The Mescaleros
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Here's a song that is pretty much perfect for the first week of August because, well, it's whacked. It seemed appropriate to me, with its Kubla Khan reference, after hooking up this week with the Clash's 'White Album' of the Punk movement, Sandinista, perhaps the greatest album of the 80s.
Why appropriate?
I've been thinking of Joe Strummer all week, what a huge hole he left when he departed and, though this particular song is a light weight buzz, there you have it. I so wanted to fudge and choose "The Magnificent Seven," from Sandinista, but the original movie, The Seven Samurai, isn't based on a particular literary work (although you could say it was based on a whole culture), so I had to let it pass.
For this particular song, grab a Corona (or some Cuervo), and float away on the fumes of this tune, but if you start writing while listening, don't answer the door for no postman, no, no, particularly if he is from Porlock, just keep right on cruising on down the line.
Still, I'm up in the air here with all the other birds - maybe I'll have a change of heart.
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Mega Bottle Ride
I took a tram into the fourth dimension
Cos I had the blues, the blues of throwing it all away
Just gimme a Tequila, I'll slam it the 4-D way
And when I got there you know it had certain similarities
Like no smoking anywhere
And hiding in the khazi to avoid paying the fare
4-D Tequila anyone
And dont think we didn't dance to records by the Fifth Dimension
In the discosphere like Kublai Khan, Kublai Khan
And it was pretty goddam hazardous
Out on the Ilminster by-pass, out on the Illminster by-pass
Out on the Ilminster by-pass - out on the Illminster by-pass
Aqua-planing to the theme park
We took a ride called the Banchoff-Klein mega bottle ride
Well, how we spewed inside, back and forth
In time, mathmatics and pride, inside
We've gone Balkan - we've gone Balkan anyway
It absolutely had to happen to someone today
Yeah, there's no smoking anywhere - throw it all away
Yeah, we've gone Balkan anyway - you can get rid of the blues this way
Yeah, that's how we fix the blues today
It absolutely had to happen to someone today
Yeah, there's no smoking anywhere - throw it all away
Yeah, we've gone Balkan anyway - you can get rid of the blues this way
Yeah, that's how we fix the blues today - throw it all away
And its time to be doing something good
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With due diligence done, I can now spew a little associative stream of consciousness and say, yes, Plato and Socrates are both mentioned in the Clash's Magnificent Seven so, be they literati or no, let's take a brief glance at their (the Clash's, not Plato or Socrates), inspiration, as well as the song itself:
"You lot! What? Give it all you got (and don't answer the door)!"
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Photo by Maki_C30D
in the lake
heading for the mountain...
the flea swims
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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