All Whites, Ferns, and other international teams

Stand Up

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ah Well. I dont so much hate the song, but the version i saw on Close Up was rather Cringe.

I will be sticking to "Heading for the Top" for the time being.

All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I was thinking something more upbeat. Get Sommerset (back together) to write and perform it

Even something like Elemeno P could have done a decent job. The song aint bad, but more reflective than uplifting.

Love Millencolin's song for their local club, Orebro (or Pennybridge for those in the know )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIDgIaUprg



Bullion2010-04-20 21:27:18
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The main thing is they do a decent video and get the players involved. I was hoping for something original- in a country as creative as ours you'd  think it could be done. Anyhow lets go with it and hope that people get behind it.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcYWCe1cIg8 
 
Though of this when i heard stand up. Very disappointed.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Is this some sort of sick joke? Stan f**king Walker doing our World Cup song. He's probably never watched a game of football in his life, or sung a decent song for that matter. Would only make sense if it was for like a preteen girl world cup and even then he's not that popular.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
^^^being a bit harsh on Stan Walker. He has talent (even if he's not your taste of music), just not what us and football fans expected. Scottishbhoy2010-04-20 22:42:24

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Never seen so much negativity in my life.  However, not surprised.  Whinging on YF has reached incredible new levels, led by some of the mods I must say.
 
Farewell.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
chocnut wrote:
Is this some sort of sick joke? Stan f**king Walker doing our World Cup song. He's probably never watched a game of football in his life, or sung a decent song for that matter. Would only make sense if it was for like a preteen girl world cup and even then he's not that popular.
 
why don't they have these?

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
heres link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ&feature=related
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMUlMy0wEM
this is something you can sing along to while drinking a beer (or 5)

this gay crap is a song that is the basis for overthrowing the nzf and bringing back the death penalty

i agree with chocnut only that this could never possibly make sense
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
smittyz11 wrote:
cronus wrote:
^^ agreed with News. The Close Up link isn't available yet but it seemed from the story that Michael Glading "went through his music collection and chose the song" .. although he does have background in music promotion I think, surely there was more to it than that???!!!
 
I dont mind Stan at all.
 
 



Must only have one album in his collection!!





As former CEO of Sony NZ, about 10 times the albums of everyone on this thread put together
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I actually don't mind it.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
So the Feelers are doing good out of the two World Cups.. something fishy going on there

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I actually quite like the original but not this sh*t version.  Could they have not got the person who won Beauty and the Geek  or the Bachelor to sing it?

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I thought the song choice was ok but why have it covered. Maybe they didn't want to look like they were copying the RWC by using the Feelers as well.
 
Still think they should have got Wynton Rufer to sing "We're the All Whites and we're on our way to Spain. We'll score goals goals goals and we'll score some more again...."
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Balls to this. I'll be singing "Heading For The Top" from now to June.

Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Well, i haven't heard it, but I can't imagine it's good.
 
Of course,  there is still time for a decent NZ band to come up with an original , unofficial song to usurp NZF's effort. This happens all the time in other countries. We certainly have the talent, but does anybody have the motivation?
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
BlattersBalls wrote:
The main thing is they do a decent video and get the players involved. I was hoping for something original- in a country as creative as ours you'd  think it could be done. Anyhow lets go with it and hope that people get behind it.
 
 
Second this. I don't have anything against Stand Up per se, or Stan Walker, but as a footballing song, is it an 'all together now' piece which can be belted out by fans on the terraces?   Will it capture the imagination of a nation?  Let's hope so! I guess it might not have been my own first choice but I'm prepared to give it a go.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I like it, its a good song and Walker is a talented singer.
 
Yeah it could have been better but I think this is stirring and a good effort!

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
siggy said on the radio this morning that he wasnt a fan and would prefer ACDC

Founder

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Anyone for a Violin and some tissues...maybe a razor blade? iit's as if the All Whites have already lost all three group games by the sound of this song. This is not an anthem, it's a funeral.

The latest from the feelers is that they got a 10k video grant from NZ on air and pissed it away in the Fiji islands - they bought a crappy camcorder and filmed themselves looking like burnt beached whales. They are sluts to the industry so I'm not suprised that theyve popped up again in a dealing with CEO's that think they are record producers too.
 
I mean, good on them for attracting conservative musically uncultured folk accross the nation, that's why theyve had so many fans throughout the years because there are undoubtedly many of those people in NZ.
 
Dont get me wrong, I really liked Pressure Man...when I was 10 years old.
 
It seems like a cop-out from Glading, not ballsy enough to feel the force and ends up taking the safest option available "We'll choose a Feelers song because it's a failsafe in that most middle class new zealanders like the Feelers so even if the song doesnt portray the emotion needed - it's still a Feelers song so that's ok."
 
100% NZ MUSIC - Get over it, get it right. Some football people have been waiting 28 years for this - it's not time to stand up for communal service - it's time to get the f**k out of your seats and cheer the boys home, this is huge. These are exciting times, but you wouldnt have thought so by the choice of this song.
 
If the boys listen to this before every match Ricki will have to bring a bigger squad because half of them will have fallen asleep and the others having an emotional meltdown.
 
 
I propose a remake (if you have to!), of Fatboy Slim's 'Right Here, Right Now'. Now that is something that sends shivers down the spine before a match. (Funilly enough, the same title as that terrible Jesus Jones track).
 
See here to get your proper sonic elation for the mighty all whites.
 
 
The Feelers are laughing all the way to the bank.
 
 
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
just listened to it and it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but it is still too slow and not very inspiring. could we not have had maybe shihad try and cover it. I'm sure they'd add more passion and get more into it.

Stan Walker is a good singer etc... but just not the right voice for an anthem imo
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Someone coming onto classic hits to talk about the stand up song soon. Also they will be talking to some girl that got kicked off the Aprentice.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Perennial strugglers Liverpoolfan1 wrote:
Never seen so much negativity in my life.  However, not surprised.  Whinging on YF has reached incredible new levels, led by some of the mods I must say.
 
Farewell.
 
Cheer up mate - it's not like we're whinging and wrong - just the first one!

Peoples Republik of Aucklandia

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
kiwi pie wrote:
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.


Terrible cover of a terrible song.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

reserved judgment until now in order to avoid knee jerk, but no, I am not a fan. if it wasnt going to be fast tempo and something we can have a laugh about and sing along it had to be uplifting i reckon. its not in my view. it may grow on me but not yet.

i wonder what the objectives and commercial interests are? There is a market that will buy something sung by Walker and perhaps that's what Glading is after, rather than a song for the fans. It would be good for a journo to ask what stake NZF has in the song?
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.


Terrible cover of a terrible song.


No, it's a cover of a song that you don't like. That is a million miles from making it a terrible song.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I haven't heard it yet but regardless of the song I think it shd be something by an iconic kiwi band (one that chooses to be based in NZ rather than oz like Stan)
 
how bout one of the groups that sells out instantly whenever put on shows like Shapeshifter
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Royal wrote:

el grapadura wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.


Terrible cover of a terrible song.
No, it's a cover of a song that you don't like. That is a million miles from making it a terrible song.


No, there are a lot of truly terrible songs I like.

The Feelers have not made one song that has a modicum of musical worth.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
Royal wrote:

el grapadura wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.


Terrible cover of a terrible song.
No, it's a cover of a song that you don't like. That is a million miles from making it a terrible song.


No, there are a lot of truly terrible songs I like.

The Feelers have not made one song that has a modicum of musical worth.


That's just your opinion, so you can never speak for others. There are a heap of people that buy their songs that think they are extremely worthwhile
I am not one of them, but I also don't tell others what songs are good and bad, it's an opinion
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
....and on a forum we wouldn't want people saying there opinions would we?

I like the Feelers, but if El Grap thinks they're terrible he can bloody well say it.

Perhaps we should add IMO to the end of every sentence just to be 100% there isn't some f**kwit out there who hasn't quite worked that out. IMO That's what we should do.

On a sidenote just because its an opinion doesn't mean it's not right (or wrong for that matter)... If I say in my opinion the world is flat my opinion is wrong.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Royal wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Royal wrote:

el grapadura wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
Oh God, it's f**king dreadful.


Terrible cover of a terrible song.
No, it's a cover of a song that you don't like. That is a million miles from making it a terrible song.


No, there are a lot of truly terrible songs I like.

The Feelers have not made one song that has a modicum of musical worth.


That's just your opinion, so you can never speak for others. There are a heap of people that buy their songs that think they are extremely worthwhile
I am not one of them, but I also don't tell others what songs are good and bad, it's an opinion
Get off the fence, Mr Nice, and FIRE UP!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHH!
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
and there we have the two most moronic comments I've seen in years.
Negtive thread, negative people.

Waste of time having a song IMO, these people would complain anyway.

Good luck.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Bye Princess.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Royal wrote:
and there we have the two most moronic comments I've seen in years. Negtive thread, negative people.Waste of time having a song IMO, these people would complain anyway.Good luck.


That's just your opinion, so you can never speak for others. There are a heap of people who don't think this thread and people posting here are negative.
I am not one of them, but I also don't tell others what threads and posters are negative, it's an opinion.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Jesus, Mary & Joeseph wtf did he do at the 2:03?

"Sharing rewards the weak"- Steven Colbert

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