This Is Radio Clash
1981 · CBS 1797 · London, UK: England
- Artist
- The Clash
- Title
- This Is Radio Clash
- Release
- This Is Radio Clash / Radio Clash
- Year
- 1981
- Label
- CBS # 1797
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- London, UK: England
- Genre
- Rock · Punk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The Clash, a British punk rock band that formed in London in 1976, which featured in 1982 (during the release of this single) Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass, vocals), Mick Jones (guitar, vocals, 1976-83), and Topper Headon (drums, vocals, 1977-82). In 1981 they released the single "This Is Radio Clash" (CBS # CBS A1797), which referenced the Vietnam War and napalm (a jellied gasoline mixture which the US government extensively used during the war, as previously discussed). The group followed this up in 1982 with the track "Straight to Hell" (CBS # A 2646) which mentioned Vietnam in the second and third verses. In 1981 they released the song "Charlie Don't Surf" on the album Sandinista! (CBS # FSLN 1), a reference to the 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The song referenced the use of napalm. Here is the 1981 song "This Is Radio Clash" (CBS # CBS A1797), an interesting Cold War punk song, reference Vietnam, napalm, and the atomic bomb.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Punk Songs
The Clash, a British Punk Rock band that formed in London in 1976, which featured in 1982 (during the release of this single) Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass, vocals), Mick Jones (guitar, vocals, 1976-83), and Topper Headon (drums, vocals, 1977-82). In 1981 they released the single "This Is Radio Clash" (CBS # CBS A1797), which referenced the Vietnam War and napalm (a jellied gasoline mixture which the US government extensively used during the war, as previously discussed). The group followed this up in 1982 with the track "Straight to Hell" (CBS # A 2646) which mentioned Vietnam in the second and third verses. In 1981 they released the song "Charlie Don't Surf" on the album Sandinista! (CBS # FSLN 1), a reference to the 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The song referenced the use of napalm. Here is the 1981 song "This Is Radio Clash" (CBS # CBS A1797), an interesting Cold War punk song, reference Vietnam, napalm, and the atomic bomb.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: 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 underneath a mushroom cloud / A-riggy diggy dig dang dang / Go back to urban 'nam
About the artist
English punk rock band formed in London in 1976 (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon); disbanded 1986. [Source: Wikipedia]