Gang Of Four - I Love A Man In Uniform

[AuthorIsobelB]

Simply brilliant! Love the satire. 

[silvanusslaughter]

Greatest anti-yuppie hit ever.

[ointia71]

One of my favorite bands from the 1980's.

[halfbeardhalfinsane]

Thanks for this --brings back the times i saw them-----actually a lot of their songs are the best songs ever.......There may be oil under rockall

[MrFrozenyoga]

It's fucking brilliant. I just figured it out recently. It's a godamned masterpiece. 

[occultologist]

guns and roses was powerful, sexy, masculine, passionate, confident, polished, relatively normal, this is the opposite of all that, strange, intriguing. if guns and roses is a powerful erection, this song is impotence. it's sarcasm, though, satirical, a mockery of a pop song, a more subtle form of subversion than punk.

[occultologist]

neverous, geeky, nerdy, neurotic, isolated and inept come to mind whilst listening to this song. it's like a fails as a pop rock song, or it doesn't even try. very interesting, as you can tell, this is a first time listen for me.

[occultologist]

it's very atonal and arythmical, intentionally awkward, they publish and display what most bands would consider mistakes. this is the opposite of guns and roses, no wonder it was never very popular.

[scottvska]

The singer dances like he's high on meth.

[blainebill39]

@diegoaraujo1

Ciao!

Even though I was a 16 yr old kid in the States in 1982, when this was being played by all the alternative rock stations, and there were few, having come out of our engagement in Vietnam, the social criticism within this song, was well understood! If I recall correctly, because of the "Flaklands War", this song was baned from the airwaives in Thatchers' Britian!Even now many of the lyrics seem apropos!

Grazie!

Blaine

[DrRoy1]

I love how slick everything looks while the message hasn't lost an ounce of bite.

[phatato]

LOL worst vocals EVER

[dinoarms]

@phatato isnt that kinda the point? i dunolalz

[dakarlion1]

punk-funk. Great song. I used to work for the Dutch police corps for a couple of years. I even worn a uniform. Never Liked it! :-)

[pittst67]

Oh man - i played this to death. So glad I kept the "extended re-mix" on vinyl. Its, like, 10 minutes...

[ROCKSLIDZ]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DaEvilGenius2008]

7L and Esoteric sampled this for "Time With My Girl"

[wallymeldrum]

i love this song. i've heard it a million times. this live version here sounds 100% identical to the studio recording. the synched this hey

they must have, not that theres anything wrong with it

[biggodhead]

ahhhh, this reminds me of WA D.C.

on the juke box @ the Eagle.

Early 80's.

[Druffmaul]

How can a band go from writing stuff like Anthrax to this? I'll never understand...

[DinoVice]

To have ambition.. was my ambition....

[oogie11]

 I watched this and thought that Dave Allen was still on bass...turns out that it was Sara Lee, wow, I never knew

[JanetEsq]

Where was this filmed?

[jjarndyce]

Best pop song EVER, maybe. No kidding.

[robzitinho]

At last ! A version with Eddi reader singing backin vox. My mates never believed me when I said I'd seen her on TV with them back in the day. YES and thanks!

[w3bt3k]

She's also in a recently-performed and posted version of this song at 6MoMqE4l1is

[TheNance999]

you know he must be joking but i'm not i love this song

[PradaWilly]

I always say to people 'to have ambition, is my ambition' and I knew I had heard it somewhere before. Now I know.

[leslielove]

what tv show is from this abs

[marehtseira]

Dance Fever