Word: anthem
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...good songs since 1993, when their Kerosene Hat album came out. It had "Low," the best Cracker song (it's the one with the huge, buzzing guitar opening and the chorus "Be with you girl/Like being low/Hey Hey Hey like being stoned"). "Low" is not a first-class grunge anthem only because it was too simple and was never canonized. It was probably never canonized because Cracker are always fashioning themselves as hayseeds...
...also supposed to be something uniquely American, right up there with apple pie in the pantheon of the national iconography. Stadiums will be draped with patriotic red, white and blue bunting today; state leaders and mayors will throw out the first pitch; country music stars will sing the national anthem...
...years earlier, was blessedly free of political stress, since King Abdullah took up his late father's role as regional conciliator. Within minutes after John Paul's jet touched down on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, however, the band struck up Jerusalem of Gold, an anthem of Jewish attachment to the entire disputed city, whose eastern portion Palestinians want for their future capital. Israeli President Ezer Weizman, acting more as hardball politician than as statesman, described "united" Jerusalem as "the capital of the state of Israel and the heart of the Jewish world." The Pope responded...
...favorite scene in Casablanca comes towards the middle, where a group of German soldiers have begun singing the German national anthem in Rick's caf, a supposedly "neutral" zone, much to the chagrin of the French expatriates in the room. In a brilliantly heroic Hollywood move the movie's hero stands up suddenly and leads the band--who had been standing quietly by--in an equally passionate version of the French national anthem, which has all the French in the room in tears. For all its daring, this is the most carefully choreographed moment in the film...
...first half of the show concluded with a performance by the Kuumba Singers who performed renditions of the South African national anthem and Jordan River...