The English Beat - Get A Job/Stand Down Margaret (Live at US Festival 9/3/1982)

The English Beat (a.k.a. The Beat) perform "Get A Job"/"Stand Down Margaret" live at the US Music Festival in San Bernardino in 1982. "Get A Job" is the fifth track on the second side of the 1981 album "Wha'ppen?". "Stand Down Margaret" was featured as the second track on the second side of their 1980 album "I Just Can't Stop It". The English Beat was one of two bands that played the US Festival both years (1982 &1983) the other band being Oingo Boingo.
The English Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham, England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics.
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Lyrics:
There's a training course
Boys and girls of real ambition
Start a new job in a factory
Where they're making ammunition
But it makes them think of stealing
When they read between the lines
Through the owners of this funfair
You won't find a ride you like
Just get-a-job, get-a-job
Manufacture rubbish
Although no one can afford it
You could make a profit
More than anyone deserves
So you find you're left with poison
So you dump it in our water
And so create the kind of problems
Only radiation cures
Through get-a-job, get-a-job
Oh you young people are revolting
8 to 5 should give the jolt needed
In a few years you won't feel quite the same
You'll be playing their get-a-job games
There's a training camp when
You come from from saving nations
Get a new job and a new leg
Social rehabilitation
Every time you thing of leaving
You get caught between the lines
It's the training for the funfair
You get taken for a ride
You!
Just get-a-job, get-a-job
Just get-a-job, get-a-job
[instrumental]
Well it's sing along time
It's very easy
All you gotta sing is
Stand down Margaret
Because he son a lead da way
He son a lead da way
Ya gotta understand as i will take it from the top
My body uptown sound, ya rankign sound
You gotta come around
Awar
I say you rub it uptown and ya rub it downtown
You body sonna lead the way
Lord
I say you rub it all around, but you are gwarn like a clown
You body sonna lead the way
I tell you body uptown sound, yeah
Ow, ow
Tell you body unity sound yah
Brrrr, ah
It's love and unity, love and unity
It's love and unity, awar
I said i see no joy
I see only sorry
I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow
So stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
You tell me how can it work in this all white law
What a short sharp lesson,
What a third world war
Oh stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I sometimes wonder if i'll ever get the chance
Just to sit with my children in a holiday jam
Our lives seem petty in your gold grey hands
Would you give a second thought
Did you ever give a damn, i doubt it
Stand down Margaret
Everybody shout it
Stand down margaret!
Why? why? why?
'cos say too much war in the city yeah
Say too much war in the city, whoa
I tell ya i said a love and unity, the only way
And unity, the only way
Yeah ya know,
You know what!
Work, white law
Short shock
World war
War, war, war, war, war
War, war, war, war, war
Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
Sing along!
Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
Louder!
Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
One more time!
Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
Thank you, she heard ya!

[@jackrentfro625]

RIP Ranking Roger.

[@maypost]

For all you kids out there, THIS is ska

[@mrknobchopps]

+maypost Er! love 'em , but no its not.

[@AAwildeone]

pray-tend ska allez

[@easysinmusic216]

maypost check out GHOST TOWN STEPPAS. facebook.com/ghosttownsteppas

[@darienhigh]

It's two tone

[@Roy_1]

I think it's more reggae influenced new wave, calling it ska seems like a stretch.

[@namafarm]

political. intelligent. cutting. funny. antiracist. antifacist. THE BEAT love you forever Ranking Roger. thank you for being part of building this beautiful scene. God raise your soul. Amen.

[@tipesreee]

.....beautiful words!

[@earlstanley1]

As well said as possible. I needed to read that. Thank you

[@rhysemerson742]

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[@jeremiaspatrick7833]

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[@crispincain5373]

At 19 years old, I am in the audience, US Festival 1982.

[@zephyros9]

RIP Ranking Roger. You helped provide a HUGE part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Fortunate that I got to see The English Beat in Santa Cruz, Calif, 1983. Amazing show.

[@turkeyrunfarms]

I saw them at a frat party in 83... so crazy thinking about that now, how does that even happen. Ska, the best dance music...

[@rastafarievers]

extraordinary performance. with the benefit of hindsight, the beats' music stands up best from all of the ska era bands and I say that as a huge specials fan

[@Mx6xt_]

not from the specials but certainly up there 10000000%

[@atabutter440]

So sad to lose Roger at only 56, two years younger than myself. I still love the Beat and rocking round to the music. Rest in peace.

[@jasonestewart]

Rankin Roger - RIP. You were my dancing inspiration as a young man going to school in LA. Blessings for the heart and for the soul

[@zamaz99]

Aww, Dave was such a cute young pup here. Thanks for all the wonderful music and fun concerts over the years, boys. And we sure miss you, Roger!

[@mrtulipeater]

Bless you Roger, for all you gave us. You were absolutely perfect.

[@themotherfromtheblacklagoo7731]

I was there! Awesome time! 112 degrees and they were still rockin' strong. Good memories.

[@gentlegiant6585]

Thank you for all the wonderful music Ranking Roger & R.I.P 👍🎄✝️⚰🎼🎶🎸.

[@jeannebates8672]

I was somewhere in that throng of people and English Beat has been a favorite of mine to this day. Can't wait to see them again soon.

[@ardentynekent2099]

Oh! Just realized I was at this concert. Brilliant, but it was so hot that people were passing out.

[@truenorthny]

Great performance from a top band. Miss you Roger.

[@ELMENDORFX]

I saw The Beat/English Beat at the US Festival in 1982, hopefully I see them today at Cruel World. It was 110F+ best day, that day for music. Today is suppose to be 95F RIP Mr Ranking Roger Cruel World Fest English Beat The US Festivals

[@MightySpoiler]

Such an amazing band...we'll not see their like again.

[@egrono1]

They still play this live 40 years on! My band has opened for them twice. Great shows!

[@paulodetarso3198]

RR rest in power bro!!! Thanks for all good memories!

[@simonsbuddy1806]

Outstanding song, lyrics, performance...one of my favorites from the 80s. Great to see it live again.

[@jacksims93]

Stand down boris stand dooooown

[@miniboy37]

Love the Beat. there at the time.

[@mariamia1295]

Fabulous!

[@kerryh921]

I love it!

[@dutezore]

Beautiful ....stand down Margaret!

[@espada9]

Where are you now? Multiculturalism and Socialism have erased your history and standard of living and eventually your culture and traditions.

[@dutezore]

@@espada9 Nepal

[@gloryglory5688]

Rest easy Rude Boy

[@johnnyb8825]

Stand down Theresa!

[@setmindinmotion]

RR rest easy fella

[@ProfessorNeuwaveX]

Hey I fixed a laptop for a dude from Shout Factory!! Thank you for putting this up!!! Woohoo!!!

[@troygaspard6732]

Both songs are both a rebuke to Thatcher. Though they cleverly change it to "Stand down Ronnie" in the final chorus.

[@kosovoblues5019]

Alta banda

[@ramongonzalez2112]

I’m confused. Where’s the old Jamaican dude on the Sax? Did he just do studio work? This guy kills it too.🇬🇧

[@frankrizzo739]

The old dude was Saxa. He was incredible. I've seen him do live shows as well as studio and he also worked with General Public. He passed just two years before Roger. 😭

[@frankrizzo739]

Btw, the white dude is Wesley Magoogan and he does kill it!😎

[@tojorozombie]

I believe he’s present during their US Fest. appearance the following year?🤔

[@andynixon2820]

They are not ' the English beat ' , they're just ' the beat ' .

[@davidlipkins3226]

Andy, I was introduced to them in college in 1983, bought the cassett. Met some friends from England, asked them if they liked " The English Beat" they were like "You mean "The Beat?" And I was like " No, they are "The English Beat", showed them the cassett. Laughed, in England, they are just The Beat, in USA they call them The English Beat

[@theselector4733]

Only in The UK. In America they were known as The English Beat and in Australia they were The British Beat. The reason for this was to avoid legal issues with bands in those countries that already had the name "The Beat". There's no mystery here mate.

[@racketman2u]

Time for an update; "Stand Down Theresa"?

[@racketman2u]

time for another update; Stand Down (insert name of this week's UK Prime Minister)

[@johndcornell6341]

GREAT SONG thank god Margaret didn't stand down but l still LOVE this song

[@darrenlee1938]

Who’s gear is set up on that stage? Moog & 808

[@nickjaramillo8005]

Way better than Men At Work

[@dannywillow9694]

Lol I hear there is band call “men late for work“ a tribute act that did so well all the original members of men at work are in it lol

[@racketman2u]

No, I love both bands, but they are different , you can't compare them.

[@mellow5123]

Ska.... stand down ronald. Mc. donald.

[@OccupyJordan]

Stand down Donald!!!!

[@espada9]

Yes look at where we are now, stupid commie.

[@OccupyJordan]

@@espada9 Go snort some Ivermectin and tell yourself some big lies.

[@mawsonfamily3633]

Get a job click click

[@grasscutter1919]

My mom wouldn’t let me go to the US festival just because I was 12. Man that’s BS

[@dramaherald]

More black people on the stage than in the audience. Two-tone in 1982 was très pink.

[@goose_esooge]

Cocaines a helluva drug

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Bloody America can't understand England

[@poolworld1]

They didn't complain to Margaret about all the money they made, great band but a shame they had to join the Thatcher hating band wagon.

[@a.d.em.c6337]

What has Thatcher got to do with the band making money?

[@poolworld1]

If Labour were in power at the time, they would definately be paying higher taxes. Plus they started their own record label, easier to do under Thatcher. The free market economy enabled them to promote their records easier. Then they complain about it. But it was trendy to hate Thatcher in those days so in public they did. in private they counted their money.

[@poolworld1]

That shut you up, lol

[@kirstilike]

you're assuming a lot of things.

[@kirstilike]

for my part, i prefer to assume that the majority of people's social values i.e., how they expect the wealth from their own working lives to be distributed to Services to enrich and build the health and well being of the country is not adopted because they are just following a trend, i like to assume that people come to their own conclusions as a result of their own life experiences ( Also, money is powerful, use it to divide people and encourage acquisitive nature and to encourage greed or you can use it to help educate and enable people to reach their full potential, even if they are from underprivileged communities) The Beat aren't from privileged communities, they are writing music that comes from the life experiences of the people living in the communities they come from i.e. the very places, Birmingham, Scotland(where I'm from) that saw really cynical and destructive policies that caused tensions and divisions in communities, ugh, i feel sick.

[@davidbaines1425]

They are akin to Big Country, although on a completely different level.. A few bands copied Stuart Adamson.. EVERY band after this learned something, what a groundbreaking innovative band.