#40 Scotland Scotland, Jason Scotland by Trinidad & Tobago Tartan Army Down 10 places, fading fast (like the T&T team) #27 Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmannby Tonedef AllStars Down 14 places. Ha ha ha! #17 Stan's World Cup Songby Stan Boardman Holding steady, down just two places #15 We Are the Champions (Ding A Dang Dong)by Crazy Frog Down four places #11 (Is This the Way To) The World Cup by Tony Christie Down three places #10 Hurry Up England by Sham 69 and The Special Assembly New entry! #9 Three Lions 06 by Baddiel & Skinner Up one place #8 World At Your Feet by Embrace Down five places
Stuck In The Middle With Roo by 4-5-1 available to download from iTunes now
If you thought Wayne Rooney's metatarsal injury was of little consequence outside the football world, think again. We reported on 29 April that 4-5-1 had been given a record deal to release their single Stuck In The Middle With Roo.
The deal was soon off though because later that day Rooney picked up
his injury against Chelsea and seemed to be out of the World Cup.
Stuck In The Middle With Roo by 4-5-1 available to download from iTunes now cont…
His surprise comeback against Trinidad and Tobago means the track is now available to download from iTunes. It seems the metatarsal injury has dashed 4-5-1's hopes of pop stardom rather than Rooney's World Cup dreams. Singer Ben Fielding
said: "Due to Rooney's injury a physical release didn't happen. We are
still trying to get a late release, but it is unlikely now."
The Top 40 is now overrun by World Cup songs. Here are the latest chart positions:
No.3 Embrace – World At Your Feet Up a whopping 35 places from last week's lame entry position. Who's buying it though? No.8 Tony Christie – (Is This The Way To) The World Cup Up three places. No.10 Baddiel & Skinner – Three Lions 06 NEW ENTRY for the Euro 96 classic. No.11 Crazy Frog – We Are The Champions (Ding A Dang Dong) NEW ENTRY. Thought it would chart higher than this, but glad it hasn't. No.13 Tonedef AllStars – Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann NEW ENTRY. Surprised it hasn't gone straight into the Top 5. No.15 Stan Boardman – Stan's World Cup Song Up four places on last week. Steady performance from Stan. No.30 Trinidad & Tobago Tartan Army – Scotland Scotland Jason Scotland NEW ENTRY for the Scottish underdogs. No.37 TalkSport AllStars – We're England NEW ENTRY for the radio station's lame effort.
Wot no Joe Fagin? The British public has no taste…
Far and away the best World Cup song, That's England Alright, hits the iTunes store today and to celebrate Joe Fagin and his chums have put together this ace video
Btw you can buy the tune here or pop down to your local CD store.
Budge up on the bandwagon it's Head The Ball with Think of England
The latest band to jump the World Cup song bandwagon is Head The Ball. The band hails from Stoke-on-Trent. The forces of the city's most famous sons - Robbie Williams and Sir Stanley Matthews -
have obviously combined to create this football-music fusion. I very
much doubt they are set for such stardom, but you can listen to their
song Think of England free of charge here and download it if you wish.
Think you have the talent to come up with the next World In Motion? If you do, head over to top viral website Kontraband, which has just launched a competition to find the best new World Cup songwriters.
All you have to do is write a footie anthem, make a video for it (as
low-budget as you like) and Kontraband's readers (there's a lot of them
– around 8 million a month, they claim) will vote on the best ones. Get
cracking…
Download The Tonedef AllStars' 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann' for just 20p!
That's right, pop pickers, Tesco's download website is offering The Tonedef AllStars' Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann for a bargain 20p
(!!!), making it the UK's cheapest ever download (not counting all the
free ones, of course). Apparently this is the only place you can
download the track at this knockdown price. Which is nice.
Just a quick
reminder that the best England World Cup song, Joe Fagin's That's England Alright (The Independent's Download of the Day, btw), is released today.
You can buy the CD single (which features the tremendous Glam Pub remix) in shops or order it online from HMV and Amazon.
It's also available as a download from Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Let's put Joe up where he belongs (oh, wrong Joe?)… at the top of the
charts again.
The Henrik Larsson Fanclub has done a song in tribute to their once-dreadlocked hero. I guarantee you won't hear a finer example of Euro powerpop (at least not today). You can check it out by visiting their MySpace site. All together now, 'Let's get excited, don't ever hide it… whisper his name… Henrik Larsson!'
Embrace flop, Stan settles for a mid-table position & Tony Christie soars like a dove… World Cup song chart update!
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Embrace's officially 'disappointing' England song, World At Your Feet zinged into the official Top 40 chart this weekend at a less-than-dazzling No.38. Oh dear :( •Tony Christie's less-than-original (Is This The Way) To The World Cup charted at a respectable 11, thereby smacking down Embrace in no uncertain terms. •Stan Boardman's Stan's World Cup Song also fared better than Embrace, entering at No.19.
World Cup songs: Mark Joseph boards the bandwagon with Bringing Back Those Memories
Singer-songwriter Mark Joseph is re-releasing his song Bringing Back Those Memories
for the World Cup on Monday, 12 June. His excuse is that it has been
used by both the BBC and Sky Sports on football features. A new
football-themed video has been recorded especially for the occasion.
Just like the official song by Embrace, Bringing Back The Memories has nothing much to do with football. Unlike the Embrace song it is a pretty decent tune. Click here to watch the video on Joseph's website.
Fifa is about to release a CD to accompany the 2006 World Cup. It's called Voices From the World Cup and it's rubbish. Two discs full of musical valium that has sweet FA to do with football. So you get the likes of Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton, Thank You by Dido, I Believe I Can Fly by
R. Kelly… you get the picture. Dreadful. If you've just had a lobotomy
and would like to pre-order this drivel (it's out in the UK on 5 June),
Amazon is the place to visit.
Italy's official World Cup song stinks: well, it is by a band named Pooh
Don't know how I missed this gem: Italy's official World Cup song is Cuore Azzurro (Blue Heart), a soft-rock masterpiece by a group called Pooh. Pooh! Awesome. Check out Pooh's website. In terms of childish jokes at the band's expense, I really don't know where to begin…
'Don't Tread' by the USA's Clint 'Deuce' Dempsey: takes rapping footballers to the next level
First there was John 'MC Isotonic' Barnes. Then came Peter 'Hot-stepper' Crouch. And somewhere in between, USA midfielder Clint 'Deuce' Dempsey showed them both why the British shouldn't really do hip-hop… subtle Nike product placement, boys [via World Cup Blog]
Unofficial Iran World Cup song, by Kaveh. Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter
Some dude called Kaveh has put together a song & video for Iran
(suddenly everyone's favourite dark horse, after they thrashed Bosnia
5-2 in a friendly this week). It's funky. I like it; you might like it
too. As if by magic, here it is…
For the masochists among you the video for the depressing official England World Cup song by Embrace is now online. You can watch the World At Your Feet video by clicking here.
Imagine that a wannabe tabloid glamour girl-cum-Big Brother contestant had collaborated with the least talented one out of Stock, Aitken & Waterman on a hastily produced England World Cup song.
Google Video has the new Crazy Frog single,We Are the Champions (Ding A Dang Dong)for
your viewing pleasure. The video, which features an army of red
football robots (a Communist allegory perhaps? Perhaps not…), is much
better than the song, but that's not saying much really, because the
song is pure Eurotrash, fit only for bargain bins and Room 101.
It had gone a bit quiet on the World Cup songs front, but it seems things are about to kick off again, big-style. Got a lot of time for this: I Am An England Fan by Sweet FA
(great name). The lads don't have a record deal, but you can download
an MP3 of the single, for just 79p, and also watch the admirably lo-fi
video for free on the Sweet FA website. Er, sweet.
Sweet shitting crikey. If you hear a song worse than this during
this summer's World Cup I'll be surprised. Carlos Daio finds himself in
various bits of Germany, rapping his little heart out over bontempi
synths. The thing is, Mr Daio raps slower than Turbo B (from Snap) and
Mr T put together. Bless him for trying though. Destined for a 9p bin
somewhere no doubt.
Retrospectives. We love 'em. This here is a little look at some of
the horrors that have dinked into the charts over the years… all in the
name of England and World Cup glory. Laugh at K Keegan taking the '82
song far too seriously! Weep as you watch Echo & The Bunnymen rub
shoulders with the Spice Girls! Scratch your head when you see Viv
Anderson singing a ballad…
World Cup songs: Maximus Dan's Fighter is official Trinidad and Tobago song
Call off the World Cup song contest - we might just have a winner. Trinidad and Tobago's official World Cup song is Fighter (aka Soca Warrior) by Maximus Dan (pictured).
You can listen to a clip of the song by going to Maximus Dan's website, clicking on albums, then Love Generation and scrolling down until you see Fighter.
Preview of Crazy Frog's World Cup song, We Are the Champions (Ding a Dang Dong)
Crazy Frog's 'eagerly' awaited version of Queen classic We Are the Champions (can't believe Queen - or whoever owns the rights to the song - has allowed this to happen, btw) is out on 5 June. If for some unknown reason you absolutely can't wait until then and want a sneak preview, click here.
William Hill has released odds on which World cup song will chart the highest (chart position on day of World Cup final):
EvensWho Do You Think You Are Kidding, Jurgen Klinsmann? by The Tonedef All-Stars 7/4World At Your Feet by Embrace
9/2We're England by The TalkSport All-Stars
8/1Time Of Our Lives by Il Divo
14/1Three Lions 06 by Baddiel & Skinner
25/1 Hurry Up England by Jimmy Pursey/Virgin Radio
33/1We Are The Champions by Crazy Frog
50/1 That's England Alright by Joe Fagin
50/1Eanie Meanie by Jim Noir
World Cup Song Contest: the odds cont…
Difficult to compete with the marketing power/reach of The Sun, so I can understand why Who Do You Think You're Kidding… is hot favourite. Interesting that Three Lions is still in the mix – I wasn't aware they'd re-released it, but the bookies fear that happening, obviously.
In terms of value, I think Crazy Frog is a cracking bet at 33-1. Seems v big price for an act that has already had a massive No.1 in this country.
Personally, I'm backing Joe Fagin's That's England Alright. It's the best song and is the real people's choice. 50-1 is an insult to Joe!
Strange that Tony Christie's Is This the Way to the World Cup? isn't mentioned. I would have thought that it had as good a chance as any song listed above?
England World Cup song no. 120,688: Pride of Lions
An eagle-eared Bratwurst reader has just alerted me to yet another England World Cup song, namely Pride of Lions, by, er, Pride of Lions. You can listen to it and, if you like what you hear, download it, by clicking on these words. It's certainly topical – the lyrics even mention metatarsals.
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? - the video
The Svenga Boys' World Cup song Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? seems to have divided opinion among Bratwurst
readers. Is it harmless fun or an old joke in bad taste? Anybody who
hasn't heard it before can now watch the video and judge for
themselves. It's not exactly tuneful, but it is for charity.
If you thought Wayne Rooney's metatarsal injury was of little consequence outside the football world, think again. We reported on 29 April that 4-5-1 had been given a record deal to release their single Stuck In The Middle With Roo.
The deal was soon off though because later that day Rooney picked up
his injury against Chelsea and seemed to be out of the World Cup.
