Throbbing Gristle, "Last Exit'
... actually a sort of forerunner of "Down in the Tube Station", now I come to think of it.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
... though in this song, the protagonist is hit on the head with a brick, loses a couple of teeth, and has a strange delirious reverie underneath a poster of the Queen and Prince Philip where he imagines them having anal sex.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
lol, Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
(You could argue that a riot is not small-time, but I would state that "watching the people get lairy" is v small-time small-town Brit violence)
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead - 'A Punch Up At A Wedding'
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Intensive Care by Peter And The Test Tube Babies
I've just been beaten-up by a ted, because of our song " Elvis is dead "He rearranged my teeth though he weren't a dentist, I would have run away but I was a bit pissed
also, pretty much every other song from the Oi! complilations
most of these are from the punk/new wave era, was that the peak of "songs about small-time violence in British towns", or just the era that most ppl posting to this thread are most familiar with?
― soref, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
The Sex Pistols - 'No Feelings'
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking earlier that there must be plenty of Mod songs about small time violence in British towns, but aside from The Jam tune mentioned above I can't think of any. I was sure that there must have been a couple of songs like that from The Who, but nothing really.
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
(OK there's the "throwing punches around" line from 'Who Are You')
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Rezillos version of "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite" by Fleetwood Mac (I thought that this was a Rezillos original for years) (though the FM version is done in a faux-american style and doesn't really fit here, it's really only the Rezillos version which adds the small British town vibe)
― soref, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
The apparently tongue in cheek/parodic but still relatively unforgivable Macc Lads ad nauseum.
― Doran, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
I meant satirical not parodic.
― Doran, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
Surely must be at least one Fall song. "Hard Life In Country" ends with:
"The villagersAre surrounding the houseThe locals have come for their dueIt's hard to live in the country"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, May 28, 2016 5:47 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The correct answer is Ol' Gang
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
You rang?
Blitz - Razors in the NightBlitz - Someone's Gonna DieLast Resort - Violence in our MindsTerrible Twins - Generation of ScarsSpecial Duties - Violent SocietyCriminal Class - Blood on the StreetsThe Oppressed - Ultra ViolenceCockney Rejects - Fighting in the StreetsCockney Rejects - Oi! Oi! Oi!Toy Dolls - Fisticuffs in Frederick Street
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Luke Haines must have a million of these solo and with The Auteurs.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 28 May 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
black sabbath - fairies wear boots
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 28 May 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
The Exploited - "Dead Cities"
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Sunday, 29 May 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
The Wurzels - Utter Inability to Read a Thread Title
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 29 May 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Everything but the Girl - Hatfield
― that's not my post, Sunday, 29 May 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
Luke Haines - Fighting In the City Tonight
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 29 May 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
si begg - hornsey slap
― KitevsPill, Sunday, 29 May 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian - I Could Be Dreaming
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 29 May 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
The Who--Cousin Kevin
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
Bronski Beat - "Small Town Boy"
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
Pulp - misshapes
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
nah that's about oik insurrection afaict
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
soz jarv
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
Yes - doesn't have the pointlessness required by the thread title
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
I heartily apologise and i'll go drink some carling black label and go push someone a bit different around to make amends
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
That sounds about right
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
how have we not had 'the battle of epping forest' yet btw
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
oh it is because peter gabriel is a ponce who should stay out of it
/thrown stone in glasshouse
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure something by Joe Harriott was attempting to evoke this without naming it.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
just putting these down here because they apparently don't exist anywhere else on the Internet--
I walked in the bar, and immediately I sensedThe danger that was posed in front of meThere stoodPissed up lads with loafers on their feetAskin'Who I was, and threatening me
And I saidfirst name: Manmiddle name: Likelast name : Me
Say what?
I saidfirst name: Manmiddle name: Likelast name : Me
And you are?
Just a couple of fools who can't handle their booze.And we're gonna beat you with our brand-new loafer shoes.
999 on Friday nightSirens screaming, flashing lightBoozed up boys in city centresConfrontation through the nation
So I walk down the street on a Saturday nightAnd laugh at how our country's so lightweightWe got couples having barney in the streetCause they drank too much damn WKD
Now we know everyone enjoys a dramaAn innocent girl with a boozed up boyfriend who wants to harm herIt's not right, it's not nice, use your brainCut back on the booze and the drugs - especially cocaine
Yes, I am blanking youI'll admit to ignoring you
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
Sudden Sway, "Barmy Army"
"Last of the few of the Nottingham Creware you dead or on cola and aspirin?"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link