Chelsea - Right To Work - 1977 45rpm video free download

Emiliano Ortega-Guerrero

the soundtrack our lives... punk rock yeah

Jon Nelson

So glad that we've been able to clear up some of the finer points of punk orthodoxy here in the comments. 

eric1012wi

This is such a bad ass song! Wish l was there to see it live in 1977! I was 6 then! 

Fredrik Bergstrom

Just cause Johnny Rotten said it -- doesn't make it right: work v hobby are two completely different things.Voicing the opinion of a generation in the late 70's was valid, complaining about it and saying it's wimpy is sad. More like what Keith Morris said " We have heroes, people most of you don't know, without them half of the bands around today would not be here"Right to Work is one of many songs from the first wave that mattered and still does!

Furi Kitten

works for me now in 2014 as it did in 84.. but as +partisan Artisan said over 360 days ago... was posturing punk

downallyourstreets

nah, punks have always wanted to work to have money to take their girls out once in a while or buy the occasional overpriced amp + guitar strings and glue...it's society that never liked the way we dressed or the fact that we refused to be pushed around, hard to get a job when you don't have a slave mentality!

TheSwitchCleaner1978

I LOVE THIS SONG,MY NAME IS DAVID CAMERON.ANARCHY NOW

SiouxSyndicate

(A)!! Tribal song I miss on yt. Take care(: Right to hear it!

Larz Gustafsson

I did NOT avoid working.

TZukiMrAxlson

Bollocks, I said. HE was got a job - so what? He was not whole Britain. Johnny Rotten said: I wanna be an anarchist - He's got an anarchy! Right?!

Fredrik Bergstrom

It's career not caviar...ie: "Don't even know what tomorrow will bring let me tell you that having no future is a terrible thing Standing around just waiting for a career and I won't even get no signing on fee" Read between the lines and piece it together; there are powerful words here. It's sad to read how Jean is rated as a punk rocker, didn't know that there was a rating system to measure up to in punk-land. That is as sad as the criteria set up by the government you are rebelling against.

stickernation

Somebody please give this nice person a job. He doesn't even drink beer. He is a good person!

Malcolm Turner

this country needs to bring back workers unions

Partisan Artisan

'Chelsea' are the slightly unpleasant 'fag-end' of the 'better' Punk scene...There's not really any point to this song despite it's catchy shouty posturing...And as John Rotten said at the time; "He's GOT a job...he's in a fucking group". Precisely.

reggaechicken

yeah I gotta admit, I got that lyric from a Jon Savage article. I think you're right and he misheard it. It could have been irony..

choleracol

says 'waiting for a career' , nothin to do with caviar... how are you gonna buy caviar if you're skint??

reggaechicken

..The lyrics themselves aren't much to go on: 'Standing around just waiting for our caviar, I don't take drugs no I don't drink beer' The point is, just because we want a song to be about something, doesn't mean that it is. When I was a kid I assumed Depeche Mode's 'Master & Servant was a political song, then later I realised it was about s&m..

reggaechicken

@sceptiquele I'm pro-trade union and I like Chelsea, got their first 2 albums anyway. I'm just telling you what the song is about, as was reported in the press at the time and mentioned in various punk histories/blogs over the years. I'd love this to be a working class socialist anthem, but it just happens that it isn't. It's a personal song based on the fact that he got turned away from jobs because of the closed shop. Nothing to do with strikes..

reggaechicken

@sceptiquele I think people assume it's a protest against unemployment from a left-wing p.o.v. but the SWP's 'right to work' campaign came later. when Gene wrote this he was complaining that he couldn't get a job because of the closed shop. the 'Right To Work' law was U.S. anti-trade union legislation outlawing the closed shop.

PunkyTom1962

love this song ...( pure punkz )

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