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I Fought the Law (and I Won)‎

I Fought the Law (and I Won)‎
La canzone originale di Sonny Curtis. incisa nel 1959 dai Crickets

E' stata interpretata da numerosissimi gruppi (ma la versione passata alla storia è quella dei Clash) : Widespread Panic, Richard Clapton, Ducks Deluxe, She Trinity, Beatsteaks, Viper, Bryan Adams, John Cougar Mellencamp, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Waylon Jennings, Gary Allan, Green Day, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Ska-P, the Jolly Boys, Grateful Dead, Stray Cats, Mary's Danish, Claude François, Mano Negra, the Big Dirty Band, Lolita No. 18, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Attaque 77, El Noi del Sucre, Die Toten Hosen, Status Quo, Nanci Griffith, La Vida Bohème, Anti-Flag, Chumbawamba, Tsuyoshi Kawakami and His Moodmakers, the Airborne Toxic Event, The Bad Shepherds, Johnny Marr, Colin Farrell, Kris Kristofferson, The Bangles.
Per quanto riguarda le band italiane i Gang la eseguono in tutti i concerti, anche con la Banda Bassotti, Niutàun, Guacamaya, Malavida, Hombre all'ombra, l'hanno rifatta anche i Finley.
I FOUGHT THE LAW
(Continues)
Contributed by dq82 2016/1/6 - 18:52
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The Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land)

The Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land)
Cover versions include:

Alaskan song writer 907Britt (2010), as "William McBride"[7]
Alex Beaton (1995), on the album The Water Is Wide
Angelic Upstarts (1986), on the album Power Of The Press
Asonance (2000), in a Czech version "Zelené francouzské pláně" ("The Green Fields of France"), on the album Alison Gross
Attila the Stockbroker (1987)
Chris A Butler (English Singer/Songwriter) as "The Green Fields of France"[8]
Bok, Muir & Trickett (1978)
Bob Dylan
Clare Bowditch, Tim Rogers and Gotye (2007)
Jake Burns, on his album Drinkin' Again
Celtic Tenors (2002), on the album So Strong
Celtic Thunder (2009), as "The Green Fields of France", on the album Take Me Home
The Chieftains
The Clancy Brothers
Liam Clancy
Cobbers (Australian folk band), (1979) live on the album "Bushland Dreaming"
The Corries
Damh the Bard (2009), as "The Green Fields of France", on the album Tales... (Continues)
DonQuijote82 2012/3/24 - 09:39
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Doesn't Make It Alright

Doesn't Make It Alright
Album: Specials (1979)
Interpretata anche dagli Stiff Little Fingers
Just because you're nobody
(Continues)
Contributed by Budylele 2011/11/26 - 20:31
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Fly the Flag

Fly the Flag
[1980]
Album: Nobody's heroes

The song "Fly the Flag" on Fingers' second album, "Nobody's Heroes" is a classic but the lyrics are clearly open to misinterpretation. It is actually an attack on right-wing Conservative politics in general and on Margaret Thatcher (then British prime minister) in particular. The selfish "me" politics of the eighties is conveyed in the "gimme gimme gimme" refrain…
Gimme a country that's red white and blue
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/6/29 - 19:31
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Through The Barricades

Through The Barricades
1986
Through the barricades

Canzone ispirata dal conflitto nell'Ulster.
Da brividi.

La canzone fu scritta da Gary Kemp, polistrumentista e autore di gran parte delle canzoni degli Spandau Ballet.

Il brano non è solo genericamente riferito ai Troubles in Ulster ma fu composto in seguito alla morte di Thomas "Kidso" Reilly, un collaboratore della band, ucciso a Belfast il 9 agosto 1983 da una pallottola inglese.

"We had a guy called 'Kidso' (Thomas Reilly), who worked for us on merchandise during the True tour. He went back to Belfast after the tour and was killed. Kidso's brother, Jim, who played drums for Stiff Little Fingers, subsequently took me along to see his grave and the song was inspired by walking down the Falls Road. I got to experience some of the emotion of that first-hand and it just stuck with me. I didn't expect it to come out in the shape of a Romeo and Juliet sort of song, but it did."
(Gary Kemp, in un'intervista al Belfast Telegraph)

(B.B.)
Mother doesn't know where love has gone
(Continues)
Contributed by Nanni 2010/5/19 - 22:34
Song Itineraries: Barricades, Conflicts in Ireland
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Half A Life Away

Half A Life Away
[1999]
"And Best Of All...Hope Street"

Music & Lyrics by Jake Burns and an McCallum

La canzone racconta la storia di Moreese 'Pops' Bickham, un afroamericano abitante a Mandeville, Louisiana, che nel 1958 fu condannato a morte per l'uccisione di due poliziotti bianchi.
Il 12 luglio 1958, i due poliziotti, entrambi appartenenti al KKK, avevano avuto una discussione con Bickham in un bar della zona. Nella notte erano tornati a cercare Bickham a casa della fidanzata, per regolare i conti. Ne era risultata una sparatoria in cui i due aggressori erano rimasti uccisi e Bickham ferito.
Ovviamente, il nero fu subito condannato a morte, pena poi commutata in ergastolo. Solo nel 1996, dopo la revisione del processo, Bickham fu rilasciato dalla prigione di Angola, dopo 38 anni di detenzione....

"metà della vita persa" per colpa di due porci bastardi...

(Fonte: en.wikipedia)
Gill and Galloway were working late
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2008/12/31 - 11:38
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Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs
Dal live album "Broken Fingers/Live in Aberdeen" del 1979.
All things are relative with cousins everywhere
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/7/1 - 23:57
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Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae

Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae
Album: Go for It - 1981

Questa canzone è contenuta in Greatest Hits live del 1988 e in Fly the flag del 1991.
You roots, you radicals, you rock to the reggae
(Continues)
Contributed by salamedipere 2006/6/25 - 12:07
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Is That What You Fought The War For?

Is That What You Fought The War For?
Da "Now Then" del 1982.
Yes, I know you did your bit back then, but what was it you won?
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/6/7 - 21:35
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Each Dollar A Bullet

Each Dollar A Bullet
Da "Flags & Emblems" del 1991.
Oh it must seem so romantic
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/6/6 - 22:33
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Tin Soldier

Tin Soldier
Dall'album "Nobody's Heroes" del 1980.
He joined up to get a job and show he wasn't scared
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/6/6 - 22:28




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