Episode 5 Sounds of the Eighties

Tonight, The Teardrop Explodes, Orange Juice, Robert Wyatt,

Aztec Camera, Billy Bragg, The Fall, The Pogues,

and The Style Council.

Bonjour.

Bonjour.

HE SPEAKS GARBLED FRENCH

# Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news

# The King sits on his face but it's all assumed

# All wrapped up the same

# All wrapped up the same

# They can't have it, you can't have it, I can't have it too

# Until I learn to accept my reward

# Prisoners stand in queues and stand accused

# Live in solitude like Howard Hughes

# All wrapped up the same

# All wrapped up the same

# Silence has it, arrogance has it, I can't have it, oooh,

# Until I learn to accept my reward

# Suddenly it struck me very clear

# Suddenly it struck me very clean

# They're all wrapped up the same

# All wrapped up the same

# They can't have it You can't have it

# I can't have it too

# Until I learn to accept my reward

# Until I learn to accept my reward

# Until I learn to accept my reward

# Until I learn to accept my...

# I learn to accept my...

# I learn to accept my reward. #

Before the next programme, I'll just fill you in on what's happening over the next few weeks.

I'm having a small sherry party on Wednesday. That should be nice.

Laura Ashley curtains are arriving on the 15th. Blue regency stripe.

And at the end of the month I'm being fired.

This is what's coming up for YOU.

Here's another piece of escapist light entertainment: "Shipbuilding".

# Is it worth it?

# A new winter coat and shoes for the wife

# And a bicycle on the boy's birthday

# It's just a rumour that was spread around town

# By the women and children

# Soon we'll be shipbuilding

# Well, I ask you

# The boy said, Dad, they're going to take me to task

# But I'll be back by Christmas

# It's just a rumour that was spread around town

# Somebody said that someone got filled in

# For saying that people get killed in

# The result of the shipbuilding

# With all the will in the world

# Diving for dear life

# When we could be diving for pearls

# It's just a rumour that was spread around town

# A telegram or a picture postcard

# Within weeks they'll be reopening the shipyard

# And notifying the next of kin

# Once again

# It's all we're skilled in

# We will be shipbuilding

# With all the will in the world

# Diving for dear life

# When we could be diving for pearls. #

-It worked on 9 levels.

-I spotted 12.

Well... 12 if you include the, er... Let's be condescending about this!

It worked as a simple satire on modern Britain and as a metaphor for redemption.

-The underlying theme?

-As when one sleeps with a stranger - I was nervous and it was a disappointment.

# From the mountain tops down to the sunny street

# A different drum is playing a different kind of beat

# It's like a mystery that never ends

# I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

# I hear your footsteps in the street. Won't be long before we meet

# It's obvious

# Just count me in, count me out I'll be waiting for the shout

# Oblivious

# Met Mo and she's OK Said no-one really changed

# Got different badges but they wear them just the same

# Down by the ballroom

# I recognise that flaming fountain in those kindred caring eyes

# I hear your footsteps in the street. Won't be long before we meet

# It's obvious

# Just count me in, count me out

# I'll be waiting for the shout

# Oblivious

# I hope it haunts me till I'm hopeless

# And I hope it hits you when you go

# And sometimes on the edge of sleeping

# It rises up to let me know It's not so deep I'm not so slow

# They're calling all the shots They'll call and say they phoned

# They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone

# And like a funny film it's kinda cute

# They bought the bullets and there's no-one left to shoot

# I hear your footsteps in the street. Won't be long before we meet

# It's obvious

# Just count me in, count me out I'll be waiting for the shout

# Oblivious

# I hear your footsteps in the street. Won't be long before me meet

# It's obvious

# Just count me in, count me out I'll be waiting for the shout

# Oblivious. #

My name is Billy Bragg. I am the Milkman Of Human Kindness.

# If you're lonely

# I will call

# If you're poorly

# I will send poetry

# I love you

# I am the milkman of human kindness

# I will leave an extra pint

# If you're sleeping

# I will wait

# If your bed is wet

# I will dry your tears

# I love you

# I am the milkman of human kindness

# I will leave an extra pint

# Hold my hand for me

# I'm waking up

# Hold my hand for me

# I'm waking up

# Won't you hold my hand?

# I'm making up

# Hold my hand for me

# I'm making up

# If you're falling

# I'll put out my hands

# If you feel bitter

# Understand

# I love you

# I am the milkman of human kindness

# I will leave an extra pint. #

I haven't time to put on a lot of make-up,

but whoever I face in the morning, I won't want to look too awful.

But enough of me. With spring coming we'll be exposing our bodies more.

Here's an idea for summer make-up.

# On the buses some just stare On the buses some pretend to learn

# Where's the lay of the land

# My son?

# Where's the lay of the land, my son?

# What's the lay of the land, my son?

# Saw the last Briton on the street

# He said the radio fuzz was dead, effete

# No longer reflects our daft fate

# I wanna leave this city hit a quick coach

# Pick a town in Surrey. There's nothing here but crooks and death

# And kerb crawlers of the worst order

# Where's the lay of the land, my son? Where's the lay of the land, my son?

# Eldritch house with green moss

# Sound of ordinary on the waves

# Tiles drip from its roof

# The Home Secretary has a weird look. #

Hello, hello, hello, hello!

LAUGHTER

This is the Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation calling civilisation.

More nonsense in a minute, but first it's time for...

One, two, three...

# Last night as I slept I dreamed I met with Behan

# I shook him by the hand and we passed the time of day

# When questioned on his views on the crux of life's philosophies he had these simple words to say:

# I am going, I am going

# Any which way the wind may be blowing

# I am going, I am going

# Where streams of whiskey are flowing

# I have cursed, bled and sworn, jumped bail and landed up in jail

# Life has often tried to stretch me but the rope always was slack

# And now that I've a pile I'll go down to the Chelsea

# I'll walk in on my feet but I'll leave on my back

# I am going, I am going

# Any which way the wind may be blowing

# I am going, I am going

# Where streams of whiskey are flowing

# His words seemed the wisest of philosophies

# There's nothing to be gained by a wet thing called a tear

# When the world is too dark and I need the light inside of me

# I'll go to a bar and drink 15 pints of beer

# I am going, I am going

# Any which way the wind may be blowing

# I am going, I am going

# Where streams of whiskey are flowing

# I am going, I am going

# Any which way the wind may be flowing

# I am going, I am going

# Where streams of whiskey are flowing

# Where streams of whiskey are flowing

# Where the streams of whiskey are flowing. #

A lot of people would like a new system in this country and the western world.

I've got a good opportunity to express my feelings,

and that's what I do.

Like I said, if I was an author,

I wouldn't get questioned about whether politics should be in music.

It's only because I'm in pop music

that people say pop should be about frivolity and the joys of life.

You can only write about what you see.

# You don't have to take this crap

# You don't have to sit back and relax

-#

-You can actually try changing it

# I know we've always been taught to rely

# Upon those in authority

# But you never know till you try

# How things just might be

-#

-If we came together so strongly, yeah

# Are you gonna try to make this work

# Or spend your days down in the dirt?

# You see, things can change Walls can come tumbling down

-#

-Governments crack and systems fall

-#

-Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out Walls come tumbling down

# Yes, they do Yes, they do

# The competition is a colour TV

# We're on a pause with the video machine

-#

-That keeps you slaves to the HP, yeah

# Until the unity is threatened by

# Those who have and who have not

# Those who are with and those who are without

# And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot

-#

-Until you don't know where you are

# Are you gonna get to realise

# The class war's real not mythologised?

# And like Jericho walls can come tumbling down

-#

-Governments crack and systems fall

-#

-Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out Walls come tumbling

-#

-Down

-# Too late to fight it

-Down

-# Let us be united

-Down

# We're united

-#

-Ooo-ooo-oooh

# Are you gonna be threatened by

# The public enemy's number ten?

# Those who play the power game

# They take the profit, you take the blame

-#

-When they tell you there's no rise in pay

# Are you gonna try to make this work

# Or spend your days down in the dirt?

# You see, things can change Walls can come tumbling down

-#

-Governments crack and systems fall

-#

-Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out Walls come tumbling down

-#

-Governments crack and systems fall

-#

-Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out Walls come tumbling down

-#

-Governments crack and systems fall

-#

-Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out Walls come tumbling down. #

And so it's goodnight from everyone here at Television Centre.

Don't forget to switch off your set.

HIGH-PITCHED TONE

HOUSEMARTINS: "Happy Hour"

Next week on Sounds Of The '80s, Motorhead, ZZ Top,

U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi,

INXS, The Cult and The Mission.