Washington Bullets again
Been revisiting a lot of late 70's early 80's music, it seems to resonate scarily well with the current clime and Cold War (Iran WW3 :-() we seem to be heading for - mass unemployment, workfare YTS type schemes, rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer, strikes etc. The cold and sparse feel with critiques on mass celebrity consumerism seems to reflect these times rather well.
So The Clash and Washington Bullets is a timely reminder of interference in the geopolitical sphere and it's deadly results...let's not go there with Iran, K?
And talking of consumerism and alienation, here's the other song I've been listening a lot to:
Also by The Clash, Lost in the Supermarket is my favourite song off London Calling, which I bought the 25th Anniversary edition recently and should be on it's way...want to see the DVD and have reasonable copy of the Vanilla Tapes.
This is one of the few videos online not by clueless Yanks who shoot footage in a supermarket to go with the song. *sigh* Literal, much? And also not what the song is about...