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Soundtracking the beautiful game
Posted by Four Eyes on 14 May 2010 - 6:50pm.
Courtesy of the British Pathé archive via the Guardian, some lovely dated footage of the 1971/72 Chelsea squad recording Blue is the Colour.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2010/may/12/british-pathe-archi...
Given the hue of almost every squad member's trousers, they should've called it Beige is the Colour.
With tomorrow's FA Cup and Scottish Cup finals in mind, and with the World Cup just around the corner, what's your favourite football-related song? Flimsy and tenuous links welcomed.
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A packet of 3
The Family Cat - Steamroller
Pink Floyd - Fearless
New Order - Best and Marsh
Manchester City The Boys In Blue
Cannon & Ball
The City song was written and recorded by 10cc
If I recall correctly. I heard one of the band (I think it was Eric Stewart) talking about writing and recording this in their Manchester studio. And he's a United supporter. B side was a dreadful disco number called Funky City...
For once
the answer is Chas n Dave
Ossie's Dream
Mogwai
The soundtrack to the Zidane film. Mesmerising.
This is true
Did someone mention
football songs?
Speaking as a Scot, two things:
- Ally's Tartan Army is of course the musical crime of the century (with the satisfying coda that Andy Cameron tried to release an album follow-up just after the Iran game, with the result that 10,000 copies are sitting in a lock-up in Partick to this day)
- New Order's World In Motion achieves (for me, anyway) the otherwise unbelievable feat of giving me a glimpse of how it feels to be specifically an England fan. (btw, I mean this as a compliment!)
The answer is Adam & Joe...
Strachan
Adrian Sherwood's Barmy Army
did endless strange dub/electro reworkings of terrace chants
The ridiculously under-rated Depth Charge (without whom there would be no e.g. Chemical Brothers) did this great tribute to South American commentators
And of course those perpetually silly Wolves fans:
he's got a foot like a traction engine...