[Archived] Which songs do you associate with Rovers?

[Doug]

Karl Orf Oh Fortuna ?

That's the one, cheers. just checked it on you tube.

[Rovers_Dan]

Mik Artistik - 'Cancers Killing Me'

[perthblue02]

For me it's mainly a lot of old punk songs with a lot of New Order and Cabaret Voltaire thrown in that remind me of Rovers away trips in the eighties and nineties , whoever was driving had control of the car stereo luckily people I went with all had similar taste in music .

Anyone remember the record (small round plastic thing for younger members of the board )that the Rovers squad released in the 70's ? (might have been the promotion winning team) , not sure what it was called (fading memory) but words were something like " No matter where we're playing no matter who we play , good old Blackburn Rovers , best team on the day, no matter if winning many miles from home"; blah blah forgot the rest , but I seem to remember it was a very northern brass band type thing. There was also a single released by a Blackburn band called Frenzy I think in the early mid 80's about Rovers

[Neil Weaver]

Anyone remember the record (small round plastic thing for younger members of the board )that the Rovers squad released in the 70's ? (might have been the promotion winning team) , not sure what it was called (fading memory) but words were something like " No matter where we're playing no matter who we play , good old Blackburn Rovers , best team on the day, no matter if winning many miles from home"; blah blah forgot the rest , but I seem to remember it was a very northern brass band type thing. There was also a single released by a Blackburn band called Frenzy I think in the early mid 80's about Rovers

(Looks in the record collection)......'By Gum We'll Make It A Day' by the Rovers squad and Eagley Prize Band and the B side 'Come On The Rovers' by the Blackburn End Choir.

[perthblue02]

(Looks in the record collection)......'By Gum We'll Make It A Day' by the Rovers squad and Eagley Prize Band and the B side 'Come On The Rovers' by the Blackburn End Choir.

Thats the one, thought it was called something cheesy like that. If I remember rightly it was a pretty thick piece of vinyl , label was whiteish with black writing.

[broadsword]

Status Quo "Down Down"

[JC4LAB]

Remember the days of Ribbledale lucky if you get there coaches. TOTP songsTV commericials and Jingles with a Rovers theme added sung by Rovers supporters at the time

1 Come on without come within you not see nothing like...

2.If I had the wings of an angel,the dirt.....

3.David Bowies Laughing Gnome song..I was walking dowen the highstreet when i heard footsteps behind me..

Dozens more...

[rog of the rovers]

A while back I made a playlist of ''Rovers'' songs. Bearing in mind I've been a fan since the early 90s here's my list.

Champions/90s era

The Best - Tina Turner

Final Countdown - Europe

Jump - Van Halen

Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds

Gonna win - Bryan Adams

Souness era

One More Time - Daft Punk

Digital Love - Daft Punk

Set the Record Straight - Reef

Work Together - Canned Heat

I Believe in a thing called Love - The Darkness

Bohemian Like you - Dandy Warhols

Song 2 - Blur

Hughes era

European Lover - Little Man Tate

500 miles - Proclaimers

All These Things that I Have Done - The Killers

I'm not Sorry - The Pigeon Detectives

Ince era

Human - The Killers

Allardyce era

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Love Kick Starts Again - Example

[deftangel]

I always associate rovers with the Europe-final countdown sure it was about time won league we used to come out to that. Hairs on my neck still stand up hearing it.

Now with the club being run the way it is a more fitting replacement to that god awful shouty version of wild rover would be entry of the gladiators (think that’s the name of the circus music.

This. I always remember that being played over the tannoy in the mid-nineties!

[EwoodDawn]

(Looks in the record collection)......'By Gum We'll Make It A Day' by the Rovers squad and Eagley Prize Band and the B side 'Come On The Rovers' by the Blackburn End Choir.

There was also the sublime limited edition 'Flying over you' - the remake of Roy Orbison's 'Crying over you' released to commemorate the original fly over.

[Puffsan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-SbwCHJ80

i think the chorus in this songs sums up pretty much everything i feel and hope for rovers right now

[Jarvefromossy]

Bye bye baby - sung to away fans after a win.

My dad was Jack the ripper, my mother........

He's only a poor little cockney........

[booth]

A while back I made a playlist of ''Rovers'' songs. Bearing in mind I've been a fan since the early 90s here's my list.

Champions/90s era

The Best - Tina Turner

Final Countdown - Europe

Jump - Van Halen

Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds

Gonna win - Bryan Adams

Souness era

One More Time - Daft Punk

Digital Love - Daft Punk

Set the Record Straight - Reef

Work Together - Canned Heat

I Believe in a thing called Love - The Darkness

Bohemian Like you - Dandy Warhols

Song 2 - Blur

Hughes era

European Lover - Little Man Tate

500 miles - Proclaimers

All These Things that I Have Done - The Killers

I'm not Sorry - The Pigeon Detectives

Ince era

Human - The Killers

Allardyce era

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Love Kick Starts Again - Example

All of those, apart from for me before we won the league I remember...

"Walking On Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox. Used to be played on Radio Rovers a lot.

And in the very early nineties, the lads used to run out of the tunnel to this...

"The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy.

[jny]

I think the best one they've played in recent years is Primal Scream 'Can't Go Back' and whenever I hear 'We Share The Same Skies' by The Cribs that reminds me of Rovers as well, but because of MOTD rather than the Ewood Park tannoy.

More importantly, I surely can't be the only one who absolutely cannot stand that Black Eyed Peas 'I Got A Feeling' piece of turd though right?

[gumboots]

Like most I hate the version of Wild rover that is played before the match - rhythm is all wrong and it's so clean and safe. However, it sent tingles down my spine when I stood on the seafront at Landevennec in Britanny on a beautiful summer evening with the sunset flaming the sky listening to Giles Servat singing Wild Rover and remembering how it felt to be at Ewood in the days when we had a club that made us proud.