American Reacts to Top 10 Controversial British Chart Toppers!
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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!
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
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
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
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.
@@janeykidd72 ... 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.
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.
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.
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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'!
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
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.
There were street parties when Thatcher died. She destroyed British industry and as a result began the spiral into the death of Britain as a decent country. Greed is good was her mantra and she saw American Capatalism and privatisation of services as the way forward (meaning the way to make lots of dosh for her and her chums). She was the worst thing to happen to this country as she set people against each other and made caring about those less fortunate seem a weakness. She put millions on the dole and millions into a neverending chasm of generational debt. My family were staunch Tories and adored her, I did not, this caused a rift unhealed to this day (I am 60).xxx
"There's no such thing as Society" 😪
Spot on
Or you could say that the conduct of the unions which smashed the Callaghan Labour Government's economic policies created the conditions that allowed Mrs Thatcher to win election. Before the winter of 1978/79 she wasn't considered likely to win office. British Leyland made cars of shocking quality that didn't last and British steel was losing vast amounts of cash. Arthur Scargil insisted that no pit should ever be closed , so what exactly would we have done with all the coal nowadays. What did Blair,Brown and Darling do about reopening the mines when they won power in 1997. Nothing . The very opposite - both Brown and Blair oversaw the " dash for gas" in electricity generation and that was that.
Our housing, energy and transport crises can be directly traced back to Thatcher's policies. She sold off the council houses, but stopped more being built, and sold off the energy, rail and bus companies (amongst others) at rock bottom prices (a lot of money was made reselling shares the next day).
Coming from the northeast (Middlesbrough) and left school in 1978, I don't think anyone in the country felt it more than we did. My first job was in a shipyard in the boro, it was soon closed down after she got in. Even to this day the northeast of the UK is still feeling the wrongs she did more than 40yrs on.
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 ...
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"!
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 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.
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...
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.
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 😍
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 🎩
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
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.
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.
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 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.
OMG he's never heard of the stranglers and peaches is a classic
I saw the strangler live supporting Alice Cooper, and they were great. This was before their keyboardist passed away.
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.
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.
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 - 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....😏
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.
You really need to listen to the Stranglers.
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
The stranglers were/are a great band. Did some really classic songs with very interesting themes.
'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
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. 😊
@@sharonbunn2363
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!
@@Gill3D
Rest In Peace Rick 😥
Been a Stranglers fan since first heard them with The Raven in 1979
Hate is too mild for what many of us felt about thatcher ...spit...
Costello is a genius
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.
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.
Saw the stranglers twice. Brilliant
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 😆
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.
The video for Smack My Bitch Up got a lot of notice because the narrative seems to suggest a typical guy out on the town, 'Spoilers' its revealed at the end to be a woman. How shocking🤣. Oh and 52,605 people purchased Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead in 2013.
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.
The best part about the Prodigy's video is the last frame... It's a woman, not a man.
'Ding Dong'. Elvis Costello also did a tribute to Thatcher called 'Tramp The Dirt Down'. Give it a go
Radiohead getting shadow-banned for 'Creep' when Black Sabbath could do Top of the Pops playing 'Paranoid'? (I think it made No.2!)
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.
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.
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.
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
That fuckin' Thatcher! She tore the fuckin' heart oot ae this community!
BBC: Can't play Creep it's too depressing
Radiohead about to release OK Computer: Hold my beer
Thatcher took away free milk from children at school.The milk snaatcher.
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
"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 hate munchkins but I bought this a player it so loudly my neighbours were singing along
“NEIL, the bathrooms free,unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!”
RIP Rik.
❤
Thatcher was a "piece of work ". She saw squalor and depredation all around, but chose to spend squillions on armaments, all the while snuggling up to a fellow fascist, Reagan.
Thatcher may have been hated by many, but she was loved by many, too. She had balls of steel and she didnt hesitate to take the Falklands back. I was a child with a Welsh mining family, but even many of them came to respect her.
She did many good things as well as bad
@utoobeizkaka2737 That's a daft statement, no offence intended.
Not true she enabled us to buy our council houses instead of pouring money, higher every year in rents..I bought mine, renovated, rented it then sold it BACK to the Council, so another family may benefit..@utoobeizkaka2737
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.
Thatcher was a monster.
Even today no one will play Marianne Faithfull - Why'd Ya Do It
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…
Thatcherism was awful for the common people, a lot of suffering was caused by Margaret Thatcher. The band, 'The Beat' did the song "Stand Down Margaret", and the author Alan Moore wrote his graphic novel first released as comics between '82 and '85, 'V for Vendetta' as a protest against Thatcherism, it was later made into a film of the same name.
tramp the dirt down, is another great song. Elvis Costello again.
She was superb, bring back someone like Mrs Thatcher to sort out this 'woke' nonsense once and for all.
As for these silly illiterate groups attempting to 'sing', they are entering into making money ie, capitalism!
@@pathopewell1814 Thatcherites would never (politically) survive the north. Of course the Gammons would vote for Enoch Powell.
@utoobeizkaka2737 Your hashtag is dumb, only Capitalist countries produce anything, and capitalism brought many nations out of poverty, its not perfect but you only can produce or manufacture anything if there is money and there isn’t in Socialist/Communist countries, they are all failures and poor. Even Harold Wilson in the 1960’s when our population was about 40 million, discovered that if he were to really implement their manta “ redistribution of wealth “, each citizen of the country would have only got £8.50 each, they would have been eating grass within a few hours! So @pathopewell1814 is correct, these luvvies they made money 💰 off hating a women, trying to bring the country back on its feet again after the mess that their political party had made of it! These luvvies live at the expense of capitalism, thats given their freedoms to even own their own home or homes, yet they would rather live under communism whereby they wouldn’t have any freedom at all let alone be free to express their views in song.
@gv7217 I was 3, my sister was 8 and remembers the piles of rubbish in trafalgar square, “ the winter of discontent “ as it was called, we lived throughout her leadership and witnessed the thuggish behaviour towards her on the streets, I may have grown up with Conservative voting parents, but my sister and i were taught to see both sides and make up our own minds. She could not have made a dent in the mess she was handed until around 83-84, she would definitely kick this wokery to the kerb, and anyone remotely like her man or woman.
One particular context about "God Save The Queen" which seems to have been missed is that when it came out in 1977 the UK was gripped by the Queen's silver jubilee in a massive way and there was a general vibe in the media about how wonderful the UK is and in particular what a wonderful institution the monarchy is. The Sex Pistols were one of few voices loudly undermining that vibe. The fact it got to #2 in the charts is only part of the story, because that was the week of the jubilee celebrations itself and it's generally accepted that the figures were manipulated to stop it being #1 on that week of all weeks (Rod Stewart won with a soppy ballad). Also check out a film called Jubilee which didn't come out until 1978 which was a punk rock anti-establishment extravaganza everyone should see which also came very close to being banned.
Golden brown which is a great song by the Stranglers in waltz time was was another song that was going up the charts before the BBC stopped playing it because one of the stranglers let slip it was about heroin but it wasn't actually banned.
People thought that Radiohead song ‘Creep’ was too depressing.
What about all of Morrissey’s songs?
A lot of comments on here about council bankruptcy.Firstly,I think three tory councils have declared,so it's not all labour.
Secondly since the tories came to power most councils have lost funding that's 13 years of cuts.
Where I live 1 billion pounds of cuts in that timeframe.Now multiply that up by who knows how many councils,this goes to show that so called levelling up money is a fallacy and a drop in the ocean.
The only good thing maggie did was make a decent soft serve ice cream - probably using the milk
she syole from my generation
Apparently the Sex Pistols actually quite liked the queen - it was simply a way to get a hit through shock value. (In fact they were supposedly irritated by attempts to replicate it in later jubilees, not to mention in the aftermath of her death.)
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but unlike charity, should end there." Claire Luce Boothe, 1903-1987.
That “Ohhhhhhhh” was sublime 🤣
The music video for "Smack My B@*ch Up" does have a clever plot twist at the end.
It's all first person footage throughout. Until, at the end, they look at themselves in the mirror.
(Just looking, can't find the full video anywhere on RUclips. That's annoying. Because the twist at the end completely changes the interpretation of the song as well.)
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.
If you've never heard of The Stranglers but seen the movie Sexy Beast, you've heard the song Peaches. It's at the start, playing as the boulder rolls down the hill.
The Stranglers are fantastic.
Everyone loved the single "Golden Brown" until they realised its about Heroin.
Same happened to Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" for the same reason.
The Stranglers iconic sound made by Dave Greenfield on the Keys and Synth and JJ Burnel on Lead (Yes Lead) Bass, you instantly know its The Stranglers.
RIP Dave Greenfield 2020 and Drummer Jet Black 2022.
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.
Other notable anti Thatcher songs are - 'Tramp the dirt down' - Elvis Costello and 'Margaret on the guillotine' - Morrisey. It was much more than sarcasm and humour that was behind these. She was a very devisive leader who in my opinion put ideology ahead of compassion or help for the people who suffered as a result of her policies.
The Stranglers were one of the biggest bands to emerge from the UK punk scene, well worth a listen. The BBC as a government funded (via our taxes!) institution was traditionally very old fashioned and run by establishment figures out of touch with the public and in particular youth culture, hence they were always behind the times.
Also 'Stand Down Margaret' by The Beat which got into the Top Twenty. I recall seeing them play it on Top of the Pops. It was a wonderful moment and a great song!!
There were 3 versions of Ding Dong the Witch is dead in the Chart that week, Judy Garland, The Munchkins from the stage musical and Ella Fitzgerald version if they added them all together it would have been Number 1. Margaret Thatcher is still controversial. She got 2 statues. First was beheaded. Second was covered in Rotten Eggs.
Relax is still a staggeringly good song.
Yeah Americans are fairly oblivious to how a lot of British people felt about Thatchers government
I am still discusted that a woman finally got to lead the country and that's what she did with it
We’re still feeling the pain from her time as prime minister.
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?
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.
You need to check out the Stranglers. They write very good songs and are basically very underrated
Depeche Mode: 80s, 90s, 2000s, 20teens, 2020s+ thats 5 decades of hits
Elvis costello did an album with burt bacharach called "painted from memory". His vocal performance across the whole album might make you reconsider your stance on his voice
The strangest thing about "God Save the Queen" John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten "The hero of the working class" seems to have become an ultra right winger. Wanting Jacob Rees-Mogg to be prime minister and as he is an American citizen since 2013 voting for Donald "diaper don" Trump in the American presidential election
How does diaper apply to Trump? I thought it was JB who was the diaper king.
The ultimate betrayal...what went wrong?
The BBC have rightly been claimed to be a bit up-tight on many occasions, but the ban on Relax was *not* because of the portrayal of gay sex, or at least it wasn't the gayness of the sex that led to the ban. It was because of the explicit lyric "relax, don't do it when you want to come." Just a few years earlier they had banned Tom Robinson's Glad To Be Gay, (although John Peel did play it in his late night slot) but it seems that they'd relaxed (pun unintended) that stricture somewhat by the time Relax was published, as they quite happily played it several times before Mike Reed made an issue of it by refusing to play it in his breakfast-time show. And though I'm not, to put it lightly, his greatest fan, I do agree with him that references to ejaculation aren't exactly an appropriate soundtrack for children to eat their cornflakes to.
Do check out The Stranglers, one of the best UK bands of the late seventies and eighties.
Groups spanning decades, probably The Bee Gees (who were manly vocal), The Shadows, The Hollies ( though less in the Charts later, more live tours ).
If you think Dark is “Ding Dong” the witch is dark, there were actual street parties.
Thatcher - Positive: She got the UK to join the EU. Which was amazing.
Negatives: MANY! Oh so many.
_»I never heard of the Stranglers…«_ - not even _»Golden Brown«?_
It's one of their most known songs - and a controversial one as well…
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.
To save you sometime you can just put Thatcher and Hitler in the same category.