"The Iron Lady:" suggestions for an alternate soundtrack

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[The Siren]

Excellent. Also A Town Called Malice from The Jam, and Never Stop from Echo and the Bunnymen.

[jbryant]

Cool, a Costello two-fer, since he wrote "Shipbuilding." This reminds me -- I recently sold off most of my vinyl, but I don't remember seeing my 12" of "Shipbuilding." The game's afoot!

[MW]

Excellent choices! I'm also partial to the Specials' cover of "Maggie's Farm" and Morrissey's "Margaret on the Guillotine."

[NeilFC]

I second "Margaret on the Guillotine", plus Hefner's "The Day That Thatcher Dies". I haven't heard the Angelic Upstarts "Brighton Bomb", but the sleeve artwork is truly awesome. You can check it out here:-
http://www.punkrecords.net/id42.htm

[LondonLee]

Blue - Fine Young Cannibals
Strike - The Enemy Within
Homebreakers - The Style Council
One In Ten - UB40

I never cared for 'Tramp The Dirt Down' though ('Big Sister's Clothes' and 'Shipbuilding' are much better Thatcher songs), I hated the woman but I won't be cheering when she dies - she wasn't Osama Bin Laden.

[Oliver_C]

Is there any song out there with lyrics something like, 'They make me look sane'? Because the irony is, Thatcher -- a science graduate who refused to privatise the Post Office or dismantle the NHS -- looks like an elitist liberal when compared with the GOP's 2012 presidential candidates.

[paul]

There are loads more like this one.....

http://www.bobbysandstrust.com/multimedia/songs#6

[John]

Of course, The Pop Group's She is Beyond Good and Evil would make a fine addition.

[Andrew Humphrys]

Ghost Town by the Specials was surely the definitive Thatcher-era single, and would work just as well for the current Tory government. I will watch the film through gritted teeth.

[Thomas D.]

No Sinead O'Connor - "Black Boys on Mopeds"? I guess it's easy to forget about her music at this point, what with all the nutbar hullabaloo and what not.

I was going to mention some punk songs, but if we start naming 80's punk songs that mention Thatcher, we'll be here the rest of our lives.

[That Fuzzy Bastard]

"Black Boys On Mopeds" would make a great sad-montage track for the movie. Slo-mo shots of beastly bolshies being rude to that hardworking grocer's daughter, with disrespectful minorities grumbling in the back. And perhaps when she wins re-election, we can cut between close-ups of her pumps treading the hall, her determined face, and the terrified MPs, all set to Crass' "Sucks".

[Thomas D.]

@Fuzzy
That's funny, "Sucks" was exactly the song I was thinking of before realizing that there are an endless number of anarcho/hardcore/crust songs mentioning Thatcher. Maybe a mash-up of "Black Boys" and the Maggie reference in "Sucks" would work. So many snarky possibilities!

[MrCarmady]

We must not forget She Bangs the Drums!!!