£10 for someone who posts the lyrics.

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

Excellent.
1000X better than Counting Crows or John Cougar.

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

This could be fun with lots of beer in a bar full of big t*tted girls. So I see the potential.

Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why

Excellent.
1000X better than Counting Crows or John Cougar.

Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why

Heard it for the first time and immediately thought 'Gorillaz', and was puzzled until I saw the Albarn connection.

 

My philosophy for rating songs is to select tunes that I want to hear more often than they come up normally. There is plenty of stuff on here that I like, but I hear often enough that I don't bother rating it. I also don't down-vote something just because I'm not interested in hearing it; I can PSD it if it bothers me that much and my reluctance to hearing something is not necessarily indicative of its quality.

As for this song, I have chosen not to rate it because I hear it often enough that my curiosity is satisfied. From a critical viewpoint, it's not really all that great of a tune, but it is DAMN interesting & I'm happy that RP plays it relatively frequently.

This is sh!t and y’all can suck it

Sounds like Achmed the dead terrorist got a band together. 

Wow, didn't know that. Now all we need is a midget kazoo player!

Yeah, anyone with taste is a hick. Go figure. 

4.9?  . . that's just plain racist. and from the comments that's better than a guess. This is better than decent and you're all a buncha hicks

Wow, I had to go check out who this was. Song sucks. 1.

Um, except that Zeppelin (and to a lesser extent the Stones, via the Beatles) loved stealing bits and pieces from all sorts of eastern music. If you love Kashmir and don't enjoy this there might be some disconnect there. TJ

Just glancing through the profiles of people who don't like this song, I see a lot of classic rock in the top ratings. I can see how someone who favors your typical classic rock (Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc) would not like this.

Music to convinct Sadaam by...

Just glancing through the profiles of people who don't like this song, I see a lot of classic rock in the top ratings. I can see how someone who favors your typical classic rock (Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc) would not like this.

Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why

The lyrics are contemporary and well written. The guy bitches about having to challenge death while embarking on those tiny boats to go to Europe. Only to discover that once there, you're doomed to be an outcast and once you return to your country of origin you're labelled as a "zmagriya" (immigrant in a pejorative way). The treatment zmagriyas receive back home is the same as that given to tourists. That is, market prices go up a notch when trying to shop as well as being seen as a someone with very little dignity (supposedly because of having to live with the rampant racism in the host country).

Is this Yiddish? Arabic?

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines,

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

On "Ten Eleven", Hall's voice is joined by Romany Rad (a group of Polish gypsy refugees living in the East End), the blind Algerian rapper Mohammed, and Albarn.

Did I hear the lead singer of Gorillaz on this track?

And your comment adds exactly what? And as has been pointed out, disliking something has nothing to do with how open or closed one's mind is. Funny how the people like you who preach open-mindedness only do so to those who don't think in lock-step with them. Sheesh.