Which is the best national anthem?

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Try to be a little bit objective about this. I'm talking musically not lyrically.

1) La Marseillaise-- French national anthem. Written by Rouget de Lisle during the time of the revolution and then later arranged by Berlioz. This is the best arrangement and the one most frequently used. Usually two stanzas are sung.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ4GQ5ZPME

2) God save the Tsar-- anthem of Imperial Russia prior to the revolution. In the version shown there seems to be some disagreement as to whether or not it is the actual anthem, which of course it isn't. But many people are standing as if it is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvMDZag8-DE

Here is another version of God save the Tsar sung by a group of Cossack cultists pining for the wonderful days under the tsar. Well, now they've got Putin. I hope they're happy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnhmYWsgyY

3) I don't know. Maybe O Canada or God Save the Queen.

The Star-Spangled Banner is down there somewhere. Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics not the music, which is an Old English drinking song. Not really good music though.

Anyway, maybe you've got some other ideas or anthems I'm not familiar with.

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@coluber2001,

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@tsarstepan,

What is that? Actually the music sounds pretty good. It looks like a lot of people protesting.

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@coluber2001,

You don't recognize the title and/or fictional country of Oceania? It's from the film adaptation of the terrifying dystopian novel, 1984 by George Orwell.

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@tsarstepan,

I kind of suspected it might be that but it's been awhile since I read the book. Still the music was pretty good.

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I prefer instrumental anthems.

But the words to Freedonia's are pretty good:

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@coluber2001,

I like this take on The Maple Leaf Forever

appropriately folky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7fFAbewEE

we live quite near the source tree

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/06/07/legendary_maple_leaf_forever_tree_will_live_forever.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/toronto-s-maple-leaf-forever-tree-on-tour-with-blue-rodeo-tragically-hip-1.3078035

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@Region Philbis,

This is my personal favorite rendition of our national anthem:

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@maxdancona,

That spoof on the national anthem of Khakistan is pretty funny except to Khakistanis. I never saw the movie Borat but that's where the anthem comes from. Doing a little research I found that in the 10th annual Arab shooting tournament in Kuwait, the Khakistanis took a medal and while they were on the podium the wrong Anthem was played, the spoof was played accidentally.

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This is very funny.

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@coluber2001,

Kazakhstan

vs
KYRGYZSTAN

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@coluber2001,

I saw the video of that. The poor Kazakh woman who won the medal... she was rightfully annoyed. I still find the incident funny, but I am a bad person.

I am sure this error was because some lower level official just googled it.

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@Region Philbis,

Also -

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There is some talk over here about changing the national anthem for England matches. God Save the Queen is the National Anthem of the UK which is fine for UK level participation like the Olympics. In other sports like football and rugby the home nations participate separately.

On those occasions the Welsh play Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, and the Scots play Flower of Scotland, yet we English still play God Save the Queen. A lot of people, myself included, think we should play something else.

This is the most popular contender, but for now it's still God Save the Queen.

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@izzythepush,

I like the Welsh national anthem. This version is done very well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTWtHJmGoHY

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@coluber2001,

Russia
Canada
Israel

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@coluber2001,

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Maybe O Canada or God Save the Queen.

If these are the best the world has to offer, that would be more than a little disappointing. We had a 50th graduation reunion last summer and whoever the dipshit was that played MC instructed everyone to stand for O Canada. I was the only one of perhaps 200 who refused to follow this idiotic tradition. When a Canadian wins a gold medal, I'm usually pleased about it (I have a sense of membership) but when the anthem begins (with its mandated proper behaviors that say subservience as much as respect) I do want to vomit. I have a similar response to other country's anthem-singing.

However, it is also the case that if the Washington State politicos had gone through with a proposal made a couple of decades ago to replace their exisiting state song with another that had been written by a Washingtonian, I would have stood for that one and give it the respect due. The song was Louie, Louie.

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The Serbian anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWapbQZrDAU

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