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Stop! Is this 1984? Can you tell me, I'm not sure. 'Cos we've seen this all before. Is it Déjà vu all over again or is time an illusion (and time spent under Tory rule even more so)? If you feel you have seen it all before - recession, high unemployment, industrial action riot, sleaze, sabre rattling over the Falklands and Tory ministers telling us to get on our (insert your vehicular contrivance of choice) to find work - then you are not alone. Welcome the newest additions to The Treehouse Orchestra - The Infernos (featuring Dan T) - to provide the soundtrack to a strangely familiar and ever so smugly horrible state of affairs. But, let us not forget that 1984 was also the last hurrah of post punk and a time when pop music could also be political and engage with the events of the time (yes kids, you really should try this at home). It may have been hell on earth but at least it had a pretty good soundtrack. If the Gang Of Four graphics on the cover don't tip you off straightaway, the jerky, belligerent and witty agit-pop of "You Are Free To Do As We Tell You", soon will. With Its "Is it just me or has the world gone fucking crazy - again?" attitude, tragi-comic swagger and berserker toy-town guitar solos, this tune provides the musical accompaniment that 1984 (part 2 - special coalition edition) deserves. Oh yes, and you also get an appearance by one Bill Hicks. Don't say we don't spoil you. The flip side, "Don't Be A Square", makes the personal political - a put-down that is also a love song (and vice versa) a wonderfully rollicking, irrepressible pop song, with ants in it's pants, backing vocals that manage to be both hectoring and camp at the same time and more pop culture references that you can shake a post-modernist stick at. Come on, baby, don't be a square. Turn it up, let yourself go and dance. The bastards can't take that away from you. - David
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