Billy Bragg - Between The Wars

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  • Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
  • 'Between The Wars' 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:
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 75

  • @terencequinn2682
    @terencequinn2682 2 роки тому +33

    “I voted not for the iron fist but for the helping hand”. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

    • @pauljones5066
      @pauljones5066 Рік тому +2

      pity that the not-so-liberal progressive left have gone back to the Iron Fist, I would say in fact THE modern tragedy

    • @terencequinn2682
      @terencequinn2682 Рік тому +1

      @@pauljones5066 ha ha ha - the right wing snowflake appears! I hope Jeremy Clarkson punches you in the face when go snivelling up to him asking if he’ll sign one of his self gratifying puerile books. Then you can tell him he was quite right.

    • @rikkinadir7979
      @rikkinadir7979 10 місяців тому +1

      @@terencequinn2682 Agree 100%

  • @christophermelton232
    @christophermelton232 7 років тому +106

    "I kept voting, not for the iron fist but for a helping hand. Theirs is a country with a wall around it and mine is a faith in my fellow man."
    Relatable 30 years later from the USA

    • @thiscorrosion900
      @thiscorrosion900 5 років тому +4

      Yep, because as usual, we have to kick against the Nazi cunts all day long.

    • @jsnew3154
      @jsnew3154 5 років тому +4

      And the UK too.

    • @clintbeast-bud8119
      @clintbeast-bud8119 Рік тому

      The land with a wall around it seems to faulter in these times

  • @ToryTerminator
    @ToryTerminator 3 місяці тому +5

    Sweet moderation, heart of this nation.
    Been listening to a lot of BB again recently.

    • @jonassundell9366
      @jonassundell9366 2 місяці тому +1

      Tory terminator - what a glorious name! Bless you. From gothenburg Sweden.

    • @peteby485
      @peteby485 18 днів тому

      I wonder what Billy thinks of the Labour party today . They used to stand with the people not stand against them .

    • @jonassundell9366
      @jonassundell9366 16 днів тому

      Well, he was not a liberal back then, but more into LeoTrotskij... hehe. Still, he wasnt backing one step. Stay safe friend.

  • @angelachicken4141
    @angelachicken4141 2 роки тому +19

    I wish this was our National Anthem

  • @adamcrofts58
    @adamcrofts58 2 роки тому +9

    truer now than ever before

  • @matthewcoyle5277
    @matthewcoyle5277 Рік тому +7

    Billy is the voice of his people. The man’s magic as a lyricist

  • @sparkymahoney4343
    @sparkymahoney4343 9 років тому +22

    Happy May Day! Workers of the world unite!

  • @shadow27b
    @shadow27b 9 років тому +49

    Sadly, still painfully relevant.

    • @Danny123a
      @Danny123a 3 роки тому

      So true comrade, but keep the faith

  • @chrisredding6673
    @chrisredding6673 3 роки тому +9

    I was a steel worker. Now the steelworks is a retail park. :-)

  • @ChrisSmith-py5pk
    @ChrisSmith-py5pk 4 роки тому +10

    Times got harder again sadly..

  • @peterwood3828
    @peterwood3828 10 років тому +13

    pure class

  • @aureliaarrietty6706
    @aureliaarrietty6706 8 років тому +11

    great song

  • @mrsd8401
    @mrsd8401 3 роки тому +4

    With that lot in charge these days, it feels more and more reflective of the times

    • @plague_doctor666
      @plague_doctor666 9 місяців тому

      and two years later, nothing has changed.

  • @lastrevenant6180
    @lastrevenant6180 Рік тому +2

    More people could do listen to this today

  • @davidwoods8181
    @davidwoods8181 11 років тому +12

    Beautiful :')

    • @mmiggins6717
      @mmiggins6717 3 роки тому

      Thankyou David -that means a lot to me and I am sure it would to my mum too

  • @ceterisparibus6261
    @ceterisparibus6261 3 роки тому +2

    brilliant brilliant song! first song i heard when i was in san antonio ibiza... i can't remember but it was near the west end... and probably came on at one of the british pubs... either it was this one or another of his rock-a-billy style tunes..

  • @adamcharney
    @adamcharney 10 років тому +12

    Build me a path from cradle to grave.

  • @jedtattum9996
    @jedtattum9996 4 роки тому +6

    i raised a family in times of austerity..... yup been there.

  • @nookiebroon4424
    @nookiebroon4424 2 роки тому +3

    Billy Bragg, helping to show Scotland the way forward to escape the tory party.

  • @patkelly3966
    @patkelly3966 5 років тому +7

    Sweet Moderation

  • @stephenpoulson5505
    @stephenpoulson5505 9 років тому +9

    Fuck a 30 second Katie Price advert before I heard the song

    • @dannymatthews8579
      @dannymatthews8579 7 років тому +2

      Stephen Poulson well at least it made you appreciate it all the more

  • @bbbl8910
    @bbbl8910 4 роки тому +2

    Keep fighting n smiling

  • @Danny123a
    @Danny123a 2 роки тому +8

    So timeless, Britain's Woody Guthrie

  • @benharris4795
    @benharris4795 9 років тому +13

    Build us a path from cradle to grave...

    • @stace3037
      @stace3037 8 років тому +2

      +BEN HARRIS I think he is advocating a lifetime of wage slavery for the proles

    • @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM
      @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM Рік тому

      @@stace3037 proles? Soz, my dictionary is out of date, seems like I don't speak human these days (ancient as f}

    • @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM
      @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM Рік тому

      @@stace3037 oh, never mind ... got it :p brain delay

    • @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM
      @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM Рік тому

      3377

  • @jeremybradford8941
    @jeremybradford8941 2 роки тому

    Goose bumps!

  • @jedtattum9996
    @jedtattum9996 4 роки тому +2

    the helping hand.... so appropriate now.

  • @jonassundell9366
    @jonassundell9366 7 місяців тому +1

    Honest and good man, this one! At least one who blows the whistle bout the s.c heroism and killing people because some one higher up in the food chain told you so. Workers Unite and Organise!❤. Greetings from Gothenburg Sweden.

  • @seanericanderson3666
    @seanericanderson3666 7 років тому +7

    This is real

  • @nickbooze9766
    @nickbooze9766 2 роки тому +1

    Working Class anthem baby!

  • @chrisedwards3883
    @chrisedwards3883 9 років тому +9

    Will this never be relevant?

    • @rifow1
      @rifow1 8 років тому +3

      +Chris Edwards not unless we have a Corbyn government

    • @mistresstrellis6402
      @mistresstrellis6402 8 років тому +3

      Looking less and less likely by the hour!
      BBC, with its usual "impartiality", fails to report his campaigning, then reports he's failed to campaign!

    • @allanmenzies8668
      @allanmenzies8668 8 років тому +3

      as a Yankee, this song will never be relevant in my country ever again. here's to riding the never ending proxy war to armageddon.

    • @bigkuriboh3814
      @bigkuriboh3814 2 роки тому

      No it and its message will be ever relevant to humanity, this is our nature.

  • @andrewheaton3755
    @andrewheaton3755 5 років тому +7

    Were arming The Beastie Boys

  • @gavinwilson2832
    @gavinwilson2832 3 роки тому +17

    Listening on the day after Corbyn was suspended from the labour party, I dunno, to me (and it may be reductive or over simplistic) it seems that whether it's a discussion on poverty or zero hour contracts if we all worked a bit harder we could be socially mobile. I know it's not that simple, a lot of people work hard for their relative wealth but I could never see living on universal credit or whatever as the soft option. Rant almost over, we need the government to value everybody in society.

    • @JohnnyFriendly
      @JohnnyFriendly 3 роки тому +9

      Even if that were true the problem with that philosophy is that not everyone can be socially mobile. For every winner there will be a thousand losers. What happens to them? Millions of people work hard every day and get nowhere economically (eg. gig workers, charity staff, interns). Poverty is built into our economic system; the rich cannot be rich unless vast swathes of the population are poor

    • @jean-lucpicard5510
      @jean-lucpicard5510 8 місяців тому +2

      I'd sooner go to prison than return to working like a slave for an agency for poxy 10 quid an hour. Part time workers get the piss taken out of them by the job centre.

    • @jean-lucpicard5510
      @jean-lucpicard5510 8 місяців тому

      ​@@JohnnyFriendlyTime we changed that. Let's go and kick the crap out of Jacob Reese Mogg!

  • @bbbl8910
    @bbbl8910 2 роки тому

    God save our gracious sell out!

  • @russellthomson5571
    @russellthomson5571 5 місяців тому

    It seems things are slow to change. After 60 years I am disappointed.

  • @keithbentley6081
    @keithbentley6081 Рік тому +1

    Reminds me I’m still a red despite the continuing dilution and hijacking by the bourgeoisie.

    • @keithbentley6081
      @keithbentley6081 Рік тому

      Billy Bragg isn't a red anymore though, he's a simpering, liberal shithead.

  • @sianmcguinness1384
    @sianmcguinness1384 4 роки тому +4

    Ever more apt today ...

  • @ubute2
    @ubute2 2 роки тому +2

    NEVER TRUST A TORY.....

  • @DPG214
    @DPG214 2 роки тому +3

    Sounds like the German national anthem: "Deutschland ueber Alles."

  • @dczzzz55
    @dczzzz55 3 роки тому +4

    So many quotable lines - I like 'I'll give my consent to ANY Government that does not deny a man a living wage'

    • @smellincoffee
      @smellincoffee 3 роки тому +1

      Fuck the state, google voluntaryism

  • @teambammotorsport7249
    @teambammotorsport7249 Рік тому

    allways been the same goverment looks after the rich sing it billy

  • @bbbl8910
    @bbbl8910 2 роки тому

    Sell out. I and sang in the King

  • @bbbl8910
    @bbbl8910 2 роки тому

    Sell out