The Most (insert nationality here) Song Ever

[kasperhauser]

I was reminded of this song in an off-topic conversation and it inspired me to start a thread. Pick a country, pick a song, show us what "the real _____" is all about.

For my money, you can have your Yankee Doodle Dandies and your Star-Spangled Banners and your Born in the USAs; this is my nomination for The Most American Song Ever:

 

[foxwelljsly]

“A song about the North Texas South Oklahoma crystal meth amphetamine industry”

Brilliant. The electric version on The Heartless Bastards live album is even better.

 

[daytona600]

 

[Pravda]

I'm not a Scot, but wish I was sometimes

 

[les24preludes]

This is about as Welsh as it gets. Nice photos of Treorchy.

 

[les24preludes]

A nice Serbian kolo dance, like you find in the countryside for festivals. The fanfare usually sounds a lot like this.

 

[tiggers]

The most English song ever... this, as it conjures up my early youth growing up in South London perfectly.

 

[Rug Doc]

Waltzing Matilda.

 

[les24preludes]

Hard to pick a song for France but Baisers Volés comes close, aka Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours?

 

[Alex N]

I’m torn between Jacques Brel pouring his heart out after being dumped by his mistress…

…and unrelated 1989 Belgian techno anthem, ‘Pump Up The Jam’.

 

[les24preludes]

Contemporary France would be more like Christine and the Queens in best Franglais.....

 

[Pravda]

I'm half Irish, or a plastic paddy. We went to Galway on the the Harley a few years ago, and this happened to us (not this video, but very much like it)
After a few bands and singer had, had their go. At the end of the night, a man gets up on the microphone, and says" Please be upstanding for the National anthem"

Everyone stood, (and us of course) it bought a lump to me throat, as I could remember me dad singing it.

But this is what was playing when we walked in

 

[foxwelljsly]

Barnsley.

 

[Mr J]

Most Russian (in my rather limited experience) may be the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble singing Porushka

Any other ideas?

 

[Caliente]

Though Finns have a love of melancholic tango music, nothing unites them as much as their unofficial national anthem

 

[Caliente]

As for the Italians, they do appear to unite around

 

[les24preludes]

Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble are wonderful, and this is a must-hear..... The ensemble doing Stravinsky's Les Noces, which is another very Russian work.

And here's another very Russian piece of music - the Coronation scene from Boris Godunov.

 

[Bob McC]

Clifford T Ward Home Thoughts From Abroad
Sums up Englishness for me

 

[Mr J]

Most Spanish? Francisco Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra.

 

[Tony L]

Sleaford Mods Jobseeker. A quintessentially English song. Next up: anything by The Fall.