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Good call, ME. I remember Anne Nightingale reading out a complaint from an unemployed bloke once, because she'd given 'Let's Work' an airing. She played 'Don't Give Up' by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush to make up for it.
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Taylor, have you got An Open Letter To My Teenage Son (Battle Hymn Of The Republic) (link here) by Victor Lundberg?
It's a spoken word track, where the father goes on about how he respects his son's right to have long hair and generally act like a hippy, but if he ever dodges the draft he'll disown him.
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Plenty to choose with The Stranglers, but I'd probably settle for Curfew.
quote:The enemy has cut down all of the power London south of the Thames is invaded Westminster is razed down to the ground The government has fled The government has fled The government has fled for Scotland today
Grey becomes black and white Is it true what they say They turn the day into night Black and white becomes
The government has fled into thin air What's left of our troops have joined with the Scots To form a defence across of the north Stay in your homes Stay in your homes Be off the streets by nightfall
Grey becomes black and white Is it true what they say They turn the day into night Black and white becomes
Germany failed to protect her borders She had grown soft with the American dream Men from the Steppes delivered their vacuum A new kind of freedom Freedom's a chain Maybe I'll find love when their's nothing to do
Grey becomes black and white Is it true what they say They turn the day into night Black and white becomes
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Crudely stereotypical, certainly, but merely the norm of its time. It was all unconscious back then, and there was more retrospectively offensive stuff than that around, then and for some time after.
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It's really difficult, this, isn't it? The first thing I thought of was "Part Of The Union", but that had gone early on.
So far as the sexism thing is concerned, "Stay With Me" stands out, but I can't help but think (with my oh-so-ironic modern attitude) that they must have been taking the piss out of something or someone.
I find "Brown Sugar" fairly lyrically objectionable too, on several different levels.
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Yeah, "Brown Sugar" is an astonishingly stupid and degrading lyric - but I don't think it can really count as right-wing, any more than Paul Gascoigne saying "fuck off Norway". It's just schoolboy nonsense. And unless they're truly spectacular, sexist songs are inadmissible, because that would include two-thirds of the entire history of popular music.
It's pretty hard to find good examples of bands / singers anyone's ever heard of daring to be openly right-wing. I suspect most of this compilation will be unknowns, who are much more outspoken and much funnier - but it would be good to get more stars in.
That Victor Lundberg track is in, and "Let's Work" is on the shortlist.
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This is the thing, isn't it? It's just casually endemic of its time. It's hardly "C/conservative". I keep thinking that Queen should be in there too, but I might just be getting confused because of Sun City.
To be fair, I'm easily confused.
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If we're talking Morrissey, surely 'Bengali In Platforms' is the glaring choice? If hard-nosed capitalism counts, what about 'Money' by The Flying Lizards or 'Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent'?
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Oh, and I need more Brits. It's 95% American at the moment, which just looks unfair.
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How is Girls and Boys right-wing? The only lyric I can think of is "Avoiding all work/cause there's none available", and that's a big stretch.
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