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Not that we've heard it much this season but I'm constantly told that I should be embarrassed by the fact that QPR play goal music, other fans say that it kills the atmosphere or that it's only there to boost the "lack of noise". Doesn't bother me though I actually quite like it, I remember we sung it away at West ham and Wigan so I don't think I'm the only one but maybe that was more sarcastic?
When they score a goal the bloke comes on the mic to announce the goalscorer, then the crowd yell it back at him Bloke on mic: "The goalscorer for Palace, Peter Ramage" Bloke on mic: "Peter..." Chavs: "Ramage!"
When they score a goal the bloke comes on the mic to announce the goalscorer, then the crowd yell it back at him Bloke on mic: "The goalscorer for Palace, Peter Ramage" Bloke on mic: "Peter..." Chavs: "Ramage!"
Cringeworthy
That routine follows the playing of one piece of music, and is followed by a chorus of Glad All Over. Longing for the day a team kicks off and scores straight off while it's all going on.
That routine follows the playing of one piece of music, and is followed by a chorus of Glad All Over. Longing for the day a team kicks off and scores straight off while it's all going on.
I like our goal music.
I like it too. Although it was a bit embarassing at the playoff final when it was introduced as our "club anthem"
Bloke looked incredulous when he said "here are the words: duh duh duh duh hoops"
Goal music is absolutely terrible. The best sound in football is the roar that follows a goal (not quite as enjoyable when it's you conceding, mind). It just encourages people to stand there grinning like simpletons whilst they clap along and move their feet about a bit. Fuc k that - you've just scored - go mental. Right up there with cheerleaders at English grounds, small children slowly waving tatty flags as the players run out, those diabolically sh it lanky inflatable things that billow about with gas blowing inside them and half-ar sed pyrotechnics to great the teams as they run onto the pitch for the FA Trophy final in a 3/4 empty stadium. Sack the lot of it off and let the crowd generate the atmosphere. Say fu ck right off to modern football.
Cardiff City rekindle love affair with English Martin Samuel
In the 2002-03 season the club reached the second division promotion play-offs final, against Queens Park Rangers at the Millennium Stadium. It is the standard that these showpiece occasions are preceded by the National Anthem. “A traditional part of the pre-match build-up to finals,” was how John Nagle, the Football League spokesman, described it until his bosses scrapped it when Cardiff fans claimed to be affronted by the prospect of God Save the Queen being sung at an English league event.
The request was that it should be complemented by the Welsh National Anthem, Land of My Fathers, and when the Football League refused on the ground that God Save the Queen is the United Kingdom’s National Anthem and not only England’s – and therefore is applicable to all – it was warned that Land of My Fathers would be sung either way, over the anthem if necessary. Which, as the final was taking place in Cardiff, was no idle threat. Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly, got involved and, seeking a quiet life, the League abandoned the idea of anthems in favour of club songs.
Cardiff chose Men of Harlech, a rousing military march with hugely patriotic connotations. QPR went for Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag, a lively instrumental celebrating peg trousers, daft haircuts and the hybrid post-punk jazz scene, the playing of which has had little effect on nationalistic sentiments anywhere since 1981. So Cardiff sang: “March ye men of Harlech bold, Unfurl your banners in the field, Be brave as were your sires of old, And never let them yield.” And QPR went: “Toot, tootle-ty toot. Tootle-ty toot toot.”
To the surprise of few, Cardiff won promotion. "
Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
Surely that Norwich goal tune has to be one of the worst. Actually I think it is the worst. Seems to go on for ages.
The best after goal tune I heard was at Hayes many years ago. When they scored the theme tune to 633 Sqd piped up. Nobody sung to it, but it sounded impressive. The tune also came on as the team ran onto the field before the game.
Pigbag is getting pretty dated now (when did we start playing it anyway?) but my inner Joey Barton is oddly proud to have a decidedly weird 1983 post-punk-funk tune for a club anthem... it feels London-y for some reason.
Maybe it's time to replace it with some 23 Skidoo or ESG or Quango Quango...
Otherwise agree that goal music at other clubs is generally hideously forced and cringeworthy.
If we're going to have goal music then we have to stick with what we've got forever or lose face. I also think that it comes on just a tad too soon after the goal. A few more seconds delay for me to remain in la la land would be better.
I used to like it when I was younger. But now I'm an adult I find it moderately embarrassing. I want it ditched for nothing, we should be able to generate enough noise and get a fitting chant between us going. But I understand why many like it.
Pigbag is getting pretty dated now (when did we start playing it anyway?) but my inner Joey Barton is oddly proud to have a decidedly weird 1983 post-punk-funk tune for a club anthem... it feels London-y for some reason.
Maybe it's time to replace it with some 23 Skidoo or ESG or Quango Quango...
Otherwise agree that goal music at other clubs is generally hideously forced and cringeworthy.
+1
As a rule I'm anti goal music, but Pigbag at the time was a very cool track and I agree, reflects on us well as a club - especially as we've used it for years and stuck with it (and were never tempted to use the odious 90s remake by celebrity dj tw@t and Chelsea fan Paul Oakenfold like Boro)
Stick with it, it's been part of what we are for so long now it's almost 'retro goal music'
For those who've only ever heard 30 seconds - check this out - it sums up a brief but exciting mid 80s post-new romantic / pre-house & hip hop club scene very well:
Pigbag is getting pretty dated now (when did we start playing it anyway?) but my inner Joey Barton is oddly proud to have a decidedly weird 1983 post-punk-funk tune for a club anthem... it feels London-y for some reason.
Maybe it's time to replace it with some 23 Skidoo or ESG or Quango Quango...
Otherwise agree that goal music at other clubs is generally hideously forced and cringeworthy.
If memory serves me correctly we started singing it aroud the 94/95 season (presumably when the remix came out). I seem to recall singing it around the time that Magic Hat started so that places it in early 95. I don't think it became 'goal music' played by the club for a few seasons afterwards - late 90s?
The song (tune?) I'd like to see come back is the Steptoe and Son theme tune - was a bit on an anthem at away games in the late 90s I think but then died a death. Only time it seems to get a trot out is when I stick my Songs of QPR cd on (well it's not actually a cd it's been loaded into my iTunes but you know what I mean... in fact when I did so it came up as Genre: Religious Music. How true.).
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