Seems we are all in Joe's and the bands debt for giving of himself to save us ..from the bad music off that. Time!! Like Joe said it's only phoney beatle mania that's bitten the dust !!! Thank you Joe's a song smith !!! Words don't cut it!!
I don't know, for all the (mostly justified) criticism that the album got, most people seem to acknowledge that this at least was a good song worthy of The Clash.
As a American... I love the clash I loved theme sence I was little my dad introduced this band to me and this is my favorite song! :) respect to england
Stuart McGarrick If you enjoyed their final album, then they ended their careers at exactly the right time. The charts could definitely do with someone similar to the Clash right now though.
+pazuzu666ish ...ahhh...somebody in touch with their emotions...have a crack at this young lady and her song about ENGLAND...it looks like it may be more of a future Anthem...google ...could easily work just as well if it were called Sweet Lady Scotland!!!! Hannah Drury..SWEET LADY ENGLAND...............it's only just come online.
+pazuzu666ish why the tears? is it perhaps the realization that this was the last great Clash song off the final Clash album? The rest of the album is pretty much unlistenable but hey I digress.
I won't be able to listen to this without remembering the image of Vince White talking about how England as he knew it doesn't exist anymore while he fails to hold back tears.
@@jonconnington8987 It’s a documentary about the Clash. I have only seen clips of it that are featured in Todd in the Shadows’ video on the Clash’s last album
To those who say this song isn't meant to be patriotic, a song can mean whatever you want it to mean, that's what's great about art, to me it assumes a different meaning in the context of what the UK has become in recent years
This was a song against the establishment, it wasn't to glorify England. You have to understand the message Joe Strummer et al were trying to get across. Strummer is a Legend.
Aye this was their anthem for Thatchers England with its wars and layoffs. About how fucked up it all was. The loss of solidarity the destruction of the unions the hopelessness of the small people. Now all that is gone establishment just points at EU and foreigners and say its their fault. And people buy it, fucking sad! When people buy into the scape goats tied up in front of them while the rich get richer.
Exactly, its both sad and ironic to see nationalists and racists commenting on this without realising they're exactly what this song and Strummer are criticising
@@Truefaith. every single poll ever taken would prove you wrong, areas with low migration are consistently more opposed to migration. your username is extremely apt
When it came out it was quite slagged off if I remember right. Drum machine use etc. But the lyrics win out - typical Joe style. The motorcycle jacket line has stayed with me for 30 years. What great days they were.
pigknickers "I got my Motor Cycle jacket, but I'm walking all the time...." Evokes beautifully the futility of Thatchers Britain at that time for the youth of the day. One of Joe's finest songs, even if it was post 'real Clash'
They're not under rated at all, and this is from the last & post Clash breakup album. Nowhere near the quality of any of their other albums. You sound like a clown.
The Clash are literally called "the only band that matters" by the media. They sold out Shea Stadium in NYC among many other enormous venues. I simply want u to know exactly how idiotic ur comment comes off, to even the most casual fan of TheClash.
@@bojackson3585 Body odour Jackson, couple of things. Firstly the clash didn’t sell Shea stadium out, the who did and the clash were the support act. In the uk the clash get little to no recognition, compared to some of the big names, so I stand by my point. And I love the clash. Anyway carry on
A great song on an otherwise wack album..at least Joe had one more good tune to crank out..even if Mick and Topper were on the outs by then..the genius that was Joe Strummer I guess...lol
This was not and is is not meant be a patriotic song by the way. Read the lyrics I've posted it's easy to understand what Joe was on about so If fellow english folk stand and sing this in a patriotic manner then wake up as it's a not a God Save the Queen type anthem, it's not something to be proud of in terms of today's society. However the lyrics are from a musical genius taken from us too soon. RIP Joe Strummer!
the Clash best song ever. I heard that they didn't wanna stand behind it for some reason? Can anyone confirm or deny? for me though, the best they ever made.
they didn’t want to stand behind it not because of the song itself, but because the album this song was on was so bad that it killed the band entirely and it became persona non grata as a result.
@@bigchief8493 Yes, you are correct, but there’s WAY MORE to the story. After Combat Rock, The Clash fell apart. Strummer fired Jones. You can’t FIRE Jones and still call it The Clash. It would be like if John Lennon FIRED Paul McCartney, and then continued forward as THE BEATLES. You can’t have THE BEATLES without Paul McCartney. You also can’t have THE BEATLES without John Lennon. Obviously: The Beatles were led by Lennon & McCartney. In the same way, The Clash were led by Strummer & Jones. They wrote all the songs. The reason Cut The Crap was CRAP was Strummer FIRED Jones in 1983.
There was plans for an official music video but it got canned. Joe had high regards for this song calling it the "last great Clash song", but I think the depression/burnout from the critical backlash of CTC made him want to get away from it all (and he did going in exile in Spain refusing to do any promotion or tour for the album). And people thought the producer "Jose Unidos" (aka Bernie Rhodes) was himself and that pised him off. Personally I think this is the one song off the album where the 80s production actually works for the song.
Such a moving piece of music with brilliant lyrics. Testament to the struggle of young people in England in the classes without privilege that carry the social and financial burden for all the blood sucking aristocratic classes who think they are the master race.
I was young, very young, about 17 when The Clash, came to Toronto, in 77 or 78, I will never forget that concert. They were beyond great, they were young,and, played some of the greatest rock and roll music of all time. They are a benchmark now, ALL. new bands are judged by how they compare to The Clash. I am now 57 years old, not wealthy, but still ok for a blue collar worker, and I will still spin "give "Em enough rope". or side 3 or 4 of "Sandinista". Or, if I have enough Newcastle Brown! in the house on a Saturday! I may spin the whole first album :)! Anyway I hope y'all enjoy There will never be another "The Clash" RIP, Joe thank you
Sentiments expressed by a lot of their generation, but in a much more articulate and lyrical way than by, for example, snarlin' Johnny and the Pistols.
An Irish perspective here. (Catholic) The English imo are the greatest race of folk ever to exist. Their language, their culture, their engineering feats, medical advancements, sports, common law legal system. The world owes so much to them, not even getting to WW2 etc and the repulsion of Facism. Imagine a world today without all their innovations and inventions
this was the only clash single i ever bought, vowing not to play any music but elvis when he died in 1977, but the incredible homegrown talents of Kate Bush (still the greatest female solo artist) gary Numan and dear old Joe strummer wore that vow down. Good to see it on here so thanks, the original single i bought is long gone. The early 80`s in Britain were desperate times under that bitch Thatcher, the lyrics here give some indication of the lows England had dropped down to, sad sad times. Thanks again
This is England this is how we feel This is why we have left the EU and got our independence and saved our country onto bigger and better things now on to exciting times We will be far better off in the long term now that we have left the EU!
you're a fool lol, do you even understand what the clash stood for??? They were anti government, anti establishment and anti racism. Leaving the EU was a huge mistake but i'm not going to waste time educating someone clearly deluded.
+hiyajess1 are you mad your the one that's deluded not this fella the EU is a dictatorship run by greedy Freemasons and I'm glad we are out are identity was being fucked they wanted us to have the euro one Europian army and one Europian national anthem! the clash were a bunch of left wingers they ain't real punks they started off as a folk lore group for fuck sake and Joe was all about the dollars and was a horrible man he stabed his drummer in the back Sham 69 the sex Pistols cockney rejects and crass were real punk groups the clash are pretenders just look at the crowd at the clash concerts its full of hippies and left wingers the clash and the ramones were a bunch of posh musicians pretending to be sank there not!
Terry Vince thats it Terry you tell people to fuck up while your government allows the extermination of our kind. Its a sad day when a Scotsman is more concerned for your country than you are.
Brazil 2014 chant, the entire England crowd singing this out would be fucking awesome and would send shivers up the players spine. It really could take off as much as 3 lions plus there is a political message...it would take the entire world cup by storm and would be a fitting tribute to Joe who fucking loved his football.....mind you the line 'this knife of Sheffield steel might worry some.
The powers that be don't want any political message that might undermine 'we're all in it together'. The English happy to die for queen and country but unwilling to question the chain of command
Bullshit Private Joker. ''There's a political message'' As well? The whole song's a political message. Nothing to do with fucking football. It's a protest song, wise up or fuck off.
Eric Crawford I never said it was anything to do with football (apart from the horus being a football chant), I just think it would make a great chant, you don't have to be a fascist to like football and as I said it is not like he was adverse to a bit of footy himself
Joker The chorus is nothing to do with ''nationalistic pride'', it's part of a lyric that is a defiant protest on English culture, and the hypocrisy of English society. Strummer's dead, so you can reinvent the past to suit your own ends as much as you want. Apparently the ONLY song written about football was ''Tony Adams'' which I'd never heard of until about 10 minutes ago. This knife of Sheffield steel is obviously a Stanley knife, which has been used on me, by skinheads who were N.F. supporters. Nothing to do with football. I don't know why you've thrown in the Egyptian god reference either, apart from illiteracy or being pissed. You want to shit all over The Clash's political stance on England's deterioration by missing the point entirely, go ahead, my opinion is totally different, but then again, I followed the band in the 70's, and saw them live, so I have no credibility what so ever.
wow! interesting comments Joe Strummer is to me a poet a legend someone who provided powerful social comment through strong uplifting music and poetry against the grain of the times Thankyou Joe. still lifting me up many years later
YAY, I love reading youtube arguments, it makes me feel good about my life!!!! Anyway, I love being British, but i dont care what anyone else thinks. PEACE!!!!
Wrong lyrics here are the correct lyrics: (Market trader) “Four for a pound your face flannels, three for a pound your tea towels! Four for a pound your face flannels, three for a pound your tea towels!” I hear a gang fight on a human factory farm Are they howling out, or doing somebody harm? On a catwalk jungle, somebody grabbed my arm A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in her palm This is England This knife of Sheffield steel This is England This is how we feel Time on his hands the freezing Mohawk strolls He won't go for the carrots Been beaten by the pole Some sunny day confronted by his soul His eye will see, how fast you can grow old This is England Who I'm supposed to die for This is England Never gonna cry no more Black Shadow of the Vincent falls on a Triumph line I got my motorcycle jacket but I'm walking all the time South Atlantic wind blows ice from a dying creed. I see no glory, When will we be free? This is England We can chain you to the rail This is England We can kill you in a jail Hey, British boots go kick Bengali in the head Police sit watching, The newspapers being read All deaf to protests and after the attacker fled Out came the batons and the biggest one then said This is England The land of illegal dances This is England Land of one thousand stances This is England This knife of Sheffield steel This is England This is how we feel This is England This is England
Naveed sorry to reply on a 3 year old comment but first thanks so much for posting these lyrics. Only one thing I would change ... it’s not land of illegal dances. It’s land of the legal dossier. But absolutely everyone has that line wrong.
Brett Stuart thanks for the sound reply fella. I got slagged off somewhere else on this video post for no reason by someone. Are you sure though as it doesn’t rhyme (not that it necessarily should) and if you listen carefully you’ll hear an ‘s’ on the end, hence dances and not dossier lol
English history and culture has evolved over the centuries running through its veins is a strong link with the church. You can’t be an atheist and still love the English traditions. Giving Northern Ireland to Republic of Ireland would be similar to giving the Falklands to Argentina.There are strong factions in Northern Ireland who see themselves as (maybe not English)but British, want to stay British. So they should.
England is nothing but mini-America now. We've got American TV shows outperforming our own. American music in the top of our charts, American car rental adverts on our TV mocking our nation if only by the comparisons between the actors they chose to represent England and America. Our most popular fast food chains are American despite being notoriously crappy. Our highest selling fizzy drinks are American. Seems like crisps are now being called "chips" eg popchips. News presenters refer to prison as "Jail" Cadburys and Walkers are owned by American companies. I can see the direction we're heading in. It's no secret the United Kingdoms already lost it's identity but who the fuck wants to replace it with Americas?
England stomped all over the world with no respect for anyone else's culture so why should it be an issue that American tv and fast food is big here? 'Identity' is just temporary anyway, none of it is actually real, in a 1000 years there wont even be an England and no one is gonna care , the same way no one cares that the Roman Empire isnt a thing anymore, it's just evolution.
The only reasonable track from an album not fit for inclusion as part of The Clash's output. If the band had played more and the production improved they might of got away with it but really it was just poor. Shame. Poor end for a great band.
This knife of Sheffield steel This is England This is how we feel Time on his hands freezing in those clothes He won't go for the carrot They beat him by the pole Some sunny day confronted by his soul He's out at sea, too far off, he can't go home This is England What we're supposed to die for This is England And we're never gonna cry no more
Cut the crap was not a good Album. A fucking drum machine on a clash album? This was just a last ditch effort by Strummer to keep the clash going and he even said it was a waste to even put the album out.
yeah, the 7" single version loses the '...kick Bengali in the head, police sit watching'...' verse iirc, but it's on the 12" and album version I think & on The Essential Clash.
Here's the correct lyrics...I hear a gang fight on a human factory farm Are they howling out or doing somebody harm On a catwalk jungle, somebody grabbed my arm A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in the palm This is England This knife of Sheffield steel This is England And this is how we feel Time on his hands, the freezing mohawk strolls He won't go for the carrot Been beaten by the pole Some sunny day confronted by his soul His eye will see, how fast you can grow old This is England Who I'm supposed to die for This is England I'm never gonna cry no more Black shadow of a Vincent Falls on a Triumph line I got my motorcycle jacket But I'm walking all the time A South Atlantic wind blows Ice from a dying creed I see no glory And when will we be free? This is England We can chain you to the rail This is England We can kill you in a jail Hey, British boots, go kick Bengali in in the head Police sit watchin' A newspapers being read All deaf to protest And after the attacker fled Out come the batons and The biggest one then said This is England The land of illegal dances This is England Land of one thousand stances This is England This knife of Sheffield steel This is England This is how we feel This is England This is England
Joes solo stuff is as good as anything the Clash did, just a great songwriter and incredible wordsmith, nobody writes songs like Joe? John? Woody? hehe RIP
This is basically the British version of “Born in the USA” in the sense that so many people think they are patriotic songs but actually criticize their countries.
Listening to this now makes me think what a great album Cut The Crap could have been if Bernie Rhodes hadn't been let loose in the studio, trying to emulate Malcolm McLaren's success with Duck Rock. This, North & South and We Are The Clash are pretty amazing though as are Strummer's lyrics almost throughout. I think the great man was incapable of writing a duff lyric. If the new band had been allowed to play on the album and it had been recorded without the dreadful football-chant backing vocals and Bernie's keyboards, it could have been a much better album. R.I.P. Joe. Miss you.
As with Gaud and Boymanic, I think some people may mistake this song as being anti-immigration and pro-UKIP/ Daily Mail. The Clash were never about that. This pre dated all that hysteria The Clash were always pro-humanitarian and anti racism, I think the song is more related to how the British are mistreated and misrepresented by their own Government, ie: letting down industry such as British Steel. That's just my view.
You mean the way every western government sells out its subjects, becomes a plutocracy. The way chieftans of african tribes sold their people into slavery? There is something in the water in places where people can make rules to benefit themself. I was told as a child that rulers get their power from the consent of the governed. That clearly is not happening these days. Think about it. Pablo.
well, you fellas have got THIS one "nailed up & bleeding", as Hunter Thompson was wont to remark... let's hope we all weather the #ShakeUP without undue hardship or remorse, eh? but, then again, I tend toward the cynical, these days...
you can say what ever you want about cut the crap, but this is a lyrics masterpiece. rest in peace Joe, you are deeply missed by your fans...
Seriously that album needs some respect
@@nathanielcruz8872 It was rubbish except for this one song and this one is just alright.
@@dickJohnsonpeter still it’s needs to be Recognized
Fucking right. Lucky to see them but mick was sacked and the bottom fell out. 55 now and a schoolboy then.Joe was a true poet.
Seems we are all in Joe's and the bands debt for giving of himself to save us ..from the bad music off that. Time!! Like Joe said it's only phoney beatle mania that's bitten the dust !!! Thank you Joe's a song smith !!! Words don't cut it!!
The Clash. Quite simply, one of THE best rock groups ever formed
Listening to this because I'm visiting England and walking all the time.
Lucky, I plan to visit in the near future too. Hope you enjoy your time there
@@xxRafaelProductions thanks it's amazing!
I'm American and this song still touches me so good
First album I brought was their first one in 1977 and still listen to them going to work. I will be 64 this coming May.
I love England, such a great people with proud history, and hope to visit again someday.
Criminally underrated and a very moving song
The last great Clash song :(
"Clash" in name only- but I agree.
The were much more political than the Stranglers, the Sex Pistols and all the others.
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I don't know, for all the (mostly justified) criticism that the album got, most people seem to acknowledge that this at least was a good song worthy of The Clash.
As a American... I love the clash I loved theme sence I was little my dad introduced this band to me and this is my favorite song! :) respect to england
Joe Strummer really was something special, RIP you legend.
Lyrically one of the best Clash songs for sure. How can a couple of lines say so much. Genius that's how
R.I.P Joe, 11 years on 22/12/13, you are a legend, your music will live on forever, the frontman of the greatest band ever.
Well yes, The Clash were definitely good (one of my favorite bands ever), but Queen is better.
@@adegoodman9053 Queen is DEFINITELY not better than The Clash. Hell, The Clash is the only band that matters! Lol.
I miss the clash badly. they made so many great songs
Stuart McGarrick If you enjoyed their final album, then they ended their careers at exactly the right time.
The charts could definitely do with someone similar to the Clash right now though.
+Delirus Innominata what do you think of Sleaford Mods, thier only two piece band but said theyre working on expanding in a interview…i have faith
Sorry guys, cant get into this, "Something about England" off the Sandinista LP.....fucking love it, brings me to tears, AND I'm Scots !!!
+pazuzu666ish me too
+pazuzu666ish ...ahhh...somebody in touch with their emotions...have a crack at this young lady and her song about ENGLAND...it looks like it may be more of a future Anthem...google ...could easily work just as well if it were called Sweet Lady Scotland!!!!
Hannah Drury..SWEET LADY ENGLAND...............it's only just come online.
+pazuzu666ish why the tears? is it perhaps the realization that this was the last great Clash song off the final Clash album? The rest of the album is pretty much unlistenable but hey I digress.
revol148 no way some great songs on cut the crap ...one day they will get topper to play drums on these songs and they will transform.....
I won't be able to listen to this without remembering the image of Vince White talking about how England as he knew it doesn't exist anymore while he fails to hold back tears.
Yes
Any idea where I can see that out of interest? I can't find it by searching.
@@jonconnington8987 It’s a documentary about the Clash. I have only seen clips of it that are featured in Todd in the Shadows’ video on the Clash’s last album
When I first seen that documentary I thought he was drunk,,,but seemingly not
Joe Strummer! He understands England. And is the wordsmith to tell of it!!
That I saw this band on stage live is one of those Rock and Roll miracles. The Who was in town that same evening, 1982. Clash warmed up.
I saw The Clash headlining with Theatre Of Hate supporting.
I always love this song in 2022.
They went out with a bang on this wonderful song. Sadly missed band. Very great memories.
I like this song. I know it didn't get much credit, but I think it's cool.
"I got my motorcycle jacket, but I'm walking all the time"
To those who say this song isn't meant to be patriotic, a song can mean whatever you want it to mean, that's what's great about art, to me it assumes a different meaning in the context of what the UK has become in recent years
you are right this the not the country I brought up in it has gone woke 😅the snow ❄️ flakes have destroyed it 😢
@@anthonyrichardson4761 As they did with Germany too!!!
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This was a song against the establishment, it wasn't to glorify England. You have to understand the message Joe Strummer et al were trying to get across. Strummer is a Legend.
Aye this was their anthem for Thatchers England with its wars and layoffs. About how fucked up it all was.
The loss of solidarity the destruction of the unions the hopelessness of the small people.
Now all that is gone establishment just points at EU and foreigners and say its their fault. And people buy it, fucking sad!
When people buy into the scape goats tied up in front of them while the rich get richer.
Exactly, its both sad and ironic to see nationalists and racists commenting on this without realising they're exactly what this song and Strummer are criticising
@@Truefaith. every single poll ever taken would prove you wrong, areas with low migration are consistently more opposed to migration. your username is extremely apt
@@Truefaith. engels was rich, and he co-wrote capital, one of the most fundamental pieces of communist theory.
you’re talking out your ass lmao
This song is like the perfect combination of well-written and catchy.
Who's here after Liz Truss resigned as prime minister of UK recently?
Another Prime Minister we never voted for,,,it's time for democracy on the street
Strummer sang every word like it was his last .. probably the last of the great englishmen
The passion is incredible
for some reason, when joe died this was the song i played most even though i didnt really like it when it came out..its now one of my favourites
When it came out it was quite slagged off if I remember right. Drum machine use etc. But the lyrics win out - typical Joe style. The motorcycle jacket line has stayed with me for 30 years. What great days they were.
pigknickers
Same here!
pigknickers
"I got my Motor Cycle jacket, but I'm walking all the time...."
Evokes beautifully the futility of Thatchers Britain at that time for the youth of the day.
One of Joe's finest songs, even if it was post 'real Clash'
CharlieDoesNotSurf what has Tony Blair brought us?
i've been listening to this song all day and can't stop
The 80s in 4 minutes, genius. Criminally underrated genius
They're not under rated at all, and this is from the last & post Clash breakup album. Nowhere near the quality of any of their other albums. You sound like a clown.
The Clash are literally called "the only band that matters" by the media. They sold out Shea Stadium in NYC among many other enormous venues. I simply want u to know exactly how idiotic ur comment comes off, to even the most casual fan of TheClash.
@@bojackson3585 Body odour Jackson, couple of things. Firstly the clash didn’t sell Shea stadium out, the who did and the clash were the support act.
In the uk the clash get little to no recognition, compared to some of the big names, so I stand by my point.
And I love the clash.
Anyway carry on
RIP Joe Strummer Joe and the clash were something else! The greatest punk rock band.
British by birth, English by the grace of God. This is England, no surrender.
Favorite group of all time! From the late 70" to the early 80" God save the queen...
A great song on an otherwise wack album..at least Joe had one more good tune to crank out..even if Mick and Topper were on the outs by then..the genius that was Joe Strummer I guess...lol
Brings ya to tears this song
i'm argentinian and love this song
Argie
Do you love the British Task force that steamed 8000 Miles to retake the Falkland Islands?
Elso Papo ignore those numpties. Joe S wouldn't agree with their comments!
@@patrickfitzgerald409 they still claim the falklands so we can’t forgive them
Grow up you slob. @@paulhall2397
Still listening 2023
This was not and is is not meant be a patriotic song by the way. Read the lyrics I've posted it's easy to understand what Joe was on about so If fellow english folk stand and sing this in a patriotic manner then wake up as it's a not a God Save the Queen type anthem, it's not something to be proud of in terms of today's society. However the lyrics are from a musical genius taken from us too soon. RIP Joe Strummer!
dont see any lyrics , just zo mbie sanctimony
Read a previous comment of mine dating 8 months back
Naveed Asghar
Don't see any lyrics, just zombie aloofness
Only gimps use the word zombie!
Naveed Asghar
Don't see any gimps, just opinionated little tossers hiding behind a youtube account like a typically spineless banal zombie
the Clash best song ever. I heard that they didn't wanna stand behind it for some reason? Can anyone confirm or deny? for me though, the best they ever made.
they didn’t want to stand behind it not because of the song itself, but because the album this song was on was so bad that it killed the band entirely and it became persona non grata as a result.
@@bigchief8493 Yes, you are correct, but there’s WAY MORE to the story. After Combat Rock, The Clash fell apart. Strummer fired Jones. You can’t FIRE Jones and still call it The Clash. It would be like if John Lennon FIRED Paul McCartney, and then continued forward as THE BEATLES. You can’t have THE BEATLES without Paul McCartney. You also can’t have THE BEATLES without John Lennon. Obviously: The Beatles were led by Lennon & McCartney. In the same way, The Clash were led by Strummer & Jones. They wrote all the songs. The reason Cut The Crap was CRAP was Strummer FIRED Jones in 1983.
There was plans for an official music video but it got canned. Joe had high regards for this song calling it the "last great Clash song", but I think the depression/burnout from the critical backlash of CTC made him want to get away from it all (and he did going in exile in Spain refusing to do any promotion or tour for the album). And people thought the producer "Jose Unidos" (aka Bernie Rhodes) was himself and that pised him off. Personally I think this is the one song off the album where the 80s production actually works for the song.
This song is the UK's 'Born in the U.S.A.'
Good on you, Tim. God bless you, that is
The irony...
Haha that's what I thought. Is this song just as misunderstood in England?
But less shit, If you want a better version of Born in the USA go listen to Pink Houses by John Mellencamp.
you are right...
beautiful song- The greatest band ever!
Such a moving piece of music with brilliant lyrics.
Testament to the struggle of young people in England in the classes without privilege that carry the social and financial burden for all the blood sucking aristocratic classes who think they are the master race.
As powerful today as it ever was
Time will never dilute the sentiment or A1 awesomeness of this masterpiece. RIP Joe
I was young, very young, about 17 when The Clash, came to Toronto, in 77 or 78, I will never forget that concert. They were beyond great, they were young,and, played some of the greatest rock and roll music of all time. They are a benchmark now, ALL. new bands are judged by how they compare to The Clash. I am now 57 years old, not wealthy, but still ok for a blue collar worker, and I will still spin "give "Em enough rope". or side 3 or 4 of "Sandinista". Or, if I have enough Newcastle Brown! in the house on a Saturday! I may spin the whole first album :)!
Anyway I hope y'all enjoy
There will never be another "The Clash" RIP, Joe
thank you
"I got my motorcycle jacket on, but I'm walking all the time"
Yep, that's me on the Daily.
Sentiments expressed by a lot of their generation, but in a much more articulate and lyrical way than by, for example, snarlin' Johnny and the Pistols.
An Irish perspective here. (Catholic)
The English imo are the greatest race of folk ever to exist.
Their language, their culture, their engineering feats, medical advancements, sports, common law legal system.
The world owes so much to them, not even getting to WW2 etc and the repulsion of Facism.
Imagine a world today without all their innovations and inventions
Bullshit
Nope
defo one of the best songs ever written... ever
What a tune, so sorrowful, yet majestic and uplifting.
This song could still be an anthem for today!
My serbian sister in law thought they were singing "deset zeka" which means ten bunnies.
They are.
hee hee x
buy her a hearing aid!
Anthropophagus are you from serbia too? Cause I am. This song is so relatable to our country.
Literally pmsl 😂😂
"To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life." Cecil Rhodes
Roba da matti ma i matti siamo noi the histori
I totally agree with Rhodes.
I am an Asian though.
Outstanding.
Cr was a gew whom him as his ilk the rotchilds ruined Londons people
@@englishrose4183 Haven't got a clue what you're on about.
this was the only clash single i ever bought, vowing not to play any music but elvis when he died in 1977, but the incredible homegrown talents of Kate Bush (still the greatest female solo artist) gary Numan and dear old Joe strummer wore that vow down. Good to see it on here so thanks, the original single i bought is long gone. The early 80`s in Britain were desperate times under that bitch Thatcher, the lyrics here give some indication of the lows England had dropped down to, sad sad times. Thanks again
This is a masterpiece
for some reason I'm really enjoying how hackneyed the lyrics on screen are
this knife of sheffield steel,
yeah, respect from sheffield.
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United or Wednesday?
Oi lads, what was that film about the lad who made it into the sheffield wed team?
Sheffield cuttlery....
Good song on a otherwise shitty album.
+Joe Newport be quiet haha
great song makes me proud to be English my country England❤
England’s not a country though really is it
Ya didnt unterstand the song mate
@@peaceanarchy3933 what is your problem
@@peaceanarchy3933 Well said, I agree its not a pro England song
This is England this is how we feel This is why we have left the EU and got our independence and saved our country onto bigger and better things now on to exciting times We will be far better off in the long term now that we have left the EU!
you're a fool lol, do you even understand what the clash stood for??? They were anti government, anti establishment and anti racism. Leaving the EU was a huge mistake but i'm not going to waste time educating someone clearly deluded.
+hiyajess1 are you mad your the one that's deluded not this fella the EU is a dictatorship run by greedy Freemasons and I'm glad we are out are identity was being fucked they wanted us to have the euro one Europian army and one Europian national anthem! the clash were a bunch of left wingers they ain't real punks they started off as a folk lore group for fuck sake and Joe was all about the dollars and was a horrible man he stabed his drummer in the back Sham 69 the sex Pistols cockney rejects and crass were real punk groups the clash are pretenders just look at the crowd at the clash concerts its full of hippies and left wingers the clash and the ramones were a bunch of posh musicians pretending to be sank there not!
+John Wayne Speaking of dictatorships, when did you last elect a royal?
You. Fucking. Idiot.
Mick was sorely missed when it came to song writing on this album
AGREED
a very different place to when this song was made
Diorama Jedi Oi fuck up
Getting Worse by the day...but the English Lion is awakening.
Terry Vince thats it Terry you tell people to fuck up while your government allows the extermination of our kind. Its a sad day when a Scotsman is more concerned for your country than you are.
Bollocks we are finished end
Nope its worse
It is amazing that any song can be this great.
Brazil 2014 chant, the entire England crowd singing this out would be fucking awesome and would send shivers up the players spine. It really could take off as much as 3 lions plus there is a political message...it would take the entire world cup by storm and would be a fitting tribute to Joe who fucking loved his football.....mind you the line 'this knife of Sheffield steel might worry some.
Fuck yeah!
The powers that be don't want any political message that might undermine 'we're all in it together'. The English happy to die for queen and country but unwilling to question the chain of command
Bullshit Private Joker. ''There's a political message'' As well? The whole song's a political message. Nothing to do with fucking football. It's a protest song, wise up or fuck off.
Eric Crawford I never said it was anything to do with football (apart from the horus being a football chant), I just think it would make a great chant, you don't have to be a fascist to like football and as I said it is not like he was adverse to a bit of footy himself
Joker The chorus is nothing to do with ''nationalistic pride'', it's part of a lyric that is a defiant protest on English culture, and the hypocrisy of English society. Strummer's dead, so you can reinvent the past to suit your own ends as much as you want. Apparently the ONLY song written about football was ''Tony Adams'' which I'd never heard of until about 10 minutes ago. This knife of Sheffield steel is obviously a Stanley knife, which has been used on me, by skinheads who were N.F. supporters. Nothing to do with football. I don't know why you've thrown in the Egyptian god reference either, apart from illiteracy or being pissed. You want to shit all over The Clash's political stance on England's deterioration by missing the point entirely, go ahead, my opinion is totally different, but then again, I followed the band in the 70's, and saw them live, so I have no credibility what so ever.
wow! interesting comments
Joe Strummer is to me
a poet
a legend
someone who provided powerful social comment
through strong uplifting music
and poetry
against the grain of the times
Thankyou Joe.
still lifting me up many years later
Love this song and the clash, shame whoever put the words to it got some of them wrong.
Wicked sound.The Clash's "Thats entertainment"
YAY, I love reading youtube arguments, it makes me feel good about my life!!!! Anyway, I love being British, but i dont care what anyone else thinks. PEACE!!!!
Wrong lyrics here are the correct lyrics:
(Market trader) “Four for a pound your face flannels, three for a pound your tea towels! Four for a pound your face flannels, three for a pound your tea towels!”
I hear a gang fight on a human factory farm
Are they howling out, or doing somebody harm?
On a catwalk jungle, somebody grabbed my arm
A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in her palm
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
Time on his hands the freezing Mohawk strolls
He won't go for the carrots
Been beaten by the pole
Some sunny day confronted by his soul
His eye will see, how fast you can grow old
This is England
Who I'm supposed to die for
This is England
Never gonna cry no more
Black Shadow of the Vincent falls on a Triumph line
I got my motorcycle jacket but I'm walking all the time
South Atlantic wind blows ice from a dying creed.
I see no glory, When will we be free?
This is England
We can chain you to the rail
This is England
We can kill you in a jail
Hey, British boots go kick Bengali in the head
Police sit watching,
The newspapers being read
All deaf to protests and after the attacker fled
Out came the batons and the biggest one then said
This is England
The land of illegal dances
This is England
Land of one thousand stances
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
This is England
This is England
Naveed Asghar Thx!
Wait England legalized Dancing. I did not know that.
Nick Rynearson lol.
It’s about Capoiera, a martial art that looks like breakdancing that was illegal from around 1700s or something weird like that.
Naveed sorry to reply on a 3 year old comment but first thanks so much for posting these lyrics.
Only one thing I would change ...
it’s not land of illegal dances.
It’s land of the legal dossier.
But absolutely everyone has that line wrong.
Brett Stuart thanks for the sound reply fella. I got slagged off somewhere else on this video post for no reason by someone. Are you sure though as it doesn’t rhyme (not that it necessarily should) and if you listen carefully you’ll hear an ‘s’ on the end, hence dances and not dossier lol
This is england is One of my favourite Clash songs along With Ivan meets gi joe and Safe European home.
we need a "this is England" for 2015
"This Is England" - The Jacques
+Connar Downes We have one, this.
English history and culture has evolved over the centuries running through its veins is a strong link with the church. You can’t be an atheist and still love the English traditions. Giving Northern Ireland to Republic of Ireland would be similar to giving the Falklands to Argentina.There are strong factions in Northern Ireland who see themselves as (maybe not English)but British, want to stay British. So they should.
England is nothing but mini-America now. We've got American TV shows outperforming our own. American music in the top of our charts, American car rental adverts on our TV mocking our nation if only by the comparisons between the actors they chose to represent England and America. Our most popular fast food chains are American despite being notoriously crappy. Our highest selling fizzy drinks are American. Seems like crisps are now being called "chips" eg popchips. News presenters refer to prison as "Jail" Cadburys and Walkers are owned by American companies. I can see the direction we're heading in. It's no secret the United Kingdoms already lost it's identity but who the fuck wants to replace it with Americas?
England stomped all over the world with no respect for anyone else's culture so why should it be an issue that American tv and fast food is big here? 'Identity' is just temporary anyway, none of it is actually real, in a 1000 years there wont even be an England and no one is gonna care , the same way no one cares that the Roman Empire isnt a thing anymore, it's just evolution.
SgtTechcomDN38416 lol what a twat. there are plenty of black people who hate the American culture too. its not a race thing trust me.
I'm french and it's the same thing with my country.. I hate USA
Honestly, all of you xenophobic fucks saying you hate America are every bit as bad as the people you apparently despise, grow the fuck up.
nah I love all other nations. just hate America.
Like it.
The only reasonable track from an album not fit for inclusion as part of The Clash's output. If the band had played more and the production improved they might of got away with it but really it was just poor. Shame. Poor end for a great band.
North and South a good track
Today it makes so much more sense...Only different government!!! ❤😢
the clash. .this is England é um som de pirar ...nunca deixo de ouvir. ..que gosta de som punk ...se satisfai. ..
last great clash tune
I wonder why this band doesn't have bad songs.
Cut the crap..
I got my motor cycle jacket but I'm walking all the time...
What an awesome anthem talking about our green and pleasant land.
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
Time on his hands freezing in those clothes
He won't go for the carrot
They beat him by the pole
Some sunny day confronted by his soul
He's out at sea, too far off, he can't go home
This is England
What we're supposed to die for
This is England
And we're never gonna cry no more
This Is England one of my favourite clash songs, Joe Strummer really was something else.
That's why I love them.
Brutally honest lyrics.
Could apply to almost any manipulated "democracy" these days.
Cut the crap was not a good Album. A fucking drum machine on a clash album? This was just a last ditch effort by Strummer to keep the clash going and he even said it was a waste to even put the album out.
+rjc63 Your rite that was not a good album,however this a good song.
Saw them when Cut the Crap came out- that title said it all. They needed to cut the crap-a woeful effort (and a shitty concert without Mic Jones)
Interesting... been listening to this off a greatest hits record and just realized a verse has been removed from the version I have...
yeah, the 7" single version loses the '...kick Bengali in the head, police sit watching'...' verse iirc, but it's on the 12" and album version I think & on The Essential Clash.
Don't catch you drinking up.
Coffee's what's whippin' up.
This is England.
This song holds even more power now.
Not anymore it's not. Only 37% of White indigenous Englishmen & women exist in London now. 😪
how did a bellend like you find it way to a clash song
Joe Strummer a middle class privately educated born in Turkey son of a foreign diplomat....the contradiction is brilliant...RIP Joe....
that was why he was angry ..dont you get it .,..,
he was educated ..and looked at this world
his dad was in the british foreign service he wasn't a freaking ambassador or anything...
Middle class isn’t elite, you right wing regurgitating tool
A Fake
Here's the correct lyrics...I hear a gang fight on a human factory farm
Are they howling out or doing somebody harm
On a catwalk jungle, somebody grabbed my arm
A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in the palm
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
And this is how we feel
Time on his hands, the freezing mohawk strolls
He won't go for the carrot
Been beaten by the pole
Some sunny day confronted by his soul
His eye will see, how fast you can grow old
This is England
Who I'm supposed to die for
This is England
I'm never gonna cry no more
Black shadow of a Vincent
Falls on a Triumph line
I got my motorcycle jacket
But I'm walking all the time
A South Atlantic wind blows
Ice from a dying creed
I see no glory
And when will we be free?
This is England
We can chain you to the rail
This is England
We can kill you in a jail
Hey, British boots, go kick Bengali in in the head
Police sit watchin'
A newspapers being read
All deaf to protest
And after the attacker fled
Out come the batons and
The biggest one then said
This is England
The land of illegal dances
This is England
Land of one thousand stances
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
This is England
This is England
Still listening in 2021 one of the best bands ever
Still listening in 2022. Epic tune, brilliant lyrics.
Joes solo stuff is as good as anything the Clash did, just a great songwriter and incredible wordsmith, nobody writes songs like Joe? John? Woody? hehe RIP
This is basically the British version of “Born in the USA” in the sense that so many people think they are patriotic songs but actually criticize their countries.
Yes, the most patriotic or criticizing thing is to fight for better position in the UK top 40.
Sh1t album, brilliant song - imagine Jonesy rockin' a solo toward the end ....sweet...
Quality song. Gave a piss-poor album a bit of respect.
Agreed! Mick is all over the big hits and could not be replaced....even with two guitarists! BAD showed the real genius that was being held back.
Just another large piece of my youth where I had no idea.
I was disappointed when I bought this in '85 but looking back? Yep, the music is still poor but Joe's lyrics are still up there.
Me gustaria que los argentinos tengamos una cancion asi : (
who wrote these lyrics on this video? lol its nothing like what's Joe's singing about
England needs to change its national anthem to be about the people and its land, not the Queen!
To do that, England first needs a national anthem.
SuperNoX86 fuck the queen
were you born in these isles. England , Ireland , Scotland, Wales. if you were then explain your comment.
sheffild steel
carrot
Listening to this now makes me think what a great album Cut The Crap could have been if Bernie Rhodes hadn't been let loose in the studio, trying to emulate Malcolm McLaren's success with Duck Rock. This, North & South and We Are The Clash are pretty amazing though as are Strummer's lyrics almost throughout. I think the great man was incapable of writing a duff lyric. If the new band had been allowed to play on the album and it had been recorded without the dreadful football-chant backing vocals and Bernie's keyboards, it could have been a much better album. R.I.P. Joe. Miss you.
As with Gaud and Boymanic, I think some people may mistake this song as being anti-immigration and pro-UKIP/ Daily Mail. The Clash were never about that. This pre dated all that hysteria The Clash were always pro-humanitarian and anti racism, I think the song is more related to how the British are mistreated and misrepresented by their own Government, ie: letting down industry such as British Steel. That's just my view.
Interestingly, the song is about UKIP.
You mean the way every western government sells out its subjects, becomes a plutocracy. The way chieftans of african tribes sold their people into slavery? There is something in the water in places where people can make rules to benefit themself. I was told as a child that rulers get their power from the consent of the governed. That clearly is not happening these days. Think about it. Pablo.
well, you fellas have got THIS one "nailed up & bleeding", as Hunter Thompson was wont to remark...
let's hope we all weather the #ShakeUP without undue hardship or remorse, eh?
but, then again, I tend toward the cynical, these days...
this song is about the mentality of football hooligans . is it misunderstood
That's a joke right?
When will be Free Well we are finally free now we are leaveing the EU and move on to safer happier and move onto to much better times!