The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75542   Message #1332324
Posted By: GUEST,Vic
19-Nov-04 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Band Aid 20
Subject: RE: BS: Band Aid 20
Ashamed to admit to watching Richard & Judy, but I saw/heard it there for the first time last night and I think it's pants.

Worst of all is the stupid line,
"So tonight thank God it's them instead of you"
So it's God that's making them starve; it's God that's terrorising them with their own so-called police, and it's obviously God's will that we live in such comfort. (I suppose crippling third world debt must be God's will as well.) Almost as bad as Glen Hoddle's 'bad karma' take on Africa.

Given that they've had 20 years to think about it, you'd think they'd have come up with better, harder-hitting lyrics. They should have asked Steve Earle to re-write it.