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The Lyrics of Joe Strummer

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Has anyone else noticed how immediate and quick Joe Strummer's lyrics were?

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crawa197 wrote:
10 May 2018, 2:48pm
Has anyone else noticed how immediate and quick Joe Strummer's lyrics were?
Welcome mate. What do you mean by quick?
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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He talked fast and got a lot of words in a line?

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I've grown convinced that
A) Strummer was reading a lot of Marxist stuff around the time of Sandinista!
B) the faux New York "Cheeseboiger!" in Mag 7 - a lyric that's all about the immorality of wage labour and consumer culture - is about McDonalds in the UK and the redundancy of encroaching globalisation.
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All Joe's songs are about cheese.
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Marky Dread wrote:
04 Jun 2018, 9:46pm
All Joe's songs are about cheese.
This is true. Can’t remember if I ever posted my Deep Cheese Theory.

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He used to hate the taste of cheese.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
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Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
He only joined after he was grilled by Mick and Paul.

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101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:59am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
He only joined after he was grilled by Mick and Paul.
How can I understand the cheese?. Maybe that was Joe's statement. Also it was a time of police and cheese in the street. I think Joe found it hard at first and this was reflected in his writing "White Stilton Riot" but then he took "Cheese Control" and by the time of their 4th single they were totally on it with "Clash City Cheddars".
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Curfews have been curbing
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Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 5:12am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:59am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
He only joined after he was grilled by Mick and Paul.
How can I understand the cheese?. Maybe that was Joe's statement. Also it was a time of police and cheese in the street. I think Joe found it hard at first and this was reflected in his writing "White Stilton Riot" but then he took "Cheese Control" and by the time of their 4th single they were totally on it with "Clash City Cheddars".
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101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 5:22am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 5:12am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:59am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
He only joined after he was grilled by Mick and Paul.
How can I understand the cheese?. Maybe that was Joe's statement. Also it was a time of police and cheese in the street. I think Joe found it hard at first and this was reflected in his writing "White Stilton Riot" but then he took "Cheese Control" and by the time of their 4th single they were totally on it with "Clash City Cheddars".
Did you think Protex Blue was about Johnnies?
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Mick was big on the cheese as well that is why he wrote Stay Brie.

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You just need to listen to the Future is Unwritten soundtrack. Keys to your heart already mentioned (used to hate the taste of cheese) through to Willesden to Cricklewood (get the mozarella in) via MC5 Kick out the Jams sandwiches (in favour of cheese ones obviously), and the original version of the song we know was rewritten and toughened up, Smorgasbord in the USA.

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101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 5:22am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 5:12am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:59am
Marky Dread wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jun 2018, 4:17am
He used to hate the taste of cheese.
Then he joined The Clash and it became cheese heaven.
He only joined after he was grilled by Mick and Paul.
How can I understand the cheese?. Maybe that was Joe's statement. Also it was a time of police and cheese in the street. I think Joe found it hard at first and this was reflected in his writing "White Stilton Riot" but then he took "Cheese Control" and by the time of their 4th single they were totally on it with "Clash City Cheddars".
Did you think Protex Blue was about Johnnies?
Johhnie was the name of the guy that Joe knew from the local butter market where he bought his cheese.
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

Nos Sumus Una Familia

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