The Clash - Straight to Hell (Official Audio)

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  • The Clash - Straight to Hell (Official Audio)
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    Lyrics
    If you can play on the fiddle
    How's about a British jig and reel?
    Speaking King's English in quotation
    As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
    Water froze
    In the generation
    Clear as winter ice
    This is your paradise
    There ain't no need for ya
    There ain't no need for ya
    Go straight to hell, boys, go straight to hell, boys
    Wanna join in a chorus
    Of the Amerasian blues?
    When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
    Kiddie say papa papa papa papa pappa-san, take me home
    See me got
    Photo photo photograph of you and mamma mamma mamma-san
    Of you and mamma mamma mamma-san
    Let me tell you 'bout your blood, bamboo kid
    It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice
    Straight to hell
    Go straight to hell boys
    Go straight to hell
    Go straight to hell boys
    Oh Papa-san
    Please take me home
    Oh Papa-san
    Everybody, they wanna go home
    So Mamma-san says
    You want to play mind-crazed banjo
    On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
    In Parkland International
    Ha, junkie-dom U.S.A
    Where pro-caine proves the purest rock man groove
    And rat poison
    The volatile Molotov says
    Straight to hell
    Can you really cough it up loud and strong?
    The immigrants, they wanna sing all night long
    It could be anywhere
    Most likely could be any frontier any hemisphere
    In no-man's-land
    There ain't no asylum here
    King Solomon he never lived 'round here
    Straight to hell, boys
    Go straight to hell, boys
    Go straight to hell, boys
    Go straight to hell, boys
    Oh, papa-san, please take me home
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  • @chaneymichaels
    @chaneymichaels Před 2 lety +3030

    I used to love playing this on the juke box back when the MIA paper planes song was popular... everyone got all excited and then confused. hahah. Love The Clash

    • @gersonmejia7719
      @gersonmejia7719 Před 2 lety +69

      HAHAHAHAHAHAH THE BEST

    • @bigbananadealer846
      @bigbananadealer846 Před 2 lety +59

      i just added this to my party playlist yesterday, cant wait to test it out haha

    • @manuelcollao7238
      @manuelcollao7238 Před 2 lety +1

      This is the generation that is disappointed in war, poverty, and the evil of FUCKIN politics,,

    • @tomallen5837
      @tomallen5837 Před 2 lety +54

      You need to play that now more than ever. And why is it the Clash songs are more relevant during war times? The answer is obvious...
      Peace everyone!

    • @mikethecommoner
      @mikethecommoner Před 2 lety +41

      They're both incredible songs

  • @KryptoChronicutelite
    @KryptoChronicutelite Před 6 lety +2898

    One of their greatest and saddest songs ever. Joe was a genius.

  • @charlescolburn3510
    @charlescolburn3510 Před 5 lety +4443

    casually acting like i knew mia sampled this all along and not just now in 2019

    • @Kassiienovaa
      @Kassiienovaa Před 5 lety +6

      Charles Colburn do you follow plainlightblue too 😂

    • @charlescolburn3510
      @charlescolburn3510 Před 5 lety +12

      ? @@Kassiienovaa

    • @Kassiienovaa
      @Kassiienovaa Před 5 lety +7

      Charles Colburn on Instagram there’s an account called plainlightblue 10 mins after she posted this you commented this so I thought they were related, just a coincidence then 😂

    • @phatmonkey11
      @phatmonkey11 Před 5 lety +27

      love the honesty

    • @yvetteramirez5933
      @yvetteramirez5933 Před 5 lety +8

      Bahaha same reason I’m here lol

  • @user-ir7fw8mc2g
    @user-ir7fw8mc2g Před 3 lety +102

    my dad died this morning, the clash were his favorite band, as he died this song started playing, definitely his doing, would’ve gotten a right laugh out of it :)

  • @carloscuriel80
    @carloscuriel80 Před 5 lety +2632

    The clash made 20 million dollars of the MIA sample. MIA and Diplo kept the other 20 million. Yeah that single paper plane song revenued 40 million alone

    • @1w598
      @1w598 Před 5 lety +255

      carlos curiel That's actually satisfying to hear.

    • @JayPineurboy
      @JayPineurboy Před 5 lety +124

      1 w that’s so good to hear. Known the clash longer than MIA but I love hem both so much non the less

    • @emlix1
      @emlix1 Před 5 lety +34

      "Revenued"? Do you work in a place where things get "actioned"? Sheesh.

    • @EnclaviousFiraga
      @EnclaviousFiraga Před 4 lety +7

      @@kekeruus On the internet maybe. But comparing a single language against all of them is like comparing a guy with a pistol against a rocket launcher + the whole US airforce.

    • @tylermoore8370
      @tylermoore8370 Před 4 lety +107

      money aint everything man. the clash are still remembered today while MIA isn't even heard of any longer.

  • @letitbeknown8126
    @letitbeknown8126 Před 4 lety +569

    R.I.P. Joe Strummer, Straight To Heaven, Boy

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety +1

      Wonder what The Clash would say about 2020...my guess... czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html

    • @letitbeknown8126
      @letitbeknown8126 Před 4 lety +3

      @@williamvonschenk2273 I agree 100%👍

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      @@letitbeknown8126 Thanks for checking it out. Crazy days!

    • @letitbeknown8126
      @letitbeknown8126 Před 4 lety +1

      @@williamvonschenk2273 Too crazy!!! Stay safe out there!!!

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      @@letitbeknown8126 Hey...feel free to post in the song's comments area. The video was designed to stir up thought! :-)

  • @johngrant4134
    @johngrant4134 Před 2 lety +366

    One of the most important social songs. These should never be forgotten years

  • @daviddorger6916
    @daviddorger6916 Před rokem +368

    40 years later and the musical arrangement for this song is still a mind blower. Joe was a rare talent

    • @AHMspadina
      @AHMspadina Před 9 měsíci +2

      Yes the rhythm is really cool

    • @PatC-pi1jq
      @PatC-pi1jq Před 7 měsíci +3

      I love Joe here, now, then ❤

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope Před 6 měsíci

      my favorite part of youtube is the hyberbolic comments made by poor no nothings

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope Před 6 měsíci

      know nothings

    • @NitroSperg
      @NitroSperg Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@BlastinRope Good one, clown

  • @salehali9541
    @salehali9541 Před 5 lety +5152

    "I fly like paper, get high like pla..." oh wait...

    • @reality8605
      @reality8605 Před 5 lety +98

      @@PowerRangersFanAntiDinoFury "You need to calm down"

    • @wehndygo
      @wehndygo Před 5 lety +24

      Yeah, me, too.

    • @karabartley
      @karabartley Před 5 lety +104

      Okay but there's no way I was the only one confused the first time I heard paper planes 😂😂😂😂😂😂 like yasssssss oh wait

    • @VincentTamer
      @VincentTamer Před 5 lety +103

      @@karabartley I never knew this was what she was sampling

    • @EnclaviousFiraga
      @EnclaviousFiraga Před 4 lety +15

      You all need too chill the frick out!

  • @jackduncan4228
    @jackduncan4228 Před 4 lety +1091

    I can’t listen to this without becoming quite disturbed. I was backpacking around Southeast Asia and I was in Cambodia for about three weeks. I was directed to a group of Buddhist monks at one time and bought some weed and five acid tabs off them. I remember walking through this town tripping and seeing the grinding poverty, there were so many people begging with missing limbs. It was then that I learned about how Cambodia has perhaps the worlds highest concentration of anti personnel mines. There were women coming up to me begging holding out an empty baby bottle and holding an emaciated baby. It was the worst trip of my life. I felt like dirt. Like some awful poverty voyeur. I gave as much as I could to beggars and the hungry but I could never give enough. It was at this point that I understood why my Dad had become a doctor of tropical medicine.....he wanted to help such poor, unfortunate people. I just happened to be listening to this album on my Walkman at the time. I will never forget the inequity of that land. At the same time that I was seeing limbless beggars I was seeing Cambodians driving expensive SUV’s and Mercedes. There were Golden Buddhas. If I was poor in Cambodia I don’t think I’d beg, I’d get a gun (ten a penny out there) and mug Western holiday makers.

    • @jackduncan4228
      @jackduncan4228 Před 4 lety +59

      Kirby Weller very close to the Ek Phnom Pagoda near Battambang. Those monks nearly all smoke weed, it is plentiful in Cambodia. There are monasteries where almost all the monks are concerned with growing cannabis and making hashish. I imagine LSD comes from North Korea or from American military bases in the area. You can even get meth amphetamine in Cambodia. I was in Cambodia in the nineties. People like to get high all over the world, even in poverty stricken places. People are prepared to spend money on something that numbs them to the harsh and brutal conditions. I didn’t approach the monks looking for acid. I was directed to them when I asked someone for weed and the monk had a strip of tabs, so I bought five, they were going cheap.

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety +6

      @@jackduncan4228 That is a wild and difficult situation. Here is a visual expose as a music video...that almost asks what The Clash would make of 2020
      czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html

    • @neiluk1470
      @neiluk1470 Před 3 lety +22

      Jack Duncan Ok so drug dealing "buddhist monks" not sure....

    • @hipstershep
      @hipstershep Před 3 lety +36

      Yo, thanks for sharing... and i thought walking into a friday night Mcdonalds whilst tripping was hell on earth

    • @1w598
      @1w598 Před 3 lety +5

      Damn...i can't even begin to imagine.

  • @coltbolt101
    @coltbolt101 Před 3 lety +145

    I really do think that this is one of the greatest songs ever written.

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran Před 2 lety +2

      Me too coltbolt

    • @OLDE_SHYTE
      @OLDE_SHYTE Před rokem

      This and Johnny Appleseed.

    • @_fabio1978
      @_fabio1978 Před 10 měsíci

      It is

    • @Camii_Cam6929
      @Camii_Cam6929 Před 10 měsíci

      Great song I like MIA's use of the beat is best, which is unusual for me to say because I always like the original better!

    • @damidb747
      @damidb747 Před 7 měsíci

      in popular music it's one of the rare jewels

  • @laughing-cat
    @laughing-cat Před 3 lety +72

    Still, after all these years, so brilliant, relevant and painful. "There ain't no asylum here. King Solomon he never lived 'round here."

  • @petrichor649
    @petrichor649 Před 4 lety +434

    By far the best group to emerge from the late seventies UK punk scene.
    A depth and musicianship of the highest order. Bless 'em

    • @SuperOhdannyboy
      @SuperOhdannyboy Před 3 lety +5

      Try the bands XTC or Magazine

    • @petrichor649
      @petrichor649 Před 2 lety +11

      @@SuperOhdannyboy hey, I love both of them but the Clash are a higher order. Peace

    • @thomasandersen6719
      @thomasandersen6719 Před 2 lety +6

      @@petrichor649 Try the Jam

    • @timothyduggan2263
      @timothyduggan2263 Před 2 lety +2

      Love XTC (I'm a Swindon boy, how could I not) and The Jam, but the Clash are the no. 1 band of that era/scene, hands down.

    • @isobel2323
      @isobel2323 Před 2 lety +2

      @@SuperOhdannyboy Yes :) Magazine were thinking man's punk, I wouldn't be here but for the Correct Use of Soap. And Statue of Liberty on John Peel ... I feel sorry for the young folk.

  • @alimc7443
    @alimc7443 Před 2 lety +100

    Best Clash song imo. Amazing lyrics, that dubby baseline, fantastic Topper rhythms and Mick getting experimental on guitar. I read once that after recording the lyrics at a studio in New York Joe came out of the subway and suddenly realised they'd just produced something amazing. Which they did. RIP.

  • @jamesfrancbond4131
    @jamesfrancbond4131 Před 5 lety +402

    Joe Strummer really was a legend, a hero, a genius...

    • @blueburro9226
      @blueburro9226 Před 5 lety +4

      Dare I say... a saint? That's a big affrimative!

    • @aaadeejay
      @aaadeejay Před 4 lety +7

      Yes but I believe Mick Jones was the brains behind the sound of the Clash, he wrote this song too I think.

    • @lucianofigueiredo4877
      @lucianofigueiredo4877 Před 3 lety

      @@blueburro9226 vrdd

    • @vanishing_girl
      @vanishing_girl Před 3 lety

      @@aaadeejay he wrote the music and Joe wrote the lyrics, 95% of Clash songs were done that way.

    • @baliksupper6043
      @baliksupper6043 Před 3 lety

      And a prefect at his public school.

  • @robertgomez7414
    @robertgomez7414 Před 5 lety +1644

    MIA is good
    The Clash are Legends.

    • @jonesongao7047
      @jonesongao7047 Před 5 lety +12

      I read that as Clash of the Titans

    • @SanSan-lt3li
      @SanSan-lt3li Před 5 lety +3

      @Allison Suleiman lol true

    • @thejustinoshow7908
      @thejustinoshow7908 Před 5 lety +94

      Both are legends

    • @laryqe
      @laryqe Před 5 lety +6

      @Allison Suleiman oh you feel more special, unique and different saying that?

    • @gonk4509
      @gonk4509 Před 5 lety +5

      BobbleGum
      Nope. It’s just the truth.

  • @shashsrivas
    @shashsrivas Před 4 lety +222

    Singing ain't just about the voice. It's more about sincerity, emotion and your passion towards music. Joe strummer was a proof of it. Croaky voice but it fit perfectly to the kind of music they made, the ambience around it.

    • @liamwalters5029
      @liamwalters5029 Před 3 lety +12

      I agree with this 100 percent his voice was never anything special but the emotion/ lyrics made the clash what they were

    • @amirfreeman1557
      @amirfreeman1557 Před 2 lety +8

      I agree. A lot of people say Ian Curtis of Joy Division has a terrible singing voice and while he does often fail to hit high notes in certain songs the effect his voice had in conjunction with the instruments was something that nobody could ever hope to replicate.

    • @margaretbarr7705
      @margaretbarr7705 Před 2 lety +1

      A friend of mine had a clash version of this in tape maybe it was live I was crying the whole way through and I couldn't even make out the lyrics to know what it was all about I just know it moved me with a great sadness.. Years later I asked Mrs Google and then I understood perfectly first from hearing the words and understanding the song but I knew tgere was something more so I asked Mrs Google again and yes tgere are certain chords when put together create a meloncholy withing and all around.... This is a perfect example and your comment made me want to elaborate on what you just said.... You feel it too🙏💔 it still makes me cry but I'm still trying to find that version... Respect 🙏

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran Před 2 lety +1

      The way he sings is so unique, and I love it.
      The only person that comes close to this is Damon Albarn, and he's equally as rare and talented imo. Special souls have special voices.

    • @rdrrr
      @rdrrr Před 7 měsíci

      @@amirfreeman1557 Curtis's voice is downright hypnotic on "She's Lost Control". Combined with that nightmare-funk groove, his vocals draw you in like a whirlpool. It's like you're drowning in them.

  • @clairepod1
    @clairepod1 Před 3 lety +23

    My Dad Loved this. He used to "play the gasfire" to this. He'd have his arse to the fire in our shitty Leicester terraced house and whack the sides in time to the drums. I miss the early 80's and I miss my Dad. RIP

    • @frankstared
      @frankstared Před 7 dny

      These are truly shitty times. At least then we still had something amounting to social services. Today it's only rich and poor.

  • @paulhunter2704
    @paulhunter2704 Před rokem +98

    The most complex and haunting song that The Clash ever wrote. An absolute masterpiece from an amazingly talented band. Thank you for leaving such a wonderful legacy.

  • @fuming2094
    @fuming2094 Před 2 lety +56

    This is their peak lyrically. It is not may favorite of all time but it is one of their best.

  • @bradoozy
    @bradoozy Před 5 lety +528

    This song is actually really sad for me. But I still listen to it because it’s an amazing piece of work

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Před 5 lety +26

      It's hard not to feel a bit sad or pessimistic,and introspective upon hearing it.

    • @johntuttle3245
      @johntuttle3245 Před 4 lety +1

      Ralph Jackson very pessimistic

    • @rachellee404
      @rachellee404 Před 4 lety +10

      Well. Yeah. It's a sad song.

    • @bonoyass
      @bonoyass Před 4 lety

      Rachel Lee why is it?

    • @rachellee404
      @rachellee404 Před 4 lety +45

      @@bonoyass because it's... meant to be sad. It's about the "half-breed" children left behind when soldiers go home after war. That's pretty damn sad.

  • @diananascimentofreire1361
    @diananascimentofreire1361 Před 5 lety +349

    The meaning of this song is so sad. Joe Strummer was a genius. Always missed, a great man!

    • @zenbuddah420
      @zenbuddah420 Před 3 lety +4

      what is meaning?

    • @jkk4657
      @jkk4657 Před 3 lety +8

      @@zenbuddah420 crushed dreams, everyone has it bad

    • @matteoviola5760
      @matteoviola5760 Před 3 lety +18

      @@jkk4657 actually, it is about immigrants

    • @johndee2990
      @johndee2990 Před 3 lety +19

      It's not a simple meaning, the beginning is about leaving..
      Home, family, whatever, the Ice and frozen land is the harsh conditions outside of whatever you were used to.
      The analogies of the Vietnam war are both for the Vietnamese and the soldiers, no good feelings on either side.. both feeling like there's no place for them.
      Yet conversely, those who struggled their hardest to come to America still celebrate the achievement and bring their cultural joys with them.. yet for the soldiers coming home.. it no longer feels welcoming..
      Juxtapositions and hard choices, could probably best sum that up

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran Před 2 lety +6

      @@zenbuddah420 I think its about a soldier falling in love with a woman in Vietnam, and leaving her alone with a child. Then after he leaves, the child is wondering where is papa san?

  • @alymae1318
    @alymae1318 Před 4 lety +14

    “Let me tell you bout your blood bamboo kid, it ain’t Coca Cola, it’s rice.” “Wanna join in the chorus of the Amerasian Blues. When it’s Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh city, kiddy say “Pappa-san, take me home”... please everyone, look up the lyrics to this song. I loved this song because it just sounded good, then I looked up what tf these lyrics mean and holy shit did this song take a dreadful turn, and now it feels me with despair and sadness... so truly sad. This song is truly poetic in every sense of it. One of my favorite and may it forever be.

  • @Wilayaat
    @Wilayaat Před 2 lety +57

    It's 2021. Nearly forty years have passed since I first heard this and it still sounds just as incredible. The only band that matter(ed). RIP Joe.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Před 4 lety +37

    Tell you what, if you remember playing this side to side on vinyl you had some special times. The album just had no bad songs. If you played it loud, opened the windows, went outside to rake leaves, drink a beer on the porch, well that was a weekend well spent.

  • @redhotchilifan98
    @redhotchilifan98 Před 5 lety +54

    An incredibly beautiful poetic and sad song the passion joe sang with unbelievable

  • @samporter7018
    @samporter7018 Před 4 lety +64

    An absolutely beautiful song that was ahead of its time The Clash in general were ahead of their time one of the most talented bands ever created

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      Wonder what the Clash would say about 2020? My guess....
      czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html

    • @topbanana4013
      @topbanana4013 Před 2 lety +2

      err was not ahead of its time it was about the time and before

    • @green_wire
      @green_wire Před rokem

      The Clash was always ahead of its time

    • @TillyOrifice
      @TillyOrifice Před 11 měsíci

      @@green_wireThey were never ahead of their time. they were good.

  • @hg-dm1hm
    @hg-dm1hm Před 5 lety +26

    Thank you Joe. The greatest frontman in the world.

  • @philomath67
    @philomath67 Před 5 lety +53

    Rediscovered this song last night on the way to work. Used to listen to it a lot as a teen in the 80s. Good memories of that time. So much wonderful music exploded on the scene. Thanks Joe and gang. RIP.

  • @richieobrien8501
    @richieobrien8501 Před 4 lety +24

    one of the coolest works of sampling from one of the best bands of all time into a genius pop song 25 years later!

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      Can't help but wonder what The Clash might say 4 2020? My guess... czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html

  • @theworldisavampire3346
    @theworldisavampire3346 Před 2 lety +11

    I saw the Clash 6 times, including the Famed Bonds Casinos shows. . The thrill of hearing these urgently important tunes live are seared into my brain forever. I remember the Pier in NYC was shaking so much I thought we'd sink it that night ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ RIP MY MAN JOE

  • @clash4ever
    @clash4ever Před 3 lety +112

    This is one of my top 5 songs by the Clash. Unique, nothing can compare to it.

    • @SombraPiloto
      @SombraPiloto Před 2 lety +2

      Top 3 for me with Clampdown and Safe European Home.

    • @billkirkpatrick9112
      @billkirkpatrick9112 Před rokem +1

      agree

    • @stephensandin451
      @stephensandin451 Před rokem

      My top five
      Somebody Got Murdered
      London Calling
      Straight To Hell
      Spanish Bomb
      Police Of Thieves

    • @user-nv7de6gs7r
      @user-nv7de6gs7r Před 9 měsíci

      1 London calling
      2 stay free
      3 rudie can't fail
      4 police and thieves
      5 straight to hell
      6 garageland
      7 complete control
      8 stand by me
      9 white man in Hammersmith palais
      10 Charlie can't surf

    • @gabrielecipriani9660
      @gabrielecipriani9660 Před 9 měsíci +2

      1. Ghetto defendant
      2. Rock the Casbah
      3. Charlie don't surf
      4. London calling
      5. Straight to hell

  • @carollockhart7756
    @carollockhart7756 Před 6 lety +69

    Poetry on a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEVEL than what anyone guessed could come out of the 80's!!!
    Thanks for the music, Y'all !!!!

    • @melissagustkey8641
      @melissagustkey8641 Před 5 lety +5

      Holy hell, you haven't listened to much eighties music, have you?

  • @somena
    @somena Před 6 lety +381

    The Clash Saved My Life Many A Time As A Teenager! God Bless THE CLASH!

  • @meh8704
    @meh8704 Před 5 lety +29

    This song, every time I hear it, usually at the end of some tv show episode, it makes me almost tear up. I don’t know if it’s the calmness of the music, the cave like echoing in the lyrics, or just, something else, something that I can never put my finger on

    • @therealrobbdee672
      @therealrobbdee672 Před 5 lety +4

      Good music w Substance will do that. It pulls at heart strings for unknown reasons. And, draws something from within our inner being!

    • @blueburro9226
      @blueburro9226 Před 5 lety +1

      Good call Robb! But I'll use one word instead: Magical

  • @FreedomofSpeech865
    @FreedomofSpeech865 Před 4 lety +38

    This entire album is good. Listened to it during my college days (I’m old)

  • @ImGonnaLiveByMyRules
    @ImGonnaLiveByMyRules Před 6 lety +959

    MIA paper planes, i thought it was an original masterpiece, Ive been lied to this whole time

    • @This-Aint-No-Disco
      @This-Aint-No-Disco Před 5 lety +237

      Shit is definitely still a masterpiece!!! Masterpieces birth others...

    • @markgreen2170
      @markgreen2170 Před 5 lety +39

      @@This-Aint-No-Disco Honestly, I find the MIA song quite sucky! However, I do find the juxtaposing of the gunfire with the cash register interesting. Sampling and mixing are her forte ...lyrics and singing, not so much.

    • @This-Aint-No-Disco
      @This-Aint-No-Disco Před 5 lety +82

      @@markgreen2170 , Ohhh no man!!! There's no opinion allowed for that song... If you dislike it then you just have no style, I'm sorry 😂😂😂

    • @kellysims5732
      @kellysims5732 Před 5 lety +9

      But you found the thruth and the clash!

    • @Rudis_Garage
      @Rudis_Garage Před 5 lety +10

      All today just copy songs. Creative bands are done...

  • @ratosphere9448
    @ratosphere9448 Před 5 lety +112

    As usual I called MIA a genius when the genius really began here with one of the original rock icons. Thank you Clash.

    • @Galfadez
      @Galfadez Před 2 lety +3

      MIA is also a genius too though x

    • @Mr_Stanley888
      @Mr_Stanley888 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@GalfadezYeah she is an anti-vaxxer...

  • @brokenwindows8920
    @brokenwindows8920 Před 4 dny +1

    I remember buying this album and London calling on cassette at a flea market in the early 00s for like 2 bucks. Listening and crusing in my 83 Chrsyler New Yorker with my friends with some skateboarding in-between. Good times.

  • @gregorythomas2674
    @gregorythomas2674 Před 2 lety +15

    I used to listen to this song in the mid 80s. Always thought it was unique and just something about it that struck me back then. I just rediscover it some 40 years later and appreciate the genius of it all. Amazing song from lyrics to arrangement.

  • @dillongstaff5625
    @dillongstaff5625 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Don't cry because he has gone...smile because he existed.

  • @adspur
    @adspur Před 3 lety +8

    I remembered as a child I saw The Clash perform this song on SNL.I live in a rural area so it was the first time I saw The Clash.What a band!!!

  • @jackhoff4758
    @jackhoff4758 Před 4 lety +47

    I had my first kiss to this song

  • @yadukishore502
    @yadukishore502 Před 5 lety +85

    What a totally different kind of sound. Blew me away ! I started searching for more songs from The Clash after listening to Should I Stay or Should I Go. And when I heard this for the first time, the opening riff got me hooked and I knew immediately that this would be a good one .

    • @redhotchilifan98
      @redhotchilifan98 Před 5 lety +4

      The opening rift is haunting hypnotic and beautiful at the same time the way Jones plays the riff and topper headon lays down the drum beat

    • @shirneko
      @shirneko Před 4 lety +2

      Listen to Sandinista LP!!! Total experimentation there!

    • @orangetemp2486
      @orangetemp2486 Před 4 lety +1

      *Londons Calling*

    • @domenicgalata1470
      @domenicgalata1470 Před 4 lety

      The Clash is one of the best Rock bands ever. Their sound evolved over a short period of recording and every album is a must have.

    • @DMWBN3
      @DMWBN3 Před 4 lety +1

      Try Bank Robber, my favourite Clash. Also have a listen to Mick Jones band he formed after the clash - big audio dynamite 🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @njper123
    @njper123 Před 10 měsíci +7

    I’ve finally caught up about 13 years better later than never. Paper planes still a bop tho

  • @mikeysuzefour
    @mikeysuzefour Před 6 lety +526

    *It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice...Oh Papa-san*

    • @SofiA-ip6kz
      @SofiA-ip6kz Před 5 lety +6

      lmfao

    • @georgetrapp6666
      @georgetrapp6666 Před 5 lety +8

      Ouch. I mean, I think that's meant as an insult.

    • @taragragg400
      @taragragg400 Před 5 lety +1

      Maybe.

    • @johnbohan9355
      @johnbohan9355 Před 5 lety +16

      @@georgetrapp6666 listen to it again mate, not insulting, honest. Want this as last tune. Don't get lyrics like that today. 😙

    • @georgetrapp6666
      @georgetrapp6666 Před 5 lety +40

      @@johnbohan9355 "Let me tell ya 'bout your blood family, kid. It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice." Spoken from a fellow villager or stepfather, in derision of the child's claims to be half-American. But okay. Maybe we'll agree to disagree.

  • @cafinario
    @cafinario Před 4 lety +25

    Remember that by then the Clash were my only friends. The fact that I never met them is a minor issue.

  • @eaglebelle4596
    @eaglebelle4596 Před 4 lety +18

    RIP joe strummer he will be playing guitar and singing in our hearts

  • @chrissirvid5845
    @chrissirvid5845 Před 2 lety +5

    Joe, much loved and missed. Timeless stuff from The Clash

  • @perrosolar4743
    @perrosolar4743 Před 6 lety +396

    Im here cuz i still love The Clash.

    • @diegoguerrero2179
      @diegoguerrero2179 Před 6 lety +2

      Anna DaCW Me too

    • @AFloridaSon
      @AFloridaSon Před 6 lety +8

      *Anna DaCW* I have grown tired of people posting the weird reasons they are watching/listening to a YT video. Your reason is perfect. Thank you. _AND_ a Clash fan? Married? (Just kidding.) But extra points for being a Clash fan.

    • @gregnp5472
      @gregnp5472 Před 6 lety +4

      Same!! Will ALWAYS love The Clash.

    • @dannyhernandez265
      @dannyhernandez265 Před 5 lety +3

      Anna DaCW never stop listening to the Clash!

    • @jonathanp7881
      @jonathanp7881 Před 4 lety

      benjaminlewis75 you can’t just say those two songs while forgetting London calling, probably one of the top 10 albums of all time

  • @bernardshakey9107
    @bernardshakey9107 Před 4 lety +46

    When I was 17, I was into dirt biking and one of my trails was accessible only by riding through this guys property. I ended up making friends with him and meeting his daughter Rachel. Now Rachel was a preppy, popular cheerleader, and I was a dirt bike riding punk rocker. Not exactly two people who would normally hang out with each other, but she was a super chill girl and we became good friends. I remember hanging out at her house and she put on her IPod and was like “I love this song”, and played “Paper Planes” by MIA. I raised my eyebrows and started chuckling. She looked at me like “what?” I laughed and told her I’d been listening to that song for 5 years already. It was on my first Clash album 😂 she was like “holy shit!” To her credit, she told me she loved both versions. 👌🏻

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      Rock on. Wonder what such bands would say about 2020...
      czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html&feature=share

  • @faithhofeldt2283
    @faithhofeldt2283 Před 2 lety +9

    This band deserves much recognition. Still relevant today.

  • @billkirkpatrick9112
    @billkirkpatrick9112 Před rokem +8

    Reggae influence on the Clash big time in this song... Loved them

  • @blurrifaceemsp6498
    @blurrifaceemsp6498 Před 6 lety +49

    Got combat rock on cd for my birthday a few years ago. Still one of my favourite albums.

    • @perrosolar4743
      @perrosolar4743 Před 6 lety +2

      Same :D
      I love Green Day too btw

    • @hansjavis5854
      @hansjavis5854 Před 10 měsíci

      I inherited an original pressings of Combat Rock on vinyl and it’s still one of my most cherished possessions.

  • @trickyrich1968
    @trickyrich1968 Před rokem +5

    the greatest Clash song in my opinion...

    • @DouglasRichardson-er4ky
      @DouglasRichardson-er4ky Před 11 měsíci

      Hard to pick one, Spanish Bombs a fav of mine wrote my thesis for BA in history on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War ... 🙋🏼‍♂️ I'm biased 😉

    • @TheGinfizz66
      @TheGinfizz66 Před 2 měsíci

      Agreed.

  • @diogo6050
    @diogo6050 Před 3 lety +12

    the melody of this song is so intense it feels like it posesses you

  • @gorflunk
    @gorflunk Před 5 lety +26

    Fukken masterpiece!

  • @joshlomeli2449
    @joshlomeli2449 Před 3 lety +8

    Best song I ever blasted LOUD!!!!!!
    it's like I'm feeling up, then feeling down all at once. The Clash rules!

  • @anthonyholland3026
    @anthonyholland3026 Před 3 lety +13

    One of the greatest tunes from one of the greatest tunesters that ever picked up a guitar

  • @KazimirMajorinc
    @KazimirMajorinc Před 10 měsíci +1

    In the history of rock, very few bands were so talented that they could make many very different masterpieces: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, maybe Stones ... only one such band maintained complete artistic and moral integrity throughout their career. This one.

  • @greghallberg4182
    @greghallberg4182 Před 4 lety +50

    I was flunking out of engineering in 1985 when I first heard this song.

    • @audreyeddinger9238
      @audreyeddinger9238 Před 4 lety +2

      Not a lot of us from 1985 here but then again, here we are. Cheers!

    • @sydglover4842
      @sydglover4842 Před 3 lety

      is that a good or a bad thing because if you hate enginering that would be great news

  • @MrHabs66
    @MrHabs66 Před 2 lety +17

    I love bands that can make a song with such poignant lyrics that will educate & entertain you & make you think. This one is a prime example of that.

  • @unums
    @unums Před rokem +10

    Here because Eliot and Ricky from *Internet Today,* best Duo and Channel on CZcams.

  • @paisleyprincess7996
    @paisleyprincess7996 Před 3 lety +3

    1982...My sister had a mini ghetto blaster, and she used to walk down the streets of our housing project and play Combat Rock...Blasting all through the neighborhood, “PAPA PAPA SAN TAKE ME HOME...STRAIGHT TO HELL!!!”
    Miss being young!

    • @Authentic_og
      @Authentic_og Před 2 lety

      Youth is a faze one goes through to get to the best bits....
      Live , laugh, love and be thankful that you get another day on/in this wonderful world.
      ✌🏼n' respect to ya.🇬🇧

  • @schmidtandreas1853
    @schmidtandreas1853 Před 5 lety +7

    Immer noch eines der besten Musikstücke überhaupt und immer noch barndaktuell.

  • @sartoris9439
    @sartoris9439 Před 2 lety +15

    If you can play on the fiddle
    How's about a British jig and reel?
    Speaking King's English in quotation
    As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
    Water froze
    In the generation
    Clear as winter ice
    This is your paradise
    There ain't no need for ya
    There ain't no need for ya
    Go straight to hell boys
    Go straight to hell boys
    Wanna join in a chorus, of the Amerasian blues?
    When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh city
    Kiddie say papa papa papa papa papa-san take me home
    See me got photo, photo, photograph of you
    And mamma mamma mamma-san
    Of you and mamma mamma mamma-san
    Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid
    It ain't coca-cola it's rice
    Straight to hell boys
    Go straight to hell boy
    Go straight to hell boys
    Go straight to hell boys
    Oh papa-san
    Please take me home
    Oh papa-san
    Everybody they wanna go home
    So mamma-san says
    "You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
    On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A?
    In Parkland international
    Hah, Junkiedom U.S.A
    Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
    And rat poison"
    The volatile Molatov says
    Straight to hell
    Can you cough it up loud and strong
    The immigrants, they wanna sing all night long
    It could be anywhere
    Most likely could be any frontier
    Any hemisphere
    No man's land
    There ain't no asylum here
    King Solomon he never lived 'round here
    Straight to hell boy
    Go straight to hell boy
    Go straight to hell boys
    Go straight to hell boys

  • @Daniel-ed6cb
    @Daniel-ed6cb Před 3 lety +11

    Cracking tune! One of my favourite clash songs.

  • @dougpiranha3619
    @dougpiranha3619 Před 4 lety +4

    Saw this band in Chicago 1982, Mick & Joe clearly couldn't stand each other by that time, and they didn't like their audience much either, but they put this particular song over with nice vengefulness.

  • @jasonthedinosaur2101
    @jasonthedinosaur2101 Před 6 lety +26

    I LOVE THE CLASH SO MUCH!

  • @RootDRThorne
    @RootDRThorne Před 3 lety +9

    "What do you do when you go into a comic book store?" @ 1:35

  • @Lyndanet
    @Lyndanet Před 3 lety +8

    I adore this very sad poignant song....

  • @dennyshoopman4397
    @dennyshoopman4397 Před 5 lety +12

    Absolutely love this song!

  • @TheN1H1LL
    @TheN1H1LL Před 5 lety +11

    Just.....flawless.

  • @ricardowilsonalvestimoteo
    @ricardowilsonalvestimoteo Před 5 lety +15

    🗣🔊Love, Love, Love
    The Clash🎤🎸!!!!😎🤘

  • @DerBieso1
    @DerBieso1 Před 2 lety +19

    The tone from the first note is so solemn. When I was in the Philippines in the USMC, we'd often seek an impossible to dance to song for the clubs, and War Pigs was the go-to. But this ... this!

    • @topbanana4013
      @topbanana4013 Před 2 lety

      you do know the first verse is about the UK ??

  • @almostideal1306
    @almostideal1306 Před 5 lety +185

    Still the only band that matters

  • @kellyb3138
    @kellyb3138 Před 5 lety +6

    Just heard this song today for the 1st time ever...we were making fun of it at work, and yet now I wanna hear it again after realizing this is what Paper Planes "sampled". Totally shocked by that. I never knew...

  • @jonathanmurphy3141
    @jonathanmurphy3141 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I had a 12-inch single of this epic, that came with a card senile for The Clash Logo (used to trace the logo, or perhaps spray paint to a surface -which I never used) My brother had the album, yet at like 15 years, I thought this song was so great,...it still is.

  • @yourconscience507
    @yourconscience507 Před 2 lety +2

    Never heard this before but the Paper Planes sample was obvious from the jump. Love it.

  • @MichelleRocheforever
    @MichelleRocheforever Před 5 lety +61

    Listened to this since i was 12 years old and still love it today at 40 years best ever 🎶🥁🥁🥁

  • @BrucieJ
    @BrucieJ Před 5 lety +11

    love this, and also love "May This Be Love" by Jimi Hendrix. It is a close call.

  • @PeterTomlinson-km7eq
    @PeterTomlinson-km7eq Před 9 měsíci +2

    exceptional musical class with a strong message relevant even more today than ever.

  • @templetetradactyl5862
    @templetetradactyl5862 Před 5 lety +3

    Probably the best punk rock song

  • @renzoandrepintolatorre6532
    @renzoandrepintolatorre6532 Před 6 lety +93

    The Clash , una de mis bandas favoritas

  • @dalethomson563
    @dalethomson563 Před 3 lety +1

    First time I ever saw this was in the opening of Kevin and Perry Go Large, now it kinda serves as a reminder of the carefree days, hell at one point me and an old friend were always compared to those two, what a beautiful, yet tragic song it is in it's own right though, must be the first time I properly listened to it through

  • @gregp5257
    @gregp5257 Před 3 lety +1

    Nobody does it like the Clash.....what a band...

  • @jacobdominguez7808
    @jacobdominguez7808 Před 6 lety +32

    Perfect song 💯👍

  • @ivanperisa9941
    @ivanperisa9941 Před 5 lety +18

    This masterpiece hits me deeeeep...

  • @davidstaniford3571
    @davidstaniford3571 Před rokem

    The best of 1 of all their amazing, important and inspirational works xxx

  • @sirfuttbucker6067
    @sirfuttbucker6067 Před 11 měsíci +2

    The sentiment of 'no mans land' still hits as hard. Like voltaire said, "history doesn't repeat itself, humans do"

  • @chrissirvid5845
    @chrissirvid5845 Před 3 lety +4

    Beautiful music and the lyrics make me feel 😥

  • @mariayapo2410
    @mariayapo2410 Před 4 lety +3

    One of the greatest work ever

  • @corinneburnette
    @corinneburnette Před rokem +1

    somehow totally forgot about the clash for the past couples years, being reintroduced to this song has been the best part of my week

  • @callum09lfc
    @callum09lfc Před 4 lety +2

    first album i ever got Give em enough rope when i was 10 years old then saw them live 1984 out of control tour, liverpool Royal Empire, best concert ive been to and still listening to them in 2019

  • @nilbogxiii4594
    @nilbogxiii4594 Před 4 lety +13

    dammit joe, ya made me cry again

    • @williamvonschenk2273
      @williamvonschenk2273 Před 4 lety

      Wonder what such bands might have said about 2020... czcams.com/video/sBkKAuqAwWU/video.html&feature=share

  • @TiffanyT-LaDolceVita
    @TiffanyT-LaDolceVita Před 3 lety +4

    I miss Joe. What an awesome man. He was a good friend. 🙏🏼

  • @gardengrovemind3745
    @gardengrovemind3745 Před 2 lety +1

    Always brings me to a more relative state. Thank. The Clash.

  • @MissMichSan
    @MissMichSan Před 9 měsíci +1

    Irritated people trying to compare someone that utilized The Clash sound for their version. I'm here for The Clash.

  • @sarahshaw3330
    @sarahshaw3330 Před 2 lety +5

    One of the best songs to me ♡

  • @harrycasper762
    @harrycasper762 Před 5 lety +8

    One of three very underrated songs, along with Inocluated City and Carjamming, from the Combat Rock album.

    • @sauberfox2461
      @sauberfox2461 Před 3 lety +1

      I personally think the whole Combat Rock album is underrated. I guess it's hard living in the direct shadow of Sandinista! (who in turn has a tough time living in the shadow of London Calling), but this album is absolutely incredible.