The World Turned Upside Down live from Rote Lieder 1998

The World Turned Upside Down live from Rote Lieder 1998 - Billy Bragg

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Күн бұрын

The World Turned Upside Down always sounds best played on that green Burns Steer. Probably would have sounded even better if I hadn’t broken a string halfway through, but PUNK ROCK!
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@dbradx Жыл бұрын

Such a killer song, and one that still gets me fired up today. "You poor take courage, you rich take care" ✊

@charliecroker6445 2 ай бұрын

Most of Billys lyrics make the hair on my neck stand up , sometimes with anger at the way are things were and are and sometimes with sadness at the way things were and are being a 60 odd something who remembers the 70s and 80s here in England albeit as a young naive person.

@charliegibbins 2 ай бұрын

Not Billy's lyrics, though. It's a cover (Leon Rosselon wrote it)

@charliecroker6445 2 ай бұрын

@@charliegibbins , I was talking about all his songs , I've been listening since 83, but yes right this song wasn't his , cheers

@garywilson2534 2 ай бұрын

I saw Billy supporting the style council when i was 13 and after watching my mining town destroyed by Thatcher, he and Paul Weller awoke my social conscious. I luv them for this.

@Maddy1967Mundane Жыл бұрын

Billy in my view will always be the people's poet. The vision will never cease.

@charliecroker6445 2 күн бұрын

Never fails to make the hairs ony neck stand up , 41 years on from first seeing him.

@gandalfolorin8808 Ай бұрын

. We sang this at The Jose Marti Brigade summer camp in Cuba 1992 as part of the British Brigade. I aslo sang "Booshwah Blues."

@Jeremyramone Жыл бұрын

He bloody nailed it, what a great song, thank you very much for sharing this

@mannemalluschke3828 11 ай бұрын

Danke für‘s teilen! Die Aufnahme ist, soweit ich mich erinnere aber von 1988. Ich war bei einem der Konzerte die Billy dort gab. Es war für mich einer der entscheidenden Momente im Leben. Ich stand sofort in Flammen und dachte: „ja, er gibt uns eine Stimme…“ Eins der prägenden musikalischen Erlebnisse in meinem Leben.

@krypton2k Жыл бұрын

What a tune!

@BritishBeachcomber 11 ай бұрын

Back then, I lived on the other side of town from Saint George's Hill. The not so posh side. Billy Bragg's lyrics really hit the spot for me. Them and us. The haves and have-nots. This song changed my life.

@jasonedwards6870 10 ай бұрын

This is a Leon Rosselson song. Bill didn't write this.

@leecoulbeck Ай бұрын

This is never getting on mainstream TV these days! Omg! He said the word 'tits'. Love ya Billy!

@henrycastle1 25 күн бұрын

❤

@sandrullala 10 ай бұрын

Yes, the song is from 1988 in the GDR.

@antoniomoura1752 11 ай бұрын

Uma mega responsabilidade e coragem que o acompanhou até os dias de hoje

@JohnGeary-e9e 10 ай бұрын

Great version of Leo Rosellson song

@baddogmaine 10 ай бұрын

Leon, but yes

@Pstaines439 Жыл бұрын

Billy, were you using a flanger?

@LewisRobinson-up5de Ай бұрын

"The sin of property we disdain" ✝ In this vein another poem... One marks a pattern of disease in this a World where men but seize, and if they have not clasped with might they dream to do so day & night. The common earth, a treasury, is parceled out as property; no sooner is a profit known than someone, somewhere, seeks to own. It seems that man is but adroit within a remit to exploit; the word for lack of growth - stagnate - this lust for increase must abate. The love of money is the sin that does explain this state we’re in; is there a vaccine for this ill and would it be a bitter pill? A change must come, & come it must, before this World is turned to dust; four horsemen of Apocalypse, they have the bits at their steed’s lips. But on our side, the Graces three, remain, Faith, Hope, & Charity; and always in the darkest night will new solutions come to light.