Re: Bored With The USA lyrics correction
Posted: 06 Mar 2019, 10:04pm
I forget how wonderfully batshit that phrase and then it comes up again and I'm just in awe of its insane beauty all over again. nsc was our Ezra Pound.
I forget how wonderfully batshit that phrase and then it comes up again and I'm just in awe of its insane beauty all over again. nsc was our Ezra Pound.
Politically? Yes.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 10:04pmI forget how wonderfully batshit that phrase and then it comes up again and I'm just in awe of its insane beauty all over again. nsc was our Ezra Pound.
The only anti-semitic poet that came to mind. I know zilch-o about his poetry, tho.Wolter wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 10:56pmPolitically? Yes.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 10:04pmI forget how wonderfully batshit that phrase and then it comes up again and I'm just in awe of its insane beauty all over again. nsc was our Ezra Pound.
I’m not tremendously familiar. I read a book of his about poetry in college. It was a’ight if you ignored his politics, but didn’t stick with me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Mar 2019, 7:36amThe only anti-semitic poet that came to mind. I know zilch-o about his poetry, tho.Wolter wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 10:56pmPolitically? Yes.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 10:04pmI forget how wonderfully batshit that phrase and then it comes up again and I'm just in awe of its insane beauty all over again. nsc was our Ezra Pound.
What neighbourhoods in London were designated by the PoliceSilent Majority wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:28amWhat an obscure piece of pop culture you've dragged from the shadows there.
I don't know; I don't think it matters.Aeneas wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:32amWhat neighbourhoods in London were designated by the PoliceSilent Majority wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:28amWhat an obscure piece of pop culture you've dragged from the shadows there.
as drug turf during the 1970's and/or now ?
Who knows: maybe the mayor might want to eradicate the drug dealingSilent Majority wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:34amI don't know; I don't think it matters.Aeneas wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:32amWhat neighbourhoods in London were designated by the PoliceSilent Majority wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 3:28amWhat an obscure piece of pop culture you've dragged from the shadows there.
as drug turf during the 1970's and/or now ?
Holidays In The SunMarky Dread wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019, 8:36pmPretty Vacant - "the worst song Sex Pistols ever made" Rotten subverting the word "cunt" in vacant. It's a bloody great song and tune and you are bat-shit crazy.Aeneas wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019, 8:13pmIn a video interview, Mick Jones described this song "I'm So Bored With The USA",WestwayKid wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019, 1:13pmI've always chuckled at the line "Yankee detectives are always on the TV, 'cause killers in America work seven days a week"! I think partly because of Joe's delivery and partly because it's still such a true reflection on America.
There is no conspiracy behind this song. Joe misheard Mick singing "I'm So Bored With You" and then subsequently rewrote it as a provocative/sarcastic look at American culture. That's all it is. The only "conspiracy" is whether Mick ripped off Steve Jones or the other way around
as the first song he and Joe Strummer worked on, and described Strummer
typing up the lyrics on a regular typewriter (this was 1977) like a journalist
and handing the lyrics to Mick to do the music.
Rock and Roll guitar playing on this song is awesome.
The similarity with the Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant intro is mild at best.
(worst song Sex Pistols ever made -- explains why the record companies and
their payola-bribed radio stations prefer it over the other tracks on Never Mind The Bollocks).
Unfortunately for The Clash, Mick Jones stopped
"practising daily in his room"
after the 2nd album (1978).
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972), Alfred W. McCoySilent Majority wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019, 1:38pmThe Vietcong purposely got the GIs hooked on obsession. They came back really into Star Trek.
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972), Alfred W. McCoyDr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019, 5:19pmHe had an excuse: it was the drugs. (I think we've all worn raccoons in some manner while under some kind of influence.)