Friday, 10 December 2021

My Top Twenty-One of 2021: #14


14. Jim Bob - Who Do We Hate Today?

While Billy Bragg might think he's too old to play the angry young man card anymore, nobody seems to have told Jim Bob he should relinquish that role. His latest record is as angry - and witty - as anything he recorded with Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, and he's still got plenty to complain about in the world around him... perhaps more than ever.

Like a vicious stand-up routine set to record, this is frequently hilarious, but also makes you think. A few choice examples include...


Her friends and her family too
Say, "Shona, he's no good for you
He's a beast that belongs in the zoo"
Shona is dating a vile, irritatingly self-righteous dude
Her friends don't come round any more when he's there now
Because he's so rude
As a couple they're practically perfectly matched
Because opposites attract...


Men: the plural of an adult male person
As distinguished from a woman or a boy
Men: the providers, Men: the dividers
Men who destroy

Men make the rules so other men can break them
Men with their uniforms and guns
Men outside schools, when children are taken
Men, passing their ways onto their sons


Tony doesn't suffer cunts
Tony hates Black History Month
Tony did Movember once
You lucky, lucky ladies
 
One day there will be a statue in his hometown
Tall enough to climb up on and pull down
So you can stamp his face into the cold ground

All that, plus the best song I've heard about Lockdown yet... it almost makes me miss those halcyon days when we were only allowed out for an hour's exercise a day. Almost.

Just a week, maybe two without cars
It was the first time I'd really seen stars
The streets were completely deserted
I pretended I was Cillian Murphy



1 comment:

  1. Great album indeed - I may have to amend my draft year end write-up now as it'll look like I copied and pasted yours

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