Embrace 0, Kasabian 0
When they're not causing a riot in Stuttgart, English football fans take this World Cup shit pretty seriously. But here at Stereogum, we call it soccer, and we're much more interested in the soundtrack. So let's try to get this straight...
Embrace's "World At Your Feet" is the official theme?
Embrace - "World At Your Feet (Oakenfold Radio Edit)" (MP3 Link Expired)
But Kasabian's uninspired Bowie cover has become the unofficial theme?
Kasabian - "Heroes" (MP3 Link Expired)
Then there's Ricky's "But We Are England," but you can't play that on the radio? So they've split?
What about "Cup Your Balls"?
Bit dodgy innit? Maybe you readers across the pond can help sort out why Ghana rocks so much harder than you.
Posted at 12:50 PM in MP3
Tags: Kasabian
Jarvis should have written one.
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Is that Embrace song supposed to stutter like that? I saw them last year in San Diego in a community recreation room...About 100 people in the audience. The opening band was Long-View from Liverpool, they blew Embrace away.
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Stick to the New Order song from Italia 90.
G.
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The Sham 69 one is the only one worth listening to
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That sham 69 song is awful. People over the age of 25 should not do punk. Its for young stupid people, but thats why we love it.
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The Kasabian track is the theme music from one of our TV channels coverage - think it's better than that Embrace crap - but still not great. Looking forward to their new album though - anyone heard any rumours 'bout it or when it's oot?
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take a leaf out of gorilla vs bear's book and just show photos of soccer hotties in ze crowd.
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If by uninspired you mean so bland and unbecoming of the original that one can only pine for the days when MTV played the crap out of the Wallflower's mediocre cover, then yes, it's pretty uninspired.
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http://www.myspace.com/fryandwilson
A cover of the Shamen'srave classic 'Ebeneezer Goode' with lyrics about England rather than, er, Ecstasy you say?
It's awful too. But at least it's better than that rubbish from Embrace and Kasabian.
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i nominate Air Miami's "World Cup Fever" as the theme.
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Sham 69, Crazy Frog, Embrace, British Whales, Dashboard Confessional ("Reason To Believe" was the U.S. World Cup theme song, or so I heard) need to stop with this World Cup shitty theme song madness.
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"It's Raining Men" by Weather Girls should be the theme.
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hey MalWart I was at that same show at the epicentre. First time seeing Embrace after a long wait. I'm an old skool fan. They really are nice guys, there was more like 50 people in the room and they played like there were 5000. I like the world cup song but it might be a little too much heart&soul for some people.
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jim noir's 'eanie meanie' should be the official song.
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It's something of an English tradition to have utterly shite songs for the "official word cup song." New Order almost broke the tradition in 1990. Almost.
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Vindaloo anyone?
I suppose I can forgive it's awfulness seeing as it's a parody, but I still hate it with a passion. It always conjures up images of hairy, topless, beer bellied football supporters.
Ick.
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Kasbian's murdering of Bowie has not become any sort of unofficial theme whatsoever. It is merely the theme tune for ITV's appalling coverage. It makes me want to perforate my ear drums with a rusty nail.
The Embrace song has been relentlessly slagged off by absolutely everyone. But you know what, I think it's alright.
Watch the video (i.e. the un-oakenfolded version) here:
http://www.embrace.co.uk/worldatyourfeet/
185 other World Cup songs have been released in the last month. And they are all rubbish.
Cheers!
james headphonesex
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england's "anthems" are lame as hell because a) the fans who find football to be synonymous with drinking (like normal people, not just those old twats who think they have an excuse to bash the shit out other fans in the name of patriotism) are probably too inebriated to give two tits and b) the fans who don't find football to be synonymous with drinking like james blunt.
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I got really drunk one time and called this one dude Kasabian for like an hour, thinking that was his his actual name. Nobody said anything because they thought it was funny.
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'Three Lions' by Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds is still by far and away the only genuinely good World Cup song, and any self-respecting Brit would agree with me.
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hahahahahaha the post three posts above me is hilarious. In other news kasabians heroes is shit and could never have been good, it is impossible to do better than bowie, at anything. Three lions is the only world cup song that is worthy of being played outside of the world cup. Embrace's makes me cringe if your going to do a world cup song it either has to be amazing or so shit that its good, the world at your feet is neither.
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I am surprised no one has mentioned why Ghana rocks more than the UK. The sun helps our brain grow which in turns makes us more skillful than the British. Its all about the West Africans.
You should try living in the UK and not supporting them. Its fooking hard I tell you, so I just keep it to myself. Na'mean.
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hahahahahaha the post three posts above me is hilarious. In other news kasabians heroes is shit and could never have been good, it is impossible to do better than bowie, at anything. Three lions is the only world cup song that is worthy of being played outside of the world cup. Embrace's makes me cringe if your going to do a world cup song it either has to be amazing or so shit that its good, the world at your feet is neither. Instead it falls painfully short of amazing like a drunk uncles' joke.
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