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About This Track
According to the Rock The Casbah Songfacts, Clash Drummer Topper Headon wrote the music and the original lyrics. Vocalist Joe Strummer then decided to take Headon’s lyrics in a different direction, to tell the story of an Arab ruler (the Shereef) who hates music, but is defied by the citizens . According to former Clash co-manager Kosmo Vinyl, Headon’s original words were a filthy ode to his girlfriend.
Vinyl recalled to Rolling Stone: “He had really pornographic lyrics for it if I remember correctly. Very, very pornographic lyrics.” Strummer’s inspiration for re-working the song came from the Clash’s other manager, Bernie Rhodes, who asked the band, “Does everything have to be as long as a raga?” after a particularly long take of the track “Sean Flynn.” Strummer told Rolling Stone shortly before he died in 2002: “I got back to the hotel that night and wrote on a typewriter, ‘The King told the boogie men You gotta get that raga drop.’ I looked at it and for some reason I started to think about what someone had told me earlier, that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran.”
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Shouts
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Omoroca_13 wrote:
ROOOCKK THE CASBAHHHH !!!
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Classic! Rock the Casbah!!! ;-)
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TNVWBOY wrote:
My wife likes to sing "Rock the Cat Box". <sigh> Now I've infected you with that too. Muahaha
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Marjo47 wrote:
classic
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DavCnuk wrote:
Sharia don't like it!
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G0DSTAR wrote:
Such a great song, and a very political one at the time. Love it.
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abir12501101 wrote:
One of my favourite Clash songs!
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! Take me back years Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! Spank! Whooo!
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shesnotamerican wrote:
Full Of Memories.
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
lol,I keep thinkin` about that armadillo running in the video!
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Rayjohead wrote:
The ringtone is actually a watch that's playing Dixie.
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kiteo wrote:
I think it's meant to be a plane or rockets..
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kman182 wrote:
Yep, I also hear some sort of ringtone which I don't remember from the original.
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Serletti243 wrote:
Makes me think of Tony Soprano pulling a U turn in the Escalade haha
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sallycinnamon_ wrote:
Topper's masterpiece!
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buttgammon wrote:
Lock the taskbar! Lock the taskbar!
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Timaaaahhhh wrote:
Wait... Do I just have a bad rip of this? I hear a cell phone ringing?
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KConn3711 wrote:
a oldie but a goodie
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valplayer wrote:
love
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DennisRicley wrote:
great
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