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The Star-Strangled Banner (NY Times Opinion Page Says the National Anthem is "Overrated")
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| 4/12/2006
| Lawrence Downes
Posted on 04/12/2006 11:20:33 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
Hmm. I'm torn on this one. I love what the Star Bangled Banner stands for. But I can't actually stand the song itself. I've always preferred both God Bless America and America the Beautiful. Maybe its from hearing the National Anthem butchered by so many performers.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:30:16 AM PDT
by
elc
To: basil
The only industry that insults and lies to its customers on a daily basis.
Antique Media Bump.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:30:43 AM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
To: Pyro7480
They would be very happy if The Star Spangled Banner was replaced with The Internationale.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:30:43 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: Pyro7480
Why is that a problem? The National Anthem is sung to the tune of an old English beer drinking song?
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:31:18 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: Quilla
As I'm reading this, I'm sitting about a half mile from Fort McHenry.
I wonder how people can NOT know enough American history to know what could have happened when Francis Scott Key wrote those inspiring words.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:31:54 AM PDT
by
quikdrw
(Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
To: Polyxene; Pyro7480
"America the Beautiful" is what I meant. And, Pyro, are you sure that tune is the same as God Save the Queen?
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:32:09 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
(Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
To: Pyro7480
For anyone still buying this lie-rag, another reason to cancel it.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:32:09 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Yo W! Read my lips: No Amnistia by any name! And the White House has a fence around it!)
To: Pyro7480
"Musically speaking, I'm not really a big fan of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner with its awkward prosody and melisma-clogged penultimate line, but the lyric does contain one big idea - that a "land of the free" has to be also, at some level, a "home of the brave". - Mark Steyn
It works for me.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:32:39 AM PDT
by
OkiMusashi
(Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
To: Pyro7480
"A recent Harris poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans don't even know the words....."Maybe one third knows the first verse. But there's no way one third knows the whole thing. (Admission: I am not even sure the second through fourth verses count as part of the "national anthem," though they are certainly part of the composition.)
The only problem with "America" is the tune is exactly the same as "God Save the Queen."
And the Star-Spangled Banner is exactly the same tune as "To Anacreon In Heaven."
To: Stone Mountain
America and My Country 'tis of thee are the same song.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:33:00 AM PDT
by
elc
To: Stone Mountain
"America" is the alternate title.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:33:10 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: Pyro7480
You are thinking of My Country Tis of Thee...
Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:33:40 AM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
To: Pyro7480
At least he didn't suggest the socialist anthem, "This Land is Your Land".
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:33:48 AM PDT
by
oblomov
(Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
To: rightinthemiddle
The folks at NYT hoped we would all be singing the Internationale by now. They have been pouting since the Berlin Wall fell and their dreams of the future crumbled.
To: sinkspur
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:34:03 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: Vision
In this case the point is an aesthetic judgment that has legitimacy. The Star Spangled Banner is a very bad piece of prosody. There are better songs to be the National Anthem and most have been mentioned in thi thread.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:34:40 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Pyro7480
NY Times stock is over valued.
To: Pyro7480
"The Star Spangled Banner" can bring chills to a grown man.
My favorite movie scene is from "Tora, Tora, Tora," where at morning raising of the colors, the band of the USS Arizona continues to play the National Anthem as Japanese bombers zoom by.
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:35:16 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(If we go to war with Iran, it shouldn't be much of a contest. Saddam licked them.)
To: Mikey_1962
"America" is the alternative title for "My Country Tis of Thee"
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posted on
04/12/2006 11:35:26 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: Pyro7480
My personal preference would be for "America, the Beautiful" (...from sea to shining sea). Reference version by Ray Charles. Sends chills down my spine every time I hear it.
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