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saturday boy jeremy
Jun 30 2006, 09:48 AM
QUOTE(Pete @ Jun 30 2006, 10:20 AM) *

QUOTE(saturday boy jeremy @ Jun 30 2006, 09:16 AM) *

At Attila The Stockbroker's gig last night he sang a brand new song written day before yesterday called "Maggots One, Maggie Nil" If you've not seen Attila I'd recommend you try - he's touring right now with the fab David Rovics.

Attila has posted the lyrics on this Forum, btw - go here.
Is it done as a song and not a poem, then, just out of interest? It kind of read like a poem.



Hi Pete
He did it as a song with David Rovics supporting by holding the paper with the words so he could read them. The song is so new he really did need the support - wonderful nonetheless.
Jeremy
fatbloke
Aug 23 2006, 10:56 AM
Maggie by the Exploited off the Horror Epics album

Chorus of Maggie, Maggie, Maggie ya fuckin c*nt......
nottsbob
Aug 23 2006, 12:11 PM
QUOTE(kindofjudy @ Jun 23 2006, 08:50 PM) *

See you over in the relevent thread mate...

Where's that then?

Oh, and you can add "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" by Crass to the list.

Teenage vinyl junkie fix - got it on clear flexidisc free from a small record store in the middle of Norfolk - owner said "this sounds like your sort of thing" looking at the CND and AAM badges. rolleyes.gif
maggiethatcher
Jan 15 2007, 03:05 PM
"BTW, does anyone else have a long standing commitment to get down the pub with friends to celebrate the night she pops her clogs? "

Some people are arranging their meetings atmaggiethatcher.com forum
maggiethatcher
Jun 8 2008, 02:27 PM
Two new games from the makers of whack-a-miner -

Hammer Ed Balls - hammer Ed balls

Great soundtrack - part of the union by the strawbs in this game. Turn your sound up.

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Soccer Pong for the Euros at .... Soccer Pong!

Another great soundtrack - 1982 world cup England squad!

If anyone can do flash and would like to help me create new games contact me at wartornhols 'at' yahoo.co.uk
pink shay
Jun 9 2008, 07:59 PM
Yaaayy I won smile.gif
maggiethatcher
Jul 24 2008, 09:57 AM
Thatcher's death anthem? I assume it's called 'She's Dead, Yahoo! let's dance' Easy words to sing-a-long to when she pops it.

Thatcher's death anthem
Tim Sandle
Feb 2 2009, 08:12 PM
There's a big feature on this subject in this month's Uncut magazine, including a little bit about Billy.

Tim
maggiethatcher
Apr 23 2009, 02:51 PM
The Maggie Thatcher Experience has done a new one! Available on iTunes -

The lady's not for Burning ( Piss Anthem ) by the Maggie Thatcher Experience - "The lady's not for Burning, gonna Piss on her grave, The Lady's not for Turning, she'll be turning in her grave!"

Campaign to flashmob Thatcher's death with song and video at -

www.FlashMobDeath.tk and, of course, www.maggiethatcher.com
maggiethatcher
May 13 2009, 02:54 PM
Maggie Thatcher on your underpants!

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Thatcher Pants
pink shay
May 17 2009, 09:09 AM
How wonderful The packaging that is, rather than what's in it biggrin.gif
Fred E
May 17 2009, 11:24 AM
QUOTE(maggiethatcher @ May 13 2009, 02:54 PM) *
Maggie Thatcher on your underpants!

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Thatcher Pants


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Guaranteed passion-killer
bobbydriver
Jun 8 2009, 03:58 PM
I can heartily recommend "The Fight For History" by MJ Hibbett & The Validators

Available here http://www.mjhibbett.net


QUOTE

They're saying Ronald Reagan was the Master Of Diplomacy
'Cos he ended the Cold War with only Thatcher there to help him
They say he led the world in times that were more optimistic
I don't know about you but that is not how I remember it
The constant crushing certainty of nuclear oblivion
Was ended by East Germans in Berlin not politicians
When warmongers seek credit for a peace they didn't want
They've one eye on the history books, the other's on the clock

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead

The two-faced slip-on socialists who helped her stay in power
Are riding round in company cars charging a thousand pounds an hour
To reassure the wage slaves who think they're the wage slaves' masters
That they're modern and creative whilst behind the drums beat faster
And we've all got to pretend that we now like Edwina Currie
And that Steven Norris wasn't a corrupt adulterous bully
All the smiling lying psychopaths we finally deposed
Are now creeping into reality TV and phone-in shows

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead

Down in Soho all the preening pamphlet-headed peacocks
Try to make out it's iconic wearing Council-hair and pop-socks
And paint the Eighties as an age of decadence and glamour
As if the miners' strike, the poll tax and BSE never happened
As if Section 28 was never passed into the law
As if Osama Bin Laden wasn't paid to fight our wars
As if the institutionalised weren't turfed onto the streets
Into a new society they said did not exist

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead
And if you think it's past and put to bed
You wait until the wave of lies the day that Thatcher is dead

We will fight for history on the day that Thatcher's dead
maggiethatcher
Jun 14 2009, 11:46 AM
Do we now have a full list?

Bernstein (f.k.a. Dan Bern) - Children of the Cold War
Berurier Noir - Et Hop
Billy Bragg - Thatcherites
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Evil
Chumbawamba - In memorium
Conflict - These Colours Don't Run
Conflict - Neither Is This
Conflict - To Whom It May Concern
Corries - Who'll Take The Ball from Maggie Thatcher?
Crass - Nineteen Eighty Bore
Crass - Sucks
David Diamond - Some Talk Of Ronald Reagan
Deborah Holland - Pinochet and Margaret Thatcher
Dolby Thomas - May The Cube Be With You
Doug Anthony All Stars - If You're Happy 2
Doug Anthony All Stars - The Sun
Martin Carthy - Company Policy
Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down
Exploited - Don't Pay The Poll Tax
Dick Gaughan - Ballad of '84 and others, indirectly
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies
Human League - The World Before Last
Ewan MacColl - Daddy, What Did You Do In The Strike?
Ewan MacColl - The Media and others, indirectly.
The Maggie Thatcher Experience - Thatcher's death anthem
The Maggie Thatcher Experience - The Lady's not for Burning (Piss anthem)
Manic Street Preachers - If White America Told The Truth For One Day Its World Would Fall Apart
Morrissey - Margaret On The Guillotine
Aimee Mann - You're With Stupid Now
Not Sensibles - I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher
{
Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream
Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
And probably some more from The Final Cut, since it's about her war in the Falklands.
}
Renaud - Madame Thatcher
Roger Waters - Four Minutes
Roger Waters - The Story
Roy Harper - Winds Of Change
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
Space - No-One Understands
Spailpin - The Maggie Thatcher Song
Trust - Misere


Thanks for all your help compiling the list.
which I was compiling for http://www.maggiethatcher.com
pink shay
Jun 14 2009, 06:27 PM
Ta mate. smile.gif My mps getting really full now.
matt w
Jun 15 2009, 08:19 AM
Haven't Chumbawamba recored an album you can buy, but they're posting out the day she dies?
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