New Model Army - A Liberal Education

[weebig]

I love finding amazing songs accidentaly, <3.

[utube4717]

@weebig wasn't an accident......you was meant to hear it

[utube4717]

@weebig wasn't an accident......you was meant to hear it :)

[robertmondry]

the best of nma, each song speaking clearly for those who will listen, but listen the songs say something different to each of us, making it brilliant even more.

[Nihilocracy]

What's this song about exactly?

[jackogreen23]

@Nihilocracy

about a liberal education, quite literally. The rest is up to you I guess.

[ribqueen]

i could be completely missing the point here, but isn't the song about the effects of post-colonisation? how colonisation starts off by taking away a country's identity and exploiting them, giving them a european education to try and control them, but because this kind of education involves a lot of egalitarian values, everyone pretty much used these ideas against them. and after the war, the colonies jumped ship and evaded responsibility, leaving all of those countries to go into civil war.

[davenind0316]

an awesome song still sends shivers up my spine 24 years on dug all my old NMA out remembered why i brought 2 copies of vengence cos i wore the 1st copy out HAPPY DAYZ !!!!!

[timdalf]

I agree, it is a conservative song- but conservative with a small 'c'. It's definitely against the whole thuggish Tory government that we endured between 78 and 97. I still maintain that the best thinkers have been on the side of a kind of enlightened socialism. Great song, though :)

[TheLexyboy]

@timdalf more like Anti Conservative.......

[morathi36]

2 thumbs down? the both of you will be hunted down and shot! ;)

[mlody68rybnik]

"..Nie trzeba nam przeszkadzać

Nie chcieliśmy zwycięstwa

Po prostu chcieliśmy walczyć

Ale wy tego nie chcieliście

Mówiliście, że nie przystoi walczyć

Popsuliście każdą zabawę

Złamaliście odwieczne okowy

I nikt nie szanuje was za wasza słabość..." W latach 80 dużo to znaczyło- dzisiaj również znaczy.

Dzięki Justin!

[debshux]

brilliant band awsome song!!!!!

[debshux]

love this band,absolutely adore this song

[42warhorse]

saw them in the hacienda manchester around 82 , loved them , since ,

great band , great lyrics .

[TheBitterWeed]

This was always one of their best. Saw them Cambridge in 85.

Take away our history

Take away our heroes

Take away our values

And leave us here with nothing

Hell yes.

[sham64andahalf]

The new album is brilliant mate

[TheBitterWeed]

Some things don't change.

Check out Show of Hands. They know too...

Fucking love it.

[AshlayPiie101]

First heard NMA at the K5 in Karlsruhe Germany . Great band can't wait to get the new album.

[frankherig]

love the blue light ! and the lyrics. &the tune!

[sootone]

es un temazo, me marcó mi adolescencia.

que grandes son NMA

[auto4union]

Thats a shit hot live performance!That was on the "Raw Melody Men" album and video was it..?Good view of Justin picking at the end.Sussed out the acoustic guitar outro bit just watching that!....Sound!

[PsylocybinSi]

Nice One! Best Ever!? Love It....

[felldance]

i saw them on the vengeance tour in '84 and now my 10 year son likes them. but this was always my favourite song...

[auto4union]

"We were only children" "How could you have been so stupid"Sublime!He must have went to a shool like mine!Peace!

[timdalf]

Never give up. All the greatest thinkers throughout history have been on the left.

NMA- outstanding.

[theashenman]

@timdalf Seems like a pretty conservative song to me

[MissyLaMotte]

Hey, I've been to that concert!

[auto4union]

Sublime! I can relate to NMAs lyrics more than any other band! I think I should get a share of the royalties from the amount of people I`ve turned on to this band!People hear it in my car or house and after a while say "Who the fucks that?thats brilliant!".And a week or two later have every album!But its a buzz to spread the word!Working on a cover of "Lib Ed"!Cant say enough good things about this band!!

[bainty66]

if only they were wrong

[ronalda3132]

one of their best songs ever!

[jheych]

Blinding!.. takes me back so so long ago but the memories are sooo sweet

[9only9good9]

Great song, the best version of this song is on the "All of this" live rarities album. I've seen NMA preforming for about 15 times... every time when they play in Holland. Best band ever!