Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • 'Which Side Are You On' from Billy Bragg's 1987 compilation album 'Back To Basics', re-released by Cooking Vinyl in 1993.
    The album collates the releases 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy' and 'Brewing Up With Billy Bragg', as well as the 'Between The Wars' EP.
    Buy 'Back To Basics' here:
    iTunes: bit.ly/Nxv2uZ
    Amazon (CD): amzn.to/O8LJP6
    Amazon (Digital): amzn.to/RXVEaD

Комментарии • 98

  • @jude999
    @jude999 4 года назад +63

    I love the rawness of this production.

    • @9volt65
      @9volt65 3 года назад +11

      I love the means of this production

    • @mollyesther1
      @mollyesther1 3 года назад +5

      This whole album is like this, just a man and his guitar.

  • @Spaceman33393
    @Spaceman33393 3 года назад +43

    A great successor to the original from the 30s, I'm on the union side that is for sure.

  • @tibbygaycat
    @tibbygaycat 4 года назад +83

    Just got a Bloomberg ad before watching this. He'd better be scared.

  • @JamesGilbert27
    @JamesGilbert27 3 года назад +63

    This song breaks my heart. My dad was involved in the picket lines. But he was also a maintenance man. So let the scabs die or stand the line

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ 3 года назад +4

      Breaks mine too. But death to Capitalism

    • @ux3476
      @ux3476 3 года назад

      @@LasArmas_ Lol cope, you're gonna live under capitalism for the rest of your life 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ 3 года назад +3

      @@ux3476 that’s what you say coward. go vote LOL

    • @ux3476
      @ux3476 3 года назад

      @@LasArmas_ I will go out and vote... Vote for the Conservatives I will 🤣🤣🤣 Have fun living under capitalism bozo, am gonna enjoy extracting your surplus labour value 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ 3 года назад +4

      @@ux3476 voting = illusory freedom. Your age is showing twat head

  • @julianvickery8341
    @julianvickery8341 4 года назад +37

    Great tune, especially on a day like today which marks the anniversary of The Tolpuddle Martyrs being found guilty of taking an illegal oath and forming a union. The men were sentenced to seven years of prison labour in Australia.

  • @abitcrazy22
    @abitcrazy22 4 года назад +77

    FYI This is a song probably from the early 1900s during the height of labor. The Smithsonian has a collection of labor songs. Buy that album; it is great. This is a terrific version. To everyone; there is a great amount of labor history out there, about the Ludlow Massacre, the Pullman strikes, and the murder of workers by these rich bastard capitalists. We have forgotten or never learned about our history, but now is the time to google and learn about how the 8 hour day came to be; how the 40 hour work week was fought for, how companies hired goons and governments sent in National Guards to kill strikers and their families. It is really ugly, and we, the people, need to know who our enemy is, and what they are like. Stop thinking the capitalist class is anything but exploitive, abusive, cruel, and callous.

    • @Aaleeyuh
      @Aaleeyuh 4 года назад +13

      fun fact: the original version of this song was written by Florence Reece who was a uniin organiser in Kentucky :). Billys song has completely different lyrics and i think it was written about the miners strikes?

    • @jlastre
      @jlastre 3 года назад +5

      Kihyuns sneeze Ms. Reece was a child when she wrote the song. She was the daughter of a coal miner and wife to a coal miner. She became a union organized as an adult.

    • @mikelucraft
      @mikelucraft 3 года назад +2

      @@Aaleeyuh Yes. 1984-1985. Last hooray of the Unions for the big 3 in Britain, Mining, Dock workers and Railways. Beeching and the oil companies got rid of steam rail, which again with coal imports destroyed the coal industry. I'm glad that I was on a picket line and a protest outside Armley jail in Leeds where Miners were being held for secondary picketing which is referred to in this song

    • @JamesGilbert27
      @JamesGilbert27 3 года назад

      My dad was involved in this strike. It meant something and I'm glad for this song

  • @adamcharney
    @adamcharney 3 года назад +7

    Best album ever...

  • @MylesHSG
    @MylesHSG 2 года назад +5

    RMT member here. When the time comes I know me and my brothers and sisters will fight.

    • @MylesHSG
      @MylesHSG 2 года назад +5

      And the time has come. Out on strike to cripple the bosses this week. Please all working men and women support us. ✊

    • @intraum
      @intraum Год назад

      @@MylesHSG solidarity to you mate. hope you’re hanging in there, the establishment are throwing all they can at you lot.

    • @MylesHSG
      @MylesHSG Год назад

      @@intraum yes mate all strong on the West Coast Mainline apart from a couple usual suspects

  • @paulnsamharris
    @paulnsamharris 11 лет назад +30

    Hell yes. Good post, great tune. UNION YES

  • @jayclouston7734
    @jayclouston7734 9 лет назад +17

    Awesome song. Dropkick Murphys do a good version too and I think Firepit Collective have a version too

  • @bobeilbott4558
    @bobeilbott4558 Год назад +2

    Great song updated

  • @alexv3357
    @alexv3357 3 года назад +12

    It's got a raw feeling like Neil Young to it

  • @ophergoodwin9236
    @ophergoodwin9236 2 года назад

    Never more pertinent!!

  • @miibis5618
    @miibis5618 3 года назад +8

    This government had an idea
    And parliament made it law
    It seems like it's illegal
    To fight for the union any more
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    We set out to join the picket line
    For together we cannot fail
    We got stopped by police at the county line
    They said, "Go home boys or you're going to jail"
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    It's hard to explain to a crying child
    Why her Daddy can't go back
    So the family suffer
    But it hurts me more
    To hear a scab say Sod you, Jack
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    Which side are you on, boys
    Which side are you on?
    I'm bound to follow my conscience
    And do whatever I can
    But it'll take much more than the union law
    To knock the fight out of a working man
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?
    Which side are you on, boys?
    Which side are you on?

  • @roverade1
    @roverade1 8 лет назад +5

    In light of the Court ruling today about article 50, i think Billy needs to re-write this.......

  • @ToriiDawdy
    @ToriiDawdy 10 месяцев назад +2

    Teach union history , sing workers song live a better life

  • @demelochristopher
    @demelochristopher Год назад +1

    Play this Doug ford, his government pushed legislation that that removed the ability to strike.
    55,000 members walked off the job and within two days he begged to workers go back to work and he repealed the bill.

  • @popipop3428
    @popipop3428 3 года назад +1

    Begging mercy gives my blood back.

  • @flg22f
    @flg22f 4 года назад +7

    Billy's message to Maggie. Billy won 🏆 🙌

    • @jeffreysayler4371
      @jeffreysayler4371 4 года назад +1

      The strikes failed and the mines closed.

    • @alfiegibson8678
      @alfiegibson8678 Год назад +1

      @@jeffreysayler4371 and maggie’s in the ground

    • @rexruther4864
      @rexruther4864 Год назад

      @@alfiegibson8678won’t we all be

    • @alfiegibson8678
      @alfiegibson8678 Год назад

      @@rexruther4864 true. but i’m still here at the moment, and she’s not. so i win.

  • @RedRosamond
    @RedRosamond 4 года назад

    Nice. RAW

  • @TheNathanX100
    @TheNathanX100 2 года назад +2

    Im sick of everything

  • @edmclachlanwight2114
    @edmclachlanwight2114 3 года назад +16

    The working class and the unions were punished by thatcher

    • @张桓瑜
      @张桓瑜 3 года назад +8

      What's a Scottish swimmers favourite stroke? Thatcher's!

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ 3 года назад +2

      killed*

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ 3 года назад +2

      @@张桓瑜 May freedom shine over 1 & all

  • @guzgrant
    @guzgrant 4 года назад +2

    Trafalgar square today . UK police craziness

  • @popipop3428
    @popipop3428 3 года назад +1

    The violence................mercy from one stand up against black magic.

  • @daleksummers3155
    @daleksummers3155 4 года назад +3

    Which side are you REALLY on, boys?

  • @Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex
    @Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex Год назад +1

    they say in Durham county there are no neutrals there you'll either be a union man or vote for Tony Blair

  • @DD-ev2dt
    @DD-ev2dt Год назад

    Hard to believe this was written by Florence Reece 1931 🤔 .... Lessons not learnt from history methinks 🤔 ......

  • @mjreazy2627
    @mjreazy2627 Год назад +2

    This government had an idea, seems like it's illegal to fight for the Union anymore!
    Same old Tories! Always repressing the working person's right to strike...

  • @albertorigotti5115
    @albertorigotti5115 9 лет назад

    Ruck

  • @liliannakifflin6343
    @liliannakifflin6343 2 года назад +1

    Even here in america, the parties have got so corrupted on both sides, you wonder which side are you on?

  • @jwesterhuis8255
    @jwesterhuis8255 10 лет назад +1

    gedeeld

  • @kennyYouKnowThat
    @kennyYouKnowThat 4 года назад

    He’s got a cheek really. I’m on the side of my neighbours in our terraced houses. My man’s acting like he’s just lent me a cup of sugar haha

  • @peteby485
    @peteby485 3 года назад +3

    A song that should be played at every protest over covid to the police it might help them remember the 80s and the miners strike when they turned on the people just like they are doing now .

    • @DUCKDUDE4100
      @DUCKDUDE4100 3 года назад +8

      Don't you fucking dare compared your plague bearer bullshit to fighting for collective bargaining rights you self centred shit.

  • @fredfat3128
    @fredfat3128 2 года назад +1

    well done bill a grade c in gcse politics

  • @stalinmalone
    @stalinmalone 10 лет назад +2

    No one makes such silly ideas sounds so good. Billy is simply brilliant. Love him. And JAPRYDER is clearly a fascist.

    • @flg22f
      @flg22f 4 года назад +12

      Silly ideas??? Well which side are YOU on boy??