Club Anthem

atypical_boro said:
These things happen naturally. It’s been done to death but we just have to accept we don’t really have one. If we started playing FMTTM before every match it would feel contrived and not at all like YNWA at Anfield which is basically what most people want to emulate, or an old folk song like Blaydon Races. Even Man United don’t have one.

We Shall Overcome has barely been sung since 2004, I bet we have fans in their mid/late-20s who don't even know it or its loose connection with our club.

Power Game was the Ayresome pre-match tune and I think thats what it will remain. I have strong memories of Centerfold (J Geils Band) at Ayresome being sung by the crowd, but hardly like it caught on as a proper anthem.

I actually thought Steel River may be played more after the Brighton match in 2016, but it wasn't. That was the point at which it could have caught on organically.

Reach Up (Perfecto Allstarz) is the closest thing we have to 'an anthem', even if not everyone likes it, it is sort of synonymous with the Riverside era and thecrowd did actually embrace it unanimously for the first few years at the Riverside, hence why it has stuck.
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I agree reach upto the stars would be great i know the dance as well
 
To be fair to our 2 neighbours they have it down to a tea.

Sunderland's ready to go has lasted the test of time with some classical music just before
 
Davey_C said:
To be fair to our 2 neighbours they have it down to a tea.

Sunderland's ready to go has lasted the test of time with some classical music just before
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I still don't associate it with them in the way I would Blue Moon or Blowing Bubbles, or even Z-Cars.
 
Our own version of Mull of Kintyre.

"Riverside, oh mist rolling in from the Tees"

"My desire is always to be here, oh Riverside".
 
atypical_boro said:
I was listening to a podcast recently where someone said Stampy, in training, was simply unplayable. A "Monday to Friday" footballer they called him. Can't remember who it was, might have been Hignett or Fleming.
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I can believe it. I used to go to the reserve games a lot when they played them at the Riverside and apart from Moreno (who was absolutely class in the reserves), he was frequently head and shoulders above anyone else.

Don't think he ever really let us down playing for the first team to be fair.
 
atypical_boro said:
We Shall Overcome has barely been sung since 2004, I bet we have fans in their mid/late-20s who don't even know it or its loose connection with our club.
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WSO is a losers song. We only ever sang it when we got beat at Wembley or a promotion/play off game. I have almost as much as the Liverpool dirge.
 
festa5 said:
I can believe it. I used to go to the reserve games a lot when they played them at the Riverside and apart from Moreno (who was absolutely class in the reserves), he was frequently head and shoulders above anyone else.

Don't think he ever really let us down playing for the first team to be fair.
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Stampy was good as was Moreno. It was a similar thing with Mendieta as well Festa. He was head and shoulders above anything on the pitch in the Stiffs just ran the games. Southgate still would not play him for which he has since apologised to him for. The thing was the team could have done with him.
 
Davey_C said:
To be fair to our 2 neighbours they have it down to a tea.

Sunderland's ready to go has lasted the test of time with some classical music just before
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I would say Sunderland's is more 'Wise men say'. We definitely need one. It sounded incredible when Sheff Utd fans sang the chip butty song just before kick off at Bramall Lane this season. It should be pigbag as we run out (though I would prefer power game myself) then into the anthem. I love We Shall Overcome - to say its a losers song is just daft! We sang it plenty of times when winning over the years but this myth of us losing after singing it was exactly that, a myth!
 
asredastheycome said:
WSO is a losers song. We only ever sang it when we got beat at Wembley or a promotion/play off game. I have almost as much as the Liverpool dirge.
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EVERY club anthem is almost certainly connected to Losing.

thats the whole idea - when your losing, the clubs fans show their mettle and make it clear that they are not going to desert them - that they are unflinching from their role as 'supporters'..

its been sung at loads of games outside the criteria that you declare.


Defiance, Trenches, Rebels, Partisan.
 
asredastheycome said:
Stampy was good as was Moreno. It was a similar thing with Mendieta as well Festa. He was head and shoulders above anything on the pitch in the Stiffs just ran the games. Southgate still would not play him for which he has since apologised to him for. The thing was the team could have done with him.
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Considering we were putting out teams with Bates and Shawky at CM we certainly could.

I know his legs had started to go, but I think a more experienced manager puts other players in around him to do the running. Mendi's touch, passing and vision was still top notch.
 
At least we have history with We Shall Overcome. It's a song of defiance. Of hope. Of resiliance.

Something more modern that would work would be Wake Up (Arcade Fire). Although the singer's alleged sexual predation makes that less attractive now.
 
I always thought the first 2 verses of steel river were perfect for a boro anthem, just need a way to finish it because it doesn't really have a chorus.
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
EVERY club anthem is almost certainly connected to Losing.

thats the whole idea - when your losing, the clubs fans show their mettle and make it clear that they are not going to desert them - that they are unflinching from their role as 'supporters'..

its been sung at loads of games outside the criteria that you declare.


Defiance, Trenches, Rebels, Partisan.
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I am specifically talking about Boro fans usage. I know full well the significance of the song
 
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