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'Sub-Prime Mover' by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Revolution?
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songs advising you not to buy a council house
Simple Minds' New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84 was clearly a very accurate prediction of how many homes Dudley Borough Council (pop. 280,000, current stock 23,000, waiting list 5,500) would build in 2011/12.
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Fucking brilliant: The Case-shiller housing index converted to music.
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ad hoc wrote:
No exactly selling the council estate experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=euD0o0x-jAo
(I notice he doesn't do the full "Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies in a box on Beasley Street" line in this clip. Maybe when on the beeb back in them days you couldn't be as overtly party political?)
You get the impression that for Bob the late 1970s was like reliving Skynyrd's plane crash on a daily basis, like a country rock Prometheus.
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'Neighbourhood' by Space.
Great description of the type of characters that you may find in a council estate:
Who lives in a house like this?
Who lives in a house like this?
In number 69 there lives a transvestite
He's a man by day but he's a woman at night
There's a man in number 4 who swears he's Saddam Hussein
Says he's on the chart to start a third world war
Ohhhhh if you find the time please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood
In 110 they haven't paid the rent
So there goes the T.V. with the repo men
In 999 they make a living from crime
The house is always empty cause they're all doing time
Ohhhh if you find the time please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood
Who lives in a house like this?
Who lives in a house like this?
In number 18 there lives a big butch queen
He's bigger than Tyson and he's twice as mean
In 666 there lives a Mister Miller
He's our local vicar and a serial killer
Ohhhh if you find the time please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood
Who lives in a house like this?
Who lives in a house like this?
They want to knock us down cause they think we're scum
But we will all be waiting when the bulldozers come
In a neighbourhood like this you know it's hard to survive
So you'd better come prepared cause they won't take us alive
Ohhhh if you find the time please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood, my neighbourhood
My, my, my beautiful neighbourhood
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dglhand of god wrote:
Props to Historyman for making me remember Space. And then remembering why they were fucking terrible.
At the time Neighbourhood was released I lived in a council estate that was scheduled for demolition, so the lyrics had an extra poignancy. And the place was full of nutters.
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