If anyone can accurately decipher these lyrics for me , I 'd greatly appreciate it. Saw them many times live and they never disappointed. Just like to make my mind up for myself on that racist thang. Love the wall of sound and atmos this creates and thanks for reaching out ifya do.
From what I have seen, the lyrics of this song were considered racist by some people. On the original vinyl release the lyrics were printed for all the songs from the album except this one. I guess thats why on the latest CD released they removed the lyrics except shouting "Abu Dhabi"
Fáchtna O'Fionnáin I just found the lyrics online, they didn't seem ~that~ bad for 1979 that they'd leave it off at the time, unless there's some meaning I'm not privy to. "Going Asian" is a dodgy phrase but the rest of it seems to be about rich white people living it up In Abu Dhabi like they do in Dubai now? Perhaps the reference to getting stoned was considered suss, idek, not defending it, just curious. The lyrics are certainly dated now. At least it's not "Turning Japanese" which still gets regularly played on radio.
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Underrated masterpiece from almost 50 years ago
Kiwi music ,no other sound quite like it.
If anyone can accurately decipher these lyrics for me , I 'd greatly appreciate it. Saw them many times live and they never disappointed. Just like to make my mind up for myself on that racist thang. Love the wall of sound and atmos this creates and thanks for reaching out ifya do.
Thanks for uploading this!
I just noticed that reference was in Clumsy.
No problem!
Oh yeah,....Has anyone got a better quality than this ?
From what I have seen, the lyrics of this song were considered racist by some people. On the original vinyl release the lyrics were printed for all the songs from the album except this one. I guess thats why on the latest CD released they removed the lyrics except shouting "Abu Dhabi"
Fáchtna O'Fionnáin I just found the lyrics online, they didn't seem ~that~ bad for 1979 that they'd leave it off at the time, unless there's some meaning I'm not privy to. "Going Asian" is a dodgy phrase but the rest of it seems to be about rich white people living it up In Abu Dhabi like they do in Dubai now? Perhaps the reference to getting stoned was considered suss, idek, not defending it, just curious. The lyrics are certainly dated now. At least it's not "Turning Japanese" which still gets regularly played on radio.
It really sucks, I love the vocals in this song :( but the remaster just sounds so much betttter, and I just can't decide which version to keep.
@@snokful The lyrics found online are incorrect/incomplete.
Neil's guitar was really starting to fire up some of their songs...and he was only 20 at the time.