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Bootleg Mashup of the great The Clash & the hip hop artist M.I.A., who I really liked at first but now, tbh I think she is awful.
lyrics
The Clash - Staight to Hell:
If you can play on fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze in the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise
There ain't no need for ya
There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to hell boys
Go straight to hell boys
[Verse 2]
Wanna join in a chorus
Of the Amerasian blues?
When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
Kiddie say papa papa papa papa papa-san take me home
See me got photo photo
Photograph of you
And Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Let me tell you 'bout your blood bamboo kid
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice
Straight to hell, boy
Go straight to hell boy
Go straight to hell boys
Go straight to hell boys
Oh Papa-san
Please take me home
Oh Papa-san
Everybody they wanna go home
So Mamma-san says
You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Ha, Junkiedom U.S.A
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
And rat poison
The volatile Molotov says
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Straight to hell
[Verse 3]
Can you cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants
They wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man's land
There ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived 'round here
MIA - PAPER PLANES:
All I wanna do is
And
And take your money
All I wanna do is
And
And take your money
All I wanna do is
And
And take your money
All I wanna do is
And
And take your money
credits
released June 18, 2018
Clash -Straight to Hell:
Vocals, guitar, piano: Joe Strummer
Guitar, vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, harmonica: Mick Jones
Bass guitar, guitar, vocals, harmonica: Paul Simonon
Drums, percussion, vocals, piano, bass guitar: Topper Headon
""Straight to Hell" was written and recorded towards the very end of The Clash's New York recording sessions for the Combat Rock album. Mick Jones' guitar technician Digby Cleaver describes the sessions as "a mad, creative rush" that occurred on 30 December 1981, the day before The Clash was due to fly out of New York on New Year's Eve 1981.
Joe Strummer reflected on this creative process in a 1991 piece about the track:
I'd written the lyric staying up all night at the Iroquois Hotel. I went down to Electric Lady and I just put the vocal down on tape, we finished about twenty to midnight. We took the E train from the Village up to Times Square. I'll never forget coming out of the subway exit, just before midnight, into a hundred billion people, and I knew we had just done something really great."
B-side "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Released 17 September 1982
Format 7-inch and 12-inch single, cassette tape
Genre Post-punk, new wave
Length 5:30
6:56 (Unedited version)
3:57 (Edited version)
Label CBS CBS A 13-2646
Songwriter(s) Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon
Producer(s) The Clash
M.I.A. - Paper Planes:
Label: XL Interscope
Songwriter(s): Maya Arulpragasam, Wesley Pentz, Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Joe Strummer
Producer: Diplo
"Paper Planes" was written and produced by M.I.A. and Diplo with additional production by Switch. It was recorded at the artist's home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and in London where it includes kids from Brixton singing on the chorus
Released 11 February 2008
Format
CD digital download
Recorded August 2007
Genre
Alternative hip hop worldbeat alternative dance
Length 3:24
Label
XL Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Maya Arulpragasam Wesley Pentz Topper Headon Mick Jones Paul Simonon Joe Strummer
Producer(s) Diplo
Remix/Bootleg/Mashup By: Luke Creed
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