I remember when BAD came out with this album, I was working in an office by myself. I would blast their songs on the radio KROQ. OMG! how time flies. That was back in the 80's, Now retired and enjoying life in 2023. When I was in my 20's my friends and I would hit the clubs in Hollywood. Best times of my life. So sad now some of them are gone, but I am sure they are in Heaven!!!
These guys are so talented. Just look at the lyrics. The song is actually very complex especially along with the music and samplings. Just a fun song to listen to. Very different and unique sounds.
Oh yeh bro . . it sounds so simple but it's not . . I tried to do e= mc2 it;s like a feight train. . the amount of power in that song good luck mick jones is a beast and way way way way underrated as a musician. . pff
I love this album... I was in high-school and I associate this song with the first time I heard it... heading off-campus to the 7/11 for lunch w/ friends. Drugs, arrogance, betrayals, jealousy and insecurity have destroyed those relationships... so it's a bittersweet nostalgia for me. However, listening to the Micheal Cohen testimony this morning... I heard the line in the back of my mind, "get three coffins ready..." And had to play this as soundtrack to the ugliness just now being dragged into the hard light of the official record.
The BAD We’re completely original, Absolutely know one like them, Absolutely Fantastic Songs, Great Lyrics and Very Catchy Tunes, This song is an Absolute Masterpiece and I don’t know why they are not put up there with Anyone Else. This Album is a Musical Masterpiece great songs with an Incredible Lyrical Intellect, That goes even beyond Shakespeare, but That’s Old School Cockneys for ya .. Love you Mick and Don .. and the BAD.. We had it years ago.. and they gave it to us.. Proper London.. 🙏❤️🌞⭐️🎸❤️
Covered wagon, Medicine Show Take you to a place where the healing flows, oh-ho Weak in spirit we got the juice Won't save your soul it'll shine your shoes, oh Treated king to kangaroo Santa Fe to Timbuktu, oh-ho Don't be fooled by imitation This is the stuff that cured a nation We took the tube and the high plains too Never stopped long just passing through A drop of the laughter of the maids of France Makes a hopeless cripple dance, oh It was really vile weather When we got tarred and feathered You could hear the six-guns sound As they chased us out of town Whoa-ho... In India we're all the rave Discovered that it's great as aftershave, oh-ho Dropped in the sea just off Japan Swapped twenty bottles for an aqua-walkman, oh Immunity from ridicule Improves your brains if you're a fool, oh-ho And I read in the Middle East Traded some for a hostage release Now if you're bald it'll give you hair If you've got straight trousers it'll give you flares Feeling up you'll get depressed Out of style here's a brand new dress, oh It was really vile weather When we got tarred and feathered You could hear the six-guns sound As they chased us out of town Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in, another one comes out! Turn him around! Turn around! Turn him around! Turn around! (Laughing) I'm innocent of anything! You making some kind of joke? Oh, no. (Laughing) I don't think it's nice, you laughing. The stuff we sell is just the best Passing all consumer tests, oh-ho Days of heaven, nights of sin Voodoo stick and shark's fin When all around you seems like hell Just one sip will make you well, oh-ho Multi-purpose in a jar If you ain't ill it'll fix your car In days of yore for all bad feelings Washing socks and stripping ceilings Nowadays it's used medicinally For all known human malady, oh It was really vile weather When we got tarred and feathered You could hear the six-guns sound As they chased us out of town Whoa-ho... Wanted in fourteen counties of this state, The condemned is found guilty of the crimes Of murder, armed robbery of citizens, State banks, and post offices, the theft of Sacred objects, arson in a state prison, Perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children, Inciting prostitution, kidnapping, Extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen Goods, passing counterfeit money, And contrary to the laws of this state, the condemned Is guilty of using marked cards and Loaded dice. Therefore, according to the power Invested in us, We sentence the accused here before us, Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez... ...known as the Rat... ...and any other aliases he might have, To hang by the neck until dead. May God have Mercy on his soul. Proceed. Duck, you sucker! (Gunfire) I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
I watched this on the old grey whistle test and was hooked. I've seen them 4 times and have every album. This is my second favourite of thiers, Sambadrome is my favourite tune of all time, it got me looking at the world differently.
❤i was 16 when I first heard this album. I was at catering college and some of us students went to Scotland to work on an army camp to cook in the army and officers mess. We met up with other students. This was the album we all listened to during the summer. Happy days 🎉xx❤
when this album first came out and i bought it , i listened to this song constantly and although the video is pretty corny 🤣i love how Joe , Paul and Johnny Lydon show up in it. i was lucky enough to see BAD so many times in clubs and smaller venues
fun fact gold bars are always upside down, they have sloped sides to help picking them up as they are incredibly heavy, but everyone assumes the wide side is the bottom, it's not. no charge, get back to work now.
One the greatest recording ever. Big audio dynamite!!! Loved it when it was released and have the extraordinary presence to still be in awe of it at 55. Brilliant!!!!
Moses Berkowitz You'd be surprised,Moses,how many times I've argued with people that the segment comes from one of the best Spaghetti Westerns of all time. They just don't agree! 😁
Such a Dope Vid. Circa what. 1986? Ah the Punk Wars. It's Bad!!! The endings the best__Strummer 'still' beat Mick. Again a beautiful vid. Beautiful people..and Mick with that sly smile. Again here it comes__a work of Art in 3:36.
Yaas! Still the best pop video of all time. Yes! "And I read in the Middle East They traded some for a hostage release Now if you're bald it'll give you hair If you got straight trousers it'll give you flares Feeling up you'll get depressed Out of style here's a brand new dress"
Ahhh man. Dad used to absolutely almost blow hes speakers with this and drive us all nuts. Great song. But dad literally rock the house with hes JVC AMP SND WARFDALE SPEAKERS . Miss u dad 😥
+TheDrRudi I think Steve Jones is in there as well, about a minute in. In my deluded young mind of having loyalty to certain bands and calling others sell - outs, I forgot that these people are musicians and that's what the job entails, creating and hopefully earning a bob* or two along the way. bob = not so old word for a shilling UK money before European Union, I'm just not happy using the easy get out word "buck" Take it easy
Johnny Stingray I think your right, just had another look and I'm pretty sure it's him, some of the women look familiar, one in particular looks like Siouxsie Sioux. Who was the big fella with the hat?
Great song, wonderful lyrics, terrible video! The lyrics paint such a great picture it’s hard to imagine any video doing them justice. So happy this song exists.
I LOVED The Clash. They broke up and I moved on. Then BAD came around. Clash II with a very different sound but equally cool. Many great years of music from these folks.
Love this. One of BAD's best songs and hilarious video. Great to see Strummer and Simonon back with Jones - the nearest we ever had to a Clash reunion + even Lydon's in there. Not sure about his latest plan to play King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar though...
