We’re now onto the really dubious musical detritus that our beloved Reds have inspired. This little number is contributed to us courtesy of a chap called Vic Blackwell, and ‘Forest fans‘ whoever they might be. We are returning back to the late 70′s/early 80′s so plenty of references to the European Cup winning team. Vic Blackwell himself is presumably responsible for the dubious Brian Clough impersonation that forms the lead vocals, whilst the Forest fans comprise of patrons of numerous fictitious pubs as well as a girls and boys choir to boot.
This song very much belongs in the ‘best forgotten’ camp of music, particularly the sections featuring a very camp sounding group of fans proclaiming themselves as queens, and a rather politically non-correct tribal contribution from a group of ‘fans’ from a pub called ‘The Shrunken Head!’ Despite all this, if you can tolerate listening to the song right until the end, the track does redeem itself slightly with a not-so-sly dig at Liverpool FC, which is nice for those of us who remember a time when we were often rightfully uttered in the same breath as the regrettably more-illustrious Reds of Merseyside.
I’m not sure whether the photograph is the actual Vic Blackwell featured on the record, but I hope so as I found it quite amusing! The song is simply entitled ‘Nottingham Forest‘ – enjoy!
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I did warn you about this, NFFC!
I was hoping you would skip straight to ‘Forest Fire’. Now 30 years after it’s release that song still gets me going.
“When things were tough, in walked Clough
He’s not the same, he knows the game.
He’s lit the fire,
We’re climbing higher.
That fire, fire, fire he started….
Forest fire, Forest fire,
We are climbing higher and higher”
Marvellous. A work of genius.
Arf. It’s keeping me entertained though – checking through my tracklist, you have to wait until part 11 until you get the glory that is Forest Fire!
Vic is responsible for many of the vocals on the track, including Brian Clough impression, scouse accent at the end, the conductor (at the start), the patrons of “The Queens”. He wrote, recorded and produced all of the track single handedly, and played all of the instruments. He did similar tracks for many teams in the 80′s including Wrexham, Liverpool, Middlesborough, Arsenal etc.
Wow, I was surprised Forest had inspired so much musical dedications, but WREXHAM?!