Music and British Identity: Heaven 17


Primary members: Martyn Ware, Ian Marsh, Glenn Gregory
Band Biography
Albums of focus: Penthouse and Pavement (1981)
Songs for study:

"I'm Your Money" (from Penthouse and Pavement, 1981)
I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money

Chemical love bank within your grasp
Social partners without a past
Buy the pleasure commodity
Invest in personal industry

I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money

Buy this
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kaufen Sie dieses
compre este

Sign here
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Unterschreiben Sie hier
Firma aquí

Order now our emotional life
I'm offering you the post of wife
Plus the overnight treasury
It'll work for you if it works for me

 

She's the voice that'll make you stop
First encounter with the man at the top
Pay with personal credit slip
Express American censorship

I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money

Buy that
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compre ese

Sign there
Schild dort
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Wine and dine now that you're the boss
There's no hotel to break your loss
Admit relationship unresolved
Chemical love bank has been dissolved

Buy this...

I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money
I'm your money

 

"Play to Win" (from Penthouse and Pavement, 1981)
City clubland, theatre, dockland
Empty house, no audience
Smiles of fortune, no man master
Play to win and break the bank

Play to win

Turn professional, know your job
Be up to every trick
Make a breakthrough, strain your eyes
Have no secrets, hear no lies

Play to win

And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"
Play to win
And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"
Play to win

One needs a great deal more than this
Make-up master plan
Tension mars the prettiest face
Sex in fairyland!

Play to win

How can you improve your life,
Obtain the unobtainable?
Boost your health, a giant refreshed
Treat rough, get tough, 10-10!


Play to win

Did you take a backseat
When your kids were small?
Suit the movement to the word
Reverse and check the action

Play to win

Suit the action to the word
Make every minute count
Match in cunning, see the cars
Step on the heels of chance

Play to win

And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"
Play to win
And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"
Play to win

Play to win

And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"
Play to win
And then he said,
"Have no secrets, hear no lies"

Play to win


"Fascist Groove Thang" (from Penthouse and Pavement, 1981)
Everybody move to prove the groove
Everybody move to prove the groove
Everybody move to prove the groove
Everybody move to prove the groove

Have you heard it on the news
About this fascist groove thang
Evil men with racist views
Spreading all across the land
Don't just sit there on your ass
Unlock that funky chaindance
Brothers, sisters shoot your best
We don't need this fascist groove thang

Brothers, sisters,
We don't need this fascist groove thang

History will repeat itself
Crisis point we're near the hour
Counterforce will do no good
Hot you ass I feel your power
Hitler proves that funky stuff
Is not for you and me, girl
Europe's an unhappy land
They've had their fascist groove thang

Brothers, sisters,
We don't need this fascist groove thang


Democrats are out of power
Across that great wide ocean
Reagan's president elect
Fascist god in motion
Generals tell him what to do
Stop your good time dancing
Train their guns on me and you
Fascist thang advancing

Sisters, brothers lend a hand
Increase our population
Grab that groove thang by the throat
And throw it in the ocean
You're real tonight, you move move my soul
Let's cruise out of the dance war
Come out your house and dance your dance
Shake that fascist groove thang

Brothers, sisters,
We don't need this fascist groove thang

"Let's Make a Bomb" (from Penthouse and Pavement, 1981)
And as the low aggress the high
All you can do is sit and cry
You've only got yourself to blame
Don't try to stop me, it's too late
My mind's made up, this job won't wait
There's nothing left for me to say

Hey!
There's no need to debate
It's time to designate your fate
Take the M out of M.A.D.
Let's all make a bomb!

Take one hundred scientists or more
Place in a room and lock the door
Let them confer for half their lives
Unlock the door, go in and see
What they have made for you and me
A brand new toy to idolize

Hey!
There's no need to debate
It's time to designate your fate
Take the M out of M.A.D.
Let's all make a bomb!

Although the war has just begun
Ignore the sirens, let's have fun
Put on your best, go out in style
Although our future's looking black
We'll go down town and join the pack
Let's celebrate and vaporise

Hey!
There's no need to debate
It's time to designate your fate
Take the M out of M.A.D.
Let's all make a bomb!

 

 

 


 

GRAFFITI STUDY WALL: MUSIC & VIDEOS
SEX PISTOLS
KRAFTWERK
THE CLASH
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.
JOY DIVISION
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
AU PAIRS
COCTEAU TWINS
ARTERY
HUMAN LEAGUE
HEAVEN 17
THE SPECIALS
CABARET VOLTAIRE
TEARS FOR FEARS
DEPECHE MODE
THE SOUND
THE GLOVE
STEEL PULSE
THE CURE
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
GANG OF FOUR
NEW ORDER
U2
THE POLICE
CRASS
NEW MODEL ARMY
ELVIS COSTELLO
SPLIT ENZ
THE THE
XTC
THE EXPLOITED
DISCHARGE
THE SMITHS
THE HOUSEMARTINS
RADIOHEAD
PORTISHEAD
PET SHOP BOYS
M Y BLOODY VALENTINE
SLOWDIVE
CRASH MUSIC
MUSIC OF THE TROUBLES

VIDEOS:

SEX PISTOLS
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (LIVE)
THE CURE (LIVE)
COCTEAU TWINS (LIVE)
NEW ORDER (LIVE)
PORTISHEAD (LIVE)
JOY DIVISION MINI-DOCUMENTARY
NUCLEAR WAR PREPAREDNESS: PROTECT & SURVIVE MANUAL