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#SundayThoughts /1 Like many people I watched with sadness & anger as yesterday's events unfolded. Today listening to #TheStranglers - whose origins in punk/new wave meant that their audience was primarily white and angry - I heard Curfew from their incredible Black & White album

/2 The song is about the rise of #fascism and the role that the media plays in it blurring the lines of truth and shifting positions when expedient.
@youtuber Andrea Signorelli
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@youtuber /3 This is the first line-up of #TheStranglers in their absolute pomp: JJ Burnell's diesel bass & snarling lyrics & delivery, Dave Greenfield's virtuoso keyboards, Jet Blacks strident drums and Hugh Cornwell's "scratchy telecaster" and vocals.
@theQuietus thequietus.com/articles/14627…

@youtuber @theQuietus 4/
The enemy has cut down all the power
London south of the Thames is invaded
Westminster is razed down to the ground

The government has fled
The government has fled
The government has fled to Scotland today

@youtuber @theQuietus 5/
Gray becomes black and white
Is it true what they say?
They turn the day into night
Black and white becomes
The government has fled into thin air
What's left of our troops has joined with the Scots
To form in defense across of the north

@youtuber @theQuietus 6/
Stay in your homes
Stay in your homes
Be off the streets by nightfall

Gray becomes black and white
Is it true what they say?
They turn the day into night
Black and white becomes

@youtuber @theQuietus 7/
Germany failed to protect her borders
She had grown soft with the American dream
The men from the Steppes delivered their vacuum

A new kind of freedom
Freedom's a chain
Maybe I'll find love when there's nothing to do

@youtuber @theQuietus 8/
Grey becomes black and white
Is it true what they say?
They turn the day into night
Black and white becomes

9/
And 37 seven years later, still electric live, and in their third and presumably final incarnation: Baz Warne has replaced Hugh Cornwell.
Timeless and ever relevant.

RIP Dave Greenfield. Fly straight.

@ youtuber misterpunk
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