A Kiwi Song For The Rugby World Cup

A Kiwi Song For The Rugby World Cup

OK so I agree that the choice of an "anthem" for the Rugby World Cup is a great opportunity to showcase Kiwi music overseas. So why is it that all the options I've heard mentioned so far completely f**king suck and the only thing they have to say to the world is that we have no good ideas of our own and basically we just want to sound like everybody else?

So...

F*ck The Feelers (Matchbox 20 wannabes)

F*ck Shihad (Nickleback wannabes)

and

F*ck Fat Freddy's Drop (Spinal Tap doing Jazz Odyssey over hip hop beats).

If you want an anthem that presents an honest picture of New Zealand and how we make our way in the world then look no further than this - The Skeptics - AFFCO. "We pack meat" indeed!

Feel free to post your own suggestions...

terminator_x2010-03-31 20:50:21

Haven't Shihad have been around longer than Nickleback, over 20 years. They are one of the best acts to come out of Wellington.

Don McGlashan should write one

Anything but Loyal.

Hey hey hey..
Shihad Nickelback wannabe's?

Thats a bit harsh.

"Don't Give Me Kulcha" - the Knobz

Rugger Bugger - No Idea

from the glory days of Chch Punk

Shihad FTW.

This.

Shihad's career

At least they used to be Killing Joke wannabes. Now they are Nickelback wannabes.

Shihad's "Run" would have been awesome.

Terminator, you're being too hard on them.
And you've forgotten the era when they sounded like Bailter Space - the 'Churn' album.

No, he hasn't.  Stations is a Faith No More rip-off and most of the album was tinged with a Killing Joke sound due to Jaz Coleman twiddling knobs. Product2010-03-31 23:36:54

Shihad are derivative rubbish, and the feelers sound like a Pub covers band playing songs you've never heard of.  In fact this soft rock rubbish as a genre is absolutely appalling.

Terminator = Music snob and total knob.

Tally Ho - The Clean
Actually nearly anything byThe Clean will do.Maybe end of my dream?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3UGftvCRo&feature=related

Wow to this video.Martyn Bull on drums.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22K-UoumPGw&feature=PlayList&p=28A6179994519710&index=1&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

"This was a private show, other bands on the bill included The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, Nocturnal Projections and This Sporting Life."

Sounds like fun.

Shihad to do a cover of The Muppet Show theme. Very appropriate song for rugby and The All Blacks.

probably 20 years on now but "Deb's Night Out" is class.
easily a high water mark for Shihad.

if we are in the business of hiring a song-writer I vote Shayne Carter
more class than ass and any cat that cites Miles-Monk-Coltrane and then releases "You got to hear the Music" is bang to rights way the f*** cool

If you want to talk about good NZ bands, you really have to talk about Mandarin Speakeasy.  They were a band that was so alternative they never played a gig.  I have all the notes they made about songlists that they would play if they ever sold out enough to have any songs.

For Today?
I was best man at trumpet players wedding.
NWDT most un-Dunedin Dunedin band

played music with him for years, top player.

Whatever the song is, and whoever plays it, it's still going to be some patriotic wankfest dreamt up in a boardroom by someone with no greater goal than to inspire unity, world peace, siezing the moment and living the dream in the most insipid, vomit-inducing fashion possible. Milky Pisswit2010-04-01 11:18:05

note to self;
do NOT send new album to Milky Pisswit

terminator_x2010-04-01 12:42:06

This.

Haha yeah, i'm a real tyrant. Someone outta teach me a lesson.