What no Levellers?

[Pinko]

I don't see any Levellers in this topic (or am I just blind?).

For example: Happy birthday revolution.

Car horns and rumba music
Through the city's broken heart
Is this the devil's own back yard
It was forty years ago
That the gangster he fell
To a rag bag of men
The world remembers well
Happy birthday revolution
I'm standing here
Watching the world fall apart
Our leader he was young
Gallant and divine
It was the age of blood and romance
They shot him in Bolivia
No tear did we cry
For how many men
Can choose the way that they die
We paint him on buildings
With sadness in his eyes
If we suffer hungry days
We call it sacrifice
Some say his dream is full of holes
We have dignity and pride
We have independence
But was it just a yankee lie

Even a mention of Che, what more do you want? There are other examples of their relolutionary songs.

Their website: http://www.levellers.co.uk/
At the end of the day, they make bloody good music.

(Edited by Pinko at 2:55 am on Sep. 5, 2002)

[Raztro]

levellers?

[Raztro]

by the way those lyrics are radical!

[sickdiscobiscuit]

YEAH YEAH THE LEVELLERS BABY

I don't know about Happy Birthday Revolution, and I am American, so don't diss me, but man... The Levellers self-titled cd, and Zeitgeist they were leftist musicians before Happy Birthday Revolution

[Raztro]

Damn these guys are cool! what a cool shirt

http://www.levellers.co.uk/Images/merch/revtmain.jpg

[Pinko]

The Levellers are an Irish band that were really popular in the UK in the early nineties. Funny thing being that their music is full of anti-English sentiment, but people just loved it. I loved pointing out to English patriots that it was mostly English bashing, heheh.

Good signature material:
I never thought I'd see the day,
When you became what you've become,
It's easy now just to look away,
Leave your consience on the run,
Spent so much time not looking for an answer,
But someone else to blame,
As long as you don't take the drop,
To you it's all the same.


Chumbawamba too. More anti-capitalist than revolutionary. But still crusading against social injustice. They turned down a offer for $millions from Nike for one of their songs. Remember Tumbthumping?

http://www.chumbawamba.org/

(Edited by Pinko at 5:41 am on Sep. 5, 2002)

[Raztro]

yeah chumbawamba is good...i have all their cds..the new one is pretty cool

[Reuben]

Chumba Wumba are great, saw them live recently

[Pinko]

I saw them live in '93 (maybe '94). They were good, they still are. I think it is funny as hell that Tubthumping was so popular, most of the fools that bought it don't have a clue what the music is about.