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Since it all looks like being a reprise of The Cold War,it's time to get that old duffle coat out and the CND bedecked guitar? This is strangely current...1965.(lyrics by Jonathan King)
It's good news week Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere Contaminating atmosphere And blackening the sky
It's good news week Someone's found a way to give The rotting dead a will to live Go on and never die
Have you heard the news What did it say? Who's won that race? What's the weather like today? It's good news week Families shake the need for gold By stimulating birth control We're wanting less to eat
It's good news week Doctors finding many ways Of wrapping brains on metal trays To keep us from the heat.
That was the UBs at their best. Those early 12s were brilliant and still sound good now. And then came red red sodding red wine
One in Ten was another early UB40 classic . The hopelessness of unemployment in the seventies perfectly described. Sadly they never surpassed the first two albums.
Another from Crass ......Big A Little B with lyrics The whole Crass movement was a protest...films between songs at gigs, leaflets handed out...monologues. They certainly believed in their messages. They only played in small halls, small clubs or squatted/similar venues. Records were sold for a quid or so, gigs were normally about £2. Their songs are great but the energy in the room when they were live could be something else.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
I must give the album this comes from a play sometime soon. The album is packed with protest tunes, many of them killer cuts...
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Another from Crass ......Big A Little B with lyrics The whole Crass movement was a protest...films between songs at gigs, leaflets handed out...monologues. They certainly believed in their messages. They only played in small halls, small clubs or squatted/similar venues. Records were sold for a quid or so, gigs were normally about £2. Their songs are great but the energy in the room when they were live could be something else.
I would of gone with that, RamseyR
Anyway, something a bit different from my normal row
Back to the anarcho-punk
And finishing with a touch of Propagandhi, lyrically devastating..."Your children already belong to us"
Forgot to add this one from the king of protest in Australia, ex-politician and great singer, Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil. We have such short memories!
One for the antipodean rebellers. I think Pete Garrett may have sold out a fair bit when he got into govt (which was mad!) but the details are sketchy to me now and it's never that simple imho.
The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams Will no one lay the laurel wreath When silence drowns the screams
Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl a cracked and broken path If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh But I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying Yes, I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying Yes, I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying
Between the iron gates of fate The seeds of time were sown And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known Knowledge is a deadly friend If no one sets the rules The fate of all mankind, I see Is in the hands of fools
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