sam5673 comments on Why I love The Clash's London Calling, by Tom Morello

Why I love The Clash's London Calling, by Tom Morello (www.loudersound.com)

submitted 5 years ago by LeninWalksTheWorld@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net

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Still the only band that matters sorry not sorry

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[–] sam5673@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago (3 children)

Aren't Clash the band that did rock the Kasbah about how the middle east isn't as enlightened tm as the west

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[–] LeninWalksTheWorld@hexbear.net [S] 2 points 5 years ago

nah the Clash were OG anti-imperialists. When Strummer found out that US pilots played that song whole bombing Iraqi civilians during the the 1st Gulf War, he said he broke down and cried. Named a whole album after the Sandinistas.

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago (1 child)

The lyrics of Rock the Casbah are about the leader of a nation trying to ban rock music, and the population doing the complete opposite the moment he has his back turned. It's basically just the plot of Footloose.

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[–] sam5673@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago (1 child)

All's I'm saying is that by setting it in Iran it was manufacturing some consent. What they couldn't find an example of prudish censorship in England

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago

Have you listened to them before? Shitting on England is kinda their thing.

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[–] MonteCristo@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago

It's inspired by Iran's ban on western music. I don't think it's comparing cultures, just saying cultural conservatism sucks. Joe Strummer was cool.

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