Waiting For The Great Leap Forward

This is one of my all time favourite tracks and I wanted to share it with a friend in the US but while I had no trouble finding a number of updated live renditions - I couldn't dig up a single video featuring this original 1988 studio version. A classic.

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[tonee727]

The intro sounds like "Rod Stewart - Do you think I'm sexy"

[Dave Gurman]

Funny enough in the 1997 film "Face", there's a competition playing on the radio while the gang are driving around London where the DJ is asking listeners to name a song from its intro and one of the characters keeps saying - correctly - that it's "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward", but another one shushes him insisting that it's "Do You Think I'm Sexy?"!

[baad0501]

I'm an American who interned in Melbourne for a few months - yet it wasn't until I came back to Minnesota when I heard this song and loved it.

[Dave Gurman]

You do know that Billy is English rather than an antipodean? That accent is pure Essex.

[Jack Hipp]

hes talking about the bush admin

[Dave Gurman]

Yeah, Bush senior.

[Loui3535]

I love the build-up in this song.

Brilliant !

[baad0501]

I love songs like this - those that you randomly stumble upon not knowing what you're gonna hear, and then end up listening to it many times after that.

[gordimhor235]

I'm a fan an honest and raw painful but above all uplifting song

[John Wilson]

Interesting!

It seems that the music soundtrack for the compulsory advertisement is almost identical to the chord progression by Billy Bragg's song Great Leap Forwards

[saorisealba]

Great tune. a M8 just reminded me of it. FCUKIN class!!

[misssiberia69]

It makes me cry...

[trikowsky]

Billy has a talent few have.