Billy Bragg-Which Side Are You On

[hernhillrebel]

This says it all really doesn't it? This totalitarian, faceless, statuesque image, hovering above us like some icon that we are to look up to. It's communism all over. The reds will abolish religion and get man to worship them.

[redkarl73ivan]

@hernhillrebel What does it say? It is stuff of our everyday lives. The day will come when you have to ask the question. Which side are you on? Either you are, or hope to be, a rich person - in billions of dollars that is - or you are going to be struggling. Do you think the rich care about taxes?? They don't pay any. And it's got nothing to do with religion anyway.

[tceBansai]

Actually...

There IS hypocrisy in loudly supporting something for everyone else, then moving your family away from it because you're "thinking of of your kids".

WTF?

[viggo0808]

Billy didn't write this. I believe it was Florence Reece back in the 30's?

[jfsttp]

Love this tune....had a chance to see him live couple of years ago...great show.

[Aysome]

Working class revelation! 

[askwhyz]

I love Billy Bragg. Get on the right side of history, our current path will only lead to more economic and environmental disaster...

[curepunkx]

oh man this is a bad ass tune!

[robbanks1967]

Tax religion

[kumikalsari]

Which side are we on? You know mate! On the right side, I mean left side.... CLASS PRIDE!! Thanks for the great song!!!!

[TheMindtoaster]

Ugh.... Billy Bragg ruins yet another classic workers anthem

[emmooldmod]

shame it was cut short ? excellent tune though

[MrRedFredSaid]

Billy Bragg is awesome.

[demgal888]

Aussie voice! Is this World Beat or regge? "Which Side Are You On?"

[kaypaxian1]

i am a strong trades unionist, but i also dont agree with mass immigration. it just doesnt add up, lobbying for immigration which helps worsen pay and working conditions, dont get me wrong part immigration is needed but this is mental..

[sempermementomori]

@kaypaxian1 First of all Trade Unions are a half assed labor movement that pit workers of different trades against each other ... True change comes from DEMOCRATIC INDUSTRIAL labor unions... as far as immigration goes the labor movement is an international struggle and just as workers of all trades must work together so must workers of all nationality struggle together agains the bosses.

[TheRanTanWaltz]

just had a review saying our track "England Isn't Mine!" sounds like Billy Bragg... if you could have a listen on our videos and let us know what you think we would really appreciate it. thanks

[deathtotheunions]

Thatcher 3-0 Scargill

[TheSpineyOne]

@deathtotheunions

Yeah but she's gonna die first, innit. What a party that'll be.

[deathtotheunions]

@TheSpineyOne - typical chav - gets drunk rather than do something positive - anyway cant stop got to take the Rolls to my slave for cleaning.

[TheSpineyOne]

@deathtotheunions

In reality you mean can't stop, got to go and have another wank. Gonna have to do better than that to troll me.

[deathtotheunions]

@TheSpineyOne Seriously - why dont you lefties start your own workers cooperatives and help yourselves - every time you spend money at a PLC you are hurting yourself - my reason would be because you are to lazy - prove me wrong.

[TheSpineyOne]

@HRHPrincePhilip1

And fascists are usually inbred little rich boys who can't fight their way out of a paper bag; that's why they do all their "activism" over the internet. This song's about trade unionism, by the way. I'm sure that in your paranoid McCarthyite little mind the two are synonymous but this does not reflect reality.

Tosser.

[HRHPrincePhilip1]

Billy is a very rich hypocritical wanker who preaches communism and mass immigration but moved away from multi culti hell in London to live in all white Dorset. His excuse, "I had to think about the kids". If you are going to sing shit songs about communism, please make sure your actions reflect the shite you talk. Lefties are mostly hypocritical middle class twats

[mudassaralishah]

hmm so you are saying if you promote multiculturalism then its necessary to live in multicultural city regardless of all the negativity, lots of traffic, noise, pollution, crime etc etc and this is the problem of every big city not just multicultural cities..

Isn't England a free country where people can move wherever they want without giving reasons or being tagged as hypocrite??I'll count this as one more propaganda against communism which doesn't make any sense

[HRHPrincePhilip1]

@mudassaralishah The white working class people who's communities are being turned upside down by rapid mass scale immigration from completely foreign and often hostile cultures don't have the money or the choice unlike the relatively wealthy middle class liberals who have forced the doctrine of mass immigration and multu culti on us. So yes. If you are going to wish that on the white working class, then you should still be living there to reap the benefits of what you have sown.

[mudassaralishah]

dude you aren't even sure why he moved their and like i said every Big Cities always have some Big problems, why should he risk his child future on behalf of his believes,i don't think he moved becoz of lots of immigrants in the city, every sane person will love to live in some place which is more secure and much better for him and his family.. its not worthy reason to tag someone as hypocrite

[19996669991]

What's a racist fascist like you doing listening to Billy Bragg?

Do you like his music or are you just a troll?

I'm curious.

[MrHistoryman45]

@HRHPrincePhilip1 You have a great name for a racist but I think another ignorant bigot got there before you.

[hagmeister135]

@HRHPrincePhilip1 prick

[poolshark98]

this is a cover of a 1920s american union style folk song

[locomotive1804]

Billy Bragg... hasn't he come out for the LibDems?

[BespokeGroupUK]

You are kidding me!!! COOL :)

[willemslie]

Only tactically -- in marginal Tory/Lib Dem seats that Labour can't possibly win.

[Zizek2007]

I'm bound to get loads of abuse, but, is anyone able to give me the title of the Bragg song which starts 'Swears she is, the enemy of all men, so where does that leave me? Alone in the rain again' I can remember a bit more but not the title. I loved it years ago and would really love a copy. Sad Eh?

[dismask]

That sounds almost like Scholarship Is The Enemy of Romance.

Scholarship is the enemy of romance

Where does that leave me? Alone in the rain again

What happened to the weekend I planned with you?

We didn't even get upstairs this time

[MormonJew]

dude man

[Crazymike00]

The American working class is an endanger species.

[UnidosHermanos]

25 years ago...... GLORY TO THE MINERS !!

[RevolutionNotReform]

....and victory to the posties today!

[v1m]

Good on ye, Billy.

[soledweller]

jipemaster,your a fuckin tit,pal.

working class built this country,and died defending it.

[DresdenStarwing]

The 'working class' is the majority of any nation...The American Dream, don't make me laugh...While the rich get richer the poor get poorer...and those in the middle get screwed by the top, and disillusioned by the bottom, wishing to become the top.

[adzug]

try to live without em. go take youre own garbage to the dump, fix your own transmission, build your own house

[radiationphilc]

The middle class are inbred cunts/

Working class pride.

And still the gov try to divide the working class, fuck em

Fuck you jipemaster.

Master of what by the way, being a total cunt?

[truefakeness]

"I have no particular love for the idealised 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."

-George Orwell

[callendorf]

My father was a union man and I'm a union man's son. LOCAL 2375 Pile Drivers

[gorgeoushammer]

working class pride

[sidensvans54]

Should be on the radio every day now!!

nu labours gestapo politik...?

[bivakon]

great song thanx tangoratsfan!!!

[Dcoybiatch]

This song makes my eyes tear up and im close to burst out in tears.

[wearelegion88]

not yours billy..but your ideas are quaintly nostalgic.money talked the miners walked..cheers.

[headschlong]

Are you fucking serious ? Get in touch anytime and I'll put you straight.

[redboy1106]

88? I smell a fascist among us

[redboy1106]

so your politics consist of you being a riotous tit? or do you just gurgle "white power" from around Hitlers dick?

[dannisan77]

@redboy1106 looks like poetry like yor words

[dannisan77]

@redboy1106

[Jendpage]

Love his stuff - got me thru the 80s!!!!

[pazzman2]

legend