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  • They are not sell outs for being on Totp. Tons of other bands played there too.

  • the pistols never did totp..... when they were in theior original form they sent a video of pretty vacant. they did it years later in 1986 crass never did it although they sold more records than the exploited.

  • wankers.

    

  • in my local pub, this is the only exploited song on the jukebox. me and a mate of mine once went pub and we headbanged and po-goed to this song. good times.

  • haha fuckin sell outs

  • ha ha got to fuckin laugh at the punk toffs , the exploited were uk punk and if you'd sampled the edinburgh punk scene in the 80's, or had known the buchan's then you would know that , they lived it and still do , cartoon punk my fuckin arse, the subs also cartoon punk eh , s.l.f , the pistols, all of these bands did totp so fuckin what ,who the fuck defines punk or where it should be played

  • Toy Dolls in disguise, anyone?

  • i fucking hate ppl that try to comment something smart. YOU FUKEN POSER YOU STUPID SCIENTIST

  • cartoon punk

  • Punk band and TOTP..Pathetic...

  • @mpkpkm Back then, everyone "played" at TOTP, Cockney Rejects, Motorhead, just have a look on the tube.

  • @mpkpkm It were in '81 mate, that's normal

  • @mpkpkm The Clash refused to play on TOTP. Does that make them any more punk? I was glad to see the Exploited on TOTP. I didn't have the money to buy the single and this was the only chance I got to hear them play.

  • @mpkpkm napalm death played on BBC aswell on the "What's that noise" show...back then minds were pretty open FYI

  • @mpkpkm Why is it pathetic? punk rock back then was in the charts and the bands more or less got a laugh at playing on top of the pops, just because they are on there dont mean they sold out, i recall cockney rejects, the damned, cock sparrer ect. on there.

  • Supeeeeer

  • are these guys mimicing?

  • @Bakery994

    Everyone mimicked back on TOTP in those days - maybe in case someone like The Exploited went on air and swore .

  • @jon62punk yeah, after the first glance you could asume it. just look at the bass player and the lyrics and clean for the way he is singing. just wanted a second opinion

  • @MrPUNKRELIGION Arguing over what's punk and what's dead. Honestly. It's a music genre, and a movement. Sort of one step forwards and one step back at the same time but the current generation and climate in britain could probabally give birth to some new sub culture. Just believe what you want to believe, like what you like etc. I'm not saying I respect your opinion, but it's youtube. And if we're all anarchopunks/crusties etc, then why the fuck are we using the internet where we can be watched

  • YES!

  • musically this is crap punk rock but that dont matter cos the lyric is still as true now as in 1981.

    no wonder people are rioting in the UK.

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  • @MrSOUTHBANKER they kinda revived it, punk were in a massacre in the 90s, even when the exploited were kinda fashionable at least are more "true" than lot of 90s shit, beside choking victim in new york the 90s were a joke to punk rock. Punk is Dead too

  • Fuckin Garry's Jazz Bass...

  • @Tomaszek45345345 Fender Presicion actually

  • Makes a nice change for the TOTP audience to actually be jumping up & down to punk ... usually they stood there like totally bemused statues (just check out Cockney Rejects TOTP performances for example). 

  • if i remember right someone from the dole office where they sign on was watching this show that night and stop there dole money

    PUNKS NOT DEAD...............EXPLOITED BARMY ARMY.......................

  • @MrJconnolly1916 very true i knew the drummer on the vid glen and if i rember it was big john they pulled they were on dole

  • @GAREMPOTS i thought it was the whole band that got their money stopped but it was only big john duncan that the cunts pulled, cheers for the info

  • @MrJconnolly1916 ah think it was him someone at the haymarket dole office reconised him but the rest got caught

  • HA HA 1981 ,BRILLIANT ,WATTIES A GOOD MAN.

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    Strangeways, Wills and Kate wedding tribute - on youtube Thefrankjohnsonmusic videos

    And ask if that spirit has died....Recommended!!!!

  • I am so surprised the BBC let them on, quite brave on their part considering the times. Great song

  • @MrPUNKRELIGION U r sick my friend...

  • They were only on because they went straight up the charts.

    I bought the single and was quite pleased to see them on there.

    Call me a sell out and ill seek your argument outside.

  • @seangrie8 your right ,all these wankers slating it . i saw em a lot in 81 82 ,every show a fucking belter,no place for mummys boys though.

  • yes its crap,,,i really hated them at the time,still do

  • those c**ts at the bbc,tried to say they have no knowledge of the band ever appearing on "top of the pops".mmmm... censorship as per usual in alcartraz oh sorry i mean "great britain".

  • @trojan73able they really did apear i new glen aka dru stix the drummer and it was 1981 and that cunt gary glitter made one of his comebacks that night and had a big load of heavys and asslickers with him r,ip glen

  • @GAREMPOTS hey what happened to glen? If I'm not mistaken didn't he go to prison for armed robbery?

  • @kittenwithagrenade ye he did he did 6 years for a hair dresser and a baker he had become a herion addict a reall shame he was a good guy i knew him since iu was 5 years old his mothers kitchen looked over my kitchen window he was a bit older by a couple of years but i saw him then and not long before he died he gave me a lift he didnt look well a good guy went wrong cheers

  • They got the dole money stopped after this. They were claiming benifit's and went on TV. Saw Wattie last year at Asda in Edinburgh. Shock his and told him a have seen them live a few times. Happy days.

  • In a parallel universe The Exploited appeared on Top of the Pops. Fuck. Hang on a mo, am I in a parallel universe?

  • The week after this totp appearance some of the band members had their giros stopped XD

  • filthy sellout cunts.... bickering over shit u know nuthin bout

  • @MrSOUTHBANKER have you seen the pistols and the clash and the buzzcocks and the uk subs i have and many more you prick

  • @MrSOUTHBANKER more than you wanker how can you say the exploited killed punk. fucking stupid comment.

  • @MrSOUTHBANKER twat

  • Exploited, Subhumans, Uk Subs are still around, pistols, clash & The jam were finished before punk got started.

  • You know If you close your eyes, he sounds a bit like a Dalek!

  • cool

  • exxxxxxpppppppppplooooooooiiii­iiiiiiiiitttttttttteeeeeeeeeee­ddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!=)=)=)=)=­)=) by italy punk

  • come on? compared to the Pistols, the Clash, the Jam, Buzzcocks, this is absolute hanger on missed the boat shit !!uckin embarrasing

  • Couldn't agree more. 

  • best punk band ever

  • I like the music, but when Black Flag played with them, Wattie told the audience there was a mod band playing down the street, and to go and beat the fans up after the concert. Rollins thought he was one of the biggest assholes he ever met, and I'd agree with Henry. BF blew them off the stage that night. The difference between Wattie and Rollins, was that Rollins regularly beat up "fans" who tried to punch him on stage.

  • @mickdel I really love the exploited but Buchan is a totally wanker

  • @mickdel Yeah, I mean, I do like The Exploited alot. But Wattie is a dick. Henry Rollins is a bad ass! :D

  • @jamesbullet55 haha,you read get in the van?

  • @declineofcivlization I haven't actually, is it good? Well, it's Rollins, ofcourse it's good haha. I tried to get it but can't find it anywhere

  • @jamesbullet55 i got my copy at a used book store,i recomend it.

  • @jamesbullet55 the cheapest copy ive seen on amazon is like $30.

  • @jamesbullet55

    It's very good. Well worth a read, especially if you like early punk stuff. Lots of great photos as well. You can get it at 2.13.61 dot com. That's henry's website - it's his d.o.b. I'd recommend keeping an eye out for his spoken word tours. He comes to the UK at least once a year. Saw him in hammersmith a few years ago. Three hours non stop. If you hang around after the show, he actually talks to fans, and you can grab a photo with him. Value for money!

  • cunts dissing this band can fuck off, you dont know what punk is LOOOOOL

  • rrr they all look so young

    

  • i just love watties dancing in the middle lol

  • the dj was david kid jensen. this was when punk had gone shit. dickheads with mohicans . give me the lurkers anyday

  • Wattie - worst vocalist in all of punkdom whose milked the look for everthing it's worth

  • oh shit who's that introducing - that gayboy simon mayo!

  • I think if my Grandmother saw these Cats walking down the street, she would think she was on Mars.

  • @Sixalienasa i guess your mother cover here with a filthy burka

  • @panca00 MAn, its awesome!!

  • Lol! The dole saw them on TV here and asked them about their Giros.

  • Go Big John!!

  • great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yeah, TOTP played it in 81' and all the way across the pond we picked it up in Cali. It was a whole living punk movement. We felt it hard. From Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach to the mighty Olympic in LA., it represented. We laughed and cried through it all. The Family, FFF, Venice Suicidals and all the rest, we rode hard and some of us did time. Some died and some like me stayed alive. Never give in. Always remember where ever you go there you are. MADAI KINGS

  • Can't believe nowadays they used to play stuff like this on TOTP.

  • around the 50 second mark Wattie goes intae a wee disco dance.

  • Good to see everyone enjoying themselves.

  • glen rip

  • IF YOU LISTEN REALLY HARD YOU CAN HEAR THE MOMENT PUNK DIED !!!

  • @SUBWAYROB1 fookin crass, boonch ah fooken wankers

  • @SUBWAYROB1 i grew up with the drummer they were punk honest

  • @SUBWAYROB1 aye, its when Wattie asked people to pay for his fucking autpohraph the mong

  • @SUBWAYROB1 no no, U lie punx is not dead ! Oi!

  • @SUBWAYROB1 Fuck you!! Oi from London!!! Motherfocker... wanker!!!!

  • TRUE AND REAL....unlike green day wimps and sum 41

  • ur trippin balls 

  • The hosts are completely degrading. I mean they probably just made fun of them backstage behind their backs.

  • Brilliant ...!! mucky pup? ... am gonna smash your television so you cant watch x-factor.!!!!!

  • punk aint dead muckypup y....go put your headphones on and listen to wham!!! , but dont bother us fans to whom this music holds so many great memories. its still alive and breathin to this day in many forms. Go get a musical education or stick ti x factor .

  • THAT WAS 1981. TODAY IT'S 2011. THAT WAS 30 YEARS AGO.  PUNK ROCK WAS ALIVE 30 YEARS AGO. PUNK ROCK IS DEAD TODAY.

  • @MuckyPup1969 I'm sorry to be a troll but, I think your opinion is quite unthought out. May I point out that punk rock is an idea, and ideas never die. The followers do, and the fashion and style can be corrupted by greedy capitalists. But true punk will never me taken down.

  • @skulldrix correct punk s not a sound a fashion it do it your self and fuckin do it your way

  • Ha-ha! Just reminded me when this was on TOTP, they came home to Edinburgh and got called into the dole office to explain why they were there.... or so the story goes. Think they got their dole money stopped! Could be wrong but thats what was goin about at the time! Good Jambo as well is Wattie(Hearts fan)

  • haha 0:45

  • the audience is awesome.

  • @AndySabola11 Nah there just happy to be on the telly.

  • The Exploited on Top Of The Pops.... so very wrong.

  • @malabus Too right,they were supposed to play Bristol that night but cancelled to do this instead!!

  • buzz to the drum

  • The Exploited is too fuckin' awesome, man! I just spent the last 2 minutes air-guitaring, headbanging and thrashing around my house listening to this! This shit always gets my fucking blood flowing and my heart racing!

    PUNKS NOT DEAD!

  • @Forbiddenevil1986 you must have looked like those kids in the crowd. "headbanging" hahaha. Thats the worst Exploited video on Youtube. Looks to me like a fucking 5 year old party with the Exploited. hahahaha.

  • @megustaestartrono haha! the video is cheesy as all hell but thats part of it's charm. I didn't even notice the people in the crowd til you pointed them out. But the song is what i really care about. Killer song! And yes i am a headbanger and i headbang to punk too. fuckin' sue me. haha!

  • OMG only 1 more LIKE for 666 please let it be me !!!!!!!!!!

  • it's punk to say "dead cities" 85 times in a row on national television lol tight. \,,/ 666

  • Lol why the fuck what they call it Top of the Pops why not Top of the Punks? :)

  • One of the great punk hoaxes: the Exploited on TOTP. Wattie has some funny stories about this: Big John chasing the little disco girls around the studio and how sales of the single went from hundreds a day to one or two after they appeared on the programme.

  • a true punk at 1:32....

  • they must have been playin a gay bar that night...

  • Dude what is up with the first 4 seconds, that guy shoulda be burned alive before the show///////AAWWWGH WTF is the beggining about it made me feel sick.

  • real disco fever

  • Cartoon Punk , mohawks and all !!

  • @Muirton66 you twat i bet your a tory

  • @bluebirdxxification A tory ??...get a grip you fanny !!

  • the exploited are nazis? explain me the song: "Anti-Uk" and their constants lyrics against war

  • @ssexandviolence YOUR A TWAT !!!! I BET YOUR A TORY

  • Remember watching this in the youth club at the time! It was awesome. Saw these dudes half a dozen times all over the Northwest at the time. Manchester Mayflower was a top venue for the likes of these :-)

  • FUCKING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Toejak61---Big John is now dead!

  • on BBC? this is after PUNKS NOT DEAD obviously/.

  • PunK for LIFe!!!!!! .|.

  • would like to see a band like these with simon cowell.. guys guys youre not singing in quite the way we like . lol

  • Im filed up with aggression

    Want to smash your television

    Saturday night you watch tv

    Saturday night does nothing for me

    love it..almost 30 years old!

  • @freqeist why did he want to smash MY television ? I've been wondering this since I bought the single 30 years ago ......

  • Im filed up with aggression

    Want to smash your television

    Saturday night you watch tv

    Saturday night does nothing for me

  • government infiltrated the punks and anarchists with racists and nazis since the anarchist and punk movement was a threat to the bankers and their power to enslave the world with fractional reserve banking and debt money.

  • @jeepndesert: lol, you're an idiot :))

  • @andreih8017 lol

    youre smart

  • @andreih8017

    Amen to that 'Andrei'. I'm sure the Government are deeply interested and/or threatened by a music movement that died out in the early 80's.

  • @jeepndesert

    "Nazi Punks" & "Nazi Skins" were a reaction to growing violence by minorities and the Jewish capitalist governmental system.

    Anarchy is not an alternative for a social system as it has absolutely no points or plans for economy and social studies.

    What Anarchist punks never realize is that all the rich bankers they're talking about are named GOLDBERG/ROTHSCHILD/STERN

    Their religion is about to bring every nation down. With money ;)

    Good people are reasonable.

    We are reasonable ;)

  • @Kormanyfg Eh,..Murdoch ? Abramovic ? What has their names got to do with anything ? Do you know what Hitler's SS would have done to the likes of " punks " like you ? They would have rounded you up, gassed you, and turned you into hot-cross buns. Nazi punks are boneheaded, knuckle -dragging morons who can't think for themselves. Cowards who runs like dogs in packs. The antithesis of everything the Pistols and the Clash stood for. Real punks and free thinkers.

  • @SuperDsweeney

    I'm so fucking happy that again,i tried to discuss an issue and now i have holohoax and "hitler would've killed you too" all over me.

    1."Of Jewish background, Abramovich is a firm supporter of Jewish causes in Russia and Israeli causes, and has funded several projects in the Abramovich neighbourhood in Jerusalem, and in Tel Aviv"

    2.Don't try to educate me about "Hitler's SS". Our grandfathers served in the Hungarian Legion.(Hunyadi SS)

  • @Kormanyfg "Holohoax"- how witty ! What a vile ignorant sad retard you are. Answer me this . Where did the 6m of the Jewish population of Europe go ? Where are they ? What happened them ? As an Irishman I welcome EVERYBODY to my country . Unfortunately there are a few here just like you. Please, grow up and don't be taken in by hate filled liars that turn working class and poor people of all colour against each other. THAT is what real punk was about, not mohican haircuts and heavy metal riffs.

  • @SuperDsweeney Nevermind.You are just another one of them. Them brainwashed media and government whores. I thought at least you can get a few points... No react on any of my facts. Only: BAD NAZI BAD NAZI BAD NAZI!!!!!! Turn on the telly! See ? You are just the same :) No rebellion.Just a joke. Oh and if you mind your naivity someday,look after Ernst Zündel or David Cole. They will tell you about 6 million ghosts.(God..we didn't even have as many jews that time...) They're Anti-Uk....... :)
  • @Kormanyfg How old are you ? You sound like you are about 9 years old. Auschwitz existed, Dachau existed, the gas chambers existed. Between 1933 and 1945 over 6 million european jews disappeared. You think you sound tough. You don't. You are an ignorant cunt. Goodbye.

  • @SuperDsweeney

    That's a good point! WOW!

    These are so good facts that they don't even need any proof !

    Don't worry,you won't have any.No need to read after or just do some maths.

    God,..just read through our "conversation"

    I'm not the childish one here

    Again,not one reason.

    Save your breath pal, 'cause you're the one who's pathetic.

  • @Kormanyfg What proof is needed, you arsehole ? I ask you again, where did most of the Jewish population of Europe go ? Where ? You haven't answered that yet. Because you can't. Now crawl under a rock and die, you horrible cunt.

  • @SuperDsweeney

    3. Sure,a lot of "nazi" skins & punks are junkies.Half as much as Anarchists.

    4.Pistols were not even a bit political,only Rotten(that alcoholic junk) shouted fascist at everyone.

    Used to get hold to all the money and not giving any to SID.

    Neither were Clash.

    5.Lot of Nazis were at Chaos UK and 'Ploited gigs.

    The Band "Crass" and "Aus-Rotten" started the Antifa trend in punk.

    Then,Antifa beats out the SHIT of Wattie after spreading rumours about him being racist.

  • @SuperDsweeney

    6.As a citizen of Ireland,call yourself lucky cause you don't have half as much immigrants other European countries have.

    Keep thinking and acting this way and you will.

    And finally: I didn't wanted to start a keyboard war on an Exploited song! Just tried to react on a comment barking about "US" being a product of Leftish and Jewish world domination.

    Let's not forget facts.

  • @jeepndesert You aint wrong. I saw Norman Lamont and a young William Hague at a Damned gig in 79 at the Palais. Both going bonkers to Smash It Up on Snakebite and Base Whizz.

  • @strangetown23 It's all true, I saw Anne Widdicome drink a pint of piss at a Chaos UK gig in Tavistock, she fuckin loved it too! Her and Edwina Currie had been sniffing glue all afternoon, EC would fuck a dog for 50p.

  • @jeepndesert exactly

  • @jeepndesert A handful of drunken adolescents sitting in shopping arcades, malls and train stations are no threat to any political system or government.

  • @joerndinkla music is the weapon of the weak...from the start punk was destined to fail because it has a musical basis...

  • @joerndinkla Well not anymore. Actually a black man with braids walking down the street at night is more of a threat.

  • @jeepndesert 2 much acid!

  • @jeepndesert yes the bankers infiltrated a youth movement with anti capitalists, makes perfect sense

  • @ThomasRowsell they got infiltrated to make people leave the scene, world bank do a lot of things you dont even imagine

  • @jeepndesert dude your totally right, an attempt to destroy punk, well it almost worked for the skinheads since the National Front, some bands like sex pistols, exploited, were acused of fascism, later on 90s the media tried to link punk with the new emo shit, since emos are hated by everyone it could be used to stop them, lot of people leaved the scene for these 2 reasons, other just leave since the scene became an uniform attitude and get bored with an empty image, hope we raise again some day

  • @jeepndesert

    fuck off mate... Exploited played locally and they were alot cheaper than the steve ignorant tour.....fucking fashion

  • thanks you very much for share this.

    right to my fav list!

    

  • kiddie fiddler wanker tosspot

  • that fat ass guitarrist was nirvana's guitar tech arround 1992 and 1993 jejeje

  • talentless squaddie cunts

  • totally agree with u poseurbuster but bands like the exploited uk subs discharge gbh kept the hardcore movement alive

  • haha i saw the reason why they did this! hahah so funny all the punks were forced in the back slam dancing and what not because it was all a joke

  • gary bushell said in sounds magazine punk is dead the exploited did this to prove punk wasnt dead. and they got banned from ever appearing on the show again, bands like uk subs cockney rejects etcplayed this show too just to show people of britain punks not dead 30 years on and all these bands are still going strong

  • @weiry40 Punk WAS dead when he wrote that. What came after (Exploited, Rejects etc.) were goofy dumb POSUERS.

  • @posuerbuster SHUT IT MONKEY SPUNK,YOUR MAKING A TWAT OF YOUR SELF OLD COCK.

  • What show is that? I guess it's some kind of European version of American band stand? It's weird seeing the Exploited on a show like that, I always saw them as the type of band that would puke on someone in the crowd and get black balled from things like that.

  • @headsupkid01 Its from Top of the Pops, there were ALOT of bands of this time including bands like cock sparrer, cockney rejects and so on who played on the show, Not exactly sure why or what it was all about but if you look up cockney rejects blowing bubbles i think is the song thats from this show too. anyways cheers.

  • @ebk197 weird man. all i see are a bunch of preps/mods.

  • Love his perfecto...

  • young Wattie, lol. Good ol' Daze.

  • Like a pop band...

  • This is hype.

    Classic Exploited line up on TOP.

    Look at all the middle class marks pretending to like this. Media is so warped. But it was fun back then .

  • I love this song...:-)

  • 1982..march i think saw them at digbeth civic hall..fuck what a nite 15 years old...my cheek is brusied where wattie booted me in the face..what a fuckin nite..never 4 get it!!!!...:)

  • i agree...

  • the programTOTP was great,no matter who the performers were .if they broke the top 20,they had to be on it.read somewhere,record sales were manipulated so that some offensive song reached only 21 .i think it was DKs ,too drunk to fuck

  • Does anyone know what glue wattie uses for his hair??

  • @nothuman100

    lol you use hairspray and a hairdryer. and a comb.

  • @Enjacku Yh, obviosly lol

    Or glue/soap

    But what brand he uses

    cuz his is allways up, and i could use some glue like that

  • @nothuman100 back in the day my mums boyfriend and his mates used egg whites to stick up their hair, cheaper than fucking hairspray.

  • @Slaytanicide ...i think you'll find ya mum had their cum in her hair... likewise...she came in their hair!!! Egg white's??? Give me a break!!