ?
UPDATE: Thanks to Bill posting his comment with extra info:
“The artist is Fillipos Pliatsikas and the name of the song is ‘an tha mporousa ton kosmo tha allaza’(if i could change the world).”
I still think it’s a Greek language cover version of a famous song, but still can’t think of where I’ve heard it before.
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