Here is the REAL definition of this song. Those Hitler-esque statements were only metaphorical...look deeper people.
"Yeah" [Joe] Strummer begins, "this song and our overall message was to wake-up, pay attention to what really is going on around you, politically, socially all of it...before you know it you have become what you despise."
The song is a pointed and stark account of work in Darwinian capitalist society. At its core, the song presents the contradictions that force us to believe that if only we work hard, don't complain, and don't rock the boat, we can get ahead. Step on whomever you wish, it doesn't matter, just look our for number one.
The song expressed the anxieties of working-class youth who were wanted only for menial jobs, to be part of the state's repressive apparatus, or to join racist right-wing movements.
The same song also advocates an alternative, a common Strummer theme, the need for working-class rebellion.
Go there for some insightful Clash meaning...so what if I copied pasted...it's 3 am and i'm too tired to flip thru my NME's.
by the way...to the crud who wrote this; "Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall" - a reference to Berlin 1986?"...moron. London Calling was released in 1979. No wonder there are no posts for the Clash. No one knows anything about them. Sad.
@felixCostello Joe Nostrummerdamus was probably telling us in 79 that the wall will fall in 86. There's more posts about the clash now than when you were disappointed about the lack of posts 19 years ago. 15 X's more! Do you care anymore or did you grow up and calm down, And working for the clampdown? Ha! Get along! Get along!
@felixCostello Joe Nostrummerdamus was probably telling us in 79 that the wall will fall in 86. There's more posts about the clash now than when you were disappointed about the lack of posts 19 years ago. 15 X's more! Do you care anymore or did you grow up and calm down, And working for the clampdown? Ha! Get along! Get along!
Here is the REAL definition of this song. Those Hitler-esque statements were only metaphorical...look deeper people.
"Yeah" [Joe] Strummer begins, "this song and our overall message was to wake-up, pay attention to what really is going on around you, politically, socially all of it...before you know it you have become what you despise."
The song is a pointed and stark account of work in Darwinian capitalist society. At its core, the song presents the contradictions that force us to believe that if only we work hard, don't complain, and don't rock the boat, we can get ahead. Step on whomever you wish, it doesn't matter, just look our for number one.
The song expressed the anxieties of working-class youth who were wanted only for menial jobs, to be part of the state's repressive apparatus, or to join racist right-wing movements.
The same song also advocates an alternative, a common Strummer theme, the need for working-class rebellion.
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Go there for some insightful Clash meaning...so what if I copied pasted...it's 3 am and i'm too tired to flip thru my NME's.
by the way...to the crud who wrote this; "Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall" - a reference to Berlin 1986?"...moron. London Calling was released in 1979. No wonder there are no posts for the Clash. No one knows anything about them. Sad.
@felixCostello Joe Nostrummerdamus was probably telling us in 79 that the wall will fall in 86. There's more posts about the clash now than when you were disappointed about the lack of posts 19 years ago. 15 X's more! Do you care anymore or did you grow up and calm down, And working for the clampdown? Ha! Get along! Get along!
@felixCostello Joe Nostrummerdamus was probably telling us in 79 that the wall will fall in 86. There's more posts about the clash now than when you were disappointed about the lack of posts 19 years ago. 15 X's more! Do you care anymore or did you grow up and calm down, And working for the clampdown? Ha! Get along! Get along!