Celebrating National Anthems
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by Simon in Music
No doubt you’ve heard one or two renditions of Oh Canada or the Star Spangled Banner over the past few days. National anthems are great pieces of music, rarely appreciated outside of major sporting events.
Although I’m Canadian, I openly admit the Star Spangled Banner has been the impetus for some of the greatest covers in music history.
Gaye and Hendrix are two of my personal favourites, but when it comes to Oh Canada there simply seems to be no creative way to jazz it up. Our anthem works best as it was intended to — solemn, majestic and with grandeur. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if we could get a few artists to take creative liberty once in a while and not butcher it completely?
Blt
Jul 5th, 2010
And can you believe they wanted to change the words??
What prompted this early-hours patriotic post? Other than that G20 video
Anupa
Jul 5th, 2010
Dude that Marvin Gaye cover is my favski-so beautiful. Also, can we talk about how weird that patriotic chest flare-up is? And I’m not even patriotic- I swear it’s something in the chord progression.