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Filth and Fury - Ian Dury

A box of tapes that tell a story.

I Don’t Want A Holiday In The Sun,

English Civil War and Tommy Gun.

Janie Jones and Protex Blue,

Joe said white boys should riot too.

Generation X and Billy Idol,

999 were homicidal.

Dave Vanian, Captain and Rat Scabies,

Peter and the Test Tube Babies.

Sham 69, Slits and Ramones,

Debbie Hanging On The Telephone.

Stiff Little Fingers, Wasted Life,

Barbed Wire Love, Suspect Device.

Rezillos, Buzzcocks and The Fall,

Siouxsie on the bedroom wall.

Piercings, tats and skinhead cuts.

Rudeboys stare back at The Ruts.

Babylon’s Burning Cant You See?

Malcolm Owen - Rest in Peace.

Dead Kennedys, Flipper and Black Flag,

The Redskins, Lurkers, Billy Bragg.

Every record bought by your mates,

Copied on C90 tapes.

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Recording off the radio.

Some reggae just to keep it real,

Scratch Perry, Yellowman off John Peel.

Poets too all bleak and dark

Attilla and John Cooper Clarke.

Crazy colour mohicanned heads

Psychobilly quiffs and traveller dreads.

Gear that never cost a packet,

Band names on a leather jacket.

Clothes that always showed the dirt,

Ripped up jeans and a Clash T shirt.

Mohair jumpers, home-made tops

Jackets bought from Oxfam shops.

Bath-bleached denim, old man suits

Army trousers, Doc Marten boots.

Drinking snakebite, smoking weed,

Sniffing poppers, dabbing speed.

Marching for every important cause,

No More Nukes! Fight War Not Wars!

Anti Racist, Anti Tory

Anti conflict - death and glory.

Communities brought to their knees,

Stand Down Margaret Stand Down Please

Opinions, attitudes, no regrets,

A life first made in a box of cassettes.