I remember going out with a girl called Jane when 'White Man' came out. I told her I loved punk, loved reggae and adored The Clash and this song put everything together. She replied with, "Do you have anything by Elton John?" I caan't believe it's over 40 years since I split with her!
Pffffft! and she was gone like a candle in the wind.
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.
I remember going out with a girl called Jane when 'White Man' came out. I told her I loved punk, loved reggae and adored The Clash and this song put everything together. She replied with, "Do you have anything by Elton John?" I caan't believe it's over 40 years since I split with her!
Pffffft! and she was gone like a candle in the wind.
I remember going out with a girl called Jane when 'White Man' came out. I told her I loved punk, loved reggae and adored The Clash and this song put everything together. She replied with, "Do you have anything by Elton John?" I caan't believe it's over 40 years since I split with her!
Pffffft! and she was gone like a candle in the wind.
The bitch never was back.
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.
White Man is one of those songs that every new listen reveals something different about the lyrics for me. And that says a lot about how Joe could write a song. To be able to listen to an over 40 year old song, and realize you have still have so much more of the meaning to figure out. I love the switch from him describing the night in the Hammersmith to more of a political/race thing. And that first time I figured out "If Adolf Hitler, flew in today, they'd send that limousine anyway" line, I was absolutely blown away.
For years I thought Joe just went ''huh-huh-huh looking for fun'' 'til I realised it was ''F-U-N looking for fun''.
Me too.
Well, I just learned something.
Same here.
Well I'll be damned.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
For years I thought Joe just went ''huh-huh-huh looking for fun'' 'til I realised it was ''F-U-N looking for fun''.
Well I'll be damned, so it is! At first I thought it was: "And - you ain't." (as in, not just out looking for fun).
Then a few years later I decided it was: "N (nations)...UN (United Nations)."
Sometimes I think my misheard/understood lyrics in songs are cooler than the real ones.
Strong shoes is what we got and when they're hot they're hot!
- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs
For years I thought Joe just went ''huh-huh-huh looking for fun'' 'til I realised it was ''F-U-N looking for fun''.
Well I'll be damned, so it is! At first I thought it was: "And - you ain't." (as in, not just out looking for fun).
Then a few years later I decided it was: "N (nations)...UN (United Nations)."
Sometimes I think my misheard/understood lyrics in songs are cooler than the real ones.
Hello stranger, nice to see you posting.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
For years I thought Joe just went ''huh-huh-huh looking for fun'' 'til I realised it was ''F-U-N looking for fun''.
Well I'll be damned, so it is! At first I thought it was: "And - you ain't." (as in, not just out looking for fun).
Then a few years later I decided it was: "N (nations)...UN (United Nations)."
Sometimes I think my misheard/understood lyrics in songs are cooler than the real ones.
Hello stranger, nice to see you posting.
Cheers, Hes. Nice to be seen!
I was actually singing "White Man" at work the other day at work and as I walked by the work station of a gal I've got a big crush on I was singing "Dillinger, and LeRoy Smart, and Delroy Wilson - your cool operator." (such cool names those cats had; and I like to sing the "operator" bit real sexy like!). And then further down the way I pass by da Big Boss Mon (pompous douchebag, he) - and what do ye reckon I was singing den, mon? "If Adolf Hitler flew in today...". I mon, timing an' riddim be everything, yo!
Strong shoes is what we got and when they're hot they're hot!
- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs
For years I thought Joe just went ''huh-huh-huh looking for fun'' 'til I realised it was ''F-U-N looking for fun''.
Well I'll be damned, so it is! At first I thought it was: "And - you ain't." (as in, not just out looking for fun).
Then a few years later I decided it was: "N (nations)...UN (United Nations)."
Sometimes I think my misheard/understood lyrics in songs are cooler than the real ones.
Hello stranger, nice to see you posting.
Cheers, Hes. Nice to be seen!
I was actually singing "White Man" at work the other day at work and as I walked by the work station of a gal I've got a big crush on I was singing "Dillinger, and LeRoy Smart, and Delroy Wilson - your cool operator." (such cool names those cats had; and I like to sing the "operator" bit real sexy like!). And then further down the way I pass by da Big Boss Mon (pompous douchebag, he) - and what do ye reckon I was singing den, mon? "If Adolf Hitler flew in today...". I mon, timing an' riddim be everything, yo!
Nice to see you passing through mate.
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.
