American Reacts to Top 10 Controversial British Chart Toppers!
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Maggie Thatcher was so hated, I have to say, when I heard she had died 'Ding Dong The Wicked Witch is Dead' immediately popped into my head. She closed the coal mines putting many out of work, she encouraged people to buy their council houses then ruined so many industries putting more out of work, they couldn't pay their mortgages, banks repossessed their homes, it's no wonder she was hated.
not just that, she destroyed unions leading to the state we are in today where workers rights are worse than they were in the 90's. she sold off essentially all public infrastructure to what are essentially foreign government run companies and then wondered why were charged Ludacris prices for everting whilst almost not a cent is being spent of this country but is instead being syphoned off to France, Germany ect to make their public services better.
@@axeami1354 Exactly, the list of that things crimes against Britain is endless.
@@axeami1354 she brought democracy to the unions, no more strikes based on a show of hands 2 hours after work in a secret meeting.
@@charlestaylor3027 That's not even close to true, she destroyed them completely. She used smear campaigns against the lower working class and propaganda to take almost every single bit of bargaining power away from them and made them work in a way that causes the absolute minimum impact to the company they are trying to bargain with. It's the Reason why workers rights have gotten worse in the last 20+ years and wage stagnation.
There are a fair few videos explaining it far better than I can.
The mines were massive weights around the country's neck, they were being propped up by the public coffers and were only being kept alive by the unions and the tax payers. The coal being produced was of very poor quality and only good to be burnt at home, we couldn't even export it I remember the grip the unions had on this country in the 70s, piles of rubbish piling up for weeks in the streets, power cuts and having to read my books and comics by candlelight, teacher strikes, rail strikes etc, etc.. most people were pissed off with it by the time she got in and started to sort it out. And don't give the BS that no-one agreed with her because if they didn't, she and the tories wouldn't have got in. Unions have their place but they have to have limits or they destroy the people they are meant to protect.
I am still convinced to this day that 'Ding Dong', did reach number one, but the sales figures were manipulated to make sure it didn't.
I'd put mi shirt on it, Gary. Thick as thieves, the lot of 'em.
I think that is almost certainly the case.
Me too
You haven't seen chart manipulation until you learn about batshlt-crazy Apartheid-era South Africa. Each Sunday, David Gresham hosted the "Weekly Top 20" chart show on Springbok Radio and listeners were told that the charts were based on sales of 7-singles in the country the previous week. Not only were banned singles left off the chart, but the positions of many songs left listeners scratching their heads. Songs like Silver Convention "Fly Robin Fly" were run into the ground on radio, yet never appeared on the chart. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting a radio playing Jigsaw "Sky High", yet it only reached #19 on the chart. One of the most controversial was "Bohemian Rhapsody", which at the time had become the country's best-selling single to date, yet was obviously deliberately held back from the #1 spot by a terrible local single. It sent chins wagging...
Without a doubt.
Brits like to make a musical point; for President Trump visiting the UK in 2018 the UK No 18 single was...American Idiot by Green Day. It was no 2 in the download chart!
Love The Stranglers , saw them live many times . Their rendition of "walk on by" is exceptional imo
I never liked the Stranglers or any of their music but I disliked the notion of censorship even more.
Their version of 'Walk on by' is as you say exceptional and my favourite song of theirs.
@@KenFullman They were pretty much the only punk band who knew what they were doing when they made _music...._
I saw them live 3 times,Skin Deep is excellent 👌
@@cyclops60 I just found their version of Walk on by. Wasn't immediately struck by it but it grew on me. The instrumental parts were outstanding. I now have a new respect for them.
I recommend the movie Pride for some idea of life under thatcher. It’s also just a wonderful true story about two unlikely groups of people coming together. Would love to see your reaction to it, it’s a lovely heartwarming film.
One of my favourite films. I grew up in the Thatcher years, harsh times.
Such a brilliant movie. I've watched it so many times.
@@janekidd8163 ... I was in my 20s during those times and never experienced harsh times. I'm not rich or anything, just an ordinary person. For me the 80s were the last of the greatest years, downhill from then on.
If the BBC banned a tune it was guaranteed to get up in the charts lolllllll
I love it, Je t'aime, as they sing
So a big thing in the UK is the Christmas No. 1, (the chart topper in the week of Christmas) in the mid-late 2000s, every year it was the winner of The X Factor. 2009 was the first year where digital sales would count toward chart numbers. The public were sick to death of the bland, terrible, boring, generic, corporate pop rubbish being churned out, and so a grassroots campaign successfully got Rage Against The Machine's 1992 song "Killing In The Name" to Christmas No. 1. They were told when invited to perform live on BBC Radio 1 to censor their lyrics, but they didn't, and were quickly muted.
Thought you'd be interested in that, that could've been on here.
I was wondering if this would be in the comments! I was thinking the other day I'd like to see JJLA watching the moment RATM swore live on BBC Radio 5 Live.
I am one of the people who started the campaign!
@@tracymorterphotography you did God's work at a time he abandoned us
By that point, chart positions in the UK were no longer based on sales, but on how many units the record companies SHIPPED to the record stores. That's why everything was coming in straight at #1 and in some cases, falling clean off the chart within a few weeks.
@@yossarian6799 That's... an incredibly stupid way to measure it. If they shipped more copies than other products but sold less, it'd reach number 1 undeservedly. As a measurement for "number 1" it's WHOLLY devoid of meaning
@@Chiggins_ "stupid" is a good way to describe the way most things are run these days. But by the early 1990s, when the traditional 45rpm single ceased to be an accurate measure of a song's popularity, the singles chart itself became pointless.
I grew up in a northern industrial town during the Thatcher years. There are very few people I have truly hated in my life, but she is one of them
Is Detroit her fault too?
Don't happen to live in a council house she let you buy?
@@charlestaylor3027 Nope.
Nothing to do with the unions destroying British industry, I was lucky, I learned my trade at a small firm, no I in no strikes and we always had work, thanks to the strikers we got sub work on them being out of work...
As a Brit. I find it very interesting that many in the U.S. still believe that the British monarchy hold any real power. The British monarchy have not really held any real power since the end of the seventeenth century, with the joint enthronement of William of Orange and his wife Mary Stewart. The British monarch is a purely ceremonial head of state, this is not to suggest they have no soft power; far too much soft power to be truthful. Britain is just as democratic as the U.S., probably more so as Gerrymandering doesn’t exist, neither does registering for voting or barrier to prevent the electorate from voting. The Strangler's "Golden Brown" is well worth a listen.
this!
Gerrymandering happens, the case involving the Shirley Porter some decades ago springs to mind.
British democracy? Let's have a look.
1. An unelected and unaccountable Head of State.
2. An unelected and unaccountable House of Lords.
3. An elected House of Commons via a 'first past the poet's system.
Our democracy is in a terrible mess.
Don't forget the unelected house is the upper house.
Shirley "The Tesco" Porter tried to manipulate the political borders of parts of London. However, it was local and not national constancies she was Gerrymandering, she was also caught and penalised for her indiscretions and eventually had to flee the U.K. Opposed to Gerrymandering in the U.S., where it is worn like a badge of honour by the culprits.@@Fercough
Benign is not a word I'd use when it comes to monarch and the do have have turbo charged soft power, but the politician can always overrule then in the end. Their soft power tends to be used for personal, social, their monetary affairs and never pieces of major legislation as this would cause a constitutional crisis.@SmearCampaignUK
One that slipped uner the BBC radar was The Shamen's number one "Ebenezer Goode" which was about Ecstasy Tablets. In a couple of choruses, instead of "Ezer Goode, he's Ebernezer Goode" they are singing "E's are good, these effing E's are good". Used to crack me up, every time they played it, on daytime radio.
It actually got to the Number 1 spot during the governments 'Drugs awareness month'!
Man, I've watched so many of your videos and I really like them but you absolutely should have a career in reading bed time stories. You've got an incredibly soothing voice.
I'll second that.
And m
And me
I remember the day of Thatcher's funeral, I saw a live roving reporter on TV interviewing the crowd gathered to watch the coffin pass by. "Why are you here today?" they asked one bloke. "Just making sure she's dead".
You conveniently forget most people were there because they admired her. The overwhelming majority actually. Few boos and few turned their backs but they were, a minority
I was on Fleet Street more where there to pay respects to one of the best Prime minister's we ever had. Remember seeing a group of lefties around Whitehall later that day getting leathered by some ex paras, they really got stuck into them, seems these youngsters where no match for old lads, for mouthing off, old bill just stood by.
@watchflexwatchflex5956 the North remembers! Tbh I'm from the NE and she does deserve the hate she gets but thank god she was PM for the Falklands. Same with Winston Churchill, worse than terrible as a peace time PM, absolutely the only person for the job in Wartime. It's a shame that all the major parties are trying to be copy of each other. You need right wing since they act as the spear and shield, left wing to improve society, centrists to keep both sides grounded in reality so they don't swing too far either way (ring wing trying to rule by totalitarianism, left wingbeing way too optimistic and foregoing defence)
The vast majority of the UK was glad to see the back of her and especially if you lived in the rest of the UK outside the SE England. There were many who turned their backs when her funeral procession went by. She destroyed our industrial base and caused misery to many.
@@watchflexwatchflex5956that doesn’t mean she wasn’t hated by a lot of people in Britain as well as Ireland
Another song that got to number 1 years after it was released was Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name. A lot people were fed up with X-Factor song getting to the top of the charts for Christmas. So a grass roots campaign was started, to get Killing In the Name to the top, and it won.
I was very happy that Xmas.
Yeah surprised it didn't make the list tbh
@@xBoringPerfectionx as the meme goes, "never go full WatchMojo"
@@royw-g3120no fan of RATM but I was pleased it stopped the X factor dross.
That was one of the great Christmas #1 moments. The monopoly on Pop Stars/Pop Idol/X-Factor dross taking the number 1 slot with substandard pop-ballads/sub-standard cover versions got rather tiresome, and the RATM outro especially summed up exactly what the general public had to say about manufactured pop.
The Number One they didn't ban but might have was Ebenezer Goode by The Shamen, at the height of rave culture, the chorus of which goes "Es are good, Es are good, E's heaven, Es are good". I was never sure if they just didn't twig, or thought banning it would just bring it more attention and sales.
I remember this being a huge hit and honestly I think most of the country was oblivious to it's true meaning. Everyone genuinely thought he was singing "he's a good, he's a good, he's ebenezer good"!
@@stephenlee1833 *” ‘Ezer Goode, ‘Ezer Goode, he’s Ebenezer Goode”… but obviously 💊🙂❤️🕊️
To be fair, I thought they were singing "Ezer Goode, Ezer Goode, he's Ebenezer Goode"!
The Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead one always reminds me of when we managed to get American Idiot to 25 in the UK Top 40 (14 years after it's release) for Trump's visit in 2018... 😂 Good times...
but trump became president in 2016...
I know the people who ran the campaign.
@@ruthfoley2580 leftist fascists
@EnchantedTooWell but we arranged it for his official visit as a welcome to the murderer
The Stranglers are brilliant. I think you'll like them.
They started as a punk band, but also play melodic ballads and over the years a variety of other genres. They have a unique sound thanks to Dave Greenfield's keyboards.
For their heavier stuff I recommend: Peaches, No More Heroes, Hanging Around, Skin Deep, & No Mercy
For more melodic songs try: Golden Brown (their biggest hit), Strange little Girl, A Mid-Summer's Night Dream & Always the Sun.
For more quirky stuff try : We are the Men in Black, Waltzing Black.
Of their more recent stuff 'Norfolk Coast' is a great album. Try the title song first.
Saw them with John Cooper Clarke at Leeds, In i think 77, when I was 16. A long time ago.
I'm a big fan of the Stranglers and never really classed them as punk.
I had to go abroad during the dark days of Thatcher, and she certainly was a witch in my opinion.
You must check out Golden Brown, and Walk on By, by the Stranglers.
I saw The Kinks live twice in ‘93. The first of the two was at The Barrowlands in Glasgow and the first song of the encore was Days, which Ray dedicated to Dave. I think they seem to get on better when they don’t have live in each others pockets. The second time was at Glastonbury and to be honest, I was a bit too sh!tfaced to take in too many details.
Thatcher pretty much neutered the Trade Unions in the UK, she also sold off British Telecom, British Gas, The Electricity Board, British Rail, local bus services, Water and Sewage British Rail amongst others. Of course the privatisation of these organisations brought in some money in the short term, it has in the long term done nothing but enable the privatised version of these companies to price gouge the public and stripped the public purse of innumerable revenue…all whilst giving subsidies or retaining parts that don’t generate any profit but cost a lot in maintenance…and then there’s the Poll Tax, the implementation of which caused riots when the police attacked protestors, but essentially it was a property tax that every adult in the home was liable for and not just a household bill and was introduced at a time when the population was still trying to recover from really high unemployment rates (11.9%), a recession and the decimation of communities due to Thatcher playing her part in killing off UK industries such as steelworks, coal mines and shipbuilding. She then made the extra spiteful decision to bring it in up in Scotland a year before it was to be implemented in the rest of the UK, meaning that the Scots had to deal with this unfair form of taxation for four years to the rest of The Union’s three.
I saw Kinks in the 60s at a small club near to where I lived in London and they were good but could not sing in tune. Saw many of 60s bands there before they got really famous.
@@angeladormer6659 I saw Blur play at Glastonbury in ‘92 and Damon Albarn was painfully out of tune throughout. So I perfectly understand that some bands should only be recorded. Though I have to admit that when I saw The Kinks in ‘93 both Ray and Dave were in fine voice and the band in general performed wonderfully.
Yes the evil old bag lived too long as far as I'm concerned.
The Stranglers are a great band that have sadly been largely forgotten by the public in general.
How can he not have heard Golden Brown .....??
Standing on the beaches, lookin' at the peaches ...
I think the best way to have a hit record is to get it banned by the BBC 😂
The Stranglers were brilliant, definitely recommend giving them a listen Peaches, Golden Brown, 96 Tears, Always the Sun and they did a very good version of Walk On By.
My husband and I saw Ray Davies from The Kinks live about 8 years ago, he sang all The Kinks hits, it was amazing. I Loved hearing my favourite Sunny Afternoon and had a real hair on the back of my neck standing up moment when he sang Waterloo Sunset, great times.
Wishing you well and sending peace.
It worked for Jasper Carrot with The Magic Roundabout. Top of The Pops would only let him play the other A side of the single: Funky Moped on air.
Can we agree that when Boris dies we’ll play ‘if I only had a brain’?
Actually Boris has a first class, in every sense of the word, brain.
Have you a First from Oxford?
@@pathopewell1814 no, I work for the nhs that the tories have systematically destroyed over the past decade, and a great many of his detractors were educated at Oxford. I like that the usual argument to an obviously flippant comment on CZcams is to vaguely attempt to insult someone’s intelligence. Says a lot about the current political climate.
@@pathopewell1814gammon
@@pathopewell1814 he clearly didn't use that Oxford education when deciding if having parties was a good idea when had banned everyone from doing the same. So yeah how intelligent is he?
My choice is 'Liar' by the Sex Pistols
9:37 "I didn't know it was offensive"
I think you might not have been looking at the lyric that they are talking about...
When Thatcher died there were street parties across Britain, I was down in London at the time and there were literally thousands on the streets celebrating the news of her death. I live in Scotland and Thatcher to this day is detested by the vast majority of Scots for many reasons. One of which was when Thacher was asked by a journalist many years after she left politics, why she introduced the Poll Tax in Scotland before the rest of the UK, it was reported that she dismissively said "They're only Scots". So you can see why she is not particularly liked in Scotland.
It's not just Thatcher; the Scots hate the Tories in general. The Tories haven't had over 50% of the vote in Scotland since 1955, which is also the last year they got 50% of the seats. They had 31/72 seats in 1958, and 24/72 is their best result since then. In the 1997 election they won no seats, and only one seat in 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015. They picked up a bit in 2017 with 13/59 but they're back down to 6/59 now.
@@Michael75579 I'm Scottish and totally agree, I was a Labour member and activist for 42 years up until 2015, the reasons for my departure I won't go into here. I like many other Labour activists after the activities of the Better Together cabal now support the SNP. In my constituency, there hasn't been a Tory MP since 1924 when Tory Stanley Baldwin became PM.
She wasn't popular in the North East of England too
@@Saor_Albahi up where I am liebour shard platforms with the bnp and NF at bitter together gatherings disgusting behaviour
This is such a lie. There, were street parties in a couple of mining towns and no more than a few hundred celebrating on the streets of London. Vast majority at her funeral were very respectful and apauded as her cobfin went past. Those who hated her, really hated her but she won three elections and millions of ordinary working class people voted for her. We, weren't all miners expecting jobs for life.
hadn't thought of that before - never really analysed the lyrics of Oliver's army, but I take it Oliver must refer to Cromwell, who was a genocidal murderer in Ireland.
The Stranglers, wow, my favourite band. I have seen them live so many times. I'm UK based and went to see them play in Barcelona in March 2023 and I will see the them again in March this year. Wonderful live band with a legacy of fantastic songs. It shows how long they have been around when the only tickets available for the Wolverhampton gig are standing as seats and balcony are sold out. Can't wait!!!
I only got to see them live once, when they were support to the Who, at original Wembley Stadium, an amazing live band.
Saw them in Brixton last year.Still a great band.
Stranglers are classic 👌 Golden Brown is a favorite
In talking about Relax, he said the lyrics "went over my head"😀.........
I remember as a kid the miner's strikes in the 1980. A couple of years ago I was seeing a lass from Barnsley Northern England she was even today she still feels the devastation today to the pit closures. They are still very angry.
because they never moved on. they went on strike tried to bring the country to its knees and got BTFU and have spent the last 40 years moaning.
She was awful, when the alert came up on my TV that she died I called my mom, she was so happy she lived thru the coal strikes etc
You have to check out the Stranglers but I'm sure you'll recognise Golden Brown when you hear it. Lurve your style BTW, soft and calm and with a load of great musical knowledge and insight. Great work❤
My favourite story about Creep is that Prince once performed it live, and was recorded doing so. The video made it onto CZcams, and Prince submitted a copyright complaint to get the video removed. Thom Yorke responded saying "my copyright, put the video back up" (not verbatim).
The beeb bannings can be hilarious eg when they banned Lulu's "Boom bang a bang " during the Kuwait war or some other conflict...presumably as bombs go,er,bang 🎩
Another scandal was "Je t'aime ... moi non plus" by Serge Gainsborogh and Jane Birkin in the late 1960s -- mainly because there was a lengthy passage where Birkin just moaned and sighed, ostensibly mimicking sexual sounds and very suggestive lyrics, like "you are the wave, coming and going" (or words to that effect). A lot of people were scandalized, even though it was sung in French and not many would've understood the words anyway!
... yet the Chakachas "Jungle Fever" from 1972 featured orgasmic groans that left male listeners checking their backs for nail scratches
Thatcher was hated throughout Britain and rightly so.
That is why she won 3 successive elections. You may not like hat but she was "hated" so much she just kept winning. My Uncle from The London Docks hated her as she stopped their xxxxtaking practices as Red Ken Livingstone's propaganda machine; "The GLC": Greater London Council which she shut down and I worked in Fleet Street during The Wapping/The Sub dispute when she ended the practice of The Unions, not The Employers running the industry. Imagine you and I running a Business and not being able to employ who WE want, Millions of working-class people like me would still be paying Council rent if she did not give us the chance to buy and be rent-free for life.
What nonsense... you're talking from your single point of view.
Thing I take away from the reaction to Thatcher's death was that it's ok for people including those in Liverpool to celebrate her death, YET when somebody starts celebrating the death of those at Hillsborough there is outrage.
@AirstripOne-nd4du She was disliked even hated by The Left for loving Britain and putting Britain and British people first. How evil...
@AirstripOne-nd4du Manchester Utd fans have celebrated the deaths at Hillsborough as have other fans across Europe. Liverpool fans have celebrated Manchester Utd players killed in plane crash.
It doesn't matter if government policies were implement shouldn't be celebrating anybody's death. Btw when it comes to implement polices I can think of some from the early 1970s that would class as just as bad as what Thatcher and her Govt did.
Ding dong the witch is dead was used as the outro for the song 'The Day that Thatcher dies” by Hefner long before Thatchers death. During her rule there were literally dozens of songs criticizing her or hoping for her death. "Margaret on the Guillotine" by the Smiths and "Tramp the dirt down" by Elvis Costello being just two, amongst various rock, reggae, metal and ballad style songs. You can find lists of anti-thatcher songs on line. You will also find that various news-quiz style shows dedicated quite some time to appreciating her death.
So "TDS" started decades before 2016.
Thatcher was the Education Secretary in the 1970s. She decimated small milk producers and helped make post-war children more malnourished by cancelling the third of a pint of milk for children under seven. When I was in infants and junior school Tom Parker's dairy was literally across the road from the school. He milked his 14 grass-fed cows then deliver the milk to us. Tom also had a local door-to-door milk round with the milk floats pulled by horses. The milkman would visit streets with his horse following behind unguided, pulling the float and providing fertiliser for the local gardens as he went along the road. I see Tom Parker's Creamery has survived, though not in the same county.
I can’t stand Thatcher, but to be fair she simply cancelled free school milk for kids like me who didn’t need it. Those who did still got it. And those of us who hated warm school milk were grateful that we didn’t have to drink it anymore. Given everything else she did, such as decimating the steel and coal industries and selling off our public utilities, getting rid of free school milk for all is very minor!
@workthinton3637: The reason why she stopped "free school milk" in the Comprehensive system, Prep schools still had Milk at Break times as I remember it in the early 80's, was because the country could not afford it, that money could be used elsewhere. People are forgetting that she was a mother, and naturally thought that parents could feed and water their own children and not rely on the Government via the taxpayer ie other children's parents to do it, "Free" means someone else is paying for it and why should someone else's parent be paying for another person's child to get a meal or drink, when they should be doing that themselves. If I recall it was also her Government that dropped corporal punishment in both Private ( 1984 ) and State ( 1987 ) and in her earlier years before she entered politics she was all for caning, with hindsight the way children behave today assaulting teachers etc, maybe it was a bad thing.
@@ffotograffydd I've just read that it was Ted Heath who canceled the milk for over 7's. Thatcher was apparently against it according to recently released documents. Lest we forget it was Harold Wilson who started the ball rolling in 1968 by cutting milk for secondary schools. Nowadays children under 5 and at approved day care facilities for 2 hours or more are still entitled to free milk.
OMG he's never heard of the stranglers and peaches is a classic
Wow, even as a Brit, I had no idea that Creep was considered so depressing by the Beeb. Personally, the track Thom Yorke did with UNKLE in 1998 Rabbit in Your Headlights...is by far the most sad, depressing and haunting track. Truly beautiful and melancholy with an incredible video. Also worth checking out on the same UNKLE album Psyence Fiction is Lonely Soul with vocals from Richard Ashcroft of The Verve - another beautiful track. The whole album is pretty solid to be honest 🥰
Thom Yorke and Bjorks "I've seen it all" wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs either
Definitely had a copy of that but not listened to it for years. Time to dig through the CDs.
@@royw-g3120 I've been checking out some of the music videos this part week. Definitely a vibe 😍
Thatcher was detested by many in the broken UK especially in Scotland She attended the Scottish cup final and in a rare outbreak of unity both Celtic and Dundee United supporters Booed and jeered her.
My Iron Lung is about Creep and it's quite the metaphor. Also I'm not sure you looked up the correct slur from Oliver's Army, it is instantaneously obviously offensive dude!
One of the most evil people in history, who has done great harm to the U.K.
That's a bit harsh. JJLA seems like a nice guy to me.
@@DrJosepi Reposting WatchMojo videos is just evil.
Who ? Robin Hood 😅😅😂😂
Thatcher's worst legacy is the lack of social housing.
Golden Brown, Its a classic. Its about Herion. Never had it but the song is for everyone!
A very peculiar thing with golden brown was its introduction on radio 4, regarded as a codgers/ highbrow station, it gained popularity very fast, because it was a very gentle on the ear, the listeners hadn't any idea it was about heroin, it was just a beautiful tune to them and they were dead right about that.
I saw the strangler live supporting Alice Cooper, and they were great. This was before their keyboardist passed away.
The Stranglers - No More Heroes, Golden Brown.
'Old blues innuendo' - Julia Lee - The Spinach Song/ I Didn't Like It The First Time, definitely not about spinach 😁
Search on here for Frankie Boyle on Thatcher's Funeral....😏
I remember a classic comment on a radio phone in a couple of years ago.
'I left the UK for Canada some years ago because of a woman'
'Who was the lucky lady'?
'Margaret Thatcher'.
That was another factor, a misogynistic factor, many didn’t like being told what to do by a woman!
@@jane1975 We didn't listen to her. We rioted.
@@jonjuliecat Because you were thugs, anarchic thugs egged on Marxists like Scargill.
The stranglers were/are a great band. Did some really classic songs with very interesting themes.
Elvis Costello is quality and he hasn't removed the slur from his song online which is good .
Been a Stranglers fan since first heard them with The Raven in 1979
Elvis Costello wanted to criticise the Falklands War, so he released a limited edition single, under the pseudonym of The Imposter... it's called Pills And Soap. Definitely worth a listen, in fact many of his song lyrics are edgy.
@julianaylor4351: I suppose he wanted the Islands to go back to a country that never owned them in the first place, in fact didn't even exist when we established our own people on the islands in 1830, before that it was French territory but it didn't succeed so they handed it over to us. The Argentinian Government only tries to use "The Falkand Islands" as a) Smoke Screen to distract the countries people from their failures and stir up nationalism and b) They are also after any oil reserves around the Islands.
Costello was making also a very good point at the time that the working class understood in Liverpool, Newcastle, and Sunderland in the dole office the rectangular card for British Army recruitment £63 a week to get killed or maimed in Belfast....built up as you can see the world here's your chance, my son, get in....questions were being asked before the Royal and political scandals broke out,there was a stirring in Middle England....the lyrics pointed out historic things Brits didn't want to hear about society that was actually Victorian...
@@johncahalane7327 Sounds more like he was anti military, which is another trait of socialists, champagne or otherwise. Cannot possibly put a uniform on and fight FOR their country, don’t mind others doing it but spit on them ( literally ) if they do. Lots of people were willing and proud to fight and die for their country, sounds like the people of these constituencies at the time preferred to be living off the taxpayer, waiting for “ right job “ to land on their laps and fight against the country rather than fight for it - unprincipled.
The Stranglers were/are fabulous! Do check them out, especially "Walk On By" (plus 'Go Buddy Go', 'Duchess', 'Golden Brown', 'No More Heroes', '96 Tears'...)
❤❤❤❤❤❤ The Stranglers
? and the Mysterions 96 tears is superior.
If you havent watched it the Radiohead Iceberg video is worth watching for your personal consumption. Creep was very important as it was the reason Radiohead modified their music. People liked it so much they only wanted Creep played and the band got angry and changed direction with the bends to move towards what they really wanted to do. In recent years they started playing it again
Your voice is so soothing and you have a lot of insight into each song.
You really need to listen to the Stranglers.
My mother never had a political bone in her body. When it came to Thatcher she said "that woman did more harm to this country than Hitler ever did".
Sounds like most of the bone was in her head.
@@charlestaylor3027 sounds like yours is up your arse.
Prodigy Is one of the best videos made So clever and the end twist Awesome
13:48 All I can say about Margaret Thatcher is that I can safely say that men and women genuinely hating her had nothing to do with her being a woman. people were literally dancing in the streets in London, in Northern England, and I'm pretty sure in Scotland and Ireland as well.
But since I've started I'll continue.
From what I can tell, her crimes involve closing coal mines not because of climate or health reasons but because it cost more to pay the miners than it did to sell the coal and her government made no effort to create new jobs because there was next to no other jobs in those areas, preventing schools from teaching children about gay and lesbian people (there's footage somewhere of her saying in a speech "children are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay"), preventing schools from providing children with milk, trying to make people have to pay to vote (the poll tax), basically never appointing a woman to any position in her party in spite of being the first female prime minister because she was something of a sexist herself and didn't seem to think that most other women were suitable and in fact called feminism a poison, refusing to recognise the attacks from the IRA (the Irish Republican Army) as political crimes or to recognise the arrested IRA members as political criminals (which is an insult not only to what the IRA were fighting for (I agree with their goals though I don't agree with their methods) and to the victims of their attacks - for more information see Irish history) which led to a massive hunger strike where ten IRA members died (the first and most famous of them being Bobby Sands - he planned on dying), and after all her money saving politics she requested a state funeral which ended up costing nearly 10 million pounds that I'm pretty sure if all taxes (when she announced it a few years before her death it was supposed to cost 3 million pounds it was discussed on a comedy show, one man commented that it would make more sense to hold her funeral up north rather than in London because there'd be a better turn out because "there'd be all the loads of people in the street having a party" and a Scottish man said "for three million pounds, they could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'd dig a whole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally"). And there are other reasons why men and women genuinely hated her and still do.
Here's the Margaret Thatcher song, video: czcams.com/video/ZJh0m0E7Ozg/video.html
and lyrics:
Oh we love you mrs thatcher you're the darling of us all
You're the curse of the Irish Nation
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil
You've destroyed me hired purchase and you've put me on the dole
If I could get me hands on you I'd kick you up the hole
Oh we love you Mrs Thatcher no one in this world can matcher
She's trying to take the vote away from the Paddies once again
We're not worried about your blasted vote nor your politicians gas
You can keep them Mrs Thatcher you can stick them up your a**
Oh we love you Mrs thatcher you're the cutest girl of all
Such a biddy fine and buxom sure the like you'll not recall
When she holds negotiations things they always reach a hitch
She's the world in ruination such a schemer the old b***
Oh we love you Mrs Thatcher with your prices rising high
And work is getting awful scare we're loosing that's no lie
Now you say you don't want to stay, you've been here long enough
If I were a taxidermist well I'd tell you to get stuffed
Oh we love you Mrs Thatcher sure you know a trick or two
And when you come to Dublin we know just what you'll do
Sure you'll dress up in your finery and b*** with all your might
And all of your fancy promises are just a load of sh**e
Oh we love you Mrs Tatcher like your old man likes a brew
Sure he'll take a pint of Murphys and a glass of Irish mist
And because he sleeps with you each night no wonder he's always pissed
Oh we love you mrs thatcher you're the darling of us all
You're the curse of the Irish Nation
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil
You've destroyed me hired purchase and you've put me on the dole
If I could get me hands on you I'd kick you up the hole
The Stranglers also got into trouble for using strippers on stage for Nice 'n' Sleazy. But you should try their songs Golden Brown, Get A Grip as well as Peaches.
Hate is too mild for what many of us felt about thatcher ...spit...
There are two versions of Frankie goes to Hollywood's "Relax". The longer Original version, with the controversial gay bar music video and a shorter American version with some changed lyrics with a music video at a concert.
Costello is a genius
'Thatcher - the milk snatcher' was the chant. (she removed free school milk from primary school children as well as closing down all the coal mines and losing millions of jobs)
did you know that the previous Labour government closed more mines. can you imagine kids these days drinking milk,,there was loads who wouldnt drink the milk when I was a kid in the 70s, I would drink all their milk,,Im 6 foot 4 now
Saw the stranglers twice. Brilliant
'Ding Dong'. Elvis Costello also did a tribute to Thatcher called 'Tramp The Dirt Down'. Give it a go
Good to hear that over in the states you've never hear anything good about Thatcher.
It's impossible to insult her: her reality trumps any abuse.
The best part about the Prodigy's video is the last frame... It's a woman, not a man.
We're still reeling from the policies of thatcher, especially in Northern England.
And in Scotland because we don't vote tory she too hard revenge, evil to the core only little engerlanders tories and racists still love her
With relax, only the video was banned. One BBC Radio One DJ refused to play it & that is his perogative. However, he announced on national radio that he wasn't going to play it, thereby ensuring it went to number one.
Its an exagerration that Creep was banned ,it wasn't they simply edited out the swear word replacing
It with the word very , it was and still is played on Radio.
There's all sorts of inconsistencies in that video.
The BBC in the 60s and 70s were censored regularly as they were and still is publicly funded by the UK government.
They often had to get some songs passed by the public sensor as such anything that had a commercial mention had to had an edited version.
Bans for songs that contained sexual references weren't always successful as some sensors didn't get the references.
An example of one song getting past the sensor but shouldn't have was Walk on the wild side by Lou Reed.
In the case of Relax it was played constantly on the radio until a BBC dj called Mike Read questioned the lyrical content ,by that time it was too late everyone heard it 😆
thatcher started by removing milk from some children at school. all children got 1/3pt milk every day, untill the 70s when only children whose families were on benifits could recieve it. she closed the mines leaving uk in fuel deficit removing thousands of jobs and decimating comunities. she bought in means testing for benifits, which people found humiliating. she fought every protest with the police, which were used like her own privet army. she widened the gap between the rich and poor by a massive amount. she made politicians ceo level as opposed to well paid workers wage levels
Another British band that have spanned the decades, is Status Quo. Or the three chord wonders, as they were known. But in an affectionate way, because they were always fantastic live.
Quo!!!! Saw them 4 times in my yoof. They were awesome live. Hawkwind were another good live band, even saw them at Stonehenge (that was a trippy weekend). Lindisfarne were great live too, saw them 4 or 5 times, best one was the first Nostell Priory gig. Jethro Tull were headlining but I had tried and liked the Theakston's Old Peculiar so don't remember much about Tull's performance. xxx
Yep, saw the Quo live several times back in the day and they were loud. The last time I saw them they had the amps ramped right up to the point where I had to leave because of the searing pain in my eardrums was agonising. No kidding, I wasn’t able to hear properly for a good couple of week’s after and I’m certain that it never fully recovered. I’m 63 now and definitely hard of hearing, but it was a memorable gig. 😊
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Hic poor hic Jethro Tull hic?! 😊❤️🏴🖖
I only ever saw Quo live once. They were covering other bands' hits and Francis Rossi announced this meant they would sometimes need to play a FOURTH chord!
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Rest In Peace Rick 😥
You should look up the picture from the inside of the gatefold LP cover for Welcome ti the Pleasure Done by Frankie goes to Hollywood…
Thatcher took away free milk from children at school.The milk snaatcher.
You have to understand what that thing did to the north of england you could argue we are still feeling the effects of it to this day it is a very fitting song for it.
Try the Stranglers "Golden Brown" too, it's one you may recognise.
Talked to JJ and Dave Greenfield a few times when both lived in our village, Dave, who pased away with covid a couple of years ago, didn't particularly like being classed as "Punk", I think they would more likely have been classed as a slightly different "Pub Rock" band, like Dr Feelgood or Eddie and the Hot Rods, if they had been successful a little earlier? Thry were a bit older than most Punk Rock groups aswell. Dave didn't complain too much though, as the "Punk" tag probably helped their success. Saw them at Wembly Stadium supporting The Who along with AC/DC back in '79 and a few times a lot more recently in our local village club, where Dave would occasionally try out some new stuff along with a few old favourites.
Highly recommend checking out the Stranglers first two albums, Rattus Norvegicus and No More Heroes in that order. I saw them at Guildford Uni in 78 and are my favorite punk band of that era.
Radiohead getting shadow-banned for 'Creep' when Black Sabbath could do Top of the Pops playing 'Paranoid'? (I think it made No.2!)
The 1931 record "My girl's Pussy" by 1930s English jazz/dance band Harry Roy and his Bat Club Boys was never played on the radio. It was covered in 1978 by the American counter- culture cartoonlst Robert Crumb.
Us Brits have a dark senise of humour. Libs & working class were happy when Maggie T died
Golden Brown by the Stranglers is a favourite and probably the best known it is if course a drug reference. I got it on a compliation album whhen i was young because it skso had Ghost town by the specials in it
Maggie Thatcher, was the first PM that I can remember to completely 'polarise' a population. Some thought her to be brilliant and just what the country needed. Try telling that to those poorer people, or the working classes whose spirit had to broken to usher in her vision of British Utopia. I was brought up in a mining village, an industry decimated by Thatcher. You'd be hard pressed to find many there with a good word for her. Under her, politics became a cult rather than a means of governing a nation. No one dare stand in her way, and that's not healthy. Cult politics, unfortunately, is here to stay now. We have (had) Boris - a cult with no moral compass, and on your side of the pond you have Trump, and if ever there was a cult leader, it's him...... why do any sensible Americans believe he's fit for office?
Thatcher - a divisive figure who left an indelible stain on Britain, much in the same way as Franco did in Spain. 💀
That fuckin' Thatcher! She tore the fuckin' heart oot ae this community!
I detest her.
Loads loved her for allowing them to buy their council houses, but she did it to limit their ability to strike - a council won’t evict an estate of striking workers - Banks have no problem foreclosing
@utoobeizkaka2737 ta, or proof read 👍
It's a shame that the Stranglers aren't big in the US. I think they're considered a 1 hit wonder there for Golden Brown, but they have so many great songs. No More Heroes is one of my all time favourites. RIP Dave Greenfield, the keyboard wizard.
Yes, the Stranglers are still playing. I have tickets to see them at the Piece Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire (look it up) this Summer. Can't wait.
“NEIL, the bathrooms free,unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!”
RIP Rik.
❤
"Let's Spend The Night Together" was the A-side to the North American release but most stations went with the B-side, "Ruby Tuesday". It's likely that the B-side was chosen more because of the "Psychedelia" trend at the time rather than any objection to the subject matter of the former.
Many American stations wouldn't play The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" following the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Most US Rock stations wouldn't play Saliva's "Click Click Boom", released shortly after 9-11.
Two 1971 tracks found themselves snubbed by mainstream radio. The Buoys "Timothy" told the story of men trapped in a mine who resorted to cannibalism. The lyrics weren't explicit, but the implication was obvious. The record company insisted that "Timothy" was in fact... a mule. Yeah. Sure. Even more dark was Bloodrock's disturbing "DOA", with its lyrics from the perspective of the survivor of a mid-air plane crash as he lay dying in the hospital. The FCC tried to have the song banned because the sirens in the background of the song violated regulations regarding civilian use of emergency sirens.
But you couldn't get any more insane than state-controlled Top 40 radio in South Africa. Controversial songs like "Lola" were untouched, and that particular Kinks hit went to #1 on the charts. But a few years laters, The Osmonds "Crazy Horses" was banned because the nutbag rightwing censors insisted the song was about heroin abuse. The Osmonds. Mormons. Heroin abuse. Let that sink in ...
Of course the Beatles were banned from the SABC following John Lennon's "Jesus Christ" comment in 1966... but nearly everyone continued to buy their records. Yet none of John Lennon's solo material was ever banned, nor that of any of the other three Beatles. In fact, "Imagine" reached #1 on the chart and is of course, a rock classic. So you get banned because you say kids cared more about rock music than about religion... but you can doubt the very existence of God and that's perfectly okay. Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" was also banned on South African radio but the single sold like hotcakes.
The insanity of that country continued with its local chart. With no "official" chart, the weekly Top 20 from Springbok Radio was the rule of thumb. Each week listeners were told that the chart was based on weekly sales of "7-singles" as they're called there. Yet top-selling singles that were banned from SABC never appeared on the chart.
I was never really a fan of The Strangles, but the French band members brother was a French teacher at the school I was at at the time, pupils would take record sleeves etc to school and the teacher/brother would pass them on to get them signed, it was stopped by the headmaster once he found out, I thought that it was good that both brothers were happy to take the time/make the effort.
Our ability to get away with swearing in common parlance, has led to us having a world beating level of insults!!
The BBC do not have the authority to ban a song. With Relax, Simon Bates, a Radio 1 DJ said he would not play the song on his show. Immediately, everybody went out and bought it, making it No 1. Every DJ on every station played it, but Simon Bates always refused. For Ameroca they changed the video to Holly Johnson surrounded by green lasers. YOU HAVE TO WATCH the video to Smack My Bitch Up by the Prodigy. The ending will literally blow your mind.
love your bleep noises , very funny!
All this talk of the BBC banned this and banned that, they banned nothing. All "banned" meant was something wasn't included on day primetime playlists. In the evening with the more underground DJ they could play what they wanted.
WatchMojo wouldn’t know what was happening if it slapped them around the face.
Thatcher was a monster.
I really doubt the BBC banned Creep. I remember it being played on radio one when it was out. WatchMojo really are the worst list makers on CZcams.
Yes the radio version was played all the time it still is
Margaret Thatcher was loved and hated in almost equal measure.
I happen to fall on the side of hatred.
Ding dong......
I bought the 12 inch of this before it came out unheard. Loved it. Saw them when they were a support act to the British group James.
My brother brought.. frigging in the rigging by sex pistols it was banned by bbc … google it the lyrics
Where did he bring it to?
The only good thing maggie did was make a decent soft serve ice cream - probably using the milk
she syole from my generation
The Smack My Bitch Up video was stunning, brilliantly done. Another of theirs I love is for Baby's Got a Temper (and the DVD release commentary track is genius).
The Thatcher thing was like a country wide release of emotion, she gutted the life of so many small communities and industries its no surprise feeling ran so deep.
So may people went crazy about "Smack My Bitch Up" video without even seeing it - accusing The Prodigy of misogyny. If they has seen it they would have known it shows the exact opposite.
Thatcjer wanted Businesses not to be giant loss makers like muy Industry: The National Coal Board had become. Can you imagine the cheek?
@veretbowring: Only the left hated Thatcher [ and by the sounds of it still does ] and its "luvvies". This country has only ever had two great Prime Ministers, Churchill and Thatcher and that's it, you cannot keep an industry going that is no longer viable, in 1979 when she became PM our country was literally on its knees, businesses had to shut down since they were not making any money due to the fact that her predecessors, Wilson and Callaghan had been taxing high earners 83% and they left the country, and take their money with them and sounds like many today are already planning to leave yet again if there is a Labour Government. This bankrupted the country and businesses had to close as they couldn't afford to stay open, it took her until about 86 to turn it around, if Labour had stayed in power, although Callaghan wasn't the hard left like Labour is steadily growing into and he also knew what a woman was, the UK would have looked like North Korea by the end of the 1990's. Even since Thatcher gave people the right to buy their own council homes, giving people social mobility and aspiration, those former working classes have been going blue ever since. If you are still voting for Labour after 35 then you are either rich, whereby socialist ideas don't effect you or naive.
The thatcher thing is british humour 101, fr. Dark AF.