― musically (musically), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (FFS) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie, Friday, 20 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Say "NO" to hate. Say "HAIL NAH" to strawman hate crimes.
― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (It's Like GWB Popped Out Of Lurkdom Or Something) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― #3 (papa la bas), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Friday, 20 January 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― hegira, Friday, 20 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
the laser sounds when they send in the jet fighers? classic!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Madness) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
its politics are watery, like many a clash song..but, big deal
― bb (bbrz), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie, Friday, 20 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Friday, 20 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
damn that one skip on side 2, though
― bb (bbrz), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― WillS, Friday, 20 January 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― shareef (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Hahahahhha) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Clumsiest. Strawman. Ever.
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― stuber, Friday, 20 January 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
THE CLASH ARE THE MOST OVERRATED BAND IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC!!!! (YES, EVEN MORE THAN THE BEATLES)
Ugh, Joe Strummer = world's worst "singer" (Tone-deaf bellowing is not technically singing)
First album, fineA few songs thereafter, ok-ishBut most is just leaden, oafish crap.
95% of the love for this band is probably related to their politics, yeah I thought the contras sucked too, but, please......
― king kracker, Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Saturday, 21 January 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Uncle Joe and the lads were being ironic of course, but there you are.
― soukesian, Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
The Clash are probably my favourite band, and I don't even care for there politics.
― Gukbe (lokar), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh no, not the briar patch!
― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
-- scott seward (skotro...), January 20th, 2006 9:44 PM.
yes! but Rock the Casbah is a piece w/the stuff on that comp, i think except with an awesome chorus.
― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
But I do mind Virgin Radio playing it three times per hour. They did make other records.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 February 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myonga Vön Bontee (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 9 February 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link
-- gear (speed.to.roa...), January 20th, 2006 8:27 AM.
gear 100% OTM
the only problem that i have w/ "rock the casbah" is that it's overplayed (in the 80s, it -- and "train in vain" or the ramones' "i wanna be sedated" -- were the token punk songs on the rock stations in my neck of the woods).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 9 February 2007 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
http://arabworld.nitle.org/audiovisual.php?module_id=5&selected_feed=294
― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
the mustapha dance pandora station is everything
(it's probably identical to the rock the casbah station)
currently listening to: paul young - sex
― musically, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
That's a bit like Scritti Politti's song with the same name
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:19 (ten years ago) link
I dunno I find the Tahid live version moving so here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1p_dkJo6Y8
― Adam J Duncan, Monday, 4 January 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
Rachid Taha... ugh
Now the king told the boogie menYou have to let that raga dropThe oil down the desert wayHas been shakin' to the topThe sheik he drove his CadillacHe went a' cruisnin' down the villeThe muezzin was a' standingOn the radiator grilleCHORUSThe shareef don't like itRockin' the CasbahRock the CasbahThe shareef don't like itRockin' the CasbahRock the Casbah
By order of the prophetWe ban that boogie soundDegenerate the faithfulWith that crazy Casbah soundBut the Bedouins they brought outThe electric camel drumThe local guitar pickerGot his guitar picking thumbAs soon as the shareefHad cleared the squareThey began to wail
CHORUS
Now over at the templeOh! They really pack 'em inThe in crowd say it's coolTo dig this chanting thingBut as the wind changed directionThe temple band took fiveThe crowd caught a wiffOf that crazy Casbah jive
The king called up his jet fightersHe said you better earn your payDrop your bombs between the minaretsDown the Casbah wayAs soon as the shareef wasChauffeured outta thereThe jet pilots tuned toThe cockpit radio blareAs soon as the shareef wasOutta their hairThe jet pilots wailed
― Adam J Duncan, Monday, 4 January 2016 10:22 (eight years ago) link
The Clash of Civilizations
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 4 January 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
The in crowd say it's coolTo dig this chanting thing
― how's life, Monday, 4 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
the music on "Rock the Casbah" was allegedly primarily written and even recorded by Topper Headon - hope he got a publishing credit at least!
― Paul, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 03:12 (eight years ago) link
Not even allegedly, Topper did the piano and drums one night ... maybe he did more. The other guys filled it in.
Sandinista! and Combat Rock, I think all songs are credited to the Clash collectively.
Saw this:
ou wrote many songs for the band. How did you write and what instruments did you use?Well, I can play the piano in D – but in D only, that’s why Rock The Casbah’s in D. I can play a great Mose Allison bass line and I used to play Stanley Clarke’s School Days on the bass too. It could be anything. I used to play all the instruments at sound checks and in rehearsals. I just picked it up.How did Rock The Casbah come about?I was in the studio and they weren’t - that’s how Rock The Casbah happened. Mick and Joe weren’t really speaking by this point - we just weren’t gelling. The song was based around the piano – it was my song, my tune! Joe wrote the lyrics and then - Mick wants to put his wristwatch on there, “No! No way Mick!” He was upset because it was nothing to do with him really. I had this song where I’d done everything and it was me and Joe’s song - I laid down the drums, bass and piano when no one else was around.
Well, I can play the piano in D – but in D only, that’s why Rock The Casbah’s in D. I can play a great Mose Allison bass line and I used to play Stanley Clarke’s School Days on the bass too. It could be anything. I used to play all the instruments at sound checks and in rehearsals. I just picked it up.
How did Rock The Casbah come about?
I was in the studio and they weren’t - that’s how Rock The Casbah happened. Mick and Joe weren’t really speaking by this point - we just weren’t gelling. The song was based around the piano – it was my song, my tune! Joe wrote the lyrics and then - Mick wants to put his wristwatch on there, “No! No way Mick!” He was upset because it was nothing to do with him really. I had this song where I’d done everything and it was me and Joe’s song - I laid down the drums, bass and piano when no one else was around.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 03:23 (eight years ago) link
Strummer told the same story, that he got to the studio early and found Topper had written and recorded the song overnight; Joe added guitar and the vocal before anyone else turned up.
Songwriting on Combat Rock is credited collectively to The Clash, and I've always assumed that behind the scenes they give the lion's share, or possibly all the publishing, to Topper for Casbah, and that this is why it's one of the most-licensed and sampled Clash records. Along the lines of Mick & Joe periodically paying for rehab for him in the post-split decades.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
lol did i really start this thread
anyway "mustapha dance is so much better" otm
― musically, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Sandinista! and Combat Rock, iirc they were recorded pretty piecemeal a la The White Album, rarely with all four in the studio at the same time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
Sandinista was largely recorded with a five-piece band of Strummer, Jones, Headin, Watt-Roy and Gallagher.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
i o
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
stuck in my head right now but it's
By order of the prophetOn the radiator gri-i-i-i-ilDegenerate the faithfulOn the radiator gri-i-i-i-iletc
― how's life, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 09:22 (six years ago) link
Wow never realised how bad the lyrics actually are before seeing them all written down
― mor frog bs (S-), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
Wait, people hate this song?????― Dan (FFS) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, January 20, 2006 9:00 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
the song/video feel kind of racist to me?
― clouds, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
Modern artifact. I doubt one could make a song about Mideast cultural conflicts without being either maudlin or appearing racist.
― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Wait, people hate this song????? ― Dan (FFS) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, January 20, 2006 9:00 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:08 (one hour ago)
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
I fucking love this song so much
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
let's explore the racism, it's not clear to me
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I guess using a bunch of foreign words incorrectly is pretty racist
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
Everybody who likes music loves The Clash!
40 years later: we regret to inform you that The Clash is racist
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
some of joe strummer's singing style is probably kinda racist
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
So racist they played at Rock Against Racism in '78.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 21 September 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
Legendary Spotify forum complaint pic.twitter.com/wrUdOcilfh— Face (@Arr) August 15, 2018
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link