Thank Florence it’s Friday.
We received a suggestion earlier from regular reader Scottser for the theme of this week’s music jamboree.
He mused:
“In the current climate, a theme of anti-Establishment would make a pretty cool Friday tunes competition.”
So there you have it: simply post your favourite anti-Establishment song and the reason why you like it below to be in with a chance of bagging yourself a €20 Currys PC World voucher redeemable in any Currys store.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my anarchist flatmate.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close at 11am on Saturday!
Nick says: Good luck!
Sponsored Link
For the times we are in, indeed. There can be only one:
Alternative Ulster – SLF
https://youtu.be/632QWw2Pz6g
Is this the kind of place you want to live?
Is this where you want to be?
Is this the only life we’re gonna have?
What we need
Is an Alternative Ulster
With an almost identical title, this brings us nicely up to date.
Martin & Bell – An Alternative Ulster
https://youtu.be/ePDWGPlFWm4
Enjoyed that, thanks.
Winner straight out of the blocks
“The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret on the guillotine…”
https://youtu.be/hsq3H_6XuFA
“Margaret, it’s time for your injection
Should I fetch a priest and gun?
Her trip is now beginning
She dies unloved
She’ll never be forgotten
She made sure of that
Selling back to people
What they’d already got…”
The Kitchens of Distinction – Margaret’s Injection
https://youtu.be/y7iBbv7PCQc
And the view from Scotland?
Mogwai – George Square Thatcher Death Party
https://youtu.be/xbp3k3rYMs4
Kudos for being written two years before the event.
Dr John Cooper Clarke sifts through squalor and poverty and pins the blame on the Tory Government of the day. Joy Division/U2/Buzzcocks/Blue in Heaven producer, the late Martin Hannett plays bass guitar on the original release.
“Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies, in a box on Beasley Street”.
https://youtu.be/3mzrnVbsaXk
Great theme…allow me to propose Wild Billy Childish and his two minutes and forty-eight seconds of anti-establishment, “I know who I am who the hell are you?!” raucousness that is Archive from 1959… (all the best anti-anything tunes are usually raucous…!)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4wX16xEgYnZ84I293cuEq-8augF5GrVo
“Pass the Pub who saps your body
And the church who’ll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it’s so lonely on a limb”
https://youtu.be/eubgWMwSD0k
Correction: It’s her husband that’s dead :)
Ha!
Armagideon Time – The Clash
A lot of people won’t get no supper tonight
A lot of people won’t get no justice tonight
The battle is gettin’ hotter
In this iration
Armagideon time
Do you hear the people sing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U
“Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!………………………………….”
Ah, I remember the choreography well
forward, forward
back back
wave flag
anti-Establishment you say?
Is there any other song that encapsulates this as well?
RATM
KILLING IN THE NAME
https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ
Fk U I won’t do as you tell me etc etc
Might I propose the Doomerati Symphony performing live their unrepeatable anthem “Everything is Fucked and You Fuckers Deserve it”. Gentle yet beguiling, a fitting anthem for his lateness the duke of queen.
There is only one winner here…NWA were decades ahead of their time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-TTWgiYL4
Steve Earle’s “When the people find out” is great.
To pay the debt, you made em fools
That’s what you get, they trusted you
When they run to the temple and find
That the treasure’s gone
Do you think it’s gonna be a cross
They’re gonna nail you on
https://youtu.be/lfhPrz-AS48
The Specials – Ghost Town
“Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
We danced and sang as the music played in any boom town”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4
The The – Heartland
https://youtu.be/fPSO8pdAX6c
This songs describes the accelerated industrial and social decline of post-war Britain in the 1980s. I remember the News at Ten on ITV used to track the UK unemployment figures on a daily and weekly basis showing numbers over 3 million.
Matt Johnson was able to capture the physical and moral decay and the false promises of the Thatcher era in incredible lines like this:
“Past the Saturday morning cinema that’s crumbling to the ground
and the piss-stinking shopping centre on the new side of town”
The deceptions of privatisation and deregulation were shot down with these words:
“Here comes another winter waiting for Utopia
Waiting for Hell to freeze over”
The loss of Britain’s prestige and standing on the world stage was summed up as the song closes:
“This is the 51st state of the USA”
I don’t think there is a song that better captures any country at a place in time. As a song to reinforce teenage angst, Heartland was, and is, perfect.
Great minds think alike, Capernosity!
I was pretty happy with my choice. Whoops should have checked that link first! Still think it deserves to win. Can we go halves on the voucher? :-)
Take your pick from Christy Moore’s back catalogue
Viva La Quinta Brigade
“..when the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire and they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain”
https://youtu.be/0pqsR0l16pc
Go Move Shift
“.. the local Christians said to me, you’ll lower the price of property”
https://youtu.be/zh0G05kgZjg
Hey Ronnie Reagan
https://youtu.be/UQpTnUAgA5E
And so much more
Bob Marley “Get up Stand Up”
Can a song about fighting against oppression be classified as anti-establishment?
(Bob’s solo version seems more powerful than than with The Wailers)
Warren Zeavon’s Lawyers, guns and money …
“And I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers guns and money
The shit has hit the fan”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5Xv7QqXiM
For the day that’s in it.
The Proclaimers – In Recognition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FHEEuMvuI
Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlsXy3WuxM
You still think swastikas look cool
The real Nazis run your schools
They’re coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth Reich you’ll be the first to go
We live in weird times. So much so, that progressive rock lyrics now seem fitting.
Rush – A Farewell to Kings
“Scheming demons
Dressed in kingly guise
Beating down the multitude
And scoffing at the wise”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV-5iNu6Sd8
Black flags catalogue.
The Doors – Five to One
A perfect tune to get the juices flowing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzpncIHCLs
The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
Well, but we got the numbers
With Alternative Ulster taken, let’s go with…
The Television Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott Heron. 50 years old and as relevant today, if not more so, than ever.
https://youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg
Televise the television, a revolutionary idea !
Great Tune
It has to be this.
40 years later, what’s changed?
Christy Moore – They Never Came Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zpbGz0F2mQ
As he said himself, “This machine kills fascists”
Take it away Woody:
Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land
https://youtu.be/XaI5IRuS2aE
Plot twist: Donald Trump’s father was Woody’s landlord in New Jersey.
I will second that and this one by Woody is probably the best anti-establishment song of them all
I loved this track by Woody another one that the political parasites, the clergy and gangster banksters in Ireland can relate to :)
“Jesus Christ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk
Familiar?
The Pogues – Jesse James
https://youtu.be/O9RKP0pu9hY
RDF – Punks With Guns
https://youtu.be/di66-BIilIA
Speaks for itself –
A bottle of Buckfast in one hand and an AK in the other, what could go wrong ?
Spiral Tribe
Breach The Peace
https://youtu.be/DaL5SevDM2o
Babylon got so scared they would be danced out of office they made it illegal !!!!
Peter Tosh
Downpressor man
https://youtu.be/xlt-UsJcG8g
The sea will be boiling., the rocks will be melting….
Word sound and Power
We need to leave some space for a multi-instrumental, post-rock, anarchist collective. This is the soundtrack a looming apocalypse.
“The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we’re on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn
We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles…”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – The Dead Flag Blues
https://youtu.be/9thvHDskYvA
After my The The faux pas I propose another song:
Radiohead – Burn the Witch
https://youtu.be/yI2oS2hoL0k
I love the creeping menace, claustrophobia and paranoia of this track paints a world like Gilead or 1984. The State watching for all forms of dissent; burrowing into peoples’ words and deeds.
“Loose lips around tables
Abandon all reason”
I love the way the video hijacks the innocence of Trumpton/Camberwick Green/Chigley and fuses it with the horror of the Wicker Man. The crazed yokels of ye olde England burning the Man come down from that London.
The Clash “Guns of Brixton” (many other anti-establishment Clash tunes are available)
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
https://youtu.be/Tkm7ZXebfSo
+1
cool!
i’m late to the riot and there has been some great shouts so far, but this has to be in there:
sex pistols, anarchy in the uk:
https://youtu.be/qbmWs6Jf5dc
‘Babylon’s Burning’ by the ruts
https://youtu.be/zCkNu9OxThc
Here is what Zion Train did with that Ruts classic –
https://youtu.be/SMu_ZrV5Mew
Like it or not it, keeps the torch lit.
The love revolutionaries at it until all hours.
Although there are numerous songs from 1980s to choose from, this is one of the all time best, Billy Bragg “Between the Wars”
https://youtu.be/xjUA3RU4B8E
One of his finest. There is a case to be made for it being the English national anthem.
Not forgetting Greetings to the New Brunette, his ode to Labour/SDP MP Shirley Williams. With Johnny Marr on guitar and Kirsty McColl on backing vocals, it features the epic line
“How can you lie there and think of England
When you don’t even know who’s in the team…”
https://youtu.be/jfKcG3gn3F8
Also, ‘power in a union’..
https://youtu.be/DwbzxemJZIc
Which side are you on?
https://youtu.be/vbddqXib814
Can’t beat a bit of Billy !
CSNY – “Ohio”
written in anger by Neil Young in the aftermath of the Kent State University massacre by the US National Guard
https://youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw
Roy Harper – How Does it Feel
Roy – how does it feel to be a voter gets the kick in there first … then religion and everything else ..
50 years old and it still kicks … used recently in The Handmaid’s Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arCRtfReIo
“And how does it feel to be the master’s right hand nose?
How does it feel to be lieutenant?
And how does it feel to be stood on someone’s toes?
With a leech bleeding you for rent
When you say you want a bit more rank
You wanna be a big wheel
You can feel magnified if you hide in your pride
It’s not real”
And if that’s whetted your appetite … try McGoohan’s Blues … all 18 minutes and one hell of an ending …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjwXI1tb6Q
My favourite anti establishment song is Breaking the Law by Judas Priest
https://youtu.be/L397TWLwrUU
I love the energy and rawness of this song. A perfect portrayal of desperate action against unfair, unequal society.
I dreamt I met Joe Hill last night
Alive as you or me
Says I to Joe you’re ten years dead
I never died said he
I never died said he
https://youtu.be/Q2OivplOBq8
The great anti-conscription anti war song (in this case Vietnam)
Country Joe & the Fish
I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Die Rag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6-bHlz-4
“And it’s one, two, three
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it’s five, six, seven
Open up the pearly gates
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die”
John Lennon – Imagine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8
Possibly the most misunderstood hard-line political protest song ever, rather than being a hippy dippy plea for peace as many think, Imagine is Lennon’s most hard-line militant opus.
He was interviewed and hanging out with Tariq Ali, a leading figure of the British Left intelligentsia and was interviewed by him for Red Mole, the Marxist magazine.
The song itself suggests how political change can be created and begin with a radical thought
If you “imagine” a new world, you can help to achieve it
Tom Robinson – Glad to be Gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLc-bh_DrKw
Excellent defiant lyrics scoring points with each line
Hard to believe, but homosexual activity was only decriminalised in Ireland in 1993
Gay culture was a target for abuse, job loss and violence and even police victimisation.
Robinson’s song was direct, confrontational and heartfelt. Unplayable by the BBC and RTE for years.
The Kinks
Well Respected Man .” Adores the girl next door ‘cos he’s dying to get at her”
https://youtu.be/Ye28yt64Yjo
Possibly Paul Weller had this in mind when he wrote Mr. Clean – “miss page 3 but the times is right for you,smart blue suit and you went to cambridge too””
Either way, I reckon the well respected man could be an establishment everyman ?
Mr. Clean might be seen in the same light ?
It has to be God Save the Queen by The Sex Pistols. It was released around the time of the Queens Silver Jubilee and it only got to number 2 in the charts because it was seen as not fitting the situation. Rod Stewart was declared as number one instead.
https://youtu.be/yqrAPOZxgzU
I really loved the Boomtown Rats back in the day and they were definitely anti-establishment.
I remember being told off by my childhood crush for requesting this song at a disco because it criticised Ireland!
I can still hear it going around my head when I read the antics of Leo and co.
Banana Republic – Boomtown Rats
https://youtu.be/OfMwWLnpgGw
A great track, I remember seeing them with the girlfriend before they had their breakthrough in the then Moran’s Hotel, I think it’s O’Shea’s now at the corner of Talbot St?
The DJ Smiley Bolger played a few warm up tracks and then the basement venue went mental when the Rat’s came on…happy days :)
The brilliant,
The Beat with Stand Down Margaret,
I said i see no joy
I see only sorry
I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow
so stand down Margaret
stand down please
https://youtu.be/zFaFVhyjb5Y
No explanation needed as too who their talking about?
Enjoy!
* they’re
The original and best. Accept no imitations.
Junior Murvin – Police and Thieves
https://youtu.be/XlP3J3J3Upw
Keeping the reggae theme
eek a mouse – police in helicopter
https://youtu.be/jr66A4NDuYw
single issue, but not a pro establishment note in it.
Tommy Ramone at his finest. Mr Endicott by Uncle Monk
https://youtu.be/6I2FdHs3Sko
I reckon most folks could relate to this one. Mr Endicott is the “establishment “!
There will no doubt be loads of good reggae nominations but here’s LKJ, forces of viktry..
https://youtu.be/jPwFQfznjmE
From The Jam’s third album, All Mod Cons, the tense and atmospheric ‘Down In The Tube Station At Midnight’ concerned the rise of right-wing violence in the UK. Arguably the band’s first truly classic!
And the bass?
https://youtu.be/hf4EFDGP4yg
Enjoy!
Long-haired preachers come out every night
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right
But when asked about something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet
You will eat, you will eat, by and by
In that glorious land in the sky, way up high
Work and pray, live on hay
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die, that’s a lie
The Preacher and the Slave by Joe Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca_MEJmuzMM
And of course, Bread and Roses – “Yes! we fight for bread – but we fight for roses too”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQs6gSOkeU
Inner Terrestrials
Run Tings
https://youtu.be/SJ9difGrI-g
Citizen Fish
Same Starving Millions
https://youtu.be/PnTtL-DZhdI
I’m off to walk the dog,I might be some time, enjoy the evening – some great tunes tonight.
Some no nonsense hardcore punk from 1982!
Discharge – Protest and Survive
https://youtu.be/Btdn-Nup1dI
“A savage mutilation of the human race
Is set on course
Protest and survive. Protest and survive
It’s up to us to change the course
Protest and survive. Protest and survive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RzBZsOeqOQ
Garland Jeffreys – Wild in the Streets (1973)
“Mrs America, tell me how is your favourite son?
And do you really care what he has done?”
Too many to mention “Eve of Destruction” Barry Maguire, “Tramp the Dirt Down” Declan Pat McManus, “Fortunate Son” CCR but for me there is one song that transcends time & still has the power to shock.. “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday from 1939..A damning indictment of racism in the American South it’s harrowing lyrics.
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit.” This, you think, isn’t your usual lovey-dovey lounge jazz stuff. “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” What is this? “Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze.” Lynching? It’s a song about lynching?
Possibly the most shocking song of all time, because its true. The first true protest song & still the greatest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk
You could pick one of many of their songs, they’ve always been at the forefront of anti establishment, anti government, anti war songs and do it beautifully.
Pink Floyd,
Mother
https://youtu.be/lX3uCuFKlqw
The Wall
https://youtu.be/Zjh80iwj8rg
And more and more and more.
Surprisingly, Dylan has been absent from this discussion. Masters of War is one of his greatest protest songs but I’ve a yen for this cover version by the Staple Singers.
https://youtu.be/N0h5gjO6cOA
Spit on the street!
Don’t hesitate!
..begins my entry, but in my 40s now I take a dim view of that carry-on.
The Fall – Psycho Mafia.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=25-4nixuvrg
Those marvellous (post) punks will spread good bugs with their hairdos and bags of cans
An album virtually without peer, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is a glorious song cycle whose narrative is told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to the States to witness hatred, suffering, and injustice. Gaye’s introspective lyrics explore themes of drug abuse, poverty, and the Vietnam War. You could pick any track but, for me, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) is the one.
https://youtu.be/57Ykv1D0qEE
https://youtu.be/ASAuu6SUmxs
My favourite Marley song; ‘Johnny Was’.
This is a very cleverly constructed song chords wise, with a devastating narrative delivered with the sweetest of melodies.
It’s a masterpiece.
Covered by SLF too.
Inner City Blues is a magnificent choice. Damn, I’m jealous I didn’t pick that.
Working week offer you their take in Inner City Blues,
https://youtu.be/L15woAZ8yjU
Spit on the street!
Don’t hesitate!
..begins my entry, but in my 40s now, I take a dim view of that carry-on.
The Fall – Psycho Mafia.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=25-4nixuvrg
Those marvellous (post) punks will spread good bugs with their hairdos and bags of cans
Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
I remember a mature student in college singing this to one of my friends who had spurned his advances. He went on to stalk her for years.
Came across this watching Weeds. Brilliant song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrW6zP161QI
E Depois do Adeus
The Carnation Revolution of Portugal in 1974
The coup had two secret signals. First, Paulo de Carvalho’s “E Depois do Adeus” (Portugal’s entry in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest) was aired on Emissores Associados de Lisboa at 10:55 p.m. on 24 April. This alerted rebel captains and soldiers to begin the coup. The second signal came at 12:20 a.m. on 25 April, when Rádio Renascença broadcast “Grândola, Vila Morena” (a song by Zeca Afonso, an influential political folk musician and singer who was banned from Portuguese radio at the time). The MFA gave the signals to take over strategic points of power in the country.
Fairly peaceful
“All that rugby puts hairs on your chest
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?
Hello-hooray, what a nice day, for the Eton rifles, Eton rifles…”
Weller skewers Bojo’s alma mater
The Jam – Eton Rifles
https://youtu.be/C7kUDkK70qQ
Surely it has to be Rage Against the Machine, summed up in 9 words:
Fock you I won’t do what you tell me.
DMX died of cardiac arrest yesterday…
This track isn’t what you’d call anti-establishment. His back catalogue of angry gangsta rap covers that.
So for the day that’s in it, this track, A Minute For Your Son, is more like a prayer…
https://youtu.be/RdOG7HXLeWY
RIP that fella
Bonnie and Clyde.
https://youtu.be/Wa7wjr1NwhA
(Gainsborough / Bardot)
Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK. And it would be its 45th anniversary this years!
https://youtu.be/AbDqXr6LbXo
Enjoy!
I came here expecting 95% 1970s Reggae.
I’ve never been so disappointed before in my life.
Reminds me of the time I thought I was getting a bike off Santy and he brought me a jigsaw.
Raleigh?
Grifted!
Inner terrestrials – boundaries
https://youtu.be/C5GmWvCM5SI
There is plenty room for 1970’s reggae , why you not post some, truly?
…me gud frend…
I not post some because they can haz be Moderatored.
I haz try many timez.
(True Story)
Memes? Why I oughta…
I think as it’s an anti establishment competition, he’s allowed.
No.
He’s a scumbag.
For all the white trash,low intelligence,maga clowns,the circus has left town with your “Fortunate Son”.
The dumbest revolution in history,proud boys haha, proud big girls more like,all signing for their supper now.
https://youtu.be/6yu1oqauaMI
Where are the Beastie Boys?
What happened to NWA?
Killing Joke?
Cabaret Voltaire?
Sham 69?
The WuTang?
Tom Robinson?
Jilted John?
And Billy Bragg.
https://youtu.be/QAdEBed3BSE
mi revalueshanary fren
…the 90’s then the ‘00 then…a lot happened.
With exception Wu- one album – nothing.
You spin me right ’round
(This is not a revolutionary joke)
https://youtu.be/xphdl8rco54
– It Noh Funny
I’d like to dedicate my second entry to our much missed prodigal, if indeed it be memes. The title track of the difficult second album by Doomerati Symphony, its release was almost stopped by record company suits who felt the title was a tad long. (Decide for yourselves) “So anti-establishment means wonky woke cretins warbling about guitarry machine guns while getting paid, getting laid, getting high and getting rich? Idiots believing the safety valve whistle on the steam engine is there to protect bystanders. Like yourselves, the whistle serves the engine. And so the singing men who will become boring old farts play for dancing men who will become middle managers and all will wallow in dishonest nostalgia about how they changed the planet from a living thing to a dead thing. Except they won’t.”
It doesn’t roll off the tongue though, does it?
A protest about not being allowed to rave, but applicable to any protest,
Prodigy, (F* em and )Their Law
https://youtu.be/Qz9I0WJxF84
The song of the Resistance in Italy under the Fascists, Bella Ciao – revived in the pandemic
In English:
And if I die as a Partisan
goodbye my beautiful, goodbye my beautiful, goodbye my beautiful, goodbye
and if I die as a partisan
you must bury me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGY_htXtPI
And from the French Revolution, Edith Piaf sings Ça Ira
Lyrics in translation:
It’ill be grand! It’il be grand! It’il be grand!
The aristocrats to the lantern [a place in Paris where aristocrats were dragged to be hanged in 1789]
It’il be grand! It’il be grand! It’il be grand!
We’ll hang the aristocrats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzu01gO3pi4
Oops, I should have seen yours first. Bloody good choice by the way. Ahem
Great minds and all that.
fantastic choice
Can’t leave this out, a personal favourite, not just for fighting the man, but it’s just a great bloody tune
Manu Pilas, Bella Ciao
https://youtu.be/X5dGRM7Fw88
You’ve probably heard it before, but if not, have a listen.
I really love how nobody gives a fiddler’s about the “lines must close at 5.15” malarkey.
Now that’s anti establishment!
Fight the power!
I’m always surprised by the lack of U2 tracks included in these Fab Friday contributions given the age demographic of the majority of site users.
Here’s mine:
U2 – Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHcP4MWABGY
Eh.. In a word and in the spirit of what’s important from an anti-establishmet perspective…
” DAVOS “…
-i.e. they(we1) are their house band and perpetually on-call at a moments notice…
-Mic-drop, etc..
:-J
They certainly gave this country – and me – a boost in national and personal confidence when we both needed the shot in the arm that U2’s worldwide popularity provided.
You would have had to lived or grown up in this country during the 80’s to comprehend and appreciate what that band did for this country and its people.
To say we were proud of them is an understatement.
A late reply, but just had to say…
If you think we1 a.k.a the davos house band are somehow or have ever been in any way representative of an “anti-establishment” narrative then you’re clearly new to the idea or a just bit confused… Perhaps a die-hard fan maybe?..
– You would already be more aware of this obvious fact if you had grown up in the 70’s or 60’s..
I like some of their songs but they are just another cynical commercial pop outfit, rarely ever the proper rock band bono’s pretensious ego is built around and ultimately a bunch of hypocrites, elitists, tax-cheats etc. etc.
Literally, the music career blueprint of pro-establishment, economic success..
:-J
Hopefully this won’t be the last word; Peter Tosh ‘equal rights’
https://youtu.be/bOZQZAX4deM
Possibly not.
In his own words, Toots said “If you do bad things to good people, it will come back on you”
Pressure drop
https://youtu.be/uw66FA6OTqA
How about some 1960’s incendiary black liberation poetry set to free jazz.
Amiri Baraka & The New York Art Quartet – Black Dada Nihilismus
https://youtu.be/98oK6zZXmQw
*clicks fingers softly in wraparound black shades, in a haze of blue smoke.
That is very cool though.
Purple haze, surely.
Here’s one for Janet and Millie and all the other parents of riotous, righteous, rambunctious little tots out there.
This is how how you send your kids to bed.
https://youtu.be/zcOhrtAFc-Y
I may be wrong, I usually am, but this is it.
https://youtu.be/gKAM1NfMXY8
Edwin Starr.
War?
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothin.
A plus one from me, Papi.
Papi, the cute, cuddly, puppy – the new normal.
Bella Ciao, Italian anti-fascist hymn of freedom and resistance:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo
Hat tip to Money Heist.
Calm down.
Anti-establishment is not the same as revolution.
It’s a chicken/egg solution to a pelican crossing.
10% of those poultried said yes, but they were chickens.
The other 990%+ didn’t understand the question and said yes anyway.
And the turkeys are waiting for Christmas.
Oh shut up and sing.
Let’s lynch the landlord
The Dead Kennedys
https://youtu.be/aCiYmCVikjo
The egg came first – chickens have only been around for ten thousand year or so.
Anyhoo, here’s Billy Bragg with ‘ideology’
https://youtu.be/GG_filOc5rk
When one voice rules the nation
Just because they’re top of the pile
Doesn’t mean their vision is the clearest
The voices of the people
Are falling on deaf ears
Our politicians all become careerists
They must declare their interests
But not their company cars
Is there more to a seat in parliament
Than sitting on your arse?
And the best of all this bad bunch
Is shouting to be heard
Above the sound of ideologies clashing
Outside the patient millions
Who put them into power
Expect a little more back for their taxes
Like school books, beds in hospitals
And peace in our bloody time
All they get is old men grinding axes
Who’ve built their private fortunes
On the things they can rely
The courts, the secret handshake
The Stock Exchange and the old school tie
For God and Queen and Country
All things they justify
Above the sound of ideologies clashing
God bless the civil service
The nations saving grace
While we expect democracy
They’re laughing in our face
And although our cries get louder
The laughter gets louder still
Above the sound of ideologies clashing
Above the sound of ideologies
Above the sound of ideologies
Above the sound of ideologies clashing
No truer words ever spoken.
An enjoyable rap ditty merrily sung by the sinisterly fringed TPM, who succinctly express their discontent with the establishment by rapping ‘F**k Fine Gael and F**k Fianna Fáil too”
on the well penned song:-
TPM Don’t Have Your Money
https://youtu.be/wESDtNmTW-8
“I take €100 out of the tax pool
but that’s all the harm I’m going to do to you
The other prick gets up at 6am
drives his beamer to Dublin
to the KBC bank he walks in
starts committing crimes with a ballpoint pen.”
I like Scottsers last suggestion there, Billy Bragg is very underrated really
Anyway here you go man you will surely appreciate this, consider this an education all the rest of you slaves and lickspittles who mourn Philip (not Cork)Battenberg Cake
https://youtu.be/tw6ZKHqR0xE
Come all of you workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We’ve often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they’ve streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed But when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who’s given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
When we’ve never owned one handful of earth? We’re the first ones to starve the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat’s about All of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We’ve been yoked to the plough since time first began
And always expected to carry the can
Workers song
Dick Gaughan
Oh me and my cousin one Arthur McBride
We went out a walking done by the quayside
Now mark ye what followed and what did betide
It being on Christmas morning
https://youtu.be/HWb5IsejfnQ
Paul Brady
Arthur McBride