We need better songs

Rocksuperstar · Apr 7, 2019

Problem I see with new chants is that music isn't as... I dunno, knees up, as it used to be. There's not so much of the rousing chorus or memorable hook like there used to be, now the charts are flooded with so many genres from grime to fucking.. what was it, Drill?

fuck knows...

What i'm getting at is Chas n Dave had a piano and a guitar and drums and used to write songs to get you singing along, a lot of music up to the 80's is very fun to belt out in a crowd, but the further we get from that era the less fans are left to remember them tunes. When I was a kid we all used to tune in to the radio to hear the top ten announced so we all knew the same tunes, now it's a running score that is effected by a thousand sources and no-one cares.

The only one I can think of that incorporates a modern tune and is absolutely great is the Will Grigg chant - that's hilarious, but getting a whole crowd, where tastes and therefore knowledge of particular tunes is spread so much thinner, it's much tougher to get everyone on board.

I had a great song for Son, to the tune of the Carpenters "Sing" but like half the crowd would join in with that! I've also been trying to work Harry Winks into a version of Lily The Pink but there's not enough alcohol in the house for me to sing that atm. If ever there was a drunk's song...

guiltyparty · Apr 7, 2019

I miss the quirky player songs. “Stephen Carr my lord, Stephen Carr!”

Most of our sung songs don’t have a sense of humour, they’re dry as old toast

How do you even go about getting a new song started? The days of having a big group of mates get an area going, from what I can tell, are long gone. If needs to be led

JW72 · Apr 7, 2019

alexis said:
To. Vuvuzella is to get kicked in the cock

Dougal said:
I’m sure that would sound classier in the original Latin.

Cacophony est cockagony

easley91 · Apr 7, 2019

guiltyparty said:
I miss the quirky player songs. “Stephen Carr my lord, Stephen Carr!”

Most of our sung songs don’t have a sense of humour, they’re dry as old toast

How do you even go about getting a new song started? The days of having a big group of mates get an area going, from what I can tell, are long gone. If needs to be led

Probably because these days it will offend one member of the PC brigade whatever is said

ebzrascal · Apr 7, 2019

dk-yid said:
Agree. More songs and better chants that can lift people. Plus build a culture of 'this is our place, we make the noise'.

I know a lot don't like the European model with drums and megaphones but what it can do is lift a crowd because someone takes the lead and picks a chant that suits the mood, nerves, feeling of the supporters and the run of play. Being at European games live - not just Dortmund - is for me a bigger crowd spectacle with a feeling of more support than what goes on in most PL stadiums bar a few (though when the WHL rocked it was second to none). It won't ever be and probably shouldnt be the culture in the PL and NWHL. But what I take from it is a group of 'leaders' on the South Stand who take initiative to lead on chants, and even push new ones in to the mix. And who don't give up whatever the score og performance.

I would like us to have an amazing anthem that we stand and sing before each game. Personally would choose "can't smile without you" which if sung by 60000 people with emotion and passion could really lift the team to a fast start. The club need to lead on this don't think it will happen organically...

riggi · Apr 7, 2019

Tyler24durden said:
It’s needs to be about the club, not a player so it is generational.

Like Liverpool’s you’ll never walk alone, West Ham’s bubbles.

You need something higher pitched like their songs as they always sound louder.

Alternatively a noise like millwall’s “mill” sound that goes on for ages, and is intimidating and is a droning sound.

It also needs to be easy to sing, not complicated.

Being a Yid is a great song and our chant Yids is very intimidating but I understand that not everyone will sing it.

We need something that everyone will sing.

Think we've nicked enough millwall chants!

riggi · Apr 7, 2019

ebzrascal said:
I would like us to have an amazing anthem that we stand and sing before each game. Personally would choose "can't smile without you" which if sung by 60000 people with emotion and passion could really lift the team to a fast start. The club need to lead on this don't think it will happen organically...

They have and did for our first game. It was alright to be fair.

Simply the best is quality at Rangers. It's not cringeworthy as everyone sings along. Never going to get the whole stadium singing at tottenham now. Too many wet flannels.

spids · Apr 7, 2019

Songs need to be catchy and sung by a small, committed group travelling to away games, on trains, in pubs etc. Then if it's good the away support will pick it up, and then it will start appearing at WHL.

Tonio · Apr 7, 2019

ebzrascal said:
I would like us to have an amazing anthem that we stand and sing before each game. Personally would choose "can't smile without you" which if sung by 60000 people with emotion and passion could really lift the team to a fast start. The club need to lead on this don't think it will happen organically...

I can't abide that song myself. Its just so so syrupy. It makes my teeth itch it really does.

sammyj · Apr 7, 2019

At the 81 cup final we was all outside Wembley waiting for the gates to open, when a British Airways plane flew over and being very drunk at the time I started singing the song from the advert fly the flag and with more people singing for some reason I started with Archibald and it just caught on.
When we got inside Wembley it was deafening , true story.

CoopsieDeadpool · Apr 7, 2019

Just use the fucking thread title, add the "he's one of our own" tune. Sorted.

We need better songs.
We need better So-ongs.
We're Tottenham Hotspur.
We need better songs.

riggi · Apr 7, 2019

I've heard our away ends are shit aswell now.

Sadly I think this issue can only be fixed when certain fans stop going.

Led's Zeppelin · Apr 7, 2019

sammyj said:
At the 81 cup final we was all outside Wembley waiting for the gates to open, when a British Airways plane flew over and being very drunk at the time I started singing the song from the advert fly the flag and with more people singing for some reason I started with Archibald and it just caught on.
When we got inside Wembley it was deafening , true story.

I was there too, in that group outside one of the gates when that happened, exactly as you describe it. I must have been standing about four feet away from you.

Honoured to meet you again!

spursgirls · Apr 7, 2019

southlondonyiddo said:
His name is Pochettino, he's the leader of the band
With Harry Kane at White Hart Lane, he's scoring for the fans
Dele Alli, Heung Min Son, Rosy, Winks and Jan
The famous Tottenham Hotspur are the finest in the land

Lalalalalar......

Trouble with that is as soon as one of the players leaves, it renders that verse unsingable.

spurs_girl_tasha · Apr 7, 2019

Paolo10 said:
More women at football, more children, too expensive to afford for most people who would likely go apeshit, match packages, wine and fucking cheese etc.

Football used to be for the working class, now most couldn't afford it. Now it's morphing more into a family day out, for the more fortunate classes.

How much was the cheapest ST?

Don't blame women, I sing and shout until my throat is practically bleeding. And last year I sat near other really loud (but rather annoying) women.

JCRD · Apr 7, 2019

I think im in the minority but I am not a big fan of singing about players... I love singing about the club but not so much the players.

Thats not to say I dont support the players because theyre ultimately playing for my club but in all honesty I just never have that affinity to sing about them.

So can we have more club songs please...

Kane is the only one ill sing about him and Lloris and Verts

Led's Zeppelin · Apr 7, 2019

JCRD said:
I think im in the minority but I genuinely hate singing about players... I love signing about the club but not so much the players.

Thats not to say I dont support the players because theyre ultimately playing for my club but in all honesty I just never have that affinity to sing.

So can we have more club songs please...

Kane is the only one ill sing about him and Lloris and Verts

In the space of one post you’ve gone from “never” to “Kane is the only one” to “..him and Lloris and Verts”.

By tomorrow you’ll be singing about every single one of them!

JCRD · Apr 7, 2019

Led's Zeppelin said:
In the space of one post you’ve gone from “never” to “Kane is the only one” to “..him and Lloris and Verts”.

By tomorrow you’ll be singing about every single one of them!

Hahaha - yorue right... as I was reading it back I was like, bloody hell are these players I wanna sing about or players I wanna bang

Nah in all seriousness, I think they have shown the loyalty so deserve singing about them but im just not someone who likes singing about players. Like the Dele song annoys the fuck out of me but love the jan jan jan toby toby toby song...

Anyways once and for all - I aint singing about players - bring me club songs...

si_yidarmy · Apr 7, 2019

In the Martin Jol era, I think that was the best era for chants (certainly in my Spurs life thus far)

What's that coming over the hill is it Chimbonda!
Jol, Jol, Martin Martin Jol, he's got no hair but we dont care, Martin Martin Jol
England's Number One (Robbo)
Oh Ledley Ledley, he's only got one knee
Dimitar Berbatovvvvv (same for Teemu Tainio)
One Michael Dawson (and Lennon)
Kabul, Kabul, Kabul is on fire
Oh Tommy Tommy
Benoit Assoouuuu Ekottttooooooo
Do do dooooo Didier Zakora
Jermaine Defoe, he's a Yido

Also the time we got back to Europe, I remember being at the West Brom game and the "We're all going on a European Tour" belted out in Park Lane for over 20 minutes

riggi · Apr 7, 2019

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