I’d volunteer that Hatikva and the anthem of Qing/Imperial China don’t sound much alike each other, or anything else. 
'course, there’s also the EU Anthem, though it’s kinda cheating. 
No not really, I can individually identify and distinguish the American, British, French, German, Russian, and Korean national anthems.
Hatikva is haunting and beautiful and sounds nothing like Star Spangled Banner, O Canada, etc. I might not be able to name each anthem, but they certainly don’t all sound the same.
South Africa’s has a gospelly quality, and the USA has a crazy old drinking song, but yeah, those are exceptional. It does seem like there are a fair number of marches. The Soviet one was a damn good march, but yeah, a lot of marches. (Warning: I only listen to national anthems when something like one of these threads comes up, or at the Olympics, and there may an overrepresentation of vaguely dirgy marches at the latter for some reason.)
Yet they are both a mite spooky and dirgeful.
Ah, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. It’s a recommendation to the EU’s deliberative process that on choosing an anthem they went with one of the greatest and most beloved proto-Romantic pieces, rather than just hiring someone to write a march.
Near in mind that the Israeli anthem was written in 1888, and was adapted as the anthem of the Zionist Movement in 1897, 51 years before Israel was founded. An upbeat, triumphant march would have been a tad unrealistic.
The tune, incidentally, was adapted from an old Italian folk song.
Listen to the Japanese Anthem on YouTube… very Japanese and different.
The National Anthem of Kazakhstan was in the news recently.
Beware, It make you want to join The Party.
I didn’t know that, and when I listened to it (for the umpteenth time last night), for the first time ever I thought that it sounded like something from The Godfather!
:eek:
The same song was used as the basis of a very famous piece of classical musicby Bedřich Smetana.