Proggiest National Anthem?
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Topic: Proggiest National Anthem?
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: Proggiest National Anthem?
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 12:51
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Of the ones I know (I hope I'm not biased), I think Argentina's the proggiest. It is very long for a national anthem (four minutes) with a dynamic classical overture, tempo changes, an instrumental section in the middle and a bombastic finale. There's an instrumental version that sounds way better but I can't find it in youtube. any other national anthems? PS: I don't know in what forum to put this in, whether the lounge or 'just for fun'. Free free to move it. |
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Posted By: mellors
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 13:13
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The National Anthem by Radiohead ;) |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 13:24
The French one, of course......La Marseillaise
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Posted By: progadelic
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 16:02
The National Anthem by Jimmi Hendrix 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 19:31
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Original thread! Though there's not enough material to keep it alive for long. La Marseillaise is the best. As is Deutschland Uber Alles. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 19:42
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The proggiest National Anthem is England's unofficial one: Jerusalem by Blake and Parry, as covered by ELP - followed closely by its 'official' one: Elgar's Land Of Hope And Glory, as performed by The Enid
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Posted By: *frinspar*
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 19:52
Now I feel bad for knowing so few  And the handful I do know are pretty much just pomp and arrogan....hey, wait, they're all prog! |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 20:08
Zitro, can you believe a week ago in my school in an act of patriotism when they played the anthem I thought(kidding), hey it's kinda proggy. Though I forgot to tell it here.  Very cool and original thread indeed. Argentina is a Prog Country, is it?  
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Zitro wrote:Posted By: santiagomo87
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 21:46
This saturday in a sigur ros concert in mexico , in the middle a brass band played iceland national anthem, maybe it's not the proggiest but it is the most post-rocky  ------------- Santiago |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 22:15
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O Canada stinks. And I laugh every time I hear "our home and native land". |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 22:18
The correct response -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: WinterLight
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 23:23
| Lyrically, a truly progressive national anthem would be the one that doesn't exist. |
Posted By: endlessepic
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 00:44
| If "Stars and Stripes Forever" were our anthem which it kind of is in a way, that would be it! (USA) If you listen to Chet Atkins play it it is all over the place with timing and key changes. |
Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 01:40
| Deutsche Demokratik Republik |
Posted By: Beastie!
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 01:54
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My country (South Africa) has a national anthem comprised of four parts, each sung in a different language (isiXhosa, isiZulu, Afrikaans and English) and with totally different melodies and time signatures and stuff. That's very prog. It's called "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika". ------------- What would Neil Young do? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 02:26
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The old anthem for the Soviet Union was extremely prog... -------------
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Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 03:49
actually, now it's “einigkeit und recht und freiheit“ (unity, justice, liberty) – the one you mentioned is from the nazi times  (same melody though)
“auferstanden aus ruinen und der zukunft zugewandt“ (risen from the ruins and headed for the future) – now THAT makes me laugh... ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 03:52
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John Lennon's 'Nutopian National Anthem' from Mind Games. It's about 2 seconds of silence...The run-off groove.Now that's prog. -------------  Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 05:50
"Auferstanden aus Ruinen" indeed was the national anthem of the former GDR. Interesting enough the lyrics of both of the national anthems can be sung to the melody of the other and vice versa. ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 07:50
See? this complexity is VERY proggy...
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 08:52
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The South African anthem is very nice, it has excellent vocal arrangements. I love the version with African percussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGZiMcDvYY&feature=related |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 09:47
------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 11:00
| I find the "possibly to be anthem" of Finland very prog. We have a boring now, but there's a petition going, getting a lot of names listed for making Sibelius - Finlandia Hymn as our official national anthem. At least, this time the composer would be Finnish, and the lyricist would be Finnish-speaking. The problem is, most people won't be able to sing it. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 11:04
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From very (unreliable) memory, I think the Italian anthem has a really bizarre sudden tempo change in the middle which always strikes me as a tad 'proggy'
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Posted By: Vince
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 12:10
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Of course, it's Anthem by Rush!
Sorry, bad joke...  ------------- "The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work until it's opened"... Frank Zappa. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 14:22
If that happensa, Finland will officially be the country with the best anthem in the world... I love Sibelius, his 7 symphonies, his violin concerto, KArelia, etc... but "Finlandia" is amazing.., Sometimes it makes me shiver, and I'm not finnish..
 ... I hope that happens... About Germany, yes, I was wrong about the name of the anthem... I was actually confused about the title, as it;'s quite nationalistic..and you've given me the information I needed... But Haydn's melody is great... I use to know all the lyrics, as I studied in a german-oriented school in Quito... (Deutsche Schule Quito)...(I'm not german at all by the way.. that's how things are in southamerica: there are "German schools" or "french schools" or "american schools".... Americans here never understand that concept of internationally-oriented education...)
By the way, Ecuador's national anthem, which many people in my country say is "second in the world after La MArsellaise", well, I think it's just an awful march... it sucks... -------------
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 15:20
Without doubts the Peruvian National Anthem:
You can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Peru - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Peru And http://www.mindef.gob.pe/menu/historicos/himno/himno.htm - http://www.mindef.gob.pe/menu/historicos/himno/himno.htm the short version sung by Tenor Juan Diego Florez.
Ivpan ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 20:44
If you say Rush I say Deep Purple! Deep Purple - Anthem, well that's proggy! |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: June 11 2008 at 23:18
seconded  |
Posted By: Jabberwocky
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 12:46
BTW, the (relatively) new Russian anthem kept the music unchanged. Only the verse is different. ------------- The only ****ing way out of here is through the rooftop (c) Dolph Lundgren |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 13:01
That's right ! It starts with a martial, slowish tempo, and then it suddenly speeds up.... Moreover, it's so pompous and bombastic (and that's just for the music... you should hear the lyrics!) that it MUST be prog! |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 13:32
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In a certain sense, all national anthems are "prog" not only for the music but also for the lyrics that are epic-like ones showing an imaginary and desired land with many exquisite metaphors supplied by different rhymes and unusual and rare words. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 13:49
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Rhapsody of Fire should write a national anthem... It would be so heroic... We just need a land with dragons though.... -------------
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 15:55
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"God Save the Queen" as played by Gentle Giant. As to the "Deutschland über alles" part of the German national anthem: Actually it no longer IS a part of the German national anthem (though it appears in the original lyrics of Hoffmann von Fallersleben); on the contrary, it is forbidden to sing that verse in Germany. When these lyrics were written they meant something totally different; there was no united Germany, just a few principalities in which German was spoken. Von Fallersleben wanted these principalities to unite to form Germany, as it finally happened in 1871; he was not of the opinion that Germany is superior to other nations, as the Nazis interpreted this verse. The first verse of von Fallersleben's poem, in which this passage appears, is never sung. For official purposes always only the third verse of the poem is used, and this third verse is the official national anthem of Germany. Here the full lyrics of the poem:
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: electricsilence
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 19:20
Absolutely, great anthem; I wish it were more symphony oriented, I mean not always been played with that awful military sounding drums. ------------- All I am saying is give Pez a chance. www.pezapesta.com.ar http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3307 |