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    songs advising you not to buy a council house

    Any others?

    Maybe not worth a thread on its own. How about songs about the housing bubble/crisis?

    #2
    songs advising you not to buy a council house

    'Sub-Prime Mover' by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Revolution?

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      #3
      songs advising you not to buy a council house

      No exactly selling the council estate experience:

      (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?)

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        #4
        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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          #5
          songs advising you not to buy a council house

          Living in a Box by Living in a Box?

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            #6
            songs advising you not to buy a council house

            Oh and to Clive for Sub-Prime mover. Brilliant.

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              #7
              songs advising you not to buy a council house

              Ithangyew.

              It's a brilliant video, though, innit? No messing about with hotrods or bikes - it's armoured cars for those chaps!

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                #8
                songs advising you not to buy a council house

                'This Old House' - Rosemary Clooney

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                  #9
                  songs advising you not to buy a council house

                  Fucking brilliant: The Case-shiller housing index converted to music.

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                    #10
                    songs advising you not to buy a council house

                    Nothing Going On but the Rent.

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                      #11
                      songs advising you not to buy a council house

                      On a similar note (but very different style) to my previous offering, there is also The Field's 'From Here We Go Sub-prime'.

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                        #12
                        songs advising you not to buy a council house

                        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?)
                        Great intro from Whispering Bob there: '...the very individual John Cooper Clarke'.

                        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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                          #13
                          songs advising you not to buy a council house

                          '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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                            #14
                            songs advising you not to buy a council house

                            Erm, Kent by Salad?

                            Why don't you live in a house in Kent
                            Spend all your money in Brent
                            Why don't you live in a house in Kent
                            And don't ever move
                            Why don't you live in a house in Kent
                            Believe that it's heaven sent

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                              #15
                              songs advising you not to buy a council house

                              'My Old Man Said Follow The Van' - Marie Lloyd
                              'Move It' - Cliff Richard
                              'Ain't Got No Home' - Clarence "Frogman" Henry

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                                #16
                                songs advising you not to buy a council house

                                Props to Historyman for making me remember Space. And then remembering why they were fucking terrible.

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                                  #17
                                  songs advising you not to buy a council house

                                  dglhand of god wrote:

                                  Props to Historyman for making me remember Space. And then remembering why they were fucking terrible.
                                  Well they were always going to have a limited shelf life because of their sound. But I still love the three singles of their debut album - Neighbourhood, Female of the Species, and You and Me Versus the World.

                                  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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