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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe moment you've all been waiting for: The Space Force has unveiled its official song
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Chainfire
(17,636 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)HAB911
(8,912 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Chainfire
(17,636 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Hilarious! Bill Murray was always my favorite on SNL.
Emile
(22,909 posts)the song and the new military branch.
Walleye
(31,045 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)Biophilic
(3,691 posts)Wheres a John Phillip when we need him. Those poor people. That must be one of the worse armed forces song ever, and I mean ever. But at least its good for a great laugh. They always make me feel better. Well, at least I know where to go when Im in need of a long, strong laugh.
spanone
(135,873 posts)Response to demmiblue (Original post)
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Hekate
(90,793 posts)Other than that clinker, I have no real objection, except having a Space Force was Trumps idea.
I vote for Up in the Air, Junior Bird Men.
FelineOverlord
(3,590 posts)3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)and sounding like a generic marching band ditty.
Duncan Grant
(8,291 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)I like the instrumental part.
The words? No. However, it isn't nearly as bad as the III Corps song:
We are the Three Corps, Phantom Warriors
We're the Mobile Armored Corps!
From the Cavalry to the Infantry
We've fought in every war!
From the mountains to the prairies,
From sea to shining sea!
From the jungles to the desert sand
We will fight to keep men free!
Or the 10th Mountain Division song, which is worse:
We are the 10th Mountain Infantry
With a glorious history
On our own two feet,
All our foes we'll defeat
Light fighters marching on to victory.
We go where others dare not go,
Through the heat or cold or snow
We are proud to be in the Army of the Free
Climb to Glory, Mountain Infantry
Climb to Glory, The Light Infantry.
Compared to those two, "Semper Supra" reads like it was written by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Now for a real hideous one, the 82nd Airborne's song:
We're all-American and proud to be
For we're the soldiers of liberty
Some fly their gliders to the enemy
Others are sky paratroopers
We're all-American and fight we will
'Till all the guns of the foe are still
Airborne from skies of blue, we're coming through, let's go
Put on your boots and parachutes
Get all those gliders ready to attack today
For we'll be gone, into the dawn, to fight them all the 82nd Way, Hey Hey
We're all-American and proud to be
For we're the soldiers of liberty
Some fly their gliders to the enemy
Others are sky paratroopers
We're all-American and fight we will
'Till all the guns of the foe are still
Airborne from skies of blue, we're coming through, Let's Go
Just in case anyone wondered why the 82nd Airborne Museum plays "Blood on the Risers" on a tape loop...
The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, they rolled their sleeves and smiled
For it had been a week or more since last a chute had failed
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more.
On the other hand, there's the 101st theme song:
We've got a rendezvous with destiny
Our strength and courage strike the spark that will always make men free
Jump right out into the sky of blue
Keep your eyes on the job to be done
We are the men of the 101st
We'll fight till the battle's won!
It's short. It's easy to remember - I didn't google that like I did the rest of the songs. And it's not stupid.
But the best one is the 3rd Infantry Division's song
I Wouldn't Give A Bean
To Be A Fancy Pants Marine,
I'd rather Be A Dogface Soldier Like I Am.
I Wouldn't Trade My Old O.D.'s
For All The Navy's Dungarees
For I'm The Walking Pride Of Uncle Sam
On All The Posters That I Read
It Says "Be All You Can Be"
So They're Tearing Me Down To Build Me Over Again
I'm Just A Dogface Soldier
With A Rifle On My Shoulder
And I Eat Raw Meat For Breakfast Everyday
So Feed Me Ammunition,
Keep Me In The 3rd Division,
Your Dogfaced Soldier's A-OK
I was never even in the Rock of the Marne, and that's a great song.
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)Sir!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Hey, Captain Strange, won't you be my lover
You're the best thing that I've ever discovered
Flash Gordon's left me, he's gone to the stars
And evil Darth Vader he's been banished to Mars
Tell me, Captain Strange, do you feel my devotion
Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion
Encounters one and two are not enough for me
What my body needs is close encounter three
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing light in hyperspace
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space
Listen, Captain Strange, what's our destination
The scanners seem to indicate a small deviation
Static on the comm - it's Starfleet Command
Requesting your position, it's their final demand
You're intentions are known, they've found out at last
So if you're gonna take me, please make it fast
Touch me, feel me, do what you will
I want to feel that galactic thrill
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing light in hyperspace
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space
Space suit is lying on control room floor
Pulse rate increasing as the heat factor soars
Take me, make me feel the force
Ignore the computers, we're locked on course
haele
(12,676 posts)"I know - Let's use Grampy's Barn! Harvest won't be coming in for a few weeks!"
"And hey, Uncle Jack can move Mom's piano from the parlor in his moving truck"
"And I can grab a few dozen folding chairs from the church!".
"We got ourselves a Show! Yay! Let's go Team!"
All we need is Mickey Rooney...
Haele
Higherarky
(637 posts)Sounds about right.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
The stoopid. It burns.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)So disappointed.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)It takes just 5 boxtops, 4 bottle caps, and 1 thin dime to get your wings!
This song my sister taught me a bazillion hears ago is harder to find than I would have thought, but here goes. Just imagine it backed up by the Space Force Band!
wackadoo wabbit
(1,167 posts)Hell, I don't even believe that the Space Force logo is real and not a joke.
This is a very odd timeline.
Conjuay
(1,397 posts)it sounds great in the complete vacuum of space.
EndlessWire
(6,565 posts)It's bland and sounds like filler material in some soundtrack somewhere. Did they run a contest on this? Or, did they hire someone to write it with the proviso that it couldn't sound better than any of the others? Hell, they should have hired a jingle writer. It would have sounded better.
Now we have to listen to this dreadful song being played every blessed time someone does a collection of Armed Forces songs.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And they are not being ironic.