Five songs for the Thatcher funeral party

what about billy joels “only the good die young” ?

As one of the long-term unemployed, I suffered under Thatcher’s rule. I remember when I was living in Scotland & she tried to impose the Poll Tax on us up there before the rest of Britain – meant to be a punishment for not electing Scottish Tory MPs I think.

Here are some things I prepared earlier in anticipation of this glorious day of her long-awaited demise:

http://www.davyking.com/maggie.htm

http://www.davyking.com/Thatcher.htm

http://www.davyking.com/rejoice.htm

As she herself put it: REJOICE!

No Coal Not Dole?

Nice suggestions, Bernie and Donnacha. This was a quick list, but we’re already getting plenty more great suggestions. Keep them coming!

@MaximeCombes reminds us that Maggie hatred also crossed the channel, with Renaud’s Miss Maggie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJcUMKGCdrY

@KateChallender suggests Frank Turner, Thatcher Fucked the Kids, which sounds like a good one for the post-party campfire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NyWbhCxZE

@m_pattison recommends The Specials’ cover of Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQDvJfkJ6Y

Cris S Marchan comes up with John McCullagh’s catchy, folksy “I’ll Dance On Your Grave Mrs Thatcher”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJbeeKBPCU&feature=share

and Sarah Irving’s list http://sarahirving.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/maggie-songs/
includes another “Day that Margaret Thatcher Dies”, this time by Pete Wylie, as well as this apt (if rather tuneless) Attila the Stockbroker effort
Maggots 1 – Maggie Nil :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=leKAmYfRXW4

& for completists, Buzzfeed comes up with a list of 21 Maggie songs that includes some of those featured above:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/21-incredibly-angry-songs-about-margaret-thatcher
Given David Cameron’s love of The Smiths, I hope Morrissey’s “Margaret on the Guillotine”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hsq3H_6XuFA makes a number of playlists too

Being a fan of musicals, this comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeuLTEXazJs

Sure are some sick people in the UK.

and “We Love You Mrs Thatcher”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZJh0m0E7Ozg

there can scarcely ever have been another politician who inspired such musical vitriol!

Also, given how Thatcher’s support for apartheid and denunciation of Mandela as a “terrorist” seems to have been airbrushed from obit-history, no playlist should be complete without The Specials’ “Nelson Mandela” :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU

A song for Margaret Thatcher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra12L1Bl0Z4

I avoided posting this one, partly because I think it’s rather unfair to witches, and partly because it’s directly referenced in the Hefner song, but it’s worth noting that this has already attracted hundreds of anti-Thatcher comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js

and that there’s a Facebook campaign to install the far more listenable Ella Fitzgerald version as number 1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2807687628/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngZFRisurU

Ding dong!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NyWbhCxZE

Since someone kindly linked to my post above, I’ve also added a rather excellent slow-country number by Don Valley & the Rotherhides to the list at: https://sarahirving.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/maggie-songs/

“When I looked at the bigger picture I saw the rich getting richer… is this an economic nightmare or just Maggie Thatcher’s dream?”
http://music.gracepetrie.com/track/maggie-thatchers-dream-2

pinochet

oh,eh,don’t cry for me Argentina,the truth is i never left you ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwnkFlVRCZc&list=PL7D10B4CA3B27D09B

Letter from America by the Proclaimers is certainly personal to me and making me want to cry rather than celebrate. Also, Billy Bragg’s Which Side Are You On?

Here’s another cracker to put up on the site – Thatcher’s children continuing the damage….
States Of Unrest’s ‘I fucking hate the Tories!’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzP6Ha_ehXM

Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
When he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice…
Proverbs 24:17

Just a thought, people. She helped free millions of Eastern Europeans from totalitarianism. Think on.

Stevo

the wretched bitch is dead. but this sickening filth still persists and that’s her legacy. we all downtrodden, let’s unite and cleanse that neoliberal squalor once for all! and don’t forget: the responsables have to be punished! this mf.-ing bloodymary escaped the hangman’s rope. don’t let the others from her ilk to be so lucky

cameron, clegg, osborne, merkel, orbán… what a wonderful chain-gang! tey just need to be shipped to a penal colony. and this is a humane kind of punishment meted to them. they deserve a much harsher one.

Although the Elvis Costello rendering of Tramp the Dirt Down has to be up there, so should Post War Dream by Pink Floyd:

what have we done maggie what have we done
what have we done to england
should we shout should we scream
“what happened to the post war dream?”
oh maggie maggie what have we done?

However a memory of mine is still The Clash’s London Calling from Billy Elliot. I know it was a movie but as I hail from the North East this was and is very real.

Paul,

Ghost Town by the Specials

‘Stand Down Margaret’ by the Beat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmnjL5GDbcg

This one is always good for a laugh and doesn’t seem to have made any of the other playlists….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUrluRr1kBs

A little video I made at a Chumbawamba concert at Sidmouth Folk Week back in 2010. The song has now appeared on the EP CD, got it now. Too late for late comers though…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkWBsMYWRO4

Don’t forget UB 40′s “Madam Medusa”

one of many versions on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BY_zHltVo

This one is in French and pretty old too, but quite good : it is a song from Renaud, French singer, in the 1980′s. He sings “I’d turn into a dog if I want to stay on Earth, and for daily street light, I’d choose Mrs Thatcher” and also “For no woman on Earth will ever be more count than her brother, except maybe Mrs Thatcher”. Here you are :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_v9IrI04h0