When You're Smiling before kick off.

[Swalshed]

Whether you like the JB version or not, on Thursday night it was loud and proud and that's what really matters, isn't it? Massively helped by the SK1 singers together too, of course. 

 

Has the potential for it to catch on in the rest of the ground too and then the whole country will know it's our song.

[Vlad the Fox]

Also just because they play JB before kick off doesn’t mean the older version can’t be sung during the the match as it was Thursday.

 

[smudger63]

2 hours ago, Plastik Man said:

It's out song. It's not really an anthem, doesn't need to be, and shouldn't try to be. 

 

I think the problem is most of our fans haven't a musical note in their body! 🤣 

 

Jersey Budd's version is awful, he manages to butcher both the melody and the phrasing. It took me a few moments on Thursday night to recognise the song!

 

But if that's what it takes to restore WYS as our song, then I'm OK with that, I'd rather have that than not. 

 

It's our song. I love the fact it evokes emotions - smiling, laughing, crying - although Budd does somehow manage to flatten those dynamics into a soulless dirge 😬

The thing is, if they are happy to play the Jersey Budd version, then why not play one of the older versions instead, that we grew up with when singing it on the terraces.  The Jersey Budd dirge is so slow that you need it playing in the background to follow the tempo, well playing one of the older, better and proper versions would have the same effect on the tempo that our fans sing it at as well, and be a 100 times better.

I know its not going to happen though, and i suppose we will have to put up with the jersey budd dirge, which i suppose is marginally better than nothing.

 

 

Edited 1 May 2022 by smudger63

[Hollism]

3 hours ago, smudger63 said:

marginally better than nothing

[smudger63]

2 hours ago, Hollism said:

[Merging Cultures]

It sounded brilliant on the TV.

 

How they keep it up.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

10 hours ago, iancognito said:

It's somewhere in between the two though. The one sung in the terraces for a couple of decades isn't as slow as the Armstrong one and old Louis never had any wiggly hand movements either but the Jersey Budd one isn't what we've tradionally sung over the years and I remember quite a few people screwing their toes into the floor when the club first forced it down people's necks about ten years ago. The guy's like some sort of budget Ed Sheeran & turned a terrace anthem into Weller-esque dad rock.

Don't get me wrong, having any WYS version is better than the pounding ear-splitting dance shite drowning out whatever your mate next to you is saying it's just not the terrace version I grew up with.

But unfortunately like I said after PSV, if the previous generations were that bothered about WYS they wouldn't have let it die out, and the Jersey Budd version would never have been needed. 

[Guest David Oldfields Gate]

9 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said:

Also just because they play JB before kick off doesn’t mean the older version can’t be sung during the the match as it was Thursday.

 

Exactly. 

[HybridFox]

55 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

But unfortunately like I said after PSV, if the previous generations were that bothered about WYS they wouldn't have let it die out, and the Jersey Budd version would never have been needed. 

 

It's not unheard of either 

 

Man City use a rocked up version of Blue Moon these days.

 

Man Utd play a revamped version of Glory Glory Man Utd.

 

As long as fans can sing along, should anyone really care?

[Ian Nacho]

I feel like they need to re-record/remaster the JB version without the players singing along. Can’t get the image of Wayne Brown and Richie Wellens singing along out of my head when I hear it. 

[Trev3939]

Anyone know where I can listen to todays, thought it was the one positive of the match 

[funkyrobot]

JB needs to record a new more up tempo version IMO. 

[Unabomber]

Embarrassing today. I stand in the kop and so many were just sitting down during this. Makes us look even more tinpot. Can we really not just get behind a 30sec pre match song? Yet those siting during this were bouncing like nutters with the goal music. Sums it up.

[SemperEadem]

7 minutes ago, Trev3939 said:

Anyone know where I can listen to todays, thought it was the one positive of the match 

 

[Muzzy_no7]

5 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Embarrassing today. I stand in the kop and so many were just sitting down during this. Makes us look even more tinpot. Can we really not just get behind a 30sec pre match song? Yet those siting during this were bouncing like nutters with the goal music. Sums it up.

80% of the Kop has been an embarrassment ever since 2002.

 

Doesnt deserve to be called a Kop. 

[Mike Oxlong]

8 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

JB needs to record a new more up tempo version IMO. 

Sounds about as smiley as being at a funeral. Dreadful. 

[Batfink77]

You have to take a realistic look at the modern premier league football fan base. Football in this country has become increasing soulless with people sat on their blummin phones and there just to fill up their social media with their pics and vids so their chums can see what busy lives they have. Actual interest in the football and getting behind the team comes secondary to so many.  I'm afraid us lot who want to properly  chant and properly care are now actually in the minority.   The club is struggling to find a balance between this new bland supporter approach and the old (thats us).  They are trying to get people to sing whilst also actually listening to the proper fan base. The JB version is therefore such a balanced compromise and so I welcome it. At least he's a leicester lad so it draws in another connection.  If we can get these social media, sit on their bums lot to at least join in a little then who knows...Next time they might start joining in with the size of cags' appendage or telling maguire to go away.  You never know..

Edited 8 May 2022 by Batfink77

[worth_the_wait]

I think the JB version has got legs.    We just need to give it a bit of time, and loving tender care.

[Getin]

Alternatively could play it at the end of the match? - perhaps not a good idea after all

[smudger63]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

80% of the Kop has been an embarrassment ever since 2002.

 

Doesnt deserve to be called a Kop. 

Ive said this before, but the myth that our kop has ever been an all singing all dancing utopia, is exactly that, a myth!

Even in Filbert street days, you didnt get everyone in "the kop" all singing.

Certainly once they penned it off into 4 pens, it tended to be pen 3 behind the goal where the singers went, with other pens joining in when the mood took them.

Then when they started using pen 1 for the away fans, pen 2 became popular with silly sods like me, that wanted to sing, and have banter with the away fans while dodging flying coins, and eyeballing an away fan and inviting him to exchange pleasantries after the game.  Pen 3 tended to be for the singers who were happy to stay away from the silly sods and banter and flying coins  of pen 2.  Pen 4 was generally for those that joined in the singing when the mood took them.

So what im trying to point out, is that i cant personally remember a time when every one in "the kop" was a singer.

What it did have, is areas that we could go in where we knew what we were getting. pen 2 for the silly sods and singers, pen 3 for the sensibles and singers, and pen 4 for the i will sing when i feel i want too fan.

Of course we dont have that now because we dont have unrestricted seating, and so its more mixed up.

[Foxin_Mad]

I hate that ****ing shitey dance track they play a full pelt before, what even the fook is that? It's not even a good track and I like dance! 

 

Bring back Kasabian. 

[worth_the_wait]

25 minutes ago, smudger63 said:

Ive said this before, but the myth that our kop has ever been an all singing all dancing utopia, is exactly that, a myth!

Even in Filbert street days, you didnt get everyone in "the kop" all singing.

Certainly once they penned it off into 4 pens, it tended to be pen 3 behind the goal where the singers went, with other pens joining in when the mood took them.

Then when they started using pen 1 for the away fans, pen 2 became popular with silly sods like me, that wanted to sing, and have banter with the away fans while dodging flying coins, and eyeballing an away fan and inviting him to exchange pleasantries after the game.  Pen 3 tended to be for the singers who were happy to stay away from the silly sods and banter and flying coins  of pen 2.  Pen 4 was generally for those that joined in the singing when the mood took them.

So what im trying to point out, is that i cant personally remember a time when every one in "the kop" was a singer.

What it did have, is areas that we could go in where we knew what we were getting. pen 2 for the silly sods and singers, pen 3 for the sensibles and singers, and pen 4 for the i will sing when i feel i want too fan.

Of course we dont have that now because we dont have unrestricted seating, and so its more mixed up.

Absolutely spot on.

 

I couldn't be arsed with lobbing coins at the away fans, so remaining a pen 3 lad.  

 

We had a great mob at the back of pen 3, and gave West Ham a real good kicking when they tried to take it in 1978-79.

 

If I remember rightly .. late 1970's ... Brauny had a good presence in pen 4, Loughborough in pen 3, and the rest of the Leicester estates in pen 2.  

 

Great days!

[Ian Nacho]

We’ve started playing sweet Caroline pre-match (which is tinpot in itself) and people get more up for that then when you’re smiling. Embarrassing. 

[smudger63]

31 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

Absolutely spot on.

 

I couldn't be arsed with lobbing coins at the away fans, so remaining a pen 3 lad.  

 

We had a great mob at the back of pen 3, and gave West Ham a real good kicking when they tried to take it in 1978-79.

 

If I remember rightly .. late 1970's ... Brauny had a good presence in pen 4, Loughborough in pen 3, and the rest of the Leicester estates in pen 2.  

 

Great days!

There were also many a coming together of council estates in the kop too. We`ve always been a fan base that fights with their own!  Also remember bonfires in the kop back in the day too.  My god could you imagine the headlines now. 

[HybridFox]

5 hours ago, worth_the_wait said:

I think the JB version has got legs.    We just need to give it a bit of time, and loving tender care.

I think the club will till the end of the season. But then have a corporate brainfart over the summer and bring that psychedelic disco music back

Edited 9 May 2022 by TK95