End Conscription Campaign - Forces Favourites and Musicians Against Conscription

Forces Favourites and Musicians Against Conscription

In 1986, Shifty Records released Forces Favourites in conjunction with the ECC. Named after a radio programme for sending greetings to the troops fighting on the "border" - the frontline of the Angolan campaign).

The ironically titled Forces Favourites compilation features some of the strongest political songs of the time.

  1. "Pambere" - Mapantsula
  2. "National Madness" - Aeroplanes
  3. "Potential Mutiny" - Stan James
  4. "Numbered Again" - The Facts
  5. "Shot Down In The Streets" - Cherry Faced Lurchers
  6. "Don't Dance" - Kalahari Surfers
  7. "Whitey" - The Softies
  8. "Don't Believe" - In Simple English
  9. "Too Much Resistance" - Nude Red
  10. "Spaces Tell Stories" - Roger Lucy
  11. "Suburban Hum" - Jennifer Fergusson

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Famous quotes containing the words musicians and/or conscription:

    “We stand in the tumult of a festival.
    What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
    These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
    These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
    A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
    That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
    As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
    Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
    He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
    How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
    Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
    Has not conscription still the power to weild
    Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
    A faithful harvester!”
    —Joel Barlow (1754–1812)