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Leifdistad
Haters gonna hate. But the irony of them selling this in the US isn't lost on meh
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WiseJake237
Yeah - FUCK YOU AMERICA! I live here, but my teenage angst and disillusion needs multiple targets; why not direct it toward my home country, right? Our culture is sickening and complacent in a lot of ways anyway.
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Funky_Nickie
I'm so booored with people hating on America like they got nothing better to do.
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ctd55
Far be it from me to deny America's peccadilloes--sociopathic foreign policy; mind-rotting violent entertainment; waist-expanding, planet-destroying consumer doodads--but I wouldn't say we're boring. Yeah, yeah, I get that they're just taking the piss out of the star-spangled hegemon--even if there are moments where Strummer's ferocious growling, Jones's stabbing guitar licks, and the never-say-die rhythm section make me wonder if they just might mean it. But nah, they're only thumbing their noses at the Big Bad US of A. After all, they'd soon be worshiping at the altar of American roots rock, so we know their animus toward the Americas wasn't especially deep or abiding. Plus, their viewpoint hadn't yet been carefully calibrated. While their instincts were all right--they were angry at the right people for the right reasons--they were deficient in right-thinking. Which is as it must be: two-minute pop songs allow for righteous indignation, but not its ideological justification.
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FrankieBizzox
@punkpoet: "why do people try to compare or think riffs sound alike" well, because music doesn't stand on its own. without influences you don't have much of anything. as original as the clash were, they were a product of influences and I am curious if there's a direct connection between them and the Sex Pistols
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punkpoet1961
why do people try to compare or think riffs sound alike- anyways- this is another of the great songs from the only band that matters
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christuffer
Yankee dollar talk To the dictators of the world In fact its giving orders An they cant afford to miss a word
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FrankieBizzox
the opening riff sounds like it was lifted from the "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols. anyone have any knowledge on that?
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BostonIrish
mick wrote this song as "i'm so bored with you" about a girl. joe added the "S. A."
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babyfratelli450
OMG How could you get bored of The Clash? Even if your bored of their songs you have to appreciate how much they helped the punk/rock music scene
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