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The Clash — Straight To Hell
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nsaeed
(Islamabad, Pakistan)
Posted: May 22, 2013 - 01:44
 
SO-HO TRUE! It's. The. Clash.
'Nuff said.

 Luciano wrote:
The Clash, always on a higher level. As to the lyrics, the theme itself sets this song milles ahead of other bands. The music fits the lyrics. It´s not a song to dance or to bang your head. It´s The Clash.

 



Bleyfusz
Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 07:05
 
 jackiewelsh wrote:
{#Crowded}what an awesome segue fr cash!
 
From Cash to Clash, so to say.

jt1
Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 07:04
 
I REALLY need to get some Clash albums. Once again, RP is educating me.

alezz_ua
(Kyiv and Warsaw)
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 14:25
 
{#Cry} please make it stop..

oh, right! PSD!

ambrebalte
(Wolxheim (France) - Dreaming about resuming my life in Beijing province)
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 14:24
 
 jackiewelsh wrote:
{#Crowded}what an awesome segue fr cash!
 
Yes, love both very much - {#High-five}

jackiewelsh
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 14:23
 
{#Crowded}what an awesome segue fr cash!

Candela
(Norway)
Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 11:58
 


{#Devil_pimp}



AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 22:44
 
 ubuntourist wrote:
"Go straight to Hellboy"

Hellboy
 
That is wonderful.  Best pun I've seen in awhile.

bluejay08003
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 22:36
 
This is not my favorite Clash track by any stretch, but this does fit nicely after Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around."  This is why I listen to RP instead of Pandora.  I don't have either track and wouldn't have put them together. 

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 09:06
 
80's flashback: Alex Cox's "Walker", scored by Strummer, inspired by Marlon Brando's "Burn!"
reagan thatcher and company, poppa bush and his cia central american manipulations, 
Remember some american culture that had you do some research?   

ubuntourist
(Brain-Washington)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 14:06
 
"Go straight to Hellboy"

Hellboy

Luciano
(Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brasil)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 14:04
 
The Clash, always on a higher level. As to the lyrics, the theme itself sets this song milles ahead of other bands. The music fits the lyrics. It´s not a song to dance or to bang your head. It´s The Clash.

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 13:58
 
 socalhol wrote:

Thanks for sharing — now I think I need to check it out!  Here's a photo of the Clash from that episode on NBC.com.  And from there I see it was Season 8, Episode 3 (that aired Oct 9, 1982) — which can be watched on streaming Netflix, if you have that membership feature.

EDIT:  oops, guess not — musical guests are NOT included.  bastards

 
Here it is.

gvan
(From inside the house!)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 13:54
 
The "When the Man Comes Around"/"Straight to Hell" segue should win an Academy Award!

Lizard62
(1290km N of Paradise)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 13:54
 
The lights dim.....the crowd surges forward with a roar.....The Pogues have used this as their walk-on music every time I have seen them since 2005. Whoo Hoo!{#Sunny}

yofitofu
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 13:54
 
Boring. Could have been made with a 1980 drum machine and a microphone.

tphord
(Up 'ere)
Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 11:26
 
This is pure crap... Mute

thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 14:26
 
 toterola wrote:

Funny!

I couldn't disagree more about the continuing relevance of The Clash, but I would have given a small fortune to have seen Courtney tossed out on her ass! {#Jump}
 

of course the Clash continue to be relevant. Just not this stuff.

toterola
(Further)
Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 16:32
 
 thewiseking wrote:
This helps demonstrate that alot of what the Clash did was rubbish and sounds terribly dated.
btw, I was at the NY Film Festival Premiere of the film Straight to Hell, which was an absolute disaster. A crazy, distruptive groupie kept talking thru the film and I believe was thrown out. That groupie....................Courtney Love.
 
Funny!

I couldn't disagree more about the continuing relevance of The Clash, but I would have given a small fortune to have seen Courtney tossed out on her ass! {#Jump}

terrapin52
(Terrapin Station, SC)
Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 22:11
 
Awesome!!  I was hoping you'd play this eventually.

thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 07:33
 
This helps demonstrate that alot of what the Clash did was rubbish and sounds terribly dated.
btw, I was at the NY Film Festival Premiere of the film Straight to Hell, which was an absolute disaster. A crazy, distruptive groupie kept talking thru the film and I believe was thrown out. That groupie....................Courtney Love.

alezz_ua
(Ukraine, Kyiv and Kansas City)
Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 07:30
 
Need to mute for few minutes {#Stop}
Those sounds drilling hole my mind

jgeyer
Posted: Sep 30, 2011 - 14:00
 
Sounds like someone has been watching "Slumdog Millionaire."   {#Wink}

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 17:06
 
 brulie wrote:
They played this on SNL on what was one of the best SNL episodes of all time (IMHO) — Ron Howard was host. Alas, it was the Dick Ebersol era (Eddie Murphy cast), so we won't ever see the whole thing rebroadcast. We happened to have taped it (on Betamax!), so I watched it, like, ten times. I was really surprised that they chose this as their second song.
 
Thanks for sharing — now I think I need to check it out!  Here's a photo of the Clash from that episode on NBC.com.  And from there I see it was Season 8, Episode 3 (that aired Oct 9, 1982) — which can be watched on streaming Netflix, if you have that membership feature.

EDIT:  oops, guess not — musical guests are NOT included.  bastards


Dangerpussy
(Sun Diego)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 16:51
 
Purrrrfection!

Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 18:55
 
Not my cuppa.

sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 - 09:05
 
 aelfheld wrote:
One of the very few songs of theirs that I much care for.
 
Agreed, doesn't even sound like a "normal" Clash song.


aelfheld
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 - 09:03
 
One of the very few songs of theirs that I much care for.

calypsus_1
Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 19:32
 

The Clash - Straight To Hell, Live (80's)

Live at the US Festival 1983.

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
Go straight to hell boys

Y'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-san take me home
See me got photo photo
Photograph of you
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
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-

Go 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
No man's land and there ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here

Go straight to hell boys




calypsus_1
Posted: May 18, 2011 - 23:11
 

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Straight To Hell, Live

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros playing Straight to Hell, live in Cologne, Germany (1999). Track 1 of11. Superb performance, with very high quality sound. Enjoy.     





AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 14:50
 
 Sasha2001 wrote:

With the proper credit for that joke belonging to Billie Crystal. Having pulled it out at a party recently the joke bombed pretty hard. I soon realized the person I was telling it to was too young to know about Wings.
 
Wow!  So I was actually the butt of the joke as I haven't heard about Billie Crystal saying that.  LOL!!  That changes my whole respect for that younger pup!

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 - 14:30
 
 AvoidingWork wrote:

I had to "Educate" a few of my younger office mates on where MIA got their sample.
I'm pretty sure the one guy was joking when he said "You mean Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings?"  Pretty sure...
 


With the proper credit for that joke belonging to Billie Crystal. Having pulled it out at a party recently the joke bombed pretty hard. I soon realized the person I was telling it to was too young to know about Wings.

tpowers
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 - 14:29
 
Saw the Pogues a coupe of weeks and they took the stage to this song. Nice touch.

Bleyfusz
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 - 14:27
 
Third in a row now. Is this Radio Hell?

michaelc
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 - 14:26
 
 willmcnaught wrote:
Joe you are missed! {#Notworthy}
 
ya sort of sad, sounded like he was finally getting his personal life where he wanted it to be


willmcnaught
(Eugene Oregon)
Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 15:41
 
Joe you are missed! {#Notworthy}

jackiebd
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 10:18
 
Love it.

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 - 12:06
 
The last great Clash song...rock on

SuzG
(at my desk)
Posted: Oct 15, 2010 - 14:52
 
 tinybubbles wrote:
I miss Joe.
 

si si si

AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 09:14
 
 sickels wrote:
just realized this song is where the M.I.A. "I fly like paper, get high like planes" riff comes from
 
I had to "Educate" a few of my younger office mates on where MIA got their sample.
I'm pretty sure the one guy was joking when he said "You mean Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings?"  Pretty sure...

LastChance
(13,500 feet in the air)
Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 09:11
 
Whisky Tango Foxtrot....

ThePoose
Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 09:10
 
 macadavy wrote:

No, its Combat Rock! C'mon la Poose, you know better!  {#Wink}

 
Not literally, but just listen to Kung Fu Fighting!
You will never be able to listen to this song again without hearing
KFF in the back of your head. Ever see Elvis doing kung fu moves on stage
at the (very) end of his career? Pathetic and moving.

careyz
Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 20:14
 
This really hit the spot.  Thanks Bill! (and part of a great set today too!)

Quite ironic listening to this song streaming living over the internet on RP here in Ho Chi Minh City...

Really brought a smile to my face...
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
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



brulie
Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 08:23
 
They played this on SNL on what was one of the best SNL episodes of all time (IMHO) — Ron Howard was host. Alas, it was the Dick Ebersol era (Eddie Murphy cast), so we won't ever see the whole thing rebroadcast. We happened to have taped it (on Betamax!), so I watched it, like, ten times. I was really surprised that they chose this as their second song.

KrischanZ
(Halle/Saale Gemany)
Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 08:20
 
some parts are sounding very similar to M.I.A.'s paper planes {#Ask}

DoctorHooey
(/etc)
Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 08:15
 
I really much prefer the live version of this. So much atmosphere. This feels too dry and clinical

scrubbrush
Posted: Jul 15, 2010 - 10:45
 
 

Bought this record in 7th grade 'cause of Should I Stay or Should I Go and Rock the Casabah... one listen to this song at it became my favorite. The drums are simple but genius. Also, there's an extended version (or this is the edited version) that came out on some compilation that's even better



psychoacoustic
(Victoria, BC, Canada)
Posted: Jul 15, 2010 - 10:44
 
I also was slightly upset with myself for digging the MIA song about to play and then overjoyed with the resulting earworm. Thank you RP for braving the radio frontier.

Sleepytyme
(Left Coast, California)
Posted: Jul 15, 2010 - 10:43
 
9 to 10

lysisphere
(largest contiguous ponderosa forest)
Posted: Jul 15, 2010 - 10:42
 
I fly like paper get high like planes, you catch me at the border I got visas in my name...