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Ring! Ring! It's 7 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M. and the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!
Working for a rise better my station
And take my baby to sophistication
Seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk
Yeah wave bye-bye
'''''Spoken:'''''
"When can I tell 'em wot I do?
In a second, maaan...
oright Chuck!"
Wave buh-buh-buh-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway the lunch bells ring
Take one hour do your thanng!
Cheeesboiger!
What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kicking Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news has snapped to attention!
Lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
Car in the fridge
Or fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do in T.V. land
You lot! What? Don't stop give it all you got
You lot! What? Don't stop. Huh?
You lot! What? Don't stop give it all you got
You lot! What? Don't stop.
So get back to work and sweat some more
The sun will sink and we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hit the town he drinks his wages
You're fretting you're sweating
But did you notice you ain't getting?
You're fretting you're sweating
But did you notice you not getting anywhere?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
What have we got? Yeh-o
What have we got? Yeh-o
What have we got? magnificence!
(Spoken) I say
What have we got?
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
They was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh oww...buh-bye
Buh bu
Magnificence!!
FUCKING LONG, INNIT?
2 people downvoted this... I don'd understand!
Their cats drugged them.
Where's fredriley's "feckin' long innit?"
Cheeesboiger!
Had to scroll through 2 years of comments to find the original and revive this. So worth it.... heh...
Cheeesboiger!
or show my age with "Coke, no Pepsi, we change!"
Cheeesboiger!
I listened to this entire record for so long the needle cut all the way through the grooves and I had a spiral ribbon of vinyl come off the turntable.
Cheeesboiger!
Made me smile. Thanks!
Ah - just realized Budgie is a kind of parakeet!
Maaaaaaagnificent!
SEVEN!
Pillow! War!
Cheeesboiger!
Cheeesboiger belongs at the top of the comments page!
I used to LOVE this song...Best bass line in modern rock!
The timeline from disco to punk is pretty tight.
not long enough!
Great times and stomping good tunes😊
R P is jamming today!
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaagnificence!
Cheeesboiger!
It's the will of the Cheeesboiger, I mean, people!
Cheeesboiger!
This should fill up the whole comments page!
Cheeesboiger!
Sorry, but for me this is so silly for such a powerful song from the Clash (I don't thing they would find it amusing at all).
The timeline from disco to punk is pretty tight.
Because people were PISSED after suffering through disco! ;)
2 people downvoted this... I don'd understand!
Burgered if I know!
2 people downvoted this... I don'd understand!
It trivializes an important and powerful song (one perspective)
Really not sure how you get disco out of this.
It is danceable though!
i like a lot of clash stuff but disco still sucks
Really not sure how you get disco out of this.
2 people downvoted this... I don'd understand!
There's some uptight folks who don't like seeing animated GIFs in the song comments for some reason. *shrug*
Cheeesboiger!
2 people downvoted this... I don'd understand!
They essentially overlap. At least that version of punk overlaps.
Cheeesboiger!
thanks for posting! fits the song perfectly!
This GIF sums up just about all I get from TikTok. Well, all but the snooping by foreign governments...
How is this in perfect synchronicity to the song?!?!
Cheeesboiger!
This GIF sums up just about all I get from TikTok. Well, all but the snooping by foreign governments...
Cheeesboiger!
That is perfection!
Cheeesboiger!
That's every day on RP.
Most excellent.
I increase my rating from 8 to 9 -OUTSTANDING
Thanks Bill - this is way better than John Cougar or the Counting Crows.
ey-azz. really mild.
Most days I can take this song but today am really wishing Mick had taken the last line to heart before starting.
Hmm, I always thought Joe wrote this, (Clash 101 so to speak)
Magnificent Seven? Hellz no, Magnificent TEN!
Most days I can take this song but today am really wishing Mick had taken the last line to heart before starting.
I find it mildly amusing when someone makes up their own (inaccurate) version of history and then asserts his opinion as scientific fact. It's like listening to Rush Limbaugh but not as annoying.
7:10 a.m.!
May be so, but if you are not listening to the lyrics, does this not make you want to move? I can't sit still at my desk...
Listening to it makes me wish for an instrumental version.
say no more...
Was there ever a 12" version back in the day?
"The Magnificent Dance", released on 12 April 1981 by CBS in 12-inch single format, is the dance remix of "The Magnificent Seven". The maxi single was released in the UK featuring an edited version of "The Magnificent Seven" on side-A, and in the U.S., where it was backed with the extended version of "The Cool Out". It is credited to "Pepe Unidos", a pseudonym for Strummer, Paul Simonon and manager Bernie Rhodes. "Pepe Unidos" also produced "The Cool Out", a remix of "The Call Up". This dance version "definitely capitalized on the funky groove of the original, adding in some very cool drumming."
May be so, but if you are not listening to the lyrics, does this not make you want to move? I can't sit still at my desk...
Was there ever a 12" version back in the day?
That's not how I'm reading it. At least not the dig, just irony.
Not a minority view at all. The band is much loved but by a very small noisy bunch.
I find it amusing that the height of punk was really just a kinda ok rock band.
I find it mildly amusing when someone makes up their own (inaccurate) version of history and then asserts his opinion as scientific fact. It's like listening to Rush Limbaugh but not as annoying.
Not a minority view at all. The band is much loved but by a very small noisy bunch.
I find it amusing that the height of punk was really just a kinda ok rock band.
This is right up there with Rolf Harrris' "Two Little Boys" but if I had to choose then Rolf would get the nod.
Nobody is happy with Rolf today. Seems "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply in the UK.
edit: definitely guilty and becoming more so by the day.
This classic song celebrates the absurdity of commercial consumption by the masses... love it...
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You'll be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
That's not how this socialist has always interpreted that verse, which seems to be a not too subtle dig at pacifism.
No, it's fuckin' long, innit? ;-)
HEY!! Joe's RAPPIN' again!!
I just did same and then checked comments and see there is a clear theme! Awesome Tune!
"Magnificent" tune from the masters of their generation and still is a stand out today -definitely a stranded on an island must have...
RIP Joe Strummer
Seriously danceable agitprop that stands the test of time, both musically and politically. If only there were more musical Marxists, but they're as rare as hen's teeth. A rare 10 from the Nottingham jury.
Bien d'accord Amigo