Levellers - Belaruse

[GoldfinchGarden]

Great Song

[Pyroman1990]

Really nice version, bit different to the one on the One Way 1998 hits album. Its actually spelt Belarus though

[KrilaSounds]

@Pyroman1990 - was it spelt "Belarus" on the One Way album? I thought they always spelt it BelaRUSE because they wanted to point out the deception behind the Chornobyl (Ukrainian spelling!) nuclear accident, which affected 98% of Belarus.

[CrackedPleasures]

@KrilaSounds As far as I know the title has always been Belaruse. A wordplay indeed because the country is actually named Belarus. The song indeed is about the Chernobyl accident, Chernobyl which the Ukrainian government now wants to turn into a tourist hotspot, believing it is "safe enough for mass tourism". Bit shameless IMO... I think the nostalgic "Remember all your yesterdays" in a way sounds quite justified as well when looking at the current political situation in Belarus.

[KrilaSounds]

@CrackedPleasures - some tour operators like TourKiev.com have long since started to run tourist trips to Pripyat and Chornobyl. They say it's safe, but Greenpeace has pointed out that radioactivity isn't stationary. It moves within the exclusion zone and those hotspots are a leathal dose if exposed to it. Some elderly people have moved back into the exclusion zone. These are mostly folks who were affected by the disaster and had been moved to a city outside the zone.

[KrilaSounds]

@CrackedPleasures - cont'd: This city wasn't remote enough and radioactivity was still killing the residents, just more slowly. The Chernobyl graveyard of radioactive vehicles has long since been ransacked and the equipment sold by destitute people. Pripyat river runs into the Dniper, where people fish to subsidise their meager income.

Belarus' ground water was contaminated, carrying the radioactivity throughout the country. 95% of Belarus is contaminated and the cancer rate is high.

[Pyroman1990]

Some of Ford escort vans and trannies are made here!n Awesome song too, love the chorus

[krazykittykat100]

This is probably their best vid. Most of the videos are a bit weak compared with the songs but this one is excellent,

[aliencheesemaker]

@krazykittykat100 Far From Home is a nice vid. It's mostly just them messing about a fire, which suits the spirit of the song perfectly

[krazykittykat100]

@aliencheesemaker True. I also really liked the video to Come On. So maybe i'm being a bit harsh. I didn't like the vids to One Way or Wild as Angels though.

[aliencheesemaker]

@krazykittykat100 I love the vid to Come On too but I have to disagree with One Way... It's them messing around, really. it's all easy and nothing to do with the song but it's slightly amusing and well... Cool

[krazykittykat100]

@aliencheesemaker True but I still felt it wasn't particularly inspired. Watching it again it wasn't too bad but I still felt it could have been so much better. Still it's about the music really with them anyway, they are definately better live than in studio recordings so the songs matter more than the vids. =)

[aliencheesemaker]

@krazykittykat100 I agree with pretty much everything there. That's why One Way and Far From Home have charms, because it's like they're actually performing

[krazykittykat100]

@aliencheesemaker The best one with them preforming is Exodus. That's got clips of an actual live performance interspersed with protest footage. Very good idea for a vid.

[missedexit]

Saw them as part of gabriel's WOMAD tour back in "94 and was hooked!

[philquinton]

posh boys cant even spell it right

[KrilaSounds]

I think they wanted the word Ruse in the name - White Ruse = Whitewash?!

[Naoczny2]

It's good enough that they differ Belarus from Poland and Russia. For many people in the west countries they are one and the same

[Pyroman1990]

@philquinton I wouldnt have said The Levellers were posh lol .

[p1ngu45]

the chimneys resemble the ex-incinerator up my road

[deadnightwarrior1976]

THE song that got me hooked to Levellers. When I heard it one day on the radio (a very rare occasion in Italy, believe me!) I nearly fell off my chair, I had NEVER heard anything like this before! And thanks to the Levs I got into Celtic folk music ;) To me, this is and always will be the definitive Levellers tune!

[SuperDmanz]

@deadnightwarrior1976 same here girl i met on hols when i was 20 said levellers her fav band i never heard of them went home bought the single then the 3 albums after that she was cool

[reddevil70]

TUUUUNE !!!!!!!!!! carl in scarborough .

[benbowtheturd]

Ye dont run live experiments on nuculear power plants when the safety over ride has be diabled. Then the technicians were blamed - chief techy hit the safety over ride cooling switch, but higher authorities had cancelled it. He still lived for 2~3 days after it. His skin fell off his legs like "trousers coming down" and they still blamed the poor guy. They didn't evacuate Prypiat for days so as not to "scare monger". Sick

[CrackedPleasures]

@benbowtheturd Currently the Ukrainian government is looking for tour operators to turn Chernobyl into a tourist destination. They believe the radioactivity levels are allowing tourism on mass scale right now. It sounds like cashing in on a huge drama to me... Prypiat is a ghost town. Other than the radioactivity pretty much all buildings are close to collapsing. Odd is that some people actually settled there (squatters and a few people who originated from the area) despite the health risks.

[OfficialProBrawler]

end of thre day blinding song

[Farweasel]

Chilling are you refering to Chernobyl or something else 'cos Cernobyl fall out came from Ukraine not Belarus and was over  northern England as well as Scotland.

'Tho you're right when you pick-up on the fact that all the politicians safely tucked away in London contributed were lies and dangerous platitudes.

[loadedlar]

60% of the fallout landed on belaruse and bearing in mind there was about 400 times that released by the hiroshima bomb thats ALOT of radiation! makes me feel physically sick!

[gbtr1690]

bloody top song this is my second fav after this garden

[FrankyHaemmer]

The intro always reminds me of "Enter sandman" by Metallica. lol

Can`t wait to see them live again...I mean Levellers, of course. ;)

[erb91]

AMAZING !!!!!!!!!

[jOSullivan3]

this is one of thier best in my opinion, although everyone always slags it off

[chilling2008]

this is a masterPEACE...play on words

...belarus was on tv the other night...fucking disgusting..will kill generations to come...the fall out of this disaster reached scotland...so anyone out there with the ''its only over there, we are alright'' can fuck themselves..im angry

.

to see 3 year old kids ill in hospital now because of an accident about 20 years ago is so sad

...''the doubt of man '' alright

[jOSullivan3]

yeah, I live on the Isle of Mann, and my friend farms on the hills and he was only alloud to put sheep on them last year, because the grass was toxic for the sheep.

[16spinz]

great song from 1993

[theBIGsofty]

the most underated levellers single..pisses over oneway... this was of there 3rd main album called the levellers and i think they went down hill after that- seeing them live between 1989 and 1993 was the best time of my life ( i was always pisd) JEREMY is a top class guy.

[terriblezodin]

bloody good song

[TeleMetal]

I used to own the cassette single for this, also featuring "Belaruse (Return)". Good sounding guitars.

[MistahBunty]

S'right, I had it on a cd single with 'return' and 'Is This Art', another top track.

thanks for the memories, ta for the upload.

[ericsson1975]

Indeed, a very good song if not the best, especially live...levellers at their best!

[tony4less]

one of their best love it.

[PrincessTrip]

Oh my god, instantly brings back dozen memories from my childhood

[jwlfc4000]

my friend foeced me 2 watch this video but i thought it was ok

[sunshinewings]

Yo! :)

[LightFlight666]

Belaruse!

[sleights]

One of their underrated songs, very good and a great one live, "Belarus returns" on the single to this track is also very good. Alex

[injektilo24]

Brilliant! I never saw this one..

[darkfira666]

yey first comment!! the levellers rock hehe