The social commentary of this song is so powerful. Julie could be me, you, your neighbour or anyone. I don't agree with all that The Levellers have to say. I do however, applaud the way they engage one's mind to think and discuss the morality of our culture. They really do remind one to be an individual and stand up and be counted. The music is great too! Thank you for this posting. I think I will have to go and slap one of their CDs on.
I fucking hate the conservatives, and their whole "I'm alright Jack" ideology. Like they made it, and everybody else is beneath them. That the working people are lazy scroungers who leech off the noble rich. Damn Tories can't help forever devising methods to earn public favor by making the poor "earn" their benefits, yet praise the parasites who sit on their fat asses without a care in the world, and deny all opportunities to those who are less privileged by an accident of birth.
Awesome song, still good to ear the levellers, got many of their songs on my ipod nano.... seen them in Wolverhampton 2000, now come to Aus and tour !!! Love the pipes as always !!!Up The Levellers !!!
@rose44556 Hmm. Thanks!, but I think there are two tunes. Unless I am wholly ignorant there are two; observe the change in tune and tempo after 04:20.Sorry if this sounds snarky, it's not meant to be. I was told the second tune was "Sterling Castle" but cannot find a good upload on Youtube.All the Best , Yorkshirebloke!
Potters1863 - TEN YEARS OF LEFTY RULE? WHAT THE F$CK ARE YOU ON ABOUT? Since when were new Labour a party that can in any way be described as left-wing? Seeing as you clearly don't follow politics, let me bring you up to speed. Tony Blair scrapped 'Clause 4 of The 'Labour' party, effectively denouncing it's socialist intentions. Anything that the Labour party have done since then, are based on oldschool tory party policies anyway. They are in no way synonymous with socialist politics.
Intersting comment about Thatcherism. Considering the mess over a decade of leftist rule has left us in, you'd take the Iron Lady back tomorrow. She smashed union power and dragged this country up by the bootstraps.
i love this song.... and FrancicLes is right ! it;'a lament 2 the shite we now have to work through because as hooman beeens we're a selfish fucked up idiotic, moronic bunch who feel owning a new i-phone, tv , or i-pad makes us worth summat !....we're all animals and need to realazize the fact !! grow up peeps, kill ya old relatives and welcome to the real world :-)
@JamesG777 ....I look at the human race ... and I feel pity, we are capable of such greatness, how sad it is that so few of us are able to live up to the ideals we set ourselves, and yes I do count myself amongst that number, 40+ years of brainwashing are hard to override....
I think you are all missing the point of this song, it's not about Julie or Heroin, it's about society, written at a time when the country was just coming out of the arse end of 11 years of Thatcherite rule, all major industries had been plundered and privatised, unemployment at it's highest ever, what hope for those who tried to live a normal life, beaten back at every turn by the social system, it speaks of the lows people are reduced to when faced with insurmountable odds, but also of hope!
@ChrisH346 no reference is ever made or implied to Julie being on Heroin, she leaves home at 16, gets a job, falls in love gets a house, made unemployed, gets depressed at the hopelessness of her situation, ends up in a council flat in a block full of junkies, her only view of the world is the one through her window, she ends up hating her situation and feels victimised by society and the system , but still has hope (as expressed in the final line) .. maybe you are listening to a different song!
@FranticLes Do you have to spoil all fine tracks with politics? Maybe it was hard to live but Thatcher stopped the crisis. Even her greatest enemies can't deny it but go to hell with all this leftest theories ... let people listen to good music. Better than on the TV
@Naoczny2 hmmm just checked my posts , can't see any mention of politics, I did mention Thatcher who was a politician, but it would be a hard stretch of anyone's imagination to say my usage of her name had any political agenda.
@FranticLes absolutely spot on - isn't about drugs or anything else - merely about how fucking difficult it is to get anywhere nowadays, make anything of yourself. It's no coincidence that, after Labour managed to pull us out of the Thatcher years, the con-dems have now decided to fuck us over royally instead. Aint blaming them, per se, we're screwed whoever's in charge - but I think Labour did a better job. And thanks Wangerz for putting this vid up
I know what you mean about the bagpipes, every night I see them floating in and out of my room through the walls, playing a tune akin to something by moZart
Big deal squisshing said its about her? Im pretty sure she knows it wasnt but she 'relates' to it :) jesus.. what is it with some of you youtubers your so harsh and serious... CHILLOUT.
this song is not based or about you at all!!! this song is about a heroin addict. About a life of a girl who had problems and turned to heroin. if you listen to the lyrics you will see
i dont think julie turned to drugs, its just the place she lived was full of them, if you listen theres nothing about lovely old julie smackin up is there.
your 100% right, there's only a few references to drugs, "stepping over blackened spoons" and narcotic stare but those are the people around her. in my view of this song, she is just a very lonely person who struggles to fit in, but thats just my opinion lol probably isn't want the songs about at all lol
you know what, my best friend is my homie and she is out going fun to be with and always the one who wants to do something or play something be outside active and she is NOT!!!!!!!! lonely and wasnt born that way her name is julie too
Hey Hiosho....Saw them in Bristol in 2007 and they're still utterly brilliant. I've been listening to them since 91, and they just keep getting better. Like you, I loved them from the start, a truly under-appreciated band, simply awesome.
whats this sonag actuslly about. i heard its based on jeremy's experience of being a heroin addict. and that its about the experiences of a heroin addicted girl.... a friend of mine from college's mum started crying when i played her this song because its exactly what happened to her when she was a teenager (she moved from high wycombe to blackbirdleys when she lost her job)
i love this as i work with women and men like julie every day,and its a sad sad world we sometimes find ourselves in,and certainly not for the want of trying.not all benefit seekers are scroungers.
Their you are listening to a awesome song, then some shitty advert starts up and fucks it all up, YOUTUBE YOU FUCKIN SUCK COCK.
LongshanksSid 2 weeks ago
Wow, my name is in a song!!!!
jujud0ll 3 months ago
@jujud0ll me 2
julie41600 1 month ago
@ xoxojuliemarie
My name is also julie ;D
sweeTy0776 4 months ago
The other version is much better imo!
Bexorcist 4 months ago
A little bit of warmth in this cold world!
fliesenfuzzi 6 months ago 2
my name is julie !
xoxojuliemarie 6 months ago
love the bag-pipes, mate.
monomaniacomicsgroup 6 months ago
The crags of sterling makes the hairs on my very celtic arms stand up.
angelusmortis1412 8 months ago
The social commentary of this song is so powerful. Julie could be me, you, your neighbour or anyone. I don't agree with all that The Levellers have to say. I do however, applaud the way they engage one's mind to think and discuss the morality of our culture. They really do remind one to be an individual and stand up and be counted. The music is great too! Thank you for this posting. I think I will have to go and slap one of their CDs on.
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AntoniaEldridge 9 months ago
lol thats funny my name is julie
JulieTran102 9 months ago
my name is julie! lol but song is kinda off no offense :D
JulieTran102 9 months ago
Mmm so this so well and my name is julie
buubaby 9 months ago
I fucking hate the conservatives, and their whole "I'm alright Jack" ideology. Like they made it, and everybody else is beneath them. That the working people are lazy scroungers who leech off the noble rich. Damn Tories can't help forever devising methods to earn public favor by making the poor "earn" their benefits, yet praise the parasites who sit on their fat asses without a care in the world, and deny all opportunities to those who are less privileged by an accident of birth.
Lilith1777 9 months ago 5
this is wonderful thank you for posting it
jackiecrowe 9 months ago
as of 3.10 it sends chills up my spine.....
Awsome song! Tx for the upload!
griffonsa 10 months ago
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gleno61927 10 months ago
let me try to guess who the 4 dislikers are:
the only people who i can think of who are still alive and don't have a soul are:
T. blair, M. thatcher, D. camron & N. clegg
so i'll go with them.
thumbs up if u think i'm right :P
somonelse666 11 months ago 3
have a little look at my version of the original acoustic version of this classic. just search for kevo1978
kevo1978 11 months ago
momkara<3
12345howard12345 1 year ago
FUK ME IVE CRIED TO THIS FOR YEARS !!! IM 23 REMEMBER MY MUM LISTENING TO IT YEARS AGO ! LOVE IT ! EPIC SONG
scraderz20 1 year ago 3
cool bird x
sharkeyanne 1 year ago
That is an amazing song!
ThePlaidninja4 1 year ago
Awesome song, still good to ear the levellers, got many of their songs on my ipod nano.... seen them in Wolverhampton 2000, now come to Aus and tour !!! Love the pipes as always !!!Up The Levellers !!!
flyinghaggis71 1 year ago
Nice song
SWEETloveer01 1 year ago
Can anyone name the bagpipe tunes for me.
sundayliein4 1 year ago
@sundayliein4 The bag pipes bit is called Flowers of the Forest
rose44556 1 year ago
@sundayliein4 The bag pipes bit is called Flowers of the Forest
rose44556 1 year ago
@rose44556 Hmm. Thanks!, but I think there are two tunes. Unless I am wholly ignorant there are two; observe the change in tune and tempo after 04:20.Sorry if this sounds snarky, it's not meant to be. I was told the second tune was "Sterling Castle" but cannot find a good upload on Youtube.All the Best , Yorkshirebloke!
sundayliein4 1 year ago
the bagpipes..........quality : )
liamlucking 1 year ago
höhöhöhöhö :D
JuliiiexXxx 1 year ago
........My Name Is Julie. o.O
IWuvYooh100 1 year ago 2
@IWuvYooh100 my too :''D
JuliiiexXxx 1 year ago
@JuliiiexXxx Lolz :D
IWuvYooh100 1 year ago
my name is Julie!!!!!!!! and i was the only child
PreciousPoms 1 year ago
Potters1863 - TEN YEARS OF LEFTY RULE? WHAT THE F$CK ARE YOU ON ABOUT? Since when were new Labour a party that can in any way be described as left-wing? Seeing as you clearly don't follow politics, let me bring you up to speed. Tony Blair scrapped 'Clause 4 of The 'Labour' party, effectively denouncing it's socialist intentions. Anything that the Labour party have done since then, are based on oldschool tory party policies anyway. They are in no way synonymous with socialist politics.
Vindalooman 1 year ago 2
lovely song ok depressive, but at the time it was what was going on in britain, thatcher you never 1 , nor did the bullying u dished out.
tonna70 1 year ago
Not advertising but if you like the bagpipes, this is my personal favourite!
I do not own or claim anything on this video i just like the song :)
Enjoy!
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ryandee316 1 year ago
Great song!
TheBibby321 1 year ago 2
Intersting comment about Thatcherism. Considering the mess over a decade of leftist rule has left us in, you'd take the Iron Lady back tomorrow. She smashed union power and dragged this country up by the bootstraps.
Potters1863 1 year ago
this depresses me. and makes me want to go to ireland
ChiTownlover25 1 year ago
One of my favourite songs of all time. Thanks for sharing! :0)
bumbletwig 1 year ago
the underwolves are from a book by d meacham showing the decay in the south wales valleys and the feral youth growing there today hope this helps
daffodil97 1 year ago
the mother of my son was named julie, and by gods did she match this song exactly... classic thanks ;-j
wolf2jon 1 year ago
for the underwolves
daffodil97 1 year ago
@daffodil97 'underwolves'? i think i understand what you mean... ,just curious ;-j
wolf2jon 1 year ago
one of the best songs in terms of writing in my opinion. fuckin class
sidneysmooth 1 year ago
I love how this songs haunts me. Still!!!
bensnanaful 1 year ago
i love this song.... and FrancicLes is right ! it;'a lament 2 the shite we now have to work through because as hooman beeens we're a selfish fucked up idiotic, moronic bunch who feel owning a new i-phone, tv , or i-pad makes us worth summat !....we're all animals and need to realazize the fact !! grow up peeps, kill ya old relatives and welcome to the real world :-)
148nik 1 year ago
this songs ring true just as much today as the day it was written.....timeless peice of music
signori888 1 year ago
cool
UchihaSignori 1 year ago
lol FranticLes, things are a much better now aren't they? The country has took a major step forward over the last decade or so. * chuckles *
JamesG777 1 year ago
@JamesG777 ....I look at the human race ... and I feel pity, we are capable of such greatness, how sad it is that so few of us are able to live up to the ideals we set ourselves, and yes I do count myself amongst that number, 40+ years of brainwashing are hard to override....
FranticLes 1 year ago 3
best tune ever,i get goose bumps
spaulding68 1 year ago
Few tracks capture the bitter sweet feeling so well.
gextvedde 1 year ago
Nice job.
Purplemoonfish 2 years ago
spot on frantic...
hobgoblin731 2 years ago
I think you are all missing the point of this song, it's not about Julie or Heroin, it's about society, written at a time when the country was just coming out of the arse end of 11 years of Thatcherite rule, all major industries had been plundered and privatised, unemployment at it's highest ever, what hope for those who tried to live a normal life, beaten back at every turn by the social system, it speaks of the lows people are reduced to when faced with insurmountable odds, but also of hope!
FranticLes 2 years ago 87
@FranticLes dead right when i heard this song 17 years ago it said all of what u spoke of and more
SuperDmanz 1 year ago
@FranticLes - no it's not, it's about Julie who was on heroin.
ChrisH346 1 year ago
@ChrisH346 no reference is ever made or implied to Julie being on Heroin, she leaves home at 16, gets a job, falls in love gets a house, made unemployed, gets depressed at the hopelessness of her situation, ends up in a council flat in a block full of junkies, her only view of the world is the one through her window, she ends up hating her situation and feels victimised by society and the system , but still has hope (as expressed in the final line) .. maybe you are listening to a different song!
FranticLes 1 year ago 3
@FranticLes Do you have to spoil all fine tracks with politics? Maybe it was hard to live but Thatcher stopped the crisis. Even her greatest enemies can't deny it but go to hell with all this leftest theories ... let people listen to good music. Better than on the TV
Naoczny2 1 year ago
@Naoczny2 hmmm just checked my posts , can't see any mention of politics, I did mention Thatcher who was a politician, but it would be a hard stretch of anyone's imagination to say my usage of her name had any political agenda.
FranticLes 1 year ago
@FranticLes reminds me of my teens!!!!!!
SuperLittlePaws 1 year ago
@FranticLes WELL SAID MATE
matdelta1 1 year ago
@FranticLes absolutely spot on - isn't about drugs or anything else - merely about how fucking difficult it is to get anywhere nowadays, make anything of yourself. It's no coincidence that, after Labour managed to pull us out of the Thatcher years, the con-dems have now decided to fuck us over royally instead. Aint blaming them, per se, we're screwed whoever's in charge - but I think Labour did a better job. And thanks Wangerz for putting this vid up
STEVEFARKINGGUPPY 11 months ago 2
@FranticLes well said ,,,,,,,,,
redrock1965 5 months ago
:'(
kayjay9145 2 years ago
Love the song, and the bagpipes are haunting.
missedexit 2 years ago 22
I know what you mean about the bagpipes, every night I see them floating in and out of my room through the walls, playing a tune akin to something by moZart
jeandepaul 1 year ago
Havent listened to this in a while, Its pretty much what mum went through, only she ran away from home and didnt get given a council place.
Couldnt be more proud of her tbh she's done so much when she came from pretty much nothing ^^
SherbetNinja 2 years ago
See them tomorrow in Bochum (Germany).
Btw: My name isn`t Julie and I´m male but I also know what it means to feel alone in a crowded room.
Cu.
FrankyHaemmer 2 years ago
Beautiful song, well made clip.
See them next week, looking forward.
FrankyHaemmer 2 years ago
were you seeing them butty comment back plzs tar
themad1666 2 years ago
This is true about me. plus my name is julie.
ShyCrows57 2 years ago
Lovely song...nuff said!
MrRedcap999 2 years ago
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Great song. I just love the Pipes and Drums at the end.
24934637 2 years ago
I would say this song is on the same par as eleanor Rigby,
(Loneliness comes in different shades of gray) Thanks for the Upload!
Jackbite69 2 years ago 3
i love this song
conor1915 2 years ago 4
Big deal squisshing said its about her? Im pretty sure she knows it wasnt but she 'relates' to it :) jesus.. what is it with some of you youtubers your so harsh and serious... CHILLOUT.
sybercatz 2 years ago
this song is not based or about you at all!!! this song is about a heroin addict. About a life of a girl who had problems and turned to heroin. if you listen to the lyrics you will see
Griblojonny 2 years ago
i dont think julie turned to drugs, its just the place she lived was full of them, if you listen theres nothing about lovely old julie smackin up is there.
shamrock245 2 years ago 2
your 100% right, there's only a few references to drugs, "stepping over blackened spoons" and narcotic stare but those are the people around her. in my view of this song, she is just a very lonely person who struggles to fit in, but thats just my opinion lol probably isn't want the songs about at all lol
icychopstix 2 years ago
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My name :) x
nah dont like the song :(
sorrybabes 2 years ago
this song is true bout me
SquisshingEllora4eva 2 years ago
you know what, my best friend is my homie and she is out going fun to be with and always the one who wants to do something or play something be outside active and she is NOT!!!!!!!! lonely and wasnt born that way her name is julie too
Dolphin013097 2 years ago
cool my name is julie and im not like that
637891 2 years ago
my name is Julie but i'm not lonely
637891 2 years ago
The song belongs to another age, sweethart!
44tyke 2 years ago
thats me :D
637891 2 years ago
top class
TheBrotherdave 2 years ago
saw them as a teen..in 1993...loved that song from scratch!
and still do!
Hiosho 2 years ago
Hey Hiosho....Saw them in Bristol in 2007 and they're still utterly brilliant. I've been listening to them since 91, and they just keep getting better. Like you, I loved them from the start, a truly under-appreciated band, simply awesome.
ReclusiveDuck 2 years ago
I married someone called Julie, She was evil....It's no wonder that she was an lonely girl!
24934637 2 years ago
brilliant tune
B3n1GN08 2 years ago
First time ive heard this in about 6 years, goosebumps. One of the best bands ever
tommygun79 2 years ago
fajne wspomnienia!
naszamuza 2 years ago
bring the levellers too mexborough !!!
mrdjotter91 2 years ago
This song is the best ever...
joagru 2 years ago
this song was so written for me.
jmackay80 2 years ago
The words are still relevent today! Sadly.
xsmklinex 2 years ago
brilliant song, brilliant band!
I most almost cry by this song (':
Feelien24 2 years ago
whats this sonag actuslly about. i heard its based on jeremy's experience of being a heroin addict. and that its about the experiences of a heroin addicted girl.... a friend of mine from college's mum started crying when i played her this song because its exactly what happened to her when she was a teenager (she moved from high wycombe to blackbirdleys when she lost her job)
bladezgame 3 years ago
I cried, touches me every time.
jarmara32 3 years ago
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my name is julie :)
mufasaxo 3 years ago
why have people spammed this comment? he/she could be saying they have alife like julie and want to change it!!!
bladezgame 3 years ago
yeah so you go spam my fucking comment aswell... ok nice. whatever!! i dont give a fuck
bladezgame 2 years ago
great song for the monday morning blues.
PurpleMosher1977 3 years ago
You can see it like that way. The pipes starts not so happy but it ends better. With a little immagination there is a better end for Julie.
Greeds from Holland
martijnkomen 3 years ago
the levellers r the best
ntfc2008 3 years ago
such a brilliant song...from a brilliant band nuf said
gbtr1690 3 years ago
this is one of those songs that make you sit and think...........beautiful!!!
tigerclose 3 years ago
the pipes is a lement to the dead?
andyavingfun 3 years ago
You can see it like that way. The pipes starts not so happy but it ends better. With a little immagination there is a better end for Julie.
Greeds from Holland
martijnkomen 3 years ago
i love this as i work with women and men like julie every day,and its a sad sad world we sometimes find ourselves in,and certainly not for the want of trying.not all benefit seekers are scroungers.
rhiix5 3 years ago 4
the flowers of the forest / crags of sterling is the bag pipe tune.
the levellers were so brilliant (first 3 albums)but have gone down hill...
the bagpipes make this song..
JoyDivisionSouth 3 years ago 2
its brilliant
sanderpopping 3 years ago 2
Hurdy gurdy
meshan1 3 years ago
Stunning song. Really sums up life in England sometimes which is very sad.
phar0fetched 3 years ago 4
Excellent song, i'll always remember it, Levellers do it so much justice
angelusmortis1412 3 years ago 4
Considerable part of my life! Especially julie track CLASS absolute ! MEMORIES !!!!!! WOW
steveandtag 3 years ago 6
i love The Levellers =] and this song, although i am not so keen on the bagpipes, i shall have to listen to it more =]
laurapolly111 3 years ago 2
I love this full version with the bagpipes, been serching for a while and now got it!! Thank you
acuwa1 3 years ago 2
What a song!!!!!!!!
Ryanlizard1 3 years ago
what version is this? its a little faster than original
monkeyboy6676 4 years ago
this is the original??
carlos1340 3 years ago
Could listen to bagpipes all day.
JamesG777 4 years ago 3
best sound on earth
if played right that is
lonepiper47 4 years ago 2
love this song
R4LWS 4 years ago