Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Interrupting all programs
This is radio clash from pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This sound does not subscribe
To the international plan
In the psycho shadow of the white right hand
Then that see ghettology as an urban Vietnam
Giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm
This is radio clash tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales
This is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud
This is radio clash
You don't need that funeral shroud
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
Hands of law have sorted through
My identity
But now this sound is brave
And wants to be free, anyway to be free
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is not free europe
Noh an armed force network
This is radio clash using audio ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash using aural ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is radio clash everybody hold on tight
A-riggy diggy dig dang dang
Go back to urban 'nam
This is radio clash from pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This sound does not subscribe
To the international plan
In the psycho shadow of the white right hand
Then that see ghettology as an urban Vietnam
Giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm
This is radio clash tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales
This is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud
This is radio clash
You don't need that funeral shroud
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
Hands of law have sorted through
My identity
But now this sound is brave
And wants to be free, anyway to be free
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is not free europe
Noh an armed force network
This is radio clash using audio ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash using aural ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is radio clash everybody hold on tight
A-riggy diggy dig dang dang
Go back to urban 'nam
Lyrics submitted by aebassist, edited by FogButton, williammckern
This Is Radio Clash/Radio Clash Lyrics as written by Mick Jones Joe Strummer
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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RIP Joe Strummer RIP Me and the world of punk will miss you
this is radio clash
Brilliant!
Ever see the video for this tune filmed with some of the footage from when they were at Bonds in NYC? I was at one of the concerts in 1981 when I was a sphmore in High School. They oversold the tickets and there was complete mayhem leading up to the original shows due to fire codes, etc.
My folks freaked and wouldn't let me go when they saw what was going on on the news. I said I was going to sleep at a friends house and wouldn't bother getting involved with the mess at the theater (yeah right...) and went anyway and got other tickets to added show dates. There was NO WAY I was missing The Clash. (The band added extra shows to accomodate all the people who would have been screwed anyway. It was awesome). Still, it was bedlam, but it was WORTH it!
When people say The Clash are the only band that matters, they KNOW what they are talking about!
this some funky white boy shit...amazing how far this sounds from earlier material, yet somehow it's still The Clash. The first "intelligent dance" song? I once stopped my car in the middle of the street, turned up the stereo and street-danced with a friend to this.
ClashPeppers There are two different versions of Radio Clash. Same for Capitol Radio.
Where does this song apperar someone please help me out is this only on story of the clash vol. 1? i blew like 30$ for a 2 disc set and this was the only new song i got... where is this on original albums pst me
@Punker_Ken \r\n\r\nHey I’m only 12 but I still feel for ya man, I went to Barnes and Noble a while ago (last week) and found “The Clash Hits Back” cd, it came with 2 discs and this was song 15 on disc 2
Xcellent song, what a good beat too.
punker_ken, this song wasnt on any studio album, it was only released separately as a single and on the compilation albums Clash On Broadway and The Singles
@tricksiness was their “Clash Hits Back” what your forgetting?
@tricksiness was their “Clash Hits Back” what your forgetting?
So, the song was released as a single when environmental knowledge started to come to light, BUT it was also released on the bands best selling “The Clash Hits Back” album. The song was released with the slogan by Joe Strummer, “We’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-racist, we’re anti-violence, we’re pro-creative. And we’re against ignorance. \n\nRead the facts: AMF