Songs for a World Cup CD?

May 25, 2006 12:40 PM

I want to make a CD for the upcoming World Cup. Can you help me with some song ideas to celebrate the beautiful game?

I was thinking about easily findable songs along the lines of:

U2 - Beautiful Day
EMF - Unbelievable
Queen -We Will Rock You / Champions
Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
Europe - The Final Countdown


Feel free to leave your World Cup pick too.

posted by UncleHornHead to Media & Arts (27 answers total)

The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme by Colourbox.
posted by misteraitch at 12:46 PM on May 25, 2006

Billy Bragg - The Boy Done Good

Now I feel like I've won the cup,
Every time we make love.
Forty-five minutes each way,
At half time I hear a brass-band play.

Brazil will win.
posted by veedubya at 12:49 PM on May 25, 2006

"Ole" -- Bouncing Souls
posted by Otis at 12:53 PM on May 25, 2006

Response by poster: veebubya - BRAVO and thanx for the lyric.

Saw BB in Philly two months ago...
posted by UncleHornHead at 12:54 PM on May 25, 2006

The all time top 3 football songs. No argument.

I don't want to sound rude but I'm not sure how any of yours particularly celebrate the footie - they seem more like a bunch of celebration songs that could be used for anything competitive.
posted by i_cola at 12:55 PM on May 25, 2006

A whole pile of suggestions on the "Football Crazy" album currently available in the UK.
posted by wackybrit at 12:56 PM on May 25, 2006

World in Motion - New Order
posted by DelusionsofGrandeur at 12:57 PM on May 25, 2006

Vindaloo by Fat Les. And Argentina will certainly win the World Cup.
posted by afx237vi at 1:01 PM on May 25, 2006

Will they heck!
posted by i_cola at 1:07 PM on May 25, 2006

Nessun Dorma is a footballing classic. It is used all the time on the slow-mo replays at most World Cups since Italia 90.

Opera and footy in one heady mix, it manages to combine a sense of triumph with elegy.

Also, Vindaloo is the worst song going. And while I have the opportunity, FUCK KEITH ALLEN!
posted by ClanvidHorse at 1:08 PM on May 25, 2006

Response by poster: I suppose if we were at the pub, the bottles would start flying right here.
posted by UncleHornHead at 1:14 PM on May 25, 2006

The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
posted by ludwig_van at 1:32 PM on May 25, 2006

Queen? Europe? Just say no to pomp-rock. Instead, go for 'All I Want For Christmas Is A Ducla Prague Away Kit' and the rest of the football-related output of Half Man Half Biscuit. And I like the look of this Brazilian album, too, although there's not enough Jorge Ben, whose 'Mas Que Nada' probably needs to be there.

You might also take inspiration from the soundtracks to the EA FIFA games and PES/Winning Eleven, which always seem pretty well chosen: Blur's 'Song 2', Pigbag's 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag' and Elvis's 'A Little Less Conversation' seem to have made their way into the record collections of plenty of club announcers.
posted by holgate at 1:49 PM on May 25, 2006

Oh, and my long-shot pick is the Netherlands.
posted by holgate at 1:49 PM on May 25, 2006

“Goal” by Depth Charge.
posted by hilker at 2:09 PM on May 25, 2006

Toy Dolls--Cloughy Is a Bootboy

Cloughy is a football hooligan, now Cloughy's only at his prime
With his fist in yer nose when the referee blows full time

Brian Brian kicks & slaps & he shouts oi!
Brian Brian Cloughy is a bootboy

also in the Oi! vein: The Business--England 5 - Germany 1
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:15 PM on May 25, 2006

My longshot is Cote D'Ivoire, btw. Unless Drogba hurts himself on one of those spectacular dives.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:16 PM on May 25, 2006

Just fill it with random Samba songs.
posted by sic at 2:25 PM on May 25, 2006

Seconding World in Motion, if only for the John Barnes rap...

Eat My Goal by Collapsed Lung
posted by blag at 2:30 PM on May 25, 2006

The Football Song, by Adam and Joe.
posted by Artw at 2:59 PM on May 25, 2006

Nelly Furtado's Força. The Portuguese chorus is a nice touch for some of us!
posted by wallaby at 3:07 PM on May 25, 2006

The remix of Elvis' A Little Less Conversation (featured in some commercial during WC2K2)
posted by mbd1mbd1 at 3:23 PM on May 25, 2006

Santa Maradona by Mano Negra.
posted by the_unutterable at 3:23 PM on May 25, 2006

Umbabarauma by Jorge Ben
Never Coming Down (Pt. II) by Space Hog
posted by GarageWine at 3:38 PM on May 25, 2006

How about - If You Don't Jump (You Are English) by gusgus?
posted by blackkar at 4:28 PM on May 25, 2006

The Fall's 'Theme From Sparta F.C.', (youtube video here) which came in #2 on John Peel's last Festive 50 list in 2003. Seems to be more about hooliganism than actual football, but it's still an excellent song. There's the refrain:

We live on blood (Hey!)
We are Sparta F.C. (Hey!)
English Chelsea fan this is your last game (Hey!)
We're not Galatasary We're Sparta F.C. (Hey!)
posted by Kronoss at 5:26 PM on May 25, 2006

If you're an England fan: "3 Lions On A Shirt" By Badiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds. I think it was their theme for Euro 96.
posted by PenDevil at 1:34 AM on May 26, 2006