Radio Clash lyrics

[Heston]

I was looking at my Clash songbook and the lyrics are definitely wrong in places for this song. It was obviously a song which wasn't transcribed properly for the publishers as they seem to have deciphered it themselves. It's a similar story with the CtC songs in the book. I've used what was in the book and my own ears on headphones to try and get it more accurate. Here's what I've got, any amendments welcome. Bit in red I'm really not sure about...

This is Radio Clash assuming all transmissions
Beaming from the mountaintop using aural ammuniton
With extreme prejudice we try to terminate our mission
This is Radio Clash, consider your position

Step it up, get down low

Breaking news flash, assassination
The whole country has been shot
Eagerly await illumination
From the ministry of Whitewash

Wait, wait! Don't switch over to death
Yes we have the latest score
Rebel Islanders: 101 and Home Guard: 44

This is Radio Clash, anger counts as a thought
But lightning split the sky in half, sharper than a sword
And in the thundercloud you see another cloud
Bones as black as sticks
Even angels were beheld on the morning of the sixth

Like buckets of water on a three-cat bag they got a master plan
You build walls over there and we'll come and knock 'em down
And he who reaches the other side first gets a job in the dirty old town
He who reaches the other side first gets a job in the dirty old town

Don't all rush at once neither

This is not free

This is not free Europe, no no no no no no no
Nor an armed force network
This is Radio Clash assuming all transmission
Beaming from the mountaintop, aural ammunition

A ringedy ding dang dang!

This is Radio Clash spewing information
Bet his will is a place to look, use careful contemplation
Bribery, distortion, people legislation
Security is a lock and key, accept no other explanation
This is Radio Clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room, everybody hold on tight!

And here's a bonus of the audio of Radio Clash married to the "This Is" video...

[gkbill]

I was looking at my Clash songbook and the lyrics are definitely wrong in places for this song. It was obviously a song which wasn't transcribed properly for the publishers as they seem to have deciphered it themselves. It's a similar story with the CtC songs in the book. I've used what was in the book and my own ears on headphones to try and get it more accurate. Here's what I've got, any amendments welcome. Bit in red I'm really not sure about...

This is Radio Clash assuming all transmissions
Beaming from the mountaintop using aural ammuniton
With extreme predjudice we try to terminate our mission
This is Radio Clash, consider your position

Step it up, get down low

Breaking news flash, assassination
The whole country has been shot
Eagerly await illumination
From the ministry of Whitewash

Wait, wait! Don't switch over to death
Yes we have the latest score
Rebel Islanders: 101 and Home Guard: 44

This is Radio Clash, anger counts as a thought
But lightning split the sky in half, sharper than a sword
And in the thundercloud you see another cloud
Bones as black as sticks
Even angels were beheld on the morning of the sixth

Like buckets of water on a three-cat bag they got a master plan
You build walls over there and we'll come and knock 'em down
And he who reaches the other side first gets a job in the dirty old town
He who reaches the other side first gets a job in the dirty old town

Don't all rush at once neither

This is not free

This is not free Europe, no no no no no no no
Nor an armed force network
This is Radio Clash assuming all transmission
Beaming from the mountaintop, aural ammunition

A ringedy ding dang dang!

This is Radio Clash spewing information
Bet his will is a place to look, use careful contemplation
Bribery, distortion, people legislation
Security is a lock and key, accept no other explanation
This is Radio Clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room, everybody hold on tight!

And here's a bonus of the audio of Radio Clash married to the "This Is" video...

Hello,

I'll give it a listen tonight. Off the top of my head, I think it's "using audio ammunition".

[Low Down Low]

Great stuff. Fantastic joe vocal, my go to version, though nowt wrong with alternative either.

Joe mumbles something after whitewash but difficult to pick up. Otherwise seems spot on to these cloth ears.

[matedog]

This is Radio Clash, anger counts as a thought
But lightning split the sky in half, sharper than a sword
And in the thundercloud you see another cloud
Bones as black as sticks
Even angels were beheld on the morning of the sixth

Not sure I understand 100% of this, but what a verse.

[Low Down Low]

Is it buckets of blood rather than water?

[laxman]

Morning of the sixth - I think that is a reference to D-Day?

[Low Down Low]

Morning of the sixth - I think that is a reference to D-Day?

Sounds very plausible. Probably coincidence but one of the primary d-day targets was a gun emplacement on Pointe du Hoc which translates as Angel Point. Dont think joe was referring to that, though. Dont know was he a bible reader but there are echoes of Revelation in that verse for me.

[WestwayKid]

This is Radio Clash, anger counts as a thought
But lightning split the sky in half, sharper than a sword
And in the thundercloud you see another cloud
Bones as black as sticks
Even angels were beheld on the morning of the sixth

Not sure I understand 100% of this, but what a verse.

Possible a reference to the creation story in Genesis? If I recall correctly, the 6th day was supposedly when God created humans.

[Toppers Boppers]

This is Radio Clash, anger counts as a thought
But lightning split the sky in half, sharper than a sword
And in the thundercloud you see another cloud
Bones as black as sticks
Even angels were beheld on the morning of the sixth

Not sure I understand 100% of this, but what a verse.

Possible a reference to the creation story in Genesis? If I recall correctly, the 6th day was supposedly when God created humans.

Yes, that's what I was thinking. Especially as Joe uses the biblical term 'beheld' and references angels.

Snippets from Genesis for the Sixth Day:
1:26 God says "Let us make man"
1:31 "And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good".

[Olaf]

"And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good".

I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.

[Kory]

"And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good".

I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.

He's a very self-satisfied god.

[ClashCityHammer.]

I'd always assumed, probably wrongly, that the morning of the 6th was a reference to the bombing of Hiroshima at 8.45 am on 6th August 1945.

[muppet hi fi]

Morning of the sixth - I think that is a reference to D-Day?

Sounds very plausible. Probably coincidence but one of the primary d-day targets was a gun emplacement on Pointe du Hoc which translates as Angel Point. Dont think joe was referring to that, though. Dont know was he a bible reader but there are echoes of Revelation in that verse for me.

Interesting, as I'd always heard that line as "even angels wear the helmet on the morning of the sixth".
btw - I've been to Pointe du Hoc. There were several massive naval gun emplacements, not just one, and their foundations are still there. American Rangers scaled the cliffs to knock them out, but the guns had already been stripped and moved to Pas de Calais, where the Germans thought the real assault would take place. Still, those Rangers suffered terrible casualties, and looking over those cliffs - to see what they were expected to do - gives one serious pause. As does viewing Omaha Beach itself, from the beach. Looking up. Jesus Christ.

[Heston]

Morning of the sixth - I think that is a reference to D-Day?

Sounds very plausible. Probably coincidence but one of the primary d-day targets was a gun emplacement on Pointe du Hoc which translates as Angel Point. Dont think joe was referring to that, though. Dont know was he a bible reader but there are echoes of Revelation in that verse for me.

Interesting, as I'd always heard that line as "even angels wear the helmet on the morning of the sixth".
btw - I've been to Pointe du Hoc. There were several massive naval gun emplacements, not just one, and their foundations are still there. American Rangers scaled the cliffs to knock them out, but the guns had already been stripped and moved to Pas de Calais, where the Germans thought the real assault would take place. Still, those Rangers suffered terrible casualties, and looking over those cliffs - to see what they were expected to do - gives one serious pause. As does viewing Omaha Beach itself, from the beach. Looking up. Jesus Christ.

That could well be the lyric, the book is unreliable in places.

[Low Down Low]

Morning of the sixth - I think that is a reference to D-Day?

Sounds very plausible. Probably coincidence but one of the primary d-day targets was a gun emplacement on Pointe du Hoc which translates as Angel Point. Dont think joe was referring to that, though. Dont know was he a bible reader but there are echoes of Revelation in that verse for me.

Interesting, as I'd always heard that line as "even angels wear the helmet on the morning of the sixth".
btw - I've been to Pointe du Hoc. There were several massive naval gun emplacements, not just one, and their foundations are still there. American Rangers scaled the cliffs to knock them out, but the guns had already been stripped and moved to Pas de Calais, where the Germans thought the real assault would take place. Still, those Rangers suffered terrible casualties, and looking over those cliffs - to see what they were expected to do - gives one serious pause. As does viewing Omaha Beach itself, from the beach. Looking up. Jesus Christ.

The movie D-Day the Sixth of June features the Pointe du Hoc assault and I'm sure joe would have been familiar with it. Given the choice i think I'd have taken my chance on omaha. From what I've read, french resistance reports told them those guns had been moved but they chose to ignore them. When the officer leading the assault, a decorated war hero, complained they had him replaced and reassigned to another battalion. Terrible wastage of life.

I visited all the beaches a long time ago, including Caen, Pegasus Bridge and other main sites. Only a couple of days which wasnt half enough, need a week minimum to do it properly. Same with the somme and passchendaele.