Harrowdown Hill in Longworth, Oxfordshire is notable for being the place where the body of Dr. David Kelly was found in 2003. His evidence had raised questions about Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction — the official justification for the UK government's decision to invade Iraq. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Yorke said, "The government and the Ministry of Defence... were directly responsible for outing him and that put him in a position of unbearable pressure that he couldn't deal with, and they knew they were doing it and what it would do to him... I've been feeling really uncomfortable about that song lately, because it was a personal tragedy, and Dr. Kelly has a family who are still grieving. But I also felt that not to write it would perhaps have been worse."[3] In another interview, Yorke said that "Harrowdown Hill" is "the most angry song I've ever written in my life. I'm not gonna get into the background to it, the way I see it... And it's not for me or for any of us to dig any of this up. So it's a bit of an uncomfortable thing."[4] Yorke also notes that "'Harrowdown Hill' was kicking around during Hail to the Thief, but there was no way that was going to work with the band."
Oh my god, this is our life
We’re living like their victims
Living like the captives
Tired of sitting thinking dark thoughts
Contemplating motion
Time to become active
Do you know that your lies
Burn as bright as the bombs
You’re dropping on the innocent?
And we’ve got something good to show you
And you don’t wanna miss this.
How will you answer the questions
How will you defend
The murders you’ve instructed?
We know there are many reasons
People take to killing
Reasons they’ve constructed
Will you try to deny
All the damage you’ve done
Or will you try to bow out gracefully?
And we the people have now spoken
Pack up your belongings
Sail across the ocean
And face all that you have created
In the name of god’s love
A thin shield for your hatred
You can never repair
All the damage you’ve done
But we’ll rebuild even stronger
A large portion of output from New Model Army.
51st State and Archway Towers spring to mind. The rest of their songs are pretty anti-technology (Luddite?).
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
Walls come tumbling down - Style Council
Going Underground - the Jam
Sunday b****** sunday - U2
Mandela Day - Simple Minds
Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
Walls come tumbling down - Style Council Going Underground - the Jam
Sunday b****** sunday - U2
Mandela Day - Simple Minds
Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Going Underground entered the charts at no 1 (the first song to do so for 7 years) on the Tuesday preceeding a 25% increase in London Underground fares. It could therefore almost have been a political song against these fare rises!:p
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Worth noting that you can currently get the Billy Bragg Volume 1 on mp3 for £3.50.
Vol 1 is in fact 8 album so it makes it less than 45p per album.
Red flag to a bull methinks.
Nice to see his name mentioned on this forum.
thom yorke - harrowdown hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sC69dbFioU
Oh my god, this is our life
We’re living like their victims
Living like the captives
Tired of sitting thinking dark thoughts
Contemplating motion
Time to become active
Do you know that your lies
Burn as bright as the bombs
You’re dropping on the innocent?
And we’ve got something good to show you
And you don’t wanna miss this.
How will you answer the questions
How will you defend
The murders you’ve instructed?
We know there are many reasons
People take to killing
Reasons they’ve constructed
Will you try to deny
All the damage you’ve done
Or will you try to bow out gracefully?
And we the people have now spoken
Pack up your belongings
Sail across the ocean
And face all that you have created
In the name of god’s love
A thin shield for your hatred
You can never repair
All the damage you’ve done
But we’ll rebuild even stronger
51st State and Archway Towers spring to mind. The rest of their songs are pretty anti-technology (Luddite?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
Good shout !
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
Walls come tumbling down - Style Council
Going Underground - the Jam
Sunday b****** sunday - U2
Mandela Day - Simple Minds
Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Imagine - John Lennon
Army Dreamers - Kate Bush
As someone already mentioned, anything by the Dead Kennedys and Crass.
Here's some more:
Rammstein - Amerika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg
DRI - I Don't Need Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPt-s5w9W3Q
The Exploited - **** the USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPfeTBwrGAw
The Exploited - Let's Start a War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VatiFGaD9A
GBH - No Survivors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJTeeudSVt4
Black Sabbath - War Pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg
Slayer - War Ensemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0BxuqRXXw
Slayer - Chemical Warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO1s_ARrBk
Megadeth - Peace Sells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_Cz7_bPuI
That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the surface....
A song that got them investigated by the FBI.
Going Underground entered the charts at no 1 (the first song to do so for 7 years) on the Tuesday preceeding a 25% increase in London Underground fares. It could therefore almost have been a political song against these fare rises!:p
Lovely song.
Janelle Monae - Mr. President
To a lesser extent, Lady Gaga - Americano. *cough*
Ancient, but still brilliant
Buju Bantan Untold Stories http://youtu.be/Kb-0Eo0Yk0o
Queen Ifrica Serve and Protect. http://youtu.be/R_3vZA3g4G8