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  • Wot is the point with sound quality that bad?

  • yeah!!

  • yeah..:-)

    

  • seen slf at the manchester apollo in the 80s ...wow wot a gig ....( pure punkz ) plus greenday are shite ....

  • Stiff LIttle Fingers are one of the best groups ever, with great lyrics and great music. I also love early Clash and Ebba Grön (a Swedish punk band).

  • Allways loved SLF. Saw them in Reading when a kid, shat my pants. This song now feels like an antidote to the emotional ubiquity around the army now. Kids losing their limbs in Afghanistan for what?. Lets not all salute the flag when cunts in power are telling us to. Peace.

  • @ellenmeilee what a twat you are as theres no comparison to the afghan war to the irish struggle of the '70s and i should know i was there and lived it!!! Peace

  • @MrTerryh68

    Well done mate. You have failed to understand both my comment and the song. May I suggest you go and join a JLS discussion rather than an SLF one. Cheers.

  • 1ST BAND I EVER SEEN 1982 .. FUCKING LOVE THEM

  • GREAT band but not the same anymore without Henry Cluney :(

  • Greatest Punk band ever!! HANX

  • Haha, the lead singer can barely hold in his laughter, some bad play-back, luckily they rocked live

  • ofuk u all, the jam were the greatest band ov all time....... WE R RA MODS.

  • Thåström?? What are you doing in SLF???

  • @ZLUGGO Bra fråga :S

  • yeah the mono on this kinda takes away from a great song. Comparing these guys to green day is like saying good charlotte taught joe strummer everything he knows

  • aaaahhhh hahahaha Green Day you mug

  • Epic then, still relevant now. Great band.

  • and they are still brillliant live 29 years later

  • sheriff woody singin

  • green day to nearest loo n flushed

  • These guys just ripped of Green Day!

  • @SoothsayerYT Hope you meant that ironically. You can never tell 'round here...

  • @SoothsayerYT catch yerself on,these boys were playin' way before green day ye f$%kin' muppet,

  • @SoothsayerYT Oh yeah right!!!!!!

  • @SoothsayerYT these were round in the late 70s mate

  • @SoothsayerYT do know what the fuck you are talking about just look at the year of the video you fool these guys were punk rock before green day even knew what punk rock was so check your self

  • @SoothsayerYT

    Green Day = Pop punk rock - From 1989 Green Day used to play just pointless punk rock until they realised that they aren't part of that sort of generation anymore.

    Stiff Little Fingers = Punk Rock from the 70's

    I study music and Green Day is one of my favourite bands! (Seen them twice in 1 year) and I take it as a pretty big insult that you say Green Day was ripped off by these guys - Apart from the fact that it doesn't even make any sense

  • fuk me, I remember wen we all had haircuts like that!!!! BRILLLLLLLLLLIANNNT BAND!!!!! One ov da best live acts I've ever seen!!!!! PUNK FUKIN ROK!

  • @TheShilty Fuck you? Alright, will do. Which hole do you prefer?

  • so them in 1981 i had this single at the time played it before i went too the gig in the edinburgh playhouse it was the first song of the set what a band still the best ever gig for enterainment and energy and ive seen a few bands since not all punk the stones, lou reed, iron maiden, garymoore, jahwobble david byrne, u2 ,but still the one stuck in the memory is slf

  • long live the fingers

  • i ain't bin 2 da moon. dont fink i can. dont fink ne one can. SLF 'made it' as far as i'm concerned. no-one else like them, mono or not...

  • mediocre band, derivative, there's a reason they never made it.

  • @welcome2myhell

    Fuck you, go listen to your Green Day and beat off. This is one of the best bands to come out of the 70's, and still touring, and still drawing loyal fans. Derivative? When you have a clue, then make a point, else, shut the fuck up wanker.

  • @welcome2myhell if u think that this band is 'mediocre' then get the fuck of this page, the reason that they never made it really big is because they didn't have some really big money throwing record company behind them - that was because their humble beginnings meant that they didn't have enough money to be noticed by any of said companys.

  • @somonelse666 Well, let's be fair. SLF had their great days AND their mediocre days regardless of record company interest. I know Jake Burns thinks "Now Then" was their finest hour but that's when I started to lose interest. Their first three albums are fucking brilliant and "Hanx" is a great live document. Flags & Emblems was a true return to form. But without Cluney in the band, they seemed to lose their punch. No disrespect, mind you, they're still a good band.

  • these guys r gods green day is new meat

  • You know it's loud as f*ck, because they are all using SM57's for vocal mics. Imagine standing right up front… those lads and lass' must have been deaf for a few days after.

    And it was probably so easily worth the pain, and so much more.

  • Green who?

  • Me & 3000 other mad scottish punks were wowed again for the 20th year in a row at the Glasgow Barrowlands, doubt greenday will still be rockin it in 34 years time!! Still gigin, still recording, still burning!!!!! Fuckin outstandin

  • @linsman I was there aswell man! Fucking brilliant gig! Were you the guy with the massive mohawk and colour changed eyes?

  • @masterofscotland  LOL, wisnae me mate but i saw him aw night, highest mohawk ever :) cheers

  • 1936Sabate

    You're spot on 1936Sabate. My niece, being of a certain age, was all 'Greenday are it man' at family party a few years ago. After failing to explain, my sister just played her some SLF. My niece got it straight away.  The DKMs got it too: they acknowledge The Clash, SLF, and The Pogues. But fuck, I'd almost forgotten the Upstarts and I'm fron Tyneside. Who killed Liddle? We all know...

  • they are so great. as good as the genre gets.

  • Green Day are just 2nd rate Descendents clones. A derivative of a derivative of a derivative and with a quality that reflects that. SLF along with the Upstarts are often the forgotten bands of the 70/80's British punk scene. Both were intelligent and talented and always seem to get ignored for glorified caberet acts like the Pistols.

  • my fave slf tune.

  • "gren day" might be quite good what I was saying was that Green Day suck arse and are a band of poncy twats.

  • who is green day SLF is original

  • best band ever .noother band could touch them in their day ....and they seem to sound as good today ...need tofind out when they next play in glasgow would love to see them ...missed their farewell tour in glasgow :( long live SLF

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  • @paulinesmith44 There playing Barrowland on St Patricks day, I'm going :D

  • Jake Burns is a bit fatter now :)

  • these guys sound like U2...

    just joking, what do you take for, a cunt?

  • SLF are the best Irish band out there. Forget about U2 and never mind Green Day

  • omfg how young

    green day are fuckin emo they like cut there wrists

    S.L.F !

  • omfg how young

    green day are fuckin emo they like cut there wrists

    S.L.F

  • HE'S SOOO YOUNG HERE!! MY GOODNESSS LOL AGES HAV GONE BY SOO FAST

  • wow 3 people are gay

  • Good God, no band we have now can ever be compared to SLF. theres just no comparison. chillax and enjoy the blast from the past lol x

  • i have instantly fallen in love with this band since the 7 minutes i've heard of them

  • @NicksComments get there early stuff its elecrtic

  • aqui ,alguin habla mierda,S.L.F fueron one of a punk\band best in the world,i saw them in 1981, and 2009, W the punk music,1975\1984 the rest

  • Skakkys just offered to suck my enormous penis if I say Greenday are better, NO TY biotch, they still suck EMO kid, go away and jack off to all the small things

  • first band i ever saw at wakefield,memories eh

  • Man you people are dickheads when you say greenday is shit you are giving him publicity like how no one new who justin bieber was when i first heard about him and then so many people hated him a few people liked him and then he became famous you fucking dickheads by insulting things you hate your helping them

  • on ali fleda kasvanu... paras biisi ikinä

  • yeahhhhh!!!! I was a big fan !!!!!! from France!

  • Green Day are a fucking great band, anyway i never expected to come on a SLF video and see folk pointlessly arguing about Green Day. anyway main point SLF are a fucking great band, Tin Soldier is a fucking great song, have a fucking great day. peace

  • @GoingToPasalacqua12 thanks good 2 see some green day fans m8

  • Oh yeah, that's why I like this band. They're amazing live and on album.

  • SOUND!!!???

  • yeah im from hampshire and we were all into SLF at school and they were better than all the other bands and i was a mod

  • is this Green Day ?!?

  • TIN SOLDER

  • @voicesoffear the Pogues, maybe not pure punk but listrn to sally mclannan

  • I minded with song, meant for its time, to think of all the youngsters throughout the world that are conned into fighting for causes that politicians and tribal leaders seem to think are important.

  • Why is it in mono? why? we can put men on the moon for fuck sake.

  • @Chaos1977uk I agree with your comment, except we didn't put anyone on the moon.

  • @Chaos1977uk america lied about the moon landing ,same as 911

  • @voicesoffear yeah+dont forget the undertones-forget bono+u2 they stink of bullcrap ha ha

  • @motormadhead13 you sit your sad ass down, ive brought a doctor in to Remove that Mole from your Shoulders, OOPs its your head, for a minute I thought it was Lemmy`s Mole, I bet you were lead singer in Girlschoool!

  • @woodyfurball you are living proof an abortion can survive,now go jump off a bridge

  • This song is just not to beat!!! It rocks

  • @voicesoffear

    NORTHERN IRELAND

  • class song ...class band .... please check out my slower , quieter acoustic cover of this song .... feel free to leave a comment aswell , good or bad .... cheers

  • I saw them in Bristol not long before this - just after Dolphin joined and just before Jake's silly haircut. Brilliant stuff.

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  • Errr, how do I like this about 10000 times?

  • could be singing about  today

  • By the way: don`t forget the BOOMTOWN RATS !

  • You could tell jake popped a string near the end.

  • They "lost" it in 1921 with partition you retarded Hun. Go back in to your cave

  • Till still will not turn to gold./.

  • @Liamski06 Dont you mean "Tin" not "Till"?

  • Come on IRELAND

  • @irishmanisme tattie hooker, slf frae belfast, you lost that in 1690, ftp

  • @andygrainger1 what?

  • I find Greenday was a gateway band who brung the younger people to look back and find the stiff little fingers and all the other Original UK Punk rock bands of the late 70's early 80's from their lifting of some song formations and licks you do hear in early Green day albums before they went to a larger label. My sister knew them from the shop she's worked in here in san francisco and i knew them breifly...

  • was only young wene i first lisend sooo timeless

  • STIFF LITTLE FINGERS FUCKIN RULE!!!!

  • one of the best punk bands ever

  • @falkinerkeith agreed

  • absoulute geat song 1 of the best punk bands around watched em last month

  • I lve this song. They should play it faster though. Like they do on "Hanx!"

  • The band to top all punk bands

  • if u even bring up green day in the same comment with slf...ill take u out back myself n teach u a few things...silly bastard

  • @13irishwench well said, i felt a bit sick when i saw them mentioned as a comment to this video.

  • true life singers go on slf

  • define punk woody

  • Yup - One of the very best!

  • this is one of the greatest bands ever  respect

  • I WAS AT THIS GIG AM NOW OLD

  • @AntiVaccine

    sounds like another (false, amusing) conspiracy theory.

  • Yay Henry has an Album comming out soon !!

    Great song, keep up the great work!

  • Look at the crowd go off like fizz from an opened shaken can!

  • Too great, I gotta say this is simply the definiton of music I wanna hear,,,,

    The first two didn't count

    Rob Craver,

  • Thank u my Newport Crew, for introducing me.,, It's all alright!!! :-)

  • Who gives rough fuck about Greenday-this clip is all about SLF. This is a truly great band and for those who followed their path across the years, could never be compared with anyone else. A sound that was linked to their Northern Irish origins and the politics of the time. Love it.

  • @cattycakes64 green day are not in the same league.

  • @franki586 yeah green day are in a very different league

  • @cattycakes64 yes, and they will be the best band for the goodwilling people: allaround the world, till the end of time! they're truly freedom fighters.

  • @cattycakes64 i give a fuk avbout green day they fuking rule

  • @cattycakes64 even young Mods in Oz loved it bro

  • @cattycakes64 Totally mate .As good as pistols stooges new york dolls.guitar and bass are unreal.

  • @cattycakes64 fuk off gren day are awsome

  • lmao @ anyone thinkin EMO Greenday were punk and can even think about being Punk, you and yor walmart ass sit back down, TIn Soldier

  • AGREED Long Live SLF HANX

  • @woodyfurball People think that since Greenday tried to rip of SLF they must be in the same league.

    They are sadly, sadly mistaken.

    SLF &Sham 69 had this kind'a sound and a lot of people took from it, that doesnt make the "borrowers" good... At all... EVAR!

  • @woodyfurball green day has the punk mentality politically and attitude wise just thier new shit is too pop like

  • @TheRebelAtheist true but they are going to make a new album thats going to be Dookie 2

  • @woodyfurball my kid is 13 and I caught him listening to greenday

    I took him to the Barras to see SLF - he loved it

    "Thats ma boy"

  • @NorthernSoulGer Brilliant m8, you keep him listening to Utter class he`ll make it in the world, good man, wd

  • @woodyfurball who gives a shit what some record company wanna call it-emo-punk-metal-etc etc etc,if you get caught in that trap you might miss out on a good band cause someone labelled them wrong.what would you call the ramones for eg.?

  • @woodyfurball of course green day are punk. the concept of emo didnt even exist until about 15 years after they started

  • @sidsings000

    you are dumb. emo was born out of hardcore by people like danzig in the 80s

  • @sidsings000 in the given context emo only came into existence in about 2000. emo was only thought of as additional genre label to some punk bands, not a seperate genre. ergo being emo wouldn't have stopped you being punk at te same time. which means that either green day were both or they were punk, thus proving me right and the original comment wrong

  • @woodyfurball why even compare SLF to greenday why dont compare um to U2 i mien there both from Ireland lol 

  • @woodyfurball look fuk off green day fuking rule

  • @woodyfurball Green Day isn't emo, you faggot.

  • @woodyfurball

    I know what you mean, Im only 17 and i prefer these guys to pretty every other modern punk bands, this is real punk music, these guys, GBH and the Ramones are some of the greats of Punk. Got properly into punk doing my work experience. Painted a house in the middle of the country side for a week, listening to non stop punk music... God that was AMAZING

  • @SnupeJR

    Must have been fun! 16 here - brought up on SLF and the like (sex pistols half man half bisciute, 999 ect)

  • w/o MTV Green Day would not exist,,,,,,,,,,,,,,MTV = GreenDAY = product does not equal DIY PUNK

  • @woodyfurball fuck off green day are awsome

  • For all his efforts at looking like Mick Jones, thank god Jake didn't sound like him.

    And for all you cunts railing against Green Day, please just shut the fuck up... you're boring.

    Henry's the best.

  • greenday suck - more like brownday! SLF top band - so much energy around that time so hard to describe to kids today what it was really like! punk changed my life......etc etc

  • yo jheq you have no idea wtf ur talkin about sit back down. green days a bunch of copys that try to sound british with billies faggot ass twang. they're beating dead fucking horse called punk. mother fuckers from america talk like one. they would never had had success without bands like slf, damned, and pistols. stfu go buy they're new album; it sucks sloppy floppy donkey dick

    merry xmas mates SLF rocks!

  • ilove slf

  • Jake burns voice is a sound of a generation

  • Greenday are EMO? My sincere apologies go out to them on there cover of a REAL punk bands song by the Skids " The saints are coming" unlucky boys, maybe take up netball? cause you aint Punk!

  • you sign for the army> so shut the fuck up plz

  • pull the not so PUNK ROCK CARD from this character in better words "CRAM IT CLOWNIE"

  • Remember when Greenday sounded like these guys? Now they sound like the Eagles! LOL

  • Must I remind you that your under oath? You'll loose your Punk Rock license sayin' things like that,man!

  • greenday are whiney, tie-wearing parasites of the music industry that tried to capitalise on the war in Iraq and hurricane victims. they (and U2) can go choke on a dick...

  • @jheq555 stiff little fingers are real punk and a million times better than green day and how can u even think about calling stiff little fingers a sex pistols rip off and come to think of it if you dislike stiff little fingers why did you bother to watch it and then comment on it

  • @jheq555 how dare u stiff little fingers are million times better than the sex pistols and greenday so shut you stupid mouth u dumbass

  • @master0Fkings lovin the comment m8

  • @STOOGE30 thx, and no problem this is a legend song

  • @jheq555 What the fuck is wrong with you you silly fucking bastard?! Are you unable to hear good music when you hear it?! Saying a new aged band like greenday is better than SLF?!?! Thats like saying Fallout boy is better than Jethro Tull (theyre definetly not) or that All american rejects are better than the clash (and they are not!). Greenday the real deal my ass! Im from the same generation as you and i think 90% of greenday sucks ass, and this doesn't! Get off of youtube you dumb 12yo

  • lol, Green Day NEVER sounded like this. Not even "1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours"...

  • Its the same kind of pop punk, For fuck sake man!

    That's all I meant. Now,Greenday is the Eagles,and I HATE the FUCKIN' EAGLES!!! Nice name man.Don't worry,be happy.Very Zen.

  • A song still as relevant than as it is today.

  • Siete mitici, compravo i vostri lp 30 anni fa.... Ma perchè non venite a fare un concerto in iTALIA?

  • great to watch ,takes me back to my youth ,first band i saw in concert at wakefield town hall in late 70,s

  • funny how this song is even more relevant now than when it was written

  • Tin soldiers You sign away your name No chance for cash or fame You never see the truth You sign away your youth You go and join the queue Do what they want you to They take away your name They treat you all the same Sign away you life Great song and lyrics that mean something
  • these boys were hot, i wish i was 40 when they were 17 so i could molest them.

  • HAHAHAHAHAH your funny XD

  • Saw them at Carlisle circa 1980.Fookin fantastic.

  • My fav band ever can't  wait till this Tuesday at Cambridge Junction

  • Edinburgh this saturday,, a is 44 and going tae pogo my arse onto another planet..,cant wait

  • lol

  • Yea I've got the MMB version & Stiffs do a good version of The Specials 'Doesn't Make It Alright', that makes them a Ska band as well.