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| - 1977 songs
- The Clash songs
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| - Capital Radio is a song and an extended play by the English punk rock band The Clash. The original 2:07-2:09 song has been included as %22Capital Radio%22 or %22Capital Radio One%22 on the Capital Radio EP (1977), Black Market Clash (1980), The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 (1988), Clash on Broadway (1991), From Here to Eternity: Live (1999), The Essential Clash (2003), and Singles Box (2006).Lyrically, the song is an attack on the music policy of what was (at the time) London's only legal commercial music radio station, which played mainstream chart hits and little if any punk. It mentions the station's then-Head of Music, Aidan Day - %22He picks all the hits they play/to keep you in your place all day%22.They're even worse because they had the chance, coming right into the heart of London and sitting in that tower right on top of everything. But they've completely blown it. I'd like to throttle Aiden Day. He thinks he's the self appointed Minister of Public Enlightenment. We've just written a new song called Capital Radio and a line in it goes %22listen to the tunes of the Dr Goebbels Show%22. They say %22Capital Radio in tune with London%22. Yeah, yeah, yeah! They're in tune with Hampstead. They're not in tune with us at all. I hate them. What they could have done compared to what they have done is abhorrent. They could have made it so good that everywhere you went you took your transistor radio — you know, how it used to be when I was at school. I'd have one in my pocket all the time or by my ear'ole flicking it between stations. If you didn’t like one record you'd flick to another station and then back again. It was amazing. They could have made the whole capital buzz. Instead Capital Radio has just turned their back on the whole youth of the city.The song ends with a parody of one of Capital's actual jingles of the period; the band replaces the lyric %22in tune with London%22 with %22in tune with nothing%22. The parody is heightened by the use of a variation on the ending riff from 'I'm only dreaming' by the Small Faces.Stiff Little Fingers use a modified version of the chorus as the outro to their song %22You Can't Say Crap on the Radio%22.
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| - Joe Strummer
- Mick Jones (The Clash)
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| - Bill Price (record producer)
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| - Columbia Records
- Neat Records
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