Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
- clive gash
- wannabee enfant terrible
- Posts: 17219
- Joined: 29 Sep 2007, 00:32
- Location: down the rabbit hole
Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
40 years old.
A fine song despite the dodgy underpinning (white bloke sneers at yer actual black fellas for not being authentic enough).
The B sides better though.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
-
- Posts: 63924
- Joined: 03 Jun 2004, 20:12
Re: Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
I love the song, but don't really love the lyrics - a bit dubious and disingenuous if you ask me.
On tour, the Clash did do some good things - Bo Diddley, Mikey Dread and Big Joe Williams as US tour openers.
Trouble is, all those should have been the headliners over the Clash.
On tour, the Clash did do some good things - Bo Diddley, Mikey Dread and Big Joe Williams as US tour openers.
Trouble is, all those should have been the headliners over the Clash.
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
- Goat Boy
- Bogarting the joint
- Posts: 32974
- Joined: 20 Mar 2007, 12:11
- Location: In the perfumed garden
Re: Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
2nd only to Complete Control.
Magnificent record
Magnificent record
Griff wrote:The notion that Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong vocal proponent of antisemitism, would stand in front of an antisemitic mural and commend it is utterly preposterous.
Copehead wrote:a right wing cretin like Berger....bleating about racism
- The Modernist
- 2018 BCB Cup Champ!
- Posts: 13843
- Joined: 13 Apr 2014, 20:42
Re: Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
What's wrong with the lyrics anyway?
Great track.
Great track.
- naughty boy
- hounds people off the board
- Posts: 20250
- Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 23:21
Re: Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
It's pretty good but half the first album is better.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
- yomptepi
- BCB thumbscrew of Justice
- Posts: 36415
- Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 17:57
- Location: well
Re: Happy Birthday (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
I went to the Dillinger show on that poster. It was chaos.
The song is useless half baked cod reggae. As is everything in that vein attempted by those wankers.
The song is useless half baked cod reggae. As is everything in that vein attempted by those wankers.
You don't like me...do you?