Every Bomb You Make

Gordon Sumner - 1980's Protest Song. A better version of this is available at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A18K7OM7tWA

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• Protest
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[lofthouse23]

.... strangely moving for Spitting Image.

[themexicankitchen]

beats the hell out of the puff daddy song

[iownall12able]

With the Colonel (Gadaffi) Dead only one of these remains alive and in power...

Mugabe, your days are numbered.

[HeavensHelp1]

"Every heart you break-I'll be watching you." You got that right.

[Alfie103]

shame a significant number of people in the video are still in power.

[foxychick246]

the sad thing is that the people of today need to listen to this song becuase sometimes we can be hartless and cruel it just shows that spitting image is funny but underneath it all they have a true and just meaning

[123jsbach]

Might have been made a while ago now, but it aint half shit that the basic sentiment is as relevant today as it was then.

[searcherboy]

@electric926 What are you talking about? Look at who is criticized in this song along with Thatcher and Reagan - Brezhnev, Gaddafi, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, Ayatollah Khomeini and several other left wing dictators. I'd call this equal-opportunity satire.

[itkapatanka]

@lofthouse23 you must have forgotten they had quite a few 'sour' moments like this, remember the homeless ending once with the song 'walk on by'?

[tezcatbus]

@electric926 If criticising ethnic and ideological cleansing, war crimes, insane abrogation of basic human rights and freedoms, and millions of deaths from starvation and warfare imposed by foreign powers on countries that couldn't defend themselves in the 80's is "exceedingly leftist", aren't you implying that the right is definitively in favour of all of those things?

I'm socialist pinko scum, but even I find it slightly shocking that you'd be willing to characterise yourselves that way.

[nickmattedwards]

To those people who were not alive during the 1980s and criticise what they percieve as the leaning to the left of Spitting image, I have to point out that not only was the world in an incredible mess at that time but many of the economic inequalities that were bear today were directly birthed out of that Hellish decade!

[sonofcy]

@electric926 IMHO this - for Spitting Image - was one of the most apolitical pieces they did. It seems to me that its target was basically the so-called leaders of the world. Both of the West and the East. Capitalist, so-called Communist, religious zealots and fascist dictators. Many people criticised SI for political bias, it was a creature of its time, a reaction to the most right wing Tory government in living memory. For satirists they were an easy target.