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Valley Floyd Road
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Exactly. RRR is going nowhere and nobody is suggesting changing that.19addickted96 said:SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.Unless I’ve missed it, I don’t think anyone is suggesting ‘orchestrated’ singing at all!Feels to me that it’s more playing an Atmosphere building song/getting a chant going, as opposed to the sterile stuff you see at palace/BPL…
unfortunately the atmosphere between RRR and kickoff is piss poor, and usually no real build up
This is simply about making more of our one good song and getting people to sing it properly. At the moment the Covered End just rattles through the generic EFL chants giving us very little in the way of identity, let alone a rousing atmosphere.
100% against ultras-style nonsense, but always in favour of boosting the atmos in a traditional British terraces style.1 -
I religiously sing along at the start of every home game. I wish everyone else would join inSporadicAddick said:
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.16 -
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I’m sure one of the Hull rugby league teams sing along to RRR and it’s great. I love RRR it’s more unique to CAFC than VFR which everyone knows we pinched off Forest. I’d also play ‘Down in the Valley’ Otis Redding 😬0
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I actually just don't sing it anymore or when I do I just sing it as my own pace.
I'd actually go as far as saying I don't even like the chant anymore due to the pace it's sung at. Much prefer chants about players or other clubs fans participating in incest.2 -
Get Gareth Malone along to help the Covered End Choir singing it vaguely like a song instead of a tuneless chant.0
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Our fans have butchered it a bit. It's sung so quickly these days3
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Hull Kingston Rovers do and it’s the players’ post-match song if they win as well. It’s pretty decent if chanted at a fair pace.Leftfootforward said:I’m sure one of the Hull rugby league teams sing along to RRR and it’s great. I love RRR it’s more unique to CAFC than VFR which everyone knows we pinched off Forest. I’d also play ‘Down in the Valley’ Otis Redding 😬0 -
bollox to Gareth Malone, get Macca along!Dippenhall said:Get Gareth Malone along to help the Covered End Choir singing it vaguely like a song instead of a tuneless chant.0 -
People definitely sing "Valley choir" and not "Covered end choir" too.0
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If you want to talking about Arsenal (had the discussion the other day at the Valley). They play this when the players come out (equivalent to us playing RRR when the players enter the pitch).SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London*, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
*North London forever (with the exception of Champions League matches) is played (as the CST suggests we do) just before the players kick off.
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It's been a thing at the City Ground for a while, and it's not a stadium that lack atmosphere, as for North London Forever, its done the job at the Emirates to get the place away from being a soulless library of a place, yeah some might find it, not of their liking, but it works for them.0
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I would love to hear that if you are able to dig it outSteveACS said:
During the Premier League days, there was a version performed by Claus Jenson.JustFloydRoad said:
This came up from the Supporters Trust. Got me thinking:Why not get a local artist in and record Valley Floyd Road (and it'll have to be VFR not MoK).🤔Sandgaard's idea about playing it was a good one, but play it (as you say) right before kick off (to fire the players up and engage the fans) not when they come out.
Thoughts?
I still have the CD somewhere...0 -
Little known fact...JustFloydRoad said:
If you want to talking about Arsenal (had the discussion the other day at the Valley). They play this when the players come out (equivalent to us playing RRR when the players enter the pitch).SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London*, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
*North London forever (with the exception of Champions League matches) is played (as the CST suggests we do) just before the players kick off.
"Good old Arsenal" was written by Jimmy Hill.2 -
We haven't had a decent chant in years.Braziliance said:I actually just don't sing it anymore or when I do I just sing it as my own pace.
I'd actually go as far as saying I don't even like the chant anymore due to the pace it's sung at. Much prefer chants about players or other clubs fans participating in incest.
Bring back the classics.0 -
Wow, never knew that!SteveACS said:
Little known fact...JustFloydRoad said:
If you want to talking about Arsenal (had the discussion the other day at the Valley). They play this when the players come out (equivalent to us playing RRR when the players enter the pitch).SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London*, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
*North London forever (with the exception of Champions League matches) is played (as the CST suggests we do) just before the players kick off.
"Good old Arsenal" was written by Jimmy Hill.
I remember as a kid in ´71 either the big match or MOTD running a comp to find the best cup final song for the Arsenal team so I always thought it was a viewers winning entry.
Just looked it up and the viewers entries were crap so up stepped Jimmy Hill.0 -
At away games can we please just chant "Do, do, dooo, football in a library" on its own, and nothing else. Preferably timed to when the home fans are actually singing, as per the away fans we get at the Valley.0
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Seven weeks in the chart (highest position 16th) - Not too bad.stockportaddick said:
Wow, never knew that!SteveACS said:
Little known fact...JustFloydRoad said:
If you want to talking about Arsenal (had the discussion the other day at the Valley). They play this when the players come out (equivalent to us playing RRR when the players enter the pitch).SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London*, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
*North London forever (with the exception of Champions League matches) is played (as the CST suggests we do) just before the players kick off.
"Good old Arsenal" was written by Jimmy Hill.
I remember as a kid in ´71 either the big match or MOTD running a comp to find the best cup final song for the Arsenal team so I always thought it was a viewers winning entry.
Just looked it up and the viewers entries were crap so up stepped Jimmy Hill.
About Jimmy Hill when was he Charlton Chairman?
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Does ANY club have a decent and original chant these days, when everyone seems to sing the same chants as everyone else?Croydon said:
We haven't had a decent chant in years.Braziliance said:I actually just don't sing it anymore or when I do I just sing it as my own pace.
I'd actually go as far as saying I don't even like the chant anymore due to the pace it's sung at. Much prefer chants about players or other clubs fans participating in incest.
Bring back the classics.0 -
Me too. Not sure why, but I get a bit emotional most games singing it tbhtangoflash said:
I religiously sing along at the start of every home game. I wish everyone else would join inSporadicAddick said:
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.4 -
WHAT????CAFCTrev said:People definitely sing "Valley choir" and not "Covered end choir" too.
These people need banning and Narcos-style hanging from a bridge on the Blackwall Tunnel Approach6 -
Should become a proper chant. Shouting out "live, love, laugh and be happy!"tangoflash said:
I religiously sing along at the start of every home game. I wish everyone else would join inSporadicAddick said:
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
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I think at Walsall away some people were trying to get the 'palace fan on a string' chant but it didn't get going.Croydon said:
We haven't had a decent chant in years.Braziliance said:I actually just don't sing it anymore or when I do I just sing it as my own pace.
I'd actually go as far as saying I don't even like the chant anymore due to the pace it's sung at. Much prefer chants about players or other clubs fans participating in incest.
Bring back the classics.
It's not just us tbh, I haven't really rated any away fans at the Valley so far. Some good turnouts relative to club size, but as far as chant goes, all a bit naff.
I just like the simple chants now, everyone knows them and it generates some sort of atmosphere.
Things like "Godden again" "Thierry woah" etc.
If we were to sing something like Keep Right on by Birmingham with that level of co-ordination and every fan, I'd probably collapse tbh.
I love having a chant, I don't even bother in the West Lower anymore, completely on you're own if you do.2 -
That's nothing, instead of covered end choir I sing "West Stand lower row CC seat 156 one man choir"CAFCTrev said:People definitely sing "Valley choir" and not "Covered end choir" too.
It doesn't rhyme, but it's honest work.8 -
Valley Floyd Road is one of the few things non-Charlton mates of mine remember about us and all agree is a great chant. Really hoping we can preserve it make it special again.
In terms of other songs, it would be great to add a couple of originals to the cannon. Especially if they're from UK classics rather than ultras copies. Loved Leeds doing Stop Crying Your Heart Out for Frank Lampard a few years back. United and City have used Stone Roses songs well too. But without wanting to dig out the younguns around the drum who do their best, they don't capable of creating anything good or singing it properly to be honest.2 -
tried years ago to start ocean colour scenes song "the day we caught the train"Neil_Heaney said:Valley Floyd Road is one of the few things non-Charlton mates of mine remember about us and all agree is a great chant. Really hoping we can preserve it make it special again.
In terms of other songs, it would be great to add a couple of originals to the cannon. Especially if they're from UK classics rather than ultras copies. Loved Leeds doing Stop Crying Your Heart Out for Frank Lampard a few years back. United and City have used Stone Roses songs well too. But without wanting to dig out the younguns around the drum who do their best, they don't capable of creating anything good or singing it properly to be honest.
The bit which is pretty simple near the end of the song.
Oh-oh-la-la
Oh-oh-la-la
When you see Charlton win away
Don't you love days like these...
Plus it's got train in the title of the song.1 -
Personally wouldn't mind an adaptation of west sides story "somewhere" being sung.
Wouldn't work but be a bit different.0 -
It doesn't help that the drummer is constantly trying to drown out RRR when the teams come out...SporadicAddick said:No no and no.
Club orchestrated singing is palace like nonsense. Arsenal with their dirge about north London, Southampton, Forest etc wtc Hate it.
We have RRR which is brilliant, but not there to be sung. Let’s leave as is please.
Like having a drummer, but I wish he'd shut up during "Red red Robin"!6
