The true story of World in Motion

Henry Irving

https://twitter.com/squires_david/status/1002523509443031040?s=19

MrLargo

This is a thing of beauty.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4aDJL3heA

GreenWithEnvy

Bert Millichip prefers 808 State... LMFAO

killerandflash

I remember being staggered when I first heard this on the radio, where it was Simon Mayo's record of the week!

PragueAddick

I still play it now. Out and out the best World Cup song ever.

i_b_b_o_r_g

MrLargo said:

This is a thing of beauty.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4aDJL3heA

Great song

Jessie

Been a fan of New Order since I heard their music for the first time back in 2006. This song is one of my favourite of theirs. Love it even more than Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle etc.

Solidgone

Not a patch on Vindaloo and Three Lions.

blackpool72

Solidgone said:

Not a patch on Vindaloo and Three Lions.

A man of culture just like me.

Cordoban Addick

Have we got a world cup song this time?

flyingkiwiDK

I’d love then to re-release it for this years World Cup. Classic tune

killerandflash

Cordoban Addick said:

Have we got a world cup song this time?

No. We haven't had one for a few years now, which is a shame. It's not as if "removing this distraction" has improved the performance of the team in major tournaments

CharltonMadrid

Best World Cup song by far. In fact I can hardly remember any others. Something by Ant and Dec as well as another one by the Spice Girls and Echo and the Bunnymen?

Henry Irving

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golfaddick

Solidgone said:

Not a patch on Vindaloo and Three Lions.

THIS.

killerandflash

Solidgone said:

Not a patch on Vindaloo and Three Lions.

All 3 are great football records, but different

World in Motion is more of a song about football, whereas the other two make much better terrace chants. The crowd singing Three Lions at Wembley in 1996 was amazing (as was in its own way the German team singing it after winning the tournament...)

McBobbin

CharltonMadrid said:

Best World Cup song by far. In fact I can hardly remember any others. Something by Ant and Dec as well as another one by the Spice Girls and Echo and the Bunnymen?

That's the one that went "how does it feeeeel... To be on top of the wooooorld". It was cack. However... I was in gran Canaria with a mate, all pissed up, when England lost to Argentina. The DJ thought he'd reflect the mood by playing the lighthouse family one that starts "when you are close to tears remember...". It got booed right off. Spice girls and echo right back on please.

Goes to show... You might be knocked out the world cup on penalties, you might get the most annoying red card ever, you might cheer sol Campbell only for elbows shearer to stuff it up (probably racism, eh sol) you may be dancing to the spice girls... Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. Fucking lighthouse family. I ask of you!

Riviera

Henry Irving said:

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The only case in pop history of an act having a UK No.1 and following up with a No.2 with none of the original members on the record...

Cordoban Addick

Riviera said:

Henry Irving said:

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The only case in pop history of an act having a UK No.1 and following up with a No.2 with none of the original members on the record...

Dexy's Midnight Runners must have come close.

C_A_F_C

I love New Order and this song but Three Lions is the definitive England song.

Riviera

Cordoban Addick said:

Riviera said:

Henry Irving said:

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The only case in pop history of an act having a UK No.1 and following up with a No.2 with none of the original members on the record...

Dexy's Midnight Runners must have come close.

But no cigar...

A-R-T-H-U-R

C_A_F_C said:

I love New Order and this song but Three Lions is the definitive England song.

Three Lions? Three Lions?
I always thought it was SEA Lions.