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Thread of UK anti-police songs. Any genre, any year. Some bangers, some not...
The Mitchell Brothers ft. Kano & The Streets - Routine Check (2005)
The Equals - Police on my Back (1967)
Hak Baker - PC Plod (2019)
James Fawn - Ask A Policeman (1888)
"If you want to learn to run, ask a policeman,
When a battle has begun, watch a policeman,
Round the corner he will go, swift as arrow from a bow.
He don't care to meet the foe, does a policeman."
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/if-you-want-to-know-the-time-ask-a-policeman/
"If you want to learn to run, ask a policeman,
When a battle has begun, watch a policeman,
Round the corner he will go, swift as arrow from a bow.
He don't care to meet the foe, does a policeman."
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/if-you-want-to-know-the-time-ask-a-policeman/
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) (1979)
Red Alert - S.P.G. (1983)
Smiley Culture - Police Officer (1984)
Nick Lowe - Half a Boy and Half a Man (1984)
"Best be fleet up on your feet / Else the S.P.G.'s comin' clearin' the streets"
"Best be fleet up on your feet / Else the S.P.G.'s comin' clearin' the streets"
Meekz x M1llionz x Teeway x Pa Salieu - Year of the Real (2020)
"Rejected the duty solicitor and went no commitment / it ain't rocket science"
"Rejected the duty solicitor and went no commitment / it ain't rocket science"
Steel Pulse - Drug Squad (1980)
The Elementz ft. Taskforce and Karizma - On My Case (2008)
Mighty Terror - Women Police in England (1956)
The Ruts - SUS (1979)
Asian Dub Foundation - Free Satpal Ram (1998)
Oscar [Paul Nicholas and David Bowie] - Over The Wall We Go (1967)
Happy Mondays - Gods’s Cop (1990)
Cadet - Gang Gang (2019)
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton (1979)
London Posse - Here Comes The Rugged One (1993)
“Peace out to Joy Gardner, I must believe / And like Cube and them man said “Fuck the Police!”
“Peace out to Joy Gardner, I must believe / And like Cube and them man said “Fuck the Police!”
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl - Only Doing Their Job (1986)
Angelic Upstarts - The Murder of Liddle Towers (1979)
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach (1980)
"The SPG them are murderers
We can't make them get no furtherer"
"The SPG them are murderers
We can't make them get no furtherer"
Durrty Goodz - Boi Dem (2007)
Dire Straits - Iron Hand (1991)
Aswad - Three Babylon (1976)
Sinéad O’Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds (1990)
P Money & Vortex - Boys in Blue (2006)
QELD - ACAB (2014)
Skindred - Babylon (2002)
Lethal Bizzle - Police On My Back (2007)
Silent Eclipse - Policing As A Tool (1995)
Doom - Police Bastard (1989)
Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz (1994)
Rodney P - We Don’t Like Coppers (2004)
Bob Davenport - Police Patrol (2004)
Awate - ACAB (2018)
Landslide vs Slaughtermob - Splurt (2007)
“Step on the gas real quick / the boi dem are coming, I don’t wanna get nicked”
“Step on the gas real quick / the boi dem are coming, I don’t wanna get nicked”
Benjamin Zephaniah - Dis Policeman Keeps On Kicking Me To Death (Lord Scarman Dub) (1985)
Discharge - State Violence State Control (1982)
Skepta ft. Young Lord - It Ain't Safe (2014)
“It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops”
“It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops
It ain’t safe for the block / Not even for the cops”
