Billy Bragg - Between The Wars

'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.
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[@terencequinn2682]

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

[@pauljones5066]

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

[@terencequinn2682]

@@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]

@@terencequinn2682 Agree 100%

[@ToryTerminator]

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

[@jonassundell9366]

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

[@christophermelton232]

"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]

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

[@jsnew3154]

And the UK too.

[@clintbeast-bud8119]

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

[@angelachicken4141]

I wish this was our National Anthem

[@danielmarshall4587]

That's a thought.

[@matthewcoyle5277]

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

[@adamcrofts58]

truer now than ever before

[@sparkymahoney4343]

Happy May Day! Workers of the world unite!

[@chrisredding6673]

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

[@shadow27b]

Sadly, still painfully relevant.

[@Danny123a]

So true comrade, but keep the faith

[@peterwood3828]

pure class

[@aureliaarrietty6706]

great song

[@ChrisSmith-py5pk]

Times got harder again sadly..

[@davidwoods8181]

Beautiful :')

[@mmiggins6717]

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

[@mrsd8401]

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

[@plague_doctor666]

and two years later, nothing has changed.

[@ceterisparibus6261]

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..

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

working 3 places at once - can relate

[@stephenpoulson5505]

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

[@dannymatthews8579]

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

[@jedtattum9996]

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

[@adamcharney]

Build me a path from cradle to grave.

[@Danny123a]

So timeless, Britain's Woody Guthrie

[@nookiebroon4424]

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

[@patkelly3966]

Sweet Moderation

[@lastrevenant6180]

More people could do listen to this today

[@bbbl8910]

Keep fighting n smiling

[@jeremybradford8941]

Goose bumps!

[@benharris4795]

Build us a path from cradle to grave...

[@stace3037]

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

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

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

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

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

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

3377

[@jedtattum9996]

the helping hand.... so appropriate now.

[@jonassundell9366]

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.

[@juliarees566]

Well said

[@seanericanderson3666]

This is real

[@nickbooze9766]

Working Class anthem baby!

[@chrisedwards3883]

Will this never be relevant?

[@rifow1]

+Chris Edwards not unless we have a Corbyn government

[@mistresstrellis6402]

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]

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]

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

[@andrewheaton3755]

Were arming The Beastie Boys

[@keithbentley6081]

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

[@keithbentley6081]

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

[@sianmcguinness1384]

Ever more apt today ...

[@bbbl8910]

God save our gracious sell out!

[@ubute2]

NEVER TRUST A TORY.....

[@gavinwilson2832]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@russellthomson5571]

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

[@DPG214]

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

[@dczzzz55]

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

[@smellincoffee]

Fuck the state, google voluntaryism

[@teambammotorsport7249]

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

[@bbbl8910]

Sell out. I and sang in the King

[@bbbl8910]

Sell out