Deutschlandlied coins. The music is the hymn "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of "" as a new text for that music, counterposing the national unification of Germany to the eulogy of a monarch, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time. Along with the flag of Germany, which first appeared in its essentially "modern" form in 1778; it
The National Anthem (Radiohead song) of "The National Anthem" is included in the special edition of the 2017 "OK Computer" reissue, "OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017." The free jazz section was described as "a brass band marching into a brick wall" by one reviewer. Simon Reynolds of "Spin" said: "the song is a strange, thrilling blast of kosmik highway music — combining Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" with Can's "Mother Sky" and throwing in free-jazz bedlam for good measure". Cam Lindsey of "Exclaim!" wrote that the song is a "radical jazz-rock fusion". The song received polarised reviews from music critics. In his review of the album for