
Ep. 23: Great Artist/Terrible Politics
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
The Jam Is a Libertarian Anthem
The beedles were originally marketed as a tory band. They ran away from that later and became part of red wedge, which was pro labor. The songs they wrote in the early seventies are obliquely about paying too much taxes. One song is basically what it's like, a tribute to slave masters - rape and raping your slave.
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