I reckon one of the major issues in terms of getting songs and chants going is that the demographic in the terrace is quite young. Don't get me wrong it's great that we have lots of young supporters but the fact is that all the best songs sung by clubs around the world are from classic 70's and 80's songs and I think a lot of the younger guys just don't know the songs.
An example from the other week was when Gol Gol was on and scored we started singing Gold by Spandau Ballet. The older guys were loving it and had it going ok but the younger guys had no idea what we were on about so had trouble joining in. I think it's a similar issue with Happy Together, how many people under 20 know who The Turtles are?
Maybe we just need a better way for people to actually learn the songs everyone can join in with some unique songs and not have us be forced to sing the same old stuff all the time?
When The Heart Go Marching In is fine and it works because every club in Europe does their own version of it and everyone already knows the song, but it's not exactly original!
Anyway that's my rant done, for anyone who doesn't know it, here is a link for Gold by Spandau Ballet, when you get to the chorus at 0:42 pretty much change the words Gold to Gol and you're done! Hope we can get it going for the whole Terrace in the future!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ4qrcHyYj4
