Levellers - Hope Street
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at concerts, the lead singer says that there is a hope street in every town...
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@dannyboi435 Which is very correct. I mean, people visit all the touristic hotspots in cities such as Dublin, Belfast, Prague, Paris, Brussels, ... but they forget only a few miles away in the suburbs there's misery, unemployment, alcoholism, criminality, ... This song makes so much sense once you've been wandering in those suburbian towns a few times. I was introduced to the Levellers by a former teacher of mine, maybe the best thing I ever learnt in school ;)
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roll on beautiful days 2012
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your best tune buy far ...kick on old men...i saw u at glastonbury..... valentino brighton
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"There's one of these in every town" ........Den Scoth!
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@dannyboi435 Lived on Hope Street in a few cities, my friend.
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Scary how this song becomes more and more relevant as it gets older.
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@PeckhamExile Indeed. I'm not criticising people for wanting something better, I'm criticising the system for leaving us with no realistic means of getting it.
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@Spartacus21C Good points Spartactus...but without dreams you have nothing.
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@PeckhamExile Yes, people from the same social background as who play bingo and do the pools. Because they see gambling as their only chance of getting ahead in life, and in all honesty it's often more likely than by any other means. They chose the lottery as an *example* of working-class gambling, one that fit the song better than other examples.
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@PeckhamExile Except capitalists don't accomplish anything, apart from managing to pass other people's achievements off as their own. Who built the pyramids? Not a fucking clue history doesn't know their names, but I'll tell you this, no Pharoah hauled a single stone.
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@dragonfitter What fucking pubs?...they are all becoming Takeaways fella... :-(
thank you for this video!
hateful94 3 years ago
OK thanks hateful94, shame the audio is slightly out of sync with the video. The person who ripped it converted it to an AVI file, not always the best file type to use for video.
Hiessetiff 3 years ago