Hodges, Hugh: The Fascist Groove Thing

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The Fascist Groove Thing
A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes
von Hugh Hodges
Verlag: PM Press
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ISBN: 978-1-62963-884-3
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

"This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing presents an original and polemical account of the era." -- Back cover.

Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure.

Preface by Dick Lucas

Foreword by Boff Whalley

Part One: Everything's Brilliant! (on politics and popular music)

Mixtape 1: The Grocer's Daughter

Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK” (1976)
Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen” (1977)
The Mekons, “Never Been in a Riot” (1978)
David Bowie, “Fashion” (1980)
UB40 “One in Ten” (1981)
The Specials, “Ghost Town” (1981)
Madness, “Grey Day” (1981)
Instant Automatons, “Nothing Ever Happens to Me” (1981)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax” (1983)
Serious Drinking, “The Revolution Starts at Closing Time” (1983)
Chaotic Dischord, “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck the Lot of You” (1983)
ABC, “United Kingdom” (1983)
Subhumans, “Reality Is Waiting for a Bus” (1983)
The Macc Lads, “Buenos Aires” (1983)
Osibisa, “Too Much Going On” (1984)
Howard Jones, “Don't Always Look at the Rain” (1984)
Vice Squad, “You'll Never Know” (1984)
The Jazz Butcher, “The Jazz Butcher v The Prime Minister” (1985)
Conflict, “This Is Not Enough” (1985)
The Style Council, “Walls Come Tumbling Down” (1985)
Tears for Fears, “Shout” (1985)
Television Personalities, “Grocers Daughter” (1986)
The Smiths, “Panic” (1986)
The Membranes, “Everything's Brilliant” (1986)
Chumbawamba, “Rock 'n' Roles” (1986)
Terminus, “Propaganda War” (1986)
Billy Bragg, “The Home Front” (1986)
Momus, “I Was a Maoist Intellectual” (1988)
Conflict, “Let the Battle Commence” (1988)
Easterhouse, “This Country” (1989)
The Pogues, “White City” (1989)

Mixtape 2: Do Not Push Pineapple

The Wombles, “The Wombling Song” (1973)
The Wurzels, “The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)” (1976)
The Jam, “That’s Entertainment” (1980)
The Four Bucketeers, “The Bucket of Water Song” (1980)
Jon Pertwee, “Worzel's Song” (1980)
Brown Sauce, “I Wanna Be a Winner” (1981)
Alexei Sayle, “Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?” (1982)
The Firm, “Arthur Daley (E’s Alright)” (1982)
Keith Harris and Orville, “Orville's Song” (1982)
Tracey Ullman, “They Don't Know” (1983)
Kenny Everett, “Snot Rap” (1983)
Roland Rat Superstar, “Rat Rapping” (1983)
Subhumans, “Rats” (1983)
Conflict, “Stop the City” (1984)
Black Lace, “Agadoo” (1984)
Alvin Stardust, “I Feel Like Buddy Holly” (1984)
Spitting Image “The Chicken Song” (1986)
Claire and Friends, “It's ’Orrible Being in Love (When You're 8½)” (1986)
The Firm, “Star Trekkin” (1987)
The Timelords, “Doctorin’ the Tardis” (1988)
Harry Enfield, “Loadsamoney” (1988)

Part Two: In the Days of the Ford Cortina (on punk and the problem with going to work)

Mixtape 3: Poxy Factories

The Strawbs, “Part of the Union” (1973)
The Clash “Career Opportunities” (1977)
Sex Pistols “Seventeen” (1977)
Chelsea “Right to Work” (1977)
Sham 69, “I Don’t Wanna” (1977)
Steel Pulse, “Handsworth Revolution” (1978)
The Mekons “32 Weeks” (1978)
The Skids, “Charles” (1978)
Suburban Studs, “I Hate School” (1978)
The Fall, “Bingo-Master’s Break-Out” (1978)
Madness, “Land of Hope and Glory” (1979)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Oliver’s Army” (1979)
Crass, “Do They Owe Us a Living?” (1979)
Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” (1979)
Scissor Fits, “I Don't Want to Work for British Airways” (1979)
Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan Is a Bitch” (1980)
Madness, “Baggy Trousers” (1980)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Secondary Modern” (1980)
Soft Cell, “Frustration” (1981)
UB40, “So Here I Am” (1981)
The Members, “Working Girl” (1982)
Abrasive Wheels, “Burn ‘Em Down” (1982)
The Diagram Brothers, “My Dinner” (1982)
Soft Cell, “Forever the Same” (1983)
The Kinks, “Young Conservatives” (1983)
The Mob, “Raised in a Prison” (1983)
The Smiths, “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now” (1984)
Subhumans, “Apathy” (1985)
Pet Shop Boys, “Opportunities” (1985)
Newtown Neurotics, “Fighting Times” (1985)
We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It, “Rules and Regulations” (1986)
The Godfathers, “Birth School Work Death” (1987)
Happy Mondays, “Lazyitis” (1988)

Mixtape 4: Dirty Work

The Wailers, “Get Up, Stand Up” (1973)
The Clash, “White Riot” (1977)
Steel Pulse, “Handsworth Revolution” (1978)
New Hearts, “Revolution (What Revolution)” (1978)
The Clash, “The Clampdown” (1979)
Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Reality Poem” (1979)
Misty in Roots, “Sodome and Gomorra” (1979)
The Clash, “The Guns of Brixton” (1979)
Secret Affair, “Time for Action” (1979)
The Clash, “Rudie Can’t Fail” (1979)
Purple Hearts, “Millions Like Us” (1979)
The Slits, “Shoplifting” (1979)
Aswad, “Judgement Day” (1979)
The Clash, “Bankrobber” (1980)
The Exploited, “Army Life” (1980)
Judas Priest, “Breaking the Law” (1980)
Poison Girls, “Dirty Work” (1980)
The Clash, “The Call Up” (1980)
UB40 “Don't Let It Pass You By” (1981)
The Beat, “Get-a-Job” (1981)
Miles over Matter, “Something’s Happening Here” (1981)
UB40 “Present Arms” (1981)
The Apostles, “Pigs for Slaughter” (1982)
The Clash, “Know Your Rights” (1982)
UB40 “Don't Do the Crime” (1982)
Misty in Roots, “Poor and Needy” (1983)
Chumbawamba, “Work” (1983)
The Alarm, “Declaration” (1984)
Poison Girls, “Take the Toys from the Boys” (1984)
Abacush, “Batta Dem” (1984)
Political Asylum, “System of War” (1984)
Everything but the Girl “Ballad of the Times” (1985)
Tippa Irie, “Complain Neighbour” (1985)
The Apostles, “Workers’ Autonomy” (1986)

Part Three: The Procession of Popular Capitalism (on monetarism, unemployment, and the Right to Buy)

Mixtape 5: Government Schemes

The Passage, “16 Hours” (1979)
The Members, “Solitary Confinement” (1979)
Adam Ant, “Kings of the Wild Frontier” (1980)
Poison Girls, “Persons Unknown” (1980)
The Exploited, “I Believe in Anarchy” (1981)
Aswad, “Tuff We Tuff” (1981)
Abrasive Wheels “Vicious Circle” (1981)
The Exploited, “Dole Q” (1981)
Bow Wow Wow, “W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don’t)” (1981)
Abrasive Wheels, “Voice of Youth” (1981)
Potential Threat, “Cheap Labour” (1982)
The Exploited, “Disorder” (1982)
Wham!, “Wham Rap!” (1982)
Vice Squad, “(So) What for the Eighties” (1982)
Level 41, “The Chinese Way” (1982)
The Partisans, “No U Turns” (1983)
Billy Bragg, “To Have and to Have Not” (1983)
Misty in Roots, “Poor and Needy” (1983)
Newtown Neurotics, “Living with Unemployment” (1983)
Red Guitars, “Steeltown” (1984)
The Alarm, “Deeside” (1985)
Simply Red, “Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)” (1985)
The Exploited, “Maggie” (1985)
New Model Army, “Young, Gifted and Skint” (1985)
Style Council, “With Everything to Lose” (1985)
Roy Harper, “Government Surplus” (1988)
The Neurotics, “Keep the Faith” (1988)
Easterhouse, “Stay with Me (Death on the Dole)” (1989)
James, “Sit Down” (1989)

Mixtape 6: Nowt but Misery

Hawkwind, “Urban Guerrilla” (1973)
The Human League, “Circus of Death” (1978)
The Fall, “Crap Rap 2/ Like to Blow” (1979)
999, “English Wipeout” (1979)
Tubeway Army, “Down in the Park” (1979)
The Fall, “The N.W.R.A” (1980)
The Clash, “Something About England” (1980)
Echo and the Bunnymen, “All That Jazz” (1980)
David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes” (1980)
Anti-Nowhere League, “So What?” (1981)
Dick Gaughan, “Both Sides the Tweed” (1981)
The Specials, “Ghost Town” (1981)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Fireworks” (1982)
The Exploited, “False Hopes” (1983)
Big Country, “Steeltown” (1984)
Dream Academy, “Life in a Northern Town” (1985)
Fine Young Cannibals, “Move to Work” (1985)
Everything but the Girl, “Anytown” (1985)
The Style Council, “All Gone Away” (1985)
Fine Young Cannibals, “Blue” (1985)
The Three Johns “Sold Down the River” (1986)
The Three Johns “Coals to Newcastle” (1986)
The Proclaimers, “Letter from America” (1987)
The Thrashing Doves, “Northern Civil War Party” (1987)
Thrashing Doves, “Biba’s Basement” (1987)
The Housemartins, “We Are Not Going Back” (1987)
The Alarm, “Hallowed Ground” (1987)
Anti-Nowhere League “Not My England” (1987)
The Proclaimers, “Cap in Hand” (1988)

Mixtape 7: Shopkeepers Arise!

X-Ray Spex, “Germ Free Adolescents” (1978)
Joe Jackson, “Sunday Papers” (1978)
John Cooper Clarke, “You Never See a Nipple in the Daily Express” (1978)
X-Ray Spex, “Plastic Bag” (1978)
The Pop Group, “We Are All Prostitutes” (1979)
The Slits, “Spend Spend Spend” (1979)
The Clash, “Lost in the Supermarket” (1979)
Gang of Four, “At Home (He’s a Tourist)” (1979)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Sunday’s Best” (1979)
The Passage, “Locust” (1980)
Girls at Our Best, “Getting Nowhere Fast” (1980)
Diagram Brothers, “Put it in a Bigger Box” (1981)
Gang of Four “Capital (It Fails Us Now)” (1981)
Anthrax, “Capitalism is Cannibalism” (1982)
Gang of Four, “Call Me Up” (1982)
The Jam, “The Great Depression” (1982)
Crass, “Nineteen Eighty Bore” (1982)
Gang of Four, “I Will Be a Good Boy” (1982)
The Exploited, “Daily News” (1982)
ABC, “Date Stamp” (1982)
Hit Parade, “Media Song” (1982)
Billy Bragg, “The Busy Girl Buys Beauty” (1983)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Pills and Soap” (1983)
Heaven 17, “Key to the World” (1983)
Depeche Mode, “Everything Counts” (1983)
Depeche Mode, “Work Hard” (1983)
Billy Bragg, “It Says Here” (1984)
Cock Sparrer, “The Sun Says” (1984)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners, “This Is What She’s Like” (1985)
Robert Wyatt, “The Age of Self” (1985)
Instigators, “The Fix” (1985)
Age of Chance, “Kiss” (1986)
Depeche Mode, “New Dress” (1986)
Leon Rosselson, “Jackboot Democrats” (1986)
McCarthy, “The Procession of Popular Capitalism” (1987)
Pet Shop Boys, “Shopping” (1987)
Close Lobsters, “From This Day On” (1988)
Culture Shock, “Colour TV” (1988)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik, “Success” (1988)
Harry Enfield, “Loadsamoney (Doin’ Up the House)” (1988)
Tears for Fears, “Sowing the Seeds of Love” (1989)
Phil Collins, “Another Day in Paradise” (1989)
The Man from Delmonte, “My Love is Like a Gift You Can’t Return” (1989)
McCarthy, “And Tomorrow the Stock Exchange Will Be the Human Race” (1990)
McCarthy, “I’m on the Side of Mankind as Much as the Next Man” (1990)
McCarthy, “The Drinking Song of the Merchant Bankers” (1990)
Bradford, “Greed and Peasant Land” (1990)

Part Four: Enemies of the State (on The Falklands, The Miners’ Strike, and The Troubles)

Mixtape 8: Winston Thatcher

Spizzenergi, “Soldier Soldier” (1979)
The Exploited, “Army Life” (1980)
M, “Your Country Needs You” (1980)
Varukers, “Soldier Boy” (1981)
The Cockney Rejects, “The Power and the Glory” (1981)
UB40, “Present Arms” (1981)
Crass, “Sheep Farming in the Falklands” (1982)
Mayhem, “Patriots” (1982)
Robert Wyatt, “Shipbuilding” (1982)
The Fall, “Marquis Cha Cha” (1982)
Cock Sparrer, “England Belongs to Me” (1982)
Abrasive Wheels “Army Song” (1982)
Madness, “Blue Skinned Beast” (1982)
Anthrax, “Violence is Violence” (1982)
Icons of Filth, “Your Military” (1983)
UK Subs, “After the War” (1983)
Crass, “How Does It Feel? (To Be the Mother of a Thousand Dead)” (1983)
Icons of Filth, “Virus” (1983)
Crass, “Gotcha” (1983)
The Exploited, “Let’s Start a War… (Said Maggie One Day)” (1983)
Danbert Nobacon, “Declaring Peace” (1984)
Cock Sparrer, “They Mean Murder” (1984)
The Bluebells, “South Atlantic Way” (1984)
New Model Army, “Spirit of the Falklands” (1984)
Bronski Beat, “No More War” (1984)
Passion Killers, “Judging by the Headlines” (1984)
The Faith Brothers, “Easter Parade” (1985)
Twa Toots, “A New Depression” (1986)
Joe Jackson, “Tango Atlantico” (1986)
The Neurotics, “You Must Be Mad” (1988)
John Cale, “The Falklands Suite” (1989)

Mixtape 8 1/2: Smash Hits

Nick Heyward, “Take That Situation” (1983)
Shalamar, “Dead Giveaway” (1983)
Aztec Camera, “Walk out to Winter” (1983)
Ultravox, “We Came to Dance” (1983)
David Bowie, “China Girl” (1983)
Booker Newbury III, “Love Town” (1983)
Meat Loaf, “If You Really Want to” (1983)
Robert Palmer, “Johnny and Mary” (1983)
H2O, “Dream to Sleep” (1983)
Mari Wilson, “Wonderful” (1983)
Orange Juice, “Flesh of My Flesh” (1983)
George Benson, “Lady Love Me (One More Time)” (1983)
Flash and The Pan, “Waiting for a Train” (1983)
Twisted Sister, “The Kids Are Back” (1983)
Agnetha Faltskog, “The Heat Is on” (1983)

Mixtape 9: Whistling in the Dark

Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner” (1970)
Fallout, “Salt Mines” (1983)
Redskins, “Unionise” (1983)
The Enemy Within, “Strike” (1984)
Council Collective, “Soul Deep” (1984)
Billy Bragg “It Says Here” (1984)
Robyn Hitchcock, “Bells of Rhymney” (1984)
The Alarm, “Bells of Rhymney” (1984)
The Redskins, “Bring it down (This Insane Thing)” (1985)
Alan Hull, “Heroes” (1985)
Style Council, “A Stones Throw Away” (1985)
The Mekons, “Abernant 1984/5” (1985)
The Country Pickets, “Daddy, What Did You Do in the Strike” (1985)
The Mekons, “Lost Highway” (1985)
Sting, “We Work the Black Seam” (1985)
The Mekons, “Country” (1985)
Dick Gaughan, “Which Side Are You On?” (1985)
Billy Bragg, “Which Side Are You On?” (1985)
The Mekons, “Hard to Be Human Again” (1985)
South Wales Striking Miners Choir and Test Dept. “Comrades” (1985)
The Style Council, “The Lodger (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper’s Daughter)” (1985)
Robert Wyatt, “The Age of Self” (1985)
Easterhouse, “Whistling in the Dark” (1985)
The Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band & G.C.H.Q. Trade Unions with 7:84 Theatre Co. England, “Raise Your Banners High” (1985)
Easterhouse, “Ain’t That Always the Way” (1985)
Chumbawamba, “Fitzwilliam” (1985)
Easterhouse, “Confrontation” (1985)
Redskins, “Turnin' Loose (These Furious Flames)” (1986)
The Housemartins, “Think for a Minute” (1986)
Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl, “The Media” (1986)
The Housemartins, “We Are Not Going Back” (1987)
The Alarm, “A New South Wales” (1989)