I was making a casual comparison in my Saturday Fractal posting "Real Good Time"/Sisyphus' Rock (which started as a drinking song), to great sports anthems. The first one I could name was Jack White's 7-Nation Army, then remembered Queen.
So in my long running segment of "What's your best 3 X?" (I think 3 times now!), what are the 3 best anthems, or drinking songs, or songs that several thousand people will all join together in singing as soon as a sufficient critical mass of people start singing (or until the mascot/cheerleader starts them off)?
I'm keeping the parameters of "1000s of people singing together" very vague and I'll include Tubbawumpa or whatever drinking songs or patriotic songs or even that special night at the Stones were everyone sang along and Mick shut up. But the criteria is 3 best, not your favorite or popular. What has that magic mojo that gets sports fans to shamelessly rip off these riffs and taunt the other side with music? (What an odd use of music when I put it like that!)
These are the 3 best in my very biased, subjective, and absolutely right opinion:
- 1. Queen, "We are the Champions/We Will Rock You."
2. Jack White, 7-Nation Army
3. Just for fun: Handel, Hallelujah Chorus
4. Star Spangled Banner AND Oh Canada because I've lived in both countries and both songs are pretty good to get the old jingoistic blood flowing.
What's yours? Oh, and include a video if you have a favorite.
Here's Queen:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY[/youtube]
Cheers! Steve Sink, Paigan Productions
Edited to change title to be a little more descriptive.
and 
!!! No, just kidding, but I love Metallica. I saw them at Monsters of Rock with Van Halen, Scorpions, Ac/DC, Kingdom Come, and Pantera in Kansas City on And Justice For all. Good times, but I was there to see everybody BUT Metallica at the time. I was blown away and have been a fan ever since (although frankly not so much after St. Anger or so).
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