This is for you, United Kingdom. You will one day dispose of your monarchy. But not tomorrow.

Not since the great anti-Thatcher and anti-Queen songs of late 1970s and early 1980s has there been a more blistering rant against the way the UK is run and by whom. The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead (1986) and a line in Blur’s This Is A Low (1994) do come close as the last great songs that fit this definition.

I never heard of IDLES until this year. And fuck me, they are opening for LCD Soundsystem this June at Forest Hills Stadium - a show I have so far decided to skip because at the time, I was like, who are IDLES? Lesson learned. IDLES is a good left-wing neo-punk band. Tickets for that show are still available.

Lyrics:

How does it feel to have blue blood coursing through your veins?

Huh?

Pull on my reigns

How does it feel to have shanked the working classes into dust?

How does it feel to have won the war that nobody wants?

Huh?

Pull on my reigns

How does it feel

Reigns

Pull on my reigns