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Here’s our Top 20 of Maggie’s Jukebox…
1. Tramp the Dirt – Elvis Costello
2. Fascist Groove Thang – H 17
3. Ghost Town – The Specials
4. Stand Down Margaret – The Beat
5. Shipbuilding – Robert Wyatt
6. Labour of Love – Hue and Cry
7. Kill the Poor – Dead Kennedys
8. Know Your Rights – The Clash
9. Maggie’s Farm (feat. Rico with The Ice Rink String Sounds)– Specials
10. Sinful – Pete Wyllie
11. Margaret on the Guillotine- Morrissey
12. Good Morning Britain – Aztec Camera
13. Steeltown – Big Country
14. Signing Off – UB40
15. It Says Here – Billy Bragg
16. The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum – Fun Boy Three
17. Letter from America – The Proclaimers
18. It Doesnt Have to Be this Way – Blow Monkeys
19. Mind and Movement Control – Tackhead
20. Eton Rifles – The Jam
Plus your suggestions…
VIM – Maggie’s Last Party
Sinead O Connor – Black Boys On Mopeds
Kitchens of Distinction, “Margaret’s Injection”
Crass – How Does it Feel?
Mogwai – “George Square Thatcher Death Party”
Great headline and antidote to the establishment candy floss.
Robert Wyatt’s refrain still resonates, after all these years:
“Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls”.
Thanks – weird watching the gushing tributes. This is about continuity not death
Mike/Kevin(?),
“This is about continuity not death”.
Totally agree. For example, how about this:
British General Election Result 2010 (seats won in southern half of England):
East Midlands
Conservative 31
Labour 15
West Midlands
Conservative 33
Labour 24
Eastern England
Conservative 52
Labour 2
South East
Conservative 74
Labour 4
South West
Conservative 36
Labour 4
Mike
How can you have a Top 20 which omits the punk classic “I’m in love with Margaret Thatcher” by the NotSensibles? There was also a fine French song “Miss Maggie” by Reynaud. I donated my copies of these to the Protest Song Archive at Cally Uni.
Thanks, will add in, some great new additions up there, loving Sinead O Connor and VIM
Maggie You Cunt by The Exploited should be number one.
I think you’re missing one obvious classic; a song that captures the mood of the early 80s like no other. The paranoia, the politics, the love, the drugs, the disillusionment, the hope, the tragedy – it captures it all. I still feel this song rather than hear it.
“They are coming amongst and in between us
Tapping our phones – you can be sure they’ve seen us
Are you working for or with the state
They’re selling you smack at a slightly cheaper rate
‘Cos you’re not a threat when you’re out of your head
and I’m gonna get out of my head”
Au Pairs – Headache for Michelle
Thanks, will add …
Brilliant antidote to the hagiography, one minor quibble would be a preference for “Going Underground” over “Eton Rifles by The Jam.
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You’ll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don’t get what this society wants
Surprised not to see any fom ”scheme” in the list.The band and they’re songs were a product of thatcherism
There are two people not mentioned so far, who deserve a place on here. Dick Gaughan and Linton Kwesi Johnson