"The Iron Lady:" suggestions for an alternate soundtrack

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• The Siren says:

  December 27, 2011 at 2:42 pm

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

• jbryant says:

  December 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm

  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 says:

  December 27, 2011 at 7:50 pm

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

• NeilFC says:

  December 27, 2011 at 9:18 pm

  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 says:

  December 28, 2011 at 12:27 am

  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 says:

  December 28, 2011 at 4:59 am

  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 says:

  December 28, 2011 at 10:29 am

  There are loads more like this one.….
  http://www.bobbysandstrust.com/multimedia/songs#6

• John says:

  December 29, 2011 at 8:08 pm

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

• Andrew Humphrys says:

  December 30, 2011 at 8:30 am

  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. says:

  December 31, 2011 at 2:55 am

  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 says:

  December 31, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  “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. says:

  December 31, 2011 at 2:42 pm

  @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 says:

  January 12, 2012 at 10:30 am

  We must not for­get She Bangs the Drums!!!