Canción del Día I
Rock the Casbah
“Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack em in
The in crowd say its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way
As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
He thinks its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.”
- The Clash (en Combat Rock)
Comenzando una nueva tradición, esta vez reflexionaremos sobre la letra de alguna canción memorable. “Rock the Casbah” fue el principal éxito de The Clash, llegando a romper el Top 10 de Billboard en 1982. Contrario a los orígenes punk del grupo, la canción es bailable y excesivamente pegajosa (me atrevo a decir que es la canción más pegajosa jamás compuesta por un grupo de rock) pero esconde una crítica cómica a la censura del rock en el Medio Oriente mientras que el video hace referencia a las fricciones entre árabes y judíos. Casi una década después sería el tema extra-oficial de los pilotos de la Coalición durante la Guerra del Golfo (gracias a esa línea de “drop your bombs between the minarets”) cosa que ha de hacer que el otrora anti-imperialista Joe Strummer se esté retorciendo en su tumba.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
El vídeo no está disponible en mi país…
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
El shareef te prohibió YouTube o que?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
el video tampoco esta disponible para méxico
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bloody bastards
June 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Ya lo cambié.
Aún así, hay una cosa llamada SEARCH en YouTube por si no sabían :P