The BBC World Service World's favourite song

December 12, 2002 5:41 PM

The BBC World Service are searching for the World's favourite song. If hundreds of Irish students have their way it'll be the kitschy rebel song A Nation Once Again but by the look of the contenders they'll have a fight on their hands.

What would your choice be?
posted by stunned (26 comments total)

not after i post this link onto a celtic fan site they wont !
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:52 PM on December 12, 2002

No Stairway? Denied!
posted by Stan Chin at 5:53 PM on December 12, 2002

(My Girl Likes to) Party All the Time, by Eddie Murphy
posted by Zombie at 6:04 PM on December 12, 2002

Las Ketchup!!!
All together!
"Asereje' ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva/Majavi an de bugui an de buididipi/Asereje' ja de je' de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva/Majavi an de bugui an de buididipi/Asereje'..."
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:07 PM on December 12, 2002

Green Sleeves. No, really.
posted by the fire you left me at 6:28 PM on December 12, 2002

Zombie, if it's gotta be Eddie Murphy, can't it at least be "Boogie in Your Butt"?
posted by argybarg at 6:43 PM on December 12, 2002

Pachelbel's canon
posted by JohnR at 6:50 PM on December 12, 2002

world's favorite song? lets hope it's "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns" by The Cramps.

put a bikini girl...in ya butt!
posted by mcsweetie at 6:56 PM on December 12, 2002

Let the eeeeeeeaaaagle sooooaaaaaaar....
posted by George_Spiggott at 7:09 PM on December 12, 2002

Tusk!
posted by darkpony at 7:53 PM on December 12, 2002

kick out the jams. mc5.
posted by quonsar at 8:00 PM on December 12, 2002

They should get in touch with Komar & Melamid...
posted by Vidiot at 11:00 PM on December 12, 2002

Pac-Man Fever anyone? Have greater lyrics ever been written?
posted by samuelad at 11:10 PM on December 12, 2002

"BBC World Service is 70 years old and to celebrate we are launching a unique quest to find the world's favourite song."

What a strange non sequitor.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 11:30 PM on December 12, 2002

I dunno - what's the anthem for Scientology?
posted by ao4047 at 11:39 PM on December 12, 2002

this has happened before - irish people got relatively unknown irish soccer player Ronnie O'Brien voted as Juventus' player of the year a while back. The same guy was also nearly voted in as Times Person of the Century. Full story here

posted by kev23f at 1:21 AM on December 13, 2002

*thinking through fingertips*
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Hell Yes I Cheated - Johnny Adams
Bop Gun - Parliament
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me - Bullmoose Jackson
Party Dolls and Wine - Country Dick Montana
(stop me when I get to one you like)
posted by planetkyoto at 1:45 AM on December 13, 2002

er....keep going.
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:11 AM on December 13, 2002

There simply has to be a David Hasslehoff song we can all vote for. Can we? Please? Oh go on you know you want to...
posted by vbfg at 2:30 AM on December 13, 2002

The winner will be Abba's Dancing Queen. Resistance is futile.

Me? Torn between Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Parliament's "Flashlight".

la da da dee da da da da da da da

Nope, I've decided. Flashlight. Definitely.
posted by dglynn at 3:55 AM on December 13, 2002

devil went down to georgia
...no?

ok
we will rock you!
posted by pekar wood at 4:14 AM on December 13, 2002

Actually, Sarge, I think I'd better stop.
posted by planetkyoto at 4:36 AM on December 13, 2002

Actually, Sarge, I think I'd better stop.
dglynn, I recently went to a dance party at a friend's place in Osaka, and so I brought my Best of Parliament CD (a.k.a. Instant Party, just add alcohol). All the guys who were running the music were friends of mine and all were African-American. They flat refused to even consider playing as much as one track. Toss another shovelful of dirt on the white boy.
posted by planetkyoto at 4:48 AM on December 13, 2002

kev23f:this has happened before - irish people got relatively unknown irish soccer player Ronnie O'Brien voted as Juventus' player of the year a while back. The same guy was also nearly voted in as Times Person of the Century.

I remember that and when Time rigged the vote people started to vote for Dustin the turkey (a sarcastic puppet from Irish children's TV), despite Time magazines best efforts he almost won.

I wonder what is it about otherwise sensible media organisations that they keep leaving themselves open to this kind of prank? (not that I'm complaining)
posted by stunned at 4:55 AM on December 13, 2002

If Cher actually wins, it will be the strongest case yet for human extinction.
posted by BobFrapples at 9:31 AM on December 13, 2002

kyoto - how bout ' i wanna testify' ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 8:57 AM on December 14, 2002