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  • visualnickmos
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3609

    #31
    I think it doesn't matter a flying fig whether a public figure sings the thing or not. This ain't Norf Kria!

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    • Mary Chambers
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1963

      #32
      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ... I refer you to my #22 above...
      I've had to sing that one as well, and even though we had been coached I suspect my pronunciation would have made any Welsh speaker wince. I bet I was more convincing than Redwood, though!

      It's never occurred to me until now to worry about whether I meant what I was singing or not. I imagine not, since as far as I know I have no Welsh blood - but I only had the vaguest idea of what the words meant, anyway.

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      • ahinton
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 16122

        #33
        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
        I prefer Daz. Even Omo at a push.
        OK - so much for your laundry preferences (at least you do it!); I use Ariel Excel Actilift gel meself.

        Now, to return to the topic, what's your view of my suggestion to substitute Fairest Isle for the present UK National Anthem and do you think it a good idea (and, if so, why) to retain a National Anthem in the first place?

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26514

          #34
          Originally posted by ahinton View Post
          I use Ariel Excel Actilift gel meself.


          They're all at it, ferney!
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #35
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post


            They're all at it, ferney!
            Gives a whole new meaning to "standing for the National Anthem"!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • ardcarp
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11102

              #36
              JC called it right, imo.
              When I first saw that, I thought, "Blimey! Not the JC?"

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #37
                Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                I suppose one would need to know the words, though.
                This is key. John R didn't have the faintest idea what the words were, he was just opening and shutting his mouth like a goldfish. He wasn't miming.

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                • Flosshilde
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 7988

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                  My favourite is the Willcocks arrangement, written for the Charles & Di Royal Wedding.
                  I prefer the Ives 'Variations' (yes, I know they're variations on 'America', an anthem which is as obnoxious as GSTQ, but they're such fun )

                  (as Bryn said earlier)
                  Last edited by Flosshilde; 16-09-15, 18:24. Reason: acknowledgement.

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                  • Roehre

                    #39
                    Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                    I prefer the Ives 'Variations' (yes, I know they're variations on 'America', an anthem which is as obnoxious as GSTQ, but they're such fun )
                    especially in Schuman's orchestration

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                    • jayne lee wilson
                      Banned
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 10711

                      #40
                      I wouldn't sing it - couldn't really. (Atheist, Republican etc). But more from a certain amount of individual bloodymindedness really. And my 93-year old mother, who served as a sergeant in the armaments factories servicing the (bloody) Spitfires, had just confirmed to me that - she wouldn't bother either. She is, I should add, loosely a Royalist - pictures of babies, Princesses etc., hold some appeal for her. But we don't ​fall out over that.

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Roehre View Post
                        especially in Schuman's orchestration
                        I'll stick with the organ

                        btw, no, I don't sing it (GSTQ that is - or is it GSOGQ?), but then I'm rarely in a situation that requires me not to sing it.

                        (It's amazing the looks you get when you don't stand for the Hallelujah Chorus)

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                        • LeMartinPecheur
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 4717

                          #42
                          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                          I prefer Daz. Even Omo at a push.
                          Surely Purcell washes whitest?

                          Guess that gets me banned from the boreds - sorry and goodbye:smirkicon:
                          I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                          • Tony Halstead
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1717

                            #43
                            I would absolutely LOVE to see/ hear 'Fairest Isle' replacing our deadly dull, smug and outdated 'National Anthem'.

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                            • MrGongGong
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 18357

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Once Was 4 View Post
                              How about (c) - to not do so would offend elderly war veterans whose sacrifices, and those of their friends who were robbed violently of their lives, enables us to express strong views without fear of arrest or worse?
                              (again?)

                              Harry Leslie Smith: “As a RAF veteran of World War Two I'm not offended by Corbyn not singing national anthem – but I am offended by politicians who sell guns to tyrants"

                              Same tune as Luxembourg (if that makes any difference?)

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                              • Mary Chambers
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1963

                                #45
                                Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                                Now, to return to the topic, what's your view of my suggestion to substitute Fairest Isle for the present UK National Anthem and do you think it a good idea (and, if so, why) to retain a National Anthem in the first place?
                                Fairest Isle is a beautiful song. I learnt it at school, and it's one of the songs I tend to talk about when I am (frequently) ranting about good songs not being taught in schools any more. I hadn't thought of it as a national anthem , but it would be all right, I think. Certainly better music than we have at the moment! I can't remember all the words, so will have to look it up. I have an idea the version we sang had slightly different words from those set by Purcell - didn't 'sweet peace' replace 'Venus'?

                                I can't see any good reason not to have a national anthem. Most countries, if not all, do. We just need a good one.

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