Hating Reagan being too common, Indie Rockers at PF500 are retrospectively hating Thatcher, blaming the Iron Lady for the death of English manufacturing (really? oh, now I get it. Mr. (Ms.) Abebe again!)
Making sure I don't let Abebe babble taint the song, the song does have it's moments. It starts with brushes on the drums and a piano, and then comes in a voice so plaintive and raw that it grabs you, with heartfelt lyrics.
But then things start to go wrong. He's against the Falklands War (who didn't love the Falklands War with Fort Stanley and Princes fighting and all that). The sloppy bass line sliding up and down seems horribly out of place. A chorus just too similar to McCartney & Jackson's Ebony and Ivory. Lyrics crossing right over the line into maudlin.
RATING: 42.
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