A friend of mine gave me a copy of this CD the other day, whilst I’d heard Paper Lace’s anthemic European Cup record, and dimly remembered the ‘Brian’ song from the 1991 FA Cup season, I hadn’t realised that Forest had been sufficiently inspirational to give rise to 20 odd tracks of largely dubious audio. I figured that if I hadn’t realised the breadth and sometimes sheer hilarity of some of these musical offerings, then the chances are many of our fans also hadn’t. A couple of listens and I can see why he wasn’t sad to lose the CD, however I do think there is a morbid fascination in the awful dirge that supporting a football team can inspire!
As such, I’m going to go through them periodically as I find the time – giving you the opportunity to listen to a wonderous and varied myriad of audio nastiness (for that is mostly what is on offer, I’m afraid!), which is perhaps both an opportunity to be amused, but also a timely reminder that generally speaking, football and music are two of life’s pleasures that should not be combined more often than not! We start with perhaps the one you will have heard before – since it is track one on the CD – click the play button below to relive the joys of “We’ve got the whole world in our hands” by Nottingham Forest FC and Paper Lace!
Filed under: Forest music
If you want a more modern Forest related song then check out http://www.myspace.com/martinvalentine . We did a song called ‘Do you believe?’ in the hope of making the play offs last season, and were in talks with the club about putting it out as the official anthem.
Sadly we didn’t quite make it so the song never saw the light of day! It was fun to do though – I hope you agree it sums up how we all felt about Megson, Cloughie and that so near yet so far run at the end of last season……..
Martin
Great! I shall have a listen when I get home
I too have a copy of this CD and as I work in the West Midlands it does meet with an ‘interesting’ response when it is put on the work CD player (Manager’s prerogative!!).
However, track 4 Vic Blakwell & Forest Supporters singing ‘Nottingham Forest’ leaves me open to derision and abuse…”Nottingham Forest are the Queens” indeed!
Songs for this season could be
“Road To Nowhere” by Talking Heads and
“Throwing It All Away” by Genesis
“Promised You A Miracle” by Colin Calderwood and Simple Minds.
“Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits (and all Forest season ticket holders)
“Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is” by Oasis and Mark Arthur
“Grinding Halt (or is that Holt?) by The Cure and Gary & Grant
“Never Let Me Down Again” by Depeche Mode
“Fanfare For The Common(s) Man” by ELP and our Kris
“That’ll Be The Day” by Buddy Holly and Forest’s promotion bid
“Under Pressure” by Queen & Bowie with all at NFFC
“The Impossible Dream” I have a version by Carter USM but I know it’s not the original!
“Promise Ain’t Enough” by Hall & Oates (that means you CC)
“Promise To Try” by Madonna (and Forest in the last 3 games)
“You Ain’t Going Nowhere” by The Byrds.
Is there a hint of sarcasm and a lack of confidence in there? You bet there is. Don’t let a late rally at Brentford cloud your judgement – we are unlikely to win all three games (can you really see us beating Orient?). In the play offs we will be so timid and negative that we will not even get to Wembley – let alone win the bloody thing.
“Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now!”
Gosh you grumpy bugger!
I am looking forward to adding the less-heard-of tracks and hearing the reactions of folks who’ve perhaps not heard them before. It’s a whole avenue of unexplored hilarity for me – so I can’t wait to see what other fans make of hearing them for the first time!
Excellent BarrowRed – v pessimistic (with probable justification methinks) but excellent nevertheless!
And to the bloke who sits in front of me in UBE and rushes off to beat the traffic (wot traffic??) I dedicate a Will Young song…. “Think I’d better leave right now”
Martin – had a listen, excellent stuff – certainly a big improvement on the majority of dross I shall be inflicting on the Forest supporting world over coming days!!