What are the most beautiful national anthems in your opinion?

[curupira]

The British "God save the Queen" is one of the most beautiful IMO. How about yours?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEphmIqtjM

[Leadchucker]

http://youtu.be/gtCOprRDUm8

[Armand_Duval]

La Marseillaise.

[Damião de Góis]

Germany and Russia

[Veneda]

Poland


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsWz9SlpfA

[RussiaPrussia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq8OEmOdBAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boxO0t5qe_I

[dado]

bosnian war anthem

called flag of islam we wave


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k5OaMdiPcE

[Anglojew]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMuf8wE52k

The Australian anthem is very disappointing.

Some alternatives;

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/ag-blog/2011/01/top-10-classic-aussie-songs/

[Veneda]

This is our hussaria anthem


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3it4piK4

[Furnace]

I haven't heard a lot of anthems though, but so far:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeBYqL8nuSw

[Damião de Góis]

I must say i prefer the german anthem without words:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlo0Ys1VNw

I think musically, it has no rival.

[Yehiel]

Israel
Hatikvah


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjfFpFW9OdA

as a Jew it touches my heart

[Tacitus]

I like the Romanian anthem, sounds very heroic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bVcJ_TXn4I

[Acquisitor]

I must say i prefer the german anthem without words:

I think musically, it has no rival.

yes I like that one as well, its one of the best, however the instrumental version of the russian anthem is not too bad either


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmbAxwPjYU

[Veneda]

I must say i prefer the german anthem without words:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlo0Ys1VNw

I think musically, it has no rival.

I am disapointed for some reason, but let it be.

Well, Nemcy, they are not able to speak in any Slavic languages. 'Niemiec'/German means mute, speachless to Slavs, unable to speak in Slavic language. What heroes for Iberians LOL :)

[Shah-Jehan]

I may be biased but "O' Canada" was rated as one of the best national anthems (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/16/best-national-anthem_n_1282311.html) I agree as well. The melody is very harmonious and the feelings really strong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDvF0NtgdU

[curupira]

The Scottish anthem "Flower of Scotland" is one of the most beautiful too IMO.

live in the stadium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfRQDIEXxc&feature=related

lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YhtLXry60

bagpipes version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_6h8UZihU8

[Damião de Góis]

I am disapointed for some reason, but let it be.

Well, Nemcy, they are not able to speak in any Slavic languages. 'Niemiec'/German means mute, speachless to Slavs, unable to speak in Slavic language. What heroes for Iberians LOL :)

It's a beautiful melody. Maybe you don't like it for political reasons? I just mean the music in a abstract way, disconnected from politics or countries.

[Dandelion]

After years of hearing national anthems, I think they sound too bombastic.

[Weedman]

the real God Save the Queen


http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk

[portusaus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHF0zNHJ_qE

[Veneda]

It's a beautiful melody. Maybe you don't like it for political reasons? I just mean the music in a abstract way, disconnected from politics or countries.
Taste is taste and it is very subjective matter :)

[Dandelion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHF0zNHJ_qE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqXsf7BeBM

[curupira]

Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, it has beautiful both melody and lyrics... lyrics by Rabindranath Tagore.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yMvU73Wr7Q&feature=related

[Manifest Destiny]

Norway.


http://youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE

[roro4721]

This is the Armenian one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-oGr2axXbE

Our fatherland, free and independent,
That has lived for centuries
Calls on its children now,
Free independent Armenia.

Here brother, for you a flag,
That I made with my hands
At nights I did not sleep,
I washed it with tears.

Look at it, in three colours
It is our gifted symbol.
Let it shine against the enemy.
Let Armenia always be glorious.

Everywhere death is the same
A man will only die once
But fortunate is he
who dies for the freedom of his nation.

[bot]

Germany and Russia

Es um traidor, pa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrYBKdirQ0

http://www.doriopromundo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bandeira-PT.jpg

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[Hàkon]

Perhaps not the most beautiful, but I like Nepal's the most, I have to admit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZvqTY4-PQ

Instrumental, orchestrated version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxxXctHOpfE

[curupira]

La Marseillaise (from France) is also one of the most beautiful IMO.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpS6b99h2B0

[oh-nahhh]

The one that goes: du du du dudu du du du dudu dudududu dud du du dudu du du

[michelle]

Marvin Gaye!!


http://youtu.be/M8Z60CT6sLA

[Steve-O]

Cant say I've heard many to really judge but I know I love the star spangled banner.

[Tacitus]

The best IMO, from Montenegro:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UFWIv-0VRc

[PolishAmerican190]

Borat - kazakhstan is no doubt the best!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZxVubqERk

[LightHouse89]

I concur:thumb001:

[Vullkan]

the best known anthem in the world is the Scottish anthem its the most unique althoutgh there is not an official Scottish anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axGiXu_v1pM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28is4jFWeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A9rtg0iI

[Vullkan]

If this song was irish anthem it would probably be the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iC5L79J9dc

[zhaoyun]

Representing for my East Asian brethren, a Korean song.

Arirang - Not Korea's anthem, but a traditional Korean folk song that symbolizes the yearning for unity between the Koreas. A beautiful song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8ZVROMmMQ

[Kami]

Representing for my East Asian brethren, a Korean song.

All two of us - hear hear lol

The Japanese anthem is nice as it is based off a very old poem. It has the oldest lyrics of any anthem. I like thinking about that and thinking how we've been a nation, together for so long.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FFHC2D12Q

[Ivan Kramskoï]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC52cUP2PVo

[zhaoyun]

All two of us - hear hear lol

The Japanese anthem is nice as it is based off a very old poem. It has the oldest lyrics of any anthem. I like thinking about that and thinking how we've been a nation, together for so long.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FFHC2D12Q

I like the Japanese anthem too. Very solemn and noble. Like the Japanese national spirit. We need to get a good looking Korean guy in here, so we can complete the East Asian triumvirate. LOL

I like this version of Arirang better, more traditional.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MDBeCCpX4

[Rudel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZaOpxpxvs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BrALNh_o4

The daddy of all the "God save the king"-type anthems in Europe (Britain, Russia, Prussia...).

[gültekin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrfrRY7eZPM

Don't be afraid, this red flag swaying in the horizon won't fade away;
Before the last hearth that is burning in my nation vanishes.
It is my nation's star, it'll glow;
It is mine, it is my nation's only.

Oh coy crescent do not frown for I am ready to sacrifice myself for you!
Smile upon my heroic nation, why that anger, why that rage?
If you frown, our blood shed for you will not be worthy. ,
Freedom is the right of my nation who worships God and seeks what is right.

[Vullkan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrfrRY7eZPM

Don't be afraid, this red flag swaying in the horizon won't fade away;
Before the last hearth that is burning in my nation vanishes.
It is my nation's star, it'll glow;
It is mine, it is my nation's only.


Oh coy crescent do not frown for I am ready to sacrifice myself for you!
Smile upon my heroic nation, why that anger, why that rage?
If you frown, our blood shed for you will not be worthy. ,
Freedom is the right of my nation who worships God and seeks what is right.


Ersoy was born as Mehmet Akif in Fatih, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire in 1873 to a conservative family, the son of İpekli Tahir Efendi (1826-1888), an Albanian from İpek district born in the village Shushica of Istok, the turkish anthem was made by an albanian.

[zhaoyun]

Not an anthem. But a song about ethnic pride.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UMACdfyZw

[Vorpal]

Oh noes, none, hate them all tbh.

[curupira]

I like the Japanese anthem too. Very solemn and noble. Like the Japanese national spirit.

The melody sounds very different to me.

[Smaug]

The Brazilian, Japanese and Israeli are nice. I don't like "God Save the Queen", it is more dedicated to the monarch than to the country and people.

[gültekin]

Ersoy was born as Mehmet Akif in Fatih, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire in 1873 to a conservative family, the son of İpekli Tahir Efendi (1826-1888), an Albanian from İpek district born in the village Shushica of Istok, the turkish anthem was made by an albanian.
that's doesn't matter,just makes us more alpha :D yes he was ethnically an Albanian, but even much more Turkish nationalist.

[Linet]

I dont know how the Greek one sounds to foreigners :music-smiley-004: but i love the anthem http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/music/m0862.gif of Israel :rose:.... i have heard almost all the anthems, none even compares :no000000:

[Ice]

Russia, Germany, Italy

[Kiyant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhh8VxBAX28
I love all Turkic anthems (except Türkmenistan) but the Crimean Tatar is the best also i like the Russian and Afghan ones

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

I dont know how the Greek one sounds to foreigners :music-smiley-004: but i love the anthem http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/music/m0862.gif of Israel :rose:.... i have heard almost all the anthems, none even compares :no000000:

I have to admit its very beautiful. I'd vote for this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjfFpFW9OdA

[Linet]

...and the Albanian flag is a Greek medieval symbol....this isnt the place to disagree about symbols.... if you want, we can go all the balkanetes to another thread and beat up each other....http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/quarrel/m1147.gif

Next comment about ethnicities and are all deleted...

[Harrow]

The greatest Empire of all time:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PxtUxpMOs

(Unofficial):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6GpFdmooLE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9H2dk_qgY

[Borna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lvHpkndatM

[Graus]

Germany and....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BulFwGSi8bc

[Seraph of the End]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMBbkjMM8p8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzHlSLhtmM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWIjgWDesE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kc1tafaz4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDmsIMwQX8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsBFZTlVojY

This one is not the real anthem, but I always loved it :) (it's very patriotic :p) + (this is the only video that has lyrics in English)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvCP8GEQ9gI

[allalor]

Germany and Russia

Amen

[oh-nahhh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fqJNhox30

[curupira]

The anthem of the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889) was also a good one IMO:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XADeYFJuxlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIR1iUpwZhs

[Insuperable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjqgLZ7fZY4

[1stLightHorse]

This should be the national anthem. It's a folk song about the australian spirit & identity. Being genuine, making-do with what you have, persevering through hardship, not selling out, being loyal. The same spirit that made a bunch of northern europeans survive in a totally alien climate without any establishment or help, pushing through unchartered terrains with no food, no water, no infrastructure, no radios, no help at all.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHuomgXZrtM



Hey True Blue, don't say you've gone
Say you've knocked off for a smoko
And you'll be back la-ater on
Hey True Blue, Hey True Blue

Give it to me straight, face to face
Are you really disappearing
Just another dying race
Hey True Blue

True Blue, is it me and you
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a cockatoo
Is it standin' by your mate when he's in a fight
Or just Vegemite
True Blue, I'm asking you

Hey True Blue, can you bear the load
Will you tie it up with wire
Just to keep the show on the road
Hey True Blue
Hey True Blue, now be Fair Dinkum

Is your heart still there?
If they sell us out like sponge cake,
Do you really care?
Hey True Blue

[wvwvw]

The U.S. anthem by far. I always turn up the volume it when it plays. :p

[Vasconcelos]

(Unofficial):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6GpFdmooLE

Land of Hope and Glory is just...glorious. I absolutely love that one.