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World service bulletin from the nightshift D.J.
To all wavebands on earth
Reconnoitre on the killahertz
This tune is going out to Marconi
To all corners of the globe
There ain't no hut in the Serengeti
Where my wavelengths do not probe
If a rocket went to Saturn
We sure hope a D.J. is on board
For some anti-gravity mixing
With two dub plates of U-Roy
Throwdown Stray Cat strut in Bulawayo - hey, Bulawayo
Buddy Rich in Burundi
Quadrophenia in Armenia
Armenia City In The Sky
Big Youth booming in Djkarta
Nina Simone over Sierra Leone
Wild sound of Joujouka in Nevada - hey, Joujouka
Everywhere, everywhere Bob's bringing it all back home
Yeah, I let the boogie-woogie rumble
In the back of Bangalore
I get complaints from Bondi Beach
What, no longboard surf hardcore?
Oh, send the rock steady out to Freddy
Who juggles plates in Tsing Tao City
'Cause tonight Bo Diddley's in Finland Station - hey, Bo Diddley
Sun Ra's in Omaha
The Skatalites in New York City - hey, Skatalites
The Stooges rule over Habana
The Bhundu Boys rock Acapulco - hey, hey Bhundu Boys
Good hip hop in Islamabad
Ali Farke Toure's in Oaxaca - hey, Farke Toure
And Baaba Maal's all over Stalingrad
Yeah, while some are waking, some are sleeping
From Kamchatka to the Gabon
Above the tradewind, wingtips beating
We calling out for Ronnie and da-do Ron, Ron, Ron
We call the Cumbria to tumble
From the peak of the Himalayas
We send the funk into the jungle
To the last outpost of the bass player
| willmcnaught (Eugene Oregon) | Posted: Mar 31, 2013 - 10:47 Miss you Joe!  |
| xkolibuul (Chuckanut sandstone) | Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 10:49 dlirious wrote: This deserves much more than a 6.4!!!! The chorus & the bass are great and just kind of stay with you long after it stops. Agreed. 6.4 is a crime. |
| kcar | Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 23:54 Limpopoking wrote: Commercial pop radio awaits you... go to the white zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life! Have you been jammin' in Joe's Garage again (with a coupla quarts of beer)? |
| stargazer1 (Poway, CA) | Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 18:54 I appreciate this guy. He lets me relish Bob Dylan's vocal talents. |
| cmarcan (Nanaimo, BC) | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 09:55 dlirious wrote: This deserves much more than a 6.4!!!! The chorus & the bass are great and just kind of stay with you long after it stops. Yes, UNFORTUNATELY it does stay with you long after it stops. Please make it go away  . |
| dlirious (Apex NC) | Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 18:58 This deserves much more than a 6.4!!!! The chorus & the bass are great and just kind of stay with you long after it stops. |
| krysthal (Toronto, Canada) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:56 Agreed, a fantastic track. Always a great groove, energy and feel from whatever Joe Strummer wrote and performed. Miss you Joe! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:48 Good stuff, this. |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 10, 2012 - 08:10 Strummer could neither sing nor play the guitar! Still - "it" works anyway!
BRAVO JOE - R.I.P. |
| BigIslandBlues | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 14:16 oldsaxon wrote: yeah, me too. I'm in. Great song. Great album. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 14:15 ick wrote: Me too. yeah, me too. |
| ick (...out of the primordial ooze) | Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 07:27 cosmiclint wrote: Up to Godlike this morning. Me too. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 07:25 fredriley wrote: There's a moving memorial on Skye to Joe Strummer, a wood planted in his memory. See the following Flickr links for pics of the sign at the entrance of the wood: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mixmage/501264637/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/byannika/4716771414/ (Sorry, for some reason embedding those links in the image dialogue in the editor fails. ) Thanks*10^3 fred! To forests everywhere; to fish and forest people everywhere. Long may you thrive. |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 15:57 Limpopoking wrote: Commercial pop radio awaits you... go to the white zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life! ...and it looks like a Telefunken U47. |
| jhorton (Trailer Park on Cape Cod) | Posted: Jun 21, 2012 - 17:28 Woody's 100th birthday makes everyone in my trailer park think of Joe! |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:33 jjbix wrote: you are too kind! this is a mish mash of crap! Commercial pop radio awaits you... go to the white zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life! |
| Stingray | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:31 Erwin wrote: I can not found the Rating "-1". oh really, Erwin, you could not FOUND it. Poor thing! |
| coloradojohn (Mile High on the Colorado Vibe, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 16:01 Hmm...I can't believe I actually went through a period of letting this float past in the background without DIGGING IT, which was until just now, which was of course after years of loving it and maybe to death, but now I am hearing it and feeling it and various things are reminding me that THIS THING ROCKS, in true global fashion! Play on, Joe Strummer, we still hear you! |
| Prodigal_SOB (Back Home Again in Indiana) | Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 12:36 Bosami wrote: Love it! I forgot that Roger Daltrey sings on this.... I'd never listened that closely but I'd always wondered about the "Armenia city in the sky" line.  |
| jen3005545 (Fort Worth, TX) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 17:56 So diggin' this. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 07:03 I dig it. Love the chorus. Great beat, you can dance to it... |
| rabaak | Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 12:30 This tune has really grown on me after first hearing it here. I really like it now. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Oct 15, 2011 - 12:02 HazzeSwede wrote: Load up some more from "Sandinista"...please Bill?!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeease ! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 04:58 Load up some more from "Sandinista"...please Bill?!! |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 05:52 sirdroseph wrote:  Just what I was thinking! Hello from Peachtree City! Greetings neighbor! |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 05:49 olivertwist wrote: Cool. Nice change of pace from the Peter Gabriel dirge a moment ago, which nearly made me throw in the towel before my Friday workday started. Just what I was thinking! Hello from Peachtree City! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 05:48 There's a moving memorial on Skye to Joe Strummer, a wood planted in his memory. See the following Flickr links for pics of the sign at the entrance of the wood: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mixmage/501264637/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/byannika/4716771414/ (Sorry, for some reason embedding those links in the image dialogue in the editor fails. ) |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 05:46 Cool. Nice change of pace from the Peter Gabriel dirge a moment ago, which nearly made me throw in the towel before my Friday workday started. |
| Erwin (Germany (Saxony)) | Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 13:08 I can not found the Rating "-1". |
| Bargamon (In a good place) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 13:49 S-curvy wrote: This is a great tune from a great band. I this wonderful example and am amazed that they never hit it big in the mainstream. Joe deserved better than that! I really like some of their stuff a lot, but it was inconsistant. And so was Joe....... And thats why we love him, but not the mainstream. |
| S-curvy (Lovely Alameda, the Isle of Style) | Posted: May 10, 2011 - 22:31 This is a great tune from a great band. I this wonderful example and am amazed that they never hit it big in the mainstream. Joe deserved better than that! |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Mar 24, 2011 - 17:18 pump it up rommel |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 09:43 Orodrigues wrote: I don't know which I like most: Joe Strummer & The Clash or Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros... No contest! Clash overrated; Joe was too good for em and proved it!  |
| Orodrigues (Resende (RJ), Brazil) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 09:39 I don't know which I like most: Joe Strummer & The Clash or Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros... |
| cosmiclint (Vancouver BC) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 09:34 Up to Godlike this morning. |
| pannaramma (here and also there) | Posted: Feb 21, 2011 - 06:22 Go. Just Go already |
| cosmiclint (Vancouver BC) | Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 11:27 My favorite song on this outstanding album! |
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 11:32 bam23 wrote: Although it is true that some of the songs on the CD have lyrics that are possibly not the most erudite and literate, or even possibly immediately comprehensible, the CD is actually very enjoyable. I have never had a particularly high opinion of the Clash, outside of a few exceptions, but both Mescaleros albums are easily worth the couple of dollars I paid. Easily worthy of repeated listening. The music the Clash made was wonderful, I loved em! |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 10:42 Great track! I love Joe! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Sep 05, 2010 - 21:05  Joe Strummer 2 by ~spoof-or-not-spoof Richard Stone ©2009-2010 ~spoof-or-not-spoof Oil on canvas. 45x30 cm. Slightly blurred photo of this, shame because the cigarette smoke came out really well in the original. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 06:28 westslope wrote: Why is that the damn Marxists are always the best artists, the best novel writers? Couldn't run a lemonade stand if their life depended upon it but the instances of grace. The best artists were traditionally not efficient businessmen - whether or not they were all Marxists is debatable. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 24, 2010 - 02:59 westslope wrote: Why is that the damn Marxists are always the best artists, the best novel writers? Couldn't run a lemonade stand if their life depended upon it but the instances of grace Arf! :-D Actually, I always thought it was anarchists made better artists as they're less hidebound, but wtf, I'm not proud. Quite a coincidence as I was just listening to Rock The Casbah, so this made an excellent unintentional segue. It was an awful loss yer man Strummer croaking early. It brought a lump to my throat a few years back when walking on Skye I came across a newly-planted wood, at the entrance of which was a sign dedicating it to Joe Strummer's memory. |
| PFM (Off the road) | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:49 "The Stooges rule over Habana" |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:47 fredriley wrote: 'Fraid not - yer man Strummer was a Marxist (he's dead now, very sadly). Why is that the damn Marxists are always the best artists, the best novel writers? Couldn't run a lemonade stand if their life depended upon it but the instances of grace.
Anybody like Julio Cortazar? |
| JohnnySockhead (Cajun Born, Hillbilly Bread) | Posted: Apr 25, 2010 - 20:12 I can't believe this track rates so low! |
| namp | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 09:34 |
| Sasha2001 (writing the great Canadian novel) | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 19:34 peter_james_bond wrote:   Shultz...Shultz!!! |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Mar 09, 2010 - 13:28 Love it! I forgot that Roger Daltrey sings on this.... |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 06, 2010 - 10:51 bam23 wrote: Although it is true that some of the songs on the CD have lyrics that are possibly not the most erudite and literate, or even possibly immediately comprehensible, the CD is actually very enjoyable. I have never had a particularly high opinion of the Clash, outside of a few exceptions, but both Mescaleros albums are easily worth the couple of dollars I paid. Easily worthy of repeated listening. I agree with all of that except I would go further extremes with both, Clash pretty much sucked except for a few exceptions and everything of Joe Strummer is absolutely Golden!!  |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Mar 06, 2010 - 10:46 michaelgmitchell wrote:  Well, we were hoping for something a little more Sunday night-ish. Snuggly stuff. So, Jaclyn and I must be off. 'Night all. (Coming, dear ...) |