Monday, November 17, 2008

Twisted Sister's Song to Take on Gordon Brown

The Tories need a song. Their equivalent of THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER. Perhaps this isn't the one, but it somehow seems appropriate at the moment. It's Twisted Sister's WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT...

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
No, We Ain't Gonna Take It
Oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

We've Got The Right To Choose
There Ain't No Way We'll Lose It
This Is Our Life, This Is Our Song
We'll Fight The Powers That Be Just
Don't Pick Our Destiny 'cause
You Don't Know Us, You Don't Belong

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
No, We Ain't Gonna Take It
Oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

Oh You're So Condescending
Your Gall Is Never Ending
We Don't Want Nothin', Not A Thing From You
Your Life Is Trite And Jaded
Boring And Confiscated
If That's Your Best, Your Best Won't Do

We're Right/yeah
We're Free/yeah
We'll Fight/yeah
You'll See/yeah

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
No, We Ain't Gonna Take It
Oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

Just You Try And Make Us
We're Not Gonna Take It
Come On
No, We Ain't Gonna Take It
You're All Worthless And Weak
We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
Now Drop And Give Me Twenty
We're Not Gonna Take It
Oh Crinch Pin
No, We Ain't Gonna Take It
Oh You And Your Uniform
We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

best song to describe Labour "I'll Be Watching You" by the police

Anonymous said...

Oh dear...and it was all going so swimmingly

Anonymous said...

act your age - not your shoe size.

;)

Anonymous said...

I always thought 'St Elmo's Fire' by john parr would be a great election song. Brilliant lyrics.

Anonymous said...

Oh my God! Make it stop, make it stop!

Cinnamon Marine said...

I wouldn't have put you down as a Twisted Sister fan Iain.

Anonymous said...

I don't know I kind of like "things can only get better"
It is so hopelessly misguided,that it brings a smile to my face.
All we need now is an ad with that music blaring as we see pictures of the economic gloom.

Martin Curtis said...

Cripes.

Iain's found proper music.

Anonymous said...

It always amazes me that erstwhile intelligent people go on to Desert Island Discs and choose tuneless pop songs with moronic lyrics.

The Daily Pundit said...

It'll probably be something by the Killers.

Anonymous said...

Just play the same song "Things can only get better".

Start off with "Remember this?"

And intercut it with Blair/Brown quote and the current reality.

Along the lines of "26 Tory tax rises and 5 new taxes" as opposed to several nundred of each under Labour.

"You can trust us on Tax" followed by the 10p tax fiasco, retrospective VED, council tax etc etc.

Best way to fight these hypocritical bastards is to use their own weapons on them.

And please Dave promise to scrap the Beeb. The bastards are going all out on the Tories anyway, so stymie their propaganda by promising to scrap them: every biased utterance by them can then be dismissed as sour grapes. Any attempt to bum up Labour as further evidence as to why the the whole biased shit heap should be shut down.

Plus every honest hardworking family, and every British serviceman, gets £139.50 during these troubled times. you can then sell what is left to fill Brown holes in the economy.

Unsworth said...

Or Clapton - "I ain't gonna stand for it".

Anonymous said...

David Cameron chose 'All these things that I've done' by The Killers on Desert Island disks and I thought at the time that it would make a great election song. It's catchy as anything.

"Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out....
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done"

Anonymous said...

The tories need a success like this Iain,

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk

'Theres' no one as Irish as Barrack Obama. '

Three guys and a camera, posted on you tube, taken up by the Irish Voice in the US, and now just signed a deal with a major record company, invited to sing it world over from Kenya to Germany and the inaugural dinner for Obama in the US.

Success via the internet. Get an idea and post it :)

@molesworth_1 said...

Iain, Iain, Iain...
We're polite about ABBA out of respect & we forego most of your aural meanderings, realising that music is, evidently, not your field. This has 'brand re-contamination' written all over it. Theirs was one of the few gigs of which I've ever walked out, & I was not alone. We'd mostly only gone to point & laugh anyway, but... steer well clear.

Anonymous said...

Come on lads, its the message thats important not who the song is by. As Iain says it seems somehow appropriate at the moment, and with unemployement scheduled to hit 3 million then surely the line 'If That's Your Best, Your Best Won't Do' is somehow appropriate, and the message that should be hammered home

Paul Burgin said...

"The Tories need a song. Their equivalent of THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER. "
Oh bless, have some of you been dreaming about this since 1997! ;)

Anonymous said...

So Boris gets to play Dee Snider? :-)

Gregg said...

We've Got The Right To Choose

Not a song Nadine Dorries will be singing, then.

Seriously, a song written from the perspective of a bunch of spoilt kids rebelling against their parents, seems perfect for the modern Conservative party. There is a video, too.