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:

    “As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to the necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator’s power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)