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Goes to my defiance of capitalism. It revels in aprobium. Shame is anathema to those stooges. Faith in humanity. Proud working class boys and girls fight for our share. Socialism Here We Go.
I lost my daughter 10 years ago and whenever I play this song it reminds of me of when she was a nipper brings a tear to my eye. Happy memories of you kirstie I love you darling. UB 40 best ever
My all-time favourite UB40 track. Vicious, hard-hitting lyrics that are still relevant today. I miss the time when musicians took their art seriously and used it to raise awareness and educate people about what's really important in society and in the world at large.
Completely agree. An excellent track and one of the best. Music is one of life's greatest treasures and gifts. I despair for kids growing up these days and having to listen to utter trash with no meaning or purpose other than to make money. Materialistic society, sickening.
Music does not have to be political to be good, in fact most politically charged music is pretty lame and doesn't age well. "I don't like music **pause** at all".
This was true for my father during 80s after 14yrs in the navy 7yrs unemployed don’t give me the thatcher was great carry on. I lived this as a kid and they were awful times in Scotland anyway with northern England wales and NI ok if your a banker from SE
😟 Brian Travers - one of the co -founders, song writer and Saxophone player from the reggae band UB40 has died ar the age of 62 from brain cancer. Condolences to his family and may he rest in peace 😢
@@stephenyoung9698 I had a pint of Guinness a few years bag with Brian and he was as nice a guy as he was talented. A tragic and sad loss to the world.
At high school in the late 80s the older brothers of all my friends grew hydroponic weed in their bedroom cupboards with a lamp and a little tent. I honestly thought that the chorus lyrical hook was "A marijuana tent, a number on my lips"... man, the 80s were good....
The name "UB40" was selected in reference to an attendance card issued to people claiming unemployment benefits. Hard times in the 80s gave birth to some of the most beautiful, iconic music our country has ever produced.
Tuesday mornings in the pub before the dole office opened. Reading cards off the wall...miss them days...all fuckin online now....not the social it used to be 😉
My arms enfold the dole queue Malnutrition dulls my hair My eyes are black and lifeless With an underprivileged stare I'm the beggar on the corner Will no-one spare a dime? I'm the child that never learns to read 'Cause no-one spared the time. Epic lyrics!!! If you are happy in life. You are one of the lucky ones. Believe me!!!
This song really shows how blessed we are we claim to be the one in ten the truth is it depends on your situation. This is a class song about poverty but where I come from I am the one in ten but from what though? That's the thing. UB40 are legends 100%
Mine is health related...the other 9 just know the word care...not the meaning. Being European I've everything that others long for in other parts of the world... but I don't fit in my world.. just how life is
We should reallyappreciate the art of this video. The stadium is empty, applying the fact that non one cares or even listens. Their lyrics, and portrayal of them are so on point!!!
I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me But I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care My arms enfold the dole queue Malnutrition dulls my hair My eyes are black and lifeless With an underprivileged stare I'm the beggar on the corner Will no-one spare a dime? I'm the child that never learns to read Cause no-one spared the time I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me But I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care I'm the murderer and the victim I'm the licence with the gun I'm a sad and bruised old lady In an ally in a slum I'm a middle aged businessman With chronic heart disease I'm another teenaged suicide In a street that has no trees I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me But I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care I'm a starving third world mother A refugee without a home I'm a house wife hooked on Valium I'm a Pensioner alone I'm a cancer ridden spectre Covering the earth I'm another hungry baby I'm an accident of birth I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me But I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care.
A statistic ..a reminder of a world that doesn't care. They see us that way..but we all live in the same boat or Ship..it won't sink❤❤One of the best Live bands on Earth someone told me...
In my opinion , the best Universal British Reggae Band....and remain so!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ RIP Brian Travers. Amazing light nd energy. Sad today! The music goes on and the light is dimmer but it will reignite with your spirit. Perhaps now you're on another plain you can work your magic and reunite the guys if it's meant!? 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😭😇🙏🎵💓❤♥️😢🎶
Absolutely!! You’re spot on there 👍🏼 All their songs were fantastic,they had their own sound,still love listening to them. But this songs lyrics are timeless,if it was released today it would still be very relevant. Sadly, nothing has changed,we’re all just a number & a statistic at the end of the day.More-so today than ever 😏 Saw them live 16th June 1981 Guildhall Preston,seems like yesterday,One of the BEST concerts I’ve ever been too! Those were the days when concerts were watched through our EYES and not via the screen of a smartphone just for a few minutes fame on social media 🤣😂🤣😂
I saw them live in concert back in the early eightiesin Cornwall. As i was on the dole at the time you could buy a cheaper ticket to see them live (UB40 stands for unemployment benefit) if you showed the record shop you were unemployed before buying the ticket. I met the band after the gig and they gave me a tin of beer and a burger and signed a poster saying " Steve, best of luck finding a job, UB40" Awesome band with a caring social consciousness.
That bass line is fantastic. This, and The Specials 'Ghost Town' take me right back to that time - upheaval, despair, anger... and some great music despite everything.
I think my mate's and myself grew up in the great free and easy decades of the 70s and 80s. ..The music was the best, from glam rock to ska /reggae/disco,you couldn't beat it...Also the people always seem to be happy back Then, Than they are today. ..(well 9/10/2016 ..tonight ) I am dusting of MY OLD DOC MARTIN OX RED BOOTS, and my BEN SHERMAN SHIRT and my CAMOUFLAGED SHORTS, and hitting the Town, goin to watch UB40 in Liverpool. .i can't wait. And (at 59 year's of age,but feeling 21), probably my last fling with the ub,s..mybe our last time together. .xx
Incredible song. Hard-hitting lyrics, cool melody. Great musicians! I still have my UB40 album with that ICONIC ub40 cover! Sad to hear sax player Brian Travers has died. R.I.P Brian.
I'm in love with this song and a load of other 80s songs, I'm 19 I really wish I lived in these times to experience REAL music and just a fun life. Everything now is absolutely rubbish.
I did live in those 80's days, great music. But now I'll play any music from any era and genre. Soul, funk, rock, electronic. Wish I'd have done this years ago 👍🎧
@@rosssteel1556 All I'm saying is you had the best era honestly i bet it was heaven compared to today. I used to think the 60s 70s and the 80s were all rubbish times. But as soon as i got older i suddenly realised how better life was and how different it was
@@rosssteel1556 All I'm saying is you had the best era honestly i bet it was heaven compared to today. I used to think the 60s 70s and the 80s were all rubbish times. But as soon as i got older i suddenly realised how better life was and how different it was Edit: About me mentioning the 60s and 70s it was just an example
I'm 32 and this epic song from the most renound band in the world takes me right back to my childhood, where my family were all together (not so much now😢😢) was the best time in my generation....#Memories
The song, by a band using the name of the benefit attendance card, represented the number - 9.6% - of the workforce in the West Midlands claiming benefits in the summer of 1981.
@andre ibanez Thatcher closed down the coal mines this song was at the time of the miner's strikes as well as three million unemployed,ten percent of the British workforce of thirty million that's where the 'One in Ten' comes from.Those mining communities have still never recovered forty years later...
@andre ibanez I WAS A 'ONE IN TEN',IN BIRMINGHAM IN THE EIGHTIES UNDER MAGGIE THATCHER! Yet you come on here telling me I don't understand what the song is about,I HONESTLY do NOT know how you could actually make yourself look any more stupid on here? Probably time now to log off the internet for ever,smash up your Mom's computer,shut the door to her basement and NEVER,EVER come out of there again?
@@phnompenhtrader9698 The only person that has got this spot on right is Andre. If you read the biography you will read It has no coal miner relation it is a LOCAL unemployment reference in the West Midlands, there is or were no coal mines in the 80s it is all metal bashing area, thus manufacturing. Phnom you`re dumb ass.
Strange to think it is 40 years or so since I stood in the same dole queue as the Campbells but this tune is as relevant today as it was then nothing but nothing has changed humanity and not learnt a damn thing.
I was listening to UB40 while I was working in hospital during lock down which kept me busy classic tune classic band plus where I live every weekend everyone would party to UB40 😎
Probably the best tune UB40 ever made... It was original and meant something... A lot of they're tunes meant something but unfortunately most were cover versions
I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me But I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care My arms enfold the dole queue Malnutrition dulls my hair My eyes are black and lifeless With an underprivileged stare I'm the beggar on the corner Will no-one spare a dime? I'm the child that never learns to read 'Cause no-one spared the time [Chorus] I'm the murderer and the victim The licence with the gun I'm a sad and bruised old lady In an ally in a slum I'm a middle aged businessman With chronic heart disease I'm another teenaged suicide In a street that has no trees [Chorus] I'm a starving third world mother A refugee without a home I'm a house wife hooked on Valium I'm a Pensioner alone I'm a cancer ridden spectre Covering the earth I'm another hungry baby I'm an accident of birth
UB40 will always be relevant but this song will never be old. Hard hitting, tells it as it is, straight, that only someone who's been through & seen poverty can describe.
You think its your song because it means so much to you, its nice to see it means so much to others too, would like to thank UB40 for there music its been a massive part of my life,
With all the Commonwealth Games going on at the minute, time to get a bit of Birmingham's finest artists on the playlist. I think this song will be making a comeback the way things are going. I know it's about unemployment and the issues surrounding it but it's still as relevant today as back then when it was first released.
My alltime favorite band UB40, great lyrics, great music, great band. Grew up with them, and will leave my last bread with them, rest in peace Brian and Astro, trew legends 😥😥❤
I remember this song resonating with me back in the 80s after loosing my job due to knee surgery. Have always loved ub40 and stumbling on this tonight just resonates nothing has changed in 40+ yrs 🥺😥😥.
Who’s still feeling it 2024?❤
me ...and my neighbours ha ha 😂😂
Feeling it BIGLY. The old school is the best school.
Goes to my defiance of capitalism. It revels in aprobium. Shame is anathema to those stooges. Faith in humanity. Proud working class boys and girls fight for our share. Socialism Here We Go.
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@@stuartmorgan1150 ❤️
I lost my daughter 10 years ago and whenever I play this song it reminds of me of when she was a nipper brings a tear to my eye. Happy memories of you kirstie I love you darling. UB 40 best ever
R.I.P girl god bless you bro
Isiaha 57.1 it may help you but the pain will stay
Hi Gary - be comforted that she is being looked after by Prophet Abraham and his wife Sarah.
RIP kirstie sorry for your loss
Oo i m sorry
If you’ve never stood in the soulless dole queue with UB40 in hand..you know nothing about this !!
A statistic a reminder of a world that doesn't care. This words hits so deep
A time when musicians cared, & carried a political message for change, via their limelight. Now no one gives a stuff 😢
'statistical reminder of a world that doesn't care' - great sound and still hugely relevant today, sadly. Terrific music.
Sadly true.
Was just thinking the exact same :(
...and most stats are faked.
DEAD SHEEP The unemployment rate was actually 1 in 9 in 1982, 3.5million unemployed so it was a big deal my chungle
Whilst I agree, the lyrics are “a statistic, a reminder”.
RIP Astro, RIP Brian Travers.. UB40 original lineup lost two members in 2021. This is one of their earliest and most important hits.
A pitch-perfect encapsulation of that time of utter misery, the late '70s/early '80s. Now, it seems, we're right back in the same kind of soup.
So true
And it is the same party of thieves that put us there. Tory derived from toraidhe - an Irish word for robber, outlaw...
My all-time favourite UB40 track. Vicious, hard-hitting lyrics that are still relevant today. I miss the time when musicians took their art seriously and used it to raise awareness and educate people about what's really important in society and in the world at large.
But... But... Your face is too big for my boots...
Completely agree. An excellent track and one of the best. Music is one of life's greatest treasures and gifts. I despair for kids growing up these days and having to listen to utter trash with no meaning or purpose other than to make money. Materialistic society, sickening.
TORIES OUT agree
Music does not have to be political to be good, in fact most politically charged music is pretty lame and doesn't age well. "I don't like music **pause** at all".
Totally agree Brent Crude -alas I'm old enough to have been a one in ten then .Great comment .
A masterpiece made from the most depressing shit.
One of the greatest songs of all time
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I was lucky enough to be a teenager when this came out.Love it!!! Great days 😳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Just found out the sad news abrian Travers. RIP. X
Food For Thought and this classic are seared on my memory
Damn good album too
Great playing
If we didnt have that depressing shit back in the day we probably wouldnt have had this misic
What happened to music? This is what music was. God miss them days
technology ruined the old classical world of everything.
First two album's, great times.
and all these years later those lyrics are still all too true
This was true for my father during 80s after 14yrs in the navy 7yrs unemployed don’t give me the thatcher was great carry on. I lived this as a kid and they were awful times in Scotland anyway with northern England wales and NI ok if your a banker from SE
word up, she was out to destroy us
Still is from beyond the grave,selling off council houses.
it's not country, colour or continent that makes this kind of music.
It's poverty.
Also called hardship and imagination... the best art originates in the gutter...
Well said. 🙏🏻
😟 Brian Travers - one of the co -founders, song writer and Saxophone player from the reggae band UB40 has died ar the age of 62 from brain cancer.
Condolences to his family and may he rest in peace 😢
The perfect social commentary for any age and as powerful as a herd of elephants.
R.I.P. Bryan and Astro we will miss you 😢
So sad for the world to lose real people peace love always x
RIP Astro. This song was a part of my youth I will never forget
Bro
Definitely apart of my youth just add a bottle of thunderbird
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@@kelell6615 Me you the same. I had forgotten about that stimulating drink whilst walking around the park
To many of us, the song and the group reflects part of our memorable past that shall never come back again, but relived through such songs
UB40 was an unemployment benefit form. One in ten was being unemployed in the early 80s. I was a lucky one who got work when i left school.
RIP Brian Travers • This song meant the world to me as a kid and it still does ♥️
Brian travers was related to my nan and always treated her well.
@@stephenyoung9698 I had a pint of Guinness a few years bag with Brian and he was as nice a guy as he was talented. A tragic and sad loss to the world.
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Billys bar Digbeth ?
I'll never stop loving UB40. Brilliant band, songs of theirs have proved to be true now.
We do an honest day's work, but yet it's still not enough for the government.
At high school in the late 80s the older brothers of all my friends grew hydroponic weed in their bedroom cupboards with a lamp and a little tent. I honestly thought that the chorus lyrical hook was "A marijuana tent, a number on my lips"... man, the 80s were good....
A statistic, a reminder of a spliff that might exist
thats funny dude,
Song writers you are.
Statistical reminder of a world that doesn't care. And still doesn't care.
British vocalist and founding member of UB40, Terrence Wilson, better known as Astro has died after a short illness. He was 64.
May he R.I.P.
2020 and still a class song 😎
I just got here
Ashley Dukes only here in 2020 because triggered from the news about corona virus shame I used to love this group
Of course never leave
So relevant 35 years on
100%
Difficult to think of as more devastating critique of a world that really doesn't care. One of the greatest protest songs ever. Re-release now??!!
The name "UB40" was selected in reference to an attendance card issued to people claiming unemployment benefits. Hard times in the 80s gave birth to some of the most beautiful, iconic music our country has ever produced.
That was me.every fortnight turn up at the unemployment office with my ub40 card and came to sign on
Every Thursday for me signing on
Tuesday mornings in the pub before the dole office opened. Reading cards off the wall...miss them days...all fuckin online now....not the social it used to be 😉
@@greghardman5727 😂 i remember reading those cards
We have all be there brother!!
My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair
My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare
I'm the beggar on the corner
Will no-one spare a dime?
I'm the child that never learns to read
'Cause no-one spared the time.
Epic lyrics!!! If you are happy in life. You are one of the lucky ones. Believe me!!!
Im miracoulusly 58 now,
This song really shows how blessed we are we claim to be the one in ten the truth is it depends on your situation. This is a class song about poverty but where I come from I am the one in ten but from what though? That's the thing.
UB40 are legends 100%
Mine is health related...the other 9 just know the word care...not the meaning. Being European I've everything that others long for in other parts of the world... but I don't fit in my world.. just how life is
UB40 - The Resistance Movement ✌
We should reallyappreciate the art of this video. The stadium is empty, applying the fact that non one cares or even listens. Their lyrics, and portrayal of them are so on point!!!
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care
My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair
My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare
I'm the beggar on the corner
Will no-one spare a dime?
I'm the child that never learns to read
Cause no-one spared the time
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care
I'm the murderer and the victim
I'm the licence with the gun
I'm a sad and bruised old lady
In an ally in a slum
I'm a middle aged businessman
With chronic heart disease
I'm another teenaged suicide
In a street that has no trees
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care
I'm a starving third world mother
A refugee without a home
I'm a house wife hooked on Valium
I'm a Pensioner alone
I'm a cancer ridden spectre
Covering the earth
I'm another hungry baby
I'm an accident of birth
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care.
❤
Yea....so true 🙏🏼🕉
Fantastic lyrics
*but I'm always there
A statistic ..a reminder of a world that doesn't care. They see us that way..but we all live in the same boat or Ship..it won't sink❤❤One of the best Live bands on Earth someone told me...
In my opinion , the best Universal British Reggae Band....and remain so!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
RIP Brian Travers. Amazing light nd energy. Sad today! The music goes on and the light is dimmer but it will reignite with your spirit.
Perhaps now you're on another plain you can work your magic and reunite the guys if it's meant!? 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😭😇🙏🎵💓❤♥️😢🎶
We've now lost two of the iconic and original line up . Would love to see the two sides now bury there differences
ALLY Campbell looks like my late brother, it always brings joy to see him in his younger days singing, also knowing he was a big ska, reggae fan💜💯😉
Roots rock reggae!!! Um clássico atemporal...
You really do have to go a long way to find lyrics as good this. Sharp, incisive...and truly poetic.
I predict that the lyrics to this song will be hitting the nail on the head for someone somewhere until the end of mankind.
Dear Brian, rest in peace, so sorry for your loss UB40. My sincere condolences from Colombia. 🖤
Birmingham's finest rip astro and Brian Travis gone but not forgotten
I think this was the best UB40 song ever. Still good today - great saxophone and great to dance to
No doubt
Absolutely!! You’re spot on there 👍🏼 All their songs were fantastic,they had their own sound,still love listening to them. But this songs lyrics are timeless,if it was released today it would still be very relevant. Sadly, nothing has changed,we’re all just a number & a statistic at the end of the day.More-so today than ever 😏 Saw them live 16th June 1981 Guildhall Preston,seems like yesterday,One of the BEST concerts I’ve ever been too! Those were the days when concerts were watched through our EYES and not via the screen of a smartphone just for a few minutes fame on social media 🤣😂🤣😂
💯 agree
The signing off album- any song off that. Tyler, king, Burden of Shame
RIP Brian Travers.
I saw them live in concert back in the early eightiesin Cornwall.
As i was on the dole at the time you could buy a cheaper ticket to see them live (UB40 stands for unemployment benefit) if you showed the record shop you were unemployed before buying the ticket.
I met the band after the gig and they gave me a tin of beer and a burger and signed a poster saying " Steve, best of luck finding a job, UB40"
Awesome band with a caring social consciousness.
That's great to learn😊.
What a tune , what a band. Come on brothers make up , life is too short.
How relevant are these lyrics in today's day and age. An age where things are supposed to be better. The forgotten sons of Birmingham UB40.
No one has ever topped these guys!😊❤
That bass line is fantastic. This, and The Specials 'Ghost Town' take me right back to that time - upheaval, despair, anger... and some great music despite everything.
I can totally relate to that man. Grim times for many the early late 70s and 80s
Real talk big up on that 👍
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Bob marley and UB40 my favourite reggae artists
This song was in the UK singles charts this time 40 years ago !
A great song from Summer '81 for sure.
Was it number one?
I remember when I was a kid we lost our collective shit when they released red red wine.
Seen this live 3 weeks ago ❤️🔥💛💚
One of the best songs I have ever heard
One of my favourites, can’t believe it’s been 40 years 😮
My favourite UB40 track...it's a powerful song with lyrics that even today are still shockingly relevant.
My parents played this, now I play for my kids, they love it, ub40 ❤
I do from France this saturday 18 mai 2024!!❤
I think my mate's and myself grew up in the great free and easy decades of the 70s and 80s. ..The music was the best, from glam rock to ska /reggae/disco,you couldn't beat it...Also the people always seem to be happy back Then, Than they are today. ..(well 9/10/2016 ..tonight ) I am dusting of MY OLD DOC MARTIN OX RED BOOTS, and my BEN SHERMAN SHIRT and my CAMOUFLAGED SHORTS, and hitting the Town, goin to watch UB40 in Liverpool. .i can't wait. And (at 59 year's of age,but feeling 21), probably my last fling with the ub,s..mybe our last time together. .xx
Respect dude. Namaste
Norman Rogers ...agree m8 ..most music (so called) all pish..
My fav UB40 song. That sax riff is a killer!
One in 10 the amount unemployed in the 80s, UB40 were a very political group- just look at their name, loved em
Incredible song. Hard-hitting lyrics, cool melody. Great musicians! I still have my UB40 album with that ICONIC ub40 cover! Sad to hear sax player Brian Travers has died. R.I.P Brian.
So true, they were brilliant.x
And Astro just recently.
Isn't this song about being left handed?
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Present arms & signing off albums will always stand the test of time
Keep taking and the man will have nothing to lose then he comes for you
Respect the UB40!! ❤
What can I say every man in this band is beautiful to me . Genuinely. Not 4 more money count or fame. Real until the end . Big up
UB40
2024 THE SONG STILL KILLS
one of my favourite songs of all time
Wow u look like 1 a mg favourite women of all time .
@@christopherjames375 agree.
UB40 will go on and on. I have such wonderful memories. Fantastic band. ❤
One of UB40s best songs
The lyrics are as relevant today as they were back then. UB40 ❤️
I'm in love with this song and a load of other 80s songs, I'm 19 I really wish I lived in these times to experience REAL music and just a fun life. Everything now is absolutely rubbish.
wise words from a young person. I've still got a tape a friend made for me in 1983 and it's still as good now as it was then.
One of my biggest regrets is not seeing them live, had so many opportunities
I did live in those 80's days, great music. But now I'll play any music from any era and genre. Soul, funk, rock, electronic. Wish I'd have done this years ago 👍🎧
@@rosssteel1556 All I'm saying is you had the best era honestly i bet it was heaven compared to today. I used to think the 60s 70s and the 80s were all rubbish times. But as soon as i got older i suddenly realised how better life was and how different it was
@@rosssteel1556 All I'm saying is you had the best era honestly i bet it was heaven compared to today. I used to think the 60s 70s and the 80s were all rubbish times. But as soon as i got older i suddenly realised how better life was and how different it was
Edit: About me mentioning the 60s and 70s it was just an example
Unreal song! Layered, sophisticated and the vibes...
How can you not love UB40 .
Because they got shit.
One of their best tracks. My favorite album remains Signing off.
Statitics haven't changed. Music has. Too bad. They had the right spirit.
I'm 32 and this epic song from the most renound band in the world takes me right back to my childhood, where my family were all together (not so much now😢😢) was the best time in my generation....#Memories
This is the exact same thing that happens to me, takes me back to when my family was happy and together, I'm only 21 tho.
Great song. Great band. Way underrated.
However big were they in the 80s compared to WHAM and Duran Duran?
@@ashishnehra5481 Hows retirement going after Cricket mate??lol
My God, how young they are... That song has not lost one ounce of it's power though, even in 2023
I'm 17 and listening to this song since I am born and will listen to it my entire life
UB40❤️
The best UB40 song imo.
Timeless classic.
R.i.p Astro🙏
The song, by a band using the name of the benefit attendance card, represented the number - 9.6% - of the workforce in the West Midlands claiming benefits in the summer of 1981.
juicer404 I left school in 1983, everybody I knew signed on. I don't know how we managed to get as pissed as we did.
@@achloist theres always a way
@andre ibanez Thatcher closed down the coal mines this song was at the time of the miner's strikes as well as three million unemployed,ten percent of the British workforce of thirty million that's where the 'One in Ten' comes from.Those mining communities have still never recovered forty years later...
@andre ibanez I WAS A 'ONE IN TEN',IN BIRMINGHAM IN THE EIGHTIES UNDER MAGGIE THATCHER!
Yet you come on here telling me I don't understand what the song is about,I HONESTLY do NOT know how you could actually make yourself look any more stupid on here?
Probably time now to log off the internet for ever,smash up your Mom's computer,shut the door to her basement and NEVER,EVER come out of there again?
@@phnompenhtrader9698 The only person that has got this spot on right is Andre. If you read the biography you will read It has no coal miner relation it is a LOCAL unemployment reference in the West Midlands, there is or were no coal mines in the 80s it is all metal bashing area, thus manufacturing. Phnom you`re dumb ass.
Strange to think it is 40 years or so since I stood in the same dole queue as the Campbells but this tune is as relevant today as it was then nothing but nothing has changed humanity and not learnt a damn thing.
2022 may it’s still relevant. Fantastic song I always come to this song
I was listening to UB40 while I was working in hospital during lock down which kept me busy classic tune classic band plus where I live every weekend everyone would party to UB40 😎
These lyrics were written in the 80s, still ring true today.
I agree..
Probably the best tune UB40 ever made... It was original and meant something... A lot of they're tunes meant something but unfortunately most were cover versions
I was one of the 1 in 10, this song is so true, absolutely love UB40 and always will xxxxxx
A tune that will live forever
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don't exist
Nobody Knows me
But I'm always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn't care
My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair
My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare
I'm the beggar on the corner
Will no-one spare a dime?
I'm the child that never learns to read
'Cause no-one spared the time
[Chorus]
I'm the murderer and the victim
The licence with the gun
I'm a sad and bruised old lady
In an ally in a slum
I'm a middle aged businessman
With chronic heart disease
I'm another teenaged suicide
In a street that has no trees
[Chorus]
I'm a starving third world mother
A refugee without a home
I'm a house wife hooked on Valium
I'm a Pensioner alone
I'm a cancer ridden spectre
Covering the earth
I'm another hungry baby
I'm an accident of birth
So true
UB40 will always be relevant but this song will never be old. Hard hitting, tells it as it is, straight, that only someone who's been through & seen poverty can describe.
R.I.P Brian Travers. Sad times 🙏🏼
Simply brilliant. Captured the times in a song.
A statistical reminder of a world that doesn't care
Gives itself a mere 1 out of 10! 9 (@least) more like.👍
Absolute legends!
You think its your song because it means so much to you, its nice to see it means so much to others too, would like to thank UB40 for there music its been a massive part of my life,
2021 ,timeless
With all the Commonwealth Games going on at the minute, time to get a bit of Birmingham's finest artists on the playlist. I think this song will be making a comeback the way things are going. I know it's about unemployment and the issues surrounding it but it's still as relevant today as back then when it was first released.
My alltime favorite band UB40, great lyrics, great music, great band. Grew up with them, and will leave my last bread with them, rest in peace Brian and Astro, trew legends 😥😥❤
Probably my first UB40 song...RIP Brian & Astro
The song speaks the bleak harsh truth about unemployment problems and how people suffer if they are jobless
Fucking awesome from an excellent album...Gosh way back, love it.
RIP Brian.
I remember this song resonating with me back in the 80s after loosing my job due to knee surgery. Have always loved ub40 and stumbling on this tonight just resonates nothing has changed in 40+ yrs 🥺😥😥.
God memories.....such a meaningful song of the times back then! 🤘
2022 and still a fantastic song....Long Live UB40!!!!