If I’d been smarter, I’d have paired this up with The Fall’s Pay Your Rates from this same 7/2/93 broadcast. If Mark E. Smith and company provided the cold water of reality, Dennis Brown offered a temporary warm bath of compassion for those struggling to pay their bills and feed their family. As Peel put it, in response to the Poverty, poverty, poverty refrain: There’s a lot of it about, and going to be more, I suspect.
Across the 6 albums which Brown released across a variety of labels in 1992, he was unable to offer any solutions to the problems. The rest of Cosmic, the LP which contains Can’t Take Another Day, is given over to love songs. However, companion pieces to the issues raised here include Moving On from Blazing! and Rebel With a Cause from Beautiful Morning.
Video courtesy of Dennis Brown - Topic
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