Brand New Cadillac Lyrics
This is a cover of Vince Taylor's 1958 original, in case anyone was wondering.
A tale of a cheap-skate girlfriend who stole money from her boyfriend to buy a Cadillac and dump him shortly afterward.
Great song. I love how he sings cadillac. I think's its about a girl who's cheating on her boyfriend with a rich guy, and when the rich guy gets her a cadillac, she just goes to rub it into her boyfriend's face and then dumps him. That's how I've always seen it, though it might not be what they intended when they wrote the song.
I saw the Australian band You Am I do a really good cover of this song shortly after Joe Strummer died, it really went over well.
A tale of a cheap-skate girlfriend who stole money from her boyfriend to buy a Cadillac and dump him shortly afterward. Good Song
I heard a story about how they did this as a warm up but Guy Stevens who was producing London Calling recored it anyway when the CLash ound out they complained and Jones pointed out it sped up Stevens said thats great all great Rock and Roll speeds up and stuck it on the record.
From the big pink Clash book:
From the big pink Clash book:
TOPPER: I'll always remember doing that. One take, live, Guy said, "That's it!" and I said, "You can't keep that, it speeds up!" and he said, "Great! All rock'n'roll speeds up. Take!" And from then on the sessions just cooked.
TOPPER: I'll always remember doing that. One take, live, Guy said, "That's it!" and I said, "You can't keep that, it speeds up!" and he said, "Great! All rock'n'roll speeds up. Take!" And from then on the sessions just cooked.
PAUL: Guy made me feel really at ease and if I played wrong notes he didn't care. After we'd played Brand New Cadillac I said I made a mistake on that and he said, "It doesn't matter, it's great."
PAUL: Guy made me feel really at ease and if I played wrong notes he didn't care. After we'd played Brand New Cadillac I said I made a mistake on that and he said, "It doesn't matter, it's great."
So it doesn't seem like they didn't...
So it doesn't seem like they didn't know they were being recorded, rather they thought the recording wasn't good enough, but the live sound is what Guy wanted.
Love the song, but does anyone have any idea what "Balls to you, daddy" means?
I've always sort of thought it just means "screw you".
yeah that's right, "screw you", or "to hell with you".