Let's Start a War

Let's Start a War
Studio album by The Exploited
Released 1983
1998 (Reissue)[1]
Recorded Revolution Studios[1]
Genre Hardcore punk, punk rock[2]
Length 34:36[2]
Label Pax[1]
Captain Oi! (reissue)[1]
Producer Wattie Buchan, Marcus Featherby
The Exploited chronology
Troops of Tomorrow
(1982)
Let's Start a War
(1983)
Horror Epics
(1985)
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Let's Start a War, or Let's Start a War... (Said Maggie One Day), is the third album by the punk band The Exploited, released in 1983 through Pax Records. The title refers to Margaret Thatcher's decision to go to war over the Falkland Islands in 1982, suggesting that she did so almost on a whim.[3][4] The controversial war was fodder for many protest songs in the punk movement. It was reissued on Captain Oi! Records in 1998, which featured three tracks from their Rival Leaders EP.[1]

Despite writing songs of the album, Big John Duncan wasn't playing in any of the recordings of the songs of the album.

Lyrical themes

Being The Exploited's most politically-charged album, the lyrics on the album talk about subjects such as Margaret's decision to go to war over the Falkland Islands, anti-war, police-driven riots, war, unemployment and hopelessness.[2][3]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Let's Start a War (Said Maggie One Day)" – 3:13
  2. "Insanity" – 4:19
  3. "Safe Below" – 2:17
  4. "Eyes of the Vulture" – 4:01
  5. "Should We, Can't We" – 1:41
  6. "Rival Leaders" – 5:43

Side two

  1. "God Saved the Queen" (Buchan) – 5:43
  2. "Psycho" – 2:01
  3. "Kidology" – 2:09
  4. "False Hopes" (Buchan) – 1:39
  5. "Another Day to Go Nowhere" (Buchan) – 2:31
  6. "Wankers" (Buchan) – 2:37

Personnel

Additional[1][5]

References

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