Best national anthem?

[leopard]

http://www.nationalanthemsworld.com/

A lot of crappy anthems out there, particularly in Africa and Asia. But here are the 20 best ones IMO:

1. Russia
2. Germany
3. Canada
4. Poland
5. Romania
6. Brazil
7. France
8. Sweden
9. Great Britain
10. Bangladesh
11. Kazakhstan
12. Mongolia
13. Italy
14. Bahamas (inspired by the Canadian?)
15. USA
16. Andorra (inspired by the French?)
17. Spain
18. Portugal
19. Norway
20. Netherlands

[joeyar]

In my opinion, South Africa has the best national anthem, with Australia first.

By the way I'm a New Zealander, just to eliminate any accusations of bias.

[Cyrus]

Russia

[redargon]

I agree with joeyar.

South Africa's national anthem has parts in 3 languages, I think that's pretty cool. First part is Xhosa, the second is Afrikaans and the third is English.

Problem is that the tune is use in the national anthem of other african countries too, so it loses it's uniqueness musically.

[CaptainQuasar]

That site has the lyrics wrong for Germany - Deutschland über alles is not sung anymore, that was the Nazi and Weimar Republics' anthem. Only the third stanza is sung now.⚛

[Fearless]

I would say the soviet national anthem. I dislike the concept but their song is sung here a lot for various humour-reasons.

The best lyrics would although be the french national anthem.

http://www.nationalanthemsworld.com/anthems/france.html

[neu]

I think enya would do a cracking national anthem. Look at what she did to "there's a hole in my bucket"