Will there be a bunch of "Thatcher Dead" songs in this weeks forthcoming chart?

I wondered about the Pete Wylie one, but it doesn't seem to be on itunes.

Would be sweet, someone should pick one and get everyone to get behind it

It'd be better if there was about, ooh, ten to twenty of them..

I'm looking at a No. 1 tho

Mogwai the one truest to my heart, but Hefner probably a safer more universal bet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPLk5mJ1D4

There's Morrissey, The Beat, The notsensibles (that one even made the film, but not the soundtrack album), oh and Elvis Costello..

Possibly Danielle Dax is too obscure..

why are they all so shit tho

like SO SO SO SO shit

that fucking hefner song, i cannot

THe Pete W one is OK, not heard the Hefner one...

xp ah you can at least appreciate the aptness of terrible music for terrible times.

I would defend Hefner, but it's the lex. Literally no point.

There's a list of songs here, mostly terrible though:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/21-incredibly-angry-songs-about-margaret-thatcher

stoked for bumping this thread when none of the songs mentioned itt chart and that one by Frank Turner does

"maggie you cunt" is the best thatcher song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7e63qRuJ_w

Blow Monkeys 'The Grantham Grizzler' FTW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqj2knZ10fE

ship building .. any version.

I would defend Hefner, but it's the lex. Literally no point.

― emil.y, Monday, 8 April 2013 15:08 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that song is kind of hefner at their worst tbf. i was hoping for a bravura hefnet update from darren hayman but the site appears to be down |:

Hefner good, Pete Wylie bad

Hefner are indefensible

The best anti-Thatcher songs are the ones that don't mention her by name so she's just a looming spectre: Shipbuilding, Ghost Town, Town Called Malice, One in Ten, etc.

that has interesting ramifications for the possibility of politics in the pop song eh what

that song is kind of hefner at their worst tbf.

I'm not exactly a fan of the Hefner stuff I've heard but yeah that track sounds like a third-tier britpop band.

Besides "Margaret on the Guillotine" and virtually everything on The Final Cut, I always think of this song when I am reminded of Thatcher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEinDJNKaM

Oh and of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1opP7tNLzg

OK, so "Ding dong the witch is dead" has some propulsion..

Which is a bit of a drag, why have a reasoned political statement and perspective type of song, when you can have a lol?

It doesn't matter in a way, the good old chart rundown will avoid playing it, whether it's Elvis Costello or the Wizard of Oz track.

At this stage, I'd be happy if it was Russ Abbot's "Atmosphere", tbqf.

Shipbuilding >>> most songs ever though.

Yeah, I was more meaning "Tramp the dirt down" which seems to be running second at the mo.

I care more that Costello is going to do what he said than that the song charts now.

he best anti-Thatcher songs are the ones that don't mention her by name so she's just a looming spectre: Shipbuilding, Ghost Town, Town Called Malice, One in Ten, etc.

(insert post abt how the Doctor Who episode broadcast two days before her demise opened with the sounds of Ghost Town - editors plz rewrite as rambling discourse listing viewing figures and building up to some kind of conspiracy while not mentioning that said episode was rubbish)

"The Official Chart Show on Sunday is a historical and factual account of what the British public has been buying and we will make a decision about playing it when the final chart positions are clear."

as my younger brother would say when watching his favorite footy team

GO, YOU GOOD THING

Just struck me that royalties will go (I assume) to the estate of lifelong leftie and Hollywood blacklistee Yip Harburg.

bump up the views on this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avGyKKpqqLI

Well this has gone totally batshit. Front page story!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9988527/BBC-chief-refuses-to-ban-Margaret-Thatcher-death-song.html

omg hahaha yes

bump up the views on this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avGyKKpqqLI

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius)

Yes!! I would get behind a campaign for this to get to number one anyday. I love a bit of Klaus.

It is now very easy to manipulate the charts and get a record in without anything like the same levels of sales that were once required.

Oh diddums, you big sack of bollocks. This from the party in power that had the lowest number of people vote for them out of any government since when exactly?

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/4/11/231753/default/v1/telegraph-front-page-1-329x437.jpg
http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/4/11/231754/default/v1/daily-mail-front-page-1-329x437.jpg

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Well this has gone totally batshit. Front page story!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9988527/BBC-chief-refuses-to-ban-Margaret-Thatcher-death-song.html

― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol way to ensure that even more people are inspired to contribute to this perfect campaign

Oh, c'mon! The Mail *want* this to happen soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo badly, they could cry.

I mean, they could cry.

(obscure Pere Ubu reference..)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBCdS6dAoeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs

Just struck me that royalties will go (I assume) to the estate of lifelong leftie and Hollywood blacklistee Yip Harburg.

― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is amazing!

CENSORSHIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

also

Ding Dong!, attributed to Garland and the cast of the movie, is also expected to feature in the Capital Chart's Big Top 40.

A spokesman for Capital FM said the station was currently "reviewing the situation".

bullshit. that's Oliver!

so what, when it gets to no.3 or w/e on the countdown they'll cut to the news and it'll be played within that? feelin the meta tbh - kinda like Negativland or something

fuck's sake, this is the kind of thing that makes me want to buy the thing

^ exactly what I was thinking.

Rival campaigns are under way to get a pro-Baroness Thatcher song into this week's countdown as well.

One Facebook group is seeking to boost sales of (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher, a 1980 track by the punk band Notsensibles.

LOOOOL

What broadcasters should do is to rehire the actors who dubbed Gerry Adams' and Martin McGuinness' voices during the broadcasting ban in the 80s, and get them to re-record the track in Norn Irish accents

xp that cannot be true. I mean I can believe both of the sentences separately but want some citation on the relationship of the second to the first

the news isnt the same since they lifted that ludicrous ban. Rory Bremner & co must've done those voices as I was surprised to find out I couldn't tell the difference.

Stephen Rea used to do Gerry Adams, I believe.

never saw that cut of Crying Game

never saw that cut of Crying Game

― life went on, sadly (Noodle Vague), Friday, April 12, 2013 3:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't want to spoil it for you but Gerry Adams has a cock.

people should just drive around blasting it out of their cars and available speakers wherever they go

Lol, stevie

ok, todays the day

Can we have the NotSensibles in the chart too?

We can! They are at number 35.

yay.

played in full, I notice

still reeling from Little Mix covering/sampling Curiosity Killed The Cat like it was the most normal thing in the world.

ok so now we're 'inside the Top 3' as they say.

#2

So as it's number two are we going to have the "God save the Queen" conspiracy theorists out saying "It was banned from being number one"? Or will the OCC issue precise sales figures?

i can't imagine more people bought it than '100%' so seems fair and square.

ok, that was very 'convenient'

Joins a distinguished list of singles including 'God Save The Queen' and 'Vienna'.

duke dumont was 12k ahead on fri iirc - even if the bbc's cowardice led to a sales boost that just seemed too much to overhaul

o well at least "need u (100%)" is a great song

ding dong; 52,605 downloads in total
duke dumont; 58,321

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/duke-dumont-holds-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-from-number-1-2163/

#2 is good enough... I don't think it even matters that it didn't get to #1, the point has been made and it's a historical fact now.

wow cutting a 12k lead to 6k in a day (post-bbc cowardice) is pretty impressive

yeah the important thing was that it became a story that the media rolled with, and i was esp pleased to see the international media pick it up

cutting a 12k lead to 6k in a day

Well done, Daily Mail

there are some cover versions of Ding Dong that made the indie singles chart. I wonder what the totals would have been were they added to the OST’s number…

that would've been cool

If its on the charts its on the charts whether it is offensive or not. They play shite I find offensive all the time, like Rihanna and Justin Beaver so why is this any different?. You know their reasoning was that they did not want to play music that was derogatory or offensive such as songs about rape etc yet they play crap that is just that, why is this any exception? Margret Thatcher fucked this country up, our country and its current state of shitty affairs was set in motion by her. I wouldn't celebrate her death though, what's the point? The country is still fucked? The fact they are not playing this song though is hypocritical. Freedom of speech, you can't have you cake AND eat it!
Friday at 19:07 · Like · 2

lmao

ding dong; 52,605 downloads in total
duke dumont; 58,321

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/duke-dumont-holds-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-from-number-1-2163/

― piscesx

What about CD single sales, were they included??

CD single sales: 5.

Number One in Scotland: http://www.officialcharts.com/scottish-singles-chart/

Wouldnt mind Ghost Town making the charts.

CD single sales: 5.

― emil.y

I thought they would have been selling the CD's of Ding Dong in the supermarkets at the counter like they do with charity/X Factor singles?

Yeah it's this generation's candle in the wind, cmon

Download those MP3s en masse and continue to make no effective change in the current plutocracy. Props for calling her her out, but pretty easy once the gal bounced -- can we all start taking notice in real time?

the same point has been made equally boringly ever since she carked.

yeah you're right the struggle shd be ongoing but tbh this is one of the few events of late with genuine mass consensus and should be enjoyed for what it is - a victory howl into the void, a necessary corrective to the official obits. that doesn't take away any energy from other political action, if anything it offers a rallying point and a chance to focus.

i don't know what will come of it tho, but that's rooted in my own pathology i fear.

that doesn't take away any energy from other political action, if anything it offers a rallying point and a chance to focus.

Indeed, to not offer an alternate take to the hagiography would be in itself a political act, as the posthumous deification of Thatcher is, in effect, a vouch for the very Thatcheristic policies currently being enacted.

NV otm. This isn't an either/or scenario.

did my downloading of the screamix of 'need u' contribute to this not hitting number 1? i'll not be able to leave the house.

yes, it did

Checked the reat of the top 100, there was only one other Thatch themed entry as far as I can see, Eamon and "Fxxk it (I don't want you back)"

At #44 WWE superstar Fandango's entrance music 'Chachalala' is in fact a homage to the merry dance General Viola led Thatcher over in the run-up to Operation Rosario