A compilation of music from the Fightback Show

 

These songs are a pretty great soundtrack for any fightback – and you can help us to add more.

 

These songs are from the seven weekly Fightback Show episodes which have been uploaded to the Radio Tanya website so far. This was a weekly left wing news and discussion program which ran from 1985 to 1991 on Canberra’s community radio station 2XX.

 

There are another 50+ Fightback shows on cassette that we’re keen to digitise, clean up the audio and upload – with your help (plus many other historic radio programs, interviews, speeches and more). Please visit our fundraiser page to chip in.

 

We’ll keep updating this “Soundtrack for a Fightback” page as we get each new show digitised and uploaded.

 

Music from the Fightback Show (1986-1991)

Theme – Redgum – Raggin’

Theme – Working Week – Inner City Blues

Ry Cooder – How Can a Poor Man Face Such Times and Live (lyrics)

Ry Cooder –  How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too) (lyrics, notes)

Redgum – One More Boring Thursday Night in Adelaide 

Goanna – Solid Rock

Ilkari Maru – History

Louis Killen – The Blackleg Miner

Warumpi Band – Gotta Be Strong

Cherie Watkins – Prison’s Nothing Special – from the record The First Australians. Played on the Fightback Show, 27 April 1986 (starts at 28 mins)

Redgum – If You Don’t Fight, You Lose

Alex Glasgow – Close the Coalhouse Door

Strange Tenants – We Are Stronger

The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down

Redgum – The Federal Two-Ring Circus

The Bushwhackers – Freedom on the Wallaby

Ted Egan and Vincent Lingiari – Gurindji Blues

Bob Marley – We and Them

Celibate Rifles – Rainforest

Leon Rosselson – Across the Hills (notes)

The New Harmony Sisterhood Band – Working Class Woman (lyrics)

The Specials – Concrete Jungle

Coloured Stone – Easy World 

UB40 – Sing our own song

Coloured Stone – Our Cry

Bob Marley – Soul Rebel

Utah Phillips – There is Power in a Union

Jimmy Cliff – Struggling Man

Kevin Baker – Men of Kemira (lyrics, movie). Played on the Fightback Show, 24 May 1987, (starts at 16:45)

Bob Marley – Them Belly Full (but We Hungry)

Mikey Dread – Mental Slavery

Mikey Dread – World War Three

Theme – Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues