Rob's Ramblings: Straight to Hell and the Weird World of Cultural Appropriation
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Amidst the oft-forgotten but great Clash album Combat Rock, there’s one song which has always haunted me. “Straight to Hell” was actually one of the album singles, released as the B-side of “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now”, but it’s not one I heard much growing up on a steady diet of classic rock radio. The A-side, the kind of clasically simple song which The Clash almost used as bait for more diffuse musical wanderings, fits comfortably on the morning zoo, but “Straight to Hell” definitively does not.
Rob's Ramblings: Straight to Hell and the Weird World of Cultural Appropriation
Rob's Ramblings: Straight to Hell and the…
Rob's Ramblings: Straight to Hell and the Weird World of Cultural Appropriation
Amidst the oft-forgotten but great Clash album Combat Rock, there’s one song which has always haunted me. “Straight to Hell” was actually one of the album singles, released as the B-side of “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now”, but it’s not one I heard much growing up on a steady diet of classic rock radio. The A-side, the kind of clasically simple song which The Clash almost used as bait for more diffuse musical wanderings, fits comfortably on the morning zoo, but “Straight to Hell” definitively does not.