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Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, Genesis, Maggie Thatcher, Morrissey, Pink Floyd, Simply Red, Sinead O'Connor, Tears For Fears, the Beat, the Blow Monkeys with Curtis Mayfield, the Blues Band, The Clash, the Jam, The Specials, The The
Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfpRm-p7qlY
A town called Malice – The Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPrrdRzlxc
Shipbuilding – Elvis Costello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk
Tramp the dirt down – Elvis Costello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhxJiE38sE
Stand down Margaret – The Beat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E
Between the Wars – Billy Bragg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUggZr_6bJA
Celebrate the day – The Blow Monkeys with Curtis Mayfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBIa8z_Mts
Land of Confusion – Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqonCo0A68o
The Fletcher Memorial Home –Pink Floyd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI
Ghost Town – The Specials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRLtZKbB5c
This is England – The Clash (with Banksy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14lwdpYkAA
Black Boys on Mopeds – Sinead O’Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O29WvCcp7zY
Maggies Farm – The Blues Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsq3H_6XuFA
Margaret on the Guillotine – Morrissey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkXQm7tSCY
Thathcherites – Billy Bragg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVea25IH4g
Heartland – The The
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajy1xNB-LkI
Sowing the seeds of Love – Tears for Fears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNDTGaIBWc
Wonderland – Simply Red
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Billy Bragg’s stuff is so good. Another excellent piece of work from the hardworking Algernon.
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If it wasn’t for Maggie there we may never have heard of Billy Bragg
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Article in the weekend SMH covering her massive contribution to music and song writing at the time and listing quite a few titles including some here. You beat them to it though. Well done.
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I had a look there just now. There were many others, some punk which I left out, save The Clash’s “This is England” (well I’d have to get The Clash in there somewhere). I suppose reflecting on this I’d have to agree about her contribution. I amazes me is that I couldn’t find any music that was complementary to her.
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I was looking a popular music of the time. I was even trying for balance, see if I could find any music of support for her and could find none. So this lot are all balanced though; they all detest her.
I did find this though, Grimethorpe Colliery Band playing Gresford. The video is apt shows one of Maggies mining theme parks.
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That was meant to go under Richards post.
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And ding dong!.. Where is the ding dong Algernon? I hear it made it to no 3 in UK charts.
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Well Ding Dong wasn’t exactly music of the time of her rule.
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True. After spending quite some time on you-tube yesterday, I realized how much M Thatcher was disliked in England. I did not know that people hated her passionately, before. I watched some English TV comedy programs on You-tube, the participants are mocking her exit without any reservation at all. I was astonished.
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I preferred to look at the music of the time and there was plenty of it that talked of life under her. All of it unflattering, Tramp the dirt down was the closest thing to hatred I thought. Of course there would be commentators who look at this music as “left wing”. Bollocks its a social commentary of the time.
I lived there for a period in the mid 80’s. I recall a Brixton Riot, and the smell of smoke in the tube. I saw social disconnect in the north and the destruction of communities an what for.
I had a look at some of the ding dong youtube clips. I’ve said before that the death parties are tasteless, its open hatred and hatred solves little. The ding dong clips are of a similarly hateful. I do understand where that sentiment comes from though.
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Maggie’s Britain was no Wonderland, but love Simply Red’s singing, his lyrics, wonderful….
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Ain’t that the truth, looked after parts and left the rest to rot.
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You forgot to inlcude any Colliery Brass Bands such as Grimethorpe Colliery Band. This contemptible woman did more damage to British Society than anyone else in the past century hnec she remains reviled by many people here. Nearest thing to a Dictator since Cromwell.
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It was absolutely astonishing to hear educated Australian news journalists waffling like parrots on the morning show directly after her death about how Britain was controlled by unionism and she ended that deadlock and other such platitudes. The lack of considered reporting was as sickening as their got-the-spooks in the face of millions in the square in front of the Vatican reporting regards the recent election of the new Pope.
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